The Soledad Brothers - cork gig

Jim Comic

Bandicoot Promotions present:
Date: Sat 7th Dec 2002
Venue: The Half Moon Theatre (aka the Green Room), Half Moon St, Cork, Ireland.
Headline act:THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS


Price: 10 euro
Doors: Midnight
Ph 021 4270022/4274308
Tickets on sale from Half Moon Box Office
Over 18's

Please note that this gig is a late night show , in the Green Room of the Half Moon and in conjunction with the clubnight Planet Funk. Half Moon box office opens at 11.30pm.


The dark indie rock/ blues duo Soledad Brothers began in early 1998 after guitarist/vocalist Johnny Wirick (a.k.a. Johnny Walker) asked drummer Ben Smith (a.k.a. Ben Swank) if he wanted to play a show. Since then, they have recorded for Detroit's Italy Records and Bellingham, Washington's Estrus label. Wirick and Smith's partnership can be traced back to their days in the Toledo, Ohio blues group Henry and June, which existed from 1994 until 1996. After that group broke up, Wirick continued playing with drummer Doug Walker in the two-piece blues outfit Johnny Walker. Before one of the band's shows in early 1998, Walker decided to leave the group. Looking for someone to fill in for the gig, Wirick turned to Smith, who agreed to play. Developing from what was supposed to be a one-off show, Wirick and Smith decided to continue as the Soledad Brothers.

After a few performances around the Toledo, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan areas, Dave Buick, owner of the Detroit-based Italy Records, approached the Soledad Brothers about cutting a single. This turned out to be their first 7", released in late 1998. Around the same time as the release of the single, the national independent label Estrus began distributing some of Italy's catalog. Upon hearing the Soledad Brothers, Estrus signed the group in early 1999. With the label, the band recorded their second single, which was released late that year. Jack White, from Detroit band The White Stripes, produced the 7". White had known the Soledad Brothers since their first gig and was a labelmate of the group during their time with Italy. White also assisted the band for two years recording their self-titled debut which featured Meg playing pots and pans in the background.

It was during those two years that the group opened a show at Cleveland, Ohio's Pat's, located in the famous Flats, for legendary MC5 manager/rabble rouser in chief John Sinclair. He enjoyed the Soledad Brothers so much that he invited them to be the backing group for his part of the performance. This led to a friendship with Sinclair that resulted in him writing the liner notes for the band's debut album.

Their new album, "Steal Your Soul and Dare Your Spirit to Move", added several new instruments including a second guitar and sounds like a runaway train crashing into a graveyard.

Kali

from the now deleted redneck manifesto thread:

Originally posted by Jim Comic
I thought the point of these boards was the dissemination of information???

am i wrong?

Yes. personally i don't give a toss about february and march gigs.
Even if they are bloody great bands
tell us about them in february and march... they're more likely to be cancelled then sold out before feb.

I've deleted those two cos they're clogging up proper threads.

And theres a fine line between relevance and spam.. in future put your promotions in a single thread marked upcoming cork gigs, that way more ppl will read them, reply "ooh can't wait to see them" and generate interest in all the gigs rather than just one.

Jim Comic

that makes no sense!

Won't bother posting here in future if that's the attitude of the moderators.

so much for free speech!

Kali

Makes no sense?
My suggestion makes bloody perfect sense. i don't want ppl cramming these boards with pointless posts and you want more ppl to read about your gigs. If you can't deal with that simple request to condense your posts then piss off elsewhere.
This is a discussion board not a free advertising board.

Jim Comic

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