GIGS
Darwin Deez self titled début album was a Top 5 hit in the UK indie charts on its release earlier this year. Their Red Bull Music Academy performance at this years Oxegen festival was one of the (lets face it, many) highlights of the weekend. Darwin Deez plays a series of Irish dates in Galway, Cork and
Dublin.
Sunday 7 November - The Roisin Dublin, Galway
Monday 8 November - Cypress Avenue, Cork
Tuesday 9 November - The Academy 2, Dublin
Simple Minds Frontman Jim Kerr brings his new solo project LostBoy! Aka (yes, that is the name, complete with the !) to Dublin on Saturday 13 November for an intimate show at the Academy 2. Tickets. The album the tour promotes was produced by Jez Coad who also playedg guitars and keyboards, and features Charlie Jones on bass while drums are driven by Mel Gaynor (Simple Minds‘ drummer since 1983), however they might not be the line-up on the night. There is also an official Youtube Channel if you want to check them out in advance.
Following on immediately from their Hard Working Working Class Heroes 2010 gigs, is the FMC (First Music Contact) six-date tour with And So I Watch You From Afar, Fionn Reganand Jape all performing across two weekends in November. First Music Contact, with funding from The Arts Council’s Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme, will tour the acts around the country in an effort to enable Irish audiences to have access to Irish headline acts for a reasonable price.
The gigs are…
Thursday 11 November – Roisin Dubh, Galway
Fionn Regan – Jape – And So I Watch You From Afar
Friday 12 November – The Pav, Cork
And So I Watch You From Afar - Fionn Regan – Jape
Saturday 13 November – Dolans, Limerick
Jape- And So I Watch You From Afar – - Fionn Regan
Thursday 18 November – The Spirit Store, Dundalk
And So I Watch You From Afar – Jape - Fionn Regan
Friday 19 November – The Dew Drop Inn, Kildare
Fionn Regan – And So I Watch You From Afar – Jape
Saturday 20 November – Whelans, Dublin
Jape - Fionn Regan - And So I Watch You From Afar
Not a gig, but Brian Eno, producer and artist is giving a talk, mostly about his new work “Small Craft On A Milk Sea”in Warp Records, Dubln on Friday 12 November.
The Cork Chamber Choir take one Songs of love and loss in St Peter’s Church, Bandon on Friday 12 November at 8pm and in the Curtis Auditorium of Cork School of Music at pm on Saturday 13 November.
Dublin based pop songwriter Ivan St John has been quietly plying his trade over the last number of years. Ivan St John has simply been playing and writing and recording and playing and writing and recording. Having grown-up in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir, Ivan has been cocooned in music since he was eight, inspired by the juxtaposition of listening to Paul Simon and Queen on the way to school and then singing Allegri’s Miserere in the evening. Fast forward twelve years and Ivan St John prepares to release his debut LP, Up To Snuff.
Very much of the bedroom producer generation, and in the bedroom is very much where his debut album was conceived. Nonetheless, to finish the job he took the plunge and headed to a ‘real’ studio. And where better than Steve Albini’s celebrated Chicago hangout Electrical Audio. “Making the album in Electrical Audio was going to be a vastly different experience. You definitely get a sense of it being the studio of a guy who understands exactly what he wants from it and the gear at our disposal was unbelievable.” Rob Bochnik, one of the Electrical Audio founders, manned the controls on Up to Snuff:”I’d say to Rob, “Do you reckon he’d have this or that?” He’d wander off and return a while later with what I asked for, plus a bunch of alternatives. It was unreal. The studio is connected to Steve’s house and we could pan out in his living room. He had a billiards table and the biggest VHS collection you’ve ever seen.”
