Shortly after 10 AM on the 10th of February one resourceful individual got their hands on the last pair of ‘golden’ weekend tickets for this year’s Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin for the price of just €10.00. In a Willy Wonka fashioned frenzy, fans of the celebrated music & arts festival have been buying up cheap tickets to the event over the past 10 days. Priced at an astounding €1.00 on the opening day of this month and increasing at an incremental rate of the same, weekend passes for the Crawl were literally ‘gone in sixty seconds’ for the duration of the special offer campaign.

If you have any friends or family who left you for the UK and all its wonders that you would like home for the bank holiday weekend to feast in the frivolities of the Camden Crawl with you then why not alert them of the HMCC Dublin’s maiden voyage. Kick starting the long 3rd – 5th May 2013 weekend festivities early the Stena sponsored cruise will embark from Holyhead and travel overnight to Dublin on Friday 3rd May. With DJs, live special guests,a 24 hour bar and its very own pirate radio station, the soon to be legendary ‘Boat That Rocked’ will be an unforgettable and, more than likely, one-off experience for your friends traveling over for the festival… Sounds pretty awesome for them right? Makes you nearly want to head over to Holyhead yourself so you can make the trip back with your mates! With packages from £128 per person including return cruise to Dublin, transfers, 2 nights accommodation and weekend ticket for the Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin are one hell of a bargain to boot! Or if you ain’t from Dublin and you’re traveling from our country’s other respective (and great) counties we’ve got discounted accommodation and ticket packages also available.

Meteor Camden Crawl Dublintickets and inclusive travel packages go on sale from 9.00am Monday 11th February from camdencrawldublin.com/tickets.Tickets are available as single day or weekend passes and are priced at €55.00/Day Tickets €35 (excluding booking fee). Early Bird weekend tickets frozen at last year’s price of €40.00 are also available until end of February. Tickets are to be exchanged for wristbands which allow free entry to each of the participating venues throughout the festival as individual capacities permit. Wristbands and free programme guides announcing the full line ups and timings for the event are obtainable from 5pm – 10pm each day at the ticket exchange points located at Whelan’s, Wexford Street, Dublin 2 and Film Base, Curved Street, Dublin 2.

Keep your eyes peeled for the unveiling of the full lineup for the Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin, which will be announced next week! News, Line Up and Full information about Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin 2013 may be found at camdencrawldublin.com

www.thecamdencrawl.com @thedublincrawl / #dublincrawl / facebook.com/camdencrawldublin

For more information on Camden Crawl Dublin, please contact:
emma@orchestrate.ie / +353 1 2839809

Meteor Press Contacts:
Paul Bradley, Director of Corporate Affairs, Eircom Group: + 353 (0) 85 1744281 / paul_bradley@eircom.ie
Harriet Mansergh, Slattery Communications: + 353 1 634 2530 / harriet.mansergh@scomms.ie

‘Indian Summer’

New single & Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcguxHc4hiU

From new LP ‘Graffiti On The Train’, out March 1^st

Stereophonics play The Waterfront, Belfast on Thursday 7 March and The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Saturday 9 March

Tickets on sale this Friday 1^st February

Purveyors of classic British songwriting Stereophonics cement their return with first single, ‘Indian Summer’, on their own Stylus Records and available to download with the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcguxHc4hiU

Written by Kelly Jones and produced by Kelly and Jim Lowe, this new track marks the beginning of a new phase for the unshakable four-piece.

This is the first official outing for the band’s eighth studio album

‘Graffiti On The Train’, out March 1st. A record capturing filmic grace and orchestral flourishes, it sees the band collaborate with David Arnold who arranged strings on several tracks.

After selling out December’s intimate run of shows in the UK the band rolled out a taster for the new album with the acclaimed ‘Violins and Tambourines’ and the magnificently dark and moody download ‘In A Moment’.

Stereophonics are: Kelly Jones- vocals/guitar, Richard Jones-bass, Adam Zindani –guitar and Jamie Morrison – drums.

 www.stereophonics.com

Single ‘Isn’t This World Enough??’

Taken from their album Tree Bursts in Snow Out Now!

Announce Irish Tour this February, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXAiwBIdYQg

“Epic Indie-Pop…big, yearning choruses and swaying anthems “ Q Magazine – 4 Stars
“an album as heartfelt as it is musically and themematically ambitious” Uncut 8/ 10

“…prepare to adore this group…” The Sunday Times Culture

“Hearts might well burst under prolonged exposure to this record” BBC Album Reviews

Admiral Fallow have been a busy bunch! 2012 saw their critically lauded album Tree Bursts in Snow released in May and the band have been on the road almost constantly, touring the lengths and breadths of the UK, Europe and USA.

