JIM CARROLLon music
Never say never. Last year when The Ticket interviewed Marcus Lambkin, aka Shit Robot, he was adamant that there would be no live show.
People wanted Lambkin to start doing shows to promote his debut album, From the Cradle to the Rave, but he was not interested.
“I’m going to resist it for now, because I think it would be very difficult to put together a live show for that record,” he said. “I couldn’t have the vocalists Ian, Nancy or Alexis on stage every night for a start.
“If I was going to do it, I’d want to do it right. I’m not going to stand up on stage with a laptop. That would be foolish.”
Five months later and, yes, you’ve guessed it, Lambkin is about to start doing live shows. We contacted him and asked him to explain himself.
“I was under pressure to do a live show at the time, but as I said back then, I wouldn’t have the vocalists on stage, or it wouldn’t be like a conventional band thing.
“But then we started to think about things a little differently, different ways of bringing the show to life, but it still being Shit Robot. We decided to build something called The Shit Robot Show. It’s based on a large screen, with me inside it, kind of like a giant DJ booth, but with me playing some synths and hardware. We’ve got some of the vocalists appearing on the screen, and some pretty cool visuals for each track. It will hopefully be a good show. I’m excited about it.”
Shit Robot’s first live show will be at London’s Fabric on March 4 followed by some SXSW appearances. An Irish festival show is also likely this summer
For more, see: irish times.com/blogs/ontherecord
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