Ivan St John Live:
Friday 12 November 4pm - HMV, Limerick
Saturday 13 November 4pm - Third Wave Music, Sligo / 8pm - McGarrigles, Sligo
Thursday 18 November 18 6pm - Tower Records, Dublin / 9pm - The Stables, Mullingar
Tuesday 23 November 9pm - The Old Oak, Cork
Thursday 25 November 9pm - Roisin Dubh, Galway
Friday 26 November 9pm - Dolans, Limerick
Saturday 4 December 4 8pm - The Workman’s Club, Dublin
And to give you an idea what to expect, here is a video of his
Republic of Loose have just signed an international distribution deal with ADA Global. The band’s new album ‘Bounce At The Devil’ will be released internationally in 2011 with the back catalogue to follow in all territories. “The Loose” will be supporting the release with several dates and festival appearances around Europe and North America in 2011. To celebrate they are throwing a party on Friday 19 November at the Academy, Dublin
Gruff Rhys surfaces with new song, Shark Ridden Waters. Its available immediately as a free download from www.gruffrhys.com and will also be available on 12” vinyl from 5th November. The Welsh singer plays Saturday 13 November in Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Sunday 14 November in The Empire, Belfast and Monday 15 November Sugar Club, Dublin.
While the Cork Film festival is in full swing in Cork City, you could take on a musical in North Cork instead. The Fermoy Musical Company presents Fiddler on the Roof from Saturday 6 to Tuesday 9 November and Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 November
TICKETING
Ryan Bingham knows a thing or two about pain. He learned the emotional aspect early in life, when shuttling between small towns and family members in the hardscrabble ranching communities of West Texas and New Mexico — and became well-acquainted with the physical facets during his years on the Southwestern rodeo circuit. And its that background he uses as an American singer-songwriter. He plays a Dublin show at The Sugar Club on Saturday 20 November.
After releasing their début album ‘Amoral’ earlier this month, New York three piece Violens (pronounced ‘vy-lenz’) have unveiled the video for their next single ‘Violent Sensation Descends‘ .
Having supported MGMT on their US tour earlier this year, and playing a select number of shows in the UK and Ireland this November, Violens will join The Drums. The dates for the The Drums & Violens tour are Tuesday 30 November in Mandella Hall, Belfast and Wednesday 1 December 2010 in The Academy, Dublin
Villagers are (is) adding a second date for Vicar St on Wednesday 22 December. This gig is in addition to a 7-date tour of Ireland in December that will take in Waterford, Kilkenny, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Belfast and Dublin. Villagers have already had a meteoric year with the release of their début album, Becoming A Jackal (Domino), in May, which went straight to Number 1 in Ireland and the nomination for this year’s Mercury Music Prize Album Of The Year, not to mention the heaving tents at both Oxegen and Electric Picnic.
The full dates are
Monday 13 December Waterford, The Forum
Tuesday 14 December Kilkenny, Set Theatre
Wednesday 15 December Cork, Savoy Theatre
Friday 17 December Limerick, St Johns Church
Saturday 18 December Galway, Black Box
Sunday 19 December Belfast, Limelight
Tuesday 21 December Dublin, Vicar St (Sold-out)
Wednesday 22 December Dublin, Vicar St
KT Tunstall in support of her third album, Tiger Suit, will play three Irish dates as part of her February 2011 tour which will see the Scottish singer songwriter play shows in Galway, Cork and Dublin; Saturday 19 February in the Radisson Hotel, Galway, On Sunday 20 February she plays the Cork Opera House and on Monday 21 February she comes to the Olympia Theatre, Dublin.
It seems she has had a recurring dream since she was a child. She sees a tiger in her garden and goes outside to stroke it. She returns indoors and is seized by the fear that she could have been killed. Over the years, it has occurred to her that the reason the tiger responds so passively is that she herself is disguised as a tiger. That she is wearing a tiger suit. Hence the album and tour name.
ALSO PLAYING
Belfast
TUESDAY 9 NOVEMBER
The Waterboys present An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, Grand Opera House, Belfast. Doors 8pm
WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER
The Waterboys present An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, Grand Opera House, Belfast. Doors 8pm
Cork
SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – The Pavilion, Cork
SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – De Barras, Clonakilty
Dublin
THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – Vicar St, Dublin
Kildare
WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge
Kilkenny
FRIDAY 12 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – Set Theatre, Kilkenny
