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  • 14-03-2009 4:13pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭


    Yo,

    Andy Votel is playing at a special paddies weekend ClubHeadBangBang this Saturday in Tralee..

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    Andy Votel is as close to a one-man music business as you could wish to get. A solo artist in his own right, he also produces, remixes, designs, DJs and runs a number of blissfully eclectic record labels.
    Votel grew up in the north west of England and developed a broad taste for music, specializing in all things psychedelic, from Can to Serge Gainsbourg. He released some records on Grand Central and started the legendary Twisted Nerve label back in the late 90s along with Bad Drawn Boy. Things got mental busy from there on in.

    But probably the reason most people will know Andy Votel is for his record collection. And damn, kid – Andy Votel got records for days. His Music To Make Girls Cry and Songs In The Key Of Death mixes are testament to that, spawning a generation of diggers to start looking in ever more obscure places and countries. He's scoured a world of second hand shops on his international record raid, a quest to unearth the forgotten foreign dancefloor gems from the days long past. And it's these lost musical documents that end up being discovered by a new generation of heads, thanks to the immense amount of folk, psych, and prog diamonds that have been reissued by Votel via his Finders Keepers and B-Music labels.

    Expect Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats and bubblegum folk all slapped up in a wigged-out wash of exquisite foreign breakbeat mayhem.

    b-music.co.uk
    finderskeepersrecords.com
    myspace.com/andyvotel

    clubheadbangbang.org
    chbb space
    chbb book


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  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    ClubHeadBangBang Present:

    Midori Hirano & Laura Sheeran,
    & chbb dj's
    Thursday 19th March
    Doors 9pm

    €0.00 Service Charge !

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    Born in 1979 in Kyoto, Midori Hirano started creating music on her computer after graduating from university with a major in classical piano. In 2004, she released the EP Poet at the Piano from Luxembourg label soundzfromnowhere and participated in shows throughout Europe.

    In September 2006, she worked with guest musicians on her first album LushRush released from noble records. Following the release, she has played both with bands and as a solo performer mainly in the Kansai area. Musicians that she has performed with in the past include Momus, Shugo Tokumaru, O.lamm, mama!milk, mamie-MU (dumbtype), and YTAMO (Urichipangoon), among others. In addition to her own work, Midori Hirano also works with domestic and international artists in remixes, collaborations, and label compilations, and also creates soundtracks for European and Asian films. In February 2008, she participated in the “Berlinale Talent Campus”, a program for young filmmakers hosted by the Berlin International Film Festival. She was the only Japanese artist to be invited in the composer category.

    In October 2008, she released her new full album in 2 years entitled klo:yuri.

    Originally from Galway, Laura Sheeran is an emerging young talent who's music continuously refuses to be placed within the boundaries of any one genre. Her recordings span endless musical fields, crossing the acoustic with the electronic, a'cappella with synth trash and lush string arrangements with music made with hardware tools! Her solo live performances frequently fuse elements of theatre, musical improvisation, pedals and laptop, along with a sea of other instruments and leave audiences inspired, awakened and always wanting more!

    At the ripe age of 20, Laura has already explored the musical worlds of theatre, film and the avant-garde. Singer with 'Fovea Hex', she has appeared throughout the "neither speak nor remain silent" ep collection and has performed with FH all over europe. She has also written music for three plays and performed her compositions live for each show while touring.

    midorihirano.com
    myspace.com/midorihirano

    myspace.com/laurasheeranmusic

    laurasheeran.blogspot.com

    clubheadbangbang.org
    chbb space
    chbb book


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Will their be a return visit/gig by them I wonder? Well, any feedback from the night yet? I was also out tonight but think I am showing my age here now by already being back after our night out and curled up :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Hey, happy to have a regular thread here if you want to post upcoming events to it. Best if you just keep this one going and add to it as you go along. If it becomes popular I might sticky it.

    ps: This is only because CHBB is a non-profit organisation so promotion of it here is not really an 'ad' in the traditional sense.


