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*06 *12 *14 *18 *20 *34 ightflight, D-light; tools and toys, a way to really help you – the up and coming band, Interviews Features Regulars Clockwork Noise; some Bitches, one producer and creative. 06 Yellowman 12 Three To Watch 17 Connected Online Skanking dub bass from the outcast’s outcast L-Plates and ass pinching, blob-rock guitar Your gateway to all manner of almost dead Bob and a Tubelord... Reader’s Wives, Need free hi-res press shots? Need a free promotional – it’s the Kingston native, world renowned and chops, nationally known namesakes and a activists, herbal hard ons, lizard kings and Supafast jives, and the ever present video made for your best tune? Need to build your original wigga Winston Foster, otherwise known snowballing spandex spectacle – it’s time for conniving corporate types – the internet’s got Sounds Of System Breakdown... Yes as portfolio or gain experience and contacts in journalism, as Yellowman. Nobody move, nobody get hurt. a changing of the guard with Three To Watch. some ass weird shit, but also connected.ie. Joy. we near the end of lap one of ’s photography, video making or the music industry in 18 Milanese / Electric Underground 14 Industry Interview 26 Record Reviews / DJ Charts Munster’s dance scene gets some mouth to Peering behind the shiny placard of jobs we’d Impenetrable aural soundscapes, murky trip race to the bottom; the pits, indeed, have general, or simply need a place to exhibit? N mouth from gritty grime and daring dubstep – all kill for, this month’s industry interview hop, twisty-turny rhythms, ominous guitar hums, claimed many – and as we ponder the Get in touch. courtesy of a new school of proud promoters, focusses on one such endeavour that has self confessed undermining and some fucking frugal future of publishing, pink skinned We want to connect you to those who can the forward thinking Electric Underground... brought much D-light to those involved... bizarre stuff altogether... We’ll blame Bob. from slaps aplenty, it’s amazing what sights help, and you to those that you can help – AND 20 Supafast / Big Dish Go 15 What's Going On? 34 Next Month I'd Rather Be... Fall down the rabbit hole into a techno-coloured Spiteful, scumfucking shitgimps versus In the company of Steve – and as surprising a are now glimpsed around the next bend... we’ll have three spacious and nicely kitted out wonderland – available each and every weekend smirking, talentless, manufactured pop – it’s statement as that is, you’ll understand when For from pain comes remedy, from rehearsal rooms too – making it pretty much for those who dare to try something that little bit time to titter uncomfortably as Steve fires off you see where the little fecker is off to next struggle comes solution, and from a one stop shop (thanks to our new partner different. Welcome to (more of) The Underground. a few rounds into the great moral vacuum... month... Libel-suit dodging mo fo that he is. plummeting rents and redundancy and veteran of the live scene, Ballroom Of cheques comes whopper warehouses Romance co-founder Phil Murray). Editor: Niall Turner Online Editor: Amanda Kavanagh, Steve ‘Sympathy Sales and Marketing: [email protected] aplenty, oh yeah... We will of course be publishing the best of vote’ McMullin Production Manager: Liam Murray Design: Fred Murray Circulation: 20,000 – Distributed in over 350 locations in , Set opposite our black and white cover this melting pot in future editions of Connected Contributors: Fenster, Adam White, Helen Brilo, Eamonn Seoige, Amie and Belfast. Connected Magazine is also available in all HMV stores this month (and repeated here, well, cos and hosting the whole shebang on our Locke, Nora Costigan, Dan Mac, Barry Dempsey, Alison Shevlin, Kelly throughout the country. we can) is the glaring yellow blare of our future intent. website. This is all kicking off in December so now’s the McGrath, Niamh Doolan, Eimear Duignan, Steve Battle, Cliona Good, Free Studio Space For All. time to beat the crowd the get your ideas in first – and we Sheena Madden, Shane Fitzgerald, Dan Ryan and Karna Ray. Contact: [email protected] // [email protected] www.connected.ie // www.myspace.com/connectedmag Having searched for well over a year for a suitable look forward to meeting you. Photography: Mark Duggan, Martina, Marcus Cassidy, Colm Mullen, spot, we’ve finally found one and figured out (we think) 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 International Interview - Yellowman Words - Fenster Freedom doesn’t mean you can say the wrong thing

ans of skanking dub bass and Are you about to go into the studio? dancehall sounds are in for a Yes sir. Yes sir, we’re working on a Disney song, special treat this November as one you know that company named Disney? Like of the most unique characters and Disneyland? Disneyworld? We’re doing a song voices from the reggae kingdom for one of them soundtracks, I don’t remember cordially graces us with a rare visit. the movie – background prompting from F Born an orphan into the abject poverty manager – you know that movie Cars? The that was Kingston in the 1950s, fortune dealt animated movie? We’re doing it for Cars 2. young Winston Foster another blow in that he Wow, that must be a financial pleasure. was albino, causing him to be spurned by his Ah, y’know, it doesn’t matter about the financial peers in the orphanage, an outcast among the thing, I love the music, the reggae music, and outcasts. We can only imagine how hard life they’ve allowed me to do it in my style. must have been, but rather than just despairing Your last record was in 2007. Plans? and giving up, young Winston instead Actually I’ve done a new one already, I don’t embraced the two facets that were most know when they’re gonna release it, the record influencing his life at the time, the heavy vibes company will make a decision. going on in the Jamaican music scene around Do you listen to modern deejays/producers? him, and the pale pigment free skin in which I like Steve Kelly... and that’s about it. he was enclosed. A teenage Winston picked Explicit lyrics have got you into trouble... up the mic, became a deejay – in Jamaica the Yeah they call that slackness, but I don’t really bloke with the records is the Selectah, but you call sex slack... knew that already – and Yellowman, complete A lot of the modern deejays create with a confident, defiant swagger, was born. controversy with lyrics about excessive Combining his distinctive image and, at the violence or homophobia – and are often time, radical chat about his alleged sexual more famous for that than their music, prowess and conquests, Yellowman soon what’s your opinion of that? became the voice people wanted to hear. In the I can tell you that everyone has an equal right early 80s a combination of some high profile to live and be free, but freedom doesn’t mean performances and a slew of killer tunes lit the you can say the wrong thing, or you’re free to fuse that exploded Yellowman out of Jamaica do the wrong thing. I have all types of fans, I and into the international spotlight, catching think with this gay, homophobic thing, I say let the ear of both reggae and hip hop heads. God be the judge. Some of them deejay do it Disaster struck in 1986 when he was given to become more famous, to create controversy. only six months to live after being diagnosed But with the anti gay thing, outside of Jamaica with cancer of the jaw, but after surgery he they don’t say that, but in Jamaica they do, emerged scarred but undefeated with a new they have a double standard. musical determination and outlook on life, So what can your Dublin fans expect? turning his mind and lyrical content to more Energy, because I’ve got a lot, I’m like Usain spiritual and social issues. He continues to Bolt on stage. I hope they can keep up. They’re record and play shows all over the world. gonna get some new songs and they’re gonna I caught up with King Yellowman (I never get the old school – for two hours on stage. got an invite to the coronation) moments before Anything else you’d like to say to your fans? he headed into the studio to record a tune that I just want to let them know that life is one big could well introduce him to a whole new and road, and they are the ones that must take very lucrative market, not that he seemed too care of themselves on that road, and doing bothered, he was more interested in joking, good is the right way, and if you live straight, Winston Foster AKA Yellowman (if it’s a tasteless joke you’re after read anything by Steve...) informing me of his membership of the ‘RA you will live long. Respect to you and take care. yellowman – even the Rubber Bandits missed that one. Yellowman plays the Button Factory Nov 11.

//connected magazine //www.connected.ie Homegrown Feature - Human Music @ Le Cirk Words - Helen Brassil music for hum ns There’s a huge divide in crowds – we try to break down the boundaries abbling in the production side embrace during recent greedier times. of the cheap and cheerful Life The Human Music collective were and KnockanStockan festivals, motivated originally by the overwhelming and promoting various nights dance/mainstream scene in Dublin: “It started in Dublin’s squat-like pub off with us organising bands, looking after – the mischievous space gigs and from there we got a little bit more Dknown as McGruders, where one room serious and developed the company side exhibited a table and chairs stuck to the of things. We’ve been on the go for around ceiling in the surrounds of tatted furniture six years, it’s been up and down in terms of and trippy carpets (unfortunately this dingy, making what we do a success, we’ve stuck lovable and charming space is now closed) our necks out for a lot of people, not always – Human Music is a creative events company getting the results we would have liked but who cater for all your musical needs: rigging, we’ve persevered with everything and just sound engineering, stage management pushed through with projects. and more. They promote all things arty “We did our best to put dance music and – film makers, graphic designers, writers, bands in the same space, trying to break photographers, painters, etc, and are a lot down the boundaries between the two. There more than 20-something band promoters was a huge divide in the crowds in town, so – the company has become quite the little we tried to blend the two which proved to be media hub for all things Irish and creative. a tough enough challenge.’’ On the go since 2003, Human Music have The guys have been on a break for the now found another cosy space to host their last couple of months, finding the pressures gigs, this time it’s Le Cirk on Dame Lane and of running a business not always entirely Bo and his crew are running free nights from manageable, as the reality of their jobs Wednesday to Sunday – encompassing drum’n’ proved stressful. bass on Fridays, reggae on Saturdays and with Mainly involved with the production side trad, rock’n’roll and bluegrass proving to be of things, looking after bands and making very popular of a Sunday. Just preparing for its sure things run smoothly, Bo is keen to launch, Le Cirk is Human Music’s new project. be part of next summer’s festivities. As “It’s a work in progress, we’re smaller, independent festivals have popped redecorating the lower floor at the moment up over the last few years, guitars and live and our aim is to make it a nice place to go sets are sharing the same turf, keeping and drink. Our buzz is to have free admission the mainstream at bay and allowing the and to use the bar to pay the bands and alternative to thrive. This is what Ireland has promoters, and to also provide them with needed for a very long time. flyers and posters, etc. It’s more beneficial for But come January, Le Cirk is to become us to do it this way than to rob the punters of Sweeneys? their last €10 at the door.’’ “Everything is subject to change at the So, there are some considerate folk left moment, I’m not completely won over by with good, honest intentions, putting music the name myself. We’re having our big and good surroundings before profit. Similar promotional launch over the next couple of to what Bodytonic have been doing in The weeks so hopefully by the end of November Bernard Shaw, Le Cirk is all about the we’ll be good to go.” music and good times at no extra cost – Good work and God Luck... a theory Irish people were reluctant to myspace.com/human_music

