STG Announces Demetri Martin, The Antlers, Friendly Fires & More

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

The Antlers
Date: Friday, September 9, 2011 @ 9:00pm
Venue: The Neptune (1303 NE 45th St)
Price: $15.00 in advance, $17.00 day of show, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission (21+ Floor, All Ages Balcony)
On Sale: Friday, June 17th @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

"It's a record about moving forward," says Peter Silberman. "Hospice was kind of all-encompassing for a while and Burst Apart feels like us moving on from it. Not to abandon it, but to keep it in its place and figure out what's next." Recording began in September 2010 and then continued over a five-month span at the Brooklyn-based band's studio in Bushwick. Rather than bring in an outside collaborator, singer/guitarist Peter Silberman, drummer Michael Lerner, and keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Darby Cicci decided to pool their considerable skills and produce the record entirely on their own. Where Hospice was marked by its fixed narrative structure, Burst Apart is decidedly more elliptical and less lyrically baroque, in part to allow Silberman's plaintive vocals to coalesce as but another element of the overall aural picture. He describes the album as simply "a collection of songs," noting that "even though they all belong together and they're all related, there wasn't a kind of unifying concept." None of which is to say Burst Apart is without cohesive thematic content."I think people will be sucked in," Cicci says. "We want to draw people into the world of the record." "Our goal was a kind of hand-holding," says Silberman. "To bring people with us as we navigate different waters of sound. To invite people into this world that we were working on as a group of three people enjoying what we were discovering about music and about songwriting and about making a record."

An Evening with
Deva Premal & Miten
Date: September 13, 2011 @ 7:30pm
Venue: Moore Theatre
Price: $23.00, $33.00, & $43.00, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission
On Sale: Available now!
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

Deva Premal and Miten met in India in 1990 and soon began a journey into love and creativity that has taken their inspiring blend of song, mantra and meditation to a worldwide audience. They have released a string of acclaimed CDs with international sales of nearly one million, and their concerts and ecstatic chant workshops are met with rave reviews throughout Europe, Australia, South America, Canada and the United States. Their music transcends all the usual musical boundaries, with fans including rock icon Cher, who featured one of Deva's most popular chants, the Gayatri Mantra, on her Farewell Concert Tour; world renowned author and motivational coach Tony Robbins, and even His Holiness The Dalai Lama who, after hearing Deva & Miten sing for a private audience, exclaimed, "Beautiful music, beautiful...!" Best selling author Eckhart Tolle notes: "As you listen to the music of Deva and Miten, the sacred space that lies beyond the mind emerges naturally and effortlessly. Pure magic."

Demetri Martin
Date: Friday, September 30 & Saturday, October 1, 2011 @ 8:00pm
Venue: The Neptune (1303 NE 45th St)
Price: $34.00, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission Seated (21+ Floor, All Ages Balcony)
On Sale: Friday, June 17th @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

Demetri Martin is an award-winning comedian who is best known for his Comedy Central show, Important Things with Demetri Martin, as well as his stand-up comedy routines and contributions to The Daily Show. Also, he is a person. He has brown hair and is allergic to peanuts. He lives in an apartment somewhere.

Friendly Fires
Date: October 19, 2011 @ 8:00pm
Venue: The Neptune (1303 NE 45th St)
Price: $16.00 in advance, $19.00 day of show, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission (21+ Floor, All Ages Balcony)
On Sale: Friday, June 17th @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

It has been three years since Friendly Fires released their self-titled debut album. For an album entirely recorded in Mr and Mrs Macfarlane's garage, it made a serious impact, selling over 200,000 copies and picking up a fistful of Brit Award and Mercury nominations along the way. The band's appeal spanned everyone from indie kids to clubbers to the highest strata of the fashion world - the band were handpicked by Gucci to soundtrack a worldwide campaign, covering Depeche Mode's Strangelove for an advert created by acclaimed director Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit). Most importantly they have watched their global audience grow exponentially as their live shows become ever more spectacular. Two sold out dates at London's 2500 capacity Kentish Town Forum found the band transforming a normally rather drab venue into a Brazilian carnival. Friendly Fires' all-night club events sprang up where the trio would be joined by guests like Hot Chips' Joe Goddard, Danilo Plessow's Detroit-centric Motor City Drum Ensemble and Kompakt Records boss, Michael Mayer. Of course, one day, the touring and the promotion ended and the band realised they had to make a new record, prove themselves all over again. How would they do that? Three years later, Friendly Fires can't wait to get back into it. They feel 2011 is a great year for their new record, Pala, after music's minimalistic wallowing of the last couple of years. The band have now been playing together for half their lives, so another long stint on the road together holds no fears. "We argue and get heated about things, but it's not an ego war," laughs Edd. "We can disagree without it becoming a fist fight." And after amazing shows in New York, Australia and Japan they are ready to take this brilliant new record to the rest of the world. "It's daunting," Ed says. "But we're ready for it. The truth is, there's just not enough music out there that's really celebratory."

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