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Oxjam At Electric Picnic 2010 via Oxjam Ireland - the DIY Music Festival,
Watch out for Oxjam at Electric Picnic this weekend.
Bigger than last year, it’s up to you to make it better! Our open-mic stage is situated beside the Body & Soul area so drop by and bash out a song or two. Even if you just want to come and listen – everyone’s welcome.
…and don’t be surprised if some very special guests turn up and...
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Create Your Electric Picnic Timetable via Culch.ie, There’s a cute option on entertainment.ie’s website to build your own Electric Picnic timetable. You tick the box for all the artists you want to catch and it will compile them together in a neat, printable package. Go, do…
See you all tomorrow!!!
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Competition: “SIX STRINGS FOR TWO HEELS” Flamenco Performance via Culch.ie, This is a special treat for all our Cork Culch.ie followers. Would you like an evening of exceptional flamenco performance with two of Spain’s most highly regarded artists? Read on.
This month sees the welcome return to Ireland of virtuoso composer and guitarist Juan Antonio Suárez “Cano” and award-winning dancer and choreographer Concha Jareño. Proudly presented by Peña Flamenca El Indalo, with the support of the Arts Council, the Instituto Cervantes Dublin and the Agencia Andaluza para el Desarrollo del Flamenco, this tour offers Irish audiences a unique opportunity to enjoy a level of flamenco artistry normally reserved for the stages of Spain and the more established international flamenco festivals.
The Spanish artists, who performed separately in Dublin in 2009, are...
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Culch.ie’s Electric Picnic Eclectic Pick ‘n’ Mix! via Culch.ie, Not sure who to catch at the Picnic, and who to leave to the ants? Never fear! The intrepid, well-travelled, and extremely attractive Culch.ie music team are here to guide you gently into making the right choice, no matter your creed.
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BP FALLON: Irish legend who has been labelled muso, journalist, PR man, charlatan?… who cares what else, is giving a talk as part of the panel entitled ‘Unknown Pleasures‘ as hosted by Dave Fanning at Mindfield at EP. Check it out at Saturday 4pm at the Levithian tent. Remember ‘leccy picnic’s not ONLY about the music (although he’s doing a DJ set too).
FIGHT LIKE APES: What can I say that’s not been said before? See them and tick ‘Witness the Awesomeness’ off your festival to-do list....
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The Tribes of Planet Picnic via Culch.ie, It’s that time of year again, when media attention zooms in on the goings-on in a few fields in the midlands county otherwise only notable for being home to Ireland’s oldest maximum security prison. Yes folks, we’re drawing up close to Electric Picnic weekend. 30-odd thousand people are about to descend on Stradbally Estate in Laois and even if you’re not one of them, you’re still gonna hear about it. Endlessly. Especially if you’re an Irish Times reader.
Because Electric Picnic isn’t just any music event. It is Ireland’s premiere boutique “arts and music festival”. Our Glastonbury. An event of important national cultural significance because…. well, because it’s not just for drunken young wans and therefore lots of media and journo types will be there,...
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The Cast of Cheers announce Irish tour via Culch.ie,
The Cast of Cheers, who rose to prominence having made their wonderful debut album Chariots available as a free download, have announced a nationwide tour.
The terms ‘free’ and ‘quality’ are usually terms which are mutually exclusive but not so here. Chariots is a cracking debut full of taut riffs and vocals which find that perfect balance between edgy and catchy. The album is available for free download orstream HERE and is one of the best Irish albums of the year, thus far . The Cast of Cheers are also a sight to behold live as their recent, most-pit infused, show at Whelan’s documented.
The tour will include a stop at Dublin’s Academy 2 with tickets for that one priced €13.50 and tickets for all venues are on sale now.
Catch them before...
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Culchie Calling Cards – Gigs – August 30 – September 5 2010 via Culch.ie,
GIGS
On Friday, The seventh Electric Picnic starts is Stradbally. This is a biggie and others here have already covered it, so I’ll direct you to their coverage.
PVT (formerly known as Pivot, and probably pronounced like that) are playing The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 on Thursday September 2. The gig is in support of the “Church with No Magic” album and you can see the video of the first single “Window” as well as download it for free at their site. Their sound is described as, ahem “an amalgam of rock synthesis, propulsive rhythms and huge melodic strength”, to me its loud pop tinged wit a bit of rock sensibility underneath all their layering. You could slip “Window” in to the Inception soundtrack and no one would...
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Other Voices come to Xbox Live via Culch.ie,
If you’re connected to XBox live, you might have spotted a familiar face hidden in the extensive GamesCon footage; that of Duke Special.
