The Flaws - Bank of Ireland National Student Music Award @ The Village - 24/04/08

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A new vid popped up on the net from Webby-nominated Balcony TV featuring an acoustic Ladydollcheck it out! performance above Dame Street…

In other news, Ladydoll are enjoying a busy buzz as they support the New Bloods on Sunday night at The Whiskey in their hometown of Cork. Later in the month you can catch them supporting the mighty Fighting With Wire in Dolans Warehouse, Limerick on 23 May.

Here’s a little bit o’ fun and games! The nice people at Club AC30 Dublin -whose awesome Chequerboard, Airiel and Ulrich Schnauss show blew up the Button Factory on Friday night - have whipped together a sweet collection of good stuffage for two lucky souls. To celebrate the AC30 Dublin/BoomBoomRoom’s massive pairing of And So I Watch You From Afar and Tracer AMC, pinnacles of Belfast’s stellar post-rock scene, we’ve been bouncing around all sorts of high-faluting notions! One such display of extravagance concerns The Utter Freebie Madness of the AC30 camp who want to give away signed posters and albums from each band along with two pairs of passes for the May 16th gig.

All you have to do is concoct your own mock post-rock tribute band and spoof album cover. To get you started, we’ve thrown a couple together ourselves! Most contrived band name or downright zany cover wins. Send yours to rockeroffher[at]gmail[dot]com…Entries close at 6pm on Wednesday night. Now, where did I leave my psuedonym?

The Coronas - Dublin Castle - 05/04/2008

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While The Mighty Stef is currently grappling his plans for the follow up to 2007’s Sins of Saint Catherine, released on his own The Firstborn Is Dead label, new EP Death Threats is soon to hit ears and shelves across the country, great news for those who appreciate the rollicking sounds of Stef, a seriously busy sailor since the first album’s release. An American tour supporting Flogging Molly gave the man a new whack of lust and life which shall no doubt make for a compelling array of new material. No musician could possibly remain unchanged having suffered the cruellest loss away from home: his gear. Stolen or mislaid, the truth is unclear. Perhaps a delicious stream of vitriol towards thieves and low-lives will find its way to album #2….

Pictured above with friends from the film and is director Evan (in the red stripes), Check out The Mighty Stef’s blog for a little background info on guest appearances and the recording process.
Described as “four folk songs from the underbelly of modern Ireland”, the EP tracklist follows:
1. Death Threats
2. The Mero [Ft. Ronnie Drew & Flogging Molly]
3. Where The Nightmares Begin
4. Romantic Ireland Is Dead And Gone [It Lays With 2pac in the Grave]

Released on May 23rd, details of pre-ordering and stockists are soon to come. There will be no official launch party for Death Threats but there are several secret events lined up to run concurrently with the EP’s release so keep an eye on the man’s MySpace calendar to avoid missing out.

Here in all it’s marvellous Tisch glory, the Death Threats video by The Mighty Evan Polivy.

Stay tuned to OHR for more of the latest Tisch videos….

RapturePonies, Adam Lacey and Leigh each tagged me in the Memes…

Rules: having been tagged, list six unknown facts about yourself. Tell your tagger you have posted.
Tag six new sources and personally inform them of their tagee-ness. Their submissions can be done on their own blogs or in the comment box below.

Werrrrgh? I felt a bit averse to posting a meme referencing the useless on this, a music blog.
So here’s a random Musical meme?

1) At a Tisch screening a few years ago, I told Sorcha Brennan to get out of shot so I could take a photo of Butterfly Explosion.

2) My first ever paid job for a band was to follow StoneOcean around Carlow for a day, which is when I met 79Cortinaz. I proceeded to take loads of photos, get ratted drunk, graffiti the toilets and was driven home asleep on my untouched battered sausage and chips.

3) I’m unbearably shy and always full of questions for the bands I meet that I never get to ask because a scamptious mental devil overrides sense with sheer inanity. When photographing The Cribs at Oxegen 2006 I almost blurted “your father should demand a DNA test!” at the youngest Jarman brother.

4) Before landing my work experience at HotPress, I only ever went to Whelans if I was plastered. Then I was barred and didn’t return for about seven years.

5) The first unsigned Irish CD I ever bought was The Jimmy Legs’ EP for £4 in Fibbers, a godawful creation with a neon pink Jack Russel on the cover, inside which they thanked God, their parents and John Player Blue.

6) I’m an awful, deaf, insomniac drummer.

I hereby tag six Irish musicians’ blogs and ask that they reveal six things about their band :

1) Deaf Animal Orchestra
2) The Eclectic
3) Team Fresh
4) Distractors
5) Queen Kong
6) Aortal