There are few artists better suited to soundtrack The White Hotel’s demise than Marie Davidson. On Thursday 20th August, the Montreal electronic musician brings her stark, physical take on dance music to Salford’s most beloved music venue The White Hotel. It was confirmed earlier on in the year that after a decade hosting experimental electronic and alternative music, out of a white-brick garage – avant-garde venue The White Hotel, in Salford, said it will be shutting its doors for good in January 2027.
Before the doors close for the very last time, artists and musicians from all over the world are making pilgrimages to play the iconic White Hotel for the very last time. And what better way than placing one of electronic music’s most distinctive live acts inside one of Manchester’s most uncompromising spaces.
With her sixth studio album, ‘City of Clowns’, Marie Davidson continues to occupy the uneasy territories between club and something further beyond. Severe angular productions, repetitive mechanical tensions and Davidsons’ introspective story-telling that cuts through the electronics with a deadpan directness, turning observations about modern life, work, desire and technology into dystopian club mantras for the dancefloor. Reminiscent of the Belgian New Beat releases and Sextile’s gothic synth release Yes, Please’, Marie Davidson paves the way for hypnotic dance and rigid industrial production with tongue-in-cheek, yet sharp-witted commentaries about life while providing the perfect blend of something you can move to with something that feels insightful, and encourages deeper refection, akin to the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Bolis Pupul.
For anyone who likes their dance music strange, cerebral and physical in equal measure, this will be a particularly well-matched collision.
