BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dc011c95-d996-4c2f-8d70-06ac6fc378a1@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260911T013831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260927T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260928T060000 SUMMARY:Gordi (Australia) at Meteor LOCATION:Meteor DESCRIPTION:Gordi (Australia) at Meteor Sept 27th / $20 advanced / $25 doo r / 7pm doors \n*Support from Gracie and Rachel\n For fans of: Grimes\, Flowerface\, Zola Jesus \n“Being surrounded by death made me think abou t how beautiful life is.”\nAs a final-year medical student\, Sophie Payt en (aka Gordi) learned to certify death. Beyond just what we see in the mo vies – checking for a pulse\, hearing the monotone of a flatline\, annou ncing the time – the process involves observing a person who's no longer responding. As she looked at their still\, waxy skin\, Payten says “It made me think of plasticine - that soft\, malleable substance\, that we ca n shape and mould in our hands\, until we leave it to set in place. I thou ght about all the ways we are like plasticine in life - how forces we can ’t control\, contort us into shapes\, stretch us thin\, and test our res ilience. But sometimes\, heart-wrenching change can be a thing of beauty. ”\nThese moments of transition - the anguish and the ecstasy of change - are captured on her new album\, ‘Like Plasticine’\, which opens with the gritty\, entirely iPhone-recorded GD (Goddamn)\, a reminder of the thi ngs we do to carry on and endure – Look around. Slow down. Call your mum . Over sparse\, distorted synths\, Payten sounds like she's trapped underw ater or pressed against a window\, looking in on the lives she is wonderin g how to step back into.\nWriting the album was a process of intense excav ation. Payten took herself to Sydney for a pair of week-long residencies s ix months apart – first at Phoenix Central Park and the other at a churc h\, both operated by arts patron Judith Nielson. "I think that whole first week I felt like an exposed nerve\, because I was facing everything I'd b een really actively not thinking about for a long time. I was like\, alrig ht\, it's time. I'm ready for it to explode."\nInside the vault\, along wi th the tender\, cerebral pop that's become a Gordi trademark\, a surprisin g amount of joy sprang out. She'd written Peripheral Lover in Nashville a little while earlier\, imagining she might give the song to another artist . It was so celebratory and effusive\, she says\, "it just really didn't f eel like me on the last record". But time changed that\, and the pop anthe m\, one that blends yearning\, sensitive lyrics with a contagious synth be at\, positions Payten alongside Robyn\, Róisín Murphy\, and other master s of the craft.\n \nGRACIE AND RACHEL\nIf We Could\, Would We is the late st effort from Brooklyn-based duo Gracie and Rachel (Gracie Coates and Rac hel Ruggles)\, who have become known for their innovative brand of elevate d indie-pop\, complete with baroque string work and piercingly spare song structures. After releasing their self-titled debut to critical acclaim in 2017\, Gracie and Rachel have been seen on stages opening for Ani DiFranc o\, Tori Amos\, Julien Baker\, Lucy Dacus\, and others. They have performe d two NPR Tiny Desk Concerts and been praised by the outlet to “mix pop and classical in stark\, infectious ways and make unforgettable\, surprisi ng music.” Their 2025 single “WTF” earned praise from The Line of Be st Fit who raved\, “Gracie and Rachel Deliver Folk-Pop for the Future on “WTF\,”’” and Rolling Stone which named it a “Song You Need To Know.”\nThe most personal and daring album of their career thus far\, If We Could\, Would We asks important questions about potential regret and o penness\, ultimately concluding that the only way out is through. It also finds Gracie and Rachel sharing space again after coming to a crossroads i n their personal and professional lives. After the release of their 2023 E P Nowhere Now Here\, Gracie spent part of the next year working on solo ma terial\, a journey that eventually led her back to Rachel\, who was workin g through the end of a long-term relationship.\nEven as their paths diverg ed\, Gracie and Rachel always found their way back to each other. Once reu nited\, they pushed themselves to keep growing. Sonically\, If We Could\, Would We expands their instrumentation\, with Rachel incorporating the gui tar on record for the first time and adding in a diverse array of other in struments and textures across tracks. Meanwhile\, as a piece of art\, If W e Could\, Would We symbolizes the duo’s ebbs and poses the existential q uestion many ponder\; If they could go back and do it all over again\, kno wing what they do now\, would they? Rachel says\, “We may never know\, b ut here we are. I still have hope and belief. I just want to keep telling the story.”\n \n\nBoletos: https://www.showpass.com/gordi-australia-at- meteor/ URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/dc011c95-d996-4c2f-8d70-06ac6fc378 a1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR