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*06 *10 *15 *20 *34 onnected: a magazine with a fanzine’s away to some decidedly non-radio-friendly tunes, takes Interviews Features Regulars heart – forever seeking new music and pride of place this month of meteorological misery. 10 Isis 06 Cover story: DEAF 17 Connected Online Dodging genre cliches more skilfully than Ten nights, 20-something venues, 150+ Like an overflow car park – only more aesthetic gigs we like the look of; and steering DEAF – Electronic Arts Festival – returns for its the elected avoid straight answers, the Los events; it’s the return of October’s saving and not regularly bricked by chungfellas weepy clear of the same old suspects, covered eight outing, featuring a seriously impressive array of local Angeles based Isis talk artistic control and grace, the biggest and most ambitious Dublin their football pitch was robbed – our .ie is on by everyone else, all the time... Populist and international acts, exhibitions and more. We’ve been integrity. Welcome to the thinking man’s metal. Electronic Arts Festival to date – whopper... hand to cater for those not, eh, catered for here. photocopying – while no doubt pretty and lucky enough to get a load of free tickets for this and you 18 Matador 12 Three To Watch 26 Record Reviews / DJ Charts Twisted, dark and moody, it’s the schweet Underage overachievers on the fake ID Genre hopping wunderkinds, meaty basslines, Ca great way to parlay – is not the objective here. can find them up for grabs in the competition section of jackhammer sound of (arguably) Ireland’s best fasttrack, Belgium busting techno from a an N’Sync nobody, a healthy sense of the This winds some people up no end. We couldn’t our (still facelift free) website, connected.ie (hey, blagging producer... Citing Richie Hawtin and Dave Clarke McCann who can, and a few ambient pointers absurd, and some Danish arty types with a care less. Self important? Silver spooned? Wrong and works, but it can take a lot longer than expected...). as fans, here’s man of the moment: Matador. on the tell tale road signs of our age... love of silly names... It’s record review time. 20 Pan-Pot 15 What's Going On? 34 Next Month I'd Rather Be... wrong again (anyone who remembers our tremendous Elsewhere there’s some Psyches, Phunklore and a Menacing bass, static, noise – meet a couple Scare story swines, BO bombshells and Stuck in traffic in a grey suit, on a grey day, folded-piece-of-paper first issue will surely tell you that) Perkins (oh God, here he goes again). A Fake, some of MNML hustlers (with a penchant for bailouts, city slicker schadenfreude, Gloat-A- surrounded by grey architecture, staring at just a couple of randomers (and anyone who’d like to Furs and a Felix. A whopper 303, a devastating Tu-Ki, Pavarotti and lame jokes) as they shape up Trons, oh and we really can’t forget Captain grey clouds, hoping to fuck a Luas smacks into help) on a positive piss take of those we dig; with barely and a Twix for everyone in the audience... for their second bout in an Irish ring. Biffo and his Fantastic Fucks. You tell ‘em Steve. the bus. Oh wait, here’s a far better idea... a word wasted on those we don’t – misinterpreting and Candy Collective are also in the house, bringing misinforming, or spouting spiteful dribble, is not something us news of their next SweetTalk event – providing a Editor: Niall Turner Online Editor: Amanda Kavanagh, Steve ‘Sympathy Sales and Marketing: [email protected] we’d like to be responsible for (well, except maybe Steve). platform for local and international creatives, this is one vote’ McMullin Production Manager: Liam Murray Design: Fred Murray Circulation: 20,000 – Distributed in over 350 locations in Dublin, No, combin(g)ing music and events (and horrifying crew we have a lot of admiration for... Contributors: Fenster, Adam White, Helen Brilo, Eamonn Seoige, Amie and Belfast. Connected Magazine is also available in all HMV stores English Lit profs and ‘serious’ journos along the way, no Speaking of admiration, it is with a great sense of Locke, Nora Costigan, Dan Mac, Barry Dempsey, Jade Callaghan, Neil throughout the country. doubt) is our buzz – and we’ll stick to that, thanks loss that we mourn the passing of a truly inspirational Dixon, Alison Shevlin, Kelly McGrath, Paddy Murphy, Niamh Doolan, very much. individual – Robert Stringer – who we interviewed just Steve Battle, Eimear Duignan, Dave Jacob and Karna Ray. Contact: [email protected] // [email protected] www.connected.ie // www.myspace.com/connectedmag (Correct. That IS called a widow.) Anyway, one such before his travels and pay tribute to this issue. RIP Rob. Photography: Mark Duggan, Martina, Marcus Cassidy, Colm Mullen, gig to have some old fashioned craic at, while dancing Niall Turner Claire Weir, Loreana Rushe, Darran Murray, Jenny Guerin, James Moore. Connected Magazine – 33 Pearse Street, D2. Ph: 01 445 0595

//connected magazine //www.connected.ie Homegrown Feature - DEAF Words - Fenster DEAF

ell, DEAF certainly is a humdinger this year isn’t it? A whole host of DJs, live shows, art exhibitions, workshops, seminars, launches and Wgeneral electronic goodness spread out over two weekends. With more than 100 events to choose from you’re pretty spoiled for choice. DEAF main man, Eamonn, from D1 Records fills us in on what to expect in a moment, but first here are a few of the events I’m chomping at the bit to enjoy over the festival. On Friday 23, at 7.00pm, Filmbase plays host to a rather special launch. Naphta’s ‘Democracy.Now’. More famed for his DnB workouts with Bassbin, this is a rather uniquely concepted side project. A sound collage of documentary snippets, middle eastern rhythms,

Cover pic: Dam Funk Left: Anja Plaschg AKA Soap & Skin

//connected magazine //www.connected.ie Homegrown Feature - DEAF Words - Fenster

Incredible, dense, tense and compelling... and a barrel load of samples from the joyous mindful of the economic climate out there. to the haunting, all pieced together into a The larger events should be able to hold their continuous mix, with the unifying team of war. own in terms of attendance, and we’ve also I haven’t heard it in it’s entirety but the parts I got quite a substantial amount that are free in, have, have been incredible, dense, tense and or very moderately priced, so hopefully DEAF compelling. ‘Democracy.Now’ will be available can sustain the interest and support it’s on double pack vinyl from D1, and the tenner received in previous years. entry to this launch will nab you one. How is DEAF regarded internationally? Also on the first Friday, British Beatboxer For the most part it’s still a pretty local affair. Beardyman drops into the Twisted Pepper, Having said that we do see an increasing exceptionally skilled at the old mouth music, amount of people come from overseas he also has a great sense of humour to go especially to our more exclusive events such with it, so it stop things getting too poo faced as Coil, Underground Resistance & Nurse With and technical. Support comes from Stones Wound. We’re able to tracks our overseas Throw beatmeister Dam Funk. ticket sales online. They seem to be rising by Surgeon is one of the few DJs to fully about 50% each year! embrace all the benefits that new technology What group or artist are you most proud of can bring to a set, so instead of straight up securing a gig from this year? techno, expect to hear a skilful mix of a whole There are over 100 events so it’s very difficult host of genres when he plays in Kennedys on to pick just a few. The ‘New Spaces For Music’ Saturday 24. Fret not, it’ll still be banging... gigs should be great. We’ll be announcing The Button Factory, also on Saturday 24, various locations for the events 24 hours plays host to the alleged favourite band of before the shows. We’ve loads of great President Obama horn blowers, Hypnotic international acts coming over as usual, but to Brass Ensemble are well worth if you haven’t be honest we’re just as excited and proud of had a chance to catch them on their many the Irish content we have every year... and this recent visits to these shores. year it seems to be stronger than ever. The same venue, on Sunday 25, hosts The closing party of the festival has probably the highlight of the festival. A night always been a highlight but last year it dedicated to the label the entire city was weaned came in for a bit of criticism. The venue is on, Warp records. Topping the bill are demi-gods TBA for this year – what’s the plan? Plaid, doing a live set of classic tracks. Support Well, the problems at last year’s closing party comes from relative Warp newbies, the dark and were triggered by a medical emergency with menacing Clark, and frankly de-arranged live one of our artists which had the knock on effect remixing cabaret star Tim Exile. of our main room overcrowding. We were also Over to Eamonn: trying to combine the venues of The Village and The festival has expanded to run over two Whelan’s which in hindsight we wouldn’t try weekends this year; do you think public again. Everyone who couldn’t get into the main interest will be sustained for this period? room was refunded in full. We haven’t actually DEAF changes format and shape regularly decided on the venue yet for our closing party. depending on the content of the festival. The But it’s going to be a much smaller affair than first two years DEAF ran over two weeks as last years!! We’ve spread out our flagship events well, but more recently it’s been paired down throughout the festival; WARP @ DEAF, Crash to just one week, or one weekend. This year Ensemble, Soap & Skin, David Rodigan etc, so we just had way too much content to squeeze this year we’re keen for the closing event not to into one week. We’re not too concerned about take the focus away from the main content of Clockwise from top: Beardyman, Anthony Child AKA Surgeon, equipment from the holding public interest; as there’s such a wide the festival. However, AUX 88, who play at the Messages Sonores event by Peter Maybury, Modeselektor, Sarah Carroll AKA Baby Beef spectrum of events on we’re not just relying closing party, are total legends so it’s gonna be a on one particular crowd, but obviously we’re fitting end to this years DEAF!