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Thank 440hz, thats great !
    But for 'non-profit' you can replace with 'loss-making' !!:)
    But it is well worth it to be able to appreciate music and musicians of this calibre play here in Kerry !! Thank for the support...
    kerry4sam wrote: »
    Will their be a return visit/gig by them I wonder? Well, any feedback from the night yet? I was also out tonight but think I am showing my age here now by already being back after our night out and curled up :o

    It was Andy Votels first time in Kerry, he seemed to like it, but he is a busy man but it would be good to see him back again someday. he has an amazing knowledge of music from around the world the most amazing record collection. All the other dj are local and play from time to time !


    If your wondering if about Midori Hirano and Laura Sheeran they haven't play yet so you can still catch them this time !!

    Here is a review of Midori's latest album in Time Magazine


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Matt Elliott [Third Eye Foundation]
    &
    Tone Vain
    &
    Visuals by Rock Steady Kevie
    &
    chbb dj's

    Saturday 11th April
    The Greyhound Bar [rear venue], Tralee

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    Matt Elliott has rather an atypical course. He used to work under the pseudo name The Third Eye Foundation, an emblematic figure of the English electronic scene recognized for his atypical electro tinted by drum' n bass.

    Since his first album under his own name "The mess we made" ( on Domino Records), Matt Elliott has turned to compositions much more folk based, forsaking the laptop and the machines and turning more traditional instruments, guitar, piano and violin.

    His fiercely independent approach has won him many admirers, and Matt has completed remixes for Mogwai, Thurston Moore, Blonde Redhead, and Yann Tiersen amongst others. Matt also continues to collaborate with long-term friends Hood, and lends his playing to many more records, as guitarist, drummer, clarinetest, viola player and programmer. Matt has toured far and wide over the last twelve years, recently appearing at Primavera Sound, Benicassim and Electric Picnic.

    Support from local trio Tone Vain.


    http://www.thirdeyefoundation.com
    http://www.myspace.com/mattelliotandthethirdeye
    http://clubheadbangbang.org


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  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Super Tennis [uk]
    &
    Hooray for Humans [ooal]
    &
    chbb dj's

    Thursday 16th April
    The Greyhound Bar [rear venue], Tralee
    Doors 9pm
    Zero door tax, Zero door levy !




    myspace.com/supertennislovesyou
    myspace.com/hoorayforhumansband

    clubheadbangbang.org


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Just in....
    REST and S.H.!.T.

    Thursday 30th April

    more details soon
    !


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    ClubHeadBangBang Present:

    Rest
    [Out On A Limb Records]

    with support from:

    S.h.!.t. /SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=3][B]So Hardcore It's Terrifying[/B][/SIZE][SIZE=4][SIZE=2][SIZE=3

    Thursday 30th April

    Free Entry

    [/SIZE]Rest are back, anyone who witnessed their previous ClubHeadBangBang gig, in which the power blew and they played in the dark will know that this is a gig not to be missed !

    Rest initially began life in late 2001. A demo was subsequently recorded and numerous gigs around Ireland with numerous bands followed while the four piece wrote the material that what would eventually become their debut album, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame, released on Out On A Limb Records in 2004. The band toured Britian with Swedish post-metal outfit Cult of Luna, before releasing their second record, the new mini-album, Operation: Impending Doom. Over two tracks and twenty minutes it offered a significant shift in tone and mood from previous releases. More shows around the country with the likes of Torche, Baroness, Red Sparrows, Isis and Trans Am followed. All the while, the band have been patiently working on the follow up to Operation: Impending Doom, which they hope will see the light of day next year.

    http://www.myspace.com/rest

    S.H.!.T. (So Hardcore It's Terrifying) are a 4 piece band from Tralee that have been playing together for little over a year. They recorded their 6 track demo at the end of '08 and is available online on their myspace/bebo pages, they try not to stick to one genre, instead making music with a mix of metal/experimental/progressive/instrumental rock.
    S.H.!.T. are: Aaron Sutton (vocals,synth,samples,percussion),Matthew Sutton(guitar,vocals),J BOY(bad ass bass,vocals),James McPeake(drums).

