ARCHIVE (uk)

presented by FM4 INDIEKISTE Tickets gibt's ab 12. September - 11:00 Uhr auf oeticket.com. sowie in allen oeticket.com-Vorverkaufsstellen und europaweit über das Eventim-Vertriebsnetz. “The goal has always been to try and make the best records we can”Over three decades of continually evolving line-ups, ever shapeshifting combinations of genres and a dozen studio albums, Archive have established themselves as one of the most enduring and exploring British bands of the last 30 years. They have amassed a huge following in Europe, where they play 3000 or 4000 capacity venues - twice, over consecutive nights, in the bigger cities. However, in much the same way as Seattle’s Jimi Hendrix became a star in the UK before his American homeland and Kraftwerk experienced a slower journey to success in their native Germany than further afield, in Britain Archive remain a relatively-well kept secret. Despite the enormous press acclaim lavished on their genre-busting 1996 debut, Londinium, their profile at home is dwarfed by that in Europe and many of the albums that sell so well on the continent haven’t seen a British release at all.“We had a lot of record company and personnel problems at the beginning,” sighs co-founder Darius Keeler. “We put so much energy into making Londinium we actually split up. We were very difficult to deal with, but then the label phoned up a few months later to say we were selling in Europe and that the French thought it was the best album since [Nirvana’s] Nevermind. We did three days press in Paris and everything went nuts. The European labels had never suffered any of the politics the British ones did - all they knew was success and sales. So we concentrated on Europe, which was probably the best decision we ever made. We’re bigger now than we’ve ever been.”Lately, British audiences have started to catch up, a situation that should gain further momentum with new album Glass Minds. Released on British-Belgian label PIAS, the 13th