You’ve heard about The Minutes’ ambitious manifesto of Gigs In Your Gaff, right? If you haven’t, it may be time to leave that rock you’ve been living under, if only to save your complexion….
The Dublin threesome revealed their plans shortly after winning the Vodafone Bright New Sounds competition and have regularly gigged across a variety of venues and reception rooms in the country since.
However this weekend at Electric Picnic sees a new development in the camp…site! Though Irish performers are famed for spontaneous renditions al festo (here on this blog, one commenter swore The Mighty Stef kept him awake all night with Bowie covers at EP07) The Minutes plan to go one further for their documentary with impromptu live shows throughout the weekend…in YOUR tents!
So if you loved Ukraine, Harmonic or want a sneak preview of new single Black Keys, get in touch with the band or keep an eye out for the leather-clad minstrels as they strum their way through the Stradbally estate.
Fair warning, eh, Matt Vinyl?
Despite a setback in The Hub suddenly shutting down for refurbishment (hooray! perhaps the venue will do Islands justice after all!) scuppering the brilliant plan of
Betamax Format + Terrordactyl + Large Mound = spondos for Barnados
the ‘Mound hound Dublin tomorrow with a double-gig-whammy kicking off at 1pm in Tower Records of Wicklow Street, following on later in Crawdaddy with The Bonnevilles and The Things DJs.
Those who attend the Tower show get in free to the night performance. Hell, those who ask nicely will probably find themselves on the guestlist, that’s how fierce and relentlessly friendly Large Mound are….
They also have a new song up on MySpace taken from My Whole Life Is Have To :
