HOT CHIP (DJ SET), CRAZY P LIVE & more @ THE FOLD, GPO, GALWAY - SAT SEPT 15

GPO

HOT CHIP DJ SET
CRAZY P LIVE
SiSi (110TH STREET)
SHAKE!
THE DISCONAUTS
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH
@ THE FOLD / GPO NIGHTCLUB, GALWAY
GALWAY
DOORS 10PM
TICKETS €15 IN ADVANCE FROM REDLIGHT RECORDS, GALWAY - TEL 091 568340
LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS ON THE DOOR
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THE FOLD presents a night of quality music from HOT CHIP, CRAZY P, SiSi, SHAKE! and THE DISCONAUTS at GPO, Galway on Saturday September 15. It promises to be an excellent night with a DJ set from the brilliant HOT CHIP and a live performance in DRUM from CRAZY P all held together before and after by the 110th Street guys SiSi, Ray and Aran from SHAKE! and the mighty Disconauts! Tickets for this event are priced at €15 and are available from Redlight Records in Galway - 091568340. Doors open at 10pm and there will be a limited number of tickets available on the door. For more info on all these excellent acts read on!

HOT CHIP


Hot Chip formed in 2000; some of the members had already been friends before the formation. Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard first met at Elliott Secondary School in Putney, where they claim to have had an impromptu wrestling match on the school playground. They went on to become good friends and began making music together at the age of 17.

After years of self-releasing records, they signed with Moshi Moshi in 2003. Their debut LP Coming On Strong was released in 2004. They soon started working on their second album and in the meantime they signed a US record deal with the Dance-Punk label DFA Records who re-released their debut album in late 2005.

In 2006 Hot Chip released their second album, The Warning. Now signed to EMI in the UK, the band gained much more mainstream appeal as well as the attention of critics. The album was shortlisted for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize[1] and was Mixmag's Album of the Year 2006. This album spawned also two UK top forty singles: "Over and Over" in March 2006 and And I Was A Boy From School in May 2006. Over And Over received attention for its music video, which was directed by Nima Nourizadeh, and was also named as the best single of 2006 by British music magazine NME.[2]

The band is also well-known for their live shows, because they often reinvent their songs on stage, creating a completely different sound to what might be the official version. Recent festival appearances include Glastonbury, Sónar, Benicassim, Electric Picnic, Bestival, Lovebox, the Reading and Leeds Festivals, the Summer Sundae festival and the Big Day Out and Splendor In The Grass (2007) in Australia.

They released also a DJ Kicks compilation in 2007, which was accompanied by a new song called "My Piano", also released as a 12".

At the moment, the band are mixing their third studio album, which is tentatively titled Shot Down In Flames. Two new songs ("Shake a Fist" and "I Became I Volunteer") were posted on the band's MySpace page[3] and another one, "Ready For The Floor", was played live. "Shake a Fist" is going to be released on a limited 12" in September, with a Diplo remix on the B-Side. The band first planned to release the album in 2007 but is now due for release in February 2008.



CRAZY P

“The most exciting band to emerge from the British dance scene since Massive Attack.” – Lewis Dene - Album Of The Week - DMC UPDATE

“More hooks than a club cloakroom...” – The Guardian

“Providing a perfect panacea for the glum rock epidemic, Crazy P have once again seduced us with a record of perennial beauty ” – Album Of The Week www.bbc.co.uk/music/dance/

Crazy P started life as Crazy Penis, the brainchild of Chris Todd & Jim Baron, 10 years ago when they were both studying at Nottingham University.

Although both musically gifted, Toddy on guitar and Jim on piano, the duo found short shrift in terms of opportunity to develop a band and retreated to the bedroom to refine their production skills.

With very little equipment and a name to shock, the budding bedroom producers began to craft a series of 12" recordings that were released by Paperecordings, based in Manchester, to critical acclaim in the UK and beyond.

The duo's debut album, " A Nice Hot Bath With....", sold over 5000 copies worldwide on word of mouth alone and requests began to come in for live shows across the globe.

