…this is blu-razz sweet. There’d be teethmarks in my copy (luckily, I failed my vinyl-test).
SuperExtraBoners’Party are releasing their Everything Flows EP this weekend, kicking off their first tour in Cypress Avenue, Cork, tomorrow night. The title track is one of several gems from their SuperExtraBonusParty album, shortlisted for the Choice Music Prize 2008. You must get to one of these gigs:
Cork/London-based Margaret O’Sullivan aka Femmepop recently posted a track from her forthcoming debut EP ‘Kick‘ on MySpace. Similarly-titled, the song features Chris Geddes of Belle and Sebastian on piano and will slowlysweetly kick your eardrums out.
Don’t leg it just yet: there’s also this deaaadly Phantom fm podcast from her recent visit to the studio.
Have I mentioned that Floyd Soul and the Wolf have three songs on MySpace for free download? They’re all juice and cookies age and throw terrific tantrums through guitar…
So far this morning my iPod’s hosted Gruff Rhys, Hybrasil, Electric President, Massive Attack and now Subplots. If you haven’t already heard their fabulous EP State and Nature I recommend you get your skates on because their album debut won’t be long now.
If you knew how many dead album-in-the-making blog-bookmarks I dumped last week, you’d agree that Subplots have made a grand start on charting the process of recording in this extensive blog complete with larky photos and revealing weaknesses for equipment and ginger nuts:
Subplots and Seeping Into Cinemas will support Le Galaxie at Crawdaddy on February 29th, if the headliners are still alive, that is. The video for their new single We Bleed The Blood of Androids has left them so:
I’m a very happy blogger now we have our video embeds working. Massive coding operations lasting long into the tea-break brought many baited breaths and blank screens but it’s now been a week and the links are solid, Glory Be!
Just added to Youtube, last night’s live performance of Weeknight Lovers from The Dirty 9s on TG4’s Deis Roc. Has anyone been watching the show? In this clip judge and Kila frontman Ronan O’Snodaigh gives the young 9s a bit of flak while guitarist Cian gives judge Karen a bit of glad-eye when she says “I could hear them on the radio….”
Further into video-realm we go, this time to In Light by Aortal, band of Dublin’s most affable busker James O’Toole, though you’d never think so watching him slink menancingly through gloomy social welfare corridors. Is that an ironic fire extinguisher?
Longlists for 2008’s Irish Blog Awards have been leaked and to my utter shock, OffHerRocker’s been nominated for best newcomer, best music- and best photography blog!
I am in no way deluded in thinking I’m gonna win any of these: a huge number of writers post bloggy-gems each day, simply being included in the nominations is a bubble not even an exceeded PhotoBucket can burst!
Cheers and congratulations to everyone involved!
Wicklow’s own shiny, happy Hybrasil are probably a wee bit quiet today, having just announced that founding member Nipper Kinsella has officially left the band, bringing the remaining members to a four-piece. When pressed for a reason, Hybrasil were keen to point out that this was no hookers-in-Malibu, water-plane, hunt for Incan gold type of band-member departure but that Nipper had simply “tired of lifting amps up and down stairs at four in the morning, tired of giving up weeknights to go up and jam and probably tired of listening to the rest of us and our drunken antics“. All the best, Nipper!
Last Sunday saw their first gig without their bassist and plenty of activity looks set for coming months as focus shifts to internationally releasing their excellent debut The Monkey Pole. A European extreme sports programme Ex-Tube is providing valuable coverage by featuring several album tracks on its twice-daily digital show on channel 419. Expect to hear more of Hybrasil when they participate in Amnesty’s upcoming Voice Our Concern schools’ outreach campaign.
No, it really rocks…this year’s fundraiser has a startling line-up featuring Cathy Davey, Clampdown, The Coronas, Future Kings Of Spain, Ham Sandwich, Super Extra Bonus Party and Soul Riot DJs on The Star Stage while Dry County, Jape, Les Bien and Rarely Seen Above Ground take the Phantom 105.2 Stage accompanied by resident DJs and a Bodytonic crew.
Not sure if I’m animal enough for a seven-hour marathon but the show at the new Academy caters for absolutely everyone so drag your mates away from Dancing On Ice in the name of a good cause…