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

We want to bring people something a bit different – it’s a community vibe!

s with most matters musical, but hopefully ‘Sound To Light’ takes it to the will get to hear a large chunk of the record.” we tend to gaze beyond our next level.” Possibly the capital’s most talked about shores for spanking new, Recently described as ‘Dublin’s answer to ‘breaking act’ in recent times is ‘Reader’s innovative sounds, when, James Murphy’, Rob Costello is the main man Wives’. Chief songwriter Niall James Holohan sometimes, it’s staring us in from Sounds Of System Breakdown, purveyors gave us the lowdown on their masterplan… the face! Connected caught up of electro-pop par excellence. With an album “We formed three years back, or rather I Awith three outstanding Irish acts putting the release just around the corner, 2010 promises started laying down the bones of an album. offathisland final touch to their latest release... to be a biggie for SOSB. Here’s Rob... Through that experience I luckily came in Channel One, probably Dublin’s foremost “We originally planned to release it in mid contact with the other three guys and here we underground act of recent years and a November but, with Christmas on the way, are! Chris (Morrin) is also in another band and phenomenal live proposition, are about to felt we could make more of an impact with a we first met at an ‘open mike’ night – and it’s drop debut long player ‘Sound To Light’. We January release. a vaguely similar story with both Disko and knocked heads with Richie Bohan: “A free downloadable single is on the way Doug Farrell. “We’re launching on November 6 in the in the coming weeks and we’re working on a “I suppose we were all that one guy in Button Factory, as a free show and everyone’s video concept with performance artist Hugh other bands who actually gave a shit and was welcome! We’ll also line up some gigs at Cooney. Essentially, recording took place on serious about giving it a real shot. I feel real home, UK and possibly Paris in the near future. and off over the past couple of years. It started fortunate to work with this bunch. We now “As a band we’ve always focused on off with just myself, some basic vocal/synth/ have a UK based manager on board and the gigging and, over time, developed a sound guitar tracks and when drummer Adam Jensen Odessa gig at the end of November (21st) is that’s primarily electronic. However, the album joined last year, he set about replacing the really a chance for punters and people in the has been more of a journey, allowing us to drum samples (to avoid any possible copyright industry to see what we can do. explore some more ambient tracks, ‘Mogwai- infringement!) and slowly the songs began to “In the past, we’ve done a decent amount esque’ noise-rock, and really build on ideas develop a more fully realised sound. Gradually of touring in and we’re keen to get that have grown from the live experience. It’s we nailed each track, largely because we were back out there. However, that won’t be for a something of a labour of love, a completely unable to afford much studio time! Every cloud while yet as, first off, the ‘Secrecy And Sex’ self-financed and self-released record. and all that... The finished article is far superior EP is released on November 9, a second “The new album will hopefully reflect the to what would’ve happened if could afford to EP for February and finally a full length Top: Channel One. Right: Sounds Of System personalities in the band. Two of the lads are hit the studio for a solid month! album in May. Like most bands today we’re Breakdown. Above: Reader’s Wives into heavy music, while I’m more a techno “Once the album arrives, we’ve planned independent and that offers its own creative and electro head! We listen to anything and a mini Irish tour and some UK dates in late freedoms. We want to bring people something everything really, from My Bloody Valentine to spring. We’ve done some gigs in places like a little different, including some living room The Smiths. The spare room in guitarist Owen Berlin, made some great friends and badly shows and involving our fans in artwork, etc, O’Mahony’s flat has doubled as studio space want to return, but it isn’t easy when you’re it’s a community vibe!” and we’re really excited and proud with the totally self-funded, lugging all that gear. It’s a So, before you blow the dole on extortionate finished article. Thanks Owen! We really hope bit of fuckin’ nightmare but still fun! tickets on the latest loada overblown hype from it turns a few heads... It’s been an amazing “There’s an upcoming charity show in the across the pond, check out what’s on your experience over the past six or seven years Sugar Club on November 13 and die-hards doorstep, you’ll be pleasantly surprised!

10//connected magazine 11//www.connected.ie Homegrown - Three To Watch Henparty - Amanda Kavanagh Bitches With Wolves - Amie Locke The Spikes - Steve Battle Full interviews online

Spangly belts n’ spandex spectacles, gravity defying quiffs, email music making – and a credible Henparty

Henparty – myspace.com/henparty The Spikes – myspace.com/thespikesmusic Bitches With Wolves – myspace.com/ Feather boas, L-Plates, willy straws, pink Rock n Roll has always had a healthy output bitcheswithwolves cowboy hats and ass pinching. Hen parties from this little island of ours. Throughout the It’s impossible to believe that Irish electro- have a habit of dividing women into two decades we’ve been responsible for supplying pop act Bitches With Wolves has only been camps; those who relish the absolute freedom some of the biggest movers and shakers on the with us a year. With a slew of Irish festival that comes with wearing a silly hat (you can do scene from Lizzy to Gallagher, My Bloody appearances and UK gigs under his spangly anything – fact) and those who shy away from Valentine to Therapy? We should be proud to belt, creator and vocalist James O’Neill has penis paraphernalia, preferring to wile away say that we’ve harvested some fine crops and car-crashed his way onto the Dublin scene the hours looking embarrassed, but dutifully how they’ve grown. The Spikes are no exception in a bid to bring the enormity of both his holding back the maid of honour’s hair. to this bloodline and could be said to incorporate ambition and personality to light. I met with But Henparty, the band, do not incite the elements of each of the bands mentioned him (and his gravity defying quiff) to discuss same divides. If you like you can above... with a nice blend of The Stones, Disney films, visions, and the fact that we jump around like a loon to, you’re welcome to Stooges and Doors thrown in for good measure. Irish should embrace the spandex. the Henparty party. Front man Tom Dunne (besides sharing For an act that’s only been established a Packing more mystery into an interview his name with one of this countries most year, they’ve played slots at both the Picnic and than Scooby Doo manages to stuff in the celebrated broadcasters!) has the stage . Team that with opening for Fat Boy Mystery Machine, future pop stars Henparty presence of a young Robert Plant and the vocal Slim and you’ve got a pretty good head start! chat with Connected – leaving us more range spanning from the graveling lows of Nick “Well, once the concept became rock solid 3towatch confused, yet more intrigued than ever. From Cave to the resonating highs of Axl Rose. we got together enough songs to play a show the outset the band cite their influences as, Since their inception in 2005, The Spikes in Dublin, and at the insistence of a couple of ‘Dutch post-punk combo The Sit, The Clean, have been touring the length and breadth of mates with contacts, a guy from MCD showed Tall Dwarfs, Halo Benders, Guided by Voices the country on the backs of their debut album up and booked me to play the dance tent at and Beat Happening’ – Henparty are adamant ‘Urges & Purges’ and this summer’s ‘We Are...’ Oxegen on the Saturday. As you can imagine, they make ‘pop music, and no mistake’. EP. Connected caught up with vocalist Tom it was all a bit mental for me how this was Their MySpace hosts no actual pictures of as The Spikes take a break from recording to snowballing, but I kept it together and decided the band, unless the band is comprised of two ready themselves for headlining the nationwide to work more on my stage show so I could chickens, two bin bags, Ross Kemp, Danielle Dublin Rocks Winter Tour – kicking off in The really give the Oxegen punters a spectacle. I Westbrook, Steve McFadden and a bear. We can Village this November (Friday) 13. brought stylists Attack On Humans on board to only dream. Being of 2009, Henparty embrace Things have been moving pretty fast for help turn some of my stage ideas into reality, technology when it comes to song writing: “We the Spikes over the last nine months, two and worked with a few more producers to take a cut and paste attitude towards making releases, a new member, some memorable really hone my sound and style. The rest just our music.” Literally it seems: “We use e-mail, gigs... How have you guys been holding up? fell into place and that Saturday at Oxegen which we feel is under used on the modern It’s been such great craic we haven’t really was awesome! I mean, it was like a 7000 music scene.” A live Henparty gig can get a bit thought about it. We are riding the wave now capacity room. And yeah, Fat Boy Slim. To rowdy: “If it’s been a bad week, we’ll just beat and as the swell keeps rising so do we. have the opportunity to support one of the the hell out of each other for 35 minutes and How do you view the Irish music scene? biggest DJs in the world, coupled with the fact leave any music to chance.” I think it’s strong and healthy, as it historically that I was the only Irish act on the bill? It was The bottom line is, if you like ‘blob-rock should be during a downturn. But there are pretty unreal. It’s still very mind-boggling to guitar chops and electrifying ride cymbal work’ too many usual suspects out there. As Ireland me because I still haven’t released anything Clockwise from top: Henparty heads, and you know what that is, you might dig is a small country and it’s so hard to make yet so the pace with which all this cool stuff is Bitches With Wolves, and The Spikes’ Tom Henparty. Catch them while they still look it internationally, the lead-time between the happening can get a little overwhelming!” like Woody Harrelson. changing of the guard can lag a bit... Full interviews available at connected.ie

12//connected magazine 13//www.connected.ie Industry Interview - Photography Feature D-light Studio’s Agata Stoinska What's Goin' On? Interview: Niall Turner Words - Steve McMullin what's goin on?

