JOIN ME IN THE PINES announce more tour dates for 2014!
Announces More Tour Dates for 2014!
Join Me In The Pines released their debut single ‘Joy Is A Lion’ earlier this year to two sell out shows in Dublin’s Unitarian Church and Coughlans in Cork. Following on from this success JMITP have announced more tour dates for this year. The next few months sees the band performing up and down the country with Triskel being the only other Cork City show for this year so make sure you jump on those tickets fast not to miss out!
The man behind the moniker is Bell X1’s David Geraghty who is putting finishing touches to the album which is due for release on the 10th October. Geraghty released his debut solo album ‘Kill Your Darlings’ in 2007, to critical and fan acclaim. The album was also nominated for a Choice Music Prize that year. 2009 saw David return with his second solo offering ‘The Victory Dance’. Both of these albums were written and recorded between stints in the hectic Bell X1 touring schedule.
Similarly, Dave’s new project, ‘Join Me in the Pines’ was written and recorded over a year and half while on and off the road. JMITP is a return to the somewhat isolated creative process under which his debut album was made. This time around the process benefits from a newly built home studio, (which was tried and tested on the demos for Bell X1’s “Chop Chop” album). “Finally there’s a place, other than their flight cases, where all these instruments can reside. Every musician’s dream is to have their own home studio. However, this dream is of the double-edged sword variety. Being a workaholic, it’s sometimes difficult to switch off knowing that the studio is attached to your living room.”
Once again Geraghty displays his musical skills on the new album by playing almost all of the instruments, although it was enhanced by some great talents from the trad, folk and classical worlds. Clare Finglass, who appeared on Dave’s first two albums, again lends her voice to make one half of the backing vocal duo. The other half being Dave’s Mammy. “Because apart from being amazing, she works for free”. The album is being mixed by Phil Hayes, who has also recorded and mixed some of Bell X’s albums (Flock, Tour de Flock, Blue Lights on the Runway, Field Recordings).
It is a busy year for Mr. Geraghty as he is also writing the film score for “You’re Ugly Too” starring Aidan Gillen. The film is set to appear at film festivals around the world from September with a release date due for next year.
Catch Join Me In The Pines at the below dates!
Live dates:
Friday 6 June Spirit Store, Dundalk
Thursday 12 June Odessa, Dublin (as part of Culture Vultures)
Friday 18 July The Hole In The Wall, Kilkenny
Saturday 19 July Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
Friday 25 July Dolans, Limerick
Friday 15 August No Alibis (Bookstore), Belfast
Friday 10 October Triskel Christchurch, Cork
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfSlutlwd0E – Joy Is A Lion
http://youtu.be/jybRjdztRJI – Golden Guilt
Earthship release new EP ‘Proximity Effect’ on 11 July
Earthship
New EP ‘Proximity Effect’ Out 11 July!
Earthship is a five-piece band based in the west of Ireland, formed in 2011 by bassist Karl Clews, keyboardist Mark Farrelly, guitarist Eoghan Judge and drummer Bart Kiely. Although heavily influenced at the outset by classic 70s jazz-funk and fusion artists, such as Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report and Return To Forever, Earthship’s sound has evolved over the course of innumerable gigs throughout Ireland and Europe to become a unique fusion of funk-inflected dance grooves, fiery improvisation and memorable pop hooks, which sees them equally at home on the stages of the Cork Jazz Festival or grooving out in a field full of rock, pop and dance fans at festivals such as Electric Picnic and Body & Soul.
Their new EP – entitled ‘Proximity Effect’ – scheduled for release on 11 July 2014, will feature four brand new tracks and will showcase a subtle change in direction for the band: vocalist Paula Higgins moves to centre-stage, and the instrumental jazz-fusion pyrotechnics on which the band have built their reputation thus far, while still present, take a backseat in favour of more conventional pop/rock song structures. Lead single, ‘The Great Wheel’, a beautiful, chilled, slice of summery pop with sublime vocals, encapsulates this sea change perfectly.
