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  • 14-03-2009 4:13pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭


    Yo,

    Andy Votel is playing at a special paddies weekend ClubHeadBangBang this Saturday in Tralee..

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    Andy Votel is as close to a one-man music business as you could wish to get. A solo artist in his own right, he also produces, remixes, designs, DJs and runs a number of blissfully eclectic record labels.
    Votel grew up in the north west of England and developed a broad taste for music, specializing in all things psychedelic, from Can to Serge Gainsbourg. He released some records on Grand Central and started the legendary Twisted Nerve label back in the late 90s along with Bad Drawn Boy. Things got mental busy from there on in.

    But probably the reason most people will know Andy Votel is for his record collection. And damn, kid – Andy Votel got records for days. His Music To Make Girls Cry and Songs In The Key Of Death mixes are testament to that, spawning a generation of diggers to start looking in ever more obscure places and countries. He's scoured a world of second hand shops on his international record raid, a quest to unearth the forgotten foreign dancefloor gems from the days long past. And it's these lost musical documents that end up being discovered by a new generation of heads, thanks to the immense amount of folk, psych, and prog diamonds that have been reissued by Votel via his Finders Keepers and B-Music labels.

    Expect Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats and bubblegum folk all slapped up in a wigged-out wash of exquisite foreign breakbeat mayhem.

    b-music.co.uk
    finderskeepersrecords.com
    myspace.com/andyvotel

    clubheadbangbang.org
    chbb space
    chbb book


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    ClubHeadBangBang Present:

    Midori Hirano & Laura Sheeran,
    & chbb dj's
    Thursday 19th March
    Doors 9pm

    €0.00 Service Charge !

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    Born in 1979 in Kyoto, Midori Hirano started creating music on her computer after graduating from university with a major in classical piano. In 2004, she released the EP Poet at the Piano from Luxembourg label soundzfromnowhere and participated in shows throughout Europe.

    In September 2006, she worked with guest musicians on her first album LushRush released from noble records. Following the release, she has played both with bands and as a solo performer mainly in the Kansai area. Musicians that she has performed with in the past include Momus, Shugo Tokumaru, O.lamm, mama!milk, mamie-MU (dumbtype), and YTAMO (Urichipangoon), among others. In addition to her own work, Midori Hirano also works with domestic and international artists in remixes, collaborations, and label compilations, and also creates soundtracks for European and Asian films. In February 2008, she participated in the “Berlinale Talent Campus”, a program for young filmmakers hosted by the Berlin International Film Festival. She was the only Japanese artist to be invited in the composer category.

    In October 2008, she released her new full album in 2 years entitled klo:yuri.

    Originally from Galway, Laura Sheeran is an emerging young talent who's music continuously refuses to be placed within the boundaries of any one genre. Her recordings span endless musical fields, crossing the acoustic with the electronic, a'cappella with synth trash and lush string arrangements with music made with hardware tools! Her solo live performances frequently fuse elements of theatre, musical improvisation, pedals and laptop, along with a sea of other instruments and leave audiences inspired, awakened and always wanting more!

    At the ripe age of 20, Laura has already explored the musical worlds of theatre, film and the avant-garde. Singer with 'Fovea Hex', she has appeared throughout the "neither speak nor remain silent" ep collection and has performed with FH all over europe. She has also written music for three plays and performed her compositions live for each show while touring.

    midorihirano.com
    myspace.com/midorihirano

    myspace.com/laurasheeranmusic

    laurasheeran.blogspot.com

    clubheadbangbang.org
    chbb space
    chbb book


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Will their be a return visit/gig by them I wonder? Well, any feedback from the night yet? I was also out tonight but think I am showing my age here now by already being back after our night out and curled up :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Hey, happy to have a regular thread here if you want to post upcoming events to it. Best if you just keep this one going and add to it as you go along. If it becomes popular I might sticky it.

    ps: This is only because CHBB is a non-profit organisation so promotion of it here is not really an 'ad' in the traditional sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Thank 440hz, thats great !
    But for 'non-profit' you can replace with 'loss-making' !!:)
    But it is well worth it to be able to appreciate music and musicians of this calibre play here in Kerry !! Thank for the support...
    kerry4sam wrote: »
    Will their be a return visit/gig by them I wonder? Well, any feedback from the night yet? I was also out tonight but think I am showing my age here now by already being back after our night out and curled up :o

    It was Andy Votels first time in Kerry, he seemed to like it, but he is a busy man but it would be good to see him back again someday. he has an amazing knowledge of music from around the world the most amazing record collection. All the other dj are local and play from time to time !


