Golden Discs opens in Dundrum Town Centre

Golden Discs is delighted to announce the opening of their new store in Dundrum Town Centre, the largest store in the Golden Discs’ portfolio at over 10,000 square feet. The store opens its doors on Thursday 10^th November at 6pm, to coincide with Dundrum Town Centre’s annual Shop & Rock event.

This follows the recent opening of Golden Discs’ new superstore on Henry Street, marking their return to the street after a seven year hiatus. The company is hiring an additional fifty staff for the new stores bringing the total employed to over 150 people.

Golden Discs Dundrum will host their first instore event on Friday 18^th November when Olly Murs will sign copies of his new album 24 Hours. A limited number of wristbands for this event will be available when you buy the album instore on Friday 11^th from Golden Discs Dundrum.

Golden Discs has been synonymous with music and home entertainment in Ireland since 1962. Despite the last recession and the contraction of the music retail industry, Golden Discs has not just weathered the storm but managed a significant expansion of their business.

Golden Discs specialises in vinyl, a growth area of the music retail market, and is continually expanding this offering to keep pace with customer demand. As well as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray the company also carries accessories including record players and a wide range of headphones to suit every budget.

CEO of Golden Discs, Stephen Fitzgerald says, ‘We’re hugely excited about opening Ireland’s largest home entertainment store in Ireland’s premier shopping location. We have the largest range of music and movie products and are working around the clock to be ready for Dundrum’s Shop & Rock event on Thursday evening.’

www.goldendiscs.ie / www.dundrum.ie

Golden Discs returns to Henry Street!

Golden Discs are delighted to announce their return to Henry Street after a seven year hiatus, as part of their expansion plans.  They will celebrate the opening with a performance from Dublin’s favourite band The Riptide Movement in store next Thursday 27^th October at 6pm at the new location at 18 Henry Street, Dublin 1.

Golden Discs have been synonymous with musical and home entertainment offerings in Ireland since 1962. As well as specialising in CDs, Vinyl, DVDs and Blu-ray the company also carries accessories and merchandise including beautiful record players and a whole range of headphones to suit every budget.

Golden Discs are delighted to announce that they will be hiring an additional twenty people for the Henry Street store to join their current team of over 100 staff, to help Irish consumers make the best choices when it comes to buying home entertainment.

What makes this location extra special, is that Golden Discs Henry Street will host a large vinyl department to whet the appetites of the most avid music fans.

“Everyone at Golden Discs is working around the clock to get the new stores fitted, stocked and open as quickly as possible. The next few months are the busiest of the year and typically also carry the most exciting releases and this year is no exception with huge audio and visual releases” said Stephen Fitzgerald, CEO of Golden Discs.

The Riptide Movement celebrate their 10^th anniversary with the release of their fourth album ‘Ghosts’ this Friday 21st Oct. This will be a chance to see one of Dublin’s most exciting and energetic bands perform in very intimate surroundings on their home turf!

Golden Discs are looking forward to announcing further store openings later this month.

‘STAND BY ME (MUSTIQUE DEMO)’

AVAILABLE NOW ON BIG BROTHER RECORDINGS

FROM ‘BE HERE NOW’ CHASING THE SUN EDITION RELEASED OCTOBER 14

With today marking the 20^th anniversary of the first day of recording ‘Be Here Now’ at Abbey Road Studios, Big Brother Recordings have released the Mustique Demo of the classic Oasis single ‘Stand By Me’. The track is available to stream, download and as an instant grat with ‘Be Here Now’ album pre-orders from https://Oasis.lnk.to/SBM

Recorded on the Caribbean island in early 1996 by Noel Gallagher and Owen Morris, the Mustique Demos are the original demos for ‘Be Here Now’. None of these original versions of the songs have ever been heard by anyone outside of the band before now. Two of the demos have recently been released to stream and download – ‘Don’t Go Away (Mustique Demo)’, listen https://Oasis.lnk.to/DGA, and ‘Angel Child (Mustique Demo)’, listen https://Oasis.lnk.to/AngelChild

All fourteen Mustique demos are available on special editions of the new Chasing The Sun edition of ‘Be Here Now’, released October 14^th on Big Brother Recordings.  The release follows the successful reissues of ‘Definitely Maybe’ and ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, which were part of the same series. Pre-order ‘Be Here Now’ here

OASIS ‘BE HERE NOW’ CHASING THE SUN EDITION

Re-mastered from the original tapes, ‘Be Here Now’ Chasing The Sun Edition is released on October 14^th and will be available on the following formats:

• Standard CD & digital download
• Special Edition 3 x CD & Deluxe digital download
• 12” vinyl LP with download code for 2 volumes of bonus content
• Limited edition Super Deluxe Box Set

Deluxe formats include rare and unreleased recordings plus the Mustique Demos.