//connected magazine //www.connected.ie International Interview - Isis Words - Eamonn Seoige

Integrity is hugely important to us – n recent times, experimental/progressive clicked straight away. We were developing as a music, and integrity has always been hugely music, call it what you will, has exploded band, showcasing our varying influences from important. We like to be in the driving seat and in a variety of different directions. avant-garde to progressive and building our own it’s no compromise. What’s the point otherwise? While the post-rock instrumental dynamic. When we look back now, we’re very The whole celebrity bullshit holds zero interest what’s the point otherwise? Celebrity sound-scapes of Mogwai, Godspeed proud of that record. These days we’re based on for us! A couple of major labels have made and Explosions In The Sky have thrilled the west coast but those early years in Boston approaches but the deals offered were a Ithe indie kids, a more uncompromising sound, are where the whole thing came together.” complete no-no. We have no management, we bullshit holds zero interest for us... based on similar values and incorporating In the world of Isis the only true measure make the whole thing happen ourselves and elements of metal was brewing in the US. of success appears to be the ability to evolve that’s a great feeling, it’s our little baby! At the forefront of this ‘thinking man’s metal’ and expand the band’s musical frontiers. “Sure, from time to time it does wear on us, are LA based Isis, a group of experimentalists, “On the ‘In The Absence Of Truth’ but we wouldn’t have it any other way. The new determined to avoid genre clichés and create we took a side-step and, in some ways, it’s record ‘Wavering Radiant’ is going really well their own unique, inspiring sound. a kinda weird record. It was a major learning and there’s been times recently when it was Gone are the meandering solos and the experience and the beginning of a new period like, ‘this is more than we can fuckin’ handle!’ overblown grand-standing. It’s metal Jim but for the band. Personally, I took my drumming to Still, we’ve made it work and we’re so long not as we know it… a whole new level, we incorporated electronics, doing it ourselves that it would be seriously hard Inspired by such ground-breakers as the vocal techniques and explored more complex to hand it over. We have roles! is Melvins and Neurosis, Isis have continuously song structuring. We stepped outside our normal the artwork guy, Mike Gallagher deals with the challenged their own creativity and shown a routine and shook things up. No sooner had we booking agent on tours and we all do our slice of willingness to explore. the record finished than we couldn’t wait to get press stuff... It’s very diplomatic, a group effort.” Connected took some time with drum started on the next one! We knew our future With a string of categories and sub-genres virtuoso and picked his brain work was going to benefit from the experience. trailing after their name, how do Isis cope on the success of an underground band, We honed our sound, it was a totally fresh vibe. with the media pre-occupation with pigeon- unaffected by the industry. “The current ‘Wavering Radiant’ album holing their music? “We got together back in ’97 and the first has that freshness, a new level for the band. “The whole categorisation of heavy music record ‘Celestial’ was a release, five guys I think when we feel we’ve nothing new to is always a hot topic. Metal, as a term, has expressing themselves and making music offer, we’ll move on. It’s the whole ‘a rolling no meaning because it’s just a catch-all for that they felt was something a little different. stone gathers no moss’ thing. If we stagnate everything from AOR to Thrash to Progressive. The ‘Oceanic’ album in ’02 really was the one we’re fucked, simple as... That’s what keeps No doubt, our band is extremely hard to classify, that took this band forward. It was a radical us motivated. What are we gonna do next?” people call us a shit-load of things, some make step for us in terms of musicianship and While some of their peers and friends, sense and some don’t. Metal, heavy music, song writing. However, the progression was a namely Tool, have gone on to major stardom, whatever, I guess we could be called worse! The natural one. When we got together in Boston, Aaron and Co. are content with their lot. For Isis, most important thing is that fans appreciate the having come from here and there, it just so the drive to maintain complete artistic control is music – people cramming into venues, to see happened that four of us ended up working in itself a measure of accomplishment. our band, it really doesn’t get any better!” together. Our singer/guitarist, Aaron Turner “We tend to do things on our own terms. You can catch Isis in the Button Factory was running a label and, as a group, it all just We’re only interested in the writing and playing on October 23.

10//connected magazine 11//www.connected.ie Homegrown - Three To Watch Colin Perkins - Jade O’Callaghan Phunklore - Niamh Doolan Junior85 - Dave Quinn Full interviews online

Genre mashing chung fellas, techno takeovers and ambient assaults – it’s a bout in the ring with Three To Watch

Colin Perkins – soundcloud.com/colin-perkins Phunklore – myspace.com/phunklore Junior85 – myspace.com/ Aged just 19, this particular DJ is making the Remember when you used to spend your roadsignsofourage kind of name for himself that his peers tend to nights dancing non-stop for six hours, instead There is no doubt that musicians these days imagine as a distant concept. Playing clubs for of standing about in a pair of ludicrously work extremely hard for any, however slight, two years now, we caught up with him recently skinny jeans, desperately posturing, pouting progress in the industry. One man who defines and, aside from wondering how he got into his and feeling envious of some other skinned this concept is Tony Higgins, also known own gigs, heard about his current goings-on. jeaned twunt’s hair-cut, while the circulation as Junior85. In the last 12 months Tony’s Playing the must have been to the lower half of your body ceases!? workload has been heavier than Santa’s a blast – a career highlight? Well, if you want the hedonism of techno sack at Christmas, and with his ambient It would definitely be up there, I was playing back, it seems that if one man can do it, electronic sound getting some much deserved the Neutronyx stage; for anyone that hasn’t Richie McCann, er, can!! Phunklore (McCann) recognition the work is beginning to pay off. been it’s the all night stage in the woods. There has been gaining some serious kudos for Between February and April Tony released five was just a great buzz there on the Sunday delicious techno mash-ups that will get any EPs and still finds time to regularly play drums night and generally a great atmosphere for the cocky electro-kid sweating. Connected caught for indie-pop outfit So Cow, and occasionally whole weekend, I won’t forget it in a hurry. up with Phunklore to get the nitty gritty on collaborate with Local Living Guy, Vince Mack What’s next on your agenda? quirkily-named-tracks, why Dublin clubs Mahon and Viking Moses to name but a few. I’m playing in the national semi-final of the should take a leaf out of Belgium’s book (taxis Tony recently got back from the States and Corona MTV World DJ Competition in Belfast and breakfast, please!), online radio, why an gave Connected an insight into the goings on on October 9 which will be interesting. The ‘f’ is better than a ‘ph’ and of course, the in the mind of Junior85. following weeks I’ll be playing Blasphemy techno-takeover!! Your sound can be compared to at Spy, and Muzik at The Button Factory on You’ve been very busy lately, what have anything from Aphex Twin and Unkle to consecutive nights, and will have a date you been working on? Massive Attack and even Radiohead. confirmed for techno night Kontact in Belfast Lately I’m in the studio all the time, working Are you aiming for a specific genre or is soon. I also plan to work more on my own on tracks for AudioDonor Records. I also uniqueness the key? productions in the coming months. You started a radio show about four weeks ago, I’m a big fan of the above bands, and also the can check my Facebook for all dates and it’s AudioDonor radio, it’s online for two likes of Boards Of Canada and The Books, so I Soundcloud for mixes! hours every Saturday from 6-8pm. And am probably aiming for a sort of ambient sound. Your initial interest was in drums and then there’s an AudioDonor night monthly, I love a lot of other genres of music too and love percussion but you lost interest in bands hopefully I’ll have a regular slot and that’s the idea of the variety of releases that someone some years ago and got into electronic on in Think Tank. like Jim O’Rourke does and making loads of EPs music, how come? Best moment in Phunklore history? makes it easier to do different styles. I think that my fondness for percussive The first gig in Brussels. We had such a big Will you ever get tired of playing gigs in sounds dragged towards house music, Irish crowd over and it’s great to get that kind Galway? (I love that city!) for me it was just a natural progression. I of support. I did a five hour set, which is very Not at the moment I wouldn’t say, there’s a lot of really don’t know why I was grabbed by it at tiring when you can’t go to the loo! I got into interesting things going on. Galway’s a city full that age, the whole electro clash trend made the fourth hour of heavy techno and I just of musicians, and while for a bit there wasn’t so it easier to cross over I guess. I became thought ‘nah, we’ll play some old stuff now’ much original music going on, there is now. fascinated with 2 Many DJs’ old mix CDs that and I just played old school rave and it was Bigger picture time. What’s on the horizon? mashed up tracks from every genre, I tried amazing! I’ll never forget it! I’m not sure there’s ever a bigger picture; as Clockwise from top: DJ Colin Perkins, to recreate that style – after that it was Future of Phunklore? Plug! Plug! Plug! long as I can keep tipping away at EPs I’m Phunklore, and Tony Higgins aka Junior85 all about putting ideas down and practice, There’ll be two new tracks out in the next pretty happy... practice, practice... couple of months! Full interviews available at connected.ie

12//connected magazine 13//www.connected.ie Industry Interview Feature What's Goin' On? Words - Steve McMullin what's goin on?

