Not Drunk Tron but Ladytron

It's a bit premature but someone has started advertising so I've started getting excited, hence, here it is:

LADYTRON IS COMING BACK TO VANCOUVER AGAIN. OCTOBER 14, BABY.

That felt good.

Surely they won't have any new material unless they've started working on a cover or two (remember when they did Oops by Tweet the first time they came here?) but Ladytron is Ladytron and after years of conditioning by their frozen positions behind Korgs just an eyebrow raise is enough to get the crowd all sweaty and squealing.

Last time the opening band was The Presets and if I hadn't eaten all day I would have fainted upon finding out. The time before that was
Mount Sims (yay!) and Simian (boo!). This time it's
Cansei de ser Sexy (Portuguese for I'm Tired of Being Sexy). They just came to Vancouver, playing at my most favourite new Friday night party central, Animals (Celebrities). I didn't go but lucky for me and you the flyer happens to be under my chair. It says "equal parts rock mantra and art school experimentation" and other such drivel. Whoever wrote that copy knows nothing... however, check out the wiki entry. Now this sounds good: "the band started as a joke and nobody but the drummer could play their instruments properly... In 2005, they signed with the Trama Virtual label and, in October of the same year, their first album was released in Brazil, along with an 7-track EP that could be bought at their concerts. Unusually, a limited edition version of the album had a CD-R included. The purpose of this was that the buyer could burn a copy of the album onto the CD-R to give to someone else as a gift, paying homage to the effects of digital technology upon the dissemination and popularization of music." It sounds like a perfect opening band for Ladytron.

You've got six weeks to decide if you care to or not but if you know what's good for you you'll break that piggy bank of yours. By now you should have enough for a ticket, five drinks and a concert t-shirt. Do it.