

Thu 01 Aug
|Todmorden
Dark Matter presents...ELLiS·D + support
Time & Location
01 Aug 2024, 20:00 – 23:00
Todmorden, Fielden Square, Todmorden OL14 6LZ, UK
About the Event
Drummer-turned-solo artist ELLiS·D spent their formative years flailing their limbs across the tattered kits of the UK and Europe's basement scene before starting out their solo project in 2022. The ensuing eighteen months has seen them in a state of consistent gigging and touring throughout the sweaty dives of the continent bringing their raw, mercurial live performance to stages from London to Luxembourg, Bristol to Brussels, Kendal to Kusel.
Backed by a near continuously shifting set of session musicians on tour, in the studio ELLiS·D channels the workhorse-like energy of fellow multi-instrumentalists Ty Segall, Prince and Kevin Parker to mould a sound that once feels familiar but also completely their own. Embodying the extravagance and glam-pop sensibilities of the likes of Marc Bolan and New York Dolls, with the dark lyrical sensitivity and intensity of The Smiths and Jehnny Beth, ELLiS·D creates something uniquely contradictory. Jangly, threadbare riffs weave…