Whelanslive.com presents
+ guests
“Album pick of the month” – – Aaron Byrd, KCRW Los Angeles
“Our new crush” – Hot Press
“Brian has a voice that triggers memories of comfort , just lie back and enjoy” – DJ Ease – Nightmares on Wax
+ SAMUEL & TICKLY TEETH
Queen Herod is a musical project of Holly Pereira, an artist and musician from Dublin.
– Regional Final, East –
Brought to you by Guinness Arthur’s Day, Hot Press & RTÉ 2fm
featuring
To get your FREE TICKETS go to www.playontheday.com
——————-
NATIONAL WINNER’S PRIZE PACKAGE will include:
• A full recording session with a senior Record Producer in RTÉ studios • The release of a single, with no strings attached. • A full professional photo session for the Hot Press cover • A place for a member of the band/manager on the MIX course run by Hot Press • A special consultation with MIX lecturers/industry experts • An interview and spread in Hot Press • Thousands of euro worth of top of the range musical instruments and equipment • As part of the overall prize, the Play On The Day winner’s will receive multiple mentions across Guinness Ireland’s Facebook and Twitter pages which collectively boast over 350,000 fans and follows.
REGIONAL WINNER’S PRIZE PACKAGE will include:
• To record an in-studio session for broadcast by RTÉ 2fm, to stream on hotpress.com and for the band’s own use • To feature on a special Flip Cover of An interview in Hot Press • A full professional photo session for the Hot Press flip cover • An interview in An interview in Hot Press
PLAY ON THE DAY Last year saw Guinness, Hot Press and RTÉ 2fm launch Arthur’s Day – Play On The Day, Ireland’s biggest ever competition for bands and solo acts, and it was a testament to the continuing strength of this country’s music scene. The entries flooded in, bringing many of the finest up-and-coming acts from the four corners of Ireland together, all united in their aim – to win Irish music’s ultimate band challenge. Following several rounds of judging, four regional finals and the national final, highly rated Leaders of Men emerged as winners.
Dublin duo Nanu Nanu have been gaining quite a reputation for their unusual electro pop anthems and fabulous lightshow. Despite Nanu Nanu existing less than a year, they’ve had a meteoric rise. Invitations to play for the BBC in the North followed an RTE 2FM session. They played Electric Picnic and will be releasing their debut EP in association with RTE Radio’s Arena show in October. Their debut album Unit One is recorded and is at present being mixed by Rob Kirwin (PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode and 30 Seconds to Mars).
Whelanslive.com presents
+ guests
Twice winner of the meteor award in the best folk/trad category, John Spillane has toured the country and the world spreading joy with a mix of melodic tunes, entertaining stories and poetic lyrics. Described as ‘one of the truest Irish voices of his generation’ by Irish music magazine, Spillane truly embodies the Celtic spirit.
+ guests
“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.
MCD.ie presents
+ guests
No.1 in NME’s list of Top 5 bands to watch THE STRYPES make a welcome return to Dublin this December.
+ guests
After a busy Summer gigging all around the country, including their performance at Castlepalooza, which has been described as the “highlight of the weekend” by music blogger Barry Gruff there is no better time for The Statics to release their debut single “Holiday”.
Wells for Zoë benefit featuring
+ DJ SAM STOTT
Wells for Zoë is a small, Irish, sustainable development organisation working with some of the world’s poorest in Northern Malawi. It is almost irrelevant now that it was founded by John and Mary Coyne from Lucan, Co Dublin; such is the support it gets from so many people and in so many ways. It has never sought Government funding and depends on the generosity of the public for its development. The Coynes do however pay all administrative expenses and naturally they pay for their own flights, travel and accommodation while in Malawi, which now is about five months each year. This enables all donations to be spent where they are needed, in Malawi.Whelan’s Indie DJ from 11pm til late or you might even catch the end of the weekly Trad Session in the front bar (9pm, Free).
+ guests
Led by saxophonist and composer Nick Roth, Yurodny perform contemporary interpretations of traditional music from Eastern Europe and the Near East alongside new works from composers inspired by these traditions.
