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Month: October 2019

RUN iN RED Release ‘I Want It All To Stay’

Dublin quartet RUN iN RED have just released their highly anticipated new single ‘I Want It All To Stay’ following a string of summer dates in Ireland, the US and UK which culminated in their biggest headline show to date at Lost Lane in July.

‘I Want It All To Stay’ marks a distinct change in the band’s sound, moving away from previous acoustically driven songs and delves into a more synth based composition, while still retaining components of the live band.

Recorded and mixed with Pete Meighan in Bayview studios in Wicklow and mastered by Fergal Davis (Muse, Sinead O’Connor) this is the band’s 4th single release, following on from their last single ‘Dirty Spirits Design’ which was released in June.

With airplay from Today FM, 2FM, FM104 and BBC Radio Foyle the band have also been featured as JOE.ie’s ’Song of The Day’ twice for two of their previous singles which are also stocked in Tower Records.

Honing their live skills on the Irish and UK circuit RUN iN RED deliver indie rock through a wall of harmonic layers and musical dynamics.  The band supported Pillow Queens at Dublin Quays Festival last year and after that played two special shows in Dublin and Derry; at The Workman’s Club and at Sandinos for the release of ‘A Song For You’ and second EP ‘Undercover, Overthrown’. So far this year the band have supported Makings in Whelans, taken the main stage at The Button Factory, Bello Bar and opened for Jamie Adam in McHughs in Belfast.

Stream and download ‘I Want It All To Stay’ on all platforms now.
www.runin.red/iwiats

Quiet Lights 2019 Announce Festival Featured Artist

From Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th November 2019, music from the heart and for the soul will fill Cork city’s more intimate venues as Islander presents ‘Quiet Lights’ – an exciting new festival which shines a light on the new wave of Irish and International folk, traditional, and experimental talent. Previously announced names on the line-up include Rozi Plain, Peter Broderick, Ye Vagabonds with Brìghde Chaimbeul, Anna Mieke, Cormac Begley with Liam O’Connor, Lankum, Junior Brother, and there’s so much more.

Now in its second year, the festival are adding strings to their bow, and with this comes the announcement of a festival Featured Artist for the 2019 edition – filmmaker and director Myles O’Reilly.

Jonathan Pearson, Director of Quiet Lights said: “The decision to choose Myles as Quiet Lights’ Featured Artist 2019 was a very easy one. Firstly, his camera has been on so many of this year’s artists that we felt as though he already was an integral part of the process of Quiet Lights, and also that we worked together so well on our hour long documentary Backwards to go Forwards, which was released last Christmas Day.

The festival exists to showcase the very best in the new wave of Irish folk and traditional music, and it could be argued that Myles has been the most important person in bringing this movement forward, with his talent and films giving these young artists a platform they wouldn’t have had without him.”

Music video and documentary filmmaker Myles O’Reilly unintentionally began his career by combining three previous and not so rewarding vocations to form a new hobby while unemployed in a global recession. A gofer with Irish national broadcasters RTE, a photographer and photographic printer, and experience as a recording artist signed to Sony Music Publishing and V2 records UK, in 2009 Myles borrowed a video camera to document local musicians performances and upload the footage to Youtube.

Since then, multi-tasking O’Reilly has filmed, directed, and edited, over 100 music video promos and 20+ music documentaries of Irish musicians at home and abroad, including Glen Hansard, Villagers, Imelda May, The Script, James Vincent McMorrow, Sinead O’Connor, Lisa Hannigan and Mick Flannery, alongside other International artists such as Hollywood soundtrack virtuoso Ernst Reijseger, Icelandic artists Soléy, Múm and Amiina, Janelle Monea, and a long arm list of many rising and emerging artists, all available to view from his blog Arbutus Yarns.

Officially launching the Quiet Lights weekender, Featured Artist Myles O’Reilly will host the public premiere of his 25 minute piece ‘Tenore Cuncordu Orosei in collaboration with Ernst Reijseger’, at The Kino, Washington Street, 6pm, Thursday 21st November.

Myles O’Reilly commented: “There’s a culture still alive in Ireland of people who seek out, enjoy, and promote Irish traditional and folk music. Whether as music fans sharing their discoveries with friends, or promoters like Jon and Islander, that do better still and facilitate events for new, exciting and progressive trad and folk musicians to meet, perform, be seen and heard by many.

I’d like to think I do the same with film as a method to promote emerging Irish music. Having worked with Islander on the film Backwards To Go Forwards, it was evident we complement each other. There’s a community forming of like-minded Irish music enthusiasts, ready to put all their energies into nurturing and cultivating the right soil for emerging Irish music to grow, and I’m honoured to have a role.”

A programme of further screenings of Myles’ work will take place over the course of the weekend, and Myles will appear as a guest speaker on various panel discussions at the festival. The full details will be announced soon when the festival release their conversations strand, which will feature thought-provoking commentaries and discussions covering a number of topics.

