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A tiltshift, time-lapse video of the crowds on the beach at the recent Bray Air Show [Bray, Co Wicklow] by Aoife Hester.
Music: Poolside
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Sun And Surf
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A rather excellent video for Disco by composer Ralf Hildenbeutel directed by Boris Seewald and featuring impressionistic visions of real life dancers Althea Corlett and Simone Schmidt.
The technique (best known in the video for A-Ha’s ‘Take on Me’) is called rotoscoping and involves the painstaking animation of drawings and paintings created, in this case, from photo transparencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHKiH9UlXy8&feature=youtu.be
Harrumph.
Taryn Gleeson, in Donegal, writes:
My kids made a short, funny and sweet (non-partisan) video to share their thoughts about the upcoming election.
Mmf.
September Girls – Love No One
What you may need to know…
01. Dublin-based shoegaze/psychedelia specialists take off the gloves with upcoming album Age of Indignation: bolstering their increasingly raw, garagey sound, the five-piece tackle everything from feminism, to religion, to Irish life as we know it at present. Heavyweight stuff, to say the very least.
02. Named for a Big Star song, the band came together in 2011, and immediately proceeded on a number of single and split releases via various labels, before settling with UK indie pillar Fortuna POP! for debut album Cursing the Sea. The band signed with Brooklyn indie label Kanine Records for their subsequent Veneer EP, co-released with Fortuna.
03. The British press are all over the quintet. From the Guardian and the Sunday Times, to the NME and the sadly-departed The Fly, praise was everywhere for their debut LP. Time magazine, no less, deigned them among the 11 best new bands in the world in 2014. Lofty expectations to exceed a second time around, especially off the back of appearances at SXSW and Liverpool Psych Fest.
04. Jaw on the Floor, inspired both by the 1916 Rising and early feminism in Ireland, features the album’s only big vocal cameo: Oliver Ackermann, of the equally excellent A Place to Bury Strangers.
05. The album, released April 8 and followed by an upcoming Irish tour, continues in this vein, taking aim at social media, modernity and the legacy of the Catholic church in Ireland. Love No-One (above), deals with narcissism in the modern day.
Verdict: Their upward trajectory has been frightening, and they look set to provide the tempestuous, confrontational agit-pop that our generation has been sorely lacking, hopefully opening up as many conversations about the issues at hand in Ireland as their reverbed-up, boxcutter noise.
Talos – In Time
What you may need to know…
1. In case you missed it last week, Cork-based electronic-pop pinup songsmith Eoin French, aka Talos, dropped his much-anticipated new single In Time over at Nialler9’s blog.
2. Big, big things await the architecture tutor with a penchant for sweet vocals and spacey, shoegazing sensibilities, after a 2014/5 that saw singles Tethered Bones and Bloom take flight in a serious fashion, leading to myriad festival appearances all over Ireland and Europe, including Eurosonic in the Netherlands.
3. The video is directed and edited by longtime collaborator Feel Good Lost, also responsible for the strong visual identity of Cork Scandipop bedfellows Young Wonder, and recently directing videos for All Tvvins and Le Galaxie. One of Ireland’s most influential creative professionals.
4. Firmly established on the independent Irish music scene, Talos is looking set to go mainstream this year, getting the come-to-bed eyes from Hot Press in their recent Hottie awards/reader poll. He scooped two nominations, one for Best Song, the other for Most Promising Artist.
Verdict: Broadsheet recently saw the live configuration of the project play Quarter Block Party in Cork. He gets better every time we see him, but there’s some heavy-duty backup, including live cellos. Catch him live now, before he blows up properly.
Mick’s Tape
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A video compilation showing Independent TD Mick Wallace’s efforts to highlight his concerns surrounding Nama over the past several months.
It follows the Commercial Court granting summary judgment for €2million against Mr Wallace earlier today – in relation to an Ulster Bank loan taken over by a company called Promontoria (Aran) Limited, a subsidiary of Cerberus Capital.
Mr Wallace had argued that the assignment of the loan to Promontoria was not valid but Mr Justice Brian McGovern disagreed.
Previously: ‘Cerberus Told Me I Was Going To Get Sorted’
High Court grants judgement for €2m against Mick Wallace (RTE)
Video by Strawberry Films
Easy Now
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An unofficial animated video for Röyksopp’s So Easy (1999) by Emmanuele Walker of French animation studio WIZZ design.
Contains flashing imagery and brief SFW kaleidoscopic nudity.
Dance Catte
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Harbour by Half Of Me
Luke from New York based Irish band Half Of Me writes:
We will be launching our next single ‘Blastoice’ in The Workman’s Club on Fri November 6th. The single was recorded with Dave Prendergast in Clique Recording studios and will be available on iTunes/Spotify. We will also be perfoming at HWCH this year in Bad Bob’s on Thurs Oct 2nd @ 9PM.