Brian Cheatle achieves little, while Jack Cawley takes noise for a walk

Enjoy an evening of comedy and music in the Smock Alley Theatre from Brian Cheatle, host of Retro Vision: The Terrible Movie Show, and Jack Cawley, professional music nerd person, as part of the Scene and Heard festival.

Overnight Failure — Brian Cheatle
One day you’re writing a sitcom for Comedy Central USA, the next you’re cutting your own hair. In his stand-up special, Brian suddenly finds himself middle-aged after decades of screw-ups.
Written + Performed by: Brian Cheatle. Produced by Caroline Swords.

Jack takes a Noise for a Walk — Jack Cawley
Jack came by Dublin some moons ago via Sligo, Galway + Saturn (slight return). He has a background in electronics, composition and holds an MPhil in Music + Media Technology from TCD. He plays several instruments and can even write music with dots and everything. This evening he may use some of these skills, but more than likely won’t. Jack likes treading carefully on the line between noise and music- at some point a song might even break out, who knows? He likes barbecued halloumi, and words like ‘fricative’.
Written & performed by: Jack Cawley

Tickets are available now from TicketSolve for €10, or €13 on the night.

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New EP from Limerick’s Van Panther is out now

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Highly recommended for all fans of post-something music, Van Panther play McHughs in Belfast this Saturday, 23rd November.

Surrounding the whimsical musical antics of 24 year-old singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Kieran Ralph, Van Panther takes aim at love, loss, lust and terrible nights out, in an attempt to somehow unify popular music.

Van Panther

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Jogging’s third LP Whole Heart is out now, with Dublin, Galway & Cork gigs coming up in November

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The next Jogging gig is the album launch in Bello Bar on Saturday 9th. You can order a vinyl copy of Whole Heart and a ticket to the launch gig for €20 from the Out On A Limb online shop.

Jogging live:
- Saturday, November 9th: Bello Bar, Dublin (with Grave Goods & Angular Hank)
- Friday, November 15th: Roisin Dubh, Galway
- Friday, November 29th: The Roundy, Cork

Whole Heart is Jogging’s long-awaited follow-up to the much-acclaimed one-two punch of Take Courage (2012, Out On A Limb Records) and Minutes (2010, Richter Collective). Whole Heart was recorded with the in-demand production duo of Ian Chestnutt & John “Spud” Murphy (Lankum, Katie Kim, Percolator) in Dublin’s Guerrilla Sound Studios. It will be Jogging’s first release with new drummer Gerard Mangan (Ten Past Seven), and is set for release on Friday, 8 November. It will be available on limited edition vinyl (pre-order here) and on all the usual digital platforms.

Jogging awakened in 2009 and quickly gained a formidable live reputation. They have toured Ireland and the UK, sharing the stage with Wire, Polvo, NoMeansNo, The Gaslight Anthem, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and Ought amongst others. Jogging’s music has been described as “an intense, raw blend of post-hardcore and gutsy indie rock”.

The Dublin-based three-piece will be touring in support of the release, with an album launch taking place at Bello Bar, Dublin, on Saturday, 9 November, 2019. A limited number of bundles that include a ticket to the launch show and a copy of Whole Heart on vinyl (includes download code) can be ordered from our webstore for just €20.

It’s been 7 years since the last one, so make the most of it.

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Limerick, Galway, Belfast & Dublin gigs for former members of The Fall

Manchester’s Imperial Wax was formed by three of The Fall’s final and logest lasting lineup. Bromidic Thrills is taken from their debut LP, Gastwek Saboteurs , which was released last May. A follow up album is due next year.

Imperial Wax proffer otherworldly primal noise rock that’s both animalistic and shamanistic, like a coyote, its mouth frothing from peyote, has drifted from the high plains in order to prowl the Pennines.

Following the release of their debut album, Gastwerk Saboteurs earlier this year the four-piece, which includes three 11 year veterans in the longest serving and last line up of The Fall, share a brand new single on Louder Than War Records UK (DL/LP formats) and Saustex for North America (limited LP format only). A new follow-up album is also expected in 2020.

Oxymoronic by name, demonic by nature, there’s nothing platitudinous about the heinously noisy but insidiously hooky rocking and rollocking of “Bromidic Thrills.” Meanwhile the B-Side “Bloom & Wither” is not so much a shrinking violent as inherently violent, dripping with barely restrained malevolence and murderously melodic intention ending with fully-flanged explosive bombast.

About the new single, vocalist and guitarist Sam Curran remarks…”Bromidic Thrills is a pure release of frustration that was written very quickly and initially void of being attached to any sort of tune or song, just a pure vent about a multitude of negative factors. Mainly myself, my choices, where I live, what I want to do with my life and who I want to do it with. Contradictory desires locking horns. Feeling anchored. Peering over the walls I’ve built around myself and the walls that living in a small town built for me. Thwarting my own future with complacency and slipping into a casual state of mind.”

The Irish live dates are:

Wednesday 6th November — The Sound House, Dublin
Thursday 7th November — Kasbah Social Club, Limerick
Friday 8th November — Roisin Dubh, Galway
Saturday 9th November — Speakeasy, Belfast

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Daughters wrap up their European tour with a gig in Dublin on November 2nd

They’ll be joined by Jeromes Dream. The gig was orginally scheduled for The Grand Social but has been moved to the Button Factory and tickets are on sale now via https://www.thegrandsocial.ie/events/daughters.

If anybody else said it, you might flip them off on principal alone…

However, by titling their 2018 fourth full-length and debut for Ipecac Records, You Won’t Get What You Want, Daughters send a crystal clear message. The quartet — Alexis Marshall [vocals], Nick Sadler [guitar], Jon Syverson [drums], and Sam Walker [bass] — follow the same internal compass that guided them to blur the lines of fickle heavy music sub-genres in the first place and quietly ignite a cult fervor typically reserved for grindhouse phenomena.

In fact, the best way to describe the philosophy and the sound of the quartet is simply: rock ’n’ roll.

“I’ve always felt we decide what a Daughters record is,” Alexis states. “It’s not a sound or an aesthetic. Daughters is the name of our group and, we will do whatever we want to do with it.”

“We’ve changed our sound from record to record since the beginning,” says Nick. “We always had a very broad interest and taste in music across the spectrum. We are a rock band at heart, expect not to expect anything.”

There was a time expecting another Daughters record might’ve been met with disappointment. On the heels of their 2010 self-titled offering, the members engaged an indefinite hiatus. One fated dinner and two sold out hometown shows in Providence in 2013 saw them pick up where they had left off. Throughout the next four years the band recorded, eventually culling down a Dropbox of 150 ideas to the ten comprising You Won’t Get What You Want. In the end, if you want a Daughters record, you’ll get it here.

Jeromes Dream was born in 1997 as a result of personal uncertainty, instability, loss, and rage. Jeff Smith (bass, vocals) Nick Antonopoulos (guitar), and Erik Ratensperger (drums) created an aural violence in their dynamic and unpredictable songs. At that time, bands like Orchid, Reversal of Man and pageninetynine were making similarly polemic music. But JD carved its own path and helped to define the subgenre that would come to be known as emo-violence.

The band set itself apart with an enigmatic and visceral approach to hardcore that was markedly different from the other music of its day, culminating in the release of their last record, Presents, in 2001. That same year, JD hung it up and moved on to pursue other personal projects, and after 17 years, the three friends gravitated back toward the shared belief that JD was a sacred space for them to wholly express themselves.

Fast forward to 2018 when Jeromes Dream announced that they would reunite and write a new record together, despite now living on opposite coasts of the US. The response was overwhelming, with fans from all over the world hailing the reunion. In March 2019 the band entered the studio with producer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Gouge Away, Loma Prieta, Joyce Manor) and created a 12-song untitled LP (to be released on their own label, Microspy, founded by Ratensperger) that forges new creative directions, with expanded lyrical content and the compositional maturity that only experience, tragedy, and introspection can usher forth.

