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Ian Whitty and the Exchange – first album in eight years

What you may need to know…

01. Corkman Ian Whitty and collaborators the Exchange return for his first record in eight years, the wonderfully-monikered Cash Crop.

02. Recorded as live in various spaces around the city, including Bhailiú/Elastic Sleep man Chris Somers’ One Chance Out studio, the album’s production and mix was also a collaborative effort, between Somers, the band and producer Steve Fanagan.

03. Streaming above is the video for Bottom Line, the album’s lead-off single.

04. Launching Cash Crop tonight at Coughlan’s, kicking off the IMRO-award winners’ Jazz Weekend proceedings. Kickoff 9pm, a tenner in.

Verdict: Keenly-aware pop with a folkish tinge, with absolutely nothing having been lost during Cash Crop‘s lengthy process.

Ian Whitty and the Exchange

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Icelandic airline WOWair is to run from Cork Airport, effective from May of next year, led by a Cork-Reykjavik service at €60 each way.

Sez the blurb:

Iceland’s low-cost airline will operate flights to Iceland, the US and Canada from May 2017.
The new service will operate direct scheduled flights to Reykjavik from Cork Airport four times per week and will allow passengers to connect to major US and Canadian cities including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington DC , Montreal and Toronto.

Good times.

Cork Airport

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Tonight.

TXFM, occupying the former airwaves of Phantom 105.2, goes off air.

The station was among the few fighting the good fight full-time for new, independent Irish music, staffed by people who actually give a toss about same, our own Nialler9 included, and who we imagine won’t be long going about finding new battlegrounds.

The station goes dark at 8pm.

Cheers, lads.

Previously: Wish Granted

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Gummidge – noise-rock from Galway

What you may need to know…

01. Grubby, gritty noise-rock foolishness is the order of the day for Gummidge, a trio from Gallimh, formed in 2010. You may remember them.

02. Releasing debut album Sick Again in 2012, the band has kept the home fires burning with work on Heartbreakers, a second LP released earlier this month and launched with a Galway gig.

03. Streaming above, available from the band’s Bandcamp. No formal physical release, but all digital purchases to receive liner notes in a card posted with each order.

04. Launching the new album in Dublin, at the Jigsaw arts space, next week on the 5th, with support from Ten Past Seven, 1, and Mercurius Forebrain.

Verdict: Angular, awkward, and noisy as ever. Grand job.

Gummidge

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Following on from reminiscing over the anniversary of their first full-length album Nurse last week, we find HD footage of Northern power-trio Therapy? from their last tour, a full gig aboard the A38, a ship-turned-cultural centre moored in Budapest, Hungary.

That they’re still this energetic and tight after all this time is of no surprise at all to longtime fans, but Troublegum-era listeners might want to take a second look.

The A38 on Youtube

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Chris Power – Leeside beatmaker with second mixtape

What you may need to know…

01. Last time we checked in with Chris Power, he’d released his first mixtape for Cork’s Cuttin’ Heads Collective.

02. He’s just released his second, entitled The Trees, a mix of instrumentals, remixes and collaborations, including with Detroit MC Sincere.

03. It’s streaming above, and available for free/pay-what-you-want download.

04. The Cuttin’ Heads lads, Power among them, converge on Pigalle Bar, Barrack St. on the Friday of this Jazz Weekend in Cork – kickoff at 8pm, strictly jazzy hip-hop.

Verdict: More of what’s good – and good to see his work with collaborators ahead of more high-profile releases on the horizon.

Chris Power

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Last week, in our weekly TWENTY-FIVE EURO competition in association with Golden Discs, we asked you for your favourite one-hit wonder. In fact, we asked…

‘The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be _____________________________’

As ever, you responded in your dozens, but there can only be one winner…

Or can there?

Eoin Fegan, with the clincher:

The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be ‘Your Woman’ by White Town. From nowhere to UK no.1, and rapidly back to nowhere. His only UK top 40 entry in 10 attempts.

But!

Also hit upon by commenter Bertie Blenkinsop, as a second choice to his original guess, a technicality over which the judges are currently deliberating feverishly.

In other highlights from some very stiff competition:

Ivan: “The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be She’s Not There by The Zombies. Obscure is a funny word. This is the only hit but I suppose maybe everybody also knows Time of the Season from the Bulmers ad.”

Gemma Power: “The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Where’s me Jumper by Sultans of Ping.”

Barry Higgins: “Has to be Owen Paul’s My Favourite Waste of Time. Sums up my relationship with Broadsheet perfectly.”

Turgenev: “The most satisfying single hit from an otherwise obscure source would have to be Fatima Mansions’ Only Losers Take the Bus.”

f_lawless: “Gotta be Althea & Donna, who came from obscurity to have a UK no.1 in 1977 with the reggae classic Uptown, Top Ranking”

 

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