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The Rise & Fall of SiSi of Galway // Sat 17th May

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    "The Rise & Fall of SiSi of Galway"

    The Cellar Underground
    Saturday 10.30pm




    Hello, what news from the shire?



    Over the years, people often ask us - how did you get into DJing? To tell you the truth, it's a bit of a long story. I'm not sure if you really want to hear it. What's that? Really? You've nothing else to be doing and would only be too delighted to hear this epic yarn?



    Well if you insist, here goes. Just pull over a chair and make yourself comfortable. Here's A Grand Story Previously Untold of The Rise & Fall of SiSi of Galway, aka (ex-)110th Street DJs, aka The Gloine Twins.... A Story of Ambition, Pot Luck, Espionage, Fast Cars & Beautiful Women, Poitín, Síbín & Cáca Milis Gan Siúcre.





    1991-98 Si & Si DJ-ing individually in various establishments from school discos, college indie nights and badly-lit smoke-infested pick-up-joints, populated by the very drunk and the very desperate.



    June 1998 The two DJs bump into one another by pure chance at a Joycean literary junket at Howth Head. They jointly declare that big beat is officially now dead but think that Galway might need a good blaxpolitation-themed night, snuggled away in a corner of town, away from the yobs.



    Sept 1998 Buy journalists from Galway's local papers a round of drinks & gets a decent write-up.



    Oct 1998 Said article is read by local promoter who offer them their first break.



    Dec 1999 The gigs are coming thick and fast, soon they find their name merrily projected on Asian beer-sponsored screens in various venues around their adopted town.



    June 2001 They hire subservient 'Box Boy' to carry records to gigs. Some years later, he describes his employers as "parsimonious and overly-particular" to a an Irish dance mag, that only lasted a few issues and didn't have a readership that cared to check out the meaning of "parsimonious" at any rate.



    July 2001 First Irish headline tour, sponsored by Bord na Móna peat briquettes, taking in a few tourist-traps on the western seaboard.



    Jan 20002 Bored of playing inoffensive Defected-style latin-tinged house music, they jump on the nascent electro-clash bandwagon.



    May 2002 Irish indie rock bible describe them as "Ireland's best electro act... this week". They milk the quote dry in subsequent press releases.



    July 2002 BBC radio DJ plays an early demo and refers to them as "Ireland's premier electro act in the past 24 hours". Such is their awesome self-publicity machine, only those living in very isolated places fail to register this rather twee soundbyte.



    August 2002 On first name terms with two members of the 'Ros na Rún' cast.



    September 2002 Release seminal mix CD Fast'n'Bulbous, aka "The Purple CD". In some people's opinion, they will never better this moment.



    February 2003 "International headline tour" (that takes in Ireland, mostly the Republic with one gig up north, as well as a gig somewhere in Wales & one in Norway, where one of them lectured for a while some years back), sponsored by a fledgling mobile phone operator that subsquently goes bust. A scribe writes "Never in a hundred billion years has an Irish act created so much hysteria from the dance industry".



    February 2004 Begin playing at the kind of parties where Colin Farrell and the Head 2 Toe girls might be spotted at.



    July 2004 Play the early-bird warm-up slot in the dance tent of one of Ireland's major music festivals. Subsequent press releases refer to them as "being flat-out headlining some of Europe's major summer festivals".



    November 2004 Stop going to record stores, hires someone else to buy the new releases. The sly pr*ck, sorry... the budding entrepeneur capitalises on their carelessly-managed wealth, by keeping the good stuff for himself and passing on the less illuminating releases to his gout-infested employers. Later he becomes a tune-picker of international reknown.



    July 2005 Faded stars of 90's stadium-techno contact them to remix one of their tracks in an effort to become "down with the kids". The SiSi remix is blogged to bits by the Dom P-swigging superstylers' mighty PR team in an effort to drum up new interest in their back catalogue. The hype-machine suits the publicity-loving DJ tag-team just fine, who - to be frank - needed this break badly.



    October 2005 Begin to talk about gigs as "opportunites to open new terrorities" and - in a Salthill restaurant one night - are heard referring to one another in the third person.



    Jan 2006 On first name terms with the more raucous members of the 'Fair City' cast.



    March 2006 By now their destructive drugs intake - so long, kept under wraps - are known to promoters around the country, who show reluctance to book the Mogadon-addicted duo. Moreover, their sets have become sloppy and rarely include any new tunes of note. One punter remarks - "The always play that Doves tune".



    July 2006 Fees become unaffordable & domestic gigs start drying up.



    Dec 2006-Jan 2007 "The Lost Weekend", which has since been mytholgised out of all proportion by those that weren't there.



    February 2007 Rumours that they have retired are published in an Irish indie rag, though not many notice it as the story is only afforded a minuscle paragraph.



    April 2007 Rumours are dramatically quoshed as they are heard banging out the classics at an 'Old School Reunion Tour' that takes in many of Ireland's less salubrious provincial towns. Still, not many are attendance and those that are solemnly agree that "It ain't Lisa Lashes".



    May 2007 Announce that they will no longer Dj ever ever again and will instead become generous patrons of the local arts.



    December 2007 Back DJ-ing again, pub gigs mind you - and the odd wedding.



    May 2008 Somehow manage to swing a gig in Galway's latest underground hot spot - The Cellar Undergarments. Those close to them describe them as being humbled by experience and eager to atone for previous bombastic behaviour. Others claim that they possess the DJ-ing prowess to give you the night of your life. It remains to be seen, but if you would to be present at a reduced price, duck & dive your way over to http://www.sisi.tv for concessions for Saturday night.



    I have to say, that tint really suits your hair.



    Sin é mo scéal seo, má tá bréag ann bíodh, ní mise a chum ná a cheap...



    An Stiurthóir x
    http://www.sisi.tv/phpbb/index.php
    http://www.myspace.com/galwaysisi



    PS To separate the jiggers from the joggers, make haste to http://galwaypartyguide.blogspot.com/


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