    If your wondering if about Midori Hirano and Laura Sheeran they haven't play yet so you can still catch them this time !!

    Here is a review of Midori's latest album in Time Magazine


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Matt Elliott [Third Eye Foundation]
    &
    Tone Vain
    &
    Visuals by Rock Steady Kevie
    &
    chbb dj's

    Saturday 11th April
    The Greyhound Bar [rear venue], Tralee

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    Matt Elliott has rather an atypical course. He used to work under the pseudo name The Third Eye Foundation, an emblematic figure of the English electronic scene recognized for his atypical electro tinted by drum' n bass.

    Since his first album under his own name "The mess we made" ( on Domino Records), Matt Elliott has turned to compositions much more folk based, forsaking the laptop and the machines and turning more traditional instruments, guitar, piano and violin.

    His fiercely independent approach has won him many admirers, and Matt has completed remixes for Mogwai, Thurston Moore, Blonde Redhead, and Yann Tiersen amongst others. Matt also continues to collaborate with long-term friends Hood, and lends his playing to many more records, as guitarist, drummer, clarinetest, viola player and programmer. Matt has toured far and wide over the last twelve years, recently appearing at Primavera Sound, Benicassim and Electric Picnic.

    Support from local trio Tone Vain.


    http://www.thirdeyefoundation.com
    http://www.myspace.com/mattelliotandthethirdeye
    http://clubheadbangbang.org


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Super Tennis [uk]
    &
    Hooray for Humans [ooal]
    &
    chbb dj's

    Thursday 16th April
    The Greyhound Bar [rear venue], Tralee
    Doors 9pm
    Zero door tax, Zero door levy !




    myspace.com/supertennislovesyou
    myspace.com/hoorayforhumansband

    clubheadbangbang.org


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Just in....
    REST and S.H.!.T.

    Thursday 30th April

    more details soon
    !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    ClubHeadBangBang Present:

    Rest
    [Out On A Limb Records]

    with support from:

    S.h.!.t. /SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=3][B]So Hardcore It's Terrifying[/B][/SIZE][SIZE=4][SIZE=2][SIZE=3

    Thursday 30th April

    Free Entry

    [/SIZE]Rest are back, anyone who witnessed their previous ClubHeadBangBang gig, in which the power blew and they played in the dark will know that this is a gig not to be missed !

    Rest initially began life in late 2001. A demo was subsequently recorded and numerous gigs around Ireland with numerous bands followed while the four piece wrote the material that what would eventually become their debut album, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame, released on Out On A Limb Records in 2004. The band toured Britian with Swedish post-metal outfit Cult of Luna, before releasing their second record, the new mini-album, Operation: Impending Doom. Over two tracks and twenty minutes it offered a significant shift in tone and mood from previous releases. More shows around the country with the likes of Torche, Baroness, Red Sparrows, Isis and Trans Am followed. All the while, the band have been patiently working on the follow up to Operation: Impending Doom, which they hope will see the light of day next year.

    http://www.myspace.com/rest

    S.H.!.T. (So Hardcore It's Terrifying) are a 4 piece band from Tralee that have been playing together for little over a year. They recorded their 6 track demo at the end of '08 and is available online on their myspace/bebo pages, they try not to stick to one genre, instead making music with a mix of metal/experimental/progressive/instrumental rock.
    S.H.!.T. are: Aaron Sutton (vocals,synth,samples,percussion),Matthew Sutton(guitar,vocals),J BOY(bad ass bass,vocals),James McPeake(drums).

