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Press Book from 01.08.2014 to 19.08.2014 Copyright Material. This may only be copied under the terms of a Newspaper Licensing Ireland agreement (www.newspaperlicensing.ie) or written publisher permission. -2- Table of Contents 20/08/2014 Hot Press: SHANKS FOR THE ENERGIES......................................................................................................... 3 15/08/2014 Phoenix: THE MUCH loved Cork city bar[...]................................................................................................. 5 20/08/2014 Hot Press: THE PHANTOM.............................................................................................................................. 6 01/07/2014 Go Rail: THE WILD THINGS ARE................................................................................................................. 9 Copyright Material. This may only be copied under the terms of a Newspaper Licensing Ireland agreement (www.newspaperlicensing.ie) or written publisher permission. -3- Hot Press* Circulation: 17725 Wednesday, 20 August 2014 Area of Clip: 48400mm² Page: 26 Page 1 of 2 MUSCSHANKS FOR WORLDTHE ENERGIES How energy drinks madeAdebisi Shank “unrealistically optimistic” andfuelled their third album, as an unmasked VinnyMcCreith sits down with Craig Fitzpatrick and offers U2 some advice... photo: Ruth Medjber someone asked ‘whyare your mam's knickers on >hone buzzes. "Outside the guitar shop. Red your head?!" I hat!" With two beloved albums undertheir belt, Adebisi Shank's position at the top of Ireland's And so it comes to pass that I truly see post-rock ladder means the questions have DAdebisi Shank bassistVinny McCreithfor the changed. For the last few of years, it's been a first time. The red's a nod to the mask he wears on desperate’when will the next album be out?’. stage and in 'band promo' mode, you forgive him We’refour years on from ThisIsThe Second Album for not donning it today. It's sweltering in Dublin. OfA BandCalled Adebisi Shank. Joining Sargent Flouse And, quite frankly,it would freak the Central Hotel staff out. His band of lauded Wexfordmath-rockers and then touring the USaccounted for plenty of ready to re-enter the fray with the helpfullytitled that time. Surprisingly,however, the end of ThisIs TheThird Album Of A BandCalled Adebisi Shank, Richter Collective-the brainchild ofShank promo is underway. Alwaysan act looking to do guitarist Mick Roe - in late 2012wasn't an issue for something a bit different, this meant McCreith them. recently followed the lead of Barack Obama, Bill "We'reall still around and Mick is basically doing Murray and Snoop Dogg by taking to Redditfor the exact same thing that he was doing. I see him an Adebisi-themed AMA.Themask came up, of the same amount, and he's still as stressed as he course. was before. It’sjust in a different guise." "Peoplefind it interesting," he muses. "Ifind it So all those "end of an era” sentiments in the interesting, that's why I still wear it!" press were misplaced? Has it ever been problematic on stage from a "Youcould sit around and say'do you remember practical point ofview? when we were doing this thing?' It's that famous "From gig one, it was a bad idea; it's not practical thing of a shark that will die if it stops swimming. at all. I wear glasses so I can't see at all when I'm If in doubt, move forward." wearing it. I can’t breathe, it gets very smelly." Moving forwards, for the first time ever, tracks Luckily,the band don’t have the kind offanbase were written and road-tested before the trio even that will get drunk and attempt to rip the thing entered the studio. "We put them in a casserole off-"we don't have anyfanbase!” he quips-but the pot," McCreith smiles. "Slow-cooking." odd heckle has been uttered. There have been side-steps, as well. McCreith has "Our first gig in Belfast,when we came out it his Speed Of Snakes project with Rupert Morris was that weird silent moment before the set and from BATS,wh ile gu itarist Lar Kayeseems the most -4- Hot Press* Circulation: 17725 Wednesday, 20 August 2014 Area of Clip: 48400mm² Page: 26 Page 2 of 2 adulterous (music-wise) of the lot. When the trio reconvened in a Wicklow house, there must have been plenty of'those other bands mean nothing to me, babe' wooing. "It adds spice to it, that we can go off... It is like a relationship - if all you're focused on is the relationship, you won’t bring anything new to the table. It will wither. That's one of the things that has kept us able to surprise each other-still thinking sex here! I don't know how bands are ever in one band. I won't name Irish