Documentary on Death From Above’s rise, fall and return to play at Cinematheque
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In 2004, Toronto dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979 made major waves with its debut album, You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine — a 35-minute blast of white-hot noise that was just as likely to make you dance as mosh. It was a sound unlike anything else out there.
Armed with a successful debut (by 2006, the record had gone gold in Canada) and an incendiary live show, Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger were poised to break out big. Instead, they broke up.
After the 2006 split, Keeler went on to find success with MSTRKRFT while Grainger embarked on a solo career. Still, no one forgot about DFA 1979 and, when the duo announced it was reuniting for a string of shows in 2011, die-hard fans were champing at the bit for a chance to see it perform. A riot even erupted at the band’s now-infamous comeback gig at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Happily for fans, those reunion shows were enough to convince DFA 1979 to return to making music. In 2014, the duo followed up that lightning bolt of a first record with The Physical World, which Keeler and Grainger are taking on a cross-country tour that stops at the Garrick Centre on Tuesday night.
That show, of course, is completely sold out — but Cinematheque is screening Life After Death From Above 1979, Eva Michon’s documentary about the rise, fall and return of the band, on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. Michon and Grainger will be on hand to introduce the film — which features interviews with the Strokes, Metric and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs — and answer questions. General admission is $9.