    http://www.myspace.com/sohardcoreitsterrifying
    http://www.bebo.com/gotsome****4u

    http://clubheadbangbang.org
    http://myspace.com/clubheadbangbang
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tralee-Ireland/ClubHeadBangBang/49550026970



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 323 ✭✭manoverboards


    woo hoo,

    Rest rock,
    that other band a sure to be sh!t....
    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 Miss-Tralee


    Awwww man.... Gonna Miss the S.H.!.T/Rest gig... Its gonna be tight ya'll... :p S.H.!.T. are class... Can't really remember Rest!:o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 323 ✭✭manoverboards


    woo hoo,

    Rest rock,
    that other band a sure to be sh!t....
    :D

    Well let it be said that S.h!.t. ain't **** !

    Rest were savage [as always]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Well let it be said that S.h!.t. ain't **** !

    Rest were savage [as always]

    Good stuff out of them alright....

    #######


    Ding-a-ling,

    Tomorrow sees the launch of the Kerry Bicycle Festival, which aims to celebrate
    all that is wonderful about the worlds favourite recession proof mode of
    transport.

    The festival kicks off with 'My Lovely Bicycle' where cyclists who have a
    particular love of their tubular nag will have a chance to left them shine in a
    public arena. If you are confused as to what this may entail, think 'The Rose of
    Tralee' for the 'Town Bike' with a hint of Father Teds 'Lovely Girl
    Contest', kinda like like crufts for our 2 wheeled friends! The word on the
    street is that the event will be compared by the south-wests top ping-pong
    commentating duo.

    So polish up your high nellie and head on down, registration from 9 judging from 10, @ The greyhound bar

    This will be followed swiftly by live music from Alphastates, who have just
    released the new album 'Human Nature'

    The festival continues over the weekend and into next week, other events include
    evening of bike films in the Samhlaoicht Gallery on Friday, the launch of
    'Frame' a cycle themed art exhibition at 6pm on Saturday in Siamsa Tire and of
    course some cycling.

    And best of all all the events are free !

    Full details can be found on the festival website:

    http://kerrybicyclefestival.org

    +
    Alphastates
    +

    Having spent the past few years buried away from the public scrutiny,
    Alphastates finally make a reappearance this spring with a flurry of activity
    and the release of the new album 'Human Nature'
    Completed and then redone entirely from scratch, this is Alphastates' follow-up
    to their ground-breaking début, and it confirms them as a major creative force,
    an inventive respite from blog-standard guitar-driven formulaic rock. Singer
    Catherine Dowling's presence throughout is a revelation, evoking memories of
    Shirley Manson and Beth Gibbons, but with a flexibility that challenges both.
    From the bleeps and rumbles of the gripping opening title-track you can't avoid
    comparisons with Garbage, and the ghosts of Kraftwerk and Portishead are never
    too far away either. Human Nature comes from a band finding their own groove in
    the delicate balance between nature and technology, and giving us a rock album
    with songs you can dance to."

    http://www.alphastates.com/
    http://www.myspace.com/alphastates


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    Was unaware this thread existed....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    ClubHeadBangBang Present:
    _Fuzz Orchesta
    _& Hounds
    Fuzz Orchestra was born in 2005, Luca Ciffo (guitar/voice), Fiè (analogic manipulations) and Marco Mazzoldi (drums) decide, while running other musical projects (Bron Y Aur, Collettivo A6), to start a band moving on different coordinates. Starting from radical improvisation, the band achieves to forge a sound which, today, is built on strong rock textures, guitar and drums based, on which a fluxus of outer sounds (old movies, old vinyls cut ups, noise streams and real time audio manipulations) ties and rages.
    Melding Italo prog, kraut and stoner rock, Fuzz Orchestra follow in the footsteps of Zu and Uzeda as Italian torch bearers of experimental rock.

    Hounds is a band.
    That is to say, a band who get together to drink under the pretence of making music.
    It comprises members of Spook of the 13th Lock, Spellbound, Papercop (r.i.p).
    Hounds jam long into the night, making sh*t up until they fall over.
    The next morning, the fetid reels are edited into 5 minutes of borederline hilarity.
    Every note is AMAAYZing.