Earthship play:
Sunday 6 July Whelan’s, Dublin. www.whelanslive.com
Monday 7 July Crane Lane, Cork. www.cranelanetheatre.ie
Tuesday 8 July White Horse Sessions, Kenny’s Bar, Lahinch. www.kennysbar.ie
Saturday 12 July Dream Gathering Festival, Cork. www.dream-gathering.com
Sunday 13 July Bello Bar, Dublin. www.bellobardublin.com
Tuesday 15 July Sweeney’s, Dublin. www.sweeneysdublin.ie
Friday 18 July Kelly’s, Galway. www.kellysbar.ie
Wednesday 23 July Mercantile, Dublin. http://mercantile.ie/
Thursday 24 July Monroe’s Backstage, Galway. www.monroes.ie
Friday 25 July Courtney’s, Killarney. www.courtneysbar.com
Sunday 17 August The Roadside Tavern, Lisdoonvarna. www.roadsidetavern.ie
SINÉAD O’CONNOR BRAND NEW ALBUM ‘I’M NOT BOSSY, I’M THE BOSS’ RELEASING AUGUST 8TH,2014
SINÉAD O’CONNOR
BRAND NEW ALBUM
‘I’M NOT BOSSY, I’M THE BOSS’
RELEASING AUGUST 8TH 2014
Acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor releases her brand new studio album ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss’ via Nettwerk Records on August 8th 2014. The first single from the album entitled ‘Take Me To Church’ is released on the same day.
‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss’ is the follow up to Sinead’s critically acclaimed album ‘How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?’ which was released in 2011.
‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss’ features twelve brand new songs which showcase the very best of Sinéad and what makes her so special, passionate and direct yet with an overarching fragile beauty Sinéad’s voice and lyrics are as powerful as they are tender.
Newly signed to Nettwerk Records, ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss’ is her 10th studio album in a career spanning over twenty five years. Sinéad is a rare thing in popular music, an absolutely unique artist.
From her first breakthrough hit, 1987’s ‘Mandinka’ and the multi-platinum global success of 1990’s ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’ and its unforgettable number one ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, right through to her brand new record Sinead has constantly surprised and delighted.
Going from million selling artist to fearless genre-crossing forays into Irish folk and roots reggae and collaborations with artists as diverse as Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack and The Chieftains, Sinéad has trodden a unique path to become the most iconic Irish artist of the past thirty years.
www.sineadoconnor.com
Tell No Foxx
TELL NO FOXX
Release Self-Titled Debut EP on Friday 4 July
& perform in-store HMV Grafton Street on the same day!
Lead track ‘Boulevard’
“They’re a slick, very polished band who are unashamed at the level of production they put into their music. Imagine an Irish contender to Bastille’s crown and you’d be right on the money. Its atmospheric rock with pop sensibilities that has its sights set on the charts” – GlodenPlec.com
The Irish trio of Brian Sillery, Luke Lacey, & Johnny Flood under the guise of Tell No Foxx are set to release their debut self- titled EP on July 4th.
Hailing from Wicklow Tell No Foxx’s music complements the expansive nature of their environment. Brian, Luke and Johnny started creating music together midway through university, experimenting with different soundscapes and drawing from a large diverse pool of influence.
Tell No Foxx use a wide pallet of electronic & natural drums, hollow synths; minimalistic guitar wrapped in meaningful lyrical textures, to create a sound that is both heartfelt and mysterious, glimpsing echoes of the 80’s infused with contemporary taste.
The band started working on their debut EP in January 2014. The EP is self-produced, recorded between their next-door neighbour’s studio and Luke’s laptop. Pete Meaghan engineered and co mixed the EP along with Luke.
The lead track from the self-titled EP is ‘Boulevard’, check out the video here – http://youtu.be/H0FcRr4A-h4 .The theme for ‘Boulevard’ is adultery; the guys wanted the video to convey duality of man, the many hats a person can wear in life, a person torn between lust impulse and faith.
