Jerry Fish announces new single ‘Barefoot & Free’ and ‘The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow’ at this years Electric Picnic
Announces New Single “Barefoot & Free” out 6th September and
‘The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow’ at this year’s Electric Picnic
New band, new label and new approach. Working with a collective of artists Jerry Fish is releasing his first single ‘Barefoot & Free’ with his new guitarist Grum featuring R.S.A.G. on drums on the 6th September to coincide with Jerry’s very own stage at Electric Picnic’s Trailer Park ‘The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow’.
Jerry Fish is thrilled to announce his new show for this year’s Electric Picnic. Mr. Fish is to host a mix of carnival sideshow theatre and alternative musical extravagance, including intimate performances from very special guests Lisa Hannigan, The Hot Sprockets, Mick Flannery, The Lost Brothers, Cathy Davey, The Lost Brothers, Colm Mac Con lomaire and many more friends the Fish cultivated during his sordid lifetime in showbiz.
‘The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow’ promises to be a highlight of this year’s Picnic, aiming to deliver three debauched days and nights of mind blowing, soul bending entertainment. Offering an escape from the fear mongering of the modern world with an invitation to let your inner child run away with the circus.
Jerry Fish is a carny soul, one who has spent much of his life on the road, a shape-shifter, showman, shaman, producer, songwriter, performer, entrepreneur, supper club crooner from Lynchville. Whether operating as The Mudbug Club’s ringmaster, a rock peacock (An Emotional Fish), or patron of poets and spoken word performers (Michael Madsen, The Revelator Orchestra), he has always favoured innovation over orthodoxy.
The new single ‘Barefoot & Free’ is the very first of the new collaboration with R.S.A.G. (Rarely Seen Above Ground) who features on drums. Fish has also formed a brand new collective of artists and musicians for his live show. The main protagonist of Jerry Fish’s new line-up is guitarist Grum, who is from the Rowland S. Howard, Warren Ellis/Bad Seeds underground school of music. Jeremy Hickey a.k.a R.S.A.G. will also be joining forces with Fish at his future live shows.
In addition to this new collective of artists, Fish has decided to take a new path regarding the recording of his music. Instead of releasing an album and spending a year promoting it he will be releasing a new song in digital format every two to three months from August 2013 onwards.
After the launch at Electric Picnic, Jerry Fish will be touring a theatre version of “The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow” this Autumn/Winter throughout Ireland…
Fri 30 Aug–Sun 1 September; ‘The Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow’, Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois
PRIMAL SCREAM ANNOUNCE IRISH DATES IN OCTOBER
**TICKETS ON SALE THIS FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER**
PRIMAL SCREAM have confirmed they will play a number of Irish dates this October, with a Dublin date at the Olympia Theatre on Sunday 27th October. Tickets from €34 including booking fee go on sale from Ticketmaster outlets and www.ticketmaster.ie this Friday at 9am. The band return to play a number of more intimate shows, following their masterpiece Screamadelica Tour which they brought to the O2, Dublin in 2011.
Primal Scream released their new album ‘More Light’, earlier this year in May on own First International label through Ignition Records. ‘More Light’, the tenth studio album from Primal Scream, was recorded in London and Los Angeles during 2012 and was produced by David Holmes. The album is another twist in the band’s history, recorded after their recent successful worldwide tour of their hit album ‘Screamadelica’. Like ‘Screamadelica’, ‘More Light’ presents a musical state that lacks boundaries.
Guest artists on ‘More Light’ include Robert Plant, Mark Stewart of The Pop Group and Mafia and Davey Henderson formerly of The Fire Engines and now Sexual Objects. With former bassist Mani now back with the reformed Stone Roses most of the bass on the album has been played by Jason Faulkner an LA based musician who has worked with David Holmes before and with a variety of acts including Beck and Air.
Tickets go on sale from Ticketmaster outlets and www.ticketmaster.ie this Friday at 9am.
Primal Scream Irish Tour dates;
Thursday 24th October Limelight, Belfast
Saturday 26th October Leisureland, Galway
Sunday 27th October Olympia, Dublin
Monday 28th October Opera House, Cork
Mojo GoGo to headline Electric Picnic!
Donegal band Mojo GoGo have been confirmed to headline the Minefield stage on the Friday night of Electric Picnic 2013! The guys are delighted to be playing one of Ireland’s most talked about festivals. In addition to being snapped up for the festival Mojo GoGo’s self-produced video for their new single ‘Build It Up’, out the 21st June, has shot up to 27,000 views over only a mere 5 days! Check out the video below.
Foy Vance – Releases new album ‘Joy Of Nothing’ on 23 August and Performs in Dublin & Bushmills this week!