SToinska ast year I decided to set up D- clients one day, photographing the next, editing I think it can be challenging to be a fashion ow, it seems like no matter how much you despise minded, right-wing shitbags more than I hate smirking, talentless dickheads light Studios, not only for myself and photoshopping and so on. I get to do pretty photographer in Ireland. It’s a small country the fear-mongering, spiteful, mostly (but not in manufactured pop bands. Oh, how I wish it had been Ronan Keating but for other people in creative interesting things too like working abroad on with only so many people and magazines. exclusively) Christian, conservative right wing they who’d snuffed it, this wouldn’t be a problem. Would anyone have said of businesses to use – a melting pot shoots, going to castings and go-sees, location Sometimes it can be difficult to fully show off can always manage to go just that little bit further him, “Keating’s death strikes a blow against the happily-ever-after myth for artists and creative people that scouting. Also working with a creative team on your creativity. than you thought possible and ruin things even of the sacrament of marriage between a man and a woman”? No, and could make use of the place. exhibitions is a great experience too. The recession has really been a blessing more than they already have. I would have been free to say things like, “Hooray, he’s dead! Love may L I had trained as an architect, studying in Now, with the studio, a lot of my time goes in disguise for me, if you can believe it! It WIt’s amazing. You tell yourself they’re just creeps, but then they push be a rollercoaster, but this scrotal infection can no longer ride it!” and Poland and the States, then I moved here and on administration, organising events, project forced me to think outside the box in terms of the hate-boat a little further into the sea of malice and you go, “Hey, numerous other off-colour remarks that would have made some people titter worked in an architect’s office. I soon realised development and interviews, on top of the business and look towards less obvious routes they’re not just creeps, they’re evil, scumfucking shitgimps demoralising uncomfortably while others guffawed themselves silly (that would be me). it was not my passion. It might sound strange, usual things like emails and phone calls. I’m for solving problems. It’s great to see how there our species and dragging us into a stinking morass of filth and despair Personally, I don’t care who or what anyone has sex with and I don’t but I was so focused on simply wanting to take always meeting new people though, which is so much help on offer; not just from the while claiming the moral high ground and somehow getting away with it!” think it has much bearing on anything other than, well, who or what pictures, that I never stopped to think about ‘the keeps things exciting, and there’s always a Enterprise Board and Government bodies, but Whatchoo talkin’ bout, Steve? they’re having sex with at that particular moment. life of a photographer’ or ‘being a photographer’. new project on the horizon. from networking groups and friends that want Oh, sorry, I thought it would have been obvious that I’m referring to A man who would have agreed with me is William Burroughs – also It was my passion, so I just went for it. My first (Our festival) was brilliant! I think better to help out. So many people have lost their jobs the way in which a certain hate-filled British rag, we’ll call it the Daily Shite, dead, although he shuffled off this plane some years before I had the break was when I was hired to shoot the stills for than anyone expected, we were prepared recently and it seems to have really changed and their columnist, we’ll call her C. Unt, managed to scupper my hilarious chance to take the piss at him for it. As he said in his landmark novel a Polish movie called The Welts. It went on to be for a tough day’s work but everything ran so many people’s ideas on how they should live scheme for November’s column. I had planned to tear into Stephen Gately Naked Lunch, “I see god in my asshole in the flashbulb of orgasm.” I only the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language smoothly, I think a lot of that was to do with the and what makes them happy. A lot of people for being a talentless arsehole and for being dead – possibly even throwing mention it because this year marks the 50th anniversary of this mind- Film at the Oscars in 2005. As for fashion people we had involved. Everyone was there to I know are embracing their creative side and in a couple of gay jokes of questionable PC-ness but undoubted hilarity to bending novel’s first publication and wanted to remind you all to, at some photography, my big break came when I shot lend a hand but to have fun too. We definitely following their passions, it’s great to see. those with a somewhat open mind. Comedy. Fucking. Gold. I can’t do that stage, raise a glass or tap a vein or indulge in bit of sexual experimentation Cerri McQuillan for House Of Colour. It was for have plans to have more events like this. Would I do it all again? Yes, absolutely. If now. Thanks to C. Unt blaming the death of Boyzone’s Tiny Tim on the fact in his memory (maybe even read the book... Gasp!) and the only link I could the Loreal Hair Competition which they won. My proudest moment was definitely opening you’re lucky enough to find your joy in life, it’s that he was gay, all the fun has been sucked out of it. think of was anal sex... Does that make me childish? I hope not. To be honest I don’t really have a regular D-light Studios, it was such a huge project to so important to follow it. Don’t take yourself Even assailing former Taoiseach Bertie The Shit for his nonsensical Anyway, before you start taking any of it too seriously, consider the routine, that’s what attracts me. Many people take on, but so satisfying. I think my lowest point too seriously is the most important advice. Be comments about Gately representing everything that was good about words of Robert Anton Wilson, “I don’t believe anything I write or say. I would be put off by the lack of stability but I was just before it opened; my business partner yourself and focus on your passion and the Irish music and culture no longer has that je ne sais quoi that would regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the don’t see the unpredictability as a disadvantage. backed out. It was very stressful. Did I believe enjoyment of what you do, not the profits you have made it worthwhile. fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no As an architect, I did pretty standard office I’d be successful? Yes, I am very focused when I expect at the end. And it goes without saying to And all because of some homophobic old cunt in . Belief System (B.S.)” hours. As a photographer, I could be meeting put my mind to something. take tons of pictures! So, one thing I have learned this month is that I hate nasty, small- Amen, bruddha!

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*

Girls with acoustic guitars are often a difficult prospect. It can all too easily get more than a little Alanis Morrisette and teary if you’re not careful. Heathers are twin sisters from Dublin who defy such logic. There’s something about their music that evokes cool coffee houses in American college towns. Think Joni Mitchell, the smell of nice java, poetry books and Kafka. But they also work in an Irish context which is no less appealing – winter, Whelan’s, , Funny place, the internet, you find out all kinds of stuff, sometimes human clothing running the planet and still others with ‘news’ that is roll your owns and open fires. Such musicianship from two so things you didn’t know you wanted to know. For example, pro- actually a carefully constructed series of lies designed to force a young is rare. Having wowed Irish audiences and our American marijuana activist and beardy-stoner type Jack Herer’s family life is corporate worldview on an unsuspecting public... And then there’s cousins, the only question is, where next? Check them out at: currently being laid bare on his website after he suffered a heart attack Connected.ie, which, bizarrely enough, has no agenda at all beyond www.myspace.com/heatherswhatsyourdamage in September, which led to a weird series of events that are hard to covering good music and well, maybe someday raising enough/some Connected have teamed up with Temple Lane Recording believe... Fascinating to read about, but rather sad as well – he’s cash so that we can all move out of our parents’ gaffs and/or stop Studios to offer every Demo Of The Month winner the mightily currently laid up in a nursing home awaiting the grim reaper. I don’t mooching off our girlfriends. We can dream... helpful prize of a day's recording time – so get sending those know why I mention it since I know none of you lot are into anything We will do this, hopefully, by providing gig reviews, this month demos in and best of luck... illegal, and certainly nothing as dangerous as weed smokage... But if including Grizzly Bear, Orbital and Gary Fucking Numan, interviews "Temple Lane Studios are Ireland's premiere recording studio you do happen to be toking up in the near future, spare a thought for (Teenagers In Tokyo, Cave Singers and Woods being among the main group. We have three studios based in Dublin City centre as well as the man who wrote The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Possibly at around courses in November), and displaying the oh-so-cool photography the award winning residential studio Grouse Lodge in Westmeath. twenty past four. of the exploited Sara Devine – who is currently living with some Clients include: Muse, Kila, David Gray, and many more. You can also find, on t’web, some rather snazzy sites offering herbal randomer’s folks and mooching off Turner’s girlfriend. Black robots Check out templelanestudios.com." viagra at bargain basement rates, or theories about giant lizards in True. connected sound bites* connected sound bites* there’s a poker tournament in Pygmalion on Nov There are a limited number of weekend tickets One for the kids 7 – myspace.com/scoopcharity. at €150 – iloveoffset.com. Little Italy to turn five Room for one more? YES Daniel’s deadline The Scoop Foundation are back with another The Italian Factory have been A monthly format doesn’t lend itself well to The JD Set is looking for 20 bands for its 2010 charity art auction in Film Base, Temple Bar, All set for take off around as long as us, have reviews but this newbie festival really competition. The winning band will Much better news moved venues as often as does deserve a mention... receive studio time in Grouse Lodge, launching on Nov 18 with the Offset is a new festival that looks Fresh from sellout gigs in Milan, a we’ve moved offices and, YES Festival – the brainchild PR support, and advice from Tim auction on the 20th. If you to explore the creative closing slot at Insomnia Fest in Tromso like us, celebrate their fifth of several well known Dublin Burgess of The Charlatans. To enter, are an artist and would like and design world at large. (and with UK dates on the horizon) Birthday in December. promoters – got off to a great start visit www.thejdset.ie. The deadline to get more engaged with Gathering the best creatives Deadbots are set to release a remix As always they will with an inspired choice of venue; The is Friday, December 11. the Dublin scene and meet from home and abroad, there of ‘Tear Down The Walls” by the be importing Italy’s Epicentre in East Point Business Park. artists and the folk in are more than 20 speakers, and legendary Arthur Baker (ft. la Belle’s homegrown talent for the More than 25 DJs and a reasonable 20 And finally... the know then this is the plenty of exhibitions like the X- Nona Hendryx) on This Is Music. perfect opportunity. This ex-pats living here – next month Naples’ quid door tax made for a seriously whopper Sadly, DEAF is no more... We’d like to rated gallery. Check the Connected Also in the pipeline is the release ‘super star DJ’ and techno head Rino day out... The next YES Festival is penciled in for congratulate all the hard work of the festival year’s artists include include Shane Sutton, Colm site for interviews with Irish street artist of their ‘Much Better’ EP on Satan’s Circus Mac Athlaoich, Morgan and Patricio Cassinoni. Cerrone will be playing at Andrew’s Lane Paddy’s Day and some big plans are afoot for organisers over the last eight years and wish Asbestos, and London Police. Offset takes place Records, and a few other hush hush collabs Theatre on December 11. next summer. them well with any new projects they take on. Don’t forget the afterparty – and before all that at Liberty Hall over the weekend of Nov 6-8. are on the way soon too – myspace/deadbots.

