Richter Collective Singles Club #05 - Messiah J & The Expert - 27th Nov

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RICHTER COLLECTIVE SINGLES CLUB #5
featuring
Messiah J & The Expert
with
Crayonsmith (Solo Set & Late Night DJ set)

-- Friday November 27TH --
-- Twisted Pepper --
-- Doors: 9PM (first act starts 9:30PM) | Entry: €10 --
-- Free Double A-Side 7" with previously unreleased tracks by MJEX --
-- No free 7" after 11PM, Late Night DJ set --
-- Tickets Available Here --



MESSIAH J & THE EXPERT

MJEX Myspace

Messiah J & The Expert are a two-piece band that have release three albums since 2003. They have supported the likes of Public Enemy, The Streets, Ghostface Killah, Aesop Rock, De La Soul, Xzibit amongst others. Their influences include everyone from The Zombies to Motown to Edan to The Smiths to Aphex Twin to Parliament. They have been twice nominated for The Choice Music Prize and twice nominated for the Meteors, most recently in the category of 'Best Irish Album' for their latest, and most lauded long-player, 'From The Word Go'. MJEX also won Best Dance Act in the Hot Press Readers Poll several times.

On record this duo weave together masterfully crafted songs that are part hip hop, funk, psych and balls-out electro. On stage, they expand to a full band who seamlessly sew a patchwork of samples, synths, guitar and bass, all of this topped off with one of the most commanding frontmen on the live scene. Steve Lamacq has been a long-time champion of the band, personally paying for them to come over for a session for BBC1, interviewing them next to the swimming pool featured in The Clash’s ‘Rock The Casbah’ video and coming to see them several nights in a row in Austin, Texas.

Having spent the last year conquering their homeland and sweeping through the festival circuit, Messiah J & The Expert have built an immense word of mouth fanbase, with dedicated support from radio and press alike. BBC Radio One have given the band wholehearted support and the Irish press has been alight with rave reviews. They release their wildly successful third album 'From The Word Go' in the UK in February 2010 to coincide with their first UK Tour.


CRAYONSMITH

Crayonsmith Myspace

Having played in various musical projects from a young age, in early 2004 Ciaran Smith began playing his own 4-track recorded songs live under the name Crayonsmith. Soon after, he asked close friends and local musicians Ronan Jackson and Ruadhan O' Meara to jump on board. With them, they brought bass, synthesizers, samplers, autoharp and live percussion/drums to the mix resulting in a fuller band sound.

After touring the songs for 2 years, in 2006 Crayonsmith self-released the lo-fi debut album, Stay Loose, featuring superb artwork by Mike Ahern of D.A.D.D.Y. to critical acclaim. Apart from small musical contributions from Ronan and Ruadhan (and some drums by Goodtime John Cowhie), the album was primarily written and produced by Ciarán himself (with mixing help from Northstations' Steve Fanagan) during 2005.

On hearing Stay Loose, American indie icon Mark Linkous personally asked Crayonsmith to open for his band Sparklehorse for 14 dates on their UK/Irish tour in October 2006. The album also secured Crayonsmith support slots with international acts like Quasi, Islands, Robin Guthrie (ex- Cocteau Twins), Juana Molina and Charlotte Hatherley (ex- Ash), as well as gigs with Irish bands such as The Chalets, Jape, The Redneck Manifesto and Giveamanakick.

In February '07, Crayonsmith signed with long time friends Out On A Limb Records (who had previously released albums by givemanakick and Waiting Room) based on a mutual respect for each others work and ethos. Directly following this signing, Ciaran did a solo Crayonsmith tour of the US West Coast and Canada playing with likes of Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Star****er and Mt. Eerie.

On Ciaran’s return, the band reconvened and began work on the second album under the working title, White Wonder. This was to prove to be a more collaborative effort than its predecessor Stay Loose. Influenced by the US indie label Anticon, the band decided to compose their songs by combining sampled drums and sounds with live instrumentation. Crayonsmith enlisted the help of George Brennan (from dark instrumental hip-hop act Deep Burial) to help with beat production on the new songs. The finished beats were then taken to Experimental Audio Studio where Steve Shannon (of the electronic act Halfset) recorded all the instrumentation between July and November 2007. Between breaks in recording, Crayonsmith continued to tour Ireland and the UK, playing with some of their favourite bands including Caribou, Meneguar, Danielson Famile, Dan Deacon, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Loney Dear and Monade.

