A farewell to one of the gems in our wee islands music scene crown is heading off to to San Fran, taken his space echoing oscillations with him. The vid below is a solo outing at this year DEAF, but tonight he will be join live with two other members of the long gone but still loved Connect Four Orchestra.
Somadrone - Secton Six.mp3 (Taken from “Lets Depart” 10″ E.P – 2001 ) Somadrone - Trail For A Trial.mp3 (Taken from "Fuzzing Away To A Whisper" LP - 2005) Also on the bill is three piece Krautrock Revivalist Twinkranes and who have just released a great record on Twisted Nerve.
And if you can still rock on after that there is this afterwards. After hearing new songs like "Flight Of The Feathered Serpent" and "Space Mountain" which sound like modern unoffensive tv idents music, for me Fuck Buttons have lost their edgy charm. The first album was more than just a homage exercise to Eno and Bryne's 81 masterpiece, it genuinely sounded dangerous, exciting and even new but now I wouldn't be surprise if "Olympians" (the most skippable track on "Tarot Sports") is used over rubbish tv sport montages. But it will be worth going to hear songs of their first album and the schizo disco epic that is "Surf Solar" of the new one and Legion Of Two in support also
Boys Of Summer featuring A.Fogarty (Toymonger / Weil Rats), I.Pawle (Sea Dog / Scented Candle) & PG Smyth (Jimmy Cake) unleash a unrelentless barrage of sweet disco analog drone swells. They return to the Box Social after one of the most intense show I've seen this year. I overheard one punter after that "Cannibal Holocaust" score show saying "It was like getting hit over the head by a cancerous penis", quality. www.myspace.com/bbooyyssooffssuummmmeerr
John Purcell is a Dublin-based musician who uses guitar, synthesiser, voice, field recordings, and effects to create dense layers of lush ambient sound. www.myspace.com/johnpurcell1
Catscars is Robyn Bromfield, one fifth of Children Under Hoof and one of Patrick Kelleher's Cold Dead Hands. Behringer + Farfisa + Korg + Yamaha = Carpender Doom grooves. www.myspace.com/catscars Sonic bliss from a child under hoof. www.myspace.com/schooltourmusic
Sat. 12th of December, Behind 236 South Circular Road, Doors: 6pm till 10pm (plendy of time to head into Hercules & Love Affair after) 5 euros, Bring Your Own Dang Booze.
There is a night of blissfull noise bop happening upstairs in whelans with Paw Tracks's Queen Tickley Feather and renaissance man Patrick Kelleher and his band of rotten limbs in tow. Tonight now after the Ireland Match so doors are at 10pm not 8pm. Ive been enchanted by Tickley Feather ever since downloading a split 7" back in January, four majestic songs that swam around my head all year. She's release two really great albums since then and the skip skip video below is the latest single of her new album; "Hors d'oeuvre".
Its all go this month over at the radio institution that is Donal Dineen and his Small Hours show for Today fm. "Donal will have a invited guest act live on air for The Small Hours to play live, chat to Donal and play a selection of their own favourite tunes, effectively curating the show for the night."
If you missed the live broadcast frommidnight to 2:00 am, you can stream all Donal Dineen - Fresh Air shows here. So far there is four up to listen to including the excellent Hulk & Adrian Crowley playing and chatting on last night's show.
Photo: Diane Arbus A reup of "a haunted collection of treat fun street grooves and trick doom shake disco hell" I put together for last years Halloween that some of you might have missed.
A section from the BBC4 documentary, "Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany". Its viewable in it's entirety here ON BBC iPlayer, but alas only to folks in the UK.
Laetitia Sadier is right at home on this new Atlas Sounds track from his latest LP; Logos. All in all this Spacey krautrock TUNE could sit neatly into Stereolab's 1999 underrated "Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night", without you knowing it was made 10 years later by an hyper productive young American. Bradford Cox has really outdone himself with this stellar track.
Skinny Wolves Bros are bring Grouper over to play in a Double Header show with the wonderful John Wiese as a part of DEAF09. The show is on Friday 30th October in Film Base for 12euros. Doors at 7.30 with Boys Of Summer and Over in toe and a BYOB policy too, what more would one want?
12th Box Social Show A night of phasing psychrock folk.
