As part of their PSM Loves Summer series, Zorlu PSM will host the internationally renowned British indie rock outfit Alt-J, set to perform on Wednesday 15 June. Taking place on the main Turkcell Stage, doors are set to open at 19:00 with the performance set for 21:30. Tickets are available via Passo and more information is available via the official event page.
From the organizer:
British indie rock band Alt-J, founded in 2007 by Gwil Sainsbury, Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton and Thom Green, will be at Zorlu PSM on June 15, 2022 within PSM Loves Summer!
Denoted by the triangle symbol, Alt-J’s debut album ‘An Awesome Wave’ was released in Europe in May 2012 and the United States in September 2012 and won the 2012 British Mercury Prize. Sainsbury left the band in early 2014. Their second album, This Is All Yours, was released on 22 September 2014 and peaked directly at number one in the United Kingdom. In 2017, the band released their third studio album, Relaxer.
Alt-J, currently working as a trio, is one of the most popular names in the genres of indie rock, indie pop, art rock and folktronica.
The band’s actual name is the triangle-shaped symbol Δ and oftenly makes references to triangles. For example, the song “Tesselate” mentions “triangles are my favourite shape”, and they make triangle symbols with their fingers during concerts which they say is just due to it being a visually appealing shape.
“Alt-J” comes from the key sequence used to generate the symbol Δ on an Apple Mac computer: Alt+J.
The cover art of the band’s debut album An Awesome Wave shows an overhead view of the largest river delta in the world, where the Ganges River meets the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh.
Alt-J were previously known as “Daljit Dhaliwal” and then “Films” but were later forced to change to “alt-J” because an American band called “The Films” already existed.
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For more information, check out the official event page.
Image sourced via event organizers.
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