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Tindersticks are celebrating their 30th anniversary in Greece

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This special band will offer the Greek audience three unique concerts on Sunday 30-31 October at the Athens Concert Hall and on November 1 at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall

“One of the nicest things I feel as I approach this milestone is that all the mistakes we’ve made are our mistakes. If something went wrong, it was because we at that moment decided that it had to be done that way and that’s why we did it. I feel kind of proud of that. We are still here, relevant, still moving forward and what has been done has been done entirely on our own terms. I can’t think if there really are other bands that are in such a condition.” These are noted, among others, by the singer, composer and leader of Tindersticks, Stuart Staples for the band’s thirtieth anniversary.

Since their first concert in our country, in December 1995 at the historic “Rodon”, Tindersticks have conquered a high place in the heart of the Greek music-loving public. And not by chance. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this special band will offer the Greek public three unique concerts on Sunday 30 and Monday 31 October at the Athens Concert Hall and on Tuesday November 1 at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, accompanied by a string orchestra and guest friends, performing the best of her career. In their three appearances in Greece, the gurus of sensuality and expressiveness will present a two-hour set of songs that has so far received rave reviews from the international media. Greece is their last stop for the concerts they give in 2022, celebrating their 30 years as a band.

For three decades now, Tindersticks have been seamlessly forging their own path by bucking the mainstream, creating a musical ensemble with refined taste, emotional richness and songs that perfectly and uniquely intertwine orchestral jazz, soul, the English musical tradition, as well as eclectic nuggets from international songwriting.

Formed in 1992 by Stuart Staples in Nottingham, the tight-knit band knew exactly what they wanted from the start. Working on their own terms they managed from their first album to join the innovators of the British music scene. By 1999 Tindersticks had released four albums: ‘Tindersticks aka First Album’, ‘Tindersticks aka Second Album’, ‘Curtains’ and ‘Simple Pleasure’. “There are moments that call for courage,” Staples said. “After we first met and made three double-discs, the release of Curtains marked the end of a situation… there wouldn’t have been a sequel if there hadn’t been a moment when we said we had to tear down what we were doing and put it back together again otherwise,” he had added.

Although Staples prepared the audience for the end of an era with his words, in 2001 “Can Our Love…” and in 2003 “Waiting for the Moon” were released. By the end of 2010 the band’s line-up was finalised: The original three members, Stuart Staples, David Boulter, Neil Fraser, were joined by Dan McKinna on bass and Earl Harvin on drums. The albums ‘The Hungry Saw’, ‘Falling Down a Mountain’, ‘The Something Rain’, ‘Across Six Leap Years’, ‘The Waiting Room’, ‘No Treasure but Hope’ and ‘Distractions’ followed.

The bards of modern music

Through their songs, Tindersticks praise unrequited loves, wandering people, passions that have never been extinguished. The complex orchestrations of their songs captivate the audience, as they combine electric guitars, drums and bass with acoustic instruments such as violin, double bass, flute, metallophone, trumpets and clarinet, elements that have rightly been established as, the ‘Tindersticks sound’. They have collaborated with multi-member classical orchestras as well as well-known artists, while their music has been used in art installations, fashion shows, dance and theater projects.

Their relationship with cinema is continuous and stable. Claire Denny considers their music an integral part of her films. Their collaboration is rightfully considered one of the most fruitful in the history of cinema: It began when the trembling sounds of “Tiny Tears” were heard in her film “Nénette et Boni” and continued, among others, in the films “Trouble Every Day”, “35 Shots of Rum’, ‘White Material’, ‘Bastards’ and ‘Avec amour et acharnement’. Their latest collaboration was the track ‘Stars at Noon’ from the soundtrack to Claire Denny’s new romantic thriller of the same name, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last May.

And now, Tindersticks return with a new album titled ‘Past Imperfect: The Best of Tindersticks ’92-’21’, which charts the band’s 30-year journey through an unparalleled 20-song timeline. “Every step and a story,” Staples declares. And each song is a new “turn” in a winding story that contributes to the evolution of their legend.

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