I Said “Hey…!”
“…what’s going on?” Here’s my round up of the latest gigs, releases and general newsworthy nuggets.
Ethereal thinkers Tidal District are playing Pravda tonight from 11pm. No admission charge or stringent security means you can save a fortune by smuggling in your own medicinal tipple thus ensuring an fiine kickstart to your plastered weekend.
If you’re in the red county tonight, why not check out Television Room on 95FM at 5pm, psyching themselves up before their first Cork headliner at Cyprus Avenue? Having already graced Phantom and Phoenix radio earlier this week, it’s been a whirlwind ride for the fray-mous five (tatty-chic) since releasing Tinabelle three weeks ago.
I bumped into James (it took seven hours to dig myself out of the ground after calling him Brian at the Button Factory on Sat…scarleh’!) at Apollo Studios on Tuesday and promised to hit Crawdaddy for what will be TVRoom’s best show to date, tomorrow night.
It’s all happening outside Dublin tonight: Queen Kong and Sticky Digit will hit Dolans Warehouse like a…Kong-sized Digit later this evening. Shit-hot new Irish Krautrockers VoxPopuli will do the support thing. Get your industrial ass in gear and go! Do I need to tell you twice? Fine. GO!
Indie Dubliners REclaim release their debut single in Radio City tomorrow night (16th November). Isn’t RC just the place to be this month?!
Fight Like Apes are playing Whelans tomorrow, as everyone from here to Jakarta knows. What they don’t know is that the FLA (Flapping Lip Army) will have very limited copies of their David Carradine…Hates Your Crotch EP on 12″ vinyl for sale. Do you collect? Do you Karate!!
Also playing tomorrow are DC Pakt at Radiator in The Hub with support from the Ultra Montanes. You can spend your cash to hear the rocking live version of Departure with free admission to the carefully preserved gackiest jacks in Temple Bar.
Or if an upmarket gig is more your scene, Halfset, DryCounty and Carly Sings will charm the red velvet brigade in the Sugar Club on Leeson Street tomorrow night from 7:30pm for a reasonable tenner.
At my favourite dodgy venue, Kennedy’s of Westland Row, my favourite proggy rockers TwinKranes will be drumming and strumming their ecstasy-inducing smithery tomorrow night with The Oscillations as the prelude to the Underground’s Maximum Joy club. Expect leather and a lot of hairspray.
Aside from homeboys Redkid taking the Phantasm stage with Superjiminez at Radio City, Saturday is looking rather quiet. Good. I’ve a 7am shoot with The Eclectic followed by a stills shoot at The Minutes‘ video shoot for Ukraine in Celbridge on Saturday and a break will be in order before Sophie’s Choice at the Button Factory on Sunday.
The Urges surge The Voodoo Lounge with Italians The Ultra Twist /(evidently) Irish The Nackers (it seems they’re the same band with a different moniker depending on the country they’re in) on Saturday 24 November - When will Irish promotors start staggering stage times so we can actually go to these gigs?! I must have at least six maybes for the twenty-fourth. Think it’s time to call Albus Dumbledore up on that slate: I need me a time-turner…
Oh, the canny musicians know that November’s the last chance to get the Christmas Scrooges out. As if this plethora of gigs isn’t enough to wet the whistle, McGrudders’ pub hosts Merchantsville II on the 24th. An all-day event, starting at 3PM, there’ll be 31 acts on 2 stages, including headliners Hassle Merchants, as well as Lauren Guillery and the Claws, The Murder of Crows, Band on an Island, The Refuseniks, Sickboy, Kill City Defectors, The Prelude (Liverpool), Spiderbaby, The Receptors, The Amazing Few, The Mighty Stef, 15 Minutes and Good News. Admission is a miserly €5 before 5pm and €10 after…
If that particular brand of home-brew ain’t your poison, Home Star Runner will headline this all-ages show at Radio City on 24th November. Blag a pony from your parents for bringing your kid sibling out, dump them at the dry bar and head to Urban Outfitters for a pair of cool jeans…
…because you’ll want to look your best when you return to RC for Revolver, featuring The Minutes, Suddyn and newbies VoxPop later on that night. When the fat boy’s sung and the mic-cables are a-coiling, PhantomFM’s Pete will hog the decks to administer some Sinister…
We Should Be Dead release a taster on November 30th, Forget Romance, Lets Dance! the first single from their forthcoming debut album. A worldwide release, you’ll be able to find it on iTunes and the usual suspects…but that’s not all! Ringtones will also be available, if you’re one of those annoying prats who likes sitting next to me on sweaty buses.
Cork chaps Painting By Numbers rev it up another notch with Lauren Guillery and the Claws at The Spirit Store in Dundalk on Dec 8th. Have you heard their stonking Circuits EP yet?
Story of Hair are delighted to announce the launch of their debut EP, The Ho! Ho! Ho! Stamp in Radio City December 13th. Allied with fellow melodic Krautrockers Vox Populi, the EP will be eagerly awaited here as something new and fresh. I hope…
Northern Irish rockers Steer Clear will be hogging the airwaves on BBC2 at 11:35pm tomorrow night. I presume the show is ATL but SC ain’t replying to their emails so there’ll be just one way to find out…
Jape’s big news: two weeks in a London studio to mix and master and his debut album will finally be finished. Really, truly, wrapped, complete, solidly finished. Excuse me while I scream into a pillow…
If you fancy a little light reading, go check out DeafAnimalOrchestra’s latest blog. I think this week’s rant is tagged “Bertie Ahern”, “Boobies”, “Posh Spice”, “Cunt”.
If you prefer something less lily-livered, there’s a freakin’ hilarious Panda Kopanda Brazilian press interview…
Now. A bed of rose petals and a handsome stranger await. Hmmph. Okay, a bag of carrots and Eastenders. Better?!