    Thursday 11th June
    The Greyhound Bar,Tralee
    Doors 9pm
    Free Entry


    www.fuzzorchestra.com/ mysp.png
    www.myspace.com/houndslikejumpers mysp.png
    www.clubheadbangbang.org mysp.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    And this is our first every summer gig, so come along and support the cause
    :-)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭ella23


    Hey. How do you send a demo in to Club Head Bang Bang to try and get a gig.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    there are contact detais on the site clubheadbangbang.org

    http://clubheadbangbang.org/cd.php


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    THE AU SIXTH BIRTHDAY TOUR

    ASIWYFA AND ADEBISI SHANK GEAR UP FOR MAJOR IRISH JAUNT

    To celebrate six years of publishing, AU is teaming up with Livewire Promotions to take two of the best Irish bands from north and south on a tour across Ireland. The first two weeks of July will see the tour hit Tralee, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Derry and Belfast. Representing the north, we have the mighty And So I Watch You From Afar. They’ve barely been off tour all year, bringing their seismic brand of instrumental rock to fans across the UK and Ireland, and the AU tour comes hot on the heels of European dates with stoner rock legends Clutch.

    Joining ASIWYFA is another loud, intense instrumental band, the frankly astonishing Adebisi Shank. Last seen in Belfast as guests at ASIWYFA’s huge album launch gig at the Mandela Hall, the Wexford trio infuse their mathy, technical sound with a large dose of punk energy, often at the risk of injuring themselves as guitarist Lar and bassist Vinny leap around – and off – the stage. Each gig on the tour will also feature local support, while rising stars the Panama Kings will fill in for Adebisi at the final date in Belfast.

    ASIWYFA guitarist Tony Wright reckons that the importance of the north-south link-up and an Irish tour is not to be underestimated. “It’s great to finally have things building up between the north and south and starting to get a gig network going,” he says. “It’s been long overdue and I think it’s really positive. That’s all we try to do – anything in a positive way, and the more connections that open up between the north and the south, the better. An infrastructure for a gig network – it’s ridiculous that we don’t have more stuff in place. So this is an absolutely golden opportunity – we can’t wait.”

    “It’s really important,” adds Adebisi drummer and Richter Collective (BATS, Not Squares, Enemies) label boss Mick Roe. “For a long time, there seems to have been a Northern Irish music scene and a southern Irish music scene. Bands would go up and down but there’d be no real communication like there seems to be starting now, with the State and AU clubs and other stuff like that. I think it’s starting to take off, anyway.”

    The two bands have played together before, notably at the first ever Club AU in Belfast last year, and are good friends. The AU Sixth Birthday Tour, however, will be the first ever time the bands have been out on the road together, and Mick is audibly excited when we ask him about the prospect. “We’ve never toured with them before,” he admits. “We’ve only played a couple of one-off shows in Dublin and Belfast, but never got out around Ireland. We’ve been meaning to do it for quite some time but never round to it yet. It’s gonna be fun!”

    Tony agrees: “It’s great because I get to watch a band that I absolutely adore and jump about and go nuts, and then I can jump about and go nuts with my own band!”


    THOSE DATES IN FULL
    WHERE AND WHEN TO GET YOUR ROCK ON

    Thursday, July 2
    ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank & support
    Club Head Bang Bang, Tralee


    Friday, July 3
    ASIWYFA & support
    Lower Deck, Dublin

    Saturday, July 4
    ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank, I’ll Eat Your Face, Burn Us Both, Trev Moran
    Pine Lodge, Cork

    Sunday, July 5
    ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank, I’ll Eat Your Face, My Mothers Son
    Baker Place, Limerick

    Thursday, July 9
    ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank & support
    Mason’s, Derry

    Friday, July 10
    ASIWYFA, Panama Kings & support
    trans Festival, The Waterfront Hall, Belfast


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    Anything lined up for August?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    CLUB HEAD BANG BANG PRESENTS:

    Beastmen EP launch, With Special Guests - Plinth

    Beastmen
    Beastmen launch their new EP "Esos Gaupos Cabrones" on Thursday,Nov 26th...
    The bastard offspring of five maniacs - a Scotsman, a Pole, an Irishman, a German and a Spaniard - Beastmen was formed in Cork city in September 2007... They play a mixture of surf, electronica, heavy rock, circus music and mariachi sounds - completely instrumental, though with the occasional use of vocoder, yelps and screams.
    Imagine Dick Dale getting into a knife fight with Mogwai at a Therapy? gig, before The Human League break it up with Rottweilers and baseball bats - all to what seems like a George A Romero movie soundtrack and you're in the right area... almost.

