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Culchie Calling Cards - Gigs - November 15 - 21 2010

  By Will | November 15, 2010 - 12:01 am | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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GIGS Cork legends (sometimes for their music) Republic of Loose continue their four month live residency at the Academy, Dublin - one Friday each month from September through to December on Friday November 19th. These shows will be the band’s only Dublin gigs of 2010. After returning from the States to open for U2 in Croke Park on their 360 tour in 2009, they spent the latter half of the year writing new material for their fourth album. In May 2010 Republic of Loose flew to Baltimore in the US to begin work on their forthcoming album. Recorded in Wrightway Studios with Steve Wright who had just finished working on the new UNKLE album, the fourth Republic of Loose album is scheduled for an early October release with the lead single pencilled in for September 17th. The album marks a new direction for the Loose with Mik Pyro describing the … There’s more →

Culchie Calling Cards - Gigs - November 8 - 14 2010

  By Will | November 7, 2010 - 11:59 pm | The Culch
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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 … There’s more →

Culchie Calling Cards - Gigs - October 25 - October 31

  By Will | October 25, 2010 - 11:29 pm | The Culch
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For the first time in his career Greg Dulli, The Twilight Singers frontman, will embark on a solo tour which will see him make stops in five different countries for a total of 29 shows. Its approved by American rock magazine Spin. His Irish dates are Whelan’s Dublin on Wednesday 27 October, Spring and Airbrake Belfast on Thursday 28 October, Roisin Dubh Galway on Friday 29 October and Cyprus Avenue Cork on Saturday 30 October. These shows will also mark the debut of several brand new songs from the forthcoming Twilight Singers album scheduled for release on Sub Pop Records next year. The last release from the group was five years ago. Following a one-off MTV show with Arcade Fire in Spain, The Temper Trap head across the Atlantic for headline shows in the US and a prestigious three-date support slot with The Pixies in Mexico, before returning to Australia … There’s more →

Hand Job Films - Dirty Music Videos

  By Sinéad | October 7, 2009 - 10:00 pm | Music, The Culch, The Internet
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There are simply too many quality gigs happening in Dublin, you can’t get to all of them, sometimes you hear about them too late, or tickets sell out too fast… in steps our hero, Conor from Hand Job Films. I first spotted him filming The Thermals gig back in June and went in search for the videos on Youtube the following week. The results allowed me to really relive that gig all over again. The same goes for the recent amazing Pixies gig in the Olympia. The videos collected of past gigs are like a cross between official live footage and audience uploads. A perfect combo to make you feel like you were there in the crowd. In a perfect world everyone in a gig audience would have the steady hand, equipment and talent of Conor, in this inperfect world at least we can rely on one guy to keep … There’s more →