16//connected magazine 17//www.connected.ie Homegrown Interview - Milanese / Electric Underground Words - Cliona Good Pic: Mat Burden I’ll never get tired of playing in Cork

f it’s an alternative buzz you’re after, love (deep) house music or you hate it. So in a city dripping with Deep House, lots of people are very happy that there’s then look no further than the musical alternative nights going on in the city! The revolution led by Electric Underground dubstep buzz seems to have really caught on in Cork’s own Liquid Lounge. These though. I’m pretty sure Milanese was the first rebels are resolutely bringing a mash international dubstep act.” Iup of tempting techno, gritty grime and daring A firm favourite with the lads and bringing a dubstep to the patrons of the People’s Republic spicy blend of melody and rap infused dubstep, and it seems to be going down a treat!! In techno and grime, UK based Steve Milanese 2007, realising there was a lack of alternative regularly contributes to a night at Electric nights in Cork and, needing a platform to play Underground. His musical success culminated in milanese his own music, Kevin persuaded his good the release of a catalogue of critically acclaimed friend Mark to join him in his quest to deliver EPs, peaking at the June 09 release of ‘Lockout’ an abundance of first-rate international acts to on Planet Mu Records – a genre smashing and Cork. Providing this at a very reasonable price, justifiably triumphant accomplishment. they pride themselves on showcasing local “I love coming over to Ireland to play, talent that was previously ignored. Since the people always go mental for the tunes! Great closure of Sir Henry’s, Cork’s clubbing scene atmosphere, lovely people. I don’t think I’ll dwindled to a few smaller nights dotted around get tired of playing in certain places – Cork the city and a fresh, exciting and forward being one of them. There are some great Irish thinking approach to dance events was badly artists doing stuff that’s not just dubstep but needed. Supplying mouth to mouth to the transcends several genres, Boxcutter – for Munster dance scene these lads are racking up example. My music doesn’t really slot into a serious kudos earning such accolades as ‘Club genre label easily but it basically combines Of The Year’ from The Evening Echo and ‘one of dubstep, grime, electro and techno. I just the best clubs in the south’ from . like taking influences from all over the place. Apparently you can’t mention dance music Having grown up in London I’ve always listened and Cork in the same breath without paying to jungle and techno pirates. I think I first got some homage to Sir Henry’s but Electric into it when I heard Zinc’s ‘138 Trek’ walking Underground reflect a desire to move with the down Kilburn high street, it was so refreshing times and look to the future. This attitude is after all the sickly sweet garage of the previous clearly illustrated in the music they play; the few years. Couldn’t really call it dubstep now DJs they select and the type of underground but it felt like the start of something.” experience they are striving to provide. Kevin Electric Underground certainly has high told Connected a little bit about what these hopes for the future. guys, their nights and their label are all about. “Well we’re joining Donal Dineen for a “Well I’m only 23, so Sweat would have new series he’s starting called ‘Fresh Air, New been before my time in Cork. To be honest I Music On Irish Radio’ at the end of November think it’s definitely about time people moved on Today FM. I’ll be doing a live set on it and on because it’s counterproductive. There isn’t we get to curate the music for the rest of the a week that goes by that I don’t hear the word show. This month we have Milanese returning Henry’s! If everyone put their nostalgic energy and the illusive Redshape making his Cork into going out more and starting up new debut. December has Kanji Kinetic coming over nights then we could make this country into a for our annual X-Mas bash. We have big plans much better place! for the label too but I can’t say much at the “Dubstep seems to be the flavour of 2009 moment. Lots of exclusive mixes lined up for so far here. And now we have lots of genres our website too where people can keep up to like garage, techno and bassline-house that date with us – www.electricunderground.ie.” can all be mixed in sets with it. People into And Milanese – what does he plan next? Dubstep pioneer: The UK based Steve Milanese it should do their best to go out more and “Gonna enter X Factor next year, I hope to support their local music scene however they get into Louis’s group.” can. It’s going pretty well. I think you either Viva La Revolution!!!

18//connected magazine 19//www.connected.ie Homegrown Interview: Supafast & Big Dish Go Words: Cliona Good

It’s a movement against the worship of guest DJs

roviding diversity in a scene wanna go and hear the music and it’s good saturated with sounds The to go see a guest but it’s an alternative to Underground, situated in a dark that... Championing what we’ve got... What basement on Westland Row, everyone is doing here and worship of that. is an undiscovered gem in the We all know about all these big guests. We crown of Dublin’s night life. all know they’re great, we know they’re PCurrently offering two very different nights, the brilliant. You will go and see them sooner or club provides the city with the best untamed later but it’s just trying to create a changeable alternative to all standard dance events in the forum... A weekly showcase of what’s going city. On Fridays, the club plays host to Supafast on and encouraging people to make stuff for – celebrating fresh local talent while providing that and know that that outlet is there every an innovative and fun night out for all those who week. People feel it’s a family thing as well. fall down the rabbit hole and find themselves in Everybody goes to a party afterwards and we this techno-coloured wonderland. Big Dish Go are all more intertwined from that. Basically is the Saturday highlight that boasts big name it’s completely different to the way everyone DJs as well as showcasing Irish talent. The else is operating. If you want to do something Underground is a place where savage tunes, and you ask us, we will definitely do it no an abundance of craic and the celebration of matter what it is. You can go and do whatever individuality rule. Whatever your buzz is, you’re you want.” sure to find it here... Big Dish Go are Kennedy’s much loved A guy who knows a thing or two about residents Conor Feeney and Robbie Ryan. running a night, Tom ‘Hospital’ Lynn hooked Talented DJs in their own right, these lads are up with the YouTube comedy star Hugh committed to providing an assorted array of ‘Cabaret’ Cooney to provide Friday night with alternatives to just any auld techno night. something unseen before in Dublin. November sees them celebrating their fourth They collaborated, firstly, in the making of year in The Underground and one huge ace up schweet music, and then decided to launch their sleeve is Paris based Technasia, playing on a wildly creative and artistic club night. Nov 14. He’ll be jacking up The Underground Supafast was born. United in their aims of with unbridled and relentless techno. encouraging DJs and producers to present Conor: “Since our launch in November 2005, live sets and original music, Tom and Hugh Big Dish Go has managed to pave the way have added another unusual creative twist for what is now widely regarded as one of to the weekly proceedings – artwork, graffiti, the most fun nights out in Dublin City. With visuals and even ‘one for everyone in the two fingers being shown to a set music audience’ masks. Art is just as important to policy and by encouraging our DJs to dig them as music and the search is now on for deep into their record collections; a series of an appropriate Supafast gallery space. Their memorable one-off sets have been played unwavering belief in using only home-grown to an up for it crowd every time. Everybody talent provides a much needed platform for who goes there knows exactly who is budding artists, DJs and producers. playing each night which makes for a great Tom: “What Supafast is, essentially, is experience each time. Robbie and myself as anything we do and anything anyone else DJs and promoters don’t like tying ourselves does within it. It’s an open forum for anything down to one sound and style, we just love that anyone has got to show. If someone creating one off parties with a great and submits anything to us we’ll show it... no unique atmosphere. With both the birthday matter what. It’s trying to give people the gigs (Nov 14 and 21) we really want to get confidence to step up and do it. If it goes this point across and be able to cater for the Supafast masks, mixes and molls... well it’s gonna be good and if it doesn’t you’ll many different tastes of the strong and ever know for next time what to do.” growing following we have had for the last Hugh: “It’s a movement against the worship four years.” of foreign guest DJs. We’ve got everything www.myspace.com/supafastdublin that we need on our doorstep. You do www.myspace.com/bigdishgomusic

20//connected magazine 21//www.connected.ie Homegrown Interview: Nightflight’s Dave Redmond & Al Kennington Words: Seamas O’Reilly

ome 18 months after combining that, but it makes a difference. We’d all been Dublin’s Winter Olympics, Space in Croatia the year before for Electric Elephant Camp and DownTownSounds and the atmosphere was set up so nicely by crews, Nightflight’s wager the sunshine, and Irish people reacting to that appears to have paid off in full. sunshine, the novelty of it, was immense. We Beginning their tenure in the were there with John (Mahon, of Bodytonic) SButton Factory in May 2008, Dublin’s answer and we were all blown away by it, that to the Travelling Wilburys have furnished every cemented the idea that we’d do our own. Friday since with a bewilderingly diverse mix of DR: One of the best things about the festival nightflight techno, house, disco, acid, hip-hop, rock and was the fact that we got a lot of Irish acts art. This summer even saw their first full-scale to play, and a lot of the Irish talent we got to festival, Airbound, pack a host of Irish and play were as good as the more established, international acts into the Adriatic paradise of international acts we got to play. They held Petrcane in Croatia, for a long weekend of celto- their own against the likes of Daniel Wang, centric hedonism. A joint venture with fellow club Marcel Dettman, Ben Klock. Also, a lot of behemoths, Bodytonic, the festival is a success relationships were built in Croatia with people the lads hope to emulate this coming Summer, from the UK who like what we do, and are on while in the weeks to come they’re embarking the same buzz. And the Italian lads, the guys on a Dublin tour of their own. We spoke to Al that run Slow Motion. They were phenomenal. Kennington and Dave Redmond to assess their They did one of the infamous boat parties? progress and see what the future has in store. DR: Yeah. Fabrizio Mammarella, Cosmo, etc. First up, how did Nightflight take off? We had a few other groups of people who Dave Redmond: We were three different came over as well from different nights. groups running nights in Dublin but with Magnificent Dance, who are based in a large common group of mates. The idea Manchester. Now the plan is to go and play behind Nightflight was to join forces so we with them at their respective nights, we’ve wouldn’t be running the same sorts of gigs already gone over and done that in London. against each other. As a result we don’t have AK: We hope to do a few weekenders. We a strict music policy, we can run everything have future plans to go over and play with from the most flamboyantly camp disco to the Polaroid lads in Leeds, or with Generic the roughest Berghain techno. We’d get sick People, who are based in London. of just doing techno or just doing house, and Finally, you’re going on a slightly more local as well as that it’s important to have smaller, tour at the moment, tell us about that. home grown acts playing too, because that’s DR: Well, we were doing Nightflight every your audience, and to give them a chance to Friday in the Button Factory for a year and a play on a stage as big as the Button Factory half, and we all wanted something new. is great. It’s important for us to have stuff like AK: Also, we’d book disco and gigs and RealSound, Handsome Paddy, Calvin James’ they don’t necessarily suit the Button Factory, three Deck set, actually headlining, because which is a very big venue and not ideal for they’re the people in Dublin who are pushing every type of gig. Sometimes you really need the city’s scene forward. We here in Ireland can that large space, sometimes you don’t. do it as good as any international act. There’s DR: The Button Factory isn’t suitable for every Dublin heads who are better than people we’ve party we want to do, there’s a lot of other had over at huge expense. Far and away better. spaces in Dublin we’d like to get involved And you got the chance to export Irish talent with, some gigs might suit a smaller venue. Dublin heads have been far this summer, how did Airbound come about? We really enjoyed playing in Pygmalion last Al Kennington: We always wanted to do week and we’re looking forward to Twisted something festival-wise, but Irish summers Pepper on Hallowe’en night. Then we’re back better than people we’ve aren’t the most desirable, obviously. You’ve no to the Button Factory for gigs like Tony Lionni idea how it’s going to go, weather-wise. on Nov 27, or Tensnake, who played at our had over at huge expense DR: It’s a fucking nightmare planning a very first show, he’s back on Dec 11, so we festival in Ireland. are still very much resident in the Button AK: Not to say it relies on sun, it’s more than Factory – for big shows like that it’s perfect.