Foy Vance
Releases his new album ‘Joy Of Nothing’ On Friday 23 August
Opening for Bonnie Raitt this Wednesday 19th in Vicar Street, Dublin
& performing at Bushmills Live, Northern Ireland on Thursday 20th June
Foy Vance will release his Glassnote Records debut record, JOY OF NOTHING, on August 23rd. Recorded in Donegal, Ireland and produced by Irish producer/musician/engineer Michael Keeney, JOY OF NOTHING includes 10 original songs written and performed by Foy Vance and includes very special guest appearances by Ed Sheeran and Bonnie Raitt.
Foy Vance hails from the seaside town of Bangor in Northern Ireland. As a child, Foy relocated with his father, a preacher, to the American Midwest settling in Oklahoma. With his father, Foy travelled the American South, widening his horizons and absorbing the rich musical traditions he was exposed to. Returning to Ireland some years later, Foy began writing his own music, deeply shaped by the sounds of his youth.
Foy Vance supported Ed Sheeran on his UK tour in late 2012, followed by a sold-out headline UK tour earlier this year. He has spent the past few months on Sheeran’s sold out US tour, and has previously toured with the likes of Michael Kiwanuka and David Gray. Currently, Foy is preparing to embark on a European tour opening for Bonnie Raitt this summer, performing in Vicar Street this Wednesday 19 June. He then goes on to perform at Bushmills Live this Thursday 20th June. Foy will return to perform on 4th August at the Indiependence Festival in Cork & Tennent’s Vital 2013 in Belfast on 15th August.
Foy Vance’s upcoming live dates;
Wed. 19th June Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland (supporting Bonnie Raitt)
Thurs. 20th June Bushmills Live, Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Sun. 4th August Indiependence Festival, Cork, Ireland
Thurs. 15th August Tennent’s Vital 2013, Belfast, Northern Ireland
For more information on Foy Vance and Glassnote Records, please visit www.glassnotemusic.com and www.foyvance.com
Julie Feeney’s New Video ‘Dear John’ Premieres On USA Today
Julie Feeney’s new video for ‘Dear John’ premiered today on USA Today. This song is from her current album ‘Clocks’ and USA Today did a nice piece about Julie and the new video also mentioning that ‘Clocks’ is to be released in the US on June 18. Read the full article here – http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/06/04/julie-feeney-dear-john-video-premiere/2386715/
Julie plays:
Saturday 29 June Westport Music Festival, Mayo
Tuesday 30 July Inisbofin, Galway
Sat. 3 – Mon. 5 August Big House Festival, Kildare
Friday 9 August National Concert Hall, Dublin with RTE Concert Orchestra
Tuesday 18 August Baltimore, West Cork
The Shoos releasing new single ‘Battlescars’ on 7 June
The Shoos
Releasing new single ‘Battlescars’ on 7 June
The Shoos are always in a state of Panic(this week they are being evicted from their rehearsal room, busking in the rain and not returning emails) and that’s why the album is called Panic Slowly.
Battlescars is the final and possibly the best of the singles on the album. It explores the idea of the barriers we put up when we begin in a relationship and the fear of letting all the walls down and giving it a chance to happen. The chorus is the whole idea behind the song “Show me who you are Show me Battlescars ‘cos if you don’t let me in how can I know who you really are?”
The writing of this song took a lot longer than it should considering the band wrote the music within ten minutes of setting up in Swinghouse Studios in LA under the guidance of Warren Huart (The Fray, Aerosmith etc).
In fact the lyrics were re-written five times each time a little better but very frustrating. The final piece was getting Irish songwriter Paul McDonnell in to help with the lyrics and finally the band can stand over it and agree that the song is 100% done and never to be approached again until someone thinks of another line and it starts all over again !!!
The video is done in a school play idea with Texas lost at sea looking for a way to safety and all the things that happen along the way to help him and get in his way.
The band are planning some live dates, festivals and maybe a few emails over the coming months.
Primal Scream’s first album in 5 years enters Irish Charts at No.14
Primal Scream
‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’
Check out the new video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-IJ3qz-GE
Taken from the LP ‘More Light’, out Now!
“Primal Scream haven’t sounded this vital in at least a decade” – 4/5 Q
“Primal Scream’s most satisfying album since Screamadelica” **** Mojo
“It’s exactly what 2013 needs” – 8/10 NME
“Tenth outing, More Light is as fresh and engaged as they’ve sounded in years” 7/10 Hot Press
“….and all you can do is press play again on this Screamadelica for grown-ups” ****Irish Times ‘Album of The Week’
After debuting ‘2013’, the first song from their new album ‘More Light’, Primal Scream released ‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’ on 3 May which was written by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes, and produced by David Holmes. ‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’ has been flying on the Irish Airplay charts.
‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’ is the second taste from ‘More Light’, the band’s 10th studio album and their first in five years. ‘More Light’ entered the Irish album charts at #14 and #4 on the Irish Independent album charts on Friday 17th May. ‘More Light’ was recorded at Das Bunker, London and Vox Studios, LA and mixed by Rich Costey at Eldorado Recording Studios in LA.
The LP is also released on the band’s own label First International through Ignition Records, with the album sleeve designed by 2005 Turner Prize nominee Jim Lambie.
