[kingdumb]

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

[ella23]

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

[sheesh]

there are contact detais on the site clubheadbangbang.org

http://clubheadbangbang.org/cd.php

[kingdumb]

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

[RichyX]

Anything lined up for August?

[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.

[11811]

Apologies about the size of that Image...

[RichyX]

Clubheadbangbang lives!
Good to see it's still going

[11811]

ClubHeadBangBang is five tonight!

Come along for cake and tunes...

[sheesh]

good gig!

[Patricide]

Sickened i missed it

[kingdumb]

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

[11811]

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

[kingdumb]

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.

[carchaeologist]

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