    http://www.myspace.com/sohardcoreitsterrifying
    http://www.bebo.com/gotsome****4u

    http://clubheadbangbang.org
    http://myspace.com/clubheadbangbang
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tralee-Ireland/ClubHeadBangBang/49550026970



  • Registered Users Posts: 323 ✭✭manoverboards


    woo hoo,

    Rest rock,
    that other band a sure to be sh!t....
    :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 33 Miss-Tralee


    Awwww man.... Gonna Miss the S.H.!.T/Rest gig... Its gonna be tight ya'll... :p S.H.!.T. are class... Can't really remember Rest!:o


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  • Registered Users Posts: 323 ✭✭manoverboards


    woo hoo,

    Rest rock,
    that other band a sure to be sh!t....
    :D

    Well let it be said that S.h!.t. ain't **** !

    Rest were savage [as always]


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Well let it be said that S.h!.t. ain't **** !

    Rest were savage [as always]

    Good stuff out of them alright....

    #######


    Ding-a-ling,

    Tomorrow sees the launch of the Kerry Bicycle Festival, which aims to celebrate
    all that is wonderful about the worlds favourite recession proof mode of
    transport.

    The festival kicks off with 'My Lovely Bicycle' where cyclists who have a
    particular love of their tubular nag will have a chance to left them shine in a
    public arena. If you are confused as to what this may entail, think 'The Rose of
    Tralee' for the 'Town Bike' with a hint of Father Teds 'Lovely Girl
    Contest', kinda like like crufts for our 2 wheeled friends! The word on the
    street is that the event will be compared by the south-wests top ping-pong
    commentating duo.

    So polish up your high nellie and head on down, registration from 9 judging from 10, @ The greyhound bar

    This will be followed swiftly by live music from Alphastates, who have just
    released the new album 'Human Nature'

    The festival continues over the weekend and into next week, other events include
    evening of bike films in the Samhlaoicht Gallery on Friday, the launch of
    'Frame' a cycle themed art exhibition at 6pm on Saturday in Siamsa Tire and of
    course some cycling.

    And best of all all the events are free !

    Full details can be found on the festival website:

    http://kerrybicyclefestival.org

    +
    Alphastates
    +

    Having spent the past few years buried away from the public scrutiny,
    Alphastates finally make a reappearance this spring with a flurry of activity
    and the release of the new album 'Human Nature'
    Completed and then redone entirely from scratch, this is Alphastates' follow-up
    to their ground-breaking début, and it confirms them as a major creative force,
    an inventive respite from blog-standard guitar-driven formulaic rock. Singer
    Catherine Dowling's presence throughout is a revelation, evoking memories of
    Shirley Manson and Beth Gibbons, but with a flexibility that challenges both.
    From the bleeps and rumbles of the gripping opening title-track you can't avoid
    comparisons with Garbage, and the ghosts of Kraftwerk and Portishead are never
    too far away either. Human Nature comes from a band finding their own groove in
    the delicate balance between nature and technology, and giving us a rock album
    with songs you can dance to."

    http://www.alphastates.com/
    http://www.myspace.com/alphastates


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    Was unaware this thread existed....


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    ClubHeadBangBang Present:
    _Fuzz Orchesta
    _& Hounds
    Fuzz Orchestra was born in 2005, Luca Ciffo (guitar/voice), Fiè (analogic manipulations) and Marco Mazzoldi (drums) decide, while running other musical projects (Bron Y Aur, Collettivo A6), to start a band moving on different coordinates. Starting from radical improvisation, the band achieves to forge a sound which, today, is built on strong rock textures, guitar and drums based, on which a fluxus of outer sounds (old movies, old vinyls cut ups, noise streams and real time audio manipulations) ties and rages.
    Melding Italo prog, kraut and stoner rock, Fuzz Orchestra follow in the footsteps of Zu and Uzeda as Italian torch bearers of experimental rock.