22//connected magazine 23//www.connected.ie Tool, Toys and Techniques VIRTU Studio’s Barry Dempsey TOOLS, TOYS & TECHNIQUES The Nocturn Controller is the serious performer’s tool of choice

resh from our stint at the recent and-running as a digital musician at an extremely extremely affordable prices. We’ve already DEAF equipment demonstrations affordable price. What recession indeed! seen the Launchpad, above, and now it’s the – (electronic) Toys For Big Boys Novation Launchpad: turn of the Nocturn Keyboard controller. In – VIRTU Studios and Futuresounds Well, this little button-box has been causing previous issues of Connected I wrote about collaborate again this month to quite a stir the past month thanks to its ease-of- the ease of use and reliability of the Nocturn bring you the very latest in cutting- use and seriously affordable price-tag. Recently controller and, well, this big brother has all the Fedge music technology tools for the trade. I demonstrated this little beauty at the DEAF additional bells and whistles to compete with And this month we’ve done our all to find the hardware/software demo at Twisted Pepper to all MIDI controllers in its price range. And what best deals on controllers, audio interfaces and much ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’. Each time I find myself is its price you ask? €200 is all this feature- control surfaces to get you, the producer/ lost in sequencing paradise once I pick this packed controller will set you back. performer, well on your way to slider-sliding and Launchpad up and start triggering my audio and And the features? These include velocity knob-pressing the professional way. To prove MIDI clips using any or all of its 64 button matrix. sensitivity with assignable after-touch, brightly lit the point all of this month’s featured products The Launchpad features many pages of 11 segment LED rings around the eight smooth combined will cost you well under €600! Now functions including session, mixer, user 1 and encoders, and backlit buttons throughout we’ve got your attention, please read on... 2 and instruments/FX. In session mode each provide instant visual feedback for every physical Focusrite Sapphire: of the 64 buttons are auto-mapped to the clips control movement, 8 oversized touch sensitive This extremely portable USB-powered audio card which are dropped into each cell in session-view encoders and 8 Velocity-sensitive drumpads provides 2 in (record) and 4 outs in mono, within Live. Once dropped the pads turn yellow which can do more than just trigger notes and or a pair of 2 x stereo outs. From a DJ’s and once triggered turn green – funky colours sketch drum patterns, all can be assigned perspective, these 2 x stereo outs will allow one in a dark club for sure! The mixer page will allow to control software parameters. The Nocturn pair for playback and the second stereo pair easy MIDI control over track volumes, pans, Controller is the serious performer/producer’s will provide cue mix from your host sequencer FX sends, and the instrument and FX page will controlling surface... (we strongly recommend Ableton Live). A card allow for – you guessed it – complete control All of the products I have had the extreme of this size, durability and audio clarity would over your VST or native FX and instruments and pleasure of road-testing, and ultimately owning, prove the ideal companion to all digital-based all at the touch of a button. If you have been I can also supply at the prices shown in this DJs and live performers. Focusrite are a name to any DEAF events you’ll have caught me review. VIRTU Studios, Dublin, are a recognised synonymous with pristine audio thanks to their using this bad-lad in Twisted Pepper and The training facility for Ableton Live and Pro Tools high performance, and world class, mic pres, Pygmalion on Halloween night. The Launchpad software and I, the proprietor, am an official alongside a zero latency audio engine. With costs €180 and includes a version of demonstrator for Ableton Live products. VIRTU the Sapphire you get the signature Focusrite Launchpad, complete with new sound libraries. Studios is also an authorised reseller for sound at a fraction of the price of other audio Novation Nocturn Keyboards Controller: Novation, Ableton, Focusrite, KRK, and Focusrite cards in its class. The Sapphire is €170. Yes, we Lately, Novation are seriously paving the products so please get in touch for sales and forewarned you that this issue will have you up- way for cutting-edge music tech products at advice. Call Barry on 0861032742.

24//connected magazine 25//www.connected.ie DJ Charts • • • • • Great • • • • Pretty good • • • Worth a listen • • Shabby • Shite Cymbals Eat Guitars • • • • Deadbots Why There Are Mountains

After numerous self imposed delays, NYC’s ‘Cymbals Eat Guitars’ have finally SymbolOne - Love Juice (Archibell) delivered one of the year’s most finely crafted albums. Despite a tendency to cram Hystereo - City Speak (Bang Gang Records) multiple layers of guitar, keys and strings into each track on debut ‘Why There Zombie Nation - Worth It [Arveene & Misk Remix] Are Mountains’, Joe D’Agostino’s crew have definitely come up trumps. Opening (Turbo Records) track ‘And The Hazy Sea’ sets the scene with its vibrant and impenetrable aural Hey Today! - If I Was Wonderman (Bang Gang Recs) soundscape, whereas ‘Share’ is a sombre lament that combines an ominous Jackdied - Rythm Is A Danger (Satans Circus Recs) guitar hum with atmospheric chanting and horns, before peeling away to an Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy [DerDieDas uplifting climax. With a rare ability to write and arrange tracks of such varied Remix] (Promo) dynamic quality, D’Agostino’s work bares similarities with Spiritualized’s Jason The Emperor Machine - Monkey Overbite (DC Pierce... As well as chief song-writing duties, the aforementioned also showcases Recordings) his remarkable vocal range throughout this record. Other highlights include DVAS - Inner Sanctum (Valerie Records) ‘Indiana’ a multi-rhythmic cut that splices a towering vocal with piano riffs and Arthur Baker ft. Nona Hendryx - Tear Down The horns, while the ethereal ambience of ‘Cold Spring’ combines hushed/noisy Walls [Deadbots Remix] (This Is Music) spacey/rock out dynamics that build towards a crescendo. However, concluding Priors - What You Need (Promo) track ‘Like Blood Does’ steals the show. Well worth a listen... Eamonn Seoige

The Flaming Lips • • • • Crowhead • • Channel One • • • • Gav O’Hare Dave Redmond Trevor Dietz Embryonic Born With Teeth Sound To Light Produse Nightflight Thrashed/Transmission/ Mr Jones Apart from the odd flirtation with The Soft A recent signing of Atic Records, Manchester’s Trying to leap that defying hurdle of a new album Produse - Primal 1 (Nice N Nasty Records) Stimming - Funk With Me (Diynamic) Bulletin and finding them to be a top-notch Crowhead has found admirers based on his release, Channel One’s attempt has left them Deepgroove/Jamie Anderson - Freya Jooris Voorn - Sweep The Floor (Global The Big Pink - Dominos (4AD) live act, I’ve never really gotten on much with murky trip hop production values and an image in the clouds, as they have truly surpassed (Harthouse) Underground) Nasa - Gifted [Steve Aoki Remix] Wayne Coyne and his chums. High voices and in keeping with the mysterious identities of expectation. ‘Sound To Light’ oozes superiority in Phil Kieran - Dirt (Cocoon Recordings) Visti & Meyland - Yes Maam [Trentmoller Joy Division - Control [D Ramirez Remix] campy tunes very often make me cringe and Deadmaus and other musos in animal getups. the rock/electronica division, yet speaks humbly Popof - Faces’uch (Form) Remix] (Eskimo) Dim + Tai - Lyposuct [Noob Remix] want to start burning things, so it was with This debut is unfortunately at odds with these as a follow up. Every song creates a landscape Steve Angello - Teasing Mister Charlie Andre Crom & Luca Doobie - Better Now Lily Allen - The Fear- [Bart B More Bootleg] great joy that I turned on Embryonic and found attributes, and silken opener ECM aside, it too to further encapsulate you in, until the end, (Dance To Dance) Than Late (Freerange Recordings) Noob + Brodinski - Peanuts Club [Jake Simon it full of discordant noises, distorted drums and often falls into retreads of exhausted synthed-up, which seems to arrive instantly. So much so, that Dave Spoon - Lummox [Plump DJ’s Mix] Matthew Styles - We Said Nothing Remix] some fucking bizarre stuff altogether. Hooray! hip-hoppish electronic rhymes and rhythms. you will replay it many times to fully appreciate (Televizion) (Diamonds & Pearls) The Black Ghosts - Repetition Kills You [Rac I fully expect it to be years before I really know There are moments of buoyancy here and there its depth. And to undermine my own comments, Steve Haines - Takin U Back [Produse Remix] Chiapet - Westworld [Medieval Funk Mix] Remix] what the hell they’re doing here, but I relish – ‘Best Kept Secret (I Guess)’ is lively – but this if Simon and Garfunkel were a modern electronic (1980 Recordings) (Yoshitoshi Recordings) - Vlad The Impaler [Zane Lowe Remix] that idea and look forward to the trip. Now, is another case of ‘great producer, but where are rock band, this is how the soundtrack to The Fm Audio - Killer [Afrojack Remix] (Big Blind Butch - On The Line [Oxia Remix] (Swings) Barletta - Boggle where’s me LSD...? Steve McMullin the tunes at’. Unreliable. Adam White Graduate would play... Dave Quinn Music) 2000 And One - Tropical Melons (100% Pure) Steve Aoki - I’m In The House