fter taking September off due to a swine flu outbreak laugh at people less fortunate than I. The good thing about having a in Connected Towers, from which everyone but Turner healthy sense of Schadenfreude in Mayo is that pretty much everyone recovered (well, he was always a swine, so who could is less well off than I am. Bring me my Gloat-A-Tron! (What, it’s been tell?) – what did we miss? Oh, nothing except the fact repossessed by the government to help them laugh harder as they shit that swine flu’s a media-created scare story designed on us s’more? Isn’t NAMA enough?) to fuck with the heads of Irish people and make them Speaking of NAMA, I’ve been trying to figure out what it REALLY Amore reliant on the government that screwed them in the run up to stands for – don’t forget this country has no assets thanks to Captain a referendum that shouldn’t be... I see... (As a side note, why did we Biffo and his Fantastic Fucks. Nifty Awards for Millionaire Arseholes? never take so much notice of the regular ol’ flu, which has been killing National Association for Marauding Avarice? Nimbly Availing of My thousands every year forever, but when swine flu kills a couple of old Assets? Neatly Appropriating Money from All? Ne’erdowells Assailing people and babies it’s the new ebola? Flu-flu should get a better agent.) My Account? National Assets My Arse? Nobody Asked Me Anyway? I Still, it’s been a bit better in the world of music, with some of the most could go on. Post ideas of your own on my Facebook page. (Yes, I have a talentless arseholes in the history of man- or womankind doing their Facebook page – no sniggering in the back! I’m only on it so I can access utmost to make sure I am entertained. I mean to say, Kanye West having the dirty, dirty pictures on Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh’s page... Mmm... Jelly...) a go at young Taylor Swift for being shite was funny enough – if a bit pot/ Eh, where was I? Music, that’s right... It recently came to my attention kettle/wanker – but then when he started apologising to everyone and that The Beatles’ back catalogue has been rereleased... Again! This time his dead mother for it, well... That’s when I started to take interest. But it in shiny, crappy digipacks and through Rock Band, the game that will be rob stringer wasn’t until Barry O’Bama weighed in on it that I realised that this was remembered as having destroyed music once and for all. a Solid Gold Class A Non-Story. So, the leader of the free world knows a It’s hard to deny that The Fab Four released some great tunes, but Rob Stringer was very well known, much loved and respected, and worked jackass when he sees one? I could be mean and say it takes one to know it’s impossible to deny that there was a lot of shit. It’s even impossibler one, but I don’t want to get myself extraordinarily rendered, tortured and to deny that most of said shit originated with one of the two surviving very hard to make a huge impact on many events and festivals a lot of us then sold to the Wall Street brain rapists to wipe a chunk off US debt. Beatles and Yoko Ono. The very same people who stand to profit from The fucker’ll probably offer West a bailout of some sort, after all, the latest bid to flog this long-rotting horse carcass, beswarmed by will never forget. Rob was a volunteer with the Irish charity Camara, and isn’t that what he does to everyone he publicly disapproves of? flies and circling carrion birds as it is, that they’ve been flogging red was working in Africa when he was found. He was 26. We wish to send his “Ooh, put those claws away Steve, what did BO ever do to you?” raw and ragged over the course of the last few decades. I invented a Put it down to my new life situation, floundering in the sex-drug- word for such people: Shitgimps. family and friends our utmost condolences. RIP Rob Stringer. rock’n’roll-deprived Wild Wesht with nothing to do but weep, drink and I think it has a nice ring to it.

14//connected magazine 15//www.connected.ie Connected’s Demo Of The Month Connected Online - Sponsored by Phantom FM Steve McMullin Sound bites connected online*

Describing their sound as ‘bitching alternative indie’, Tallaght- fornia’s The Psyches are the latest new crew to burst onto our radar here at Connected. Formed in February of this year, the lads – Jamie (drums), Mick (vocals/guitar), Shay (bass), and Ross (lead guitar) – soon graced the stage of Think Tank, started gigging regularly around town and went on to land a weekly residency in There are very few things to be said in defence of Ireland - c’mon, it is a vagina?) this month includes Shane Fitz’s interviews with the noisy Captain America’s. Their debut EP ‘Stories That Don’t Make Sense’ wet, miserable shithole run by the most corrupt fuckers walking the planet and marvellous Times New Viking (he managed to get past the feckin’ was recorded with local hero Turlo a matter of weeks ago and is – but one thing you cannot take away from the place is that we, The Irish, voicemail, hurrah!), and King Khan and the Shrines, while Fiona D a proper slice of turbo minty-fresh deadliness – expect that to be are a generally sound lot. We like the craic, we like the ceol and we really performs a check-up on one of the year’s most flavoursome, HEALTH, launched sometime next month. Check them out at: like getting shitfaced while enjoying either or both. It is for this very reason Steve Battle wedges himself in between the ample bosom of movers www.myspace.com/thepsychesireland that Connected remains Connected, and why Connected.ie continues to and shakers at the RDS Music Show and tells us how it feels, jigglin’ Connected have teamed up with Temple Lane Recording pump out the goods like nobody’s business while remaining every bit as .ie with the big ‘uns, and Adam White previews this year’s HWCH. Studios to offer every Demo Of The Month winner the mightily as whooshing through a roundabout without indicating or voting the same There are also some of the Devine Sara’s snaps, taken while out helpful prize of a day's recording time – so get sending those way your long dead great-grandaddy did in the aftermath of the Civil War. and about at some of Dublin’s recent top gigs, as well as reviews of demos in and best of luck... Er... What? said gigs – including the likes of Joan as Policewoman, Jamie T and "Temple Lane Studios are Ireland's premiere recording studio Yeah, I was starting to wonder about that meself. But whatever the them Times New Viking-y types, plus much, much more... group. We have three studios based in Dublin City centre as well as above gibberish may be leading up to, you can be sure it has no effect As ever, there’s not enough space in this whole mag to fill you in on the award winning residential studio Grouse Lodge in Westmeath. whatsoever on the bevvy of beautiful bits ‘n’ bobs gracing the the whole thing – if there was we wouldn’t bother with the fucking Clients include: Muse, Kila, David Gray, and many more. Connected website this month. As our dear Web Ed. Amanda was so site, would we? Jeezissss, there’s no pleasing yiz. The other thing Black robots Check out templelanestudios.com." quick to point out, the, ahem, ginch (is that not a crude euphemism for about Irish people? Always feckin’ whingin’ about something. connected sound bites* connected sound bites* The Dublin Rocks! Festival. The Spikes & Dub Tickets are free and can be got at expression. Saturdays. With a guaranteed ‘no cheese’ policy, The youth of today... So you think you can DJ? Country play the Village Nov 13, with The DC Heats and a cold one heineken.ie. Meanwhile Digitalism, and expect early gigs followed by a mash up of Balding five-year olds aren’t a common sight Ireland’s ambassador to the world of all things Live UV ‘art-off’s are promised Experiment and Alphastates on Nov 14. Tickets Marina And The Diamonds, are scheduled to local DJs playing , reggae, – but neither are line ups of this quality... Both scratch, DJ Tu-Ki, is releasing a mix CD with a this month and next as part of € € appear in Carlow as part , hip-hop and techno. Get are 15 per night or 25 the set. the Heineken Expression tour Roni Size and Scratch Perverts launch party in the Button Factory of another free gig throw by of Dublin, Cork, and Galway. the full details at purtyloft.com. (pictured) are billed for the on October 2. Entitled ‘Pre: those nice peeps at Heineken Midweek messin’ Three gigs (Tripod – Oct 22, fifth B-day celebrations Seed’, trusted sources Launched with a bang last month, Dan Green Spheres. Get thineself Karma – Oct 27, The Classic And finally... of local breaks fiends attest to much love and craft Oxjam is back... Kicking off Mac’s new Thursday night 303, in The – Nov 13) will see Inflagranti, to heinekenmusic.ie for a slice Breakology. Cutting the cake invested – so expect to be Underground in Kennedy’s, looks set of the action... in Whelan’s on Oct 1 with with some considerable re-assessing your own skills in The Juan McClean, Shit to bring some much needed craic to Neosupervital, Bi Polar Empire style, Stu and the crew will a very grim light indeed. Robot, Donal Dineen, Dance Dublin’s mid week clubbing schedule. Plug, plug, plug and Lauren Guillery, there are over 300 acts be hosting their merry shindig Pig (pictured) and many more provide the The line up for this October: Bigger Booking agents and promoters Plug playing North and South until the closing party in the Twisted Pepper on October 9 – with tunes while local and international artists go Two’ll do... Than Jesus Oct 1, James Talk Oct 8, Unitz Oct Artists have taken over the running of The in The Village on Halloween night. Check out tickets on sale for a very reasonable 20 quid How long is a piece of string? How many gigs do head to head in the aforementioned art-off 15, Zombie Disco Squad (pictured) Oct 29. Purty Loft in Dun Laoghaire, from Thursdays to myspace.com/oxjamireland for more info. from Bodytonic’s website... you need to claim a festival? Well, two, if you’re – creating pieces before your very eyes...

16//connected magazine 17//www.connected.ie Homegrown Interview - Matador Words - Cliona Good

ou’ve heard of Bigger Than guess... Studio life is a lot less stressful. Jesus... Well ladies and What’s your current favourite piece of gents, I give you our very own hardware? homegrown Techno Saviour. Access Virus Ti. My engine room. Pretty He’s a man of many guises much produces any sound imaginable. Loads – Matador, Gav from Sourcecode, of options, and parameters. And it sounds Yor Gavin Lynch to his mammy but, whatever you fuckin’ savage!! choose to call him, this apparition is guiding us Where do you start with a new track? through the wilderness of the bland, banal and I usually start with a kick and a synth. I mediocre... Safely delivering us to the promised use pretty much all analog synths, so I’m land of fuckin’ whopper techno! guaranteed something rich with depth, and You’ve seen him rinsing it out at Life, cool possibilities for developing the sound. I Electric Picnic, Lovebox and the now infamous don’t start arranging until I’ve got a solid hook. Mixed Salad sessions at McGruders, each time Describe the feeling you get when you’ve delivering a hi-octane blend of filthy techno, finished a track. trash and grime. Now, only in his mid 20s, I feel like I can breathe. I take deep deserving Matador has accumulated an ample following, breaths. I usually stay out of the studio including famous fans like Dave Clarke, Andy then for a few days. Then the guilt starts to Weatherall and Richie Hawtin. creep in for sitting about, and I get in and With their amazing ability to fuse musical get cracking on the next. It’s a good feeling genres and break down barriers, Sourcecode for those two/three days though... Always (Gav and Russell Cooley) joined forces in 2007 remembering YOU’RE ONLY AS GOOD AS with Acii Disco pioneer Al Keegan to establish YOUR LAST TUNE. That keeps me on my toes! the Aciitone Label. This opened the door for Where is your favourite place to play? Matador to drive home his sound to a willing You always hear the big heads say that the and wanting audience. Lashing it out on the Irish crowd are crazy compared to anywhere local and international scene, he describes else. Well, it’s true from my experience. I’ve his sound as twisted, dark and moody. If the played some cool gigs; none come close to schweet sounds of trains and jackhammers are some of the nights and festivals I’ve played at yer buzz, then a Matador live show is not to be home here in Ireland! missed! Bless me Father, for I have sinned... Sourcecode hooked up with Al Keegan to Your tracks have been played by Tom create the Aciitone Label. Had you always Pooks at Space in Ibiza, and Richie Hawtin. planned to set up your own label? Has there been a point when you thought It was something I’ve always wanted to do, Production is your strongest to yourself: ‘This is it, I’m going places’? from when I started buying records, but They were pretty surreal moments, watching when we did set the label up in 2007 it was those videos for the first time. Tom booked us for intended purely to get our own productions asset for landing first gigs... a Sourcecode gig a few months back. He’s been out there – a platform. We now have some supporting us for a while now. He’s one of the amazing artists on our roster, with a great good guys. Hawtin’s a big influence, so that one back catalogue and some huge releases was extra special – to get his support. It’s almost planned for the coming 12 months. like getting a stamp of approval I guess. Words of advice for DJs getting started. How You’re a classically trained pianist, do you make the transition from playing in producer, DJ... The list goes on. Is there your bedroom to playing in a club? anything you have yet to master? Production seems to be the strongest asset Loads to master yet!!! I started out DJing, so the when approaching promoters these days. So structure of records and the sounds that were my advice would be to concentrate on your commonly used, I was aware of. I played piano production... That’s what will really open doors matador when I was younger, and went back to study in for you. Use your productions in your promo mix, Walton’s when I moved to Dublin. Then sound or even do what we did, shoot a promo DVD... engineering and music tech in TBMC, with Les That’s what got us our first Sourcecode gig. Stapleton – who played a major role for me in all What’s next? of this. From there I worked in their residential I’ve just finished my new EP for Perc studios, Grouse Lodge, where I picked up some Trax; remixes for our own label Aciitone. priceless learning, and watched the processes of I’ve releases and remixes coming out on some of the best producers and engineers in the label Flash, and Bigger Than Jesus’s world. Each stage was so important for me. new label Pure Genius. Got some great What are your goals? Sourcecode stuff coming out on Aciitone this Main goal is to make this work fulltime, I year that’s bound to turn a few heads!