rock's’big voice'... What would you call them, the Irish rock aristocracy? One's a letter, one's a number? I don't know how they do it. When they were at their best was when they actually went off and did other stuff. Remember they did Passengersand stuff like that?" With no idea who he could be talking about, let's return to the Shank.Theirthird album takes their inherent optimism to new levels of euphoria.The cover features a muscleman flexing as his lightbulb head shatters. They are bursting with light and confidence. "As people we can be quite cynical, but our cynical nature actually frees us up. We don’t puncture ourselves. If we took ourselves really seriously itwould be impossible to make an album. It feels like we made a mountain and we live to climb the mountain. It's like planting a flag on the moon, and then going 'we know we did it, and we know we can feel like that'. Maybe it is unrealistically optimistic, but ifyou call a song 'World In Harmony’, it’s going to have to sound like the world in harmony! I remember when we were recording it, we said stuff like'does this sound like the world's in harmony?' No?Just keep going!" There are moments when things feel seconds away from breaking into'Danger Zone'. A triumphal, Moroder in the'8os, blizzard-of-coke-inthe-studioaura of invincibility. “We're far too cheap for coke!" McCreith laughs. "There’s a lot of coffee. What’s theTesco version of Red Bull? Kick? Boost?They're all very aggressive sounding. It's a euro for a litre. We had these huge glasses full of ice and that would be our'keep you going'fuelfortheday. Noactual cocaine though." Bono, if you're reading this in the studio, get the energy drinks in.There is shade as well as light on the record - Adebisi Shank aren't trying to usher in a summer of love among Irish post-rock outfits. "Everyone should do what they want! If I was president of IMRO I'd make all of the bands play all of our songs and be exactly the same as us? No, that's impossible.There's some bittersweet moments on it. It's not all rainbows and unicorns." This IsTheThird Album OfA Band CalledAdebisi Shank is out on August 12 -5- Phoenix* Circulation: 16601 Friday, 15 August 2014 Area of Clip: 4600mm² Page: 42 Page 1 of 1 THE MUCH loved Cork city bar and music venue, The Pavilion - affectionately known by locals as The Pav - has gone bust, much to the sadness of its clientele, some of whom have even started an online petition in a vain attempt to save the venue. But a look at the latest available accounts for the company that operated the venue, Pana Productions Ltd, gives a good indication of its difficulties. Accounts made to the end of 2012 showed accumulated losses of €735,000. The directors (and shareholders) of the company, whose venue has hosted the likes of Franz Ferdinand and rap superstar Kanye West, are listed as Pat Conway, Joe Kelly and Stephen Grainger. A creditors’ meeting has been called for the company, which had a small judgment of €6,300 registered against it in 2011 by the Irish Music Rights Organisation. -6- Hot Press* Circulation: 17725 Wednesday, 20 August 2014 Area of Clip: 121000mm² Page: 96,97,98 Page 1 of 3 THE PHANTOM THE (HtEE.N (iKKKN CLASS Ol- HOME Susannah Appleby and Shane O'Brien at The Chapel at IMMA, as Little Green Cars took to the stage for the eagerly-awaited Lumia Live session, presented by Microsoft Devices and La Blogotheque. latest JNLR book brought is very Phantom- more or less alone - confidently forecast the former's old employer, Cork's 96 FM, drops 4% interesting indeed. One leading media that Pat Kenny's figures would rise again in three to 47%.In fact these figures suggest that Red FM buyer called The Phantom and asked: is there months time. Lo and behold, Kenny is indeed up is currently trad i ng at about 25%,so clearly we can a bit of a pattern emerging at last? It's a by 20,000 to 134,000. He is now three books into expect theirupward momentum to continue.That good question... his Newstalk tenure, so that he is still carrying assumption is bolstered by their increase in Market a legacy light' quarter-after one more, we will Share, up by2.4% to 10.9%.It's looking increasingly TheWhen the last figures were published, three have a much better picture as to the level at which as if the move could be a game changer. Well done months ago, one of the things exercising the he is really operating. Our reading is that he will to KC, Dave Macand the crew... minds of agency number-crunchers was what topi5o,oo next time out. Progress may then slow Radio Nova is another big winner.The station they called 'The Kenny Effect'."Has the big move down, but the omens remain very positive..