After 2 weeks in Europe, a 4 week USA Fall tour and a 2 week stint in the UK Admiral Fallow- Louis Abbott (lead vocals, guitar), Sarah Hayes (vocals, flute, piano), Kevin Brolly (clarinet, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals), Joe Rattray (bass, double bass, backing vocals) and Philip Hague (drums, vibraphone, backing vocals) are making their way across the Irish Sea to show their Irish following some love. They will be making appearances in Belfast, Dublin, Galway and Cork so take your pick to whichever is closest to you!

Admiral Fallow’s current single ‘Isn’t This World Enough??’ was just released last month and is a firm live favourite, which has invoked a sing-along at almost every show the band has played in 2012. Now to the Irish fans delight they will be able to swing, sway and also sing-along to the track on their Irish tour this February.

Tour Dates

Thursday 14^th Feb            Auntie Annies, Belfast www.facebook.com/auntieannies

Friday 15^th Feb                   Academy 2, Dublin www.theacademydublin.com

Saturday 16^th Feb             Roisin Dubh, Galway www.roisindubh.net 

Monday 18^th Feb              Cypress Avenue, Cork www.cyprusavenue.ie

 www.admiralfallow.com

Eddi Reader

Announces Irish tour in February

 ‘Vagabond’ a new single available fromwww.eddireader.com

Eddi Reader sets her sights on the Emerald Isle this February to bring us her pop-folk soothing sounds. Eddi’s Irish tour will start in Antrim and she will work her way south to Cork, taking in Dublin, Wexford & Kilkenny.

Eddi grew up in Glasgow and Irvine, Scotland and it was in those towns that she learned to use music as a vehicle for communicating with others through busking and performing at the local folk clubs. In the early 1980s, Eddi travelled around Europe with circus and performance artists before moving to London where she quickly became a sought after session vocalist. She famously harmonised with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single “Perfect” and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts.

However, it was her subsequent albums which signalled her increasing ability to assimilate different musical styles and make them all very much her own. Her unerring instinct for fine material, whether self penned, collaborative or a carefully chosen cover version resulted in Mirmama (1992), Eddi Reader (1994), Candyfloss & Medicine (1996), Angels & Electricity (1998), Simple Soul (2001).

Eddi is due to release a new single “Vagabond” on 8 February which is taken from her new yet to be titled album, due out later this year. The single will be available as a free download from her website.  It was written by Eddi and her newly wedded husband John Douglas, musician and original member of the Trashcan Sinatras, with words by the English poet John Masefield (1878-1967).

Both Eddi and John had been drawn to Masefield’s work over the years and his poem “Vagabond” struck a chord with its simple, conversational evocation of one of life’s wanderers pondering, sometimes answering, the large and small questions of life. For a long time, both Eddi and John had described their lives journeys as ‘Vagabonding’ so it was no surprise that on discovering this poem it had transformed itself into a song within the hour.

The track was recorded in Scotland and Eddi will follow up in the studio to finish the album. After Eddi’s Autumn tour she expressed “I’ve enjoyed performing our new song Vagabond. It’s getting better all the time”, which can only lead to say it will be great by the time she reaches Ireland!

Last year Eddi embarked on a successful Australian tour, UK tour and had lots of festival appearances. She also presented Ye Banks and Braes – A Burns Night Celebration on BBC Ulster which took place on the 25^th of January in Ulster Hall. Eddi performed the Burns song “You’re Welcome Willie Stewart” accompanied by the Ulster Orchestra, with conductor Carl Davis.

Free download of ‘Vagabond’ available from www.eddireader.com  from 8 February, 2013

• Wed 13^th Feb The Old Courthouse Theatre, Antrim www.antrim.gov.uk/theoldcourthouse
• Thurs 14^th Feb Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin www.paviliontheatre.ie
• Fri 15^th Feb Draiocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin www.draiocht.ie
• Sat 16^th Feb St. Iberius Church, Wexford Tickets from Whites for Music;  053 9122067
• Mon 18^th Feb The Set Theatre, Kilkenny www.set.ie
• Tues 19^th Feb The Pavilion, Cork www.pavilioncork.com
• Wed 20^th Feb Whelan’s, Dublin www.whelanslive.com

JULIE FEENEY

Julie Feeney released her third self-produced album Clocks in November, 2012.  Clocks went straight into the Independent Irish Album Charts at No. 1 and was voted ‘Best Album’ 2012 in The Irish Times ‘Album of the Year’ category for The Ticket Awards as voted by The Irish Times readers.