Primal Scream headline the Forbidden Fruit, IMMA, Dublin on Sunday 2nd June
Primal Scream are: Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, Martin Duffy, Darrin Mooney, Barrie Cadogan and Simone Butler.
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Mojo GoGo release new EP in May and announce tour dates
Mojo GoGo
New EP ‘Heartbreak, Hangovers and Handcuffs’ out 21 June
2013 is shaping up to be all go-go for Mojo GoGo with the release of their new EP ‘Heartbreak, Hangovers and Handcuffs’ out 21 June and a nationwide tour dates throughout to the Summer.
The Donegal band is known for their energetic, impulsive and joyfully exuberant music. People rave about their legendary live stage shows and word has it that the guys aren’t too shy to partake in some off stage antics. With their hard working, hard partying and unpredictable actions, the Donegal band’s straightforward and forthright approach is winning them fans with every show they play.
Their camaraderie as a band and as friends is evident, with songs commenting on some of the more unsavoury aspects of life, sometimes in language that the more sensitive may consider as a little too honest but always tinged with the humour and irreverence that only the optimistic can embrace.
Described variously by many journalists making reference to other great bands, Mojo GoGo stand apart with a sound and style of their own which they label as STINDIE Rock and Roll (Stadium-Indie). This band is no copycat. It is its own undeniable and brilliantly unpredictable force of nature.
Mojo GoGo are Niki Pollock (guitar/vocals), Jordan Carty (drums), Keelin Gallagher (bass/vocals) and Paul Rodgers (guitar).
“Mojo GoGo, the current kings of stagecraft, treating every show like an arena sell out. It’s incredible to watch” – BBC ATL
“Mojo GoGo’s live show is a cross between Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band fused with The Clash” – Niall Stokes
Catch them live on Friday 31 May at K Fest Music & Arts Festival, Killorgan, Co. Kerry and Sunday 30 June at Westport Festival, Mayo. More dates to be announced shortly.
Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin 2013 A Great Success!
To the Irish nations delight the sun came out for the May Bank Holiday weekend just in time for the second Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin which went down a storm (excuse the weather contradiction pun). It was an amazing event where 150 bands played in 15 different venues around the heart of Dublin. Town was buzzing with the festival crawlers running around to each of the venues to catch all their favourite acts. There have been rave reviews of the Crawl and high hope of it returning for a third year in a row in 2014.
Moya Brennan and Cormac De Barra release their brand new album ‘Affinity’ on June 7th 2013
Moya Brennan and Cormac De Barra
Release their brand new album ‘Affinity’ on June 7th 2013
On the 7th of June 2013 Moya Brennan and Cormac De Barra are set to release their brand new album ‘Affinity’ which features both Moya and Cormac trading talents on harps, vocals, keyboards and bodhrán and backed by a host of incredibly talented local musicians. ‘Sailing’ is the elegant lead single to be taken from the much-anticipated 12 track album which has been independently produced by the duo and mixed by John Reynolds and Tim Oliver. Moya and Cormac will make three special appearances to celebrate the release of the album in both Dublin and Donegal.
The album ‘Affinity’ is the result of a merging of two of Ireland’s most acclaimed musical minds. Both Moya and Cormac hail from highly respected musical Irish families and have grafted to become legendary musicians in their own right.
Grammy award winner Moya Brennan is the eldest of 9 children born into an exceptionally gifted musical family. She has been the lead singer of Clannad since 1975, releasing 18 albums with the group, including two with world famous sister Enya. Simultaneously Moya has managed to parallel an incredible solo career, with 7 albums to her name. Overall her career to date includes over 20 albums, numerous film scores and performances with many great artists such as The Chieftains, Robert Plant, Paul Brady, Shane MacGowan and Bono. Besides her solo work Moya is both vociferous and active in her championing of Irish arts and culture abroad.
Cormac De Barra is renowned internationally as a versatile harp virtuoso. He has continuously pushed the boundaries of the Irish harp through is work and collaborations with an extensive range of artists including Hazel O’Connor, Julie Feeney and Clannad. He writes and records regularly with his family group Barcó and hosts master classes world-wide in his spare time.
Over the years Moya and Cormac’s reverence for one another has grown strong and they have forged a powerful musical relationship. The past decade has seen the musicians unite their creativity on several projects. Along with their first collaborative album, ‘Voices and Harps’ in 2011, Moya and Cormac have joined forces to host an annual ‘Voices and Harps’ workshop, which is geared towards those with a keen interest in combining singing with harp playing and which is now in its third year.
You can catch Moya Brennan and Cormac De Barra performing tracks from their brand new album ‘Affinity’ live on the following dates:
8th June – 1pm, Celtic Note, 14-15 Nassau St, Dublin
18th June – Steeple Sessions, Unitarian Church, Stephen’s Green, Dublin
22nd June – Leo’s Tavern, Gweedore, Donegal
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