GIGS
Boyce Avenue is a Florida-based band with strong acoustic roots and melodic rock sound. The band is also a set of brothers (no no “how we met story”) namely Alejandro, Fabian, and Daniel Manzano. The band came together in 2004 with Alejandro on lead vocals, guitar and piano, Fabian doing guitar and vocals, and their older brother Daniel on bass, percussion and of course vocals. And in the keeping the relations happy camp, after graduating from Harvard Law School, Daniel moved back to Florida, to join his brothers, who were both attending classes at the University of Florida. Then the band started.
They have played for YouTube a lot, go look for them and decide. They return to Dublin’s Academy for an All Ages show (Over 14s show) on Tuesday November 23.
It’s been three years since Klaxons burst onto the music scene with the influential Mercury award-winning album Myths Of The Near Future. Now they are back with the follow up. Produced in LA by US rock legend Ross Robinson (Sepultura, Slipknot, At the Drive In, The Cure) and written over the course of a three year long musical journey, “Surfing The Void” the alternative rock record is out now. They are playing Tripod, Dublin on Tuesday 23 November to support the new album.
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:
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
Tom Baxter returns to Ireland this November for a very special intimate date at Whelans on Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 November. After years of writing, performing, promoting, touring and not to mention producing a book & 10 original pieces of art for his last album ‘Skybound’, Tom Baxter was ready for some time out. “It was a great and exciting time, but by the end of it all, I felt I needed a break from music, London and my career”. So off he went to India for the best part of a year. On return Tom made his way down to the South of Spain for a few months to follow up his yen to study flamenco guitar and later wound up in Paris busking on the streets. On arriving back in the UK, he moved all his belongings to the south Devonshire coast where he now lives and is working on his 3rd album -‘Golden’. Tom is on track to release an EP later on in the year, with an album to follow in 2011.
Over two fine albums and accompanying incendiary live shows across Europe, Delorentos have proven themselves to be one of Ireland’s most exciting contemporary bands. Current album You Can Make Sound and its lead single “S.E.C.R.E.T.” afforded the band a very real step up and their touring plans around Ireland in the latter part of 2010 will put them in the perfect place to head back into the studio to record their third full-length album which will be released in early 2011. “The Sanctuary Tour” bring them across Ireland. Their provisional list (there’s more to be announced) is:
Friday 26 November – Limerick, Dolans
Saturday 27 November – Waterford, Traffik at The Forum
Saturday 4 December – Carrick On Shannon, The Cartown Club
Wednesday 8 December – Cork, The Old Oak
Friday 10 December – Tipperary, Barcode
Saturday 11 December – Galway, Roisin Dubh
Thursday 16 December – Dublin, Workmans Club
Saturday 18 December – Westport, Walshes
Sunday 19 December – Derry, Masons
Codes announced a November headline show at Dublin’s Button Factory on Saturday 27 November. Codes are an alternative/electronic quartet from Dublin. Never ones to be content with trend-following, the group have taken the recognisable 4-piece band formula and moved it into something entirely their own. Codes winter inspired début album “Trees Dream In Algebra” was recorded in Gloucestershire UK & mixed in Auckland, New Zealand with acclaimed producer Greg Haver (Manics, SFA) and mastered in NYC by Greg Calbi (U2,Interpol,Kings of Leon). The record was nominated for last years Choice Music Prize. Codes are: Daragh Anderson (Vocals, Guitars, Samples), Eoin Stephens (Bass, Vocals, Synth), Paul Reilly (Drums, Vocals, Samples) and Raymond Hogge (Guitars, Vocals, Piano, Synth).
Fight Like Apes will play their biggest headline show so far when they headline Dublin’s Tripod on Saturday 27 November. FLA are riding high on the success of their second album ‘The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner’; charting at # 1 in the Irish digital charts and # 3 in the physical charts, outstripping all competition on download. Conscious of their growing legion of followers, the band have listened to fan feedback and are delighted to confirm that for the very first time, the balcony of the Tripod venue will be set aside for FLA supporters of all ages.
