Galantis added to Tennent's Vital 2nd Night
Swedish EDM supergroup Galantis added to superstar bill on Vital night 2.
It’s already been a big week for Tennent’s Vital fans with Avicii just announced to headline Day 2 of the festival on Friday 26th August …. and the Swedish dance vibe just got stronger.
Today Tennent’s Lager and MCD announce that celebrated Stockholm-based Galantis has been signed to add still more power to that great bill.
Coming together as Galantis, music mega-names Christian Karlsson, aka Bloodshy, and Linus Eklöw, aka Style of Eye, changed the plot for what’s hot and current in electronic dance music. They bring an incredible audio/visual experience to live performance that matches the really, really big vibe of their music – so Belfast crowds can be prepared for something that will set Boucher Road Playing Fields rocking.
In 2015 Galantis was named Best Breakthrough Artist at the 30th International Dance Music Awards. They are best known for ‘Peanut Butter Jelly’ and ‘Runaway (U&I)’ which was nominated for Best Dance Recording for the 2016 Grammy Awards.
Releasing a song a week in advance of their debut self-titled EP which went to #4 on the iTunes dance chart, it only took days for the tracks to cross 100,000 plays. Galantis are currently putting the finishing touches on their debut, full-length album..
Global superstar Avicii who wowed audiences with his sell-out Tennent’s Vital appearance in 2013 will be back in Belfast to headline, with the phenomenal special guest Jess Glynne … so expectations are already ramping up for a second incredible day of music at Boucher Road Playing Fields.
AVICII==========
Recognised as one of the world’s most influential dance music artists of his generation, it was with his genre-defying debut album, ‘True’, that Swedish DJ Avicii cemented his place in the firmament of superstar recording artists. While still in his twenties, he already has a string of hits behind him and is today credited with having single-handedly redefined the boundaries of contemporary dance music. The multi award-winning ‘True’, released in 2013, sold more than five million copies worldwide, charted at #1 on iTunes in an amazing eighty-four countries and gave us ‘Wake Me Up’, the fastest-selling single of 2013, most streamed song of all time on Spotify (over 300 million plays) and the #1 ‘Shazamed’ tune worldwide.
Success has been heaped upon success and, in 2015, Avicii released his second studio album, ‘Stories’, cementing his reputation and demonstrating the creative evolution of his distinctive sound.
JESS GLYNNE===============
Triple Brit Awards nominee (for Best British Breakthrough, Best British Female and Best Single) Jess Glynne has also stormed the music scene, rocketing to glory with dazzling speed and impact. Armed with the biggest selling debut album of 2015, she launched into 2016 with a brand new single 'Aint Got Far To Go', from her platinum-selling album ‘I Cry When I Laugh’ and things couldn’t look better for the talented singer songwriter.
GALANTIS============
The lights begin to shimmer at Coachella’s Gobi Tent, as the curious crowd packs the stage to witness a never-‐before-‐seen act, something unexpected occurs; 10,000 people compelled to sing in unison. It’s the result of a tangible feeling hanging in the air, that this is the birth of a movement; this is the birth of GALANTIS.
At its core, GALANTIS is two friends making music together. The fact that they’re Christian Karlsson, aka Bloodshy, and Linus Eklöw, aka Style of Eye, is what changes the plot. The accomplished duo’s groundbreaking work as GALANTIS destroys current electronic dance music tropes, demonstrating that emotion and musicianship can indeed coexist with what Eklöw calls “a really really big kind of vibe.”
Earning the rare honor of debuting in a primetime slot at Coachella, the festival of festivals, GALANTIS quickly became the talk of town. The packed stage and thrilling live show earned the attention of Dancing Astronaut, who named the set Best Debut of the festival, while an online poll from Billboard Magazine found GALANTIS shattering the competition for Best Dance Music Moment at Coachella.
“GALANTIS is about challenging, not following”, says Karlsson.
Karlsson should know about shaking things up. As half of production duo Bloodshy & Avant, he reinvented pop divas like Madonna, Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue in the early 2000s. He co-‐wrote and produced Spears’ stunning, career-‐changing single “Toxic” to the tune of a 2005 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. Since then he’s been breaking more ground as one-‐third of mysterious, jackalope-‐branded band Miike Snow. The trio’s two albums, 2009’s self-‐titled debut and 2011’s Happy To You, fuse the warm pulse of dance music with inspired songcraft, spanning rock, indie, pop and soul. And they recreated that special synthesis live, playing over 300 shows, including big stages like Coachella, Lollapalooza and Ultra Music Festival.