United Bible Studies Sometimes 8 droogs strong psychrock juggernaut with a revolving door of hurdy gurdys, harps, Mellow Candles vocalists and Weapons of Mass Destruction drumming. Its hard not to get trances out by their post "Current 93" grooves.
12th Box Show Show, Saturday 26th of September 09, Behind 236 South Circular Road, DOORS 6PM, Bring Your Own Buckie, 5 EUROS or whatever your can afford.
GNOD Rhythm n drone psychenoise collective formed Dec06. The line-up shrinks and swells as the music rotates & expands to reach new frontiers and other worlds www.myspace.com/gnodgnod
Sick today, yesterday aswell, but you can't be well all the time. I watched this video over a year ago, good to see the song appearing on his new album, which like all his albums is pretty darn great, still its the 12 Crass Covers that holds a special place in my heart. For another good "Black Cab Sessions" vid, cast your eyes on Final Fantasy previewing a new song in this video. Jeffery Lewis & The Junkyard - If Life Exists.MP3 Buy "Em Are I" Cd via Norman Records (UK)
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. Wow. (Thanks to Panti for the heads up)
I picked up their "Seasonings Greeting" tape single early in the year and now the new What's Up?'s debut LP has landed and certainly doesn't disappoint. Pulsating, hynotic and still as a pinch of The Advantage (Main man Robby Moncrief's previous band) in it. Im still waiting on road records to get the vinyl I order in but Ive been tapping in to its sultery playfull ways, having it stuck on repeat since I downloaded it three weeks ago. What's Up? - Harper.mp3 What's Up? - The French Song.mp3 Buy What's Up? - Content Imagination LP (From Norman Records UK)
Is there any light at the end of the tunnel, or is it cave with snarling packs of panthers and bears jostling for control, trying to keep your foothold with the hopefull, dogged Emperor X buzzing in your head.
My first solo show, with cork fellow First Blood PartII and three droogs from the down right wicked Untied Bible Studies finishing of the night. Might still do a cover of that grange hill song, not sure now though, might wreck the mood. More info go to www.desertedvillage.com --------------------------UPDATE---------------------------- A Vid of the last improv I did with the help of Paddy,Cullan and barry on triple drums strike. Thanks to Bren Aka Paddybash for recording sound and visuals, he is one of the good ones thats for sure.
And a vid of one of Diarmuid MacDiarmada, Gavin Prior and Bryan O'Connell jams from the same show.
You can still download Hype Williams ridiculously amazing lo-fi psych stomp EP "High Beams" for free via this link. It is easily the best 5 songs, 6 & 3/4 minute EP you will hear this year. Listen below.
One of my favourite electronic krautrock revivalist, Arp was made a cosmic lush mix for Vessel with some name I know and love (Deuter, John Cale & Terry Riley, Roedelius, Phew) and some I dont (Franco Battiatio, Sonny & Linda Sharrock) but must check out after hearing this mix, it spans the spectrum of interstellar musicians for 69' till 08'And is well worth a listen. Get it Arp - Mega Mix Here Buy Arp's incredible "In Light" Here
I took it upon myself to go big at the last moment and do an all day festival in your humble home. The event will feature 8 acts who have already played sweet sets at different box social show over the course of the last 6 months, 4 others yet to thrill out bare concrete walls. This is sure to be fun, maybe be too much fun. Thread Pulls No no wave, roto tom drumming, trumpet/Vocal looping two piece of excellent, Thread Pulls are still the only Irish band to play All Tomorrows Parties Festival. You can download a series of ep for free Here and a great hour long mix can be got here. Children Under Hoof, ...are five people from various regions of Ireland, brought together in college by a mutual love of Risk, Father Ted and 7"s played at 33 RPM. Members include Limerick's Miss Junior Teen '99, the co-founder of the original Ted Fest, 1/2 of experimental band Ixchel, 1/1 of Patrick Kelleher, and IADT's Best Tash 2006. Their music, vl tone busting/sax swarming/vss sampling/floor tom pounding noise creates a sound that could be described as trying to channel the souls of Robert Rendal, Michael Karoli and Porter Wagoner but failing in a wigi board inferno. Toymonger, "...Anxiety-ridden, dread-fueled creepers of scraping metal, white noise, and dripping feedback..." - The Adhocist Herv, "Like watching late period Rick Wakeman being attacked by robots made out of old spring coils. And if you don't think that's a pretty appealing vision, well then, you're missing a few mental teeth." - The Wire Haha too good, well we think he's the bomb. Hunter-Gatherer, "Prolific in his work and benevolent with the output offering plenty of electronic goodies for free, Hunter-Gatherer is moody, broody, uplifting, an aural rip curl" - One Shot, Bang Bang
Patrick Kelleher ""You Look Cold" left me hot under the collar, this debut album from 24 year-old, Irish Patrick Kelleher is awe-inspiring in it's genre-bashing brilliance and refreshing take on a myriad of musical references. Swinging from Vincent Gallo's most whispery nonchalance to thumping electro beats circa Talking Heads with David Byrne/ Ian Curtis shouty vocals ('He Has to Sleep Sometime') via an obvious interest early 90s hip-hop, perhaps A Tribe Called Quest most noticeably, no small feat for one man!" - Amelia's Magazine. This will be a solo show so the beautiful "Cold Dead Hands" will be elsewhere, expect non LP loopy stuff like this maybe or a twenty minite cover of The late great Joe Doyle's "Sweat Little Rock n' Roller" (In your dreams only).
