Our weekly competition sponsors at Golden Discs are reopening on Henry Street, Dublin 1 this week.
They’ll be opening up proceedings with a performance from rockers The Riptide Movement, on Thursday, October 27. The band kicks off at 6pm.
DVD, Blu-ray, CD and vinyl aplenty will be onsale, along with merch, music players and other appealing doodads, and twenty new jobs have been made in the process.
Third Island – Galway post-metal
What you may need to know…
01. Slow, hefty and atmospheric metal is the order of the day for this three-piece of Tribesmen.
02. Formed in May of last year, the band released their debut E.P., Dusk, in July.
03. Streaming above in its entirety is the extended-player, available for download and on CD from their Bandcamp.
04. Catch them Saturday night, playing Cork as part of the Jazz Weekend Music Trail, at Fred Zeppelin’s at 9pm.
Verdict: The sweet-spot between cavernous and considered. One for metallers and shoegazers alike.
The second annual Dublin Bowie Festival happens on the 5th to the 10th of January next year, with the festival closing on the first anniversary of the Thin White Duke’s passing.
Music, movies, debate and tributes aplenty will spread to venues all over Dublin, in celebration of the man’s life and work, with Nialler9 picking his highlights over at his site.
Not to be missed are talks with playwright/Lazarus stage-show co-author Enda Walsh, and a vigil on the 10th to mark Bowie’s passing, with Bowie Raw performing acoustically, and space/time available for anyone that wishes to convey their feelings onstage through song or spoken word.
Ten-Year Story.
The 2006-2016 story of one of the best indie festivals in the land – KnockanStockan – which lit up in Blessington Lakes, Co Wicklow every July.
On a break next year but returning in 2018, the festival and Little Beast Films put this film together to reflect on the last decade of independent music.
In fairness.
BANTUM – new album available today
What you may need to know…
01. Last we saw of Dublin-based Corkman Ruairí Lynch, aka BANTUM, he’d released his first new single in a while, a collaborative effort with soul singer Loah.
02. Four years on from his debut album Legion, one of the best Irish LPs of recent years, he’s back with sophomore effort Move, featuring appearances and collaborations from Rusangano Family, Senita, Loah and more.
03. It’s streaming above in its entirety, and available for download via Bandcamp. His back-catalogue of EPs, single, and the aforementioned debut are all free, too, and you really owe that much to yourself, today being Friday and all. Treat yo’ self.
04. Next confirmed to be appearing live in support of Rusangano Family at the Sudden Club Weekender at the Kino in Cork on December 9th, though that’s certain to not to be the case for long. Check out this chat he’s had with the Times, also.
Verdict: On first listen: the logical progression from Legion. A wider musical frame of reference and Lynch at his best when working with others.
Photo: Bríd O’Donovan
Gadget and the Cloud – Leeside beats and pieces
What you may need to know…
01. Gadget and the Cloud is the nom-de-beats of music journalist and student activist Kelly Doherty.
02. A former blog editor herself, she currently writes for the Belfast’s The Thin Air, inbetween study and her duties with UCC’s SU.
03. Venturing into composition last year as Gadget and the Cloud, she quickly assembled an extended-player, October 31st, for release late last year. Ambience was the name of the game, albeit with drone/sound-art overtones.
04. Streaming above is 3600 Seconds, released last week via her Soundcloud page, and continuing Doherty’s foray into electronica, using cheapo ’90s beats as exposition this time around.
Verdict: Progressing quickly from a subtly evocative debut, Doherty’s explorations of/reflections on various electronic sub-genres are the spirited, impatient noises of an artist experimenting and figuring the next step out.
The Irish Youth Music Awards are back, and Volume 9 of their annual series of compilations, featuring winners and nominees, is available now for pre-order from iTunes.
The programme, which engages with musicians aged 12-19 via Youth Work Ireland, provides training, education, and first-contact work experience in music for young people, with help from IMRO, IRMA and Irish music media.
Release date is this Friday, and the IYMAs and producers are pushing for chart placement for the young bands, artists and producers featured
You know what to do.
Launch show happens this Sunday afternoon, at the Roisín Dubh in Galway.
Lifted from The Smiths Smithposting, weird Facebook’s leading repository of Morrissey memes purposely identified as having anything to do with The Cure.
Possibly not true, but entirely feasible, and incredibly funny.
FIGHT!
The late guitarist Rory Gallagher is to be honoured with a new statue outside the Ulster Hall in Belfast, where he performed many times over the years and where there’s already a plaque in his honour.
Gallagher’s birthplace of Ballyshannon in Donegal has a life-sized bronze statue, while Cork where he was raised, named Rory Gallagher Place after him in 1997. There have also been several commissioned street-art tributes, plaques and a bid by citizens to rename the airport after him.
Rory Gallagher to be honoured with statue outside Belfast’s Ulster Hall (Planet Rock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrFnf3Oa0Ko
Korean film-maker Kojer has juxtaposed some of the all-time classics from the Studio Ghibli catalogue against real-life scenes and backgrounds.
And it works. In fairness.
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