Bob Dylan • • • Tubelord • • • • Clockwork Noise • • • • Razor Barry Farrell Rob Glennon Christmas In The Heart Our First American Friend Yes And No And Everything Remedy Bad Glamour Static Recordings In Between “WHATTHEFUCK!?” That’s what shot from my Hailing from some place called Kingston Upon Carleen Anderson - My Door Is Open (Dome) Alex Bau - Red Chromosome [Disaster mix] (CLR) Rob Glennon - Gorilla Milk [Espion Remix] mouth on hearing that His Bobness was releasing Thames, Tubelord are a peculiar proposition from Clockwork Noise have taken some time (no pun Killer Meters - Breakin Out (Breakin Bread) Catz & Dogs feat Pol On - Lolek & Bolek (Static Recordings) a Christmas album. As a staunch defender and the outset; twisty-turny rhythms, West Coast intended) with the follow up to debut album ‘If I Breakestra - Dusk Till’ Dawn (Strut) (Get Physical) Slam - Hot Knives (Paragraph) harsh critic of Bob, I have heard him do some punk melodies and Jane’s Addiction double- Wanted, I Could’ – but it seems worth the wait. Pleasure - Celebrate The Good Times [Re- Andrea Ferlin - Big Lips [Minor Dot remix] Rob Glennon - Ratio (Nice & Nasty Records) awful things – and forgiven him. Like Jesus, only tracked vocals. The end result resembles Imagine a softly enunciated Daryl Palumbo (sorry Edit] (Unknown) (Vodotek Music) Monkey Harris - Peace And Sadness (Static) without the rigmarole. This, however, was sure to skate-punk with heightened intellect and minus Glassjaw fans) in a band spanning genres worth Kylie Auldist - It’s On (Tru Thoughts) Dyno - Riflesso (Hell Yeah) Timo Maas - Jet Stream (Cocoon) be unforgivable. But croaky Dylan renditions of the skateboards and ink. While this won’t be listening to well past the age of 17. This is quite The Whispers - And The Beat Goes On [Greg Khainz - Detuner (Echoes Records) Martin Eyerer - Babylon (Kling Klong) The Little Drummer Boy, The First Noel, & Come to everyone’s taste, the pace and energy are apparent in track-to-look-out-for ‘Egoeccentric’. Wilson Re-Edit] (Unknown) Nikitin & Semikashev - Ultraproof [Alex Bau The Parallel - City Lights (Static Recordings) All Ye Faithful is actually, um, not that bad... I undeniable, as is the determination to unleash A brilliantly mixed, refreshingly funky, upbeat, Messengers - First Left (Messed) Remix] (Human Garden Music) Adam Beyer, Joel Mull - Forming Dies mean, considering all Xmas songs are shite, the song in whatever direction it chooses. And yet relaxing album; take it as a statement of Mark Broom - Jackson Edit (Saf Series) Donal Moonbeam - Shame About The (Drumcode) these are better than George fucking Michael it’s bloody tight too. When Tubelord decide to what’s to come, from a band with all the talent From Russia With Love - Dub to See You Weather (Vodka Pipes Records) Bob D - Enigma (Stream Recordings) whinging about how his heart turned out to be a write an anthem, we may have found an heir to and drive needed to succeed. Very much looking Dancin (NYC Sound) Boris Bejcha - Magic Gum (Harthouse) Marc Romboy v Blake Baxter - Where Would substandard gift last year. Steve McMullin ’s throne. Unpredictable. Adam White forward to the third instalment. Dave Quinn RE: Jazz - Star Chasers (Raw Canvas) Roman Lindau - Can’t Fix (Fachwerk Records) You Be [V.1] (Systematic Germany)

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GIVEAMANAKICK YES Cyprus Avenue – Saturday 14 Waterfront Hall Auditorium – Wednesday 25

Irish ‘indie music’ is shite. Gormless, toothless, identikit indie music: Prog rock was once a noble music practice before Matt Bellamy we’re all so fucking sick of it. What a pity, then, that Ireland is losing latched onto it and turned it into something evil. Yes are now old one of its few revolutionaries. Giveamanakick are – were – deservedly enough to be our grandads, but loveable, bonkers grandads we praised by critics for being a forceful duo of unbridled energy who want to hang out with. Expect all the pomp n’ pageantry of rock ‘could teach all those Dublin chancers with stupid haircuts and no opera as these guys descend on Belfast. It’s going to be a true ideas a thing or two’. In their seven years, GAMAK have supported musical treat to watch this lot rival The Stones in their ability to the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dinosaur Jr. and Deftones, bringing keep going after all these years – 41 in fact. Countless lineup their inimitable distortion of 70’s punk & hardcore sensibilities to the alterations haven’t dulled their edge either and those with a masses. Catch the Limerick lads in Cyprus Ave for their final hurrah. taste for extremely lengthy guitar solos will really love this...

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1 Shit Robot, Jamie Behan, TuKi, Metallitia: Cyprus Avenue:€€12 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 SO:NI: The Stetz, Shake, Elspeth: Lavery’s SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 David Geraghty: The Spinnaker: €16 Dancepig, Donal Dineen: The Classic The 4 Of Us (acoustic): Cyprus Avenue: €15 Nakatomi Towers, The Flower: Auntie Annie’s Twitch’s 3rd Bday, Ben Sims, Paddy Towe, Not How When and The Boy: The Pavilion The Sons of Robert Mitchum: Pavilion FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13 Chris McGinn, Phil Lucas: Stiff Kitten FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 Hope Is Noise (album launch): Crane Lane SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22 Louisiana Joyride EP Launch: McHugh’s SO:NI: Million Dollar Reload: Pavilion The Drones: Cyprus Avenue: €15 Gavin Moore: The Mariner Noelie McDonnell: Cyprus Avenue: €10 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4 Toby Keith: Odyssey Arena: £33 The Avalanche Effect, KVX: The Quad : East Village Sinead Desmond, Andy Wilson, Wild Beasts, Cutaways: Limelight SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22 Hope Is Noise, I’ll Eat Your Face: The Quad The Long Knives: The Slate Silhouette, Window Seats, More Than Con- SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14 , The Chakras: George’s Market SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 Milanese, Warren Knowles: Liquid Lounge David Kitt: The Spinnaker Bar: €22 querors, Sonicmouse: Auntie Annie’s Chris Corsano, Martin Byrne: Sonic Arts The Beat Poets: Auntie Annie’s Black Sun, Oblivia: Granary Theatre: €10 Harlem Gospel Choir: Everyman Palace Gretchen Peters: Errigle Inn John Digweed (4hr Set), Col Hamilton: Lush Artful Renegade: Ziggys SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14 Joe Lally (Fugazi): Crane Lane Theatre Deckadence: Lavery’s MONDAY NOVEMBER 23 Hot Ashes: Clancy’s Time Is A Thief (All Ages gig): An Cruiscin Noelie McDonnell: Cyprus Avenue: €10 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 AU Room: Lavery’s Open House Festival, Brendan Mulholland, Simply Minds (Tribute): Cyprus Avenue: €10 Eighty Something: Clancy’s Not Squares, Cap Pas Cap: Speakeasy Kissy Sellout: Stiff Kitten Brendan Hendry: John Hewitt Bar Alex Mathias Quartet: Triskel Arts Centre Giveamanakick (Final Tour): Cyprus Avenue MONDAY NOVEMBER 23 Tom Neville, Aaron Shim: Yello € € Jack L: Cork Opera House: 29/ 33 David Kitt: The Spinnaker Bar: €22 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 Great Lake Swimmers: Speakeasy Bar: £7 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8 Duke Special: The Pavilion (Invite only) Odi: The Old Oak Raw Money Gig: Oh Yeah Centre These Charming Men: Spring And Air: £11 Beyonce: Odyssey Arena -2 (tribute): The Old Oak Stanley Super 800: De Barras Gary Numan, Dirty Harry: The Pavilion: €25 Version, Explosion Soundsystem: Menagerie Delirious: Waterfront Hall Keith Mullins: An Cruibin: €10 SO:NI: Nanook, The Breaking News: Pavilion SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 Jamie O’Shea, Burnen: The Slate SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 Cymbals Eat Guitars, Before WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25 Machines: Auntie Annie’s Declan Sinnott: The Spinnaker: v15 Charley Pride: Cork Opera House Charlie Winston: Cyprus Avenue: €13 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 Yes: Waterfront Hall Thrones Of Roll, Sky On Fire: Lavery’s Harry J and The Conspiracy: The Spinnaker Blue Devil Duo: The Pavilion Calvin Harris, Mr Hudson: Lush! Arctic Monkeys, Eagles of TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10 Francesco Turrisi Trio: Triskel Arts Centre Don Mescall: The Roundy: €15/€12 RadioK: McHugh’s Death Metal: Odyssey Arena Man in the Mirror: Opera House: €38/€26 Mutant Cabaret: The Savoy: €5 Per QX, Scope, John Craig: Yello MONDAY NOVEMBER 16 Mark Eitzel: Cyprus Avenue: €17 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18 Gary Dickenson Vs John McIver: Stiff Kitten The Specials, Pama Inter.: George’s Market THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 Stet Lab: : €10/5 Phil Coulter: Parish Centre: £25 The Roundy I Weavers: Clancy’s FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 Ash, Panama Kings: Spring & Airbrake Tidal District: The Quad Exit The Street: Cyprus Avenue: €5 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8 This Is Our Monument: Speakeasy WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11 Fidil: Ionad Culturtha: €15/€5 Calvin Harris, Mr Hudson: George’s Market TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17 James Blackshaw: Menagerie Two Door Cinema Club, Twin Atlantic, Pulled Bill Coleman, Justin Grounds: An Cruibin THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 Electric Underground: Liquid Lounge Gun: Limelight That’s What I Call A 90s Party: Auntie Annies Apart By Horses, Save your Breath: Mandela I Weavers: Clancy’s Annette Buckley: The Roundy: €8/€6 Stanley Super 800, go mutant: Savoy: €10 Black Sookie (Album Launch): Black Box: £5 € Tickley Feather, JL Seagull: Menagerie Steve Earle: Opera House: 40 Don Mescall: De Barras: €15 Mick Flannery: Glen Theatre MONDAY NOVEMBER 9 The Nightmarchers: Crane Lane The Stylistics: Cork Opera House: €31/€61 Motorhead: Ulster Hall FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12 Size2shoes: The Pavilion Will Young: Waterfront Hall WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18 Junius, Delirium Tremens: Auntie Annie’s Colin McLean Latin Trio: Nightmarchers, Dan Sartain: Black Box The Roundy FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 Jinx Lennon: The LV Rebecca Storm: Opera House: €26/€36 Dangerfields: Auntie Annie’s Shield Your Eye, Nitkowski: The Quad Tubelord: The Quad TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28 Mick Flannery: Boole 4, UCC The Nightmarchers, Dan Sartain: Pine Lodge Redshape, Miniminds, Hans: Liquid Lounge The Varionis, The Good Fight, Seven : Mandela Hall Barry Barnes -Rory Gallagher: De Barras Red Effect: Clancy’s Summits, Microlip: Auntie Annie’s THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 Deckadence: Lavery’s Bootleg, O Emperor: The Pavilion: €6 John Shelly & The Creatures, Heritage House of Cosy Cushions: De Barra’s SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28 Paul Curreri: Black Box AU Room: Lavery’s Easpa Measa: The Quad Centre, Jumping Orbit: Speakeasy Electric Underground: Liquid Lounge YaYas: Clancy’s Bar and Restaurant Japanese Popstars (Live): Stiff Kitten Two Step: Panda Kopanda: Limelight The Aftermath: Crane Lane Theatre Not How When: The Pavilion Fred: Cork Opera House WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11 Kate Campbell: Errigle Inn Hauschka: Triskel Arts Centre A Place To Bury Strangers: Auntie Annie’s SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29 Annabelle Chvostek: Errigle Inn Laura Izibor: Spring & Airbrake Andy Dunne: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 Clancy’s SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 The Wailers: Cork Opera: €31/€26 Jody Has A Hitlist (4pm All Ages): Limelight Preston Reed: Cyprus Avenue Profound Sound Trio: Sonic Arts Centre Seneca: De Barras House of Cosy Cushions: Crane Lane THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13 Jinx Lennon: De Barra’s Lafaro, Team Fresh, Strait Laces: Stiff Kitten Keith Mullins: An Cruibin Death by Cockroaches: The Slate Backstreet Boys: Odyssey Arena Send listings to: [email protected] Electric Underground: Liquid Lounge : Spring & Airbrake The Cave Singers, Espers: Speakeasy