Crayonsmith (solo), "Subtle snatches of melody, classic if sometimes unexpected harmonic twists, droning percussive synths and charming vocals so beautifully layered and produced" - CLUAS on his last LP "White Wonder" Ewa Gigon creates eerie ethereal loops with plumbing tubes, curtain rains and found metal drums Her wonderful live film scoring show at the box social can be view Here. Squarehead "a boy who likes melody and is a gameaddict " - Urban Dictionary definition of "Squarehead". Laura Sheeran carves out a unsettling audio tale with a rich and disturbing lexicon, from singing saws to carne ukulele, looped vocals from voices that sound out like warnings of the industrial revolution. Mattew Doyle, With the spunk of Barman, Perkins and Lomax, dubliner Matthew Doyle was been slowly chipping out his own style of post palace blues over that last few years.
+ Pascals Country Sound's "Slowmo Disco"
Live At The Box Social, Sat 27tt of june 09 3pm till 1am 7 euros 1/2 in shed, 1/2in house Barbaque in Garden (weather premitting) BRING YOUR OWN DANG BEER & MEAT
Address: The Shed behind No. 236 South Circular Road, Dublin 8. Directions: 19 or 122 bus (leaves from O'Connell St heading south), get off at the Mosque (ask driver) and continue in same direction as bus up to the crossroads, take a right down donore avenue and take the first right down a small lane. The Box Social is the third door on the right! See google map link below.
----------------UPDATE-------------------------- Pig Shlaves cant play now, so might have a surprise guess, or not, Aidan Walsh is a hard man to track down.
Come back from the light and release & tour again. I think Ill getting withdrawal. There's two from their deep space "Haha Sounds" Album from 03'. Broadcast - Valerie.mp3 Broadcast - Hawk.mp3
To celebrate the launch of Patrick Kelleher's debut album "You Look Cold"on the 18th (This Thurday) in Academy 2, here is a a tip top compilation he made for a now debunked site but he has kind enough to throw it my way. Ill be Djing at the launch also playing some slowmo 7"s, so hopefully see a few heads at it busting a groove to some slowed down Kylie.