18//connected magazine 19//www.connected.ie International Interview: Pan-Pot Words: Dave Enticknap

Strangest venue? An old chicken farm – it still smelled of poo...

an-Pot are: “Lord Thomas techno orientated. We probably can’t make a Benedix and Sir Tassilo difference to other countries so far, as we just Ippenberger... DJs from the played that one gig in Ireland till now. Maybe dark side of the moon with ask us after the Pygmalion gig. the power of the Jedi” – or a What is the strangest venue you’ve ever minimal duo hailing from Berlin, played in? Pwho have been aggravating dance floors An old chicken farm. It still smelled like since 2005 with their own brand of dark and chicken shit, the floor was probably still atmospheric techno. Burbling with menacing chicken poo. And the ten people who were bass and awash with static and noise there were dancing like chickens. their productions have a more threatening Irish licensing laws mean that we have edge than your typical MNML handbag the earliest closing times of any country in dropper. That’s not to say they can’t throw Europe. Coming from Berlin where there a woodblock in the works when it comes to is no closing time have you personally felt hustling a room into submission, something a difference in the clubbing experience they’ve learned a thing or two about through because of these laws? their hectic performance schedule. When Sure, in Berlin people start going out at 1am not gigging their lives away they’re busy and there’s no limit in time. You can spend a racking up an impressive catalogue on whole weekend on tour without going home. Berlin’s Mobilee Records. In the short time Sounds very extreme, but there are people they’ve spent on the scene, they’ve released who like that. Personally we like to have some an impressive double armful of round shiny good nice and extreme rave hours, but then things and found the time to squeeze out their there’s a certain point of time to go home. debut album ‘Pan-O-Rama’ as well. Minimal techno and dubstep have seen On October 25 they play Dublin’s a lot of crossovers with artists from both Pygmalion, located within Powerscourt genres remixing and playing each others Townhouse. The latest addition to the Dublin work. Have you ever entertained the club scene with a buzz that claims to be thought yourself? ‘extremely fresh’. ‘The Pyg’ has undergone Not yet, but thanks for making us think some drastic changes of late with decking about it. being erected and rejected like it was never Outside of electronic music what do you in style and bars being knocked in, up and find yourselves listening to? out in preparation for dance floor subjugation ZZ Top – ‘Lowrider’, this morning. at the hands of ze Germans. From what I can Using three artists (living or dead) tell it’s a constantly shifting, brilliantly ethereal describe your dream collaboration. fantasy creature in a state of majestic flux Collabs 3000 producing, Barbara Tucker and redesign, like an unfathomable river of singing and Pavarotti playing the air guitar. melting precious gemstones (is that enough? Got any good jokes? Do I get my free passes yet!?!?!?). Stehen zwei Kühe auf der Wiese, sagt die Here’s what Pan-Pot had to say on clubs, eine “Muuu”. Sagt die andere “Krass, wollt ich Ireland and tings... auch gerade sagen.” (Sorry we’re Germans, What were your first impressions of each and our jokes are german too.) other when you met? (Since I don’t speak German I had to enlist Natural born beauty! an online translator to help decipher this PAN POT You played in Ireland last year at Techfest. rib tickling tale.) How do you feel about playing in Ireland? Two cows are in a meadow, one says “mooo”. Do the crowds differ from those in other The another says: “That’s crass.” countries? Who says Germans can’t crack a joke eh? Tassilo Ippenberger and Thomas Last time we played at the Techfest, the Check out myspace.com/panpot and Benedix – AKA Pan-Pot crowd seemed to be very enthusiastic and pygmalion.ie

20//connected magazine 21//www.connected.ie Homegrown Interview: Candy Collective’s Aidan Kelly Words: Rob Byrne

ith the fundamentally simple idea of celebrating what they see as inspiring and full of beauty, Candy Collective and SweetTalk have striven to present (as organically as possible) the best speakers and practitioners – and across as many different formats as they could muster; in the PDF magazine they publish periodically, through their website (full of features and news) and onstage through talks. WWorldwide and for some time now, faster access to the internet, and the headstrong will of self publishing, has enabled the best work of our generation to flourish – and the availability of information on it is like no other time. Having said that, Candy Collective acknowledge that craft is still paramount in people’s work; not lost are the hand made adventures, the toil of carving words and images like commandments into stone, the extraordinary skill and method; work that is hard and indicative of the times but is worth the effort. “We shudder when we see the work of Rinzen, Jon Burgerman, Stefan Sagmeister, Oliver Jeffers, Build, Fallon, and locals like Conor and David, Lovely, Alan Clarke, Chris Judge, Brown Bag, Richard Gilligan, and so many others we could list.” The knock-on effect is that creativity in Ireland has seen its own meteoric rise and is now being recognized for its own merits. Candy Collective’s mission is, in some small way, to reflect this change and compare it to what is happening elsewhere. “We wanted to provide a platform for both international and local creatives, but do it with flair and some vision. We are always looking for beauty, class and solid hard work, we feel it’s our duty and we’d appreciate your help.” From here, we’ll hand the floor over to Aidan Kelly who has all the info about the forthcoming SweetTalk 37 (with special guests Vaughan Oliver, David Rodigan and David O’Reilly). “I would stare at the sleeves of the Cocteau Twins album covers like maps when lost, where were these places and atmospheres, their music filling my head with layers of escapism. Like some I discovered the Pixies and didn’t entirely get it, yet loved the experience, saw this artwork of Vaughan Oliver’s and wondered if he really existed – and he did, he really did. His work for 4AD under the moniker of v23 is there for everyone to see, unrelenting vision, and sometimes blinkered, but seemingly horses run faster when they have blinkers on. The works are like documents from crusade times or fairytales that went wrong mid reading. He hasn’t been to Ireland for 15 years and we are lucky to have him speak about his work and recent re imaginings for the Pixies. “He has esteemed company in the form of David Rodigan who, if you do a quick search on YouTube, you will find has destroyed sound systems all over the world with his own brand of roots and dub reggae. On this occasion we’re asking him to talk to us about his long standing friendships with the greats of the Caribbean sound, alongside music that has inspired him throughout his wide career – never mind that he has interviewed Bob Marley more than once, and will surely have priceless stories to tell. “Representing Ireland is David O’Reilly. Now residing in Berlin, he has gained an international reputation for his style of animation and film making, was nominated for and won the Golden Bear award in Berlin this year and has just completed a video for from their new album, a track called ‘I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight’. “No doubt David will have some new work to show us and maybe some secrets to his workings and process. We think that’s some night to remember.”

