30.06.08
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NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS
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CHART ACTION:
ALBUMS
40 Glen Hansard / Marketa Irglova –
Once soundtrack (Columbia)
73 Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
(Fiction/Polydor)
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Back on the gig circuit with the live bit between their teeth AutamataÕs next live show will be in GalwayÕs Cuba venue on
26 July. Meanwhile their current album, Colours Of Sound, was released earlier in the year and harks back to
the sound-scaped warmth of their first release. You can check out the video for
ÒNeed You SunshineÓ from the new
album at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYhy7zWmfo4
www.autamata.com
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Bell X1 have been announced for
the Oxegen Festival in July. The band have just finished a European tour with
Nada Surf and will be heading back to the US very soon to continue their
blossoming love affair with a whole new continent.
www.bellx1.com
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Carly Sings released her
long-awaited debut album, The Glove Thief, on her own label at the beginning of June. The
perfect introduction to the bright, sunny summer weÕre all desperate for, it is
packed with light, melodic, classically accessible tunes guaranteed to put a
spring in your step. With songs covering subjects ranging from faulty
technology to ballsy unrequitedness it even features 2 songs in faultless
French.
Carly Sings has just been
announced as Special Guest for David Turpin in Whelans (Upstairs) this
Wednesday 2 July as well as for 2 shows with David Geraghty (15 July in Galway
and 16 July in Letterkenny) and for all 3 of Jose GonzalesÕ shows in Ireland on
3/4/5 August and will be announcing more shows around the country imminently.
www.myspace.com/carlysings / www.carlytunes.com
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Delorentos have been announced to
play at this yearÕs Oxegen festival.
You can also catch them in Cyprus Avenue, Cork this Friday 4 July and the
following evening in Roisin Dubh, Galway and on 15 August in Belsonic, Belfast.
www.delorentos.net / www.myspace/delorentos
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Dry County have just been confirmed for next monthÕs Oxegen
festival where they will headline the IMRO New Sounds Stage on Sunday 13th
July. They announced to packed crowd in Whelans last week that theyÕll be
taking a break to record their 2nd album but when they return
theyÕll have a brand new name!
www.drycounty.net / www.myspace/drycounty05
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The Dudley Corporation release a
new album, Year Of The Husband, this Friday 4 July on the US-based Absolutely Kosher label.
Their 3rd album was begun in December 2004 and, strangely considering
their first 2 releases were afforded 9 studio days between them(!), has taken
until now to be finished! ÒYes, the extra studio time does mean we sound like
Emerson, Lake and Palmer now!Ó frontman Dudley has commented.
The band are not long back from a European tour with Pinback and are keen to
get an Irish tour in the bag to co-incide with the release date of the new
album. They have already confirmed an album release celebration on 4 July in
Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin.
www.thedudleycorporation.com
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Franz Ferdinand have been popping
their collective heads up for a bundle of UK dates over this month airing brand
new songs from their forthcoming album alongside classic crowd pleasers while
they eyeball their fans in intimate venues! These date come in advance of a
bevy of festival dates over the summer (Electric Picnic is the Irish choice
this year). There is no confirmed news on a release date for the bandÕs
feverishly anticipated 3rd album which is a whisker away from completion!
www.franzferdinand.co.uk
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Mark Geary heads to the Czech
Rebublic next month for a Special Guest slot with The Swell Season followed by some solo shows.
www.independentrecords.ie
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Applications for Hard Working Class Heroes 08 close this Wednesday 2 July! Bands and photographers
applications will be appraised before a final list is prepared and announced.
This year the festival returns to its spiritual home of Temple Bar, Dublin on
12/13/14 September across 5 venues. The international quotient this year will
be filled by a Scottish Invasion curated by one DominoÕs finest, Sons &
Daughters. Muzu.tv are also lending
their expertise with an HWCH TV channel and a free live video made for every
Irish band in the festival! And this yearÕs download chart will be sponsored by
Entertainment.ie.