Whelanslive.com presents
+ guests
Award winning UK collective SOUTHERN TENANT FOLK UNION new album ‘HELLO COLD GOODBYE SUN’ out now
Whelanslive.com presents
+ guests
As one of the two primary songwriters of seminal 80′s group Hüsker Dü, Grant Hart helped shape the sound and voice of indie rock to come, influencing bands that followed including Nirvana and the Pixies.
Whelanslive.com presents
“There’s no greater feeling than being licked by the Common Tongues” Jeremy Sallis, BBC Radio Cambridge
“The best new band I’ve heard in Brighton this year” Tony Marks, New Music Show, Juice FM
– “Eiderdown” Single Launch –
+ EXTRADITION ORDER & I AM KAII
Confirm on facebook HERE
To mark the release of debut single ‘Eiderdown’, Red Queen Contest play the Whelans upstairs venue on Saturday 3rd November.
– Single Launch – special guests
SPILLY WALKER SUNKEN FOAL SIMON BIRD
8:30pm – Late
Followed by guest DJs
Confirm on Facebook HERE
Somadrone sound is a lush minimalism, a sonic trip, soundtracks for early light. Beginning in 1998, with a focus on electronic pop and experimental music, each album evolves with a change tone, instruments that help bring about new directions:
+ guests
OrphanCode, an alternative 3-piece fromDublin, have just completed their second album ‘I Am a Country,’ with long-time producer and engineer Ger McDonnell.
Whelanslive.com presents Double Headline Concert with
————-
PUGWASH
“..one of the most highly regarded psychedelic-pop songwriters around.” – Tony Clayton-Lea, Heineken Music
“The Olympus Sound is the best Irish album of the year to date” – The Irish Times
Thomas Walsh is a Choice Music Prize, Meteor and Ivor Novello nominated songwriter having been the driving force behind his cult powerpop outfit PUGWASH for ten years and recently being one half of the cricket loving pop duo ‘THE DUCKWORTH LEWIS METHOD’ with musical partner Neil Hannon.
Thomas was born in his parents house in Drimnagh in 1969. “Lazy bugger even then I was, not wanting to go to the hospital to be born”. As men landed on the moon and the sixties were officially coming to a grand musical close at Woodstock, Thomas set about listening to all the classic pop music that was streaming forth literally every week from his parents TV, radio and stereo. “My brothers started to bring Al Stewart, Mike Oldfield, Queen and E.L.O records into the house along with Roy Wood, Slade and Gilbert O’Sullivan ones that my Mam and Dad already had there…..you can see why I’m steeped in a love of great pop!”.
Thomas, in his guise as PUGWASH has released 7 albums in ten years and been given numerous accolades..one of which is still a ‘goosepimple’ moment for him. “Back in 2006 Brian Wilson’s manager David Leaf obtained my e-mail through an acquaintance and sent me a mail saying that Brian loved my track ‘It’s nice to be nice’ and as he was coming to Dublin to play in Vicar Street he’d love to meet me. MEET ME!!?? He came, I met Brian, he said ‘Hey! You’re the nice to be nice guy’, I said ‘Yes’ and he said ‘Great song’…..I still think it was all a fantastic dream to be honest”.
After years of artistic success it was time to get something more out of the music game, so OF COURSE an album all about cricket was the obvious step towards that..??!! No? Well 50,000 sales in the U.K, a Top 40 U.K debut chart placing, numerous award nominations, famous fans (Stephen Fry, Simon le Bon and Noel Gallagher to name but a small few) and sell out shows in London (Queen Elizabeth Hall) and Dublin (Olympia) all within a year of the release of ‘THE DUCKWORTH LEWIS METHOD’ certainly adds up to a resounding YES!!
In 2010 Thomas & Pugwash were snapped up by the renowned AMA – Music Agency and Thomas has just secured a worldwide publishing deal with SONY/ATV. August 2011 saw Pugwash release their 5th album “THE OLYMPUS SOUND” on none other than the venerable E.M.I., the bands new home and includes stellar guest appearances from the likes of Ben Folds, Neil Hannon and XTC’s Andy Partridge .
