AN ALBATROSS this thursday!

damomeasa

Skinny Wolves & GZ Dublin present



An Albatross (Usa / GSL & Ace Fu Records)
(Retards)
Born A Ghost

Thursday 1st June
PORCO DIO Club, The Lower Deck, Portobello, Dublin
Pre gig event : Zine Show @ Anthology Books


AN ALBATROSS

Website:
http://www.analbatross.com & http://www.myspace.com/analbatross23



about:
Brothers and Sisters! Aural Emancipation by the sacred sonic offerings of the An Albatross aggregation is on its way! Their mission is to attune you to the Kinetic-Life and yield an experience gratifying to the soul and the body alike: a communal gathering of bodies in motion devoid of inhibiting, hyper-individualized frame of thought!

An Albatross is a psychedelic sonic orgasm; a barrage of mechanical, jerky
and discombobulated time signatures eclipsed by hectic Farfisa organ/synthesizer melodies. Not unlike sitting down with an average American family during primetime television, the music is unquestionably attention-span friendly for an ADD-diagnosed society: unbelievably short, complex, infectious bursts of polyrhythms and spirit.

After solidifying their early tour experiences and songwriting in the
studio, a fledgling incarnation of the band in 2000 released the 12" EP "Eat Lightning, **** Thunder" on Philadelphia upstart label When Humans Attack! The enhanced CD version, featuring explosive live footage that captures the unique synergism between the band and their audiences, followed soon afterwards on Bloodlink Records.

In 2002, An Albatross caught the attention of New York City's Ace-Fu Label and forged a relationship that culminated in the 2003 release of the
8-minute merciless, aural onslaught, "We Are the Lazer Viking," an enhanced CD EP produced by sonic savant Wharton Tiers (Sonic Youth, Helmet, Dinosaur Jr.). Quickly thereafter, the band released a follow-up split EP with Oakland's legendary noise-rock outfit XBXRX on the Gold Standard Labs (GSL) label. September 2004 marked the beginning of the current line up featuring incendiary percussionist Edward Klinger, writhing, psychedel-evangelist vocalist Eddie B. Gieda III, rhythmic contortionista bassist Jay Hudak, circuit-bent breakneck speed-guitarist Jake Lisowski, and Farfisa-master, Phillip Reynolds Price.

With an unparalleled spirit stimulated by the current line-up and several recent releases in its pocket, the band set forth on an unbelievably rigorous tour schedule, crisscrossing the U.S. multiple times and making two transatlantic pilgrimages that amassed a staggering total of 600+ performances. The most noteworthy of these dates included a slot on the July '04 French Eurockeennes Festival, a March '05 BBC session - initiated by the late John Peel - and a support slot for the East Coast leg of the legendary Melt Banana's 2005 spring tour.

The band's performances have now acquired a quasi-legendary status,
surpassing the traditional concert schema by facilitating a complete
fusion of band and audience. Under the mythical banner of future-primitive/psychedelic entities like the Lazer Viking and The Electric Coyote, An Albatross' Revolutionary Politics of Dance are executed nightly through their electrifying performances.




(RETARDS)

Website: http://www.myspace.com/xretardsx

about:
dear reader,
bracket.retards.bracket are frank osterflood (stringed instruments), marshall applewhite (electronic instruments) and john-wayne gacy (rhythmic instruments).

we are from dublin, ireland. we started in 2004 as a two piece and recorded our debut sixteen track album on an 8 track recorder in frank’s bedroom. fifty copies of ‘sex is a weapon’ were made and released on cdr.

in 2005 john-wayne joined and we started our live assault at a new years party in an abandoned arcade. since then we have many played shows, our favorite being with canadian mentalists les georges leningrad. we released our second cd-r ‘pleasure books for young children’, a delightful combination of words and music, at the end of 2005, limited to 25 copies.

right now we have just finished recording our first 12”, the nine track ‘fourth wall glory hole’. these are being pressed by the good people at paranoid android records in berlin and will be out in march. also coming soon is a split 7” with paul o’reilly, and a 7” ep on limerick based rimbaud records.

love and happiness,
frank, marshall + john-wayne xo

‘brutal, unforgiving and unsatisfying’ - not the next big thing webzine

‘punishment from god’ - mongrel
MORE COMING SOON


BORN A GHOST

Website: http://www.myspace.com/bornaghost

about:
"Formed in March 2005. We'll smash your face in with our fists of fury. Metaphorically speaking."


+ 1 more act TBC, unfortunatly we are knives have had to pull out.

ANarcho-Munk

There's no price.:o

damomeasa

it was a deadly gig.
anarcho-munk, is there anywhere a band could play in kerry? actually anywhere, we dont even need a PA or much of a crowd. only problem is it would have to be a monday or a tuesday night.

ANarcho-Munk

Yeah, there's a few places here in Killarney. Send me a PM with more details and I can see what I can do for you.

Anarchist

Kerry hasn't even got bottled water.