‘D’You Know What I Mean? (NG’s 2016 Rethink)’ is available to stream and download now and as an instant grat with album pre-orders. The original 1997 video for the track has been re-cut, re-graded and is now in HD, watch here http://vevo.ly/jg7sBL

Also available to stream and download now and as an instant grat with album pre-orders is ‘My Big Mouth (Live At Knebworth Park)’ which was recently made available to coincide with the 20-year anniversary of Oasis’ landmark gig at Knebworth.

Pre-order ‘Be Here Now’ Chasing The Sun Edition here

 ‘DON’T GO AWAY’

(MUSTIQUE DEMO)’ RELEASED Friday, 9^th September

Taken from ‘BE HERE NOW’ TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 14^TH 2016

Big Brother Records will release ‘Don’t Go Away (Mustique Demo)’. The first time any of Oasis’s legendary Mustique Demos have ever been publically available, the track is now available to stream, download and as an instant grat with album pre-orders https://Oasis.lnk.to/DGA. Never before released as a single in the UK, ‘Don’t Go Away’ is taken from Oasis’s third album ‘Be Here Now’, which is being reissued as part of the ‘Chasing The Sun’ series on October 14^th.

Recorded on the Caribbean island in early 1996 by Noel Gallagher and Owen Morris, the Mustique Demos are the original demos for ‘Be Here Now’. The original tapes were mislaid shortly after the completion of recording, and subsequently achieved mythical status among the band’s huge fanbase. The tapes remained effectively lost until recently unearthed in the depths of the label’s archive, and now all 14 Mustique Demos will be available in special editions of the new Chasing The Sun edition of ‘Be Here Now’. Pre-order here

 http://www.oasisinet.com/

New single and biggest UK tour yet…

No One Will Ever Replace Us – Ignition Records, impact date October 21^st.

Ahead of the release of their fifth album, Courteeners have announced details of a new single and their biggest UK tour to date.

No One Will Ever Replace Us is a modern day anthem dedicated to a very British kind of summertime love. The band’s Liam Fray says of the song, “it’s about finding love in the unlikely surroundings of Glastonbury. There’s almost an under-pinning fear about when you’ve got something so good, and you don’t want it to end.” The track is now available digitally and as an instant grat with album pre-orders. No One Will Ever Replace Us is the second track taken from Courteeners fifth album, Mapping the Rendezvous (following the brilliant recently released track The 17^th).

Courteeners fifth album – Mapping the Rendezvous – is released on October 21^st 2016. Produced by the band’s regular collaborator Joe Cross, Mapping the Rendezvous is the band’s biggest and best album to date – hugely confident and supremely hook-heavy. The album is Courteeners first release on Ignition Records.

Courteeners play a series of autumn dates that takes in arenas and concert halls across the UK. The band will play:

Thursday November 10^th                Stoke on Trent Victoria Hall

Friday November 11^th                      Southampton Guildhall

Saturday November 12^th                  London O2 Brixton Academy

Monday November 14^th                   Bristol O2 Academy

Tuesday November 15^th                  Norwich UEA

Thursday November 17^th                Birmingham O2 Academy

Friday November 18^th                      Liverpool Echo Arena

Saturday November 19^th                  Glasgow Hydro Arena

Monday November 21^st                    Newcastle O2 Academy

Tuesday November 22^nd                  Nottingham Rock City

Thursday November 24^th                Carlisle Sands Centre

Friday November 25^th                      Leeds First Direct Arena

“delicate, country-tinged tracks of sweet melodies and careful craft… 

a beautiful album about loss” – Sunday Times Culture

PIXIE GELDOF reveals details of debut album I’M YOURS out 4 Nov

debuts first ever live session for The Line Of Best Fit

Pixie Geldof has revealed the artwork and track listing for her debut album I’m Yours, due for release on 4 November via Stranger Records, and today premieres her first ever live session, for The Line Of Best Fit.

 Watch So Strong (The Line Of Best Fit Session) via YouTube: https://youtu.be/OIPlGpeq7-A

I’m Yours is a testament to how much we don’t know about Pixie Geldof; who has been writing songs on the quiet, all this time; her tentative musical ambitions now stunningly fulfilled in this sumptuous collection of contemporary leftfield pop. A glistening soundscape, these are lovelorn paeans inspired by the music she’s loved forever, from Mazzy Star in the 90s, to the ghostly guitars of the country greats, to the gossamer wash of Warpaint today. I’m Yours is available to pre-order now via https://lnk.to/PixieGeldofImYours.