SweetTalk 37 is a part of this years DEAF (and is also in association with the good people at ChoiceCuts) on Thursday Oct 22 in the Sugarclub at 7pm. Tickets available from www.tickets.ie and on the door. More details at: candycollective.com / deafireland.com / choicecutsonline.com

22//connected magazine 23//www.connected.ie Tool, Toys and Techniques VIRTU Studio’s Barry Dempsey TOYS TOOLS & TECHNIQUES A step by step, easy to follow guide on the ‘black science’ of compression

or this month’s issue I’ve decided passed through the compressor and reaches a i.e. 2:1 – only half the level will pass the to leave the product reviews alone certain threshold (level) the compression kicks Threshold. 4:1 – only a quarter of the level and run through some tutorials in and pushes down (reduces its dynamic) on will pass the threshold. to help in the quest for solid the problem spike, set by the attack/ratio, and Attack: How soon (in milliseconds) the arrangements, quirky samples and, then releases to allow the rest of the waveform compression kicks in when the sample hits ultimately, tight mixes. Also, as to pass untouched. See for yourself! I’ve also the Threshold level. FI’ve recently been appointed an official Ableton included some initial settings for various sound Release: How soon (in milliseconds) the Live demonstrator, we shall be using Ableton sources to get you started. I hope you enjoy compression ‘lets go’ when the sample is Live as the sequencing program on which these working through this tutorials and look forward at threshold. tutorials will be based. You will find a step-by- to your results. Gain: Because the sample is now reduced in step, and easy to follow, guide on compression, Compression: Is a dynamics’ tool so it deals loudness as the waveform is ‘squashed’ the arranging in Live and also using Simpler in Live. specifically with levels of loudness in audio. In Gain make-up can be used to boost the newly Compression has always been a sort order to properly use compression it is important levelled-out sample. of ‘black science’ to many but a basic to first understand the concept. When certain The trouble-some peak has been attenuated!! understanding on the principal of compression sounds peak in a track it does so because of Try these settings for compression: can put that theory at bay. When we’re the initial peak of the waveform; i.e. the kick is Kick: Moderate attack / Moderate release dealing with digital or analogue audio, we are too prominent. Imagine a kick level on a channel Ratio: 4:1. Start reducing the Threshold until presented with transients (waveforms) which on a mixing console going into the ’red’ and the you start seeing GR (gain reduction on the GR depict the audio information contained in a engineer pushing the fader down to compensate indicator on the compressor). musical sound wave. More often than not for the initial peak and then back up for the rest Snare: Fast/Moderate Attack / Moderate these transients can be quite prominent – for of the kick sample to pass through. Release / Ratio 2:1 example a kick sample – and because of this When you are dealing with samples playing for Bass: Fast Attack / Moderate Release the level will cause the channel to ‘go into milliseconds [1/1000 of a second] this can be Ratio 6:1 (Subby Bass) the red’ or distort. While we want to lose this hard to achieve. Compression can provide this Ratio 4:1 (Synth Bass) over-prominent spike we would like to keep dynamic movement automatically (Automatic Percussive Sounds: Fast Attack / Slow the body of the kick waveform, so we use a Gain Control) and does this successfully by Release / Ratio 5:1 processing tool known as a compressor. enabling certain control over the sample, which To experiment load a compressor onto a Bass A compressor will perform automatic gain passes through it. Here are the main parameters track. Set the compressor to a ratio of 6:1 control on the problem transients by being associated with compression: and set the Attack to Moderate (11 O’Clock initially set by certain controls including attack, Threshold: The level, in dB, at which the position) and the release to Fast (12 O’Clock release, ratio, threshold and output gain. (You sample is restricted to pass. position) Now start reducing the Threshold will find each of these explained in the tutorial Ratio: The rate of level reduction by which and watch the ‘pumping’ of the bassline! This below.) When the initial spike (transient) is the sample will be reduced at Threshold; is the compressor opening and closing!!

24//connected magazine 25//www.connected.ie DJ Charts • • • • • Great • • • • Pretty good • • • Worth a listen • • Shabby • Shite Girls • • • • • Hystereo Album

First off, the tall stories surrounding the background of Girls’ duo Hystereo - Cityspeak [Deadbots & Hystereo Remix] Chet ‘JR’ White and Christopher Owens are a thing of legend. Aside (Bang Gang) from growing up in a cult, millionaire patrons and dependence to Hystereo - Cityspeak [Arveene & Misk Remix] prescribed medicines, these lads are as regular as meat and two (Bang Gang) veg... However, when they harness the madness of their epic lives Vitalic - Terminateur Benelux (Citizen/Pias) into the music, the results are pretty astounding. The basic song The Faint - Mirror Error [Das Glow Remix] (BNR) structures are often unremarkable but the layers of feedback, lush Felix The Housecat - Elvi$ (Nettwerk) vocals and overall enthusiasm to try a bit of everything, create Tiga - Shoes [DJedjotronic Remix] (Pias) such an engaging listen. The lack of a logical flow will irk many Siriusmo - Gummiband (Grand Petrol Recordings) listeners but, let’s face it, the San Francisco underground don’t Hystereo - Hysterica (Bang Gang) do linear! ‘Album’ is already assured of cult classic status, a The Lowbrows - Dream In The Desert [Hystereo dysfunctional ‘Pet Sounds’ for the naughties... This record is a trip, Revision] (Bang Gang) a warm, pleasant and gloriously meandering journey that cross- Deadbots - 36 Days [Hystereo Rebrand] (OMG) references everything from rock ‘n’ roll to psychedelic wonderland. Eamonn Seoige

Mo-T • • • • Howl • • • • Health • • • • The Japanese Popstars Mark Allton Eamonn Doyle The Twixtape Misbehavin Get Colour

Take a dollop of Morrissey’s obtuse world view, Howl seemed to arrive fully formed a year or so While Health’s debut record was hailed by The Japanese Popstars - B.C.T.T. (Gung-Ho! Pepe Bradock - Path Of Most Resistance Drexciya - The Journey Home (Warp) sling in a portion of Burroughs’s cut n paste ago, and have since leap-frogged many of their anorak types as a digital ‘noise-rock’ master- Recordings) (Atavisme) Naphta - Democracy.Now (D1 Recordings) attitude, fold in a hefty dose of Milligan’s sense peers thanks to scene-stealing support slots and piece, it’s frenetic, under-developed and slightly Benny Benassi - Electro Sixteen [The Coati Mundi - No More Blues (Rong Music) Underground Resistance - Journey Of The of the absurd, and you might be somewhere in charismatic singer Sarah ‘Red’ McQuillan. These disjointed tracks hinted at a band capable of Japanese Popstars Mix] (D:Vision) Ray Mang - Sinthesis (Mangled) Dragons (UR) the region of how singer/rapper Mo-T’s mind tunes are not the usual garage blues fare, and, much better. ‘Get Color’ is just that, the work Vitalic - Flashmob (PIAS) Plastic Mode - Digitally (Disco Magic) Visitor - Model Two (D1 Recordings) works. Couple this with Paul, producer and like kindred spirits New Secret Weapon, look to of a more confident, mature group, now better Loco & Jam - Medusa (Rekluse) Black Disco - Chains [Nitedog Edit] (Black Underground Resistance - Codebreaker (UR) genre hopping wunderkind, and you’ve got a broader horizons via shifting time signatures, equipped to expand the sonic exploration of Felix Da Housecat - Elvis (Netwerk) Disco) The Martian - Sex In Zero Gravity (Red Planet) veritable smorgasbord of indie, techno, hip hop, meaty basslines and brooding grooves. It’s not previous works. Again opting for self-production, Vitalic - Second Lives (PIAS) The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Mark Broom - The Alien Spoke (Pure Plastic) , jungle, grungy weirdness and delight. often a band stops us in our tracks and refuses it’s as gloriously noisy as ever, yet accomplished, Psycatron - Directions (Tronic) [Leo Zero Edit] (White Label) R.Rash - Smoking Jakkit (Trelik) This is their pre album taster ‘The Twixtape’, 18 to be ignored. I’ll stop short of saying Howl are with a more conventional structure combining Steve Angello - Teasing Mr Charlie (Dance Still Going - Spaghetti Circus (DFA) Kenny Larkin - Loop 2 (R&S) tracks for free download. Get yourself over to such a band because, for now, all we should be industrial strength looped beats, rhythmic 2 Dance) Ruf Dug - Dirty [Unabombers Mix] (Popular Time Undefined - All For You (Strictly Rhythm) http://thetwixtape.blogspot.com/, for a bizarre concentrating on is being with them and being electronic fuzz, scorching riffs and the dreamy, & Boys Noize - Waves [The Peoples Front Special Ops) but most satisfying ride. Fenster thankful for that alone. Enigmatic. Adam White whispering vocals of Duzsik. Eamonn Seoige Japanese Popstars Edit] (CDR) Dam Funk - Galactic Fun (Stones Throw)

Mew • • • • CODES • • • • David Turpin • • Matador dis-Turbed Russell Parker No More Stories... Trees Dream In Algebra Haunted

Danish arty types Mew love their silly names. CODES’ heavily anticipated debut album With the pop side of electronic music controlled Stephan Bodzin - Mustang (Systematic) Kissy Sell Out - The Kiss [ remix] Tele Music - Mystery Rock [Vlad Naywood We’ve had ‘Frengers’, ‘And The Glass Handed has finally reached our ears, and to already by the likes of LeRoux, it’s hard to think of similar Billy Johnston - Capo [Gennaro Mastrantonio (Marrakesh Records) edit] (DJ History UK) Kites’ and now this fifth LP, which I haven’t welcoming acclaim. But is this just another music being anything more than a below par Mix] (Sleaze) Fuck U Very Much - Rage (Fuck U Very Much) Tele Music - Disco Free [Faze Action edit] sufficient word count to name. The song titles case of mediocrity shrouded in patriotism? Well, imitation. Now maybe that could be considered Hans Bouffmyhre - Don’t Tell My Wife [Alexi Stanton Warriors - Precinct [Plump DJ’s mix] (DJ History UK) do them no favours either, and you could even thankfully not. CODES define themselves as music snobbery, but in David Turpin’s case, Delano Mix] (Sleaze) (Punks Music) John Laird & Pickett - Oh Ma Ma Ma (OM) despise Mew if their dreamy, embracing prog alt/electronic, but I for one found it quite difficult regardless of why it is judged so, ‘Haunted’ is Matador - Bliss [Simone Tavazzi Mix] (Perc Trax) & Blaqstarr - Get Off [Jack Beats Tony Lionni - This Feeling (Freerange) rock wasn’t so subtly addictive. In tunes like the to define such a unique sound. The album definitely below par. Not wanting to sound too Adam Beyer - Something Goog To Die For Remix] (Mad Decent) Alex Niggemann - Black Rose (Supernature) slinky ‘Introducing Palace Players’ or ‘Beach’ a bounces from a melodic, soothing tone to an cruel, but at times the album is so insipid it could (Mad Eye) & Diplo - Hey! [Last Japan Marius - Disco Drummer [Pete Herbert mix] mix of sensitivity and muscle throbs persistently, anthemic, almost overwhelming character. How have been released by one of the members of Matador - Dirty Money (Sleaze) Remix] (Sneakerz Music) (Maxi Discs) so you’re not just listening to a bunch of smart does this work together? Surprisingly well in fact, N*Sync nobody knows the name of. The stand Denis A - Raver [Pig & Dan Mix] Audiojack - Radio (2020Vision) LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 [Padded Cell arses showing off. These songs gradually unfold – here’s a beautifully subtle yet powerful album out track is most definitely ‘Dorothy Gale’, but is Pan Pot - Diamond Heads (Mobilee) Mujava - Township Funk [Boy 8 Bit Remix] mix] (DFA) into mini epics with nary a single masturbatory that envelopes the listener from beginning to the only one worth mentioning as this record just Kid Handsome - Afrikaans [Matador Mix] (This Is Music) Soundstream - Rainmaker (Soundstream) stroke between them. Moreish. Adam White end. Truly stunning. Dave Quinn never takes off. A feeble attempt. Dave Quinn (Aciitone) Disco Of Doom - Warpig (Coco Machete) Elitechnique - Emotions (Clone)

