Garageland is back with its eighteenth series of unsigned Irish music performances! A month of live dates kicks off tonight at the Sugar Club with double launch nights to follow at Eamonn Dorans and Whelans on 6 June. Interesting choices and titles in the line-up include Myp et Jeep, Guillotines, tonight’s Fear the Foliage and elusive Tiny, Tiny Hammers.
Established in 2000, Garageland’s constant live music format involves venues all over the country, its gig-tally currently topping over 1000. Seen as a stepping stone for fledgling bands to showcase their talents in a pleasantly challenging environment of their contemporaries in the music industry, breakthrough acts appear regularly: Delorentos, Fight Like Apes, Ham Sandwich, The Immediate, The Kinetiks, The Script and Television Room all kicked up a ruckus at Garage gigs on their path to success. Dedicated to smoothing the forefront of new Irish music, garageland.ie are busy peeps:a special series in conjuction with Your Music Live. TV is due to broadcast in June, featuring full live performances, interviews and news from the Top 40 Garageland bands.
More recently IndieHour snapper Ian Oliver tipped us off about Donegal band BoyNumber7 who emerged as inaugral winners of the 7 Steps Up Award. Initiative of Garageland and Youth Work Ireland, 7 Steps Up is aimed at furthering the creative potential of people aged 12-19 nd draws youngsters from all cultural backgrounds in Ireland. The Award will now be implemented on a permanent basis and looks set to follow garageland.ie’s success.
For more information on 7 Steps Up or Garageland gigs visit www. garageland. ie or contact garageland[at]ireland[dot]com. Interested musicians are welcome to apply to perform.
Current Garageland listings with more to be confirmed are :
A note from the dark room revealed these : free downloads of Love Like Nicotine and Shake, Shake My Ceiling, two storming tracks from DRN’s 2007 Dead Start Program EP. Currently slap-bang in the creation of debut album, the band say recording’s set for London’s Flood Studios in July. Keep an eye on MySpace for some pre-production teasers….
Dark Room Notes will perform in mid-June at the London Calling showcase for Music From Ireland, after which gigs will likely slacken off…so get yourself up to frAntics at the Shaw tomorrow 28 May, just in case!
I really dig that blue man with maracas…I might print this poster and cut him out for my wall!
Continuing their domination of the night, Raidió na Life take over Traffic on 30 May to raise some cash for new decks…the old ones will be donated to a youth project PCP teaches at the YMCA. Cranking up the Academy for a Friday night Tropical Heat Wave, RNL residents PCP and DJ Halfdutch are joined by Worries Outernational, Richie !Kaboogie and A-Force of alphabetset.net. Promises of bass-heavy hip hop and reggae dancehall style are sworn to blow the roof off as Dublin’s club talents converge.
The Academy, 30 May, 10 - Late, €8,
I’d love to Google a voodoo iconograph of Papa Legba splashing bloody paint across a canvas for this post…Stagger Lee are looking for an intrepid artist to further their latest creative endeavour, sending out a call to arms. Despite a whirlwind inception in 2007 that led to supports with Sleater Kinney, The Kills and The Duke Spirit, exciting, positive changes are on the way from the ‘Lee and they’d like y’all to be involved….If you’re a snapper, snazzy painter or have a knack for the linear, get in touch via email or MySpace.
Nominations for Balcony TV 2008 awards are in with nods to Luan Parle, Mumblin’ Deaf Ro and Redkid.
The daily web-cast show screens short, new music videos from Irish artists and poets, filmed on a balcony above Dame Street in central Dublin. A sister project on a tiny verandah in Hamburg’s Reeperbahn was launched in late 2007 and is a regular feature on youtube.de main page.
Brought to you by three friends and flatmates, Balcony TV, a ’boutique Irish music phenomenon’ according to Hot Press, was crowned Best Music Website in the Digital Media Awards 2007 and recently nominated for a prestigious Webby.
Fans and bands alike appreciate the unwavering support for burgeoning Irish music and its cheerful site, simple in design and packed with a wealth of accessible content in blogs and YouTube. You’re not a band til you’ve been on the Balcony :p
Check out this video announcement or hit the ‘more’ tab for a full list of linked artists and accompanying videos. A rocking ceremony at the Sugar Club on 20th June will see the winners crowned to the refrains of live performances from Royseven, The Kinetiks and Readers’ Wives amongst others…
Crayonsmith are Youtube.ie’s featured music video this weekend!! Latest single from the Dublin band, Lost in the Forest was released in early March on Cork’s Out On A Limb Records. Also check out this spoof trailer, released a week before Lost in the Forest proper.
Music fans have responded eagerly to the new efforts of Crayonsmith, who’ve conquered and ranked the album of the year arena recently with White Wonder, record #2 from Ciaran Smith & Co. Following on from its Academy launch with Cap Pas Cap and Bats in April, the band have supported Why? and Yeasayer and follow Islands on a North American tour in June. Catch them with The Mae Shi and Noah and the Whale at Crawdaddy on 26 May before they go…