 Pixie Geldof – I’m Yours

1. Sweet Thing
2. I’m Yours
3. So Strong
4. Woman Go Wild
5. Rain Comes Down
6. Twin Thing
7. Close To You
8. Escape Route
9. Poison Apple
10. Wild Things Grow

The record was recorded in Los Angeles in autumn-winter 2015 with Grammy and Mercury-nominated producer/mixer Tony Hoffer (M83, Beck, Goldfrapp), with additional strings from esteemed composer David Campbell (father of Beck), a man whose CV begins with work on Carole King’s Tapestry, takes in Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, through the Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond and Radiohead, to Adele’s 21. The first two tracks from the album, So Strong and Escape Route, are available to stream and download now.

 Listen to So Strong and Escape Route via: pixiegeldof.com

PIXIE GELDOF

double A-side single SO STRONG / ESCAPE ROUTE out 17 June

debut album I’M YOURS out 4 November

Pixie Geldof today announces her debut album I’m Yours, due for release on 4 November via Stranger Records. The record is heralded by a double A-side single So Strong and Escape Route, premiered today and available to stream and download from 17 June.

“I’m Yours represents every single human I’ve ever loved in my life,” says Pixie. “Songs of love in every form, platonically, family, in romance. I’m a part of these people’s lives and I’m theirs in any capacity they need me.”

Listen to So Strong

Listen to Escape Route

I’m Yours is a testament to how much we don’t know about Pixie Geldof; who has been writing songs on the quiet, all this time; her tentative musical ambitions now stunningly fulfilled in this sumptuous collection of contemporary leftfield pop. A glistening soundscape, these are lovelorn paeans inspired by the music she’s loved forever, from Mazzy Star in the 90s, to the ghostly guitars of the country greats, to the gossamer wash of Warpaint today.

The record was recorded in Los Angeles in autumn-winter 2015 with Grammy and Mercury-nominated producer/mixer Tony Hoffer (M83, Beck, Goldfrapp, Air, Ladyhawke, Phoenix), with additional strings from esteemed composer David Campbell (father of Beck), a man whose CV begins with work on Carole King’s Tapestry, takes in Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, through the Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond and Radiohead, to Adele’s 21.

Well, that went fast!

As you know, Orchestrate took a sabbatical to travel through SE Asia and it’s almost over! We cannot believe a year has already passed, so many good memories and fun times, but everything has to come to an end, it’s time to get back to work!

We’re busy packing our flip flops and hoping the Irish weather will stay nice for when we arrive back home. If it doesn’t and starts raining again, we will go from +35C to the good old Irish weather that mandates jumpers, rain coats and warm pub nights!

Now, the Irish pub night is actually something we missed along with our close family, close friends and all the people we worked with, so it’s not all doom and gloom for us, we are in fact looking forward to coming ‘home’!

As said, we will be back in business starting the 13th of June. However, as we’ve started promoting some new clients you will start to see some mails from us over the next days. (Pixie Geldof anyone!?)

Just so you know, we don’t have Irish phone numbers just yet, but we will once we open the office so expect me to make you jealous about all our adventures over the past year!

Really looking forward to working and catching up with you all again!

Emma Harney

NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS RELEASE A LIMITED EDITION 12” VINYL EXCLUSIVELY FOR RECORD STORE DAY ON SAT. 18 APRIL.

THE NEW ALBUM ‘CHASING YESTERDAY’ STORMED THE CHARTS LAST WEEK GOING STRAIGHT TO NUMBER ONE!

On April 18, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will release an exclusive, limited edition 12” vinyl for Record Store Day.  The record will feature two previously unreleased remixes of ‘In The Heat Of The Moment’ by Andrew Weatherall and Toydrum (Pablo Clements and James Griffiths – also of U.N.K.L.E.)

The Andrew Weatherall Remix is described by FACT Magazine as – “In typical Weatherall fashion, it’s a patient remix, hypnotically building tension for a good four minutes before letting Noel’s vocal loose. And that ending, with the flanged hi-hats? Yes mate.”

The Toydrum Dub Remix is an extended, psychedelic version of the original remix featured on the deluxe version of the album.  Record Store Day will be the first time this extended version is available for fans to hear.

Noel is a supporter of Record Store Day and says: “Record shops are as important as the records themselves”.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ brand new album, ‘Chasing Yesterday’ was released to critical acclaim last week and is currently number one in the UK Official Charts, becoming the fastest selling record of 2015 so far. “Believe it: the best-case scenario of Noel’s solo rebirth just got even better” Q ****

The sold out UK and Ireland Arena tour comes to a close this evening at London’s O2 Arena; the band will play the Royal Albert Hall for Teenage Cancer Trust later this month on March 28.  This summer Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will headline a host of festivals including Latitude, T in the Park and Calling Festival, and will play Live At the Marquee, Cork on 14 July, Tickets on sale this Friday 13 March from Ticketmaster.

