Camden Drawl Dublin 2012

What a fantastic weekend at the inaugural Camden Crawl Dublin. Highlights for me were Ghostpoet, Fionn Regan, Sertone, REID, Alarmist and We Are Scientists. Some pictures below…

Come On Live Long – Elephants and Time Music Video

We’ve just finished the cut on a music video I directed for the band. I’m pretty pleased with how its come together.

Big thanks to all the guys involved. We’re playing for the Camden Crawl Dublin tomorrow night, May 11th, in Whelan’s.

 

Forbidden Fruit Line Up Revealed

Day by Day:

Saturday June 2nd:

Leftfield

Booka Shade

Bloody Beetroots

The Field

Bear In Heaven

Le Galaxie

Toby Kaar

Sunday June 3rd

New Order

The Rapture

Death in Vegas

Mode Selektor

Atlas Sound

Austra

Grimes

Rarely Seen Above Ground

Kool Thing

Monday June 4th

Wilco

James Vincent McMorrow

Beirut

Mazzy Star

Andrew Bird

Field Music

Julia Holter

Windings

Come On Live Long Christmas Mix

Us folk in Come On Live Long have put our heads together this festive season to compile a mix of just some of our favorite songs from the last year or so. It’s free to download from our Soundcloud page.

Burial – Shell of light
Do Make Say Think – Bound to be that way
Feist – The Bad In Each Other
The tallest man on earth – The Blizzard’s Never Seen The Desert Sands
Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix)
Radiohead – Separator (Four Tet RMX)
Apparat – Goodbye (Instrumental)
Active Child – You Are All I See
Little Dragon – Little Man (Tycho Remix)
Dana & Siriusmo – Trommellied
PVT – Light Up Bright Fires
Toro Y Moi – New Beat
Floating Points – Vacuum Boogie
Nite Jewel – It Goes Through Your Head (DaM-FunK Club Dub)
South street player – Who keeps changing your mind

Now Streaming: We Cut Corners – ‘Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards’

Debut release on the Delphi Label by We Cut Corners. Been looking forward to hearing this one for some time now. These guys were named amongst State.ie’s Faces of 2010; all good things and all that…

Check out the splendid video for A Pirate’s Life directed by Polish duo Adamski / Kijek.

Nouveaunoise – Sequence Consequence

Nouveaunoise return with the release of their follow up to last years drastically overlooked Paraphrase Accolade. The new EP form Nial Conway and Conor Gaffney is called Sequence Consequence and is available from the duo’s bandcamp for whatever price you choose.

If you’ve been listening to the show over the last few weeks you’ll know that I’m terribly fond of this stuff and couldn’t recommend it highly enough.

Introducing: Alarmist

I haven’t felt the need to write much here the last few months, apologies, that’s what having a job can do to oneself.However, that all changed last week when I stumbled across Alarmist.

Comprising of Neil Crowley, Elis Czerniak (of Halves) Osgar Dukes and Barry O’Halpin, Alarmist instantly hit me with their beautiful lush, atmospheric sound which conjures up the influence of Jaga Jazzist jamming with Red Sparrows. A lovely clash of post-rock meets post-jazz. The Dublin based four piece are releasing their debut EP at Block T, Smithfield, on August 19th. The EP is streaming below, do yourself a favor and check them out…

Body and Soul Festival

This weekend signals the beginning of my favourite micro festival that Ireland has to offer. Body and Soul more than won me over last year with its laid back atmosphere, lush surroundings, natural feel, and splendid music catalogue. I’m looking forward to more of the same this weekend in Westmeath’s Ballinlough Castle.

Here’s a pick of 5 acts to look out for over the weekend;

Toro Y Moi

Holy Fuck

Mount Kimbie

Delorean

Halves

Weekend tickets are still on sale through Tickets.ie.

New Jape Double A-Side: Hands of Fire / Lying On a Deathbed

Jape returns with a new double A side single recorded between France and Ireland. Hands of Fire / Lying on a Deathbed are two tracks that will feature on the Dubliner’s forthcoming album Oceans Of Frequency which will be released on his Music / Is / For / Losers label in  September.

Villagers‘ Conor O Brien shows that he is more than just a strummer of steel strings as he takes to the drum stool for the second of the two songs below. Lying on a Deathbed is a step back from the synth-driven opener but we have come to expect both the clever tongue-in-cheek yet painfully open ballad and also the upbeat encouraging floor filler from Richie Egan.

Check it for yourself: