Pine Hill Haints/Quack Quack at Porco Dio

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We're moving back to the Lower Deck and going monthly (the 2nd Thursday of every month) from Feb 8th.



Porco Dio Present

The Pine Hill Haints USA
Quack Quack UK
Almighty Do Me A Favor USA
Daedalus

The Lower Deck, Portobello
Thursday 8 February
Doors 8pm, Admission €6 before 8.30pm, €7 after




The Pine Hill Haints

"From atop the scratched-up hardwood floors of dilapidated 20th century shacks, the Pine Hill Haints whip a lo-fi house party into a wild drunken frenzy of hoots and hollers. The down-low thud of the washtub bass combines with minimal drumming and washboard rhythms to form the backbone of the Haints.

"the Haints' sound something that is fresh and slightly unpredictable, but always maintaining the roots of country, blues, and pre-genre traditional forms of music. All of it brought together provides crowds with uncontrollable foot-stomping to rattle the devil out of the most sex-confounded love-sick soul. Their songs are more stories than music, but not stories in the sense of structure. They are stories first, songs second. They conjure images of ghost trains and spectral catfish crossing the horizon. There's witches, demons, and getting over on the drink."

http://www.myspace.com/pinehillhaints




Quack Quack

"This three piece instrumental, instrument swapping band was formed in Spring 2005. Drummer, Neil Turpin, also mans the kit for Bilge Pump and Polaris and has done a stint in HiM alongside Doug Scharin (June of '44), while guitarist Richard Morris plays in Manchester band, I Had An Inkling.

"Richard’s wailing Turkish keyboards provide the tunes that you will be humming days later. The sound is filled out by Stuart’s warm, belly rubbing bass, while Neil’s musical drums remain deep in the pocket and expertly guide the songs safely home.

"The music of Quack Quack isn’t easy to categorize, but take a shared spirit of improvisation and a healthy disregard for well trodden musical paths and you’re moving in the right direction. Like the great rhythm sections of James Brown, Africa 70, CAN and Led Zeppelin, Quack Quack operate right next to your heartbeat and your footsteps. They understand the importance of rhythm and use it to get the good chemicals flowing. This is music for dancing and smiling."

http://www.myspace.com/thisisquackquack




Almighty Do Me A Favor

"ONE-MAN BAND, BROKEN ROCK AND ROLL. It's one of music's primeval equations that don't suck. Take a dude and an acoustic guitar, and in the wrong hands, you've got ****ty, coffeehouse man, pussy blah. But in gnarled hands, sung through a twisted throat with all limbs flappin' and rattlin' and beatin', that something is worth more than a cursory glance. It ain't some old timey livin'-in-the-past crank, either. The sweat's real. The dramatic tooth loss is too. So is stealing the electricity to power the amp. Almighty Do Me a Favor is Bradley Williams. And much in the vein of Hasil Adkins and Bob Log III, there something ain't quite right about the whole affair, which makes it all the better. Too individualistic to share and coordinate with an entire band, but not wanting to skimp on the fineries of making three or more things go strum, boom, rattle at the same time. There aren't many who can fan the flame without missing a beat. ADMF is one of the few."

http://www.myspace.com/almightydomeafavor


Daedalus

these four lads from North Wicklow, on drums, guitar, bass and sax, create rich instrumental sounds in the fusion/postrock tradition.


http://www.myspace.com/porcodiodublin