    Plinth
    Plinth's style of music has (in the band's view) matured and grown into a more unique and complex style. This new way of looking at music came about from listening to more experimental and avant-garde influences. The great Frank Zappa springs to mind and indeed, along with inspiration from groups like Mr. Bungle, Meshuggah and Björk, Plinth developed a far more technically demanding, genre-hopping style of schizo-rock, a style which can jump from be-bop to middle-eastern music, from 4/4 rock to 13/8 polyrhythmical semi-nonsense metal. This style of music has been adopted for two main reasons, according to the band. Firstly, their love of music is pretty much all-encompassing, and put simply, the band can't really choose one style to play in without getting bored or feeling limited. Call it the manifestation of 21st Century impatience, but they see it as the perfect style of music – one which seeks to celebrate, parody and mimic every musical style out there, while keeping the signature sound of the band which is maintained unconsciously in every song. The second reason is that it is an unpredictable and exciting playground in which to create. There are no limitations associated with song format, no limitation on the 'listener-friendliness' of the songs – since this is not a main concern to begin with, and there is never a dull moment when you are on your toes listening to an unpredictable band.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    Apologies about the size of that Image...
    :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    Clubheadbangbang lives!
    Good to see it's still going :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    ClubHeadBangBang is five tonight!:D

    Come along for cake and tunes...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    good gig! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    Sickened i missed it :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    Bats at the ready for the 4th annual ClubHeadBangBang Table Tennis Tournament. Players of all ages and skill levels welcome, sports attire optional.

    Registration at 9pm throw in at 9.30pm. Bats and Balls provided. Choons in the warm-up/cool-down area from Jack Crooks.

    http://clubheadbangbang.org


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    Sounds like fun! :)
    In fact it sounds like a good way to unwind after a crappy week of exams and what-not...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Just a heads up of the next chbb event with Neosupervital


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    Neosupervital who was joined on stage by Silvester, during his last visit to Tralee, [Photo © Kevin Herlihy]



    Neosupervital is the nom-de-pop of Tim O'Donovan, a multi-instrumentalist who has just released his second album; Proceeds, ten prime slices of electronic funk pop. Last time out Neosupervital live was a band affair - with three other people on stage- but this time it's just Tim going it alone. He's playing guitar and synthesizer and singing onstage, and wants you to dance and sing along. Indeed the first single; big on funk guitars, percussion, big synths and big drums, is called "Dance with You"

    Neosupervital previously visited Tralee in 2006 as part of Bloom, he has also played festivals such as Oxegen, Castlepalooza and Electric Picnic, and has also opened for the Human League, Money Mark, Peter Hook and The Divine Comedy.

    Tim was also Bell X1's tour drummer a number of years ago.


    Thursday the eighteenth of February,
    Nine hours post meridiem,
    Two thousand and ten,
    The Greyhound Bar,
    Pembroke Street,
    West Side,
    Tralee,
    Z€ro.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    I like the sound of that!I liked them live the last time they were in tralee!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    Ah class!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    Savage live, well worth going to see.
    Gutted I won't be able to see them down the Hound :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Where are you these days, i am sure you can catch him nearby as he seems to be doing a bit of a tour !
    RichyX wrote: »
    Savage live, well worth going to see.
    Gutted I won't be able to see them down the Hound :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    kingdumb wrote: »
    Where are you these days, i am sure you can catch him nearby as he seems to be doing a bit of a tour !