26//connected magazine 27//www.connected.ie cork listings* belfast listings*

NATHAN FAKE, KEVIN BLAKE, TOBY KAAR HANDSOME FURS Electric Underground / Liquid Lounge – Friday 9 Spring and Airbrake – Monday 26

Originally scheduled for last May, this gig has been a long time Ah! Husband/wife duos. As a warm-blooded species we fuckin’ love coming but it’s finally here. Dust down that old stained ticket you ‘em. Whether it’s the binge fuelled train wreck of battery and abuse bought six months ago that now lies in tatters due to a serious lack that was Ike and Tina Turner, the tear jerking hunky dory country of roach material. Once heralded as techno’s poster boy, fresh-faced perfection of Johnny and June Cash, or the complete genius of Win Nathan Fake has established himself as one of the most respected and Régine Butler, we’ve had a serious soft spot for them over the and popular artists in the UK’s electronic scene. 2006’s debut album, years. And HF are no exception – comprised of happily married Dan ‘Drowning In A Sea Of Love’ is a whopper of a debut and deservedly Boeckner (Wolf Parade) and Alexei Perry. Cue the collective ‘awwws’ received serious critical attention. ‘Hard Islands’ is no different, the then shut up and listen. Once again Sub Pop have nailed it, HF marry love of shoe-gaze is still there and that does it for us... the best of electro and alternative and you want to go see them...

THURSDAY OCTOBER 1 MONDAY OCTOBER 12 Isis: Cyprus Avenue: €20 THURSDAY OCTOBER 1 MONDAY OCTOBER 12 Gaither Homecoming Tour: Odyssey Arena Talvin Singh: The Pavilion: €22 Tom McRae: Cyprus Avenue: €20 Bootleg: The Pavilion: €8 Jon Allen: Auntie Annies Insect Warfare, Sorcery: The Menagerie Warsaw Village Band: Custom House The Shed, Arkadians: Cyprus Avenue Open Mic Night: The Pavilion Damien Dempsey: Black Box: £13 Opeth: Spring & Airbrake Cutaways, Robotnik: Speakeasy The Barefoot Blues Band: The Pavilion FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 Stet Lab feat, Marian Murray: The Roundy Remindher, Andy Wilson and FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 TUESDAY OCTOBER 13 FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 Ger Wolfe: Crane Lane Theatre: €12 Polly Barrett: An Cruibin: €5 Baddies, Maybeshewill: Auntie Annie’s Peter Doherty: Mandela Hall Jamie T: Limelight Johnny Duhan: Sirius Arts Centre: €20 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14 Director: Cyprus Avenue Planet Fantastique: Kellys Cellars Wallis Bird: Auntie Annie’s Zion Train: The Pavilion:€12 Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: Pavilion: €15 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14 Amon Amarth: Spring And Airbrake: £20 Planet Fantastique: Kellys Cellars SATURDAY OCTOBER 3 Dalek + Action Beat + Charles SATURDAY OCTOBER 3 Spandau Ballet: Odyssey Arena € Hayward: Cyprus Avenue: €15 Telekinesis: Cyprus Avenue: 10 SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 Panama Kings, Findo Gask: Mandela Hall Frank Turner: Stiff Kitten Villagers: Half Moon Christian Prommer, Alex Santos: Yello The Beat Poets: Auntie Annie’s SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 THURSDAY OCTOBER 15 Imelda May: Savoy Buzzcocks: Mandela Hall Richmond Fontaine: Cyprus Avenue Fionn Regan: The Pavilion Jon Carter: Empire Music Hall Codes: Cyprus Avenue SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 Lee Valley String Band: The Pavilion: €17 Josh Ritter: The Pavilion: €24 Quebec Jazz Double Bill: Triskel Arts Centre Tinariwen: Mandela Hall The Stiff Kitten’s 4th Bday Party: Stiff Kitten Tommy Reilly: Spring & Airbrake Novella Hermosa: The Pavilion: €8/€6 The Coronas (all ages): Cyprus Avenue: €10 Planet Fantastique: Kellys Cellars Isis: Black Box Twin Atlantic: Auntie Annies MONDAY OCTOBER 5 Open Mic Night: The Pavilion FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 Sunday October 25 MONDAY OCTOBER 5 SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 Kelly Joe Phelps: Cyprus Avenue: €16 Chunky planet, E.P. Party: Crane Lane Live Music Every Sunday: Club Classic Deadmau5: Lush Fleetwood Mac: Lavery’s Bunker Y & T, Stormzone: Spring & Airbrake The Barefoot Blues Band: The Pavilion God Is An Astronaut, The Butterfly Brian Deady: The Pavilion Pink: Odyssey Arena Black Dyke Band: Ulster Hall (3pm) € Explosion: Cyprus Avenue: 15 Los Langeros: The Quad James Hunter: Mandela Hall € WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7 Burn Us Both: The Quad Stone Roses Experience: Cyprus Ave: 7 TUESDAY OCTOBER 6 Annie Mac, Zombie Disco Squad: Stiff Kitten MONDAY OCTOBER 26 € Christine Tobin: Jurys Hotel: €15/€12 Dãm-Funk: The Pavilion: 10 King Khan and the Shrines: Black Box Oppenheimer, Mojo Fury : City Hall Handsome Furs: Spring & Airbrake Jonathan Richman: Cyprus Avenue: €17 SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 The Rupture Dogs, Elspeth: Auntie Annie’s MONDAY OCTOBER 26 Flea Market Poets: The Pavilion: €10 John Blek The Rats (EP Launch): Cyprus Ave SUNDAY OCTOBER 18 TUESDAY OCTOBER 27 Jim Comet, Colm M: The Pavilion Open Mic Night: The Pavilion WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7 Jack Penate: Spring & Airbrake Kate Walsh: Auntie Annie’s The Barefoot Blues Band: The Pavilion FRIDAY OCTOBER 9 Editors, Wintersleep: St. George’s Market Josh Ritter: Empire Music Hall Cornershop, Spiegeltent: Queen’s Festival Nathan Fake, Kevin Blake, Toby Kaar, Electric SUNDAY OCTOBER 18 Duff McKagan’s Loaded: Spring & Airbrake Julie Feeney: Oh Yeah Music Centre The Wailers: Mandela Hall Underground: Liquid Lounge Live Music Every Sunday: Club Classic WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28 € The Brad Mehldau Trio: Cork Opera House Norman Blake: The Pavilion: €15/13 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28 Greg Wilson: The Pavilion: 7 THURSDAY OCTOBER 8 MONDAY OCTOBER 19 Brian Deady: The Pavilion: €15/€12 Wallis Bird: Cyprus Avenue The Handsome Furs: Cyprus Avenue: €16 Biffy Clyro, Manchester Orchestra, Pulled Yes Cadets, The Flaws: Speakeasy Richmond Fontaine: Empire Hall Upsilon Acrux (Los Angeles): The Quad Rumbleshack (Rockabilly Night): Pavilion Apart By Horses: St George’s Market Akon, Konvict Muzik Tour: Odyssey Arena THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 Jack Penate: Spring & Airbrake FRIDAY OCTOBER 9 Ger Wolfe: The Roundy: €10 Michael Bolton: Waterfront Hall SATURDAY OCTOBER 10 MONDAY OCTOBER 19 Planet Fantastique: Kellys Cellars Sabrina Piggott: Sirius Arts Centre: €12 Snooks Lee and Ghost Radio: De Barra’s TUESDAY OCTOBER 20 Stone Roses Experience: Spring & Airbrake Green Day: Odyssey Arena Jim Comet, Colm M: The Pavilion Open Mic Night: The Pavilion FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 Fionn Regan: Custom House Johnny McEvoy: Village Arts Centre The Barefoot Blues Band: The Pavilion Dr Hook: Cork Opera House Strait Laces Single Launch: Auntie Annie’s SATURDAY OCTOBER 10 Electric Underground: Liquid Lounge Brackles, Menagerie: Belfast Tom McRae: Spring And Airbrake: £15 SUNDAY OCTOBER 11 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21 Julie Feeney: The Pavilion: €14 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21 € Newton Faulkner, Lisa Mitchell: Mandela Hall Imelda May, The Sabrejets: Live Music Every Sunday: Club Classic Theo Parrish: The Pavilion: 10 Mandela Hall SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 € Pocket Billiards (Album Launch): Black Box The Stetz: Empire Music Hall The Tritone Jazz Trio: The Pavilion Delorentos: Cyprus Avenue: 13 SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 General Fiasco (Over 14s show): Ulster Hall Prins Thomas, Crazy P: Stiff Kitten Ludovico Einaudi: Ulster Hall Insect Warfare, I’ll Eat Your Ten Past Seven: The Quad Shine’s 14th Birthday: DJ Sneak, Paul € Face: Fred Zeppelins THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 Freddie White: Bob’s Bar: 20 Woolford, Alan Simms, Skream, Space SUNDAY OCTOBER 11 Obits (Ex Hot Snakes): Crane Lane Theatre Peter Green and Friends: The Old Oak: €11 Jim Comet, Colm M: The Pavilion THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 Dimension Controller, Jesse Rose, Timmy Black Stone Cherry: Spring & Airbrake Buzzcocks, The Vital Spark: Pavilion:€28 Brian Houston: Empire Music Hall Stewart: QUBSU

