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Month: August 2015

The Pretty Things Return With New Album & First Irish Date in 30 Years

Having recently released their first new studio album in seven years ‘The Sweet Pretty Things (Are In Bed Now, Of Course…) The Pretty Things return with as much gusto as they had when they started performing fifty-two years ago. The Pretty Things are Phil May (vocals) Dick Taylor (lead guitar, vocals), Frank Holland (lead guitar, mellotron, vocals), George Woosey (bass guitar, vocals, rhythm guitar), and Jack Greenwood (drums, percussion, vocals).

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Irish folk duo set to release new “The Birds Never Cease” album

The Liam Merriman song ‘Dead Man’s Trail’ kicks off the new album The Birds Never Cease by Merriman and Eoin O’Meachair set for release on-line and on CD during September.

As Eoin O’Meachair, who plays mandolin and whistle on the album, explains, “We’ve opted for ‘Dead Man’s Trail’ as the lead track for The Birds Never Cease because it has an upbeat radio-friendly feel and reflects the stimulating blend of Irish folk and American roots we achieved on the album. Recording it in Nashville gave ‘Dead Man’s Trail’ the cross-cultural musical blend we were looking for”.

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Codes are all set for highly anticipated AALTARS album release

Irish alternative quartet Codes, will release their second studio album – AALTARS -on September 18th – their latest body of work since 2009’s Choice Music Prize nominated debut ‘Trees Dream In Algebra’.

To celebrate the release of AALTARS, the band will be performing live at their official launch party at Whelans, Dublin, on the 19th of September. Tickets are €10 (incl. booking fee) via Wavtickets.ie.

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Proceeds of New Single From Jimi Cullen to Support Headstrong

Singer-songwriter Jimi Cullen is to donate the proceeds of his next single ‘Keep Your Head Up Now My Friend’ to Headstrong, the non-profit organisation supporting young peoples mental health in Ireland. The track ‘Keep Your Head Up Now My Friend’ is taken from Cullen’s third album Life, and its release on September 2, 2015 will be proceeded on August 26 with a specially made video created by Rachel Gregan.

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i am niamh announces Hang On single release

i am niamh has just announced the release of her second single, Hang On from her debut album Wonderland. Hang on is a glimpse of i am niamh’s more electronic side to her style of music. Turn it up loud and enjoy.

“I Am Niamh’s latest single ‘Hang On’ is an electronically-driven composition that features piano and vocal echoes that build as the track progresses.” Nialler9

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Helena Byrne & Enda Reilly play Whelans

Singer/songwriters Helena Byrne & Enda Reilly will join forces, performing a very special concert in Whelan’s Upstairs, Wexford Street, Dublin 2 at 9pm on Sunday 23rd August 2015.

ABOUT HELENA:
From Kilkenny, now based in Dublin, HELENA has been performing since she was knee high to a guitar. As a singer/songwriter Helena has performed extensively throughout Europe and the USA. She has been a support act for James Taylor, Katie Melua and Bob Geldof at the Source Festival, Kilkenny and was also a third place winner in the 2fm Young Songwriter’s Contest with her song ‘Happenin’. She has performed as a session vocalist for both Rónán and Colm Ó Snodaigh, founding members of Irish group, Kila and most recently collaborated with Rónán, who features on her debut album ‘CEOL’. Following the release of ‘Ceol’, Helena is currently writing new material for her next album, which she is set to begin recording in 2016.

www.HelenaByrne.com

ABOUT ENDA:

Enda Reilly is a singer, guitarist and songwriter from Dublin whose projects include New Songs In Irish, his Climate Change Songs Workshops, Arise and Go! a collaboration with poet Stephen James Smith. He has also composed music for and performed in a poetic play Everlasting Voices with Guthanna Binne Síoraí, which has taken them to India and Japan. Enda is a former winner of the Christie Hennessy Song Competition, Comórtas Amhráin Rónán Beo @3 and has represented Ireland with songs in minority language song competitions. He has played concerts with John Spillane, Kila, Liam O Maonlai and Rónán O Snodaigh amongst others.

www.EndaReilly.com

Tickets: €12/€10 concession available at http://helenabyrne.com/tickets

George Hutton releases new single “Waiting”

georgehuttonSinger/songwriter George Hutton who has graced the stage with the likes of Hozier and Glen Hansard has officially set out on creating a solo career of his own. When George performed his first original song “Waiting” for BBC Music Day people were wondering why they couldn’t download it!

Well that’s because he hadn’t even recorded it yet, but the wait is over and his song is now available to download on iTunes.

