An Illness Bravely Borne - Empty Turmoil vol. 1 (defined) by OneForTheRoad
Both recieve a pair of passes to the 16 May BoomBoomRoom gig and signed albums and posters from Tracer AMC/And So I Watch You From Afar. Thanks to everyone who participated, some truly awful albums came in! Also to the bands for donating free stuff and David and Cauls at AC30 Dublin for the passes.
Y’all better be warned. Serious photo-indulgence coming yer way next week
”Brighton here we come…we shall be donning coat and top hat…slinging guitar over back…and hopping in our van with fresh underpants and we expect to see thee dutifully in attendance….lighters in the air and bottle necks in mouths.”
Devilish rapscallions of the dirty MySpace status brigade Class of 1984 play the Brighton Great Escape festival tomorrow night! Our ex-pat lads in London have enjoyed the high-life of loafin’ musicians with great flair, rising in the afternoon, jamming a tad, sandwich here and there, big fuck-off hairsweatnoise gigs by night, an existence highly agreeable to the trio when resulting such plaudits as the fest: other guests over the billing include…
WE ARE SCIENTISTS, IDA MARIA, VAMPIRE WEEKEND, IRON AND WINE, THE FUTUREHEADS, THE YOUNG KNIVES, ALPHABEAT, THE TING TINGS, THE WOMBATS, ANE BRUN, CASIOKIDS, THE HOLD STEADY, LATE OF THE PIER, THE BLACK LIPS, LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION, THE SUBWAYS, BLACK MOUNTAIN, THESE NEW PURITANS, THE AUTOMATIC, GLASVEGAS, SANTOGOLD, SAM SPARRO…
Let’s hope their delicate complexions are well protected this weekend…
Not one to succumb to any sense of anti-climax, I’d like to calmly state that the month of May is here and so far the sky hasn’t fallen off yet.
It’s been a heady couple of weeks in this blogosphere as all sorts of occasions have whipped past and today is the first day activity levels have levelled out. I’ve been writing and researching, photoshopping thousands of photographs and trying to still an all too regular fluttering of my heart as catastrophes peep over the horizon. I sincerely regret not learning to file. Also, I’ve become a bit spoilt by these unbridled unsigned gigs in the city this year. I’ve forgotten all about barriers and passes and three songs no flash and its quite a culture-shock to return to massive festival stages and polished stageshows from the proximity of the NSMA! Green Energy’s a far shout from where Floyd Soul and the Wolf stand, yet Nick Cave saw the interiors of enough dim-lit venues before breaking out to open-air extravaganzas!
That buzz of activity and never quite knowing who/what’s next coupled with the sunny weather outside has made a very pleasant start to the summer indeed
The Irish music scene is very quiet today. I’m raring to go, to get on to something juicy and get some momentum flowing…but there’s nothing going on except Cathy Davey’s eating habits:
If you can figure out what she’s saying, she’ll award two free tix to any of her gigs…check the myspace!
You know what this means, don’t you? All the musicians have dumped their leather jackets, and headed to the little park behind Whelans with their Bucky? No, they’re all rehearsing (ASIWYFA are in studio…doesn’t that bode well for this Friday’s show?)!
So off I go to productively file my 2fm School of Rock pictures. However I’d like to throw a question: what’s the craic with spin-off Irish bands? Jape and Redneck Manifesto, FKOS and A Lazarus Soul, Wingdings and GiveAManAKick…How many do you know of? Which band is better? Do side-projects detract from the original? I’m curious….
Just in from The Flaws camp is the news that they play not one but two major festivals this summer, home and abroad. Along with Distractors, The Flaws are poised to release a new single on 16 May, namely Out Tonight, a catchy, upbeat number taken from debut album Achieveing Vagueness, destined to be a fixture on the summer airwaves.
You just can’t can’t fault The Flaws’ progress. Perhaps Glastonbury’s Michael Eavis was so impressed at the Monaghan men’s bio-efficiency record of a staggering five performances at last year’s Electric Picnic or finds himself misty-eyed and nostalgic to the refrains of 1981 (the year he took control of the Glastonbury Festival and fashioned it to fame) or perhaps The Flaws are just so damn good it was inevitable.
Distractors launch their new double A-side single this Saturday at Crawdaddy! Released on Friday 16 and featuring brand new songs Conversation Killer and Poet or Prophet, the Dublin four-piece are well-prepared to take on any contenders to the crown of 2008’s summer stormer.
Recorded in Kilkenny’s Melody Ranch with Leo Peason (U2, Elvis Costello) and Jim Spencer (Johnny Marr, The Charlatans), the songs are deeper and darker than the previous Distractors sound, a literal kick-back to their trying start to the year. Expect to dump your expectations and be driven to distraction…
BUY Conversation Killer/Poet or Prophet from 16 May
SEE Distractors at Tower Records, 1 o’clock, 16 May
GO to the Crawdaddy launch gig, 17 May….
