Wolf Gang

In response to the great demand for Wolf Gang's first appearance in Charlotte, their 8 pm show on Saturday, November 3 is being moved from Stage Door Theater to the Booth Playhouse to accommodate more fans! Featuring special guests Atlas Genius and The Royal Concept, this will be a general admission seated show with a limited standing area at the front of the stage. All Wolf Gang tickets purchased for the Stage Door Theater will be honored at the Booth Playhouse. As strange as it may sound, you could… Show more say that Wolf Gang's career in music began at The London School of Economics and Political Science. A few years ago, the Scottish-born Max McElligott was finishing up a degree at Lse when he decided that he was ready to throw it all away in order to follow his first passion: Music. "I'd always grown up playing and writing music but I never really considered it being a possibility to pursue professionally," McElligott recalls, "but when I came to London to study and saw people doing gigs every day of the week, I thought 'if they're all giving it a go why don't I?' and it turned out that felt quite natural once I committed myself to the idea." Six months after quitting school, Wolf Gang was born and McElligott had a record deal as well as the songs that would become his self-titled Ep. The 5 song collection culls a pair of tracks recorded with producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT, Mercury Rev) -- "Lions In Cages," Dancing With The Devil" -- along with self-produced demos of songs that will appear on his forthcoming full length debut. "I'm not actively trying to make songs that sound different from each other, it's just the way I write," McElligott responds when asked about the inherent variance of these tracks. "I might wake up one day and write an upbeat guitar riff and then the next day I'll write a piano ballad; it's not like there's any kind of master plan," he continues. McElligott attributes his diverse musical output to being raised listening to his parents' record collection and honing his taste from an early age. "Growing up I was always listening to what they were blaring in the living room which would be David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac or the Talking Heads," he says. Additionally McElligott's mother, who is a classical violinist also helped instill a love for classical music. "The chord progressions used by Mozart and Bach are the same progressions that get used daily by all sorts of musicians so there's a lot of inspiration you can bring in from that genre," he explains when asked how all of these seemingly disparate influences figure into his own musical palette.
Location: Booth Playhouse at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
130 North Tryon St.
Charlotte, NC 28202

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