Keep an eye on www.quietlights.net and the Quiet Lights social channels for details.

Quiet Lights Facebook
Quiet Lights Twitter
Quiet Lights Instagram
www.quietlights.net

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Josh Johnston Set for Dublin and Galway Dates

Fresh from the release of his current EP, ‘Moon Landing’ on Shandon Records in September, Dublin pianist / singer / songwriter Josh Johnston is looking forward to playing a few gigs around the country. Playing songs from across a 20-year career, as well as songs being currently recorded with producer Anthony Gibney in Audioland Studios in Leixlip, Josh will be joined for some of the songs by regular collaborators Marco Francescangeli (sax and clarinet) and Rob Molomby (bass).  Jane Willow will play a special guest set in the middle of the evening and will the pair will collaborate on a few songs as well.  

Hear the EP on Bandcamp

Josh Johnston & Friends
Special Guest: Jane Willow

Wednesday 23rd October
Lost Lane, Dublin 2
8pm
Tickets €15 from www.lostlane.ie

Friday 1st November
Black Gate Cultural Centre, Francis Street, Galway
8pm
Tickets €10 at the door

New Alternative Music Festival to take place in Sligo

The inaugural Spilt Milk Audio-Visual Festival will see three days of music, film and art around venues in Sligo town from 22nd-24th November. Bringing national and international artists alongside emerging local acts across a myriad of musical genres, Spilt Milk invites audiences to take a chance on something new. 

In addition to the music strand, the festival will see a visual art strand featuring video installations, pop-culture inspired film screenings and a record & zine fair. A key tenet of the festival is to offer a genre-spanning celebration of homegrown musicians, producers and artists and engage with young people additionally. 

Performing live at the festival will be a diverse assembly of new voices and musical propositions: this is superbly distilled by Ensemble Economique, the California-based musician Brian Pyle. His music is a multidisciplinary trip into the exotic unknown, deeply emotional and intense, moving seamlessly through sound-collage, dark noir pop, and minimal techno. The experimental trio Percolator masterfully navigate the spaces between subgenres, their sound laced with hypnotic motorik rhythms, Stereolab-recalling vocal harmonies and the miasmic ecstasy of shoegaze. At the other end of the spectrum are Landless who sing unaccompanied traditional songs from Irish, Scottish, English and American traditions in close four-part harmony. Further folk explorations come via Aoife Nessa Frances, a musician and songwriter who draws on 60 psychedelia and Rachael Lavelle who blends electronic soundscapes with elegant piano, found sounds, percussion and spacious, arresting vocals  For fans of straight up post-punk, indie supergroup Grave Goods and youthful four-piece Problem Patterns have come out of the starting blocks with electrifying sets pushing the boundaries of what an alternative band should be. More out-there experimentalism comes from Sligo quartet Gulpt who skew the line between no-wave, free improv and avant. Rounding off the music line up are multi-disciplinary artist Katie Gerardine O’Neill who will perform a 30 minute sound collage, south-Sigo audio-visual artist Dult, improvisational electronic supergroup BB84, Sligo upstarts Marge Bouvier and Dublin-born, Sligo-based harpist Dave Lawless.

Spilt Milk builds on the activities of a group of like-minded individuals each already working within the music landscape and passionate about building a community in Sligo that joins the wider burgeoning alternative and experimental music scene across the island of Ireland. With the help of funding from Sligo Co. Co. and the Creative Ireland (Sligo) Programme, a limited number of free tickets are available to under 23s.

All performances are ticketed separately with some free events; for booking and more info visit: spiltmilkfestival.com

Shrug Life Put Unique Stamp on ‘You’re Such Good Looking Woman’

Dublin’s Shrug Life started as the product of rubbish jobs, failed romance and political apathy. Known for their wry humour and frenetic indie-rock, the group supported and toured with songwriting heroes Jeffrey Lewis and So Cow before releasing their debut album ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in October 2017, via Seattle based Jigsaw Records. The album was hailed by the Irish Times for it’s “sharp lyrics that poke and prod at the clamour of modern life,” while the Thin Air named it in their 15 best albums of the year stating “they are impossibly infectious and improbably good.”

Following on from the recent critically acclaimed single ‘Strangers’, the band show a lighter side with a tongue in cheek take on Albert Hammond’s ‘You’re Such A Good Looking Woman’, obviously best known in Ireland as a massive hit for Joe Dolan, set for release on 8th November.

In May 2018, the group featured in The Guardian for their politically charged song ‘Your Body’, while July saw the group release new song ‘2009’ produced by Daniel Fox (Girl Band/Paddy Hanna). The track features on the compilation ‘A Litany Of Failures: Volume II’ along with 17 of Ireland’s best independent bands. Recently Shrug Life has played supports for international acts Hers, Swimming Tapes, The Beths, Alex Lahey and Pip Blom, while putting the finishing touches on their second album.