    I'm above in Ballyfermot studying cinematography.
    Saw him in Whelans last year. It's just not the same as the Greyhound though :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    kingdumb wrote: »
    Just a heads up of the next chbb event with Neosupervital


    Kevin_Herlihy_-_Neosupervital_01.jpg

    Neosupervital who was joined on stage by Silvester, during his last visit to Tralee, [Photo © Kevin Herlihy]



    Neosupervital is the nom-de-pop of Tim O'Donovan, a multi-instrumentalist who has just released his second album; Proceeds, ten prime slices of electronic funk pop. Last time out Neosupervital live was a band affair - with three other people on stage- but this time it's just Tim going it alone. He's playing guitar and synthesizer and singing onstage, and wants you to dance and sing along. Indeed the first single; big on funk guitars, percussion, big synths and big drums, is called "Dance with You"

    Neosupervital previously visited Tralee in 2006 as part of Bloom, he has also played festivals such as Oxegen, Castlepalooza and Electric Picnic, and has also opened for the Human League, Money Mark, Peter Hook and The Divine Comedy.

    Tim was also Bell X1's tour drummer a number of years ago.


    Thursday the eighteenth of February,
    Nine hours post meridiem,
    Two thousand and ten,
    The Greyhound Bar,
    Pembroke Street,
    West Side,
    Tralee,
    Z€ro.
    Finally il actually be in Tralee for club head this week :). Been way too long.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Patricide wrote: »
    Finally il actually be in Tralee for club head this week :). Been way too long.
    I may see you down there,that should be a good gig.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    I'll have to keep an eye out for ye lads, I'll be down there myself. Be like Mini Tralee board beers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Ye should wear something so ye will know each other, or maybe a secret handshake !


    Also it seems that our email sign-up was borked, if anyone happened to have signed in the last week or 2 you might need to sign up again.
    [We have just sent out a mailout so if you signed up and haven't received anything you will have to sing up again]

    You can sign up to the chbb mailout at:
    http://clubheadbangbang.org
    11811 wrote: »
    I'll have to keep an eye out for ye lads, I'll be down there myself. Be like Mini Tralee board beers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    Still not sure if ill be there.But heres hoping!
    Starts at 9pm ya?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Hup,
    Happy March everybody,
    Just to let ye know that this months chbb will be on the 11th and will feature Avatar who will be launching their new album From River to Ocean.
    more details on the way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    kingdumb wrote: »
    Hup,
    Happy March everybody,
    Just to let ye know that this months chbb will be on the 11th and will feature Avatar who will be launching their new album From River to Ocean.
    more details on the way.
    Savage band!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    Will miss this one but i seen em in cork recently. Fantastic band. James kennedy is truly a force to be reckoned with on bass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    Like River To Ocean is the second album from Kerry born natives, James Kennedy and Tony O Flaherty who together form Avatar. The duo is a synthesis of Kennedy’s original compositions and arrangements coupled with O’ Flaherty’s engineering skills. The services of some of Ireland’s finest musicians known as The Avatar Massive are also enlisted. Avatar produce a fusion of 70's Dub Reggae, Jazz and Ambient Sounds which are uniquely their own and present a ten strong band at live performances. Like River To Ocean has been described as delightfully melodic with Kennedy's flowing bass lines being complimented superbly by some beautiful brass harmonies and a diverse range of instrumentation.

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    Official album Launch
    Thursday 11th March
    The Greyhound Bar
    Doors 9.30
    Free Entry

    The album will be on sale on the night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    It seems Avatar will have a 10 strong line up for the gig.
    Here is their latest video, featuring some nice Kerry scenery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Hup,

    Just a heads up on April chbb action, featuring Like A Fire and KVX

    Thursday 29th @ The Greyhound Bar Annex

    Check em out:

    http://www.myspace.com/likeafiremusic

    http://www.myspace.com/kvxuality


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    Donal Dineen presents Hulk, Chequerboard and Adrian Crowley live in St. John's Church on Ashe Street in Tralee for Club Head Bang Bang, with live visuals from Donal Dineen.

    http://www.clubheadbangbang.org

    ADRIAN CROWLEY
    Winner of the 2009 Choice Album of the Year for his most recent release: Season of the Sparks, Adrian Crowley is an Irish singer-songwriter/folk artist. Originally from Barna, County Galway, he lives in Dublin.