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RZA FELIX CARTEL (DIM MAK RECORDS) Button Factory – Thursday 8 Button Factory – Wednesday 14

RZA, now there’s a man. Who can we liken him to? A modern day DimMak Records’ visionary Steve Aoki is the man credited for Sammy Davis Junior? You’re damn right we can. That boy got bringing us acts such as Bloc Party, The Gossip, MSTRKRFT and style. He can sing, he can dance and he can act. If anyone can the Bloody Beetroots. Now Vancouver’s hotly demanded Felix tolerate a year or so of looking at Quentin Tarantino’s chiseled out Cartal has been added to Aoki’s prestigious list, probably thanks bum-chinned jaw spurting out hyper speed movie mumbo jumbo at to his remix of household parasite Ashlee Simpson’s top tune 1000 miles per hour and still come out with great soundtracks to ‘L.O.V.E.’. An obvious choice of tune to remix, of course. With boot, RZA can. How’s this for a CV; producer, author, rapper, actor, influences spanning from NOFX to The Beatles, this electro genius director, screenwriter, de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan amongst has a gem of a debut LP in ‘Skeleton’ (which you should legally many others. I suppose he could do with our support. €24.50 purchase right now!). Tickets are a mere snip at eight bucks...

TUESDAY OCTOBER 6 5th Bday : Twisted Pepper Black Stone Cherry: The Academy: €19 Wallis Bird: The Academy: €24 Alex Mathias Trio: International Bar: €5 Buzzcocks: The Academy: €28 The Zodiac Sessions: Bruxelles Jam Hot!: 4 Dame Lane Nick Cave: Vicar St: €38 Deadmau5: The Academy: €32 Pat Mac Blues Band: JJ Smyth’s Isis: The Button Factory: €18 Joan As Policewoman: CrawDaddy: €20 Stephens St. Club, Aiden Kelly: Bia Bar Network (industry night): Noo Bar Katherine Lynch: Vicar St: €28 WareHouse: 4 Dame Lane Josh Ritter: Whelan’s: €26 The Ruby Sessions: Doyle’s Jungle Fever: Melody Bar Themselves: Whelan’s: €15 Trashed! Indie/Electro: Andrew’s Lane U:Mack, Modeselektor: The Button Factory Massive Attack: Olympia Theatre: €49 FVF Records, Al Blayney: Pygmalion Bar TUESDAY OCTOBER 13 Hype, Derrick May: Pod: €16 Jelly Donut, Minimal Techno: The Village Dubfire (Deep Dish):Tripod : €23 Twin Atlantic: Academy 2: €13 GodDamn Audio: Ri-Ra Hekla Stalstrenga: Dublin Castle: €15/€10 Deadmau5: The Academy: €32 Beardyman: Twisted Pepper: €12 Tommy Reilly: Twisted Pepper: €12 What’s New Pussycat: Shebeen Chic The Ruby Sessions: Doyle’s Ed Banger X Eastpak, Busy P, Feadz, So Me, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21 Jam Hot!: 4 Dame Lane Slaid Cleaves: Whelan’s: €19 WAR: Spy: €7/€10 Square Pegs: JJ Smyth’s Breakbot: The Button Factory: €17 Edel Meade Quintet: Bewley’s Theatre: €10 Stephens St Social Club: Bia Bar NoDisko, Heartsrevolution: The Academy 2 Opeth: Olympia Theatre: €30 N-Type: Twisted Pepper: €10/€8 The Rifles: Academy 2: €13 Jungle Fever: Melody Bar WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7 Scribble: The Bernard Shaw Frank Turner: The Academy: €13 HouseMusic Weekends: Pygmalion Bar The Song Room, Hamlet Sweeney: The Globe John the Mantis v JC: Pygmalion Elder: Bewley’s Cafe Theatre: €10 Subzero, Indie Club: The Oak Spandau Ballet: The O2: €70/€49 N-Type, Assquake 3rd B’day: Twisted Pepper Green Day: The O2: €54/49 GodDamn Audio: Ri-Ra € € Massive Attack: Olympia Theatre: €49 Strictly Handbag: The Sugar Club: 7/ 5 Whats New Pussycat: Shebeen Chic Josh Ritter: Whelan’s: €26 Whats New Pussycat: Shebeen Chic € € € The Song Room: The Globe WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14 Strictly Handbag: The Sugar Club: 7/5 Antics, Indie/Electro: CrawDaddy: €5 WAR: Spy: 7/ 10 € € NoDisko, Heartsrevolution: The Academy 2 King Khan and The Shrines: Whelan’s: €16 SATURDAY OCTOBER 10 Peter Doherty: The Academy: €26 Shaker: The Academy: 8/ 6 Scribble: The Bernard Shaw Noize: Andrew’s Lane Theatre Grades of Shade (Alb Launch): Crawdaddy Emmett Tinley: Whelan’s: €21 SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 Galactic Beat Club: Turk’s Head € Subzero, Indie Club: The Oak Antics, Indie/Electro: CrawDaddy: €5 Manteca: Bewley’s Cafe Theatre: 10 Noize: Andrew’s Lane Theatre Honor Heffernan: Bewley’s Cafe Theatre Blasphemy, indie/electro: Wax € Shaker: The Academy: €8/€6 Insect Warfare: Lower Deck: 10 Antics, Indie/Electro: CrawDaddy: €5 Battle of the Bands, After party: Fibber’s Sincabeza: Twisted Pepper Rattle Records, Simon F: Pygmalion Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Shaker: The Academy: €8/6 Villagers (Single Launch): Road Records SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 € € € Club: The Academy: 19 Planet Parade: Twisted Pepper Tinariwen: The Academy: 28 THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 Dermot Byrne: Bewley’s Cafe Theatre: 10 € € € THURSDAY OCTOBER 8 Noisettes: Vicar St: 16 The Minutes: Pygmalion Richmond Fontaine: The Sugar Club: 19 Deaf Festival 22-31 www.deafireland.com No Age: CrawDaddy: 14 € Editors: Olympia Theatre: €28/30 Transmission: The Button Factory Blasphemy, indie/electro: Wax Jack Penate: The Village: 18 for full listings schedule Bill Whelan & Friends: Cobblestone (4pm) € € € € Homebrew and The Bad Examples: Shebeen Pogo: Twisted Pepper: 10/ 8 Invasion: Upstairs at Whelan’s: 14 Clara Rose Monahan: Bewley’s Cafe Theatre The Lost Brothers: Cobblestone: 7 € € € Duff McKagan: The Academy: €28 The Room: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: 10 THURSDAY OCTOBER 15 The Brad Mehldau Trio: Vicar St: 37 Richard Hawley: Olympia Theatre: €29 Saturday Night Live: JJ Smyth’s: 10 Genesis present RESESSION: Club Melody Delorentos: Whelan’s: €20 The Whiteliars, The Last Tycoons, Rza: The Button Factory: €24 Radiomade, Funktion: Pygmalion The Pocket Aces: Sin E 110th Street: Peader Kearney’s: €10 Schizophonics (live): The Button Factory Serious Sam Barret: Dice Bar Jinx Lennon: The Sugar Club John Buckley McQuaid: Bewley’s Theatre I Draw Slow, Christof Van Der Hype: Pod: €10 The Room: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: €10 € The Saw Doctors: Olympia Theatre: Bionic Rats: Turk’s Head Homebrew and The Bad Examples: Shebeen Van: Cobblestone: 10 Whigfield, Larry David v Adiano:Pygmalion Genesis present RESESSION: Club Melody Alias Empire, Sweet Jane, Roses, Kings, Castles: Ups at Whelan’s: €14 Zion Train, Dub Investigation: Button Factory Homebrew and The Bad Examples: Shebeen Viva!: Turk’s Head 110th Street: Peader Kearney’s: €10 € Guilty Optics: Twisted Pepper DubClub: Pygmalion Bar Heidi Talbot: Seamus Ennis Centre: €13 David Rodigan: The Sugar Club: 11 Hype: Pod: €10 Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: €5 Julie Feeney: The Sugar Club: €12 Bionic Rats: Turk’s Head Whigfield, JC v Adiano: Pygmalion The Beatdown: Pygmalion SUNDAY OCTOBER 11 Flea Market Poets: Whelans: €10 Clues, The Ambience Affair: Ups. Whelan’s Viva!: Turk’s Head € Frank Sweeney: Twisted Pepper ClubAC30, And So I Watch You From Afar, Dälek, Action Beat: Twisted Pepper: €15 Josh Ritter: Whelan’s: 26 Fish Go Deep, Shifty Beats: Twisted Pepper € Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: €5 Enemies & C!ties: Ups Whelan’s Katherine Lynch: Vicar St: €28 Control Delete: Andrew’s Lane: 4/3 € Dime Store Recordings: Le Cirk Pendulum - Christine Tobin: JJ Smyth’s: 12 James McMurtry: Whelan’s: €23 Radiomade residents: Pygmalion Bar Man In The Mirror (Michael Soul @ Solas, Mr Razor: Solas SUNDAY OCTOBER 18 Soul @ Solas, Mr Razor: Solas € € € FRIDAY OCTOBER 9 Jackson Tribute): Olympia: 23 Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: €5 Darren Sigesmund Quintet: JJ Smyth’s: 10 Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: 5 € € Messiah J & The Expert: Whelan’s Tom McRae: The Academy 2: 17 Dime Store Recordings: Le Cirk Sean Tyrell: The Seamus Ennis Centre: 10 Mr Jones, Schizofonics: Twisted Pepper € Metal Battle of the Bands: Fibber Magee’s Smooth Sailing: Pygmalion Bar Mr Jones, Shortie: Twisted Pepper The Felice Brothers: Whelan’s: 15 Dime Store Recordings: Le Cirk Club F.E.A.R.: Pravda Jack of Diamonds: Le Cirk Smoothe Sailing: Pygmalion Bar Newton Faulkner: The Academy: €22 12 Sundays: The Bernard Shaw FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 Jack of Diamonds: Le Cirk FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 Al Byrne, Jay Smith: The Vaults: €15 Grazing, Aidan kelly: Solas: €12 The Glimmers: The Academy: €19 Hard Working Class Heroes Festival Octo- D66, Murder Plan: Dice Bar Rub a Dub Session: Twisted Pepper Candy Sundays, Jay Smith: The Vaults: €15 Ali and the DTs: The Button Factory ber 16-18: www.hwch.net for full listings. Club F.E.A.R.: Pravda Roots, Rub a Dub Reggae: Twisted Pepper Butterfly Explosion:Twisted Pepper: €10 Villagers: Andrew’s Lane Theatre Peakin Trippers, The Cujo Family, Cotton