    Hounds is a band.
    That is to say, a band who get together to drink under the pretence of making music.
    It comprises members of Spook of the 13th Lock, Spellbound, Papercop (r.i.p).
    Hounds jam long into the night, making sh*t up until they fall over.
    The next morning, the fetid reels are edited into 5 minutes of borederline hilarity.
    Every note is AMAAYZing.

    Thursday 11th June
    The Greyhound Bar,Tralee
    Doors 9pm
    Free Entry


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    www.myspace.com/houndslikejumpers mysp.png
    www.clubheadbangbang.org mysp.png


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    And this is our first every summer gig, so come along and support the cause
    :-)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭ella23


    Hey. How do you send a demo in to Club Head Bang Bang to try and get a gig.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭sheesh


    there are contact detais on the site clubheadbangbang.org

    http://clubheadbangbang.org/cd.php


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    THE AU SIXTH BIRTHDAY TOUR

    ASIWYFA AND ADEBISI SHANK GEAR UP FOR MAJOR IRISH JAUNT

    To celebrate six years of publishing, AU is teaming up with Livewire Promotions to take two of the best Irish bands from north and south on a tour across Ireland. The first two weeks of July will see the tour hit Tralee, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Derry and Belfast. Representing the north, we have the mighty And So I Watch You From Afar. They’ve barely been off tour all year, bringing their seismic brand of instrumental rock to fans across the UK and Ireland, and the AU tour comes hot on the heels of European dates with stoner rock legends Clutch.

    Joining ASIWYFA is another loud, intense instrumental band, the frankly astonishing Adebisi Shank. Last seen in Belfast as guests at ASIWYFA’s huge album launch gig at the Mandela Hall, the Wexford trio infuse their mathy, technical sound with a large dose of punk energy, often at the risk of injuring themselves as guitarist Lar and bassist Vinny leap around – and off – the stage. Each gig on the tour will also feature local support, while rising stars the Panama Kings will fill in for Adebisi at the final date in Belfast.

    ASIWYFA guitarist Tony Wright reckons that the importance of the north-south link-up and an Irish tour is not to be underestimated. “It’s great to finally have things building up between the north and south and starting to get a gig network going,” he says. “It’s been long overdue and I think it’s really positive. That’s all we try to do – anything in a positive way, and the more connections that open up between the north and the south, the better. An infrastructure for a gig network – it’s ridiculous that we don’t have more stuff in place. So this is an absolutely golden opportunity – we can’t wait.”

    “It’s really important,” adds Adebisi drummer and Richter Collective (BATS, Not Squares, Enemies) label boss Mick Roe. “For a long time, there seems to have been a Northern Irish music scene and a southern Irish music scene. Bands would go up and down but there’d be no real communication like there seems to be starting now, with the State and AU clubs and other stuff like that. I think it’s starting to take off, anyway.”

    The two bands have played together before, notably at the first ever Club AU in Belfast last year, and are good friends. The AU Sixth Birthday Tour, however, will be the first ever time the bands have been out on the road together, and Mick is audibly excited when we ask him about the prospect. “We’ve never toured with them before,” he admits. “We’ve only played a couple of one-off shows in Dublin and Belfast, but never got out around Ireland. We’ve been meaning to do it for quite some time but never round to it yet. It’s gonna be fun!”

    Tony agrees: “It’s great because I get to watch a band that I absolutely adore and jump about and go nuts, and then I can jump about and go nuts with my own band!”


