Ballroom of Romance on Friday was a right rousin’ to do…Hounds played before I arrived - bah! - at the jammers Lower Deck in Rathmines. Great news for Seomra Spraoi

 

Ballroom of Romance @ The Lower Deck - 11/01/08

 

Party Weirdo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Party Weirdo were such a laugh. I never said that about a flautist’s band before. Check out Indie Aoife’s on-air antics with the band from Thursday’s show, complete with schmexy podcast available for download…go!

 

 

Large Mound

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m getting a lot of use from my fish-eye lens this year and will hopefully have a new one soon, more suitable for gig lighting! Send your optician bills to my great-aunt Mo, she’s loaded….
Large Mound were brash and satisfying, maxing the volume over a vocal PA. Having shot them at the BoomBoom Room in November for the launch of their latest album My Whole Life is Have To, I was able to put my cam away for a bit and join a happy melee that included Emily Party Weirdo and QK’s Amy rockin’ out the Mound sound. Keep your ears peeled for the new remix of I Hate All My Friends, marked for release as a single in February.

 

Estel

 

 

 

 

 

 

You couldn’t possibly find a band in Ireland more underground than Estel: formed in the late Nineties they’ve shied away from trends and snares of media attention and survived a tumultuous line-up history to record four albums, of which the latest is The Bones of Something, released on their own label, Little Plastic Tapes.
Despite the band’s imposing appearance of seriously-dedicated anti-rockers, I don’t think you have to be clued-in to any one genre to appreciate the syrup of layers: if your demands of bands include reverie so deep you jolt-to when the music stops, the sweet guitars and synths of Estel will surely pull you under.
Strange to think one of the band’s splits led to the formation of polar opposites Cap Pas Cap. Far removed from the pastel-neon aura of current experimental in Ireland, Estel delight in dark, selfish music and anyone who doesn’t like it can bloody well jog on.

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