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Month: January 2006

The Chalets Go Eurosonic

The Chalets head off to Holland this week as RTE 2FM&acutes pick of the crop to represent Ireland at Eurosonic. Europe&acutes biggest new music showcase takes place in Groningen, Holland this weekend and will feature some 130 acts in 15 venues across the city.

The Chalets (along with fellow Irish band The Radio) will be playing on Thursday 12 January and 2FM will carry the show live from Holland during Rick O&acuteShea and Jenny Huston&acutes shows on the night. As part of 2FM&acutes involvement in the event both bands will also have their live sets recorded and distributed to all the major European radio stations.

And keep an ear out for the band&acutes “Sexy Mistake” on the soundtrack of the Gray&acutes Anatomy series when it starts to air on this fair isle.

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IPNM @ National Gallery

IPNM IRELAND PROMOTING NEW MUSIC in association with The
National Chamber Choir of Ireland present on 3pm Sunday February 12th @ The National Gallery of Ireland Conductor Celso Antunes

Aloys Fleischmann POET IN THE SUBURBS
Per Nørgård WIE EIN KIND
James Wilson TWO POEMS FROM “ALMANAC”
Peteris Vasks ZEMGALE
Siobhán Cleary ELDE (World premiere)
György Ligeti WENN AUS DER FERNE

Ph. 01 -7007811 for information and ticket booking.

Tickets also available at the door

€12 (€10 concession)

‘An excellent programme and superlative playing marked the first concert promoted by Ireland Promoting New Music’

Martin Adams-Irish Times

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Other Voices | Returns | RTÉ Two

TWO SOUNDS: OTHER VOICES
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25TH AT 11.30pm

RTÉ Two and Hummingbird Productions present Other Voices, a series of nine programmes, featuring exclusive recorded performances and interviews by more than thirty Irish and international artists, recorded at St. James Church, Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland in December 2005.

The fourth instalment of Other Voices, the acclaimed RTÉ Two music series, hits Irish television screens on Wednesday, January 25th at 11.30pm. The series, which will run for nine episodes, was recorded in front of a small live audience in the intimate surrounds of Dingle&acutes St James Church over eight nights in mid December 2005.

Thirty two local and international artists descended on the world famous Kerry town to add their voices including James Blunt, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, The Waterboys, Alabama 3, BellX1, The Walls, Teenage Fanclub, Nizlopi and Elbow. The series is presented by esteemed broadcaster and writer John Kelly, and will feature nine programmes in total. Programmes 1 through 8 will each feature performances and interviews from four artists. Programme 9 will be a compilation of Other Voices highlights as selected by viewers through the series website www.rte.ie/tv/othervoices

Now in it&acutes fourth year, the Dingle recording of Other Voices has become a music festival in it&acutes own right, a unique and exciting gathering of the very best in local and international talent. Folk, rock, indie, alt country, dance, roots and much much more, all brought together in a glorious diversity of musical expression resulting in an aural and visual feast for the viewer.

This Other Voices series will differ from its predecessors in that performance footage will now be interspersed with interviews and behind the scenes material. Viewers of the TV series will get up close and personal with James Blunt at the Oceanworld Aquarium, catch Asian Dub Foundation unplugged on Ventry Strand, join Hal for a few games at the Dingle Bowling Alley and settle back for a chat with Rufus Wainwright in Benners Hotel! Other Voices can also now proudly lay claim to a small piece of Irish musical history, when legendary Irish Celt rockers Horslips donned their guitar straps and drumsticks to play their first ever live electric set in more than 25 years!

The fourth series of Other Voices was directed by acclaimed Irish filmmaker and artist, Maurice Linnane, will run on RTÉ Two on the following dates, at 11.30pm (subject to change)

Wed Jan 25th Programme 1 – Laura Cantrell, Vyvienne Long, The Walls, James Blunt
Wed Feb 1st Programme 2 – Pinky, Humanzi, Jose González, The Waterboys with Liam O&acuteMaonlai
Wed Feb 8th Programme 3 – Duke Special, Clare Sproule, Stephen Fretwell, Elbow
Wed Feb 15th Programme 4 – Emmett Tinley, Stars, Trashcan Sinatras, Horslips
Wed Feb 22nd Programme 5 – Julie Feeney, Matt Lunson, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright
Wed Mar 1st Programme 6 – Iarla O’Lionaird, Jape, Asian Dub Foundation, Alabama 3
Wed Mar 8th Programme 7 – Miriam Ingram, The Immediate, Hal, Bell x1
Wed Mar 15th Programme 8 – Nizlopi, Delorentos, Dave Couse,Teenage Fan Club
Wed Mar 22nd Programme 9 – To be selected by viewers through www.rte.ie/tv/othervoices

