Culchie Calling Cards - Gigs - September 27 - October 3 2010

GIGS Guillemots Frontman Fyfe Dangerfield sounds like he escaped form a 1940′s adventure series rvaling Biggles but he performs. After his band’s “Red” album he started working on his solo debut release called Fly Yellow Moon. He is a fast worker and recorded the ten tracks in five days in the Urchin Studios, London. Anyway, with the album recorded, the promotion tour starts and he plays the Speakeasy, Belfast in Saturday October 2nd and The Academy, Dublin on Sunday 3rd. In support of their False Priest album of Montreal are playing Tripod, Dublin on Sunday October 3rd. Of Montreal is an odd bird of a group, with their frontman Kevin Barnes showing up on the children’s show Yo Gabba Gabba, in collaborations with Spike Jonze, on stage spanking pigs with Susan Sarandon, and even spontaneously performing six songs nude during a concert in Las Vegas. No guarantee of spankings or … There’s more

Freshly Seized

The best free n’ easy music downloads on the webbly. Bit of a mixed bag this week, folks, but that’s ok because you’re a mixed kind of readership (if the disparities in punctuation in my fanmail tell me anything). And anyway, one shouldn’t just listen to the same kind of tunes, week in, year out; it’s not healthy. It can lead to nerdism and geekery, not to mention being all obnoxious about sub-genres and why post-punk trumps post-rock, every time. I consider it a public service to run these songs by you, to keep your ears unclogged and open- … er, eared. And remember, they’re all free! First up, I take it you’ve all been jiggling your bottoms around to Cee-Lo’s Fuck You like we told you to? Well, if you like that, Cee-Lo hopes you’ll like this - two more tracks, Champain and Georgia, free on the website from … There’s more