You might have seen Drive, caught the Chromatics at Forbidden Fruit or Vicar Street, watched the Twin Peaks reboot, listened to a remix of The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights or simply know Italians Do It Better (the record label). If you have, you’ve been in the presence of Johnny Jewel and his Midas touch. In many ways his evocative urban synth pop sound came to define the post Drive era spilling into the likes of Stranger Things and beyond. His latest single The Witch is from the soundtrack to forthcoming horror film Holly and straight out of the John Carpenter playbook. “I never have to motivate myself to work,” Jewel told the Guardian before debuting this show at Christine and the Queens Meltdown festival this summer. “I never get tired of it. It’s therapy, it’s meditation, it’s trance, it’s inner space, it’s the greatest feeling. The possibilities are infinite and it’s impossible to be satiated.”
