Desire + Johnny Jewel + MOTHERMARY

19:30 (open)
20:00 MOTHERMARY
21:00 Johnny Jewel
22:00 Desire
23:30 (end)

Desire is the Montreal-born synth-pop group created by vocalist Megan Louise and producer/composer Johnny Jewel. Since emerging from the underground in 2008, the band has built a singular universe of neon romance, cinematic longing, and midnight glamour — where heartbreak shimmers beneath disco lights and every song feels like a scene from an unfinished love story.

Their breakthrough anthem “Under Your Spell,” immortalized in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, became one of the defining songs of the film’s era and introduced Desire’s dreamlike world to audiences across the globe. The band’s influence quickly expanded beyond cinema into fashion and nightlife, with their music echoing through campaigns and runways for Dior, Chanel, Max Mara, and Bottega Veneta, while artists including Kid Cudi famously reimagined their work for “Teleport 2 Me.”

Over the years, Desire have transformed theaters, festivals, and legendary Ibiza nights into immersive experiences suspended somewhere between concert and fever dream. Blending shimmering analog synthesizers, pulse-driven disco, and Megan Louise’s unmistakable voice, the band continue to blur the boundaries between dream-pop, Italo disco, fashion, and noir cinema while working on their fourth album.
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Johnny Jewel is a composer, producer, and the visionary founder of Italians Do It Better. As the driving force behind Chromatics, Glass Candy, and Desire, he helped shape a modern language of synth-driven noir that bridges the underground and the silver screen. His work has illuminated cinema and television alike — Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and Bronson, Ryan Gosling’s Lost River, Fien Troch’s Home (winner of the Georges Delerue Award), and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return, where Chromatics’ performance of “Shadow” became an instant touchstone.

Beyond the screen, Jewel has scored runways for Chanel, Dior, and Bottega Veneta, blurring the line between music and fashion. Most recently, his score for Holly (2023) expanded his palette of glacial ambience and luminous melody. On stage, Jewel transforms these worlds into an immersive live experience — analog synthesizers, projected film, and sweeping soundscapes converge into a dream both intimate and grand, where every performance feels like stepping inside a movie.
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MOTHERMARY makes retro-futuristic art pop. Named after the mother of you know who, the ultimate symbol of religious hypocrisy and of the impossible expectations placed on women, the project is the brainchild of identical twins Elyse & Larena, who grew up in a Mormon family in Missoula, Montana. “It was our world, our paradigm... We were brainwashed.” Elyse was the first to get out and started MOTHERMARY in her bushwick bedroom in early 2016. Larena followed suit, left the church, and rejoined Elyse in NYC in late 2016 joining the band to create the duo we know today.

Creating music together became a form of therapy to heal from their religious trauma. It’s about who we choose for our modern gods as we let go of the bearded white men of the past. It’s about women reclaiming their holiness and inviting you to acknowledge your own. The contrast of light and dark — of ethereal vocals and gritty instrumentation — creates a dazzling hybrid of the old and the new. Welcome to the sacrilegious spectacle of two sisters who have always refused to be pinned down or defined.
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