Gone are the youthful jaunts of cynicism replete in earlier lyrical content. JD now mine the depths of a pancultural void of empathy and acceptance. JD attempts to reconcile self-interest/awareness with a pervasive inability to affect the global edifices that dominate and influence our every decision.

The band seems to have spliced the threads of time from 2001 to 2019 creating a straight line with no stylistic deviations or missteps. The songs and performances evoke a band that never stopped working and writing together. Moments of clarity and serenity that poked stubbornly through the surface on past albums are now further realized and given sarcous life and the dynamism of Jeromes Dream is more powerful, raw, and sincere than ever before.

Daughters
Jeromes Dream
The Button Factory
Curved Street, Temple Bar
Saturday 2nd November
Tickets available now from https://www.thegrandsocial.ie/events/daughters.

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Glimmermen will release their new LP Here I Stand on 9th November

Here I Stand is Glimmermen’s third album and will be a vinyl-only release, coming with a poster, lyric sheet & that essential download code. Glimmermen will be joined by The Middle Ages and Panik Attaks for the launch gig in the Bello Bar on 7th November.

Glimmermen take rock and roll back to its primitive core having quickly earned a reputation for their intense live shows, the band (Gav Cowley — guitar, vocals, J. Bassetti — bass, Phil Murray — drums, Dave Prendergast — trumpet, Orlaith Gilcreest -Saxaphone, vocals) released their debut EP “Satellite People” in 2012 with comparisons to Television, Pop Group and Mission of Burma.

They followed up with their J.Robbins — recorded debut ‘I’m Dead’ in 2013. Glimmermen returned with their second well received album, ‘Breakin’ Out’, on June 17th. ‘ Recorded in ‘The Meadow’ in Wicklow by The Deaf Brothers at the beginning of 2016.

This November sees the five release their third album ‘Here I Stand’ and expands further the musical landscape they enthusiastically explore. 11 songs delivered in their own inimitable style. Themes of love and loss interweave with wide-eyed melodies, creating an album all at once aghast at and in love with the world.

As alluded to in the cover art, the stand taken is not necessarily on solid ground, as many things are at play and in flux, and themes draw parallels with life’s many dysfunctional communication platforms and the struggle to makes sense of things within and without.

However, a fine balance is achieved by the musical scaffolding of guitar, bass, drums and brass, delivering an elevational, upbeat bunch of singable songs. The album was recorded in the Meadow in Co Wicklow early this year and expands further the musical landscape created in 2016’s Breakin’ Out.

From the hopeful title track to the playful It’s Nice, to the party-at-the-end-of-the-world vibes of Sleep Walkin, this is a record that will keep you on your toes and keep them tapping.

GreySlate Presents
Glimmermen
The Middle Ages
Panik Attaks
Bello Bar, Portobello, Dublin 6
Thursday 7th November

Glimmermen

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Dark Arts Festival, Dublin’s first avant-garde electronic music festival, takes place later this month

The festival features 15 Electro, Techno, Experimental, EBM and Industrial artists and visual art performances across venues like the Smock Alley Theatre, Kaizen, and The Soundhouse.

Tickets are available now from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dark-arts-festival-2019-tickets-65037110749 with a weekend pass available for €69.99 that covers all events bar the now sold out opening night performance.

The Dark Arts Festival is offering Dublin’s avant-garde electronic music fans the chance to witness some of the most renowned performers from Berlin, Copenhagen and Toulouse alongside the most diverse Irish talent.

Within intimate venues hosting the festival including Smock Alley Theatre, Dark Arts Festival promises to showcase the best dark multidisciplinary artists from Electro to Techno, Experimental, Ambient Sonic and visual art.

Dark Arts Festival is independently financed and created with love by Damien McClurg. Damien says: “This is the first year of the festival and I hope it will give Irish artists, in particular, a chance to perform, those who don’t usually get a platform. Similar festivals have sold out in Amsterdam and Barcelona, but this helps promote Irish artists.”