Tell No Foxx will be playing an in-store live show in HMV Grafton Street, Dublin on Friday July 4th to celebrate the release of their EP.
www.tellnofoxx.com
Fox Jaw ‘The Double City Hijack Tour’ June 2014
FOX JAW
presents ‘The Double City Hijack Tour’ June 2014
Two cities, two weekends, 7 shows!
New Single ‘Hijack’ Out 30 May
Fox Jaw are on a quest to conquer Dublin and Limerick this June in conjunction with their new single release for ‘Hijack’ out Friday 30th May! They will be gigging to their hearts content playing seven gigs in a short space of time winning over the two cities with their trend shaking, majestic deep growl, which swaggers from the terrific to the sublime. They are a band that usually err on the side of darkness, but always keeping it sweet and melodic with an honest collection of dark pop songs. Critics praising them as “True hidden gems”, “A seductively gloomy sound in a league of its own … will both mystify and satisfy” (State.ie).
Formerly Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters, Fox Jaw are a band filled to the brim with new beginnings. Aside from a new abbreviated name, they are armed to the teeth with an armada of new material, locked & loaded with new recruits, and equipped with a sagacious mind for the road ahead. This isn’t a band reinventing themselves; this is plain and simple evolution. And now, after a year in hiding, writing, recording & honing their craft, the storm is brewed and ready for serving.
After their sleazy blues ballad ‘Kerosene’ that was released in February, raised many eyebrows in the Irish music industry, as a band proving themselves with an ever expanding sound, ‘Hijack’ is set to turn many a head, as a foot stomping pounce to the other end of the rock and roll spectrum. ‘Hijack’ is out on Friday 30th May and is the second single to be taken from their upcoming sophomore album, ‘Ghost’s Parade’, recorded with producer Dave ‘Skippy’ Christophers (Josh Ritter, Whipping Boy, Mundy) & engineer Owen Lewis (Flogging Molly, Snow Patrol, REM), and mastered at WAV Mastering by Richard Dowling (David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Interpol). The new album is due for release in September 2014.
The band’s first single ‘Kerosene’ from the upcoming album gained great critical appraise from the likes of Tony Clayton-Lea (The Irish Times), Nialler9 and Hot Press to name but a few. It received a great amount of airplay on Irish and UK radio to an estimated listenership of over 200,000+ in just a little over 2 months. And with its award winning music video created a great online stir amongst critics, fans and bloggers achieving ‘Best Artistic Short Film’ from the Limerick Film Festival. The video was co-created with Blind Boy Boatclub of The Rubberbandits and starred Richard Lynch & Kevin Kiely Jnr. (World War Z, The Dark Knight Rises). Check out the video here – http://goo.gl/WXiDpd
Fox Jaw’s next single ‘Hijack’ is due out at the end of May, followed by a string of summer dates and festival slots. The track has already been picked up by TV Tattoo celebrity, Ami James (Miami Ink / NY Ink) as the official backing track for the promotional videos of the opening of his new shop in Cork: Love Hate Social Club. Check out the promo video here – http://goo.gl/pJSZTM
A simple background check on the band reveals, that the guys are one of the hardest working bands in the country. Releasing their debut album ‘The Devil In Music’ in 2011, and playing close to 100 shows within 24 months, across Ireland, the UK & Canada (80 of those shows were within the first 10 months). With many festival appearances including Indie Week (Toronto), Glasgowbury Festival, Vantastival, Arthur’s Day, Knockanstockan and even being added to the Main Stage at Indiependence Festival to share the boards with the like of Ash, Editors & Therapy?. Going from strength to strength, featuring on a Becks Vier TV advertising campaign, a flip cover of Hot Press, and receiving an ‘Album Of The Year’ Award from Independent UK music website, The Underclassed. There’s a strong chance you’ve come across this band before, without even realising!
