Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - March 2010 Irish tour

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Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - Irish tour

Cork - Thursday, 11 March - An Cruiscin Lan
Dublin - Friday, 12 March - The Village
Belfast - Saturday, 13 March The Black Box

Tickets available from http://www.tickets.ie/ or from City Discs Temple Bar, Plugd Records Cork (until it closes down), and The Black Box Belfast. PM me for other options.

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby have individually been making distinctive and original music for decades: he a British iconoclast and wild-card survivor of the early Stiff Records, she as a long-standing heroine of the New York pop scene. For the last three years they have been touring in the US, UK and Europe. In 2008 the self-styled `two piece rock ‘n’ roll group’ released their debut album “Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby”, which enjoyed rapturous critical acclaim in the USA and has been the subject of a four star review in Mojo. They have also recently recorded a new double A side single, “Teflon Wok” c/w “Bobblehead Doll”.



Wreckless Eric recorded the legendary single “Whole Wide World” back in 1977. Since then he has made countless albums in different guises, moving between bubblegum, pop, grunge, psychedelia and techno, but always remaining true to the DIY spirit of his early Stiff days. His most recent solo album, Bungalow Hi, was described by Andrew Weatherall as sounding “like Bo Diddley trying to outdo Aphex Twin”.

Amy Rigby started a country band in eighties New York City, went on to form girl group The Shams, and began her solo career in 1996 with the US hit album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. Her five solo albums embrace pop, country, folk-rock, psychedelia and the indefinable. The Washington Post calls her “One of rock’s most distinctive and consistently excellent songwriters”.

There are no other musicians involved - Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby sing together in harmony accompanied by electric guitar, bass and organ (Eric) and guitars and piano (Amy), plus the occasional sample and the odd bossanova beatbox.

“A triumph of an album.” MOJO

“It was warm, it was funny, it was sharp, it was intense...and very possibly one of the best gigs I've been to in recent years.” Word Magazine

““Has there ever been a rock 'n' roll couple quite like Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby? These wisecracking, worldly and wise newlyweds are something like a cult-level version of Ray Davies and Chrissie Hynde.” Cleveland Free Times

“The show was pretty much an exercise in presenting what can only be considered as total entertainment. You simply don’t see an act of this width and depth every day of the week.”
The Next Big Thing

“Staggering” Der Speigel

“...like golden honey poured over a battered old tube amp.” Los Angeles Times

“...charming, funny, harmony-rich rock-and-roll sprinkled with rollicking Tex-Mex keyboards, fuzzy garage-rock, and Mott the Hoople allusions.” Philadelphia Inquirer

“...their loopy, layered approach, keenly turning conventional boy/girl pop-group convention on ear, sinks in deep.” UNCUT

...an avant-garde Johnny [Cash] and June [Carter].” Houston Press

“...two certified eccentrics conjure up a collection filled with eerie atmospherics, limber arrangements and rambling, gently cushioned melodies.” Performing Songwriter

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www.wrecklesseric.com/
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MyPerfectCousin

The Dublin date has had to be moved to ALT (Andrew's Lane Theatre). Same date and time.

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Hot Press (w/ video): http://www.hotpress.com/news/6125688.html

yknaa

Cool! Their self titled album is recommended.

MyPerfectCousin

In advance of their tour, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby will be appearing on RTE 1 television's "The View" programme, the arts and entertainment panel show hosted by John Kelly (which also features live performances).

The show is on Tuesday, 9th March at 11:05pm.

MyPerfectCousin

There's a cool interview with Eric and Amy in the new issue Hot Press which came out today - page 25.

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Amy Rigby will be appearing on Cork Campus Radio's The Mixtape show today at 4pm. You can listen online at www.ucc.ie/ccr or tune in the wireless to 98.3 fm -- they should be playing 1 or 2 tracks from the album Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby.

MyPerfectCousin

check out Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby TONIGHT, Tuesday 9 March, on RTE 1's "The View" programme with John Kelly, 11.05pm

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Eric and Amy get the Irish Times treatment today - "mavericks under the radar" etc.!!

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0310/1224265968588.html

They will also be doing sessions on Phantom 105.2 in Dublin around lunch time today, and in Belfast on U105 with Ivan Martin around 3.15 today, and on Radio Ulster Arts Extra early this evening.

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MyPerfectCousin wrote: »

check out Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby TONIGHT, Tuesday 9 March, on RTE 1's "The View" programme with John Kelly, 11.05pm

or here ... http://www.rte.ie/tv/theview/

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Doors open at 8pm tonight in Dublin, Eric and Amy on stage at approx 9pm.