Texan singer-songwriter Kimmie Rhodes is on a Special Christmas Tour in Ireland & the UK to coincide with the release of the premier collection of her original Christmas songs, “Miracles On Christmas Day”. Kimmie’s multi-platinum selling songs have been recorded by such stellar acts as Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Amy Grant, CeCe Winans, Joe Ely, John Farnham, Waylon Jennings, Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris. A creative and prolific artist, she has recorded and released a total of fourteen solo CDs, written and produced three musical plays and a catalogue of hundreds of songs, and published a book. The dates are:
Sunday 28 November, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, Nr. Coleraine.
Thursday 2 December, Seamus Ennis Centre, Naul, Fingal, Co. Dublin.
Friday 3 December and Saturday 4 December, The Brontë Centre, Rathfriland, N. Ireland.
TICKETING
After mounting a live stage concert event that played to sold out crowds and great acclaim in four American cities last year, Twentieth Century Fox Television and “Glee” co-creator Ryan Murphy announced that the “Glee” cast will travel to Europe to perform on the arena stage in Dublin this July. Stars of the show Lea Michele (Rachel), Cory Monteith (Finn), Amber Riley (Mercedes), Chris Colfer (Kurt), Kevin McHale (Artie), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina), Mark Salling (Puck), Dianna Agron (Quinn), Naya Rivera (Santana), Heather Morris (Brittany), Harry Shum, Jr. (Mike), Chord Overstreet (Sam) and Darren Criss (Blaine) will perform in an all-new singing and dancing celebration of the Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning show. They play two dates in Dublin’s O2 (the old Point) on Saturday 2 July and Sunday 3 July. Tickets are at o2blueroom and Ticketmaster.
From 2002’s To Let, his first studio album, through to 2007’s White Moth, Xavier Rudd gradually refined his globally-influenced collage of world music – a mixture of reggae, funk, blues, folk, and nearly every other sort of song. With 2008’s Dark Shades of Blue, though, brought a darker, more somber side of Rudd’s music. So from New South Wales comes the Koonyum Sun album marking a collaborative collection of songs with bassist Tio Moloantoa and percussionist Andile Nqubezelo. There’s also more vocal variation, with colourful harmonies in several different languages soaring atop the music. Xavier Rudd plays live at the Academy on Thursday 2 December with special guest Ben Howard.
With the release of his new album Bella due to hit the stores soon, Teddy Thompson kicks off the new year with a headline show at The Academy in Dublin on Monday 24 January 24 along with special guest David Ford. Teddy Thompson’s new album Bella is out in January.
The Wombats rescheduled their January tour to include dates in Dublin and Belfast. The band will now play on Saturday 19 March at Spring and Airbrake in Belfast and Sunday 20 March in Dublin at The Academy. Renowned as one of Britain’s most exciting live bands, The Wombats are poised to get back to prominence with the release of the new single ‘Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)’. The single introduces the band’s second studio album which is set to launch their style to a wider audience when it’s released in February.
Dark Room Notes formed in Galway in 2006. After their first single Love Like Nicotine in 2007 they won the viewer’s choice poll on RTE TVs ‘Other Voices’. 2007 also saw the release of the critically acclaimed Dead Start Program EP, the lead track from which, Shake Shake My Ceiling ending up featured on the film ‘A Kiss for Jed Wood’. 2009 saw the release of their debut album We Love You Dark Matter which secured a nomination for the Choice Music Prize for best Irish Album of 2009 and the band subsequently signed to Berlin/London dance label BBE Records who released their album internationally in 2010. 2011 will see the release of their second album which promises a deeper, dancier, more electronic sound than before. They play Dublin’s Workman’s Club on Wednesday 22 December.
ALSO PLAYING
Belfast
THURSDAY 25 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – The Empire Belfast
Donegal
FRIDAY 26 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – The Balor Arts Centre, Balybofey
Dublin
MONDAY 22 NOVEMBER
Blitzen Trapper, The Workman’s Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2. Doors 8pm
Louth
WEDNESDAY 24 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – The Spirit Store, Dundalk
Sligo
SATURDAY 27 NOVEMBER
Bell X1 – New Model Theatre, Sligo