Dark Arts Festival are also excited to welcome some international acts like high energy Viscerale (this will be the Berlin based Dj’s Irish debut), Imperial Black Unit, Schacke, Black Merlin and more.

Line-up:
De Sang Froid (Alaxis Andreas G)
Black Merlin (Island of the Gods)
Corner
Jay Carroll
Le Syndicat Electronique (Alaxias Andreas G)
Operant
Schacke
Viscerale (DJ)
Imperial Black Unit (A+W)
Dylan Kerr
Katie Gerardine O’Neill
darktrax
Swesor Bhrater
Myska (DJ)
Thomas Haugh
Sharon Phelan

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BATS have released a video for The Call of Cthulu, the third single from their new LP Alter Nature

Alter Nature was released last Friday and is available to order (and stream) from the BATS Bandcamp page:

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Having formed in 2006, the band released their EP ‘Cruel Sea Scientist’ in 2007, their debut LP ‘Red In Tooth & Claw’, produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, in 2009 and ‘The Sleep Of Reason’ produced by These Arms Are Snakes’ Chris Common in 2012. Sporting their own brand of science inspired metal/post-hardcore and surprisingly danceable post-punk, the band have received critical acclaim from the likes of the Quietus, NME, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and more.

With the forthcoming release of their third studio album ‘ALTER NATURE’, BATS seek to continue their ongoing quest of promoting science and reason while combating superstition and pseudoscience with blastable riffs and existential grooves.

‘ALTER NATURE’ is a full-frontal attack to all of the senses. BATS incredibly idiosyncratic and cacophonous yet entirely rousing experimental noise-rock delves into intelligent and complex territory both lyrically and musically, but BATS understand that it need not exclude it from having a raw, rhythmic energy and a strong sense of melody.

This translates perfectly into their live shows and has seen the band earn plaudits and fans playing alongside the likes of The Locust, These Arms Are Snakes, The Jesus Lizard, Gang Gang Dance, Sebadoh and Chrome Hoof. BATS will also play this year’s ArcTanGent festival with further live dates TBA.

7 years in the making, the band have purposefully set about honing and crafting these tracks with precision and dedication. If you’re lucky enough to have heard BATS before or have even seen them live, then this incredibly strong third effort should be instantly recognisable as a consummate and direct snapshot of the devastatingly efficient unit; let alone as another step towards wherever the band might take themselves. If you’re still yet to hear them, then you could have picked no better space-time.

More from BATS at https://www.facebook.com/BATS-17878413364/

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Here’s your first taste of a new solo project from Dave McGloughlin

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Formerly of Le Galaxie, Dave McGloughlin is a Dublin born, Galway-based producer and biped currently making music as Fakenamé.

Having written, recorded and toured with festival dance-tent favourites Le Galaxie for the last 10 years, Dave decided to make a new beginning and left the band in July 2019. Having decamped to Galway, he has been working on new solo material with a view to performing live shows in 2020. “Strangers To Love” is his first release, a short, sharp “hello world” of a track that features a cheeky sample you may or may not recognise, or indeed care for…

Stay tuned for new tracks, remixes, edits and DJ mixes from Fakenamé

You’ll be able to find more of this kind of thing at http://www.fakenamemusic.com

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A fundraising tribute night in memory of the late David Berman takes place on 17th October

It takes place in The Sound House, and tickets are available now from purplejews.eventbrite.ie priced at €15, with all funds raised going to Aware. The poster down below has all the details.

All my favourite singers couldn’t sing.

David Berman, pavement hero of the Silver Jews and the comeback king of Purple Mountains, passed on August 7.

He left behind a corduroy suit made of a hundred gutters, jagged skylines of car keys, 50,000 beer cans and a wild kindness.

Paying tribute are Adrian Crowley, Steve Windings, Anna Carey and Patrick Freyne, Maija Sofia, Skelokrats, Eileen Gogan, The Former Soviet Republic, Dudley Colley and a host more to be announced.

Come along and help them to raise another 50,000 beers in David’s memory on the night, and we’ll let his songs sing out in the wild silence one more time.

All proceeds to Aware.

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