Chris & Jim knew they needed help to translate their richly orchestrated sound to the live format. They didn’t have to look too far…

Bassist, Tim Davies (an old school-mate of Jim’s and involved in the conception of the first Penis album). The next member to join, vocalist (& Manchester socialite) Danielle Moore was spotted by Jim doing a rousing Shirley Bassey impression at a Manchester house-party in the very early hours of the morning!!! Add a fetchingly tousled beat generator on drums by the name of Matt Klose, and The Line Up became complete.

Following the release of the acclaimed album ‘The Wicked Is Music’ in 2002, the artistes that could only be known as Crazy Penis went from strength to strength, taking their humour-filled, funk-infected Northern floorshow into the world to wow audiences from Manchester to Moscow and from Sydney to San Francisco and back. In addition, founder members Chris Todd and Jim Baron saw their remixing skills put to consistently excellent use by peer labels such as Naked Music. Not to mention Crazy Penis tracks being featured by everyone from “Sex & The City” to arthouse movies from Budapest.

Then Nottingham’s sexiest little funk number returned, all in black and ready to kick off the summer of 2004 with a big bang… Crazy Penis released the thrilling “24 Hour Psychedelic Freakout” accompanied by a series of typically high-octane live appearances and DJ sets across Europe including The Big Chill main stage.


Their highly anticipated new studio album is released on September 22nd so catch them live while you can!!!

SiSi (110th Street / Badger)

SiSi is Cyril Briscoe & Cian Ó Cíobháin. Together they operate as DJs and producers from their Galway base in the west of Ireland. Cian also presents an alternative radio show five nights a week on RTE RnaG. Called An Taobh Tuathail (The Other Side), he spins every Monday to Friday from 11pm to 1am and his playlists are totally at his own discretion http://www.rte.ie/rnag/antaobhtuathail.html

From 1998 until very recently, SiSi ran a very successful Saturday night club called 110th Street in their adopted town Galway. Through this seminal & much-loved club night, they carved a reputation for themselves as open-minded DJs with an interest in electronic music right across the board, from disco through house to electro and techno, always with a mind of picking the cream of the crop from all genres across the 4/4 spectrum.

As promoters of 110th Street, SiSi were the first to give their Irish club debuts to Erol Alkan, 2ManyDJs, The Glimmers, Justice, Boys Noize & Housemeister and also hosted top drawer DJs such as Andrew Weatherall, Optimo, Boys Noize, The Avalanches’ DJs, Tim Sweeney (DFA) and many many more. As producers they have remixed and re-worked the works of Vitalic, Les Petit Pilous, Radioslave, Ost & Kjex, Riton, Doves, Mylo & The Japanese Popstars.

Most people who come along to a SiSi gig are guaranteed to have a whole lotta fun. The thing is you never know what they might play, it very much depends on who’s on the dancefloor on the night. They’ve been known to dig out vintage Abba and 70’s disco anthems at rural discotheques to handbag-wielding dolly birds, while they’re equally adept playing twisted European techno at urban rave centres to people who don't bother sleeping at weekends.

Currently they can be heard playing disco, post-punk, indie, electro-pop and guilty pleasures at The Hive, which takes place at Galway’s Bar 903 on the third Friday of each month. They have also recently initiated Badger, a new occasional night of underground disco, house, electro & minimal techno. The first party took place in Galway’s Black Box last May and will return to the fray in the autumn.

SHAKE!

DJ's Ray and Aran have been rockin it for years now. Their legendary parties in Bar Cuba*, and now Bar903 have gone down in Galway clubbing history as some of the best. Expect a night of World Music, Latin, Funk, Party Soul and more!

THE DISCONAUTS

The Disconauts are a unique club act, combining funky, soulful and Latin/ African sounds. Recent performances have resulted in rave reviews from around the country. In Derry at the recent jazz festival, it was noted that, if you are not into your dance music but love rhythm and live performance - you will love what the Disconauts can do. Usually a six piece featuring brass & percussion they've scaled down for this gig with a dj set - but expect the same level of quality that these guys always deliver!!