Shrug Life play the following dates…

14th November – Tengu Dublin(with Naoise Roo support)
20th November – Black Gate Galway (stripped back show with French Ketamine)
22nd November – Ulster Sports Club (supporting Careerist at their Belfast album launch)
28th November – Whelan’s (supporting Careerist at Dublin album launch)
29th – 1st December: Other Voices Music Trail

Smoothboi Ezra Set for Whelans Date

After a stunning performance at Ruby Sessions last night, Smoothboi Ezra has announced a headline show live at Whelans (Upstairs), 11th December 2019.

Smoothboi Ezra, 17-year-old musician from Co Wicklow creates Lo-fi indie bedroom pop.  Their latest single ‘messing with my head’ is out now.

Tickets for Smoothboi Ezra in Whelans (Upstairs) are available from this Friday at 9AM

Tickets are €12 inclusive of booking fee, on sale this Friday at 9AM.

Available from usual Ticketmaster outlets Nationwide

24hr Credit Card Bookings 0844 277 4455 (ROI) / 0844 277 4455 (NI)

Book online www.ticketmaster.ie

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The Murder Capital Announce Vicar Street Date

Today, Dublin’s The Murder Capital have shared a new video for ‘More Is Less’ – the live version of which went viral and forged the band’s breakthrough last year. The video follows the release of their debut album ‘When I Have Fears’ in August, which reached a Top 20 chart position in the UK, and a #2 position in their native Ireland. 

They have also announced their biggest headline show in Dublin’s ,Vicar Street for 27th February 2020. Tickets available from Ticketmaster.ie and outlets Nationwide from this Friday. Brought to you by Aiken Promotions.

The new album is available on gatefold colour LP, black LP, as part of a limited bundle (gatefold colour LP, t-shirt, pin & journal), CD and as a digital download.

You can order the album HERE

Produced by Flood (PJ Harvey, New Order, Foals) the album features all four singles from the band so far, ‘Feeling Fades’, ‘Green & Blue’ & ‘Don’t Cling To Life’ and ‘More Is Less’

An exercise in both darkness and light, ‘When I Have Fears’ only serves to highlight the early ambition in the band’s sound. From the post-rock build and breakdowns of the two-part ‘Slowdance’, to the tender, bruised confessional of “On Twisted Ground” and industrial pulse of closer ‘Love, Love, Love’, there’s a consistent intensity throughout that marks out The Murder Capital as a band arriving fully formed on their debut album.

Tickets for The Murder Capital in Vicar Street are available from this Friday at 9AM

Available from usual Ticketmaster outlets Nationwide

24hr Credit Card Bookings 0844 277 4455 (ROI) / 0844 277 4455 (NI)

Book online www.ticketmaster.ie

Photo Credit: Gavin Ovoca

Steo Wall Releases ‘Borstal Boy’

Not everybody has access to such collaborators as Luka Bloom , Damien Dempsey and Davy Spillane on their debut album. But when you meet Steo Wall for the first time, you quickly understand why such legendary musicians wanted to join him on with ‘Where I’m From’ – his debut album. A sound bloke, quick to laugh, with a rich Dublin accent and the wit to go match it. Mixing traditional Irish folk with some contemporary Irish rap, Steo brings the listener on a journey from the bad-lands of Dublin, working class, housing estates to the beauty of Ireland’s west coast

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Martin O’Malley of Malbay Studio, Co Clare. ‘Borstal Boy’ is an age old story in the form of a catchy new tune full of vivid imagery. It follows the story of little Johnny, a 16 year caught up in a family cycle of drugs and crime. Selling drugs on a corner, he gets caught, goes to prison, and we get to witness his choice’s along the way.

Growing up in Dublin gave Steo a grounding in rap, “Though I was more Toothpick then Tupac,” he jokes. But it also saw him lose friends and family members to prison and drugs. Steo left Dublin for Co. Clare in 2012, and started working as a fish smoker in Lisdoonvarna. He quickly immersed himself in the vibrant local music scene of North and West Clare, which is where he met his partner and the mother of his two children.

In October 2018 Steo was asked to perform as part of the RTÉ Radio1 inaugural folk awards in Vicar Street. And in 2019 he was asked to sing Rainy Night in Soho as part of Irelands Favourite Folk Song airing on RTÉ TV

Since the launch of ‘Where I’m From’, Steo has headlined Doolin Folk Festival, K-fest, Feile NASC, and RTÉ Simply Folk stage at All Together Now Festival, and continues to play countless theatres and venues across Ireland

He has recently just secured an interantional booking agent, and will make his international debut in London in November 2019.