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Film and TV Composers Workstation

FÁS Screen Training Ireland
in association with Ceoil Productions Ireland Ltd. is seeking participants for The Film & TV Composer’s Workstation

Dates: 12th February – 25th March 2006
Location: Bow Lane Studios
Duration: 6 weeks
Fee: €700 (Levels 1 & 2); €600 (Level 2)

Participant Profile
Composers from classical, rock and commercial music backgrounds who aspire to become composers of film and T.V. music.

Course Profile
The aim of the programme is to enhance the technology skills of film and television composers and provide the skills to effectively score a film or T.V. show at the composer’s workstation.

The purpose of this module is to familiarise participants with the technology of the composer’s composition and recording workstation. This course is divided into two levels. The first is a short intensive programme aimed at the technological novice who has little or no hands-on experience of the recording studio.
This will cover everything from initial hardware setup and software instrument applications.

The second level will continue from this foundation and will address topics such as:

· Creating convincing synthetic orchestrations through the use of gigastudio and other virtual instruments to create everything from “mockup” to finished cues.

· The film oriented aspects of composing to picture using conventional commercial sequencers and notation packages.

· Mixing practices and modern production methods in sound design, creating beds and drum loops.

·Integrating acoustically recorded instruments into synthetic scores. Solo vs. ensemble, gestural reinforcement, timbral and textural considerations, etc.

·Synthesis vs. sampling. Exploiting the strengths and avoiding the weaknesses of each.
The emphasis will be on providing participants with practical experience of various methodologies employed throughout the process of electronic scoring.

Tutor Profile
Greg Magee has composed scores for the TV feature film Under the Hawthorn Tree (CH4 & RTE), An Evil Cradling and The Cat and the Moon. He has also worked as Music Supervisor for Countess Cathleen and Scoring Supervisor for such European and Irish Productions as The Last Word, A Love Divided, Filleann an Feall and Rheged – The Lost Kingdom. He scored the multi award-winning animated series The Fairytaler, TV show Cabin Fever, the title music for the “Rose of Tralee”, the score to the award winning Irish language short film The Longest Ditch, and the animated series Zombie Hotel. Greg won an IFTA in 2005 for his score for the feature film Winters End.

Application
Please apply online at www.screentrainingireland.ie. Deadline for applications: 23rd January 2006.

For further details contact: Sorcha.loughnane@nullfas.ie. Ph: 01 4830840.

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20th Vibe for Philo

Dublin, Cork, Kilkenny, Limerick, Copenhagen, New York, Los Angeles. The Vibe for Philo has come a long way from its humble beginnings 20 years ago. Not only is the Vibe taking to the road in Ireland this year, but tribute events will also be staged in America and the Danish capital. Few could have imagined the show growing into the global commemoration it’s become, taking in almost every venue in Dublin along the way – including a sell-out Point Depot at the 10th Vibe and attracting acts from 3 continents. Fans are coming from Holland, Sweden, Denmark, America, Canada, Belgium, Britain, and beyond with two Dublin hotels currently booked out with guests over specifically for the Vibe.

With the turkey out of the way rehearsals have been intense and sponsors Jim Beam have once again put together a choice selection of goodies to raise money for charity at the various shows. The Full line up includes, former Lizzies Eric Bell and Brian Robertson, with Jimmy Faulkner, Noel Bridgeman, Southbound Band, Trad Lizzy, Ex-Pogue Cait O’Riordan and Roadhouse, Glyder, Jimmy Coot and Shibata from Japan’s Lizzyboys (a memorable hit from the previous outing at Vicar Street) and surprise guests.

