Advance ticket purchase includes FREE admission to After Dark at the Art Institute before the show! Click here for info.

We will be sending our will call list over to the Art Institute for After Dark so, if you have tickets to our Dan Black show, your name will be on the list at the door at After Dark. Dan Black is scheduled to take the Schubas stage at 12:00 midnight, so get here by then to catch his set.

A limited number of tickets will be held at the door to be purchased by After Dark attendees- if you attend After Dark and want to see Dan Black at Schubas tonight but have not purchased advance tickets, just show us your After Dark hand stamp at the door & we will sell you a ticket!

“The best music makes the colours start firing in your brain,” says Dan Black. “That’s what I always aimed for when I was writing these songs.” As the kaleidoscopic future-pop of Un proves, he repeatedly hit his target. Seldom has an album twisted so thrillingly through so many styles, nor over-flowed with so much melody and feeling. Little wonder that Black is being tipped by the world’s critics and bloggers as one of 2009’s Most Likely To. Nor that Radio 1 have quickly playlisted his first proper single, the driving celebration of desire and loneliness that is Alone.

Un is a pop record inspired as much by Black’s love for the “transcendent, emotional wonder” of acts like Nick Drake and Sigur Ros as it is fuelled by his passion for the hip hop production of J Dilla, Flying Lotus and the Timbaland. Its songs flit seamlessly from throbbing electro to heart-tearing strings, and from plaintive acoustic guitar strums to shuddering hip hop beats. Black is the man whose yearning voice you’ll hear singing Un’s literate tales of “intense states of being, be they extraordinarily happy or extraordinarily hard”. But he’s also the abundantly talented chap who wrote, played, programmed and produced every last note of it. He even handles all of his own artwork and videos (they’re very good too).