    Crowley released his first album, A Strange Kind, in 1999 which was followed by When You Are Here You are Family (2001), A Northern Country (2004). His Choice nominated fourth album Long Distance Swimmer was a breakthrough album of sorts, acknowledging his evident musicianship for a wider audience.
    His Choice winning Season of the Sparks is surely one of the irish albums of the decade, not least just of 2009.

    "On his fourth album, this great Irish songwriter continues to creep under the skin and behind your defences, his hushed songs, spare lyrics and diffident baritone detonating with real impact, for all that they arrive by stealth and without the slightest suggestion of an imminent explosion. Crowley deploys restraint as a deadly weapon, the self-recriminating Leaving the Party merely a repeated guitar figure and mumbled, mournful singing, which gives the eventual entry of added instrumentation, rhythm and ghostly backing vocals incredible force. The sawing and swooping strings on Walk on Part (“Of all the bedrooms in this town, you walked into mine”) create a similar frisson. This is a wonderful album." **** THE SUNDAY TIMES

    http://www.myspace.com/adriancrowley

    CHEQUERBOARD
    Chequerboard is Irish musician & artist John Lambert, whose debut album ‘Gothica’ was released in 2002 and was followed up in 2005 with the 6 track mini-album ‘Dictaphone Showreels’ on dublin label Lazybird. A set of stark haunting guitar pieces set to a backdrop of field recordings and incidental sounds. Something of a diamond in the rough, it gradually found a dedicated, discerning and passionate audience. The opening track ‘Konichiwa’ subsequently found its way onto two separate Irish electronica compilations including R na G’s Cian O Ciabhain’s acclaimed ‘An Taobh Tuathail Vol. 1 compilation’.

    The Chequerboard live show is simply Lambert, his guitar and a series of guitar pedals building lush, textured, soundscapes that paint an evocative world of their own. In 2007, Lambert received a music fellowship from the Model Arts & Niland Gallery in Sligo where he spent the year working on Penny Black, a stunning album which brings the listener through a series of textured and meticulously crafted guitar-led passages. Penny Black was released in March 2008 to glowing reviews.

    'A priceless rarity and something to treasure' (*****5 stars) The Irish Times

    'As delicate, detailed and purposeful as a Japanese garden.'Sunday Tribune

    'A defiant, deliberate and complete collection of beautiful songs. Lambert has produced a work of real importance. 'Totally Dublin

    http://www.myspace.com/chequerboardmusic

    HULK
    Thomas Haugh records under the name Hulk. He has produced two albums for OSAKA records (Silver thread of ghosts – 2005 and Rise of a Mystery Tide – 2008) as well as producing materials for labels such as Melodic, Static Caravan and Expanding Records. He has also remixed works by other artists, most notably Efterklang.

    "Gorgeous atmospherics and melodic sounds" - Smallfish

    "Silver Thread Of Ghosts is a remarkable piece of work" - Angry Ape

    "...gently contemplative and quietly moving music-making" - The WIRE

    "Highly Impressive" - The Ticket / Irish Times

    http://www.myspace.com/hulkmusic


    Listen back to Donal's interview with Chequerboard: http://freshairfestival.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/funk-and-soul-chequerboard-and-sunken-foal/

    and Adrian Crowley and Hulk: http://freshairfestival.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/music-architects

    Tickets €10 are available from
    Lee Records, Castle Street, Tralee
    (066) 7127589
    leerecords1@eircom.net | www.leerecords.com


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    Bicycle freak David o’Doherty regales us with his songs and his tiny keyboard. David won the if.comedy award in Edinburgh last year, the UK’s most important live comedy award. The much anticipated My Lovely Bicycle will also take place , MCed by the inimitable Peter Dingle, so tighten your spokes, and polish your bottom bracket, and bring your wheels along to Ballyseede!

    On sale from Lee Records Castle Street Tralee.




