14 Dates For One Takes In 2008
February 2, 2008 by ken
Filed under One Take Sessions
The dates for the 2008 One Take Sessions with KilkennyMusic.com have all been locked down and will commence from Thursday, March 6th.
We’ll publish the full list of dates tonight or tomorrow morning as we’re going to do a little bit of work on the One Take Sessions website and improve the online booking setup.
The ‘Sessions will run through the year up to Thursday December 4th.
If you would like to put your name or band forward for an appearance at the One Take Sessions, you may do so by emailing sessions@kilkennymusic.com. In emailing, please include a contact phone number and link to your MySpace / Bebo with sample tracks.
VOTD: Dr Alban ‘Sing Hallelujah’
Crazy song, crazy video, crazy 90s music - but you have to love it!
Do something good with your Saturday - go out and buy yourself a 90s compilation CD (car boot sale likely a good place to hunt for them!) or dig out your old tapes and play them LOUD!
IMRO Showcase - Get Your Entries In
The callout is on for the 17th IMRO Showcase Tour and if you haven’t already gotten your entries in then you’ve got until Valentines Day to do so.
Up to 40 acts shall be selected to take part in this year’s tour, happening between March and April. Some of the highlight acts on last year’s tour include Boss Volenti, Secret Police, Giveamanakick, Noise Control, Ruby Tailights, Oppenheimer, Fight Like Apes and many more.
The 2008 Tour receives nationwide support from RTÉ 2FM through the Dave Fanning, Dan Hegarty, Cormac Battle & Jenny Huston radio shows, as well as additional countrywide support from The Star Newspaper.
Artists wishing to be considered for one of these gigs should send their MySpace links etc. to showcase@imro.ie. Alternatively you can mail a CD submission to: IMRO Showcase Tour 2008, IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2.
New Single On The Way From Acrojunk
KilkennyMusic.com favourites Acrojunk (Waterford) are set to release their new single ‘Generation X-Squared’ next week, Friday February 8th, with the single going live on iTunes and downloadmusic.ie. Although laid up with a broken ankle, frontman Rob O’Connor was in touch earlier with the low down on the single.
Generation X-Squared, as the band put it, combines the “fiction of Douglas Coupland and the melodic tuneship of The Divine Comedy”. Also included on the single release is a cover version of ‘Teenage Kicks’ from The Undertones, Acrojunks “most interesting cover version to date”.
The band are looking to follow on the release of Generation X-Squared later this year with their first album release.
We’ve featured the lads on the podcast once or twice and had the pleasure of hosting Rob at the One Take Sessions back before we moved to Cleere’s, as well as catching one of their Kilkenny performances in 2007 (a bout of sickness kept me away from the other one in The Pumphouse) and hopefully we’ll see the lads, or Rob, back at the One Take Sessions in the next month or two.
They’ll be playing Gleeson’s in Clonmel on the 8th of February, followed by appearances in Cassidy’s (Dublin, Feb 12th) and Phil Grimes (Waterford, Feb 14th). Check their MySpace for a full list of tour dates in promotion of the single.
VOTD: East 17 ‘It’s Alright’
I’m in the mood for a cheesy video for video. Can’t beat big MASSIVE hats that would fit three heads, piano introductions, clothes that don’t fit any of the band and a load of hard-man poses.
Still… what a band.
Live it up on a Friday, come on, it’s the weekend!
Ready For Your Fill Of Heineken Green Energy?
The headline acts for this year’s Heineken Green Energy festival in Dublin Castle (first weekend of May) have been announced (in case you missed it yesterday) and by the looks of things it’s shaping up to be another great weekend of music.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will headline on May 3rd, Soulwax will take Sunday May 4th while The Kooks will be headlining on Monday May 5th. Sales of The Kooks album ‘Inside In/Inside Out’ has already topped the two million mark, a 2007 appearance by Soulwax / 2 Many DJs was touted in our end of year member poll as one of the best gigs in Ireland all year but Nick Cave would be the stand out act in my books.
Last year’s festival saw Kasabian and Sinead O’Connor headline the bank holiday weekend.
Anyone planning on heading along?
If you’re after tickets, get thee to Rollercoaster next Tuesday morning for 9am or see Ticketmaster.ie.
Sound System #39 Released
The 39th Sound System Podcast has been released and features a host of chat ranging from Jeremy Beadle’s unexpected (to us) death yesterday, to the opening of Kilkenny’s new pole dancing club, to the Irish Blog Awards, CreativeCamp, gigs in Kilkenny and the lack of them in January and a load more.
There’s also a podcast exclusive with a brand new track from Kilkenny act Teratoria, the upcoming single release ‘Just Dance’ from Scuba Dice (available soon on DownloadMusic.ie), the brand new single from Carnival (due out February 15th, another KKM exclusive) and a track from Dirty Face Kids (Cork).
Give it a listen below, check the new-look podcast blog or download it for free below (approx 43mb).
Sound System Podcast Show #39 (Download @ 43mb)
VOTD: Yael Naim ‘New Soul’
Great video, great tune, nominated (in a roundabout way) by @johnnypez.
Tip of the hat to you sir.
Born in Paris 30 years ago, she (she being Yael Naim) spent most of her youth living in Israel. ‘New Soul’ is available to buy as a single on Amazon and iTunes and you’ll also find Apple using it in their new ads for the MacBook Air.
Podcast 39 Is On The Way
Show 39 of the Sound System Podcast is on the way, hopefully at some stage tonight. I’m in the revamped Studio B which has just got a new ProTools setup and some big ass monitors and I’m trying to get to grips with ProTools!
I’m an Adobe Audition man at heart, ProTools definitely being Daw’s baby (and seeing Mickey get back in there too), but it’s time for a change so if you notice anything nuts about the way show 39 is put together later, let me know!
Update: 1:14am… yeah, you’re gonna be waiting until the morning!
VOTD: Feist ‘I Feel It All’
For your midweek viewing, here’s some Feist with ‘I Feel It All. Check out the official website. Any chance of Feist appearing with Broken Social Scene in Vicar Street in May? Who knows…