As Style of Eye, Eklöw has cut his own path through the wilds of electronic music for the last decade, defying genre and releasing work on a diverse swath of labels including of-‐the-‐ moment EDM purveyors like Fool’s Gold, OWSLA and Refune; and underground stalwarts like Classic, Dirtybird and Pickadoll. He also co-‐wrote and -‐produced a little song you might have heard: Icona Pop’s international No. 1 smash “I Love It.”
After mutually admiring each other from afar, Karlsson and Eklöw kept meeting by chance at Robotberget studio in Stockholm, home to Karlsson’s label of the same name, and soon discovered shared creative values and complementary goals. Karlsson wanted to go deeper into electronic music; Eklöw wanted to apply songwriting to his track-‐making prowess.
And both wanted to give the finished product, whatever it was, a live life; an audio/visual experience that matched the really, really big vibe of the music.
After several remote track swaps between the usual planes, trains and automobiles yielded nothing worth keeping, the pair decided to try to change their work by changing its setting. So they set up a studio in one of the world’s most stunning natural phenomena, the Stockholm archipelago in the Baltic Sea. This fantastical 37-‐mile belt has inspired Swedish artists, playwrights and poets throughout time. It’s on one of its over 65,000 individual islands where GALANTIS became real.
"Its strange making electronic music in a place like this,” says Karlsson. We are on a tiny, isolated island surrounded by water, but it inspired us to go where we wanted to go.”
That sense of simultaneous smallness and grandeur made its way into “Smile,” a soulful song in the cloak of a festival anthem, with dusky keys adding depth to the energetic builds. And it was then that Karlsson and Eklöw knew they had it; the sound of GALANTIS.
Following its release, “Smile” became a dance floor staple internationally. The track was championed by a wide array of GALANTIS’ peers including Pete Tong, who made it an Essential New Tune, Diplo, who called it the best house tune of the year and Laidback Luke, who tweeted,“Galantis is light years ahead of us.”
“You”, their follow-‐up single received an ecstatic response with Kaskade and Steve Angello supporting it in their main stage sets at the Ultra Music Festival where it was also one of the 10-‐most-‐Shazamed songs. Legendary DJ Tiësto and his protégés Twoloud were the first to remix the track while Porter Robinson showed support on social media.
The accompanying video brought the Seafox, the creature that serves as GALANTIS’ logo, to life. Spending a night on the town with friends and talking about her search for love to underscore the message that, “Love is love no matter who you are.”
Releasing a song a week in advance of their debut self-‐titled EP, it only took days for the tracks to cross 100,000 plays. The EP went on to #4 on the iTunes dance chart upon its release.
GALANTIS spent months creating a live show that matched their music’s innovation and spirit. With infectious energy on stage, the duo and had their sites set on taking over Coachella. The festival was followed by a North American tour, including sold out shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom and Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre.
Announcing the line up, Brian Beattie, Marketing Director for Tennent’s NI, said: “Tennent’s Vital is shaping up to be a remarkable who’s who of contemporary music, with two days that will set Belfast rocking. We have the Red Hot Chili Peppers headlining Thursday 25th August with Fall Out Boy In support, followed on Friday 26th August by Avicii with Jess Glynne … a fantastic highpoint for the Summer of ’16.
“Along with our partners at MCD, Tennent’s NI is delighted to be bringing big-time music to Belfast and re-affirming the international reputation **of Tennent’s Vital.”
Fans can get their hands on tickets for Friday 26th August, headlined by Avicii and featuring Jess Glynne, when they go on sale at 9am on Tuesday 22nd March from www.ticketmaster.ie. Fans of Tennent’s Lager on Facebook will have exclusive priority access to the Tennent’s Vital pre-sale from Saturday 19th March: join www.facebook.com/tennentslagerni to find out how to reserve your ticket before they go on sale to the general public.
Ticket Information
Tickets for Tennent’s Vital 2016 – Friday 26th August at Boucher Road Playing Fields will go on general sale from 9am on Tuesday 22nd March, priced as follows:
- Friday 26th August, Boucher Road Playing Fields **– Avicii and Jess Glynne: £39.50 including booking fee. - Tickets can be secured via Tennent’s Vital’s official ticket partner www.ticketmaster.ie - Tickets are also available in person from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide or via the 24hr Telephone hotlines: (NI / UK) 0844 847 2455/ (ROI) 0818 719 300.**
Tennent's Vital is an over 16s event. However, a parent aged 25 and over can take up to two under 16s to the show. Parents will be required to show age identification and sign a consent form in order to gain admission on the day. Under 16s must be accompanied by their parent at all times. Bars will operate a strict Challenge 25 policy