Kilkenny, Nov 10th: Numbers, RSAG - Eddie Murphy's, Thomastown

Pancake House

Problems at the Pancake House returns for our last show before Christmas and this time we're taking it to Eddie Murphy's in Thomastown. Adm is €5 and we're hoping to have a free CD featuring some of Rarely Seen Above Ground's new tracks.

Hope to see you there.

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Numbers
Rarely Seen Above Ground

Sat, Nov 10th,
Eddie Murphy's, Thomastown, Kilkenny,
Doors: 8:30p.m
Adm: €5



NUMBERS:


Formed in the fertile IDM-meets-post-punk training ground that was late 90s San Francisco, Numbers were once the premier dance-rock outfit with whom we found our salvation from the curse that was the coming of a new century. Now, however, Numbers are at the pinnacle of a new era of self realization and enlightenment.

Previously three individuals - Dave Broekema, Indra Dunis and Eric Landmark - taking turns at yelping, buzzerk-ing, pushing, shoving and coming together occasionally to make fight music for pyjama parties, now the trio are producers of one, immense, singular sound - an epic, mind-driving sound, that appeals as much to the pop-trained ear as the aching heart or frazzled mind.

'Now You Are This'



Building on the expansive pop of the 2005 'We're Animals' album, but taking the sound into a newly pensive wilderness, 'Now You Are This' is a worry-stained record - all minimal, bluntly entrancing riffs, insistent drumming and tense, reverberant synthesizers.

13 tracks of dazed and charged near-collapse that unexpectedly catch in your mind, echoing their haunted buzz for days and weeks after the record ends. Not since The Silver Apples has a band so successfully wedded a cacophony of electronic keyboards with such a clear-voiced pop sensibility.

A significant part of this catchiness lies in the vocals, in the floating, hypnotic lilt of Indra Dunis and in the timeless, intuitive harmonies lent by Eric Landmark and Dave Broekema. The weave of their raw, upright voices lends a poignant, unflinching and steady guide to the dogged, swirling waves of sound that propels the record.

'Now You Are This' is a double LP - two 45 RPM 12" discs in a gatefold sleeve. A CD version, with alternative artwork, is available from Kill Rock Stars.


www.myspace.com/numbersmusic
www.numbersmusic.com

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RSAG (Rarely Seen Above Ground):


"It's rife with unusual hooks, menacing bass lines and ungovernable, fitful rhythms"
The Kilkenny People

RSAG, aka Jeremy Hickey, has been writing and recording in a home-based studio for the last two years. Last January saw the release of RSAG's first self-titled album which sold its limited run of 300 copies in selected shops around Ireland.

RSAG is a multi-instrumentalist who records, performs and produces all his own material. Live, RSAG plays drums/percussion and sings. The backing tracks are recorded in his studio. Visually, he has created a virtual band which is projected on a screen behind him.

Think of Joy Divison, Talking Heads with the visual impact of the Gorillaz. But rather than the use of animation, he aspires to a sort of shadow-play; a show of silhouettes of himself which he utilises on disc; think of what DJ Shadow did on his live tour of The Private Press - the impact that a visual representation can have on a live show.

RSAG has been getting airplay on Phantom FM and The Indie Hour 103.2 FM and has been playing live mainly in Ireland for the last year, performing at such small festivals as Dinner's Ready in Dublin, Your Festival in Tullamore, the Irish Green Gathering in Wexford as well as headlining three nights in the Sugar Club, Dublin, Maximum Joy Club, Dublin and various other venues around Ireland. Apart from more of his own shows in Ireland, RSAG is also touring with Jape in Nov/Dec and performed his first London date in October with Max Tundra(Domino Records) in the White Chapel Art Gallery.

Currently, RSAG is working on his follow-up album titled 'The Organic Sampler' which is musically and visual where he is at right now. It is live though where Jeremy Hickey and his Rarely Seen Above Ground visual backing band will take shape and form.

http://www.myspace.com/rarelyseenaboveground

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