Fox Jaw are Ronan Mitchell (vocals, guitar, piano), Morgan Nolan (guitar, backing vocals, keys), Shane Serrano (drums, backing vocals, clarinet), Manolis Sheehan (guitar, backing vocals) and Kieran J. Sims ( bass, backing vocals).Thursday 5 June Dime Store, Sweeney Mongrels, Dame Street, Dublin 2 www.sweeneysdublin.ie
Sunday 8 June The Sunday Roast, The Mercantile, Dublin 2. http://mercantile.ie/
Sunday 8 June Saucy Sundays, The Grand Social, Dublin. Free. http://www.thegrandsocial.ie/
Friday 13 June All Ages Show, Lava Javas Youth Cafe, Limerick http://bit.ly/1mHhH4G
Friday 13 June Cellar Door Cafe, Limerick www.facebook.com/cellardoorfoxsbow
Saturday 14 June Wingnut Records, Moviedrome, Limerick. In-store. https://www.facebook.com/wingnutrecordslimerick
Saturday 14 June Upstairs Dolans, Limerick. www.dolans.iewww.foxjaw.ie
Duke Special’s Gramophone Club
Duke Special’s Gramophone Club is back
& prizes for best dressed are up for grabs!!!
Following the successful inaugural events in Dublin’s Liquor Rooms, Belfast, Dundalk, Cork and Wexford, Duke Special’s Gramophone Club has picked up some residencies around Ireland. The word is spreading and people are beginning to come down in their droves to the club nights so they can swing and dance to all the 78rpm records of bygone times!
Duke Special’s Gramophone Club is set to bring the time warp night back this May and June but this time there are prizes up for grabs for the best dressed! We strongly encourage you to look your vintage best so you’re in with a chance of picking up a prize for looking fabulous! And also so you don’t stick out like a sore thumb as everyone comes down dressed to the nines in their old stylish threads ready to swing, tap and jive to the sounds from the decadence of the 1920’s Jazz Age, the pure glamour of the 1930’s Dance Band Era and the nostalgia of the War Years, exciting Rhythm ‘n’ Blues, Jumpin’ Jive, exotic Latin and Calypso beats through to the Rock ‘n’ Roll explosion of the 1950s.
Duke Special’s Gramophone Club came about after a chance meeting with The Shellac Collective, a like-minded group of eccentrics who are passionate about 78rpm records from bygone times. Duke and the Shellacs started to appear at the same festivals and perform together on occasions. From here Duke decided to create the Irish arm of the Shellac Collective and so formed Duke Special’s Gramophone Club. Here he explains what it’s all about
Make sure you head to one of the below dates to get into the swing of the sounds Mr. Special will be playing and come dressed to impress!
Duke Special’s Gramophone Club will be visiting :
Thursday 29 May The Liquor Rooms, 5 Wellington Quay, Dublin
Friday 30 May The Sunflower Bar, 65 Union Street, BT1 2JG, Belfast
Saturday 31 May The Spirit Store, Dundalk, Louth
Sunday 1 June Dr. Johns (above Blind Pig), William Street, Limerick
Big September’s debut album ‘Ballroom Addicts’ #1 in the Independent Album Charts & #6 in the Official Album Charts!!!
Big September’s debut album ‘Ballroom Addicts’ #1 in the Independent Album Charts & #6 in the Official Album Charts!!!
Great news for the band from Bray on their album charting achievement grabbing the number 1 position in the Independent Album Charts and the number 6 spot in the Official Album Charts with their debut album ‘Ballroom Addicts’! A great start for the band after all the hard work over the past year and half.
Big September play The Academy, Dublin on Saturday 17th May. Make sure you get your ticket to come celebrate with the lads.
Milky Chance – release European hit song ‘Stolen Dance’ in Ireland on 27 June!
Milky Chance
‘Stolen Dance’
Out Friday 27 June!
Electronic duo Milky Chance will release what is already a YouTube sensation (30 million+ views) ‘Stolen Dance’, on 27th June through Ignition Records. The duo hail fromKassel, Germany and their song writing began while still in high school.