Tour Dates:

Nov 13th The Slaughtered Lamb, London
Nov 16th The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton.
Nov 17th The Abbey Tavern, support to Christy Dignam and Joe Jewell.
Dec 1st  Glór Christmas Concert.
Dec 18th Bridge of Song, Castlebar
Dec 21st Workmans Club, Dublin, Morrissey and Marshall Christmas Show.
Dec 22nd Harbour Bar Bray support to Morrissey and Marshall

Website: www.steowall.ie
Facebook: www.facebook.com/stewallmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/steowall?s=09
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkXxQS_gtY37je8_dyWB4w
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1GBzWh9x4ERmT4IK2Y0Yrf

Jimmy’s Cousin Shares Single ‘Blind’ Ahead of November Irish Tour

Jimmy’s Cousin is the alter ego of Irish recording artist Ian Dodson. September saw the release of his album, ‘Live in Dublin’, while he has just released single from the album, ‘Blind’ and the announced an Irish tour in November.

According to Ian; “After recording my debut Album ‘Waxwings’ last year, the songs just kept evolving. The more we played them live the more they matured and when you’ve got such a talented bunch of musicians with you, the creativity didn’t stop.  We wanted to capture the best expression of the songs in a live setting so we recorded the final gig of our last tour at the Sugar Club in Dublin. We captured it warts and all, on this new live album, ‘Jimmy’s Cousin: Live in Dublin’. There is no editing or overdubs and what’s presented on the CD and the Concert Film is exactly as was played on the night, including the mistakes!

The album includes most tracks from ‘Waxwings’ as well as two previously unreleased tracks, ‘Blind’ and ‘Stay’. ‘Blind’ is the lead single from the album.

Jimmy’s Cousin will be bringing his full band on short tour of Ireland this November.

3rd November               The Set Theatre, Kilkenny
16th November             Dolans, Limerick
17th November              The Sugar Club, Dublin

Tickets available from: http://www.jimmyscousin.com

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INSTAGRAM  https://www.instagram.com/jimmyscousin/
WEBSITE       http://jimmyscousin.com
TWITTER       https://twitter.com/Jimmys_Cousin
YOUTUBE      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClxV6eMC0-HVLZAjQM60KBw
ITUNES          https://music.apple.com/ie/artist/jimmys-cousin/1440892217
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Keywest Release New Video ‘C’est La Vie’

Keywest have released the brand new video for their latest single ‘C’est La Vie’ which is out now alongside their eagerly anticipated Marshall Records debut album ‘Ordinary Superhero’. The album is now available to order with exclusive bundles through Transistor Music here.

‘C’est La Vie’ is a track that sings about life’s difficulties. However, it goes on to talk about how life goes on and gets better. This powers through in the form of summer vibe with a bouncy acoustic guitar, a track that shows a great folk side to the band and their music. 

The band’s debut album ‘The Message’ entered the top 20 in Ireland, second album ‘Joyland’ went to Number 1 in Ireland in 2015, third album ‘True North’ went to Number 3 in Ireland and they had a string of radio hits such as ‘Carousel’, ‘This Is Heartbreak’, ‘This Summer’, ‘Something Beautiful’ and ‘Cold Hands’. The band have sold out shows across Ireland, including three Dublin sell out shows at The Olympia Theatre, The Academy and Whelan’s, all within 10 months. In addition to sold out headline shows, the band has performed at festivals including British Summer Time, Country 2 Country and Country Music Week in London and Longitude and Electric Picnic festivals in Ireland. The band have recently completed a 13 date Irish, UK and European tour, which included a sold out 1,200 capacity O2 Academy Liverpool show.

Keywest are widely known for their explosive live performances. The four-piece Dublin based band comprises of Kav, Glover, Jimi and Harry. The band formed after being introduced during a trip to Los Angeles where they became friends. Starting out in Dublin, the band found the gig scene in Ireland very slow and began busking, taking their sound directly to the people of Ireland. Whilst honing their sound and style the band became famous and well known for busking on Shop Street in Galway and Grafton Street in Dublin.

Keywest’s Marshall Records debut ‘Ordinary Superhero’ is out now alongside their brand new single ‘C’est La Vie”, with an Irish, UK and European tour to follow.

Ordinary Superhero Tour Dates

17/10 – Belfast – LL2
18/10 – Dublin – Academy
21/10 – Glasgow – G2
23/10 – London – O2 Academy Islington
24/10 – Bristol – Exchange
25/10 – Liverpool – O2 Academy
27/10 – Nottingham – Bodega
29/10 – Edinburgh – The Mash House
30/10 – Manchester – Deaf Institute
31/10 – Birmingham – O2 Institute 3
4/11 – Munich, Germany – Strom
5/11 – Cologne, Germany – Helios 37
7/11 – Berlin, Germany – Badehaus
10/11 – Oslo, Revolver – Norway
11/11 – Stockholm, Sweden – Obaren

https://www.keywestofficial.com/

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