Slam (Soma) + Poets of Rhythm Dolans Warehouse Limerick Oct 26th

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Dolans Warehouse Sunday October 26th.

2 rooms of madness from 9 PM till late

Taking over the dolans complex for Quite an eclectic line up on Sunday October 26th STRUTT have SLAM(3hr set, Sci Fi hi fi tour), Frawl and Bad Boy Blast in the Warehouse with Live Funk upstairs from the POets Of Rhythm(dj Shadows favourite band) A2df, Broken Funk and Paul Tarpey. Tix 20euro, DOORS@9sharp, set times will be announced closer to the date, check struttclub.com and dolans.ie, also on myspace and bebo.


Slam History

Slam have played all around the world, championing UK underground electronic music, whilst always living and working in their home base of Glasgow, where they have helped to develop and influence one of the best music and party cities anywhere.Ask any of the bands and DJs who have performed at their monthly Pressure parties. People like Vitalic, Luciano, Beyer, Villalobos, Mills, Hawtin, Green Velvet and Weatherall all cite the city and the club as being amongst their favourite gigs in any year. When you add that Slam are currently preparing their eleventh production of the annual, (15 thousand capacity)
Slam Tent at the T in The Park, (which sold out in an hour again this year), then you start to get a feel for the passion for their scene and their music that Orde and Stuart have.Soma is another example of their dedication to the cause. At a time where its daunting to be an independent label, Soma are incessant in their march forward, after confirming their position in history with last year’s Soma 200 release in the label’s 15th anniversary year. Soma artists like Alex Smoke, Vector Lovers, the Black Dog and Funk D Void all help to make their label one of the most forward thinking around


Poets Biog

The Poets of Rhythm are a German funk band who have released under numerous aliases. They formed in Munich after friends Boris Geiger and Jan Weissenfeldt were first exposed to the raw funk that came out of the U.S. in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Soon, they decided to form their own group, and with Geiger on percussion and vocals, Weissenfeldt on guitar, his brother Max on drums, and Jan Krause on bass, they started writing their own material. After releasing their first single, “Funky Train,” in 1992, the Poets’ (who had by now added Till Sahm on organ, Michael Voß on trumpet, and Malte Müller-Egloff on alto sax) debut full-length, Practice What You Preach, came out (it was later reissued in 2006 on Daptone). More 7"s came in the following years, though they were often credited to groups like the Pan-Atlantics, Organized Raw Funk, Bus People Express, the Woo Woo’s, and the Soul-Saints Orchestra.

Though the bandmembers had already begun to make a name for themselves in Europe thanks to their brand of hard funk that was heavily indebted to important outfits like the Meters and Parliament, they had yet to have much exposure in the States. That changed when Quannum’s Lyrics Born found one of their singles in a record store in New Orleans and was impressed by what he heard, though he knew nothing about the group. By chance, when Latyrx’s debut came out in 1997, LB got into contact with Jan Weissenfeldt, who was distributing The Album in Germany. The next year, when the MC was looking to record solo material, he went to the Poets of Rhythm for backup help and in 1999 “I Changed My Mind,” a minor hit in the Bay Area, came out. The Poets’ true sophomore record (they had issued label “compilations,” which mostly consisted of tracks from their various incarnations), Discern/Define, featured nearly the same lineup as before—Wolfgang Schlick took over on sax and added flute as well—was released on Quannum in 2001. What Goes ‘Round came out the following year on Shadow, and the band also showed up on the song “The Bay” from Lyrics Born’s 2005 album, Same !@#$ Different Day.

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getting close, should be a good one.