Partie Monster: Ri-Ra: €5 MONDAY OCTOBER 12 Club F.E.A.R.: Pravda Pickin Rodeo Clowns: Sin E Roni Size, The Scratch Perverts, Breakology Doug Cooney Don’t Like Monday: Pygmalion Metal Battle of the Bands, Finals: Radio City TUESDAY OCTOBER 20 Southern Tenant Folk Union, Darko Sessions: Bia Bar The Ruby Sessions: Doyle’s Lisa O’Neill: Cobblestone: €12

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THEMSELVES Whelan’s – Friday 16

After a six-year hiatus, the lads in Themselves are resurfacing from their slumber to slap their hip-hop endeavours around your head like a wet ragged cat. The result? A pleasant violation of the aural passages and a tuft of fur to the gob. Since the release of 2002’s left-field classic ‘The No Music Of Aiff’s’ through Anticon, Messrs Drucker and Logan have been involved in numerous solo offerings, guest appearances and ceaseless touring with their ‘other’ band Subtle. Back now with ‘theFREEhoudini’, there’s no time like the present to catch them. Support comes from Jogging. €13

Dust Bowl Picture House: Sin E (2PM) Peter Green and Friends: The Academy: €26 Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: €5 Balkan Alien Sound, D66, Upbeat Generation: The Mezz Dime Store Recordings: Le Cirk Reverand JM’s Panic Worship: Sin E Tom Jones: The O2 Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: Network (industry night): Noo Bar FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 The Button Factory Doug Cooney Don’t Like Monday: Pygmalion The Revellions, The Assassinations, Fleetwood Mac: The O2: €87/€127 Cloud Castle Lake: Crawdaddy Director: Whelan’s TUESDAY OCTOBER 27 Grouper/John Wiese: Filmbase: €12 Jamie T: Whelan’s: €19 Lewis Garland and The Kett Rebellion: Club F.E.A.R.: Pravda Transmission, Mustard Pimp: The Button Bewley’s Cafe Theatre: €10 The Intern: The Academy: €14 Factory: €10/5 The Zodiac Sessions: Bruxelles , The Red Piano: The O2: €86/126 The room: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: €10 Devon Sproule, Mantler: CrawDaddy: €15 Rebecca Storm, Tom Fleming: Vicar St: €30 Genesis present RESESSION: Club Melody The Ruby Sessions, Kev Fox, Butch Ross, Goldie (history of Metalheadz set), 110th Street: Peader Kearney’s: €10 Vanessa Peters, Sinead Madden: Doyle’s Synergy Andrew’s Lane: €15 Hype: Pod: €10 Ben Reel Band: JJ Smyth’s Jam Hot!: 4 Dame Lane DEAF Irish Label showcase: Pygmalion Handsome Furs, Thomas Stephens St Social Club, Aiden Kelly: Bia Bar Rubberband, House/Techno: Spy: €8/€10 Dybdahl: The Academy: €16 Jungle Fever: Melody Bar Hot Rocks: The Academy WareHouse: 4 Dame Lane Sexshop & Brad: Pygmalion Genesis: ThinkTank Trashed! Indie/Electro: Andrew’s Lane GodDamn Audio: Ri-Ra The room: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: €10 Jelly Donut, Minimal Techno: The Village What’s New Pussycat: Shebeen Chic Tripod Saturdays: Tripod WAR: Spy: €7/€10 Viva!: Turk’s Head WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28 NoDisko, Heartsrevolution: The Academy 2 Funk D’Void: Twisted Pepper Biatch: Bewley’s Cafe Theatre: €10 Kaboogie, Scan One: Twisted Pepper The Wailers (30th Anniversary of Scribble: The Bernard Shaw SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 ‘Exodus’): Olympia Theatre: €29 Strictly Handbag: The Sugar Club: €7/€5 ODI, Wayne O’Connor: Bewley’s Theatre Killer Chloe: Pygmalion Pendulum - Gato Azul: JJ Smyth’s: €10 Blasphemy, indie/electro: Wax SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 Erik Noon and the Future Gypsies, Balkan Kate Walsh: The Sugar Club: €15 Mayer Hawthorne and the County from Brian Alien Sound: Cobblestone: €5 Blue Syndrome (Album Launch): The Village Deady and Band: CrawDaddy: €17 Billy Talent?: Olympia Theatre: €24 Noize: Andrew’s Lane Theatre Saturday Night Live: JJ Smyth’s: €10 Caruso, Little Ass Birds: Sin E Antics, Indie/Electro: CrawDaddy: €5 Dr. Hook: Olympia Theatre: €24 Dust Bowl Picture House: Sin E (2PM) Shaker: The Academy: €8/€6 Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Manus Lunny: Here Comes The Landed Galactic Beat Club: Turk’s Head The Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre: €20 Gentry, Cousin Elias: Dice Bar Pitch Black: Twisted Pepper Hope Sandoval: Vicar St: €28 Funeral For A Friend: The Academy: €25 Transmission, The Subs: The Button Factory Fleetwood Mac: The O2: €87/€127 THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 The room: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: €10 Warp @ DEAF, Plaid, Clark, Nyle Wolfe: Bewley’s Cafe Theatre: €10 Genesis present RESESSION: Club Melody € Tim Exile, Bibio: The Button Factory: 25 Isotope, jazz session: JJ Smyth’s: €10 110th Street: Peader Kearney’s: €10 DeepIntoTheBowelsOfHouse: Ocean Bar Biffy Clyro: Olympia Theatre: €28 Hype: Pod: €10 Pygs Will Fly, Pan Pot: Pygmalion Bar Homebrew and The Bad Examples: Shebeen Microfunk: Pygmalion Bar: €5 Jack of Diamonds: Le Cirk Tinchy Stryder: The Academy: €14 Rubberband, House/Techno: Spy: €8/€10 € Grazing, Aidan kelly: Solas: 12 Indigo Girls: Tripod: €28/€31 Hot Rocks: The Academy 12 Sundays: The Bernard Shaw Bionic Rats: Turk’s Head Viva!: Turk’s Head Static, Nice n Nasty showcase: Pygmalion Hardfloor (live):Twisted Pepper MONDAY OCTOBER 26 Mr Jones Halloween Party: Twisted Pepper Wallis Bird: Academy 2: €24 Soul @ Solas, Mr Razor: Solas email info to: [email protected]

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Not reminded of Christmas every five Emirates – where the Dubai Sound City including: Happy Mondays, Funk D’Void, Plump seconds, not worried about whether we voted festival is staged. DJs, Ladytron, Human League, Ocean Colour the ‘right’ way for a treaty that the Czechs With sun, beaches, and some strange Scene, Doves, Kissy Sell Out, Futureheads, and Brits will (probably) torpedo anyway, architectural behemoths as a backdrop, this Alphabeat, The Wombats, Echo & the and certainly not facing months of effluent three day festival/big-wig music conference Bunnymen, Super Furry Animals and, eh, Aslan. masquerading as weather without a glimmer is in its first year, looks like a lot of craic Where: The Irish Village + other venues, of hope on the horizon. And that’s where this – and yes, contrary to popular belief, you ARE Dubai, UAE. little beauty comes in... allowed to drink alcohol, so nought to worry When: November 5-7. Yes, next month we would definitely rather about there then... Costs: Early bird tickets are Dhs750 (€135). be soaking up it up in the (quite piss-takenly What: Three day music festival/conference. Direct return flights from€ 335. entitled) Irish Village in the United Arab Who: A rake of international and local acts Info: www.dubaisoundcity.com win with connected * With more freely available shit than your average festival at closing time, our competition section is crammed to bursting with life’s necessities – loads of passes to the gigs below, and more, all online at connected.ie: N Type @ A$$quake 3rd B’day Party: Twisted Pepper Oct 16 / Choice Cuts present David Rodigan: Sugar Club Oct 22 / Modeselektor: Button Factory Oct 23 / PAS & Ancient Methods: Andrew’s Lane Oct 25 / Bacardi B-Live, Dj Mehdi, Hudson: Pod Oct 25 / Ulrich Schnauss: Sugar Club Oct 25 / Decon Sproule: Crawdaddy Oct 27 / Pitch Black: Twisted Pepper Oct 28 / Judith Mok Hamsa Ensemble: Smock Alley Oct 29 / Twin Kranes album launch & David Holmes: Button Factory Oct 30 / DEAF Closing Party with Aux 88: Radio City / The Revellions/The Assassinations: Crawdaddy Oct 30 / Scan One, !Kaboogie DJs: Twisted Pepper Oct 30 / Hardfloor Live: Twisted Pepper Oct 31

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