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BIG DISH GO DAVID O’DOHERTY Button Factory – Saturday 14/21 Whelan’s – Sunday 15

Never ones for the shackles of genre-defined playlists, Big Dish The understated comedian with the Casio keyboard returns with a Go have been keeping punters guessing with guests ranging from new selection of – hopefully – hilarious VLEMWy (Very Low Energy Altern-8 to Ivan Smagghe to Surgeon and everything inbetween. Musical Whimsy). At this stage I don’t even know if he’s grown his Celebrating their fourth anniversary this month with a series of hair back after his appearance in the marvellous ‘A Film With Me In shows at The Underground in Kennedy’s on November 14 and 21, It’, so he might have sold out and gone all commercial. Perhaps he’s Conor and Robbie have pulled out the stops securing the services of bought a bigger keyboard, or come up with some shoutier jokes to Technasia (who’s got a new album out early next year) and woo the Tommy Tiernan fans, or RTÉ’d his accent up a bit, or got a Crazy P – ensuring two quality nights of tunage to keep you warm puppet sidekick... Whatever, a night with The D.O’D probably won’t on these dark, cold and otherwise miserable evenings... be a bad thing. Not really bad, anyway. Kind of good, even. Maybe.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 Damien Jurado: Whelan’s: €19 Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: €5 Saturday Night Live: JJ Smyth’s: €10 Dublin City Jazz Orchestra: Guateque Party, Domingo Sanchez: Bia Bar : The Academy 2: €17 Trashed, Indie/Electro: Andrew’s Lane The Specials: Olympia Theatre: €49/€54 The Button Factory: €10 DJ Dave Brown: Bruxelles The Koubas: The Button Factory Jelly Donut, Minimal Techno: The Village FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13 Michiel Borstlap Trio: Pavilion Theatre: €22 Sean Kingston: Vicar St: €35 Thursdays: The Lower Deck Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: €5 Sean Tyrell: Cobblestone: €10 Fred: The Academy 2: €17 Jay Reatard: Whelan’s: €16 Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: €5 Fear the Foliage: Twisted Pepper WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11 Great Lake Swimmers, Sleeping Gurrumul: The Academy: €20 Hugh Cooney Don’t Like Monday: Pygmalion Sean Og’s Trihornophone: Bewley’sTheatre States: CrawDaddy: €13 Discobot, Worries Outernational: Le Cirk FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 Cave Singers, Espers: CrawDaddy: €18 We Have Band: CrawDaddy: €12 Mundy: The Button Factory: €25 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17 Joe Lally (Fugazi), Adebisi Shank: CrawDaddy Human Music Presents: Le Cirk I Draw Slow, Roots: Bernard Shaw: €7/€5 Rockabillies: Le Cirk Juliet Turner: The Cherrytree: €15 Johnny Reynolds Band: JJ Smyth’s: €8 HUman Music Presents: Le Cirk Channel One: The Button Factory Weedway: Le Cirk The Mojo Witnetygn mbsses: Mother Reilly’s Santoria: The Pennyhill: €5 Steve Earle: Olympia Theatre: €36/€40 Black Cat Bones: Mother Reillys Muse: The O2: €59/€54 The Airborne Toxic Event: Olympia: €18 Kirk Franklin: National Show Centre: €45 Mozaik: The Seamus Ennis Centre: €25 Hauschka: The Sugar Club: €17 Club F.E.A.R.: Pravda Motorcity Drum Ensemble: Pod: €10 Marina, The Diamonds: The Academy: €14 Jack L: Olympia Theatre: €25 Orbital: Tripod: €49/€42 Ali and the DTS: Whelan’s: €15 The Chapters: The Academy: €14 Umek: Tripod: €16 Yellowman: The Button Factory: €16 Club F.E.A.R.: Pravda David O’Doherty: Whelan’s: €11 Sonas Céilí Mór, Sonas House Band Daddy John Spillane: The Cherrytree: €17 Hamlet Sweeney: The Globe Irish Pink Floyd: Button Factory: €15 Technasia, Big Dish Go (4th Cassidy: The Button Factory: €7/€10 Charley Pride: The Helix: €54 € SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 Mark Eitzel: The Village: €20 Manteca: Slattery’s, Rathmines: €5 b’day bash): Kennedy’s: 12 Trashed, Indie/Electro: Andrew’s Lane UB40: The O2: €54/€49 More Tiny Giants: Cobblestone: €5 Brightblack Morning Light: Up. Whelan’s Super Extra Bonus Party, Le Dig Deep Sessions: Morgan Hotel Jelly Donut, Minimal Techno: The Village Giveamanakick (Final Tour): Whelan’s: €12 Coors Light PEAK, New Young Pony Sound of System Breakdown: Pygmalion Galaxie, Heathers, Bats: The Academy: €17 Transmission, Foamo, Marquis Mala, SGT Pokes: CrawDaddy: €15 € Club, Codes, RSAG: Dublin Docklands Yellowman: The Button Factory: €15 Irish Pink Floyd: The Button Factory: €15 D’Allton: The Button Factory: 12 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18 UFO/Alien Reunion, Francois: Pod: €10 Mr Hudson: The Academy: €19 Los Alamos:Twisted Pepper The Backstreet Boys: The O2: €44/€59 DJ Funk, Marco Bernardi: Twisted Pepper Weedway: Le Cirk MUD, DJ Godfather: Twisted Pepper € € Talking Heads: The Button Factory: €12 Noize: Andrew’s Lane Roddy Radiation (Specials): Thomas House Orbital: Tripod: 49/ 42 teenagersintokyo: The Academy: €11 John The Mantis v JC: Pygmalion Ham Sandwich: Whelan’s: €15 Antics Indie/Electro: CrawDaddy: €5 David O’Doherty: Whelan’s: €17 Sideshow (absurd cabaret): Twisted Pepper Datarock: The Academy: €17 John O’Callaghan (Never Fade Transmission, Riva Starr: Button Factory Shaker: The Academy: €8/€6 HouseMusicWeekends, John The Donk Boys, John The Mantis: Pygmalion The Song Room: The Globe Away Album Party): Andrew’s Lane: €20 € The Mighty Stefs Acoustic Nightmare: Village Mantis, Jay Alexander: Pygmalion Dizzy Disko: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: 10 Keith Mullins: The Sugar Club Wishy Washy Electro/Classic/Indie: Bia Bar Galactic Beat Club: Turk’s Head The Magnificent 7s: Upstairs Kennedy’s SideSteppin, Peter Cosgrove: Bia Bar WAR: Spy: €7/€10 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8 The Evening Watch, The Indecent Cigar Blasphemy: Wax DJ Rahaan, Downtownsounds, Fatty Reggae Fever: Le Cirk NoDisko: The Academy Motorhead: Olympia Theatre: €49 Emporium, Lumière: Twisted Pepper Fatty, Supafast: Kennedy’s: €10 Rubberband: Spy: €8/€10 Scribble: The Bernard Shaw Que Pezon! A World Music Project: The Mezz Tickly Feather (Paw Tracks): Up. Whelan’s Seduction: Melody Bar: €5 DJ Dave Cleary: The Globe DJ Eamonn Barrett: The Globe The Drones: Whelan’s: €13 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12 The Evening Watch: Twisted Pepper € House Your Body: Pod: €10 Subzero Indie Club: The Oak The Sunday Roast, The Crayon Set: Globe Preston Reed: Doyle’s: 15 Noize: Andrew’s Lane € Dave Clarke: Tripod: €19 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 € Jam: Purty Kitchen, Dun Laoghaire: €5 Smoothe Sailing: Pygmalion Isotope: JJ Smyth’s: 10 Antics Indie/Electro: CrawDaddy: 5 Orbital: Tripod: €49/€42 Pendulum- Laubrock: JJ Smyth’s: €12 € € Jack of Diamonds: Le Cirk Battle of the Bands: Mother Reilly’s Shaker: The Academy: 8/ 6 € Mud, Reach, Fanu, DJ Trax: Twisted Pepper The Specials: Olympia Theatre: €49/€54 Toby Keith: Olympia Theatre: 54 Galactic Beat Club: Turk’s Head SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 La Roux: The Academy: €17 John O’Callaghan (Never Fade Away Mary Coughlan: The Button Factory: €19 Blasphemy: Wax Cat Malojian: Cobblestone: €10 MONDAY NOVEMBER 9 Dimestore Recordings: Le Cirk Album Party): Andrew’s Lane: €20 Que Pezon: The Mezz Night Marchers, Dan Sartain: CrawDaddy Dave Garland: Bia Bar Zombie Circus Student Night: Jam Hot: 4 Dame Lane Yusuf Islam: The O2: €93/€76 Hollywood Slim and The Fat Cats: JJ Smyth’s : Olympia Theatre: €30/€39 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 Purty Kitchen, Dun Laoghaire: €8 Wishy Washy Electro/Classic/Indie: Bia Bar Rodrigo Y Gabriela: Vicar St: €30 € Knights of Leon (Tribute): The Academy: €12 Dublin City Jazz Orchestra: Button Factory Isotope: JJ Smyth’s: 10 Jinx Lennon: The Sugar Club House music: Melody Bar: €5 David O’Doherty: Whelan’s: €17 € Miss Paula Flynn: The Sugar Club: €12 Upbeat Generation: The Mezz Melody Gardot: Olympia Theatre: 28 Groundburst Ep Launch: Twisted Pepper: €7 WAR: Spy: €7/€10 Jack of Diamonds: Le Cirk € Alabama 3: Tripod: €27/€22 Future Islands: Upstairs at Whelan’s: €14 The Hot House Flowers: The Academy: 24 Pygs Will Fly, Heartthrob, John NoDisko: The Academy Sunday Roast Specials after party: The Globe The Gandhis: Whelan’s Hugh Cooney Don’t Like Monday: Pygmalion Hauschka: The Sugar Club The Mantis, Will Kinsell: Pygmalion €10 Scribble: The Bernard Shaw DeepIntoTheBowelsOfHouse: Ocean Bar Dimestore Recordings: Le Cirk Discobot, Worries Outernational: Le Cirk DJ Annie Mac: The Academy: €25 DJ Eamonn Barrett: The Globe Smoothe Sailing: Pygmalion Bionic Rats: Turk’s Head Whigfield, Larry David v Aidano:Pygmalion TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10 € Groundburst (ep launch): Twisted Pepper Subzero Indie Club: The Oak Grazing Aidan kelly: Solas: 12 You Kiss By The Book, Jennifer Crazy P Soundsystem, Big The Zodiac Sessions: Bruxelles € Control Delete: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: €4 Jam: Purty Kitchen, Dun Laoghaire: 5 12 Sundays: The Bernard Shaw Evans, Adam Matthews: Twisted Pepper Dish Go: Kennedy’s: €12 The Ruby Sessions, Saccade, Bill Coleman, Guateque Party, Domingo Sanchez: Bia Bar House of Cosy Cushions, Katie Kim: Whelan’s Generic People Djs: Button Factory Colm Lynch, Henrietta Game: Doyle’s DJ Dave Brown: Bruxelles SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14 MONDAY NOVEMBER 16 A Clockwork Apple: Twisted Pepper Revolution, J-Rocc: Twisted Pepper Rory Gallagher Acoustic Tribute: JJ Smyth’s Thursdays: The Lower Deck Cymbals Eat Guitars, North Rodrigo Y Gabriela: Olympia Theatre: €30 Radiomade Thursdays: Pygmalion POGO & ChoiceCuts J ROCC, Mano Gerry O’Connor, Tim Edey: Button Factory Soul: Solas Atlantic Oscillation: CrawDaddy: €12 David Geraghty: The Button Factory: €13 Control Delete: Andrew’s Lane Theatre Le Tough, Discotekken: Twisted Pepper