    THOSE DATES IN FULL
    WHERE AND WHEN TO GET YOUR ROCK ON

    Thursday, July 2
    ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank & support
    Club Head Bang Bang, Tralee


    Friday, July 3
    ASIWYFA & support
    Lower Deck, Dublin

    Saturday, July 4
    ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank, I’ll Eat Your Face, Burn Us Both, Trev Moran
    Pine Lodge, Cork

    Sunday, July 5
    ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank, I’ll Eat Your Face, My Mothers Son
    Baker Place, Limerick

    Thursday, July 9
    ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank & support
    Mason’s, Derry

    Friday, July 10
    ASIWYFA, Panama Kings & support
    trans Festival, The Waterfront Hall, Belfast


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    Anything lined up for August?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    CLUB HEAD BANG BANG PRESENTS:

    Beastmen EP launch, With Special Guests - Plinth

    Beastmen
    Beastmen launch their new EP "Esos Gaupos Cabrones" on Thursday,Nov 26th...
    The bastard offspring of five maniacs - a Scotsman, a Pole, an Irishman, a German and a Spaniard - Beastmen was formed in Cork city in September 2007... They play a mixture of surf, electronica, heavy rock, circus music and mariachi sounds - completely instrumental, though with the occasional use of vocoder, yelps and screams.
    Imagine Dick Dale getting into a knife fight with Mogwai at a Therapy? gig, before The Human League break it up with Rottweilers and baseball bats - all to what seems like a George A Romero movie soundtrack and you're in the right area... almost.

    Plinth
    Plinth's style of music has (in the band's view) matured and grown into a more unique and complex style. This new way of looking at music came about from listening to more experimental and avant-garde influences. The great Frank Zappa springs to mind and indeed, along with inspiration from groups like Mr. Bungle, Meshuggah and Björk, Plinth developed a far more technically demanding, genre-hopping style of schizo-rock, a style which can jump from be-bop to middle-eastern music, from 4/4 rock to 13/8 polyrhythmical semi-nonsense metal. This style of music has been adopted for two main reasons, according to the band. Firstly, their love of music is pretty much all-encompassing, and put simply, the band can't really choose one style to play in without getting bored or feeling limited. Call it the manifestation of 21st Century impatience, but they see it as the perfect style of music – one which seeks to celebrate, parody and mimic every musical style out there, while keeping the signature sound of the band which is maintained unconsciously in every song. The second reason is that it is an unpredictable and exciting playground in which to create. There are no limitations associated with song format, no limitation on the 'listener-friendliness' of the songs – since this is not a main concern to begin with, and there is never a dull moment when you are on your toes listening to an unpredictable band.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    Apologies about the size of that Image...
    :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    Clubheadbangbang lives!
    Good to see it's still going :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    ClubHeadBangBang is five tonight!:D

    Come along for cake and tunes...


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭sheesh


    good gig! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    Sickened i missed it :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    Bats at the ready for the 4th annual ClubHeadBangBang Table Tennis Tournament. Players of all ages and skill levels welcome, sports attire optional.

    Registration at 9pm throw in at 9.30pm. Bats and Balls provided. Choons in the warm-up/cool-down area from Jack Crooks.

    http://clubheadbangbang.org


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    Sounds like fun! :)
    In fact it sounds like a good way to unwind after a crappy week of exams and what-not...


  • Registered Users Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Just a heads up of the next chbb event with Neosupervital


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    Neosupervital who was joined on stage by Silvester, during his last visit to Tralee, [Photo © Kevin Herlihy]



    Neosupervital is the nom-de-pop of Tim O'Donovan, a multi-instrumentalist who has just released his second album; Proceeds, ten prime slices of electronic funk pop. Last time out Neosupervital live was a band affair - with three other people on stage- but this time it's just Tim going it alone. He's playing guitar and synthesizer and singing onstage, and wants you to dance and sing along. Indeed the first single; big on funk guitars, percussion, big synths and big drums, is called "Dance with You"

    Neosupervital previously visited Tralee in 2006 as part of Bloom, he has also played festivals such as Oxegen, Castlepalooza and Electric Picnic, and has also opened for the Human League, Money Mark, Peter Hook and The Divine Comedy.

    Tim was also Bell X1's tour drummer a number of years ago.


    Thursday the eighteenth of February,
    Nine hours post meridiem,
    Two thousand and ten,
    The Greyhound Bar,
    Pembroke Street,
    West Side,
    Tralee,
    Z€ro.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    I like the sound of that!I liked them live the last time they were in tralee!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    Ah class!:D


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