Tracklisting for the limited edition Record Store Day 12” vinyl:

1. In The Heat Of The Moment (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
2. In The Heat Of The Moment (Toydrum Dub Remix)

For all the Irish Records Stores taking place on Record Store Day on 18^th April, check out –http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues?country=Ireland

www.noelgallagher.com 

The Race For Space out now

Video for new single ‘Go!’ unveiled 

“A multi-faceted – yet cohesive – creation that burnishes anew the golden age of space exploration” Mojo ****

“Out of this world” The Observer ****

“Make no bones about it, this is a beautiful record… just wonderful” Drowned in Sound 8/10

“A perfectly realised work of art” The Sun ****

“Richly entertaining, immersive and evocative, orchestrated with fastidious care and feeling” The Independent ****

“Rich and evocative…the sound of two young men gazing heavenwards and dreaming” Uncut 7/10

“Vibrates with poignancy and grandeur” Q***

“A thrilling trip to the stars” Hot Press 9/10

“A rocket-fuelled silver screen roller coaster… PSB are pushing the boundaries of what rock music can be” DIY

“Atmospheric synths, crashing cymbals… an epic sci-fi score” Stereogum

“This is the pinnacle of what PSB are trying to achieve, by breathing new life into dusty old relics, and it makes for truly magical, exhilarating listening” The 405

“A euphoric musical journey” Shortlist Albums of 2015

“Kraftwerk-meets-Aphex Twin-meets-Daft Punk… suitable for a laser show at the local planetarium.” NPR

“Brilliantly executed” The Guardian

In the week that Public Service Broadcasting’s lauded second album The Race For Space is released the band unveil a brand new video for upcoming single ‘Go!’ (due May 8).

Befitting the band’s studious nature, rather than focusing on the more obvious heroes of the lunar landings – the astronauts – the band turn their attention to the people in the control room, the scientists, engineers and experts, who played a crucial part in the success of the mission.

How people still doubt that the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon, particularly with such compelling evidence as used in PSB’s current video is a mystery to J. Willgoose:

“I find it a particularly sad indictment of our species that arguably our greatest technological and spiritual achievement – leaving our own planet and walking on another celestial body – is viewed by the more cynical as a colossal waste of money or, worse, as the greatest hoax ever perpetuated.”

Willgoose, Esq. – the mastermind behind the record – often fields questions on how his songs come together. ‘Go!’ almost wrote itself, he says: “The first time I heard the call-outs and the replies, there was such excitement and frenetic-ness to it. It was obvious to me that this was going to be a fast-paced song and it was going to be called ‘Go!’” The finished result is a fiery and confident speed-trial of a track, with an infectious chorus and the most unlikely sing-along dialogue of the year, all counting down to the moon landing itself when Neil Armstrong utters the relief-filled words, “The Eagle has landed”.

The Race For Space is out now via Test Card Recordings and tells the story of the American & Soviet space race from 1957 – 1972 via the duo’s eccentric mix of guitar-driven electronica, propulsive drumming and spoken word samples culled from this uniquely rich period of modern history.

“With our album and our music we are attempting to translate into our own voices a celebration of that period, in the process communicating something of ourselves and our faith in the technological progress of our species, and it is on those terms that I’d hope our album is judged.”

Fresh from touring with Kaiser Chiefs, the band will play two launch shows at the National Space Centre, Leicester later this week – both of which sold out in under 24 hours – as well as three in-store shows at UK record stores before heading around the world on an extensive tour. In the UK, they will blast off at Brighton’s Corn Exchange on 22 April before splashing down for a huge show at London’s Roundhouse on 7 May.

Order The Race For Space here from the band’s website:

http://publicservicebroadcasting.net

UK & Ireland headline dates

22^nd April – Corn Exchange, Brighton **Sold out**

23^rd April – O2 Academy, Bristol

24^th April – Pyramids, Portsmouth

25^th April – Corn Exchange, Cambridge

28^th April – The Foundry, Sheffield

29^th April – Ritz, Manchester

30^th April – Riverside, Newcastle

1^st May – The Ironworks, Inverness

2^nd May – O2 ABC, Glasgow

3^rd May – Mandela Hall, Belfast

5^th May – Button Factory, Dublin

6^th May – The Institute, Birmingham

7^th May – Roundhouse, London

Tickets on sale here.

www.PublicServiceBroadcasting.net