Blackfort Presents: Chevron (Planet Mu) (debut Irish performance!) + more tba Venue : Eamon Doran's Date : 29th July 2005 Doors : 8pm Tax : €8 in advance/€10 on the door Tickets available in City Discs soon! Everything you wanted to know about Chevron: Jonathan Valentine (a.k.a. Chevron), hailing from Blackpool in the north of England, is of a rare breed who can combine some of the most diverse and challenging range of sounds to date and actually pull it off. 24-year old Chevron's seminal live performances over the past years, releases on Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu label and tracks on many compilations and samplers have successively raised his profile in the electronic music scene. Chevron's long awaited debut album "Everything's Exactly The Same" forms a landmark release for 2005 and has stirred up attention from dozens of internet communities, web sites and print magazines. Described as "Stunning. Music this original and this inspiring deserves to be heard and not just imagined. 4/5" -iDJ February 2005, the album has received rave reviews throughout. Getting the album just right has been critical both to Chevron and Planet-Mu, who postponed its release by a year. His style is notoriously difficult to pin-down to a specific genre, featuring an unlikely fusion of melodic breakcore, poppy 2-step and cartoon jungle with flavours from all around including dancehall, gabba, jungle, rave, grime, drum n bass, ska, glitch (the list goes on). Artists influential to his work include Prodigy, Orbital and Venetian Snares, but critics have likened his work to "a middle ground between Plaid, DJ Rupture's reconstructed ragga and the mystical techno of the Red Planet label". Acid house, techno and hardcore rave from the early 90s certainly played an important part in Chevron's development over the years, which was accelerated by access to an old sampler and keyboards whilst based in Blackpool. He has since changed location to Brighton where he resides with Planet Mu co-conspirators s**tmat and Exile. Brighton is not the extent of his out-reach though, a comprehensive tour is planned for early-mid 2005 and his debut album is available world wide. Regular news and updates about Chevron, event listings and a full discography, plus information on where to buy the album can be found on his web site, at http://www.chevvers.com