We Come in Pieces – Limrock math trio in final gig of the year tonight
What you may need to know…
01. Math-punk three-piece We Come in Pieces have traipsed around the continent a few times over the course of their six years of existence.
02. Garnering attention for 2010’s full length Before the Chains and steadily touring for 2012’s Land of the Living, the band has been back in studio, finishing their third full-length.
03. Streaming above is the video for 2012’s single release, Sexy Rouge.
04. Catch them tonight in Limerick, in their last gig of the year, with local lads Cruiser and Cassavetes in support. Dolan’s, 9pm.
Verdict: A staple component of Limerick music at this point, this upcoming record of theirs ought to be a treat.
Freddstival – a celebration of the life of Freddie Mercury.
At the Grand Social on Liffey Street Lower, Dublin 1.
From the Facebook blurb:
“Join us – Barbara McCarthy, Paddy Cullivan and a host of Irish performers, including Martin McCann, mezzo-soprano Heather Fogarty, a cappella choir The Skipping Stones and more – for an epic night of rock, opera, karaoke, enlightenment and laughter. 25 years gone, but never forgotten.”
Irish music mainstay and broadcaster Ray Wingnut presents new online show The Guerrilla Sessions, streaming online as an extension of his Spin ALT show, every Sunday morning.
Interviewed in this episode: Lynched, the iconoclastic folk band, soon to be renamed Lankum, ahead of their final dates under the name, including Vicar St. on the 26th.
Last Friday, with a 25 euro-packed Golden Discs voucher on offer, we asked YOU to complete this sentence:
‘To my mind the finest example of a guitar solo would have to be________________________by_________________’
You responded in your dozens.
But there could only be one guitar god.
‘Kevin’ wins the voucher with this inarguable choice and reasoning:
To my mind the finest example of a guitar solo would have to be Prince’s 3 minute masterclass on ‘While my Guitar Gently Weeps’ when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, because it is the perfect example of just how disgustingly good the man was. It’s not like they couldn’t have asked Clapton. Seriously, watch it, from 3:15 on is pure filth. Not a note out of place.
Runners up
Liam – “To my mind, the finest example of a guitar solo would have to be Marquee Moon by Television – I’m talking about the second solo in the song by Tom Verlaine, rather than the earlier (still excellent) solo by Richard Lloyd. 3 minutes+ of meandering melodic soloing that is stunningly technical without being flashy or fast for the sake of showing off. Starts at 4:50.”
DominoDub – “To my mind, the finest example of a guitar solo would have to be Impossible Germany by Wilco – an experimental Nels Cline Solo into a Thin Lizzy style Duel Guitar Solo – listen to any live version for that extra pure life affirming joy.”
The Walsh – “To my mind, the finest example of a guitar solo would have to be In Bloom by Nirvana, it’s bleedin’ mental.”
Harry Molloy – “Tattoo’d Lady by Rory Gallagher, Irish tour recording.”
01. Brothers Shea and Jordan make up both halves of Belfast sludge/doom-metal duo Mares of Diomedes.
02. Fuzzed-out, apocalyptic doom is the order of the day, with the band’s debut extended-player emerging midsummer of last year.
03. Streaming above is the band’s new split 12″ release alongside Danish doomlords Dreich. Available for streaming, download and physical purchase from the band’s Bandcamp.
Early compact-disc artwork. As dated as humanly possible, and catalogued by US pop-radio jamboree Crap From The Past (streaming and downloadable weekly).
As soon as CDs were introduced to the US marketplace, a handful of samplers were introduced as a guide to both consumers and retailers. For many, these were the first introduction to digitally-stored sound.
All of these CDs are extremely hard to find today, if you’d be looking for them at all. Most of them were pressed in West Germany, because US facilities weren’t up to speed yet.
Because for all the backlash the vinyl revival may have received, at least it didn’t result in cheap futurism…
01. Despite their designation as a quartet, sax-laden spoken-word hardcore outfit Robocobra Quartet call on any of fourteen members for their incendiary live excursions.
02. Having gigged on the regular since 2014, the collective have done the festival grind, including Electric Picnic and Brilliant Corners Jazz fest, as well as having released a limited lathe-cut 7″ via Smalltown America.
03. Streaming above is the band’s debut album in its entirety, Music for All Occasions, recorded in studios and venues around Belfast city.
04. Available now in various formats from their Bandcamp. Having finished the UK/NI swing of their album launch, more UK/IE dates are likely for next year.
Verdict: Dour, downtuned, swaggering post-hardcore as a framework for world-weary spoken word broadsides.
A perfectly lip-synched mashup by YouTuber Tocen combining clips from the Spongebob movie and the ‘Band Geeks’ episode into an entirely convincing video for ‘Chop Suey’ (2001) by System of A Down.
Members of the New York production of Stomp percussion theatre join the Harlem Globetrotters on a Greenwich Village court for a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the legendary exhibition basketball team.
According to Stomp London, the video took seven attempts to get right.