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The Music of Brian Byrne: The Chamber Music Project

World première of James Joyce settings

Thursday 10 September 2015, 8pm
National Concert Hall
Featuring Kurt Elling, Jack Lukeman, Cara O’Sullivan,
Kristina Train, Andrew Strong & Keith Harkin
Brian Byrne conductor

One of our top musical ambassadors and most internationally successful film composers is coming home to Ireland and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for a very special evening inspired by James Joyce. Golden Globe nominee and RTÉ CO Artist in Residence Brian Byrne has set poems from Joyce’s Chamber Music collection which will be brought to life on Thursday 10 September at the National Concert Hall. A testament to the excitement around this project is the calibre of the artists getting involved: Grammy winner Kurt Elling, Jack Lukeman, Cara O’Sullivan, Andrew Strong, Kristina Train and Keith Harkin of Celtic Thunder.

The Chamber Music Project is very close to Byrne’s heart and one he has been working on for many years. International jazz legend Kurt Elling included one of the songs on his latest album, Passion World, a collection of songs from around the world that Elling calls his ‘charmers’. According to the Irish Times review: ‘It all ends quietly with Irish composer Brian Byrne’s tender setting of a James Joyce lyric, Where Love Is. Hard not to be charmed.’ Elling along with other artists in the September concert will record an album of the Chamber Music songs with the RTÉ CO while in Dublin.

Navan-born Byrne, based in Los Angeles since 2003, is one of Ireland’s most successful musical ambassadors, as a composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger and pianist. His currency in Hollywood can be gauged by the fact that he is fresh from working on the Dustin Hoffman movie Boychoir, where he wrote and produced a song for Josh Groban and wrote the score, and Katherine Heigl’s new lesbian romcom Jenny’s Wedding, for which he wrote a soundtrack full of new songs for Kristina Train. He has also just scored an HBO movie for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Greenlight project and is about to score Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture.

Recognition includes a Golden Globe nomination and two World Soundtrack Awards for Albert Nobbs, recorded by the RTÉ CO, and IFTAs for Zonad and Albert Nobbs. His score to The Good Doctor with Orlando Bloom was praised by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety for its subtlety and romanticism. Byrne conducted Barbra Streisand when she recorded If It’s Meant to Be, a song he co-wrote with songwriting legends Alan and Marilyn Bergman. In another significant breakthrough, Byrne’s first classical album Tales from the Walled City, recorded with the RTÉ CO and guests including soprano Danielle de Niese and violinist Nicola Benedetti, was released on Decca, the world’s most prestigious classical label.

Byrne has also collaborated with Bono, Katy Perry, Lisa Stansfield, Van Morrison, The Corrs, Vince Gill and Gladys Knight, to name a few. He has toured with Diane Warren, produced and arranged strings for Pink in The X Factor, arranged a song for Sex and the City 2 and played piano on Liza Minnelli’s cover of Beyoncé’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It). Byrne composed the music to Heartbeat of Home, the new show by the producers of Riverdance, which like Riverdance was recorded by the RTÉ CO.

Tickets: €15‒€39.50 (conc. €13.50‒€35.55)

Booking: 01 417 0000, www.nch.ie or www.rte.ie/co No booking fees apply. 10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Kíla and Rónán Ó’Snodaigh receive Emmy nomination

For their
contribution to the soundtrack of the production ‘Ireland’s Wild River’ Kíla and Rónán Ó’Snodaigh have received a nomination for the for the 36th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards under the category ‘Outstanding Music and Sound’.

The production, known better as ‘The Secret Life of The Shannon‘ here in Ireland and ‘Ireland’s Wild River: The Mighty Shannon‘ in the UK shows the Shannon as it wends its way across the country through all four seasons, documenting the wildlife that describe the river as home. To date the production has been broadcast through RTÉ, BBC in the UK and PBS in the US.

The Emmys will take place in New York in September.

Should you wish to watch Kíla live they’re playing a kids show at The Model Sligo on August 15th and are also playing Whelans on August 21st.

You can follow Kíla on Facebook and their website.

If you are interested in listening to some of the soundtrack, Kila have made it available to stream on their Bandcamp page

Celine Carroll releases infectious “Get Up Get Out” single

Get Up Get Out is the brand new single release by Dublin Singer Songwriter, Celine Carroll. Written on the ukulele, this song has become a ‘Poptastic’ burst of much needed sunshine and is receiving more than a generous amount of airplay both here in Ireland and in the UK.

To accompany the new single, Celine has also released a colourful, fun upbeat video, shot in Dublin along with some global video insert contributions from friends abroad. This song can travel.

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