Skip to main content

Month: August 2012

THE SHOOS

THE SHOOS

+ Corrina Penston

“Panic Slowly”

Album release date 07.09.2012   

“Panic Slowly” is the new album by The Shoos. “Panic Slowly” has become a saying within the band about how to live day to day as a band who want to make a mark on the lives of those who listen whilst trying to retain their sanity.

Continue reading

UKERISTIC CONGRESS

Whelanslive.com presents

UKERISTIC CONGRESS

in Whelan’s Front Bar every second Saturday

7pm-9pm – FREE ENTRY

WATCH:

UKERISTIC CONGRESS

Whelanslive.com presents

UKERISTIC CONGRESS

in Whelan’s Front Bar every second Saturday

7pm-9pm – FREE ENTRY

WATCH:

THE JIM JONES REVUE

*  *  *

THIS GIG HAS BEEN POSTPONED

NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED

REFUNDS AVAILABLE FROM POINT OF SALE OR ORIGINAL TICKETS STILL VALID

*  *  *

POD presents

THE JIM JONES REVUE

+ Guests ———————————

POSTPONED

The Jim Jones Revue show scheduled for this Thursday night 4th October at WHELANS, Dublin has been postponed until early next year. The band’s Irish tour will now take place after the release of their new album “The Savage Heart”, which comes out next week. This will be JJR’s first new release since landmark TV appearances on Jimmy Kimmel live, and Later with Jools Holland. Original tickets will be valid for the rescheduled shows in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Belfast. New dates to be announced later this week. ——————————— Powerhouse rockers JIM JONES REVUE have announced an October Irish tour in support of their eagerly anticipated third studio album “The Savage Heart”, due for Irish release on October 5th. “The Savage Heart” expands the sonic remit of The Jim Jones Revue way beyond their renowned brand of manic rock ’n’ roll, to include exciting new musical territory in the form of tribal stomps, field hollers, a capella spirituals, and even a doo-wop ballad. Lucky gig goers around the country can catch JJR – one of Mojo’s best live bands of 2011 – at The Roisin Dubh, Galway on 2nd October, The Pavilion, Cork on 3rd October, Whelan’s, Dublin on 4th October, and The Limelight, Belfast on 5th October. *Tickets on sale next Tuesday 14th August @ 9am* THE JIM JONES REVUE – BIOGRAPHY It’s 4 short years since The Jim Jones Revue exploded into the nation’s consciousness with the release  of their visceral,  back-to-rock’n’roll-basics debut album, of which Mojo Magazine proclaimed, “If Little Richard had written this he’d still be boasting about it today!” The band have since toured the world many times over, shared bills with The Stooges, Grinderman and Jack White, become rock ’n’ roll statesmen in France, sold out London’s Koko and made phenomenal live appearances on TV’s Later with Jools Holland and The Late Show with David Letterman. Their third studio album The Savage Heart is all set to secure their place in music’s rich rock heritage. Their most exhilarating work to date, The Savage Heart expands the sonic remit of The Jim Jones Revue way beyond their renowned brand of manic rock ’n’ roll to include exciting new musical territory in the form of tribal stomps, field hollers, a capella spirituals and even a doo-wop ballad. “We’re not going to keep making the same record over and over again,” says Jim. “That doesn’t interest us. We are interested though in keeping up the same high level of intensity.” Jim Jones has pedigree, having first honed his craft in Thee Hypnotics, who recorded four albums between 1989 and 1994, including their debut Live’r Than God on the Sub Pop label. After Black Moses, his garage rock trio, The Jim Jones Revue was born from a collaboration with guitarist Rupert Orton, who Jim met at the Not The Same Old Blues Crap club night Rupert has run since 2004. With a line-up completed by bassist Gavin Jay, drummer Nick Jones and keyboardist Elliott Mortimer – replaced in 2011 by Henri Herbert – the group found their feet immediately. “We wanted to capture the excitement we’d felt when we were younger and watching The Ramones, The Gun Club, The Birthday Party,” says Rupert. “We felt it was missing in so many new bands we were seeing at that time.” Their 2008 self-titled debut, The Jim Jones Revue, recorded live in just 48 hours, was an exciting collision of raucous hollering, rama-lama-lama riffing and tear-it-up piano in a pinned-in-the-red wall of distorted noise. Here To Save Your Soul, a collection of non-album singles and orphan tracks, followed in 2009, confirming their role as the premier purveyors of deranged rock ’n’ roll, with an extra dash of The Sonics and Bunker Hill thrown in for good measure. 