Last summer Milky Chance released their self-produced debut album ‘Sadnecessary’ on their own label fuelled by sheer enthusiasm and youthful optimism. Within a few weeks, lead single ‘Stolen Dance’ had reached number one on Hype Machine and went on to achieve the number one spot in the iTunes charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Belgium.
In the UK, Milky Chance have only released one single, ‘Down by the River’, which enjoyed strong support at BBC Radio One from DJ’s including Zane Lowe and Fearne Cotton, whilst reaching number 9 in the Shazam worldwide chart.
‘Stolen Dance’ mixes acoustic guitar and stripped back beats, turning the traditional love ballad on its head. Accompanying the single is the effortlessly cool, performance-led video that already boasts over 30 million views and shows no signs of stopping. The single is currently #5 on the European Airplay Chart.
Using only their own Facebook pages and their nascent label’s infrastructure for promotion, the band have recently sold out a run of 50 European dates, driving themselves across the continent with a set of decks and a couple of guitars.
‘Sadnecessary’, the debut album from Milky Chance will be released in the Ireland this summer.
Milky Chance play Latitude Festival, Southwold, Suffolk on the 20th July.
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Fox Jaw release new single ‘Hijack’ on 30 May!
FOX JAW
New Single ‘Hijack’ Out 30 May
The second single from their forthcoming album ‘Ghost’s Parade’
due for release in September & more tour dates announced!
Fox Jaw are a modern band with an old soul. Producing a trend shaking, majestic deep growl, which swaggers from the terrific to the sublime. A band that usually err on the side of darkness, but always keeping it sweet and melodic with an honest collection of dark pop songs. Critics praising them as “True hidden gems”, “A seductively gloomy sound in a league of its own … will both mystify and satisfy” (State.ie).
Formerly Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters, Fox Jaw are a band filled to the brim with new beginnings. Aside from a new abbreviated name, they are armed to the teeth with an armada of new material, locked & loaded with new recruits, and equipped with a sagacious mind for the road ahead. This isn’t a band reinventing themselves; this is plain and simple evolution. And now, after a year in hiding, writing, recording & honing their craft, the storm is brewed and ready for serving.
After their sleazy blues ballad ‘Kerosene’ that was released in February, raised many eyebrows in the Irish music industry, as a band proving themselves with an ever expanding sound, ‘Hijack’ is set to turn many a head, as a foot stomping pounce to the other end of the rock and roll spectrum. ‘Hijack’ is out on Friday 30th May and is the second single to be taken from their upcoming sophomore album, ‘Ghost’s Parade’, recorded with producer Dave ‘Skippy’ Christophers (Josh Ritter, Whipping Boy, Mundy) & engineer Owen Lewis (Flogging Molly, Snow Patrol, REM), and mastered at WAV Mastering by Richard Dowling (David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Interpol). The new album is due for release in September 2014.
The band’s first single ‘Kerosene’ from the upcoming albumgained great critical appraise from the likes of Tony Clayton-Lea (The Irish Times), Nialler9 and Hot Press to name but a few. It received a great amount of airplay on Irish and UK radio to an estimated listenership of over 200,000+ in just a little over 2 months. And with its award winning music video created a great online stir amongst critics, fans and bloggers achieving ‘Best Artistic Short Film’ from the Limerick Film Festival. The video was co-created with Blind Boy Boatclub of The Rubberbandits and starred Richard Lynch & Kevin Kiely Jnr. (World War Z, The Dark Knight Rises). Check out the video here – http://goo.gl/WXiDpd
Fox Jaw’s next single ‘Hijack’ is due out at the end of May, followed by a string of summer dates and festival slots. The track has already been picked up by TV Tattoo celebrity, Ami James (Miami Ink / NY Ink) as the official backing track for the promotional videos of the opening of his new shop in Cork: Love Hate Social Club. Check out the promo video here – http://goo.gl/pJSZTM
A simple background check on the band reveals, that the guys are one of the hardest working bands in the country. Releasing their debut album ‘The Devil In Music’ in 2011, and playing close to 100 shows within 24 months, across Ireland, the UK & Canada (80 of those shows were within the first 10 months). With many festival appearances including Indie Week (Toronto), Glasgowbury Festival, Vantastival, Arthur’s Day, Knockanstockan and even being added to the Main Stage at Indiependence Festival to share the boards with the like of Ash, Editors & Therapy?. Going from strength to strength, featuring on a Becks Vier TV advertising campaign, a flip cover of Hot Press, and receiving an ‘Album Of The Year’ Award from Independent UK music website, The Underclassed. There’s a strong chance you’ve come across this band before, without even realising!