1. Robert Rental - Double Heart
Some friends and I were staying in Tentstation in Berlin last Summer, and to our delight one evening, instead of table tennis and bingo, the campsite entertainment consisted of DJs and a live gig. Anyway, this is one of the songs played by the DJ that night, who happened also to be the receptionist. After asking who it was, we tried to memorise his name, however we had forgotten an hour later. By chance, a kind last.fm user recommended this track to me and I have been listening solidly ever since. A post-punk DIY industrial electronic artist from Port Glasgow in Scotland, Robert Rental released two singles and two collaborative albums, one with Thomas Leer and the other with The Normal. Double Heart was released on Mute Records in 1980. 2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Strange Fires This is from the LA-based artist's superb 2004 album 'The Doldrums' I will have the pleasure of supporting him and his live band when he plays Dublin on May 15th. 3. IXCHEL - Clockwork Castles I have tried to put a lot of relatively unknown Irish acts into this mix and this is the first, IXCHEL, named after the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in the ancient Maya culture. Comprising of Dublin Natives Timothy Hurley and Barry Semple. 4. Banjo or Freakout - Upside Down Londoner Alessio Natalizia allows himself only one take for every track that he records. You can download his 'Upside Down' EP and other releases for free from his blog. 5. Angkorwat - Daughter of Not to be confused with '80s Thrash metal outfit Angkor Wat, Dublin Artist Niamh is a classical violinist who went back to square one, typing out basic melodies on macbook keys. it’s reflection of several obsessions including synesthesia, Romaine Brooks, hidden history, Mozart and Cambodian temples. 6. Lucky Dragons - Mercy I have been lucky enough to see the LA outfit twice in Dublin this year. In live shows, the audience becomes part of the music making process, as Luke passes around drums, gongs, live electrical wires, rocks and other instruments, creating a buzzing, clicking, humming symphony. 'Mercy' is from their 2002 LP 'Dark Falcon'. 7. A Faulty Chromosome - Jackie O I fell in love with this band from Austin, Texas ever since my friend (cough, cough) introduced me to them last year. They seem to have the same effect on most people who hear their songs. You can purchase their Album 'as an ex-anorexic's six sicks exit' by mail. I did, and was very pleased when they sent out a copy of the album, along with a hand-made poster and a hand-written personal letter. 8. The Booklovers - She Said Now based in London, Irishman Ferrau Lynch and friends love cassette tapes, glockenspiel, Jens Lekman and all things twee. It will be interesting to see how their sound develops with the all new line up. 9. Electrelane - On Parade Fortunately, I saw them play once before they split up in 2007. Now I mourn the loss of the Brighton four-piece who are signed to the same label as Stereolab, 'Too Pure'. 'On Parade' Comes from their 2004 album, 'The Power Out'. 10. The Modern Lovers - Modern World He was dancing in the lesbian bar, aoo, aoo aoo. 11. E+S=B - 3 Sides Part 1 Dublin 3-piece 'Electronic Sensoria Band' bring Krautrock, Jazz and Electronic sounds to the Irish underground scene. David, Anto and Fergus have released an LP with Can's Damo Suzuki. This track is from 'Inhale the Sound'. 12. Cian Nugent - The Phantom Bus of Clarinda Park Cian Nugent is an 18 year old exploratory guitarist from Dublin Ireland whose playing is rooted in pre-war blues, Appalachian string bands and the Takoma tradition. Fahey is referenced quite a bit on this recording, but Cian is no mere Fahey imitator. He uses the style as a starting point for his compositions and creates something highly personal within these limitations. 13. Jeffrey Lewis - The East River From 'The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane and Other Favourites'. 14. David Kitt - Whispers Return the Sun, Rest the Moon Has been at the forefront of the Irish 'indie' music scene for about 10 years. His new album, 'The Nightsaver' sounds great, however I have been too poor to buy a copy recently so here is my favourite song from his successful 2001 album, 'The Big Romance'. 15. Si Schroeder - C4 Possibly the best music in Ireland at the moment. This is from 2006's 'Coping Mechanisms' 16. Hulk - The Moon Versus the Sea From his 2005 album 'Silver Thread of Ghosts', available on Osaka Recordings. 17. Jackson C. Frank - October 1960's folk from the now deceased Frank's album 'Blues Run the Game'. 18. Devendra Banhart - Nice People... From his second album, fully entitled 'Oh Me Oh My...The Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit'. 19. John Jacob Niles - Little Black Star I discovered the wonders of Appalacian dulcimer-playing John Jacob while watching Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary 'No Direction Home'. He recorded primarily in the 1920s and '30s. 20. The Ink Spots - Do I Worry?
I remember this song from my parents playing the soundtrack to Dennis Potter's TV series 'The Singing Detective' on vinyl when I was little. I loved it. Frank Sinatra does a fine version of it too. 21. Mt. Eerie - Human A band from Anacortes, Washington, fronted by Phil Elverum formerly of The Microphones. If you don't have any of their music, get some. This track is from 2005's 'Twenty Bees' EP, which they gave away for free. You can buy many of their releases here: http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/
Download The really rather brillant Patrick Kelleher 's 'Another Pretty Face Mix Tape' Side A: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mr33zzjm3m2/another pretty face side A.rar
Download Patrick Kelleher's 'Another Pretty Face Mix Tape' Side B: http://www.mediafire.com/file/5wzjeinytzt/another pretty face side B.rar
Again This Thursday 18th of June 2009
Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands Hulk Angkorwat
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