CONNECTED*49 CONNECTED MAGAZINE // NOVEMBER 2009 YELLOWMAN // MILANESE // NIGHTFLIGHT // TOP TENS // REVIEWS // GIG LISTINGS // MORE FREE Editor Talk Contents Essentials Contact *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 Ireland’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 Dublin, Cork 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.