Fox Jaw are Ronan Mitchell (vocals, guitar, piano), Morgan Nolan (guitar, backing vocals, keys), Shane Serrano (drums, backing vocals, clarinet), Manolis Sheehan (guitar, backing vocals) and Kieran J. Sims ( bass, backing vocals).
Friday 30 May HMV, instore, Grafton Street, Dublin 2, http://www.hmv.ie
Saturday 31 May JJ Harlows, Roscommon www.facebook.com/JJHarlowsRoscommon
Thursday 5 June Dime Store, Sweeney Mongrels, Dame Street, Dublin 2 www.sweeneysdublin.ie
Sunday 8 June The Sunday Roast, The Mercantile, Dublin 2. http://mercantile.ie/
Sunday 8 June Saucy Sundays, The Grand Social, Dublin. Free. http://www.thegrandsocial.ie/
Friday 13 June All Ages Show, Lava Javas Youth Cafe, Limerick http://bit.ly/1mHhH4G
Saturday 14 June Upstairs Dolans, Limerick. www.dolans.ie
Saturday 28 June Pavilion, Cork, support to The Shaker Hymn. www.pavilioncork.com
1-3 August Castlepalooza Festival, Charville Castle, Tullamore, Offally. www.castlepalooza.com
Thursday 14 August Monroes, Galway. http://www.monroes.ie/
16-17 August AranMojo Music Festival, Arranmore Island, Co. Donegal. http://aranmojofestival.com/
MOJO GOGO WIN INDIE MUSIC WEEK!!!
MOJO GOGO WIN INDIE MUSIC WEEK!!!
After stellar performances at Limerick’s Indie Music Week, Mojo GoGo came out on top winning the Top Indie Band award, which was arranged as part of Limerick’s City of Culture celebrations. Mojo GoGo put in some mind blowing performances at Limerick’s Cobblestone Joes and Dolans over the weekend and quite rightly reigned as champions! So what does this all mean for the Donegal lads? Well, they will now be a headliner of 250 bands at INDIE WEEK CANADA between 15th – 19th October 2014. This is a terrific achievement for the band!
Mojo GoGo are set to host their 3rd annual ARANMOJO Festival which takes place on Arranmore Island from the 16th – 17th August. Last year being a complete sell out, the band plan to improve on their very own festival even more this year and with a killer line up just been announced you are sure to be in for an incredible weekend!!! There are only 200 weekend tickets available for the festival each priced €22.50 and Sunday only tickets are priced at €10. Make sure you get your ticket as this is bound to be another sell out! Tickets for the festival go on sale on Friday 9th May and can be purchased here – http://aranmojofestival.com/
Mojo GoGo are Niki Pollock (guitar/vocals), Jordan Carty (drums), Keelin Gallagher (bass/vocals) and Paul Rodgers (guitar).
Friday 27 June Sea Sessions Festival, Bundoran, Donegal http://seasessions.com/
Saturday 28 June Craic in the Brack Festival, Co. Tyrone
Sunday 29 June Philfest, Co. Leitrim http://www.philfest-ireland.com/
Saturday 5 July Light Colour Sound Festival, Kilkenny http://www.lightcoloursoundfestival.com/
16 – 17 August AranMojo Music Festival, Arranmore Island, Co. Donegal http://aranmojofestival.com/
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