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JOE LALLY / ADEBISI SHANK Crawdaddy – Friday 20

Fugazi fans are freaks. Many of you may not have a notion who Joe Lally is but you can bet your ass that at least a few hundred of these weirdos are going to crawl out of the late-80’s woodwork in order to see the iconoclastic bassist of the hardcore/post- punk/dub band with the notoriously snobbish fan base performing at Crawdaddy on November 20. Lally’s solo style is ascetic and cerebral with serious punk leanings, that will give Minor Threat and Fugazi fans a hard on. Support comes from the infinitely popular post-punk Wexford band, Adebisi Shank.

Dizzy Disko: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: €10 The Mighty Stefs Acoustic Nightmare: Village House music: Melody Bar: €5 SideSteppin, Michael McKenna, Galactic Beat Club: Turk’s Head WAR: Spy: €7/€10 Peter Cosgrove: Bia Bar Blasphemy: Wax NoDisko: The Academy Rubberband: Spy: €8/€10 Scribble: The Bernard Shaw DJ Dave Cleary: The Globe THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 DJ Eamonn Barrett: The Globe Genesis: ThinkTank Dimestore Recordings: Le Cirk Subzero Indie Club: The Oak € Tripod Saturdays: Tripod Isotope: JJ Smyth’s: €10 Jam: Purty Kitchen, Dun Laoghaire: 5 Viva: Turk’s Head Robin Bibi: Lower Deck: €10 Battle of the Bands: Mother Reilly’s SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22 Yes: Olympia Theatre: €39/€44 Saturday Night Live, Ed Pendulum- Maria Tecce: JJ Smyth’s: €10 Arctic Monkeys, Eagles of Death Metal: O2 Deane Band: JJ Smyth’s: €10 Que Pezon: The Mezz Zombie Circus: Purty Kitchen, Bell X1: Olympia Theatre: €29 Beyonce: The O2: €51/€56 Dun Laoghaire: Bill Coleman: Academy 2 Jack of Diamonds: Le Cirk Musical Youth Foundation ‘Launch’: Village Gomez: The Academy: €26 The Sunday Roast: The Globe Bionic Rats: Turk’s Head Thriller Live: The O2: €42/€45 DeepIntoTheBowelsOfHouse: Ocean Bar Choice Cuts The Beatdown: Pygmalion Discobot, Worries Outernational: Le Cirk Smoothe Sailing: Pygmalion Control Delete: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: €3 Pogo, Carl Craig: Twisted Pepper (1st b’day) realsound Grazing Aidan kelly: Solas: €12 Guateque Party, Domingo Sanchez: Bia Bar The Breakestra feat. Afrodeyte 12 Sundays: The Bernard Shaw DJ Dave Brown: Bruxelles (Lp Launch): Button Factory: €22 Le Cirque, Djs Lady Jane: Wax: €5 Carl Craig, Tayor, Eoin Cregan, Mr MONDAY NOVEMBER 23 Jones Djs: Twisted Pepper: €20/15 Morrissey: National Stadium: €68 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 Microfunk, Brad and Sexshop: Pygmalion € € Ian Brown: Olympia Theatre: 39 Psychotic Reaction, Monotonix: CrawDaddy Dizzy Disko: Andrew’s Lane Theatre: 10 Hugh Cooney Don’t Like Monday: Pygmalion Rockabillies: Le Cirk SideSteppin, Michael McKenna, Bell X1: Olympia Theatre: €29 Peter Cosgrove: Bia Bar TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24 Club F.E.A.R.: Pravda DJ Dave Cleary: The Globe The Zodiac Sessions: Bruxelles Little Boots: The Academy:€18 Genesis: ThinkTank Brian Meakin Band: JJ Smyth’s: €8 Vitalic: The Academy: €33 Viva: Turk’s Head Ian Brown: Olympia Theatre: €39 Kasabian: The O2: €33 Dermot Byrne, Brid Harper: Button Factory Charlie Winston: The Village: €16 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29 The Jonas Brothers: The O2: €42 Paul Barrere, Fred Tackett: Whelan’s: €25 The Mission District: Academy 2 Gary Numan: Tripod: €27/€22 Chris Duckenfield, SWAG: Pod: €10 Katie Kim: The Button Factory: €15/€10 Trashed, Indie/Electro: Andrew’s Lane Fire House Skank: South William Jack of Diamonds: Le Cirk Jelly Donut, Minimal Techno: The Village Freaky Dancin: The Academy: €10 Donal Dineen, Katie Kim: Button Factory NoDisko: The Academy 2 DeepIntoTheBowelsOfHouse: Ocean Bar WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25 Dave Clarke: Tripod: €19 Smoothe Sailing: Pygmalion Weedway: Le Cirk Nightflight, Tony Lionni: Button Factory 12 Sundays: The Bernard Shaw Jesse Cook: The Academy: €23 MUD, Kaboogie: Twisted Pepper Ash: The Button Factory: €23 Bookashade (dj set): Tripod MONDAY NOVEMBER 30 The Song Room, Hamlet Sweeney: The Globe Aidano v Romo: Pygmalion Paolo Nutini: Olympia Theatre: €30 Romanov’s Goodbye: Pygmalion John O’Callaghan (Album Dublin City Jazz Orchestra: € Noize: Andrew’s Lane Party): Andrew’s Lane: 20 The Button Factory: €10 € Antics Indie/Electro: CrawDaddy: 5 Jam Hot: 4 Dame Lane Upbeat Generation: The Mezz € € Shaker: The Academy: 8/ 6 Wishy Washy Electro/Classic/Indie: Bia Bar Hugh Cooney Don’t Like Monday: Pygmalion

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nextnext monthmonth i'di'd ratherrather be...be... Not hanging around Ireland, where the powers- the MusiTech summit, which is a kind of Who: Speakers include Rhapsody’s VP of that-screw are planning to hack the dole, get-together for all kinds of influential digital music programming, YouTube’s chief counsel give the bankers billions and where you can’t music and interwebby types, where they’ll and Rolling Stone/Onion/etc journalist and all even call Jesus a cunt anymore. Better to be decide the future of music. Includes a cocktail round interesting chap David Downs and a In San Francisco, where the weather is nice, party afterwards – read as an opportunity to bunch of other folks. the girls are pretty and most of the guys are get pissed with some of the people who’ll be Where: Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco gay – score! (Eh, don’t tell my girlfriend I said deciding what you can and can’t do with your When: December 7 that...) Actually, I (Steve Awesome) WILL be in computer in the 21st century. Costs: $99 – find the fucking flights on the SF, but for those of you that won’t be, you’ll What: Day long conference on things and internet like everyone else, you lazy bastard... be missing some shit, I tells ya. F’rinstance, shit-musical, plus piss-up. Info: www.sfmusictech.com win with connected * With more prizes than punch lines, our handy competition section continues to lead the charge against your caustic cash flow situation – with loads of free passes up for grabs to the gigs below, and more, all online at connected.ie: Green Spheres, Digitalism, Marina And The Diamonds: Dinn Rí - Nov 12 / Great Lake Swimmers: Crawdaddy - Nov 13 / Cymbals Eat Guitars: Crawdaddy - Nov 14 / Tickley Feather: Whelan’s - Nov 18 / Matt Walsh: Antics - Nov 18 / Steve Aoki: Button Factory - Nov 19 / Mala featuring Pokes: Crawdaddy - Nov 20 / DJ Godfather, Breakdown Label Launch: Twisted Pepper - Nov 20 / Reader’s Wives: Odessa - Nov 21 / J Rocc, Mano Le Tough: Twisted Pepper - Nov 21 / Atlas Sound: Whelan’s - Nov 21 / Alabama 3: Tripod - Nov 21 / Monotonix: Crawdaddy - Nov 27 / Laura Izibor: Tripod - Nov 28 / Cass McCombs: Whelan’s - December 3 / Early Day Miners: Whelan’s - December 4 / Deertick: Whelan’s - Dec 6 / Bob Bok and L-Vis 1990: Button Factory - December 5

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