ClubHeadBangBang present:

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

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

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

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

manoverboards wrote: »

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

Rest were savage [as always]

Good stuff out of them alright....

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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

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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

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


www.fuzzorchestra.com/
www.myspace.com/houndslikejumpers
www.clubheadbangbang.org

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

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

Just a heads up of the next chbb event with Neosupervital




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.

Where are you these days, i am sure you can catch him nearby as he seems to be doing a bit of a tour !

RichyX wrote: »

Savage live, well worth going to see.
Gutted I won't be able to see them down the Hound

Like River To Ocean is the second album from Kerry born natives, James Kennedy and Tony O Flaherty who together form Avatar. The duo is a synthesis of Kennedy’s original compositions and arrangements coupled with O’ Flaherty’s engineering skills. The services of some of Ireland’s finest musicians known as The Avatar Massive are also enlisted. Avatar produce a fusion of 70's Dub Reggae, Jazz and Ambient Sounds which are uniquely their own and present a ten strong band at live performances. Like River To Ocean has been described as delightfully melodic with Kennedy's flowing bass lines being complimented superbly by some beautiful brass harmonies and a diverse range of instrumentation.

www.amarumusic.net

Official album Launch
Thursday 11th March
The Greyhound Bar
Doors 9.30
Free Entry

The album will be on sale on the night.

Hup,

Just a heads up on April chbb action, featuring Like A Fire and KVX

Thursday 29th @ The Greyhound Bar Annex

Check em out:

http://www.myspace.com/likeafiremusic

http://www.myspace.com/kvxuality

Donal Dineen presents Hulk, Chequerboard and Adrian Crowley live in St. John's Church on Ashe Street in Tralee for Club Head Bang Bang, with live visuals from Donal Dineen.

http://www.clubheadbangbang.org

ADRIAN CROWLEY
Winner of the 2009 Choice Album of the Year for his most recent release: Season of the Sparks, Adrian Crowley is an Irish singer-songwriter/folk artist. Originally from Barna, County Galway, he lives in Dublin.

Crowley released his first album, A Strange Kind, in 1999 which was followed by When You Are Here You are Family (2001), A Northern Country (2004). His Choice nominated fourth album Long Distance Swimmer was a breakthrough album of sorts, acknowledging his evident musicianship for a wider audience.
His Choice winning Season of the Sparks is surely one of the irish albums of the decade, not least just of 2009.

"On his fourth album, this great Irish songwriter continues to creep under the skin and behind your defences, his hushed songs, spare lyrics and diffident baritone detonating with real impact, for all that they arrive by stealth and without the slightest suggestion of an imminent explosion. Crowley deploys restraint as a deadly weapon, the self-recriminating Leaving the Party merely a repeated guitar figure and mumbled, mournful singing, which gives the eventual entry of added instrumentation, rhythm and ghostly backing vocals incredible force. The sawing and swooping strings on Walk on Part (“Of all the bedrooms in this town, you walked into mine”) create a similar frisson. This is a wonderful album." **** THE SUNDAY TIMES

http://www.myspace.com/adriancrowley

CHEQUERBOARD
Chequerboard is Irish musician & artist John Lambert, whose debut album ‘Gothica’ was released in 2002 and was followed up in 2005 with the 6 track mini-album ‘Dictaphone Showreels’ on dublin label Lazybird. A set of stark haunting guitar pieces set to a backdrop of field recordings and incidental sounds. Something of a diamond in the rough, it gradually found a dedicated, discerning and passionate audience. The opening track ‘Konichiwa’ subsequently found its way onto two separate Irish electronica compilations including R na G’s Cian O Ciabhain’s acclaimed ‘An Taobh Tuathail Vol. 1 compilation’.

The Chequerboard live show is simply Lambert, his guitar and a series of guitar pedals building lush, textured, soundscapes that paint an evocative world of their own. In 2007, Lambert received a music fellowship from the Model Arts & Niland Gallery in Sligo where he spent the year working on Penny Black, a stunning album which brings the listener through a series of textured and meticulously crafted guitar-led passages. Penny Black was released in March 2008 to glowing reviews.

'A priceless rarity and something to treasure' (*****5 stars) The Irish Times

'As delicate, detailed and purposeful as a Japanese garden.'Sunday Tribune

'A defiant, deliberate and complete collection of beautiful songs. Lambert has produced a work of real importance. 'Totally Dublin

http://www.myspace.com/chequerboardmusic

HULK
Thomas Haugh records under the name Hulk. He has produced two albums for OSAKA records (Silver thread of ghosts – 2005 and Rise of a Mystery Tide – 2008) as well as producing materials for labels such as Melodic, Static Caravan and Expanding Records. He has also remixed works by other artists, most notably Efterklang.

"Gorgeous atmospherics and melodic sounds" - Smallfish

"Silver Thread Of Ghosts is a remarkable piece of work" - Angry Ape

"...gently contemplative and quietly moving music-making" - The WIRE

"Highly Impressive" - The Ticket / Irish Times

http://www.myspace.com/hulkmusic

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Listen back to Donal's interview with Chequerboard: http://freshairfestival.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/funk-and-soul-chequerboard-and-sunken-foal/

and Adrian Crowley and Hulk: http://freshairfestival.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/music-architects

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Tickets €10 are available from
Lee Records, Castle Street, Tralee
(066) 7127589
leerecords1@eircom.net | www.leerecords.com

Junes installment of chbb is on this Thursday with the Jung Turks & The bull Munro

This Thursday sees the return of Galway brothers Ed and James aka the Jung Turks
who blew people the last time the visited Tralee a few years back. This time
there are touring to promote their debut album Liber Eth, which you can hear a
preview of here:

http://soundcloud.com/jung_turks/this-slaves-freedom-cries

Support on the night come from The Bull Munro who hail from Dublin.

Who - Jung Turks & the Bull Munro
When - 9pm - 11.30pm Thursday 17th June
Where - The Greyhound Bar Annex
Why - 'cos you're worth it !

This will also probably be our last event for the summer, so do pop along if you
are about.


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Jung Turks are James P. Rooney (drums, percussion, sonics) and Edward D. Rooney
(nylon string guitar). They play what is known as Œjãipha - this musical form
is based on the belief that the artist is a channel through which the infinite
reveals. Through study of Œjãipha masters from Duluth, Calw, Paola, Algeciras,
Jajouka, Belfast and Aracataca the brothers' pallette has developed and musical
boundaries diminished. Since their inception in the spring of 2005 they have
performed to audiences across Ireland, on occasion in the company of such
subterranean heroes as The Redneck Manifesto, giveamanakick, The Jimmy Cake,
The Dublin Guitar Quartet, Ten Past Seven, Blood On The Wall, Larrikin Love and
Orson.

http://www.jungturks.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jung-Turks/167972729678

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The Bull Munro are Danny Maher and Rob McComish, and are based out of
Christchurch, Dublin. Their first gig together, oddly enough for the Tipperary
and Wicklow natives, was in Wroclaw in SW Poland in January 2009. Since then
The Bull has been perfecting their live shows, defining their eclectic sound
and cutting their teeth in the studio, all of this to bring you their debut
single "Late November". The fact that they have played the extremes of Europe
from the Polish highlands to the Mediterranean Islands, through France and
Germany and back again is a clear demonstration of the bands ambition and
dedication.

Nice video here:

http://vimeo.com/12335096

http://breakingtunes.com/thebullmunro
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bull-Munro/271417346492