This weeks news Feb 12
Not this week but a date for your diary – Coming up on Feb 27 and a real date for your diary post Irish General Election is Jumble Rock – a new all ages music event coming to the Hot Spot Music Club, Greystones on the 27th of February 2016 (1 – 5 pm). There will be a music jumble sale. Sell or trade your records, tapes, CDs, books, zines. €10 to set up a stall and a cheaper rate of €5 for U16s. Email at [email protected] if you want to set up a stall. We’ll be playing the best in punk, garage, blues, and folk. Expect to hear Bo Diddley, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Klennex, C.C.T.V, The Clean, Joan Shelley, and many others. Come down to browse the stalls, listen to some great music, and chat about your favourite songs. General entry is free on the day.
Back to this week though and it’s some weekend for gigs – small, large completely diy right through to plain alternative. Whether it’s the folk rock tunes of Frank Turner or the trash metal of suicidal tendencies the Academy will keep you interested in the major label supported acts.
However DIY and indie promoters have just as much going on – Richie Ramone is on in the Voodoo Lounge on Saturday and Obstruct are playing with the flex in tenterhooks. There’s punk rock in on the rox and State magazine are presenting the State of faces night in Whelans.
Also Cian Nugent’s Night Fiction came out on January 29th via Woodsist Records. It is Cian Nugent’s third album but his first taking on the role of singer-songwriter. Where his previous two albums: 2013’s Born With The Caul and 2011’s Doubles saw him exploring extended guitar based instrumentals with his band, The Cosmos, here he has reigned things in and focused his songwriting skills. Guitar fans, do not fear, there is still plenty of soloing and fingerpicking here. With 7 songs both solo and with his band, this album amalgamates everything Cian has done up to this point and reveals a more broad palate of influences, including The Velvet Underground, Richard Thompson, Television, Neil Young, John Lennon, Fred Neil, etc.
Recorded over a week beginning on Valentine’s Day 2014, Night Fiction was recorded in Bow Lane Studios in Dublin with Daniel Fox (Girl Band) and mixed by Brendan Jenkinson. The album’s seven songs include solo ventures as well as full-band recordings feat. David Lacey on drums, Conor Lumsden on bass, Brendan Jenkinson on organ and piano and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh on viola. The vibe here is familiar yet refreshing and a logical progression for Cian.
Gigs on the way
Feb 12 – Frank Turner + Sleeping Souls, The Academy
Feb 12 – Cian Nugent and The Cosmos + Al McKay + Bad Sea, Grand Social
Feb 12 – The flex + Obstruct, Tenterhooks
Feb 12 – State Faces of February – Æ MAK + Katie Laffan + The Witch Trials, Whelans
Feb 12 – Turfboy + Kurt! from Toulouse, France + The Craic + Orkka + Shrapnelz, On The Rox
Feb 13 – Richie Ramone, Vodoo Lounge
Feb 13 – Sophie Cooper + Tor Invocation band + Wry Myrrh, Steambox, School Street, Dublin 8
Feb 14 – Suicidal Tendencies, The Academy
Feb 17 – Kataklysm+ eptic Flesh + Aborted,Voodoo Lounge
Feb 18 – Alright the Captain + Steve Strong Music + A Werewolf! + We Come In Pieces, Roisin Dubh, Galway
Feb 19 – Jungbluth + Bacchus, Tenterhooks
Feb 19 – Alright the Captain + Steve Strong Music + A Werewolf! + We Come In Pieces, Cobblestone Joes- Limerick
Feb 19 – The Dubtones (Dublin Ska/Punk) + The Migraines (UK Hardcore Punk) + The Kluster-Fux (Offaly Hardcore Punk) + The Black Pitts (Dublin ’77 Punk) + The Divils (Dublin Ska/Punk) + Doppelskangers(Galway Noise) + The Nilz (Dublin Punk/Grunge. ex Mongohorn members), Fibber Magees
Feb 21 – Blood or Whiskey, Toners
Feb 22 – Baio, The Workmans Club
Feb 23- Shearwater, The Button Factory
Feb 25 – Skyfever + Dorsia + Crooked Edge + Key, Grand Social
Feb 27 – xSlf + the Gakk + Hooligan, Thomas House
March 3 – Lee Scratch Perry, The Academy
March 5 – The Cult, Vicar Street
March 9 – Toby Driver, Bello Bar
March 10 – The Wonder Stuff, the Academy
March 11 – The Lee Harveys + Blackpitts – Make Music Not Way, The Thomas House
March 13 – Cradle of Filth, The Academy
March 15 – Holy Waves + The Urges + This Other Kingdom, Grand Social
March 22 – Battles, Button factory
March 26 – At The Drive In +Le Butcherettes, Vicar Street
March 27 – The Ramonas + The Craic, Fibber Magees
March 31 – Protomartyr, The Workmans Club
April 2 – Peter Hok and the Light perform New Order’s Low-Life and Brotherhood, with
opening Joy Division Set, The Academy
April 2 – The Meatboides, The Workmans Club
April 8 – THE Defects + SFU +The Nils + Spaz Attack, One The Rox
April8- Toby Kaar, The Workmans Club
April 17 – Basia Bulat, The Workmans Club
April 23 – Red Alert + Takers and Users, the Kluster fux + Suckin’ Diesel, On The Rox
April 30 – Dublin Ska Festival , The Grand Social
April 30 – frau + Sissy, Tenterhooks
April 30 – Duncan Reid and the Big heads + the Lee harveys + The Divils + Steven VX