Clocks is Julie’s third release which has been nominated for the Choice Music Prize ‘Irish Album of The Year’.  Her 2005 debut album, 13 Songs, won the Choice Music Prize in 2006, which was followed by Pages in 2010 which was also shortlisted for the Irish Album Of The Year prize.

Hailed by the New York Times as “charming, urbane and dreamy…theatrical on the shell, intricate at the core”, Julie’s sound is unquestionably original, rooted in classical whilst comfortably straddling pop and theatre. Clocks was written in Ballinahinch Castle and Lough Inagh Cottages in Galway and recorded at Kylemore Abbey Gothic Church, a return to home ground for Julie.

Taking an avant-garde approach to her live performances, Julie toured Ireland around Clock’s release in November by scoring music for ten different choirs to part accompany her at each concert over 10 different consecutive nights in 10 different towns in Ireland.

For her recent sell-out 10 show run in New York City, the New York Times said of Julie, “…intricate, articulate…draws on sources across centuries…Ms. Feeney’s songs don’t shout. They tease, ponder, reminisce, philosophize and invent parables, and she sings them in a plush, changeable mezzo-soprano that usually holds a kindly twinkle”. The New York Times concluded, “…a brainy adventurous songwriter lives within the flamboyant theatricality…with songs that set character studies and philosophical musings in elaborate musical confections, often with long, internally rhymed lines… Theatrical on the shell, intricate at the core”. Sharp witted, unpretentious and fiercely passionate, Julie Feeney is a genuine artist and a hugely enjoyable performer.

Julie will return to Ireland to perform at this year’s Choice Music Prize before going back to New York, where she is preparing to preview ‘Clocks’ live in the U.S. this Spring”.

Julie is also currently composing her first opera, ‘BIRD’ and the first developmental stage was shown in 2012 at Dublin Theatre Festival. It is a co-commission by Dublin Theatre Festival, Galway Arts Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival and Kilkenny Arts Festival. She is a true artist with immense vision.

www.juliefeeney.com

 Solar Taxi (logo)

‘Parcels’

New single & video releasing March 1^st

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFOispDpw7Y

“From beginning to end, this is a strong, enchanting album. Solar Taxi has quite a future in front of them”  45 Revolutions

“…a breathtaking debut…8/10”  Shout 4 Music

“…infectious, thumping & glorious for starters…” – “a lively and entertaining pop dance debut that lives up to expectations ****”  The Star

“Solar Taxi’s debut album works as a hook filled introduction to one of the most exciting new bands in Irish music.” The Blend

“..doesn’t disappoint… a finely executed (pop album) that’s damn sure to put a smile on your face”  Hotpress

“…upbeat discoera Blondie style tunes with the formidable Browne at the centre with the astounding vocal power of a young Aretha Franklin….”  The Sun

With a stellar 2012 behind them, Solar Taxi are kicking off 2013 with the single release of ‘Parcels’ on March 1st.  Written in the studio by vocalist Aisling Browne as a last minute addition to their debut album ‘Broken Brother’s Secret Bells’, this orchestral slow burner is regarded by many as the finest track on this diverse album.

Having previously hit the airwaves and bagging licensing opportunities with upbeat tracks such as ‘Gung Ho’ & ‘The Fool’, Solar Taxi display a different side with ‘Parcels’. The single is a radio edit of the near 7 minute opus on the album, and sees the band in fine form as they raise the track to a cinematic climax. They are joined by the Violin & Cello skills of Michelle Haberlin & Jessica Maderson.

Solar Taxi and Laundry Shop are performing a double headliner in Whelan’s of Wexford Street, Dublin on 21^st March and Roisin Dublin in Galway on 24 March.

Accompanying the single release is a beautifully shot video by Quincy productions – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFOispDpw7Y

Tuesday 26 February                      The Ruby Sessions, Dublin

Saturday 2 March                             Shortts Bar, Waterford

Sunday 3 March                                The Pumphouse, Kilkenny

Thursday 21 March                           Whelans Dublin w/ The Laundry Shop

Sunday 24 March                              Roisin Dubh w/ The Laundry Shop

Friday 2 August                                 Indipendence Festival, Cork

 http://www.solartaximusic.com/ www.breakingtunes.com/solartaxi