Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - March 2010 - Cork, Dublin, Belfast, your TV

MyPerfectCousin

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby - Irish tour

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

RTE 1 - Tuesday, 9 March - "The View" 11:05pm

Tickets available in advance from €14/£12 (€16 at the door) from http://www.tickets.ie/ or from City Discs Temple Bar, the ticket office above Plugd in Cork, and The Black Box Belfast www.blackbox.com .

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

Here's a video of Eric when he was a young punk in 1977:

MyPerfectCousin

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

MyPerfectCousin

"The very odd couple of very smart punk/pop make their collective debut in Ireland."
--Irish Times, March 5, 2010

That's one way to describe the tour, I suppose....

MyPerfectCousin

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

MyPerfectCousin

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 BBC Radio Ulster Arts Extra early this evening.

MyPerfectCousin

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

AnimalRights

When this gig is over your life will become shallow as you will miss the bumping of this thread....unless you're bringing 'em over later again in the year? ;>

dregin

When was the last time an Irish act got so much attention on so many radio stations???? This is ****.

Spot in the ****in metro earlier under the "punk" section. I had to laugh.


****.
Off.

Jim

Everything I don't like is shit.

MyPerfectCousin

AnimalRights wrote: »

When this gig is over your life will become shallow as you will miss the bumping of this thread....unless you're bringing 'em over later again in the year? ;>

Fair comment AR. To be fair, I never just posted "bump" and only commented if there was a new link or something to add. Maybe the wrong forum, but some associate Wreckless Eric with punk. I can't help if there are 47 definitions of what punk means (the Clash thread is funny). And I'm shocked to hear there was any radio coverage in the republic (apart from a low key Phantom session), let alone excessive coverage.

AnimalRights

I agree with most what you just said, we're just argumentive cnts in here, sure Dregin even dresses down when he goes out with his non Punk friends.

and I'm old enough to remember Wreckless Eric being associated with new wave back in the day.