    Venue: Ballyseede Castle, Talee
    Date: Saturday 22nd May
    Time: 9pm
    Cycle convoy departing from Tralee Town Square at 8pm, please remember lights and reflective clothing.


    http://kerrybicyclefestival.org/events/festival-finale/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


    Junes installment of chbb is on this Thursday with the Jung Turks & The bull Munro

    This Thursday sees the return of Galway brothers Ed and James aka the Jung Turks
    who blew people the last time the visited Tralee a few years back. This time
    there are touring to promote their debut album Liber Eth, which you can hear a
    preview of here:

    http://soundcloud.com/jung_turks/this-slaves-freedom-cries

    Support on the night come from The Bull Munro who hail from Dublin.

    Who - Jung Turks & the Bull Munro
    When - 9pm - 11.30pm Thursday 17th June
    Where - The Greyhound Bar Annex
    Why - 'cos you're worth it !

    This will also probably be our last event for the summer, so do pop along if you
    are about.


    +----Jung Turks
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    Jung Turks are James P. Rooney (drums, percussion, sonics) and Edward D. Rooney
    (nylon string guitar). They play what is known as Œjãipha - this musical form
    is based on the belief that the artist is a channel through which the infinite
    reveals. Through study of Œjãipha masters from Duluth, Calw, Paola, Algeciras,
    Jajouka, Belfast and Aracataca the brothers' pallette has developed and musical
    boundaries diminished. Since their inception in the spring of 2005 they have
    performed to audiences across Ireland, on occasion in the company of such
    subterranean heroes as The Redneck Manifesto, giveamanakick, The Jimmy Cake,
    The Dublin Guitar Quartet, Ten Past Seven, Blood On The Wall, Larrikin Love and
    Orson.

    http://www.jungturks.com/
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jung-Turks/167972729678

    +
    The Bull Munro
    +

    The Bull Munro are Danny Maher and Rob McComish, and are based out of
    Christchurch, Dublin. Their first gig together, oddly enough for the Tipperary
    and Wicklow natives, was in Wroclaw in SW Poland in January 2009. Since then
    The Bull has been perfecting their live shows, defining their eclectic sound
    and cutting their teeth in the studio, all of this to bring you their debut
    single "Late November". The fact that they have played the extremes of Europe
    from the Polish highlands to the Mediterranean Islands, through France and
    Germany and back again is a clear demonstration of the bands ambition and
    dedication.

    Nice video here:

    http://vimeo.com/12335096

    http://breakingtunes.com/thebullmunro
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bull-Munro/271417346492


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭kingdumb


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    chbb kicks back into action this Thursday with no less than 3 acts...

    rhizome is a tour of like-minded alternative innovators. Dublin post new wave two-piece Thread Pulls are joined by Danish collective Thulebasen and the much acclaimed Patrick Kelleher.

    Thread Pulls are nearly a rock band, stripped back to a core of drums and bass. Skewed grooves anchor their hypnotic proto-disco sound - kick-drum centred and sub-bass heavy. Roughly cut vocal layers and eastern trumpet-echoes coupling solar-synth-drones bring to mind early elements of future sounds. Their debut album New Thoughts (Osaka Recordings) has just been released.

    Patrick Kelleher is a 24 year-old musician based in Dublin, Ireland, although he spent much of his childhood in the English town of Rugby. His music varies from brooding, tense electronica to jaunty acoustica to 8-bit dance-floor ditties to evocative, experimental pop but always with a twist of something ethereal or idiosyncratic.

    Thuebasen are a Danish ensemble operating within a parallel pop universe where they uncover lost gems of sound and successfully blend the microtonal scales of American composer Harry Partch with the popular music sensibilities of the Human League to transport the listener to an interplanetary discotheque or rather a BBC Radiophonic ‘Top of the Pops’.

    Over the last two years, all of the artists involved in this tour have been forming rhizomatic connections resulting in collaborations, remixes, one-off events and so on. This tour brings these three acclaimed bands together for one tour with collaboration at the heart of it. With work shared in advance of the concerts, each act will present their own sets yet each performance will also feature collaborations between the artists developed for the tour.

    Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award.

    http://clubheadbangbang.org
    http://www.threadpulls.com/rhizomes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 323 ✭✭manoverboards


    great to see life in here :)

    anyone heading to this ?


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