Daily Archives: February 8, 2012

Gigs: Storyfold @ Whelan’s March 23rd

  By Sinead Keogh | February 8, 2012 - 3:00 pm | Gigs, Music
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Storyfold, who released their debut album ‘Rocket Science’ last year, are wetting the head of their 4th single release, ‘The Sweetest Silence’ with a headliner in Whelan’s on March 23rd. Frontman Paddy McKenna gives over lead vocals to pianist Lindsey Hogan for ‘…Silence’ and it’s well worth hearing: Support comes from Jet Set Radio and Laura Elizabeth Hughes (the first public gig of the YouTube sensation whose ‘Video Games’ cover is below and deserves a watch). Tickets €10 from the usual.

I Heart Tea Crowd Episode 9 - Dead Cat Bounce

  By Culch.ie | February 8, 2012 - 12:00 pm | Featured Post, I ♥ Tea Crowd, TV
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Comedy rockers Dead Cat Bounce have been on the scene since 2008, touring the circuit and regaling audiences with tales of ‘Overenthusiastic Contraceptive Lady’ and ‘Good Touch, Bad Touch’. A full band, with vocalist Jim Whalmsey, drummer Demian Fox and guitarist Shane O’Brien, the first few seconds of any of their shows will lull you into a false sense of musical security before they launch straight into lyrics such as ‘like a chimpanzee in a buffet car they’re grabbing at things before they know what they are … and trying to put them in their mouths’ (‘Christians in Love’) and ‘Me and my instructor tearing down the autobahn, doing ninety in a Mazda with the handbrake on’ (‘Switzerland’). Having caught them live a number of times, we can only say that comedy and rock go incredibly well together and their show, Howl of the She-Leopard, hits Vicar Street on the … There’s more →

New Music: The Jezabels

  By Sinead Keogh | February 8, 2012 - 9:05 am | Music
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Aussie offering The Jezabels are a two-girl, two-boy setup (what we like to call a ‘two up, two down outfit’ here in Culch Towers… oh use your imagination). Featuring keyboardist Heather Shannon, drummer Nik Kaloper, guitarist Sam Lockwood and Hayley Mary full of pace, (owner the Florence-esque skyscraper vocals that completely sell them), the genre-spanning four-piece release their debut album ‘Prisoner’ here on March 2nd. Their early 2009 EP ‘The Man is Dead’ featured early wins such as this one, Disco Biscuit Love: While late 2009′s ‘She’s So Hard’ EP was home to ‘Hurt Me’, a sumptuous vocal offering reminiscent of Kate Bush: