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MIDNIGHT HOUR w/ ROAD WIVES

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ROAD WIVES

plus support AUXILIARY PHOENIX Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight. Doors: 11:30pm Sign up for guest list HERE Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland. — — — — —

ROAD WIVES

http://roadwives.tumblr.com/ TodayFM ‘Homegrown Hero’ and Dude.ie ‘One to Watch’, Road Wives’ debut track This has been generating quite the buzz on Irish airwaves. The track has gone on to be featured regularly on 2FM, ClassicHits4FM, Beat102/103, 8Radio, Dublin City Radio, uRadio, KFM, KCLR, 2XFM, DundalkFM, in the US on Skycast Radio and in the UK with EGH Radio. Later this month more UK stations are picking up the single: Sword Radio UK, WRFN 1025, Identify Radio, GloTime Radio, Rock RadioUK, QMRFM and Warm RadioUK. Hotpress magazine called the debut single “a brilliant electronic 80’s stomper.” RTE Ten Entertainment Network called it “The coolest new Irish track you’ll hear all week.” It also made quite a social media splash when it got 6,000 Facebook likes in just three days, and the release of the official video has had a similar Facebook reaction with 7,000 plus Facebook likes. Road Wives, otherwise known as dj, producer & recording artist Jack Quinn cut his teeth on the scene in Dublin, France, Spain and the US. In early 2015 he teamed up with his brother, producer Declan Quinn (ex-Republic of Loose), to cut a daring debut EP to be released later in 2016. Road Wives wrote, co-produced, sang and performed on all tracks along with some other choice guest talent including CC Brez on guitars & bass, Zamo Riffman (forthcoming John Carney – director of Once – film Sing Street) and singer Eve Macklin (Cats, Les Miserables) on backing vocals. Road Wives does live shows with his band as well as dj sets. His band is made up of such talent as Stephen Kinsella on drums, Cormac Strain on bass (79Cortinas) and Karen Denieffe onvocals and keyboards. He is currently playing venues round Ireland and will do the festival circuit ahead of international dates later in 2016. iTunes, Spotify,Tidal, Rhapsody, Amazon Music and Google Play, Deezer and Apple Music. — — — — —

AUXILIARY PHOENIX

https://www.facebook.com/auxfnx Auxiliary Phoenix is James Strain, a producer, multi-instrumentalist & DJ based in Carlow, Ireland. Coming from a background of progressive rock, jazz fusion, hip hop and turntablism, these elements are combined through modern experimental hip hop production. Auxiliary Phoenix has produced remixes for underground hip hop legend Divine Styler, Lisa Papineau (AIR), Bosnian Rainbows & Bearcubbin’, amongst others. The music is performed live by the Auxiliary Phoenix Quartet, which includes James McDermott on keyboards, Jake Quinn on drums & Evan McDermott on guitar, with Auxiliary Phoenix on bass. The Quartet strips away some of the electronic layers of the music and brings out more of the jazz fusion that is at the core of the songs. The forthcoming EP Camelopardalis is a combination of jazz fusion and hip hop production, with live fretless & 5-string basses, guitar and drums, accompanied by big beats and synthesizers. It is due out on Inner Current Recordings in 2016. Auxiliary Phoenix is also one half of High Elders, a collaboration with Delaware emcee Gentle Jones. The debut album ‘Forest of Pencils’ came out December 9, 2014 on Little L Records. The album was Album of the Week for the start of December on Dan Hegarty’s 2FM & 2XM show, ‘The Alternative’. The follow up mixtape ‘More Magick’ was released in May 2015.

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