Tickets are available Nationwide from Ticketmaster and locally from Venue’s and usual outlets.
The Vibe takes to the road at:

Vicar Street, Dublin, January 4th 2005

Savoy, Cork, January 5th 2005

Langtons Kilkenny January 6th 2005

Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick January 7th 2005

Further Info/interviews: 087 2916313
or visit www.vibeforphilo.com

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Amadeus | Celebration

Kelly Colleen McMahon presents Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

Wednesday 11 January to Saturday 14 January 2006

St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, 8 pm

Tickets: €15 Members of Music for Galway: €10
Booking: 087-2719782

This January, the world will celebrate Mozart&acutes 250th Birthday. To correspond with the festivities, Kelly Colleen McMahon will present Peter Shaffer&acutes take on the legendary composer, Amadeus, at St. Nicholas Collegiate Church January 11-14.

The work looks at Mozart&acutes time in Vienna (i.e. the last ten years of his life) but does so through the lens of his rival and purported murderer, Antonio Salieri. An enduring myth implicates Salieri in Mozart&acutes early death and Shaffer plays with the evolution of these kinds of rumours. He also examines ideas about religious piety, envy, facades, and the inscrutability of destiny. All of this while creating a fascinating portrait of the composer and his would-be nemesis.

Most people are undoubtedly more familiar with the film adaptation of the play, which garnered numerous Oscar and Golden Globe awards when it was released in 1984. The stage production is equally as laurelled with the Broadway production earning Tony&acutes including Best Play for Shaffer and Best Actor for Ian McKellen who played Salieri. Though stage and screen version share characters and basic plot details, the theatrical original centres much more on the idea of Mozart (whose middle name means ‘beloved of God&acute) as God&acutes voice on Earth and the blend of admiration and ire this cause in Salieri. This religious undercurrent makes St. Nicholas an ideal venue for the play as the church&acutes holy atmosphere will augment those themes quite palpably.

The cast for the Galway production includes actors from a range of theatrical organizations in the city including Galway Youth Theatre, An Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, NUIG&acutes MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and NUIG DramSoc. In the principle roles are Patrick Curley as Antonio Salieri, Morgan Cooke as his bane and the title character and Helen Gregg the composer&acutes devoted wife, Constanze.

Cast
Antonio Salieri – Patrick Curley
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Morgan Cooke
Constanze Weber – Helen Gregg
Emperor Joseph II – Ronan McMahon
Count Von Strack – Matt Kelly
Count Orsini-Rosenberg – Shane McDermott
Baron Van Swieten – Martin Sullivan
Venticelli – Aileen Bradley, Lisa Daly
Directed by Kelly Colleen McMahon

Music for Galway
c/o GMIT
Cluain Mhuire
Monivea Road
Galway
phone: ++353 91 705962 email: info@nullmusicforgalway.ie
www.musicforgalway.ie

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Audio Fiction | Irish Dates

11th Jan – Harbour Bar, Bray, Co. Wicklow 8.30pm

12th Jan – Eamon Doran’s, Temple Bar, Dublin 8pm (w/Circle Line – Sian Records)

14th Jan – Slattery’s, Capel St. Dublin 8pm (Main act for Dermot Lambert’s Gigland Series sponsor – Hot Press)

Audio Fiction is the eclectic blending of rock, power pop, and moody emotional musings spun into a sassy and ‘delightful’ package.

Audio Fiction’s last EP, “Songs in the Key of Orange Alert,” embodied the sound of 1980’s retro chic, made cool. Lead singer Mimi gives a “coquettish delivery that recalls the ballsy pillow talk of Blondie’s Debbie Harry” (Irish Voice); others have described the band as a “cross between Blondie, No Doubt and The Pretenders” (GO NYC Magazine). Audio Fiction’s upcoming debut album will embrace, enhance and explode their sound.

Since Audio Fiction’s early beginnings in 2003 playing bar mitzvahs and funerals, the band has been making a name for itself throughout New York City and the nation, putting on gazillions of energetic live shows, and releasing its first EP to wide national acclaim. With the addition of Metropolitan Opera violinist Kat, whose frenzied virtuoso performances give the band a unique edge, the established musicianship of lead guitarist FERG, the tight melodic bass lines of Jay, and the driving rhythmic beats of drummer Mark, the band has finally come into it’s own.

Audio Fiction is a melting pot of races and national origins, comprised of Dublin-born Mark O’Toole (drums), fellow Irish-native FERG O’Sullivan (guitar), Filipino Jay Young (bass), panhandler of Texas that is, Katherine Fong (violin), and native New Yorker Mimi Ferraro (lead vocals).