Full details will unroll as the festival draws closer. In the meantime 2 July
is the final date for bands and photographers to register and all registrations
are via http://www.hwch.net
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Large Mound have been announced
to play at this yearÕs Electric Picnic Festival.
www.largemound.com
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The Last Shadow Puppets release a
new single, ÒStanding Next To MeÓ
this Friday 4 July in Ireland on Domino. It is, of course, taken from the
current debut album, The Age Of The Understatement. The band won the Breakthrough Act award at this
yearÕs Mojo Awards last week
www.dominorecordco.com
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Much-loved Lightspeed Champion who
recently released a new single ÒThe Galaxy Of The LostÓ from the current debut album, Falling Off The
Lavender Bridge (Domino), will
be back in Ireland next month to play at this yearÕs Oxegen Festival. You can
check out his recent performance on Conan OÕBrien at: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/06/lightspeed_cham_8.html
www.dominorecordco.com
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New Amusement whose debut
mini-album, Any Port In A Storm, is available on the nascent Any Other City label.
The bandÕs jaw-droppingly good live
shows are adding an ongoing boost to their rapidly expanding fanbase.
www.myspace.com/newamusement
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Damien Rice returned from an
album writing return road trip from Dublin to Barcelona just in time to take
the stage as Special Guest to Leonard Cohen at 3 shows in Dublin. Damien will
also play solo in Reykjavik on 24 July as well as hitting IcelandÕs
Borgarfjordur Eystri festival (26 July) and the Traena Festival (9July) on a
group of IslandÕs in the Arctic Circle way north of Norway where he will
perform in a mountain cave 32m high and 40m deep!
www.damienrice.com
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At the centre of a whirlwind of frenzied interest She & Him (aka actress Zooey Deschanel and one-man band M.
Ward) release their debut album, Volume 1, on Domino on 18 July in Ireland (a single ÒThis
Is Not A TestÓ will be released on
25 July). Born out of an initial duet between the two in 2006 the album
introduces a Òboy and girl choir hell-bent on making music the old-fashioned
way: by hand and with as few machines as humanly possibleÓ. The pair have just
announced live dates in the US and Canada in July and August. You can check out
some live songs and chat at the following: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/51255-she-him-take-it-back-youve-really-got-a-hold-on-me-change-is-hard-live-on-nprs-world-caf-stream
<http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/51255-she-him-take-it-back-youve-really-got-a-hold-on-me-change-is-hard-live-on-nprs-world-caf-stream>
www.dominorecordco.com / www.sheandhim.com
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Snow Patrol are ensconced in a
studio working their collective everythings off on making their 5th album. A
release date has yet to be confirmed.
www.snowpatrol.com
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Sons & Daughters have just
confirmed that they will curate the Scottish Invasion at this yearÕs Hard
Working Class Heroes Festival in
September. The band will be at the helm of picking the finest emerging Celtic
bands to appear.
Meanwhile they released a new single, ÒThis GiftÓ (the title track from their current album) late
last month.
www.dominorecordco.com
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tindersticks continue apace with
a string of festival dates over the summer (which will include a slot at this
yearÕs Electric Picnic) featuring a 12-piece ensemble (with brass and strings)
in an ongoing celebration of their long overdue and universally acclaimed new
album, The Hungry Saw. The
album will be physically released in North America and Canada on 16 September
by Constellation who will give it their customary quality gatefold packaging
for the CD version with a heavyweight, multiple insert release on vinyl.
www.tindersticks.co.uk / www.myspace.com/tindersticksofficial /
www.youtube.com/ tindersticksofficial
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Tricky returns with an album that
is set to confound any critics of his last few releases. Knowle West Boy (Domino),
released this Friday 4 July in Ireland is named after the gritty Bristol
council estate that he grew up on offers everything you would expect from one
of the legendary innovators of the Bristol scene. The first single is ÒCouncil
EstateÓ. Tricky plays live in
Ireland at this yearÕs Oxegen festival. You can check out his EPK at: www.dominorecordco.com/files/tricky/mov/Tricky_EPK_high.mov
www.dominorecordco.com
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Domino signing White Williams released
a second single, ÒViolatorÓ last
week taken from his debut album, Smoke, which was released at the end of last month –
Òunapologetic pop that flirts with the vacuous nostalgia of the American
dreamÓ. http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/downloads/WW_violatorvid/White_Williams_Violator1Mbps_Stream.mov
www.dominorecordco.com
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Wild Beasts released their debut
album, Limbo, Panto, on
Domino on 20th June. It will be followed by a single, ÒDevilÕs CrayonÓ, on 4th July. Uncut have decreed that ÒItÕs a
wonderful recordÓ! The band were in Dublin recently supporting The Maccabees in
Tripod as part of the Soundtrack 08 festival.
www.dominorecordco.com
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