White Wonder was released on April 4th on Out On A Limb records with another fascinating artwork job by Mike Ahern. The album features catchy punchy songs made up of sampled beats and drum machines combined with live drums, duelling vocals and vintage synthesizers, guitars, bass, autoharp, toy piano, percussion, classic harmonies, found sounds/samplers and headphone interplay. After their headline album release tour, Crayonsmith went on to play some Irish shows with Why?, Yeasayer and The Mae Shi before setting out on a 14 date US tour with Islands, fitting in extra gigs with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and All Girl Summer Fun Band around America. Returning home to play the Oxegen festival in July, Crayonsmith then completed a short German tour with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and played dates around Ireland with Calvin Johnson and Trans Am, all the while continuously writing and playing new material.

They started 2009 with some shows in Ireland with Max Tundra and School of Seven Bells. In April, Ciaran met up again with old friend Casiotone For The Painfully Alone to open for him solo in Galway and Cork. August saw the band play two headline shows - Dublin with old Australian friends Pikelet (Evelyn from Baseball) and Extreme Wheeze (Joe from Alex and The Ramps) and Cork with good friend Magnet and Compass (Austin Brown ex-Why?)

For now, Ciaran is playing solo shows with a synth, sampler and looper set up as well as some acoustic shows. He played the Hefty Horse solo acoustic night with Goodtime John and Squarehead in September. This November, Ciaran will travel to Berlin to play with Phantogram and Benoit Pioulard and will open for Messiah J and The Expert in Dublin at the Ricther Singles Club for the launch of their new 7" single.

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A message from The Expert

Just dropping by to send you this new Messiah J & The Expert news and track. We are doing a double a side 7" with the Richter Collective singles Night. all the info is in the press release. But the story is....
We play The Twisted Pepper on Friday 27th November.
Support is Crayonsmith live solo set.
First 200 people in the door get the 7".
tenner in.
doors 9pm

The tracks on the 7" are
a. ACTING THE MAGGOT and
b. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE SCORE, LOOK AWAY NOW (feat. Jennifer Evans).

This is a youtube of the b side...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1FQdp8v0M

PRESS RELEASE

MESSIAH J & THE EXPERT

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE RICHTER COLLECTIVE PRESENT

A LIMITED EDITION DOUBLE A-SIDE 7” SINGLE RELEASING NOVEMBER 27TH, 2009

ACTING THE MAGGOT

&

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE SCORE, LOOK AWAY NOWfeaturing Jennifer Evans

Meteor Music Award and Choice Music Prize nominees Messiah J & The Expert know a damn good offer when they see one. So when approached by Dublin's Richter Collective Singles Club to cut a brand new double A 7” single that would be released for one night only at an intimate show in Dublin this November, they jumped at the chance. On November 27th at The Twisted Pepper, Dublin MJEX will play a live show in which they will showcase and release two brand new highly relevant, highly topical songs written over a few weeks in October – Acting The Maggot backed with If You Don't Want To Know The Score, Look Away Now, which features Dublin singer Jennifer Evans.
Acting The Maggot is a banger in the classic Hip Hop mould on which MJEX celebrate the joys of being young, flighty, and irresponsible in the modern day over a concoction of swooping strings, snapping drums, sickly scratching and terrifically tasty guitars.
If You Don't Want To Know The Score, Look Away Now is a relentless, 3 part, psychedelic onslaught where Messiah J & The Expert pull no punches in re-examining and re-distributing the term 'scumbag' in light of the sickening greed that brought about the current economic crisis. Jennifer Evans weaves her ghostly, exquisite harmonies over melancholy pianos while Messiah J tells it like it is over a pounding, balls out, ever-morphing Expert soundscape.
This 7” will not be repressed. The only way to get your hands on this super-rare new Messiah J & The Expert release is to get a ticket for The Twisted Pepper on November 27th at http://bodytonicmusic.ticketsolve.com/shows/23097016/events