Reviewers, fans and people who know good music describe Audio Fiction’s sound as throw-back power-pop-rock-punk, a la the Pretenders, Blondie or Garbage, with catchy riffs and deceptively serious lyrics. Audio Fiction prefers a more metaphorical description: they offer you cotton candy, then kick you in the teeth, all while you’re dancing. And where else can you get virtuoso violin playing in the middle of a rock act? One thing is for sure ‘They put on a kick-ass live show!” according to Gothamist.com

In the last seven months, the band has been featured in The Village Voice, Curve Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, GO NYC Magazine, She Magazine to name but a few. In his rare moments not playing drums, Mark has become a favorite of the New York gossip columnists from the New York Post’s Page Six to The Daily News Rush & Molloy columns, getting snagged for everything from his appearance in HBO’s new “Taxicab Confessions – New York, New York” (continually aired across America and soon to be aired by Ch4 in England), to a run-in with The Strokes and Drew Barrymore. All this press has garnered the band a bit of notoriety, grassroots interest, and headline gigs at New York City’s top venues and beyond.

Audio Fiction hopes to build on this success. The band are hard at work in the studio working on their debut album to follow up on the success of their EP, and will tour Ireland in January, and the Northeast US after the release of their debut album in early 2006.

This past spring Audio Fiction were spun on 85 college radio stations in the Northeast US as part of their radio campaign to support the EP.

www.audiofictionband.com

www.myspace.com/audiofictionband

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Chris Morrin | Crawdaddy

Chris and Co. are an essential live act to catch and are finally playing at Crawdaddy on the 20th December. This summer they’ve already displayed there unforgettable performance at the Hard Working Class Heroes Festival, the Fringe Festival and the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival. Their music blends electronica, folk and rock, in a way that leaves one breathless.

Showcasing the rising song-writing star of Chris Morrin, ably supported by his multi talented MuckyKids, The show is a mad mix of humour, angst, wit and barely contained chaos, a definite must see…

VENUE: CRAWDADDY
DATE: TUESDAY 20TH DECEMBER
DOORS 8PM
ADM 8EURO
SUPPORT: Niall James Holohan

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Laura Izibor | Live | 17th Dec | POD

18 year Dublin soul singer / song writer Laura Izibor has been making waves on both sides of the Atlantic with a style of soul that harkens back to Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin and contemporaries such as Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys and John Legend.

Laura won the 2fm song contest in 2003 at the tender age of 15, which lead to her signing with Jive US last year on her 17th Birthday after worldwide a&r interest, making her one of the select few of Irish artists to sign directly to a US major label. She is writing the album 100% herself and is also on co production duties. The album will be released in early 2006.

Tracks from the album are online @ www.myspace.com/lauraizibor and a live TV performance is available @ www.lauraizibor.com

Laura headlines Crawdaddy at the Pod on Saturday 17th Dec, tickets from www.ticketmaster.ie

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Maverick Irish Indie label Does It Again

Last year (on Christmas Day to be exact!) Irish Independent label Trust Me I’m A Thief Records became the first record label in the world to release a record on Christmas Day! It was actually an internet only release that was uploaded to their site at 2:00pm on Christmas Day. It was a two track Split Single available in MP3 and Windows Media Audio featuring “Schroedersound” & “Beautiful Unit”, priced at €1.75 – with cover artwork available to donwload for free.

This year they are planning on doing something similar!

At 2:00pm GMT on Christmas Day they will be releasing another “Split Single”. It will feature two tracks again, one from “Jape” and the other from “Stanley Super 800”. In keeping with the seasonal thing, the Jape track is called ‘Eatin Turkey To Make Music To Eat Turkey Too’ and the Stanley Super 800 track is called ‘Dark Angel’.

This year the release will be only available for a limited period. The plan is to remove it from the site and kill it on Valentines Day, and it will never be made available again.

So, if you want to support Irish music, while Irish Music works hard on Christmas Day to support you – log on to www.trustmeimathief.com between 2:00pm on Christmas Day and download the Trust Me I’m A Thief Christmas Release Part Two!!

You will not need a root kit, there is no DRM built into the files, its a mere €1.75, it will play on any device. So on Christmas Day while the big turkeys from the major labels are getting their chins soaked in goose greese and reflecting on the profits of another year of tangible sales, Trust Me I’m A Thief will be busy and working hard to bring you music that you won’t see splatered all over the Christmas Balls and Holly in the windows of all major record stores.

For More Information on all TMIAT matters contact Brian Mooney on info@nulltrustmeimathief.com.

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