————-
KEN STRINGFELLOW
“An artist worthy of respect and a listen from any true fan of classic pop….uniformly flawless” PITCHFORK
“Stringfellow is one of the most underrated songwriters of our generation” BILLBOARD
“Stringfellow’s clear, composed croon forgives all sins” ROLLING STONE
“Lush pop perfection” MOJO
Ken Stringfellow – musician, songwriter, producer, arranger – has been part of the indie landscape since the debut of his acclaimed band The Posies in 1988. Hailing from the musical hotbed of Seattle at the time when that music scene exploded into national prominence, The Posies went on to sign with Geffen Records and released brilliant, successful albums such as 1993’s legendary “Frosting on the Beater”. The band is still active today, having released their seventh album, “Blood/Candy” in 2010…an album heaped with critical praise in the UK press…The Word magazine devoted two pages to a review which called it “a finely calibrated….dazzling tapestry…just stupidly good”.
In addition to his groundbreaking work with the Posies, Ken was part of rock legends Big Star, one of the most acclaimed and legendary groups of all time, from 1993 until the death of Alex Chilton in 2010. Ken played bass, sang and helped create the band’s 2005 album “In Space”, their first since 1978’s timeless “Third/Sister Lovers”. He’s still frequently called upon to perform, speak about, and celebrate the music of one of the cornerstones of indie rock.
Ken also spent ten years on the road and in studio with R.E.M., appearing on two albums (2001’s “Reveal” and 2004’s “Around the Sun”), and propelling the band on keyboards, bass, guitar and accordion during headlining slots at Glastonbury, Rock In Rio, Rock Am Ring, etc as well as on TV shows such as Top of the Pops, Saturday Night Live, Later With Jools Holland and countless others.
The list of collaborations goes on: guitarist in punk legends Lagwagon; producer/engineer on albums for Damien Jurado, the Long Winters, China’s Hanggai, and dozens more; onstage and on-album appearances with Snow Patrol (keyboards on their landmark “Eyes Open” album), Neil Young, Patti Smith, Mudhoney, Death Cab For Cutie…to list all his work over the years would add up to hundreds of albums and thousands of live appearances.
Then there’s his solo work. A scant three albums over the last two decades (1997’s “This Sounds Like Goodbye”, 2001’s “Touched”, and 2004’s “Soft Commands”), all garnering high praise in Pitchfork, Mojo, NME and other incontrovertible indie rock media. The albums mix Ken’s deeply expressed, emotional singing with delicate support: acoustic, electric, electronic, chamber–Stringfellow is adept at many styles. His shows are legendary, pushing minimalism to its core definition, often performing without using the house PA, Ken’s voice soars, cries, leaps from barely audible to room-filling anguish, joy, sorrow and humor. Ken’s live show has been raved about in packed audiences from Lithuania to Lima, from Taipei to Tasmania, from Johannesburg to Trinidad.
Ken is set release his fourth album, “Danzig in the Moonlight” October 1st on Lojinx in Europe. The album was recorded at the legendary ICP Studios in Brussels, and mixed by up and coming production team TheLAB in Los Angeles. Ken also received contributions from musicians in Mumbai, Italy, Seattle and more; Charity Rose Thielen from buzz band The Head & The Heart joins him on “Doesn’t It Remind You of Something” which is what Lee Hazelwood might have co-written with Leonard Cohen. The album has moments of fearsome electro-tinged menace, balanced with some of the most intensely intimate fragility you’re likely to encounter on record this year. Like Stringfellow’s lifestyle it’s multi-national, genre-defying, challenging and deeply musical.
Ken will tour Europe throughout the fall in support of the album.
€12 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings)
Whelan’s Indie/Electro Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm.
Whelanslive.com presents
+ guests
Growing up in Glasgow and Irvine, Eddi busked and performed at the local folk clubs before literally joining the circus in the early 1980s.
Whelanslive.com presents
Three nights with
+ Chequerboard
Sun 11th, 18th & 25th November
For three weeks this November, lo-fi songsmith Si Schroeder will take residence upstairs in Whelan’s, Wexford St.
Over the course of the residency Si will play three very different sets, mixing solo performances and full band sets, and playing long unheard tracks from his Choice nominated ‘Coping Mechanisms’ in new arrangements, along with a complete airing of his soon-to-be-released LP ‘Holding Patterns’, and debuting some brand new material – including, for the first time in over ten years, some entirely electronic tracks. He will be rounding off the three gigs with the release of a digital EP of a seasonal nature, whose contents will not be revealed until the 25th of November.
Each show will be accompanied by a different support, including Chequerboard and Sunken Foal.
Nov 11th – Sunken Foal
Nov 18th – Glimmermen
Nov 25th – Chequerboard
‘Beautiful, beguiling, dreamy’ – Jim Carroll (The Irish Times)
‘Unique and otherworldly’ – Nialler9
Si Schroeder is a Dublin-based musician who mixes his voice with guitars, samples, acoustic instruments, beats and live drums to create haunting and uplifting melodic songs exploring the darker side of the human condition. His debut album, the critically acclaimed Choice Music Prize nominated COPING MECHANISMS (2006), was the Irish Times’ record of the week, Foggy Notions’ album of the year, and is in the Hot Press list of top Irish albums of all time.
Highlights among his live shows include 2007’s Electric Picnic, 2008’s Future Days, The Kilkenny Arts Festival 2009, and abroad at EUROSONIC in Holland, Berlin’s Popkomm and New York’s Intelfest, The Chicago Cultural Center, and repeat visits to London’s influential Kosmische Club.
€8 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings from WaV).
Whelan’s Indie DJ from 11pm til late or you might even catch the end of Jaime Nanci and the Blue Boys in the front bar (9pm, Free).
Whelanslive.com presents
Three nights with
+ Glimmermen
Sun 11th, 18th & 25th November
For three weeks this November, lo-fi songsmith Si Schroeder will take residence upstairs in Whelan’s, Wexford St.
Over the course of the residency Si will play three very different sets, mixing solo performances and full band sets, and playing long unheard tracks from his Choice nominated ‘Coping Mechanisms’ in new arrangements, along with a complete airing of his soon-to-be-released LP ‘Holding Patterns’, and debuting some brand new material – including, for the first time in over ten years, some entirely electronic tracks. He will be rounding off the three gigs with the release of a digital EP of a seasonal nature, whose contents will not be revealed until the 25th of November.
Each show will be accompanied by a different support, including Chequerboard and Sunken Foal.
Nov 11th – Sunken Foal Nov 18th – Glimmermen Nov 25th – Chequerboard‘Beautiful, beguiling, dreamy’ – Jim Carroll (The Irish Times)
‘Unique and otherworldly’ – Nialler9
Si Schroeder is a Dublin-based musician who mixes his voice with guitars, samples, acoustic instruments, beats and live drums to create haunting and uplifting melodic songs exploring the darker side of the human condition. His debut album, the critically acclaimed Choice Music Prize nominated COPING MECHANISMS (2006), was the Irish Times’ record of the week, Foggy Notions’ album of the year, and is in the Hot Press list of top Irish albums of all time.
Highlights among his live shows include 2007’s Electric Picnic, 2008’s Future Days, The Kilkenny Arts Festival 2009, and abroad at EUROSONIC in Holland, Berlin’s Popkomm and New York’s Intelfest, The Chicago Cultural Center, and repeat visits to London’s influential Kosmische Club.
€8 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings from WaV).
Whelan’s Indie DJ from 11pm til late or you might even catch the end of Jaime Nanci and the Blue Boys in the front bar (9pm, Free).
Whelanslive.com presents
Three nights with
+ Sunken Foal
Sun 11th, 18th & 25th November
For three weeks this November, lo-fi songsmith Si Schroeder will take residence upstairs in Whelan’s, Wexford St.
Over the course of the residency Si will play three very different sets, mixing solo performances and full band sets, and playing long unheard tracks from his Choice nominated ‘Coping Mechanisms’ in new arrangements, along with a complete airing of his soon-to-be-released LP ‘Holding Patterns’, and debuting some brand new material – including, for the first time in over ten years, some entirely electronic tracks. He will be rounding off the three gigs with the release of a digital EP of a seasonal nature, whose contents will not be revealed until the 25th of November.
Each show will be accompanied by a different support, including Chequerboard and Sunken Foal.
Nov 11th – Sunken Foal Nov 18th – Glimmermen Nov 25th – Chequerboard‘Beautiful, beguiling, dreamy’ – Jim Carroll (The Irish Times)
‘Unique and otherworldly’ – Nialler9
Si Schroeder is a Dublin-based musician who mixes his voice with guitars, samples, acoustic instruments, beats and live drums to create