WWW.PUREMZINE.COM Christmas 2017 ASIWYFA CHRIS HAZE QVEEN HERBY ZEISTENCROIX GOOD CHARLOTTE Jukediscovering Ross music and his dreams of working with Hozier... SABRINATalks Christmas, New Music, Her Love Of Vinyl CARPENTER & Hiking In Ireland. - Turn to page 16 >> @PureMzine Janelle Nadeau Happy Christmas & Best Wishes for 2018 Pure M Magazine ISSUE 23 2017 has certainly been a successful year WWW.PUREMZINE.COM for British singer/songwriter Lucy Spraggan. Following the release of her Editor in Chief fourth UK top 40 album in January, she T. Padraig [email protected] proceeded to tour throughout her homeland and Europe, racking up more Editorial than 22,000 tickets sales, as well as ten Paddy Dunne: [email protected] of thousands of new followers on Sarah Swinburne: [email protected] Facebook and Twitter. Chris Now she’s returned to wrap up the year Contributors with a wonderfully rousing seasonal Dave Simpson Haze single entitled “Drink ‘Til We Go Home.” Eileen Shapiro Commenting on the song’s similarities to Garreth Browne The Pogues’ Christmas classic, “Fairytale Michael Francis-Devine of New York”, Spraggan said, “I grew up Danielle Holian on the music of Kirsty MacColl and wrote Marie-Louise Clogher this song as an homage to her talent and Sean Coyle vivacity.” Beginning with a barrage of brilliantly Front Cover - Harper Smith vibrant vocals, the cheery three minute tune proceeds to showcase a relatively www.harpersmithphotography.com restrained yet remarkably resonant refrain for the first thirty five seconds or so, after which the music and melody erupt energetically and give rise to a wonderfully uplifting ambience. The vibe remains infectiously fervent moving forward from here as salvos of Juke stupendously sonorous singing echo harmoniously across onslaughts of Ross irresistibly invigorating instrumentation. It all jogs jovially in the direction of an absorbingly sprightly final minute full of fantastically vivifying vocals and mesmerizingly merry musical motifs. The outcome is an alluringly lively yuletide track that acts as an adept tribute to the work of Kirsty MacColl while simultaneously sounding seductively fresh and singular. 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In the last 18 months, the band have played some of the most iconic venues in the world, from the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and Radio City Music Hall, to shows in forests, on beaches and now. The BICEP duo are icons in the underground music scene. As DJs, promoters, producers, label owners and now a live act, the Belfast-born duo have played a crucial role in the renaissance of Bulmers Forbidden Fruit signals the start of shuddering electro and shiny slices of disco house music. the summer festival season, for the 8th pop magic. It's been over ten years since Glaswegian house music don, DENIS chapter of the Dublin city centre multi-stage JUSTICE have hit these shores. SULTA has had a rapid (and deserved) rise music and arts festival in the beautiful BONOBO and his band will be joining the to electro-stardom over the course of the last grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art line-up and his biggest Irish show to date. 2 years. 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This album has been bigger than the last with The inspiration for ROSS FROM FRIENDS French duo are master deconstructors of 2017's Migration hitting the top ten in the comes from all corners of the musical techno, pop, R&B, electro, funk, metal and UK, Netherlands and Belgium and getting milieu. From early experimental music to whatever else takes their fancy. Their first untold press coverage everywhere. During hip-hop sampling - even 80s Eurobeat and record in 2007 established them as one of this rise, he also achieved the rare feat for a Hi-NRG helps to make up the France's most vital musical exports. British dance artist of breaking America comprehensive sound palette that Ross has Their second LP, 2011's Audio, Video, and not with the kind of high-octane shock- the liberty of drawing from. They bring their Disco gave fans a bombastic aural wallop tactic rave beats and audiovisual live show to an Irish festival for the first time with classic 70's rock flourishes that owed as spectaculars that characterised the EDM next June. much to Queen and Yes as it did Frankie explosion, but with subtle, emotional, Weekend tickets are on sale NOW. Move Knuckles or Prince. They released their 3rd ambiguous and musicianly work that fast to take advantage of the first release of record Woman this time last year featuring demands long and deep immersion. tickets, a perfect stocking filler! slap bass workouts, glistening synths, gut He creates 'chilled-out but emotively beat- www.forbiddenfruit.ie 04 PURE M GIG SHOT at the 3Arena Kasabian Dublin, 2017 05 M PURE @PureMzine Karmin is Dead, Long Live theby Danielle Holian Queen armin wrote on their social media earlier this year, “Karmin is Dead, Long Live the Queen,” and then KQveen Herby was born. This side project is different from Amy Renee Heidemann’s previous duo band with her husband Nick Noonan and sees her make a distinct departure creating a freedom and something entirely unlike to her aforementioned musical activity. Herby recently released her debut extended play, EP 1. There are many elements of R&B and hip-hop vibes and influences throughout the five songs. She raps and sings on each song, which is produced by her husband and Steve Tirogene. ‘Gucci’ has an expensive taste with its richness. There is a lot of attitude and sass on this track. The song opens with the lines, “Pull up in a gold rim Tesla, that’s not cheap / Everything I do is electric on these streets ‘Zombie’ is heavier compared to the two fits well on the extended-play. What the / Walk up in the mall like, “I’ll take one of previous tracks, lyrically let the story shine songstress says, she means. The mid-tempo each” / It all looks good on me, good on me, through. But on this tune, there is a right verses and great chorus hook has a fantastic babe.” She demands what she wants balance between the music and words. She storytelling standard seeing her come back confidently, stating, “I got expensive taste.” sings, “Everybody in the building to her singing roots. There is a catchy hook and a strong R&B disappeared / That’s the way you’re looking ‘Til We Get By’ is the final track on EP 1. production. It’s a fierce opening. The song at me / Whispering silly nothings in my ear Herby is soulfully singing on this song, never disappoints and was made to / Careful now, this could get ugly.” The unlike the previous tracks with her also perfection. songstress knows what she wants now rapping. The heartfelt verses stand-out The first single released ‘Busta Rhymes’ is unlike before feeling like a zombie.