2010’s Burning Your House Down saw their first collaboration with producer Jim Sclavunos (of Grinderman and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), delivering a swaggering eleven-song assault, with a warmer full-bodied sound and solid rock n’ roll song craft. Producer Jim Sclavunos is on board once again for their latest, The Savage Heart. Recorded in just over two weeks at The Chapel in Lincolnshire and Edwyn Collins’ West Heath Yard studio in West London, The Savage Heart builds on the balls-out rocking of its predecessors, but also offers an expansive vision of the band, with a wider palette of sounds and a broader scope of material. “While the group look back into the roots of rock n’ roll, we’ve never gone backwards in what we do,” says Jim Jones. “It’s always about pushing things forward for us.” It was in this same spirit of bringing in new challenging elements into the proceedings, that Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, DJ Shadow) was called in to mix the album at Elephant and Castle’s The Engine Room. Integral to the group’s vigorous sound is the addition of pianist Henri Herbert, who replaced original member Elliott Mortimer last year. Henri has diversified the group’s keyboard vocabulary, drawing not just on the likes Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard but Otis Spann, Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons as well. “He’s the Professor of Piano,” affirms Rupert. “His wealth of knowledge is astounding. He’s really re-shaped our approach.” The Savage Heart has everything a die-hard Jim Jones Revue fan could possibly ask for, and even more to entice new followers. Driving opener “It’s Gotta Be About Me”, an intense track that builds to exploding point, the thunderous tribal beat of “Never Let You Go”, and the polemical rage of “Where Da Money Go?” are all classic up-tempo Jim Jones Revue tunes. “Eagle Eye Ball” sees Jim Jones linking voyeurism and surveillance TV, the outro climaxing in berserk rant with torrential backing from the band. The Savage Heart also contains surprises.  “7 Times Around The Sun” (which features Jim’s testifying backed against a stark backing of group vocal, percussion and piano — not a guitar in sight!­) and “Chain Gang”, a potent feedback-layered take on an Alan Lomax-style field holler, throw some curve-balls into the mix, offering unprecedented facets of what The Jim Jones Revue are all about as a band. Album closer, “Midnight Oceans And The Savage Heart”, the group’s first-ever ballad, conjures up a strange mixture of innocent heartache and unsettling David Lynch-style eeriness. The tribal groove of “In And Out Of Harm’s Way” is something else again, drawing on the voodoo rhythms of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Rupert explains the song’s origin: “We were travelling back from France last August, and saw what looked like London going up in flames on a TV in the petrol station, but didn’t know what was going on. As we approached Hackney, we realised we were heading straight into the riots. Police were marching down the street and we suddenly found ourselves in a war zone. It was our very own Heart of Darkness. Instead of going up the Congo, we were getting close to the heart of savagery in our home town.” “And that’s where the title of the album, The Savage Heart, comes from,” says Jim. “We got to thinking how thin the veneer of civilisation actually is, and how quickly it comes away to reveal the brutality of man, whether it be the 1% banking traders or the kids rioting on the streets. There’s this savage undercurrent in all of us and it’s amazing how quickly we revert to that. The closer we got to Hackney that night the more insane everything became. That fed into the music.” Among their legions of fans, the group can count several rock luminaries including Jack White, Mick Jones, Bobby Gillespie, Noel Gallagher, and Nick Lowe. The latter, credited on The Savage Heart as “spiritual advisor”, even dropped by rehearsals for a one-on-one with the band. “It was an honour for us to get Nick Lowe’s thoughts and advice on the record,” says Rupert. “We do this because we love doing it. You get on stage in front of a crowd, it doesn’t matter how exhausted you might be feeling, the experience elevates you,” says Jim. “You connect with a higher power, and the crowd connect too. We want to keep pushing that, taking it higher and higher.”

WATCH

TICKETS – POSTPONED

€15 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings) NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED REFUNDS AVAILABLE FROM POINT OF SALE OR ORIGINAL TICKETS STILL VALID

AFTER THE GIG

Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm.