XBox live are showing a series of the intimate “Other Voices” gigs filmed in Dingle’s St James Church. Yes, this is a shortened version of the gigs shown on RTÉ over the years, but this is something of a test. In November Microsoft XBox team expect to see a change in the types of people sitting down in from of their XBox once the Kinect arrives. Namely that of casual gamers. Namely that of people who like music. Namely that of people who would rather dance then first person shoot.
Its been no secret that Zune didn’t quite reach the ubiquity of the iPod. They are currently in the process of re-branding Zune from an item of...
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Lissie Back At The Academy In December. via Culch.ie,
Joyous tidings for those of us broke/lazy/thick enough to miss the chance of a ticket for next month’s sold out show; Lissie has announced another date for The Academy on Tuesday, 7th of December.
I wrote about Lissie before. She’s a rare creature – a rockin’ sack of talent that happens to look like someone cast in a Simple ad (and my friend Fordie). This is the video for her latest song Cuckoo, which comes from debut album Catching A Tiger (though the Cuckoo EP has a rather worthy cover of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, which you can check out after the jump).
Click here to view the embedded video.
If that video doesn’t put a huge grin on your face, please paint one on with markers before I catch you and become disillusioned.
Tickets are €17 and went on...
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John Grant (Whelan’s, Dublin) – A Gig Review via No Ordinary Fool,
I wish I had no self-awareness like the guys I know
Who float right through their lives without a thought,
That I didn’t give a shit about what anybody thought of me,
That I was so relaxed you’d think that I was bored
From Silver Platter Club
The song above offers a reasonable snapshot of John Grant the artist – painfully introspective lyrics, sung in a booming voice over some cheerful guitar strumming. Master wordsmith Morrissey may well do this form of ironic musical juxtaposing in a more theatrical manner again. However, the giant American is by far the warmer and unaffected of the two. Moreover, his debut album candidly represents the tears of a clown – self-deprecatory lyrics that do little to hide an underlying sense of isolation, frustration, and an avowed...
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Culchie Calling Cards – Gigs – August 23 – 29 2010 via Culch.ie,
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Thin Lizzy is touring again. OK, obviously this is Thin Lizzy without its former very famous front man Phil Lynott. The new line-up is Scott Gorham (Guitar – Thin Lizzy), Brian Downey (Drums – Thin Lizzy), Darren Wharton (keyboards – Thin Lizzy), Vivian Campbell (Guitar – Def Leppard), Marco Mendoza (Bass Guitar – Whitesnake, Ted Nugent) and Ricky Warwick (Lead vocals/Guitar), and they are playing The Waterfront on 16 February and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on 17 February 2011. Tickets for both concerts go on sale next Friday 27 August 2010 at 9AM from usual Ticketmaster outlets nationwide or directly from the venue box offices.
Hard Working Class Heroes have announced the 100 Irish bands to play this year’s festival in the Temple Bar area (mostly...
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Awesome Live Music Next Week in Dublin via Culch.ie,
I almost went into a siesure a few weeks back when I found out that three of my current favourite bands are playing back-to-back gigs in Dublin’s Crawdaddy / Tripod venue next week. If there were three bands I had to conjure up for some desert island live set, these would be them, so to have all play one after the other at the beginning of a random week in August seemed like some kind of divine intervention. Anyways, I had to tell y’all about it, because it’s just not fair to keep music this good to oneself.
Megafaun, Monday August 23rd, Crawdaddy
I discovered Megafaun when watching a repeat of the RTE programme Other Voices one cold and stormy night and was completely enchanted by these beardy American folk singers. If you like Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, Band of Horses...
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Hard Working Class Heroes 2010 band list via Nialler9 Music Blog,
The list for the bands accepted into Hard Working Class Heroes is out and is after the jump. Internet, start your message board threads!
The festival takes place from 7th to the 9th of October. in Andrews Lane Theatre, The Button Factory, The Mercantile, The Grand Social (formerly Pravda), The Sweeney Mongrel, Twisted Pepper and The Workmans Club. Weekend Tickets are €45.00 plus fees, Nightly Tickets are €20 plus fees from Tickets.ie. A good place to hear all these bands is Breaking Tunes as all of them are on it.
At Last An Atlas
Autumn Owls
Awake Young Soldiers
Axis Of
Bantum
Biggles Flys Again
Bitches With Wolves
Blasterbra
Bouts
Cast Of Cheeers
Cfit
Cloud Castle Lake
Colenso Parade
Conor Mason
Conor Walsh
Creatures
Dark Room Notes
Datadrip
Deaf Joe
Electric Penguins...
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Home-Grown Talent Worthy of Your Attention @ Electric Picnic 2010 via Culch.ie, Widely considered to be the highlight of Ireland’s heavily-populated summer festival calendar, the 7th annual ELECTRIC PICNIC Music & Arts Festival kicks off in Stradbally on Friday 3rd September.
Since the inaugural event in 2004, Electric Picnic has garnered well-deserved status as Ireland’s premiere boutique festival weekender. Incorporating music, comedy, spoken word, film, circus, art, (and whatever you’re havin’ yourself!) – Electric Picnic consistently offers music fans an extravagantly eclectic programme of events from which to fill their three days in the picturesque setting of Stradbally Hall. And of course, the programme for this September’s festival is no different.
One of the most exciting aspects of the 2010 festival line-up is the calibre of the Irish...
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NYC’s Harrison Roach & Ireland’s Nicole Maguire – MMX Tour Visits Youghal via YoughalOnline.com,
This Saturday 21st August 2010 brings a very special gig to Youghal. Manhattan Meets The Emerald Isle a double bill featuring New York City’s Harrison Roach & Ireland’s Nicole Maguire Live at The Gate, Youghal at 10:30pm
NYC's Harrison Roach & Ireland's Nicole Maguire - MMX Tour 2010
New York City based singer/songwriter Harrison Roach just released his début EP All These Things in January 2010 on his own label ROA Records. Talent scouts from Sony applauded the album’s “strong sense of melody” which is multi-faceted and mature for such a young artist. Recorded and produced with acclaimed local talent, the fascinating and layered music of All These Things is perfectly executed, spanning the genres of pop, ambient- rock, and blues, and attests to...
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Plan B set for Olympia Date via Culch.ie,
Is he the singer who raps or the rapper who sings? Either way he’s the UK Soul sensation who’s been causing ripples across the music scene with his second album The Defamation of Strickland Banks thrust him into the spotlight with a number 1 album in the UK and a top 10 album here in Ireland.
The album tells the tale of Strickland Banks, an invention of Plan B (Ben Drew) a sharply dressed soul singer for whom after falling in love everything goes wrong and ends up in prison falsely accused of a crime that wasn’t his. The concept album has driven critics wild and the Olympia gig, on Feb 28th 2011, will be the perfect chance for you to see why.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 9am, as always and will cost €33.50 inc booking fee
Here’s a video of his most recognisable...
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Culchie Calling Cards – Gigs – August 16 – 22 2010 via Culch.ie,
GIGS
Leaving Certificate results day. For some its a day of terror, and not just those getting the results. So, how about a leaving cert festival? (And why hasn’t anyone thought of this before). The first Leaving Cert Celebrations is the Summer Blowout 2010 Festival on Wednesday 18 August. About 10,000 leaving certers as will be in Donnybrook Stadium, Dublin for a day MC’d by Lottie Ryan from 4pm to 11pm. The line up includes the Indie band, Skully & Carl from Razorlight playing an exclusive Razorlight DJ Set. Alexandra Burke ( presumably in an outfit, that will make it a day to remember). Hip hop act NDUBZ fly in from London and from Italy comes Alex Gaudino. Katie and Thomas from the Bafta winning Skins will be lending their DJ talents to the night and jetting in from,...
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Liars (Whelan’s, Dublin) – A Gig Review via No Ordinary Fool,
One of the things that you become particularly conscious of at a festival like Primavera Sound, for example, is just how uninspiring many of the bands are in terms of stage presence. They come out, grin sheepishly at the audience, play their music in bog-standard fashion, mutter insipidly about how nice it is to be there, and shuffle back off again. Half an hour later and the beer in your hand is not the reason why you are struggling to recall much of what you have just witnessed. Now, this is not an argument for gimmick-laden sets (the odd one, for sure, but no more than that). Rather, just an observation with respect to how a little bit of showmanship can go a long way.
Unsurprisingly, this is where Angus Andrew comes in. A languid and untidy cross between Bob Geldof and Nick Cave, he...
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DOOM finally to play Ireland via Nialler9 Music Blog,
It’s been a long time coming. DOOM aka MF Doom aka Victor Vaughn has finally set a date to play Dublin on October 12th in The Button Factory. Tickets are €30 excluding booking fee on sale from ticketmaster and tickets.ie. They’re not on sale yet though but they will be this week.
Huge props to Choice Cuts for bringing him over. The press page says a new album is due in September 2010. Let’s hope it’s not an imposter then....
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Local Natives announce Whelan’s date via Culch.ie, With the sound of their wonderfully crafted melodies still ringing in the ears of those who caught them at this years Oxegen festival, Local Natives return with a date at Whelan’s in Dublin on Monday 15th November.
Having arrived on the scene this year with their charming debut album Gorilla Manor, this is another perfect opportunity to catch Local Natives in all their harmonious glory. Brimming with stirring exuberance and serene hush, Gorilla Manor was an arresting album from a band with an intricate dedication to crafting beautiful tracks.
Such tracks will suit the intimate confines of Whelan’s perfectly and tickets priced €16.50 inclusive of booking fee are on sale now.
Check out Airplanes, one of the songs of the year thus far, below:
Click here to view the embedded......
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