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Archive for the ‘Live Stage’ Category
THE LIVE STAGE - SATURDAY 3rd October
IMELDA MAY
THE CORONAS
DIRECTOR
THE CHAPTERS
BIPOLAR EMPIRE
COMPETITION WINNER
Masterclasses, Workshops & Public Interviews
PUBLIC INTERVIEW: HAVE GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL
A Conversation about Life, Work and Music with GLEN HANSARD
IRISH YOUTH MUSIC AWARDS
Presentation and performance featuring the winning band of the Irish Youth Music Awards.
GUITAR WORKSHOP
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DRUM MASTERCLASS with CONOR [...]
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Sunday Music Show Lineup Unveiled
The Music Show is pleased to confirm the line-up for Sunday 4th October
THE LIVE STAGE - SUNDAY 4th October
THE BLIZZARDS
REPUBLIC OF LOOSE
DAVID KITT
DELORENTOS
VILLAGERS
THE BRILLIANT THINGS
VENGEANCE AND THE PANTHER QUEEN
MASTERCLASSES, WORKSHOPS & PUBLIC INTERVIEWS
Public Interview: IS IT FOLK, IS IT ART, OR IS IT ROCK ‘N’ ROLL?
A Conversation about Songs with CHRISTY [...]
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Hotly tipped rock & roll three-piece from Tallaght they’re ones for the future – but the future is NOW. Playing pubs and venues around Ireland since 2007, they graduated to support slots with The Blizzards and Republic of Loose last year. In January and February 2009, they recorded their debut album in LA with legendary [...]
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Smitten by The Band, Bruce’s Nebraska and all things Americana, the Chapters formed in college and have honed their sound over years of hard work, pluck and passion. They’ve played support to Neil Young and Chuck Berry. Their recently-released debut album Perfect Stranger has received universally ecstatic reviews, and drawn comparisons with Talking Heads. They [...]
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2009 Music Show Participants / Live Stage
Tags: Andres Antunes, Benjamin Loose, Billie Holiday, Bone De Minxe, Dara O Laoighaire, Mick Pyro, Motley Crue, Prince, Republic of Loose, Tara McCormack, The New York Dolls, The Ronettes
September 17, 2009
Mick Pyro, evil genius behind Republic of Loose, is now about to unleash the devastating power of Vengeance on an unsuspecting planet. This will be their first live performance anywhere. Vengeance consists of Tara McCormack aka T-Bone De Minxe, Dara O Laoighre, as well as Mick Pyro, Benjamin Loose and Andres Antunes from Republic of Loose [...]
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David Kitt is one of Ireland’s best-loved and original singer-songwriters. It was his second album, 2001’s The Big Romance, that really catapulted Kitt into the limelight – singles like ‘You Know What I Want to Know’ and ‘Song from Hope St.’ were at the top of the Irish charts for months. The album achieved double [...]
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Villagers are master of understated folk-rock Conor J O’Brien and some ‘esteemed colleages’. O’Brien started out in hotly tipped indie-rock outfit The Immediate. That band produced a Choice Music Prize-nominated album, In Towers and Clouds which was very warmly received, critically and commecially speaking. But in May 2007 it was announced that ‘The Immediate are [...]
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Malahide art-rockers Director burst onto the Irish music scene in 2005 with the top thirty single ‘Reconnect’. Their 2006 long play debut We Thrive on Big Cities reached number two in the Irish charts and went platinum, selling 20,000 copies at home. The record was not only commercially but critically successful, receiving Choice Music Prize [...]
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With a hot new album ready to be unleashed in October, the Dublin four-piece Delorentos are timely additions to an already bulging Music Show bill. Entitled You Can Make Sound, it’s their follow-up to their gold-selling 2007 opus In Love With Detail hit the number 7 spot in the Irish charts.
With obvious inspirations from Pixies, [...]
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The Brilliant Things have been wowing a speedily-gathering fan-base with their unique brand of intelligent synth-pop. The duo consists of Marie Junior and Greg French, who have together and separately gained a wide experience throughout the music industry, despite being in their twenties. Marie was raised in a music environment, her Dad a musician and band manager. She had a [...]
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It was Jools Holland what did it. Having seen the incomparable Ms May playing live he said to her, “I’ve got to have you on the show.” And he did, and it was that electrifying performance on “Later….” that catapulted May into the music stratosphere overnight. That performance occurred before an audience that included Elbow, Roots Manuva and legendary [...]
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With the release of their third album, Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil in 2008, Republic of Loose confirmed their pole position as Ireland’s premier soul-funk band, the quality of whose recordings and performances have been equally appreciated both at home and in foreign parts where they can tell the real deal [...]
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Like another rather successful Dublin band, The Coronas first joined forces in their teens at school and adopted the name of a typewriter brand, as you do. Their line-up is Danny (whose mum is Mary Black), Conor, Knoxy and Dave.
Their performance on the main stage at this year’s Oxegen Festival and their subsequent support slot [...]
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