THE DEAD BEAT

THE DEAD BEAT

+ EMERSON & MORE

Rounding up a long summer of live shows and support slots The DeadBeat will put on their own headline slot in Whelans on  Aug 30th.

Continue reading

THE MINUTES (DJ SET)

Whelanslive.com presents

THE MINUTES

– DJ SET – DOORS 11PM / €5 ENTRY

Dublin’s hardest working rock band The Minutes have just announced details of an exclusive DJ Set at Whelan’s on Thursday 23rd August. Tickets priced €5 are on-sale now.

Continue reading

ROSS BREEN & BAND

ROSS BREEN

& BAND + GUESTS —–Winner of Tom Dunne’s ‘Ireland’s Best Unsigned Singer-Songwriter’——- First full band headliner show in over a year. Only five euros in. Come get some!  

TICKETS

€5

AFTER THE GIG

Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue (FREE ENTRY, 12am).

DIRTY EPICS

DIRTY EPICS

+ DARLING (Ex The Kinetiks)

Dirty Epics are back with a bang! With their rocking new album in the bag, the indie pop rock four piece from Dublin with their enigmatic front woman SJ Wai, are raring to get back on the road.

Continue reading

SESSION AMERICANA

Musiclee.ie presents

SESSION AMERICANA

“Genius … Jaw-dropping vocals … Session Americana is blessed in this regard: …musicianship that sets the standard and vocals that do the same” — NE Performer Magazine

“No egos, no big production, just some great songs stripped down to their bare essentials and performed with a real genuineness of spirit and emotional authenticity… it’s beautiful.” (Brian Mosher) — The Noise

“An eclectic, swinging tour de force” — The Boston Globe

“[This] local country-folk megagroup’s double CD is one of the most loose, spontaneous, warm, and homespun acts of community and decency since the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” — The Boston Phoenix

Session Americana sit tightly around a small round cafe table, ambient mics tuned to catch the complete sound of the voices and instruments. A suitcase drum kit, an old electric bass, a field organ and a collection of acoustic instruments.

“Eight years ago I had an idea to apply a traditional Irish music session—where musicians sit around in a circle and play fiddles—to Americana, hence the name ‘Session Americana,’” ringleader Ry Cavanaugh reveals. He contacted five other musicians and began a Sunday night residency at Toad in Cambridge, Mass. The initial patchwork of a band stayed together for four years and made the highly esteemed 2005 debut Hi-N-Dry.

These charter Session Americana members have worked with such diverse and respected artists as Treat Her Right, Patty Griffin, Lori McKenna, The The, Dennis Brennan, and Kris Delmhorst, to name just a few.

“We started haphazardly with no rehearsals doing traditional country songs, a Band tune or two, and a bunch of Boston community songs by songwriters like Jimmy Ryan, Mark Sandman [Morphine], and Dennis Brennan.” Over four records, however, Session Americana has grown into writing its own well-crafted vibrant take on traditional Americana.

• Ry Cavanaugh – Guitar, Mandolin • Dinty Child – Pump Organ, Mandocello • Jim Fitting – Harmonica • Billy Beard – Suitcase Drum Kit • Kimon Kirk – Bass • Laura Cortese – Fiddle • Matt Malikowski – Engineer

Winner “2005 Best Folk Act” – The Boston Music Awards Winner “Best Roots Act 2006” – Improper Bostonian “Best of Boston” Issue Winner “Best CD” 2007 – Improper Bostonian samericana 20 Nominated “Best Roots Act” 2007 – WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Nominated “Best Live Act” 2007 – The Boston Music Awards Nominated “Best Americana Act” 2008 – The Boston Music Awards

WATCH

TICKETS

€16.50 (€14 on musiclee.ie) available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings from WaV).

AFTER THE GIG

Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue (FREE ENTRY, 12am).

RECORD FAIR

Whelanslive.com are having a

RECORD FAIR

Saturday 25th August at 1pm-5pm

BUY | SELL | TRADE all your old VINYL | CDs | TAPES

Come to Whelan’s on 25th August and show the 21st century that you won’t be intimidated. There will be a vast range of LPs, Cds, cassettes, cassingles and possibly even the odd cartridge for sale from every genre imaginable. Spend a few quid, feel good, have a pint, hang out.

Continue reading

  • 1
  • 2