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bray logoCandy floss, ice-creams and cops on mountain bikes emptying tins of Special Brew into the sand in front of disgruntled half-cut teens.

Yes, the Bray Summer Festival 2013 in Bray, Co Wicklow, [home to several Broadsheet contributors] running from July 6– August 5.

FOUR weeks of music, chips AND an airshow spectacular.

And it’s all free.

Bray Blueshirt mayor Festival Director Mick Glynn sez:

“Bray Summerfest has grown significantly over the last number of years and is North Wicklow’s largest tourism driver with over 120,000 visiting the town during the 2012 festival and brings an economic benefit to the area of €8m.”

 

Launching tonight in the Porterhouse, Strand Road (“down at the beach”), Bray, Co Wicklow.

Bray Summer Festival 2013 (Facebook)


Japanese artist Daito Manabe’s experimental music performance system (created in 2008) that uses electrical sensors to either transmit music into muscular twitches (above) or control music by facial movements.

Hacking The Human Body: Meet Daito Manabe (Creators Project)

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It’s strangely uplifting.

Tourist Walk – brothers Breandán Kearney, Mike Kearney, Dónal Kearney and Oisín Kearney – are a band that play live music (folksy vocal doo wop and whatnot) in various locations ‘Like tourists…on a walk’.

This is the peripatetic harmonisers performing the Foy Vance song ‘Guiding Light’ at the top of Victoria Square Shopping Centre, Belfast.

And not a burning fleg in sight.

 

Filmed by Jane Fletcher. Sound by Daniel McCabe.Edited by Mike Kearney.

Aoife Ruth (of The Annulments) sez:

With the week that’s in it, what with the Budget and the general squeeze, we thought ye might like this song. It’s called ‘Bank Failures’ and a guy called Bob Miller wrote it about the Wall Street Crash of ’29.

This is a video of us singing it at the Black Letters and Ballads night last month. Every month, performers have to find songs on a certain theme and at the last one, the theme was ‘Hard Times’ so this seemed pretty suitable! If it was written yesterday about the current mess we’re in I don’t think it could be more apt.

 

Quite.

The Annulments?


In this very slickly produced eye-candy, Sony celebrates “125 years of musical history covering almost 150 square meters of wall space in Sony’s Derry Street offices in London. Using just CNC-cut vinyl as the sole medium, 54 columns measuring over 2 meters tall cover feature nearly 1000 of Sony Music’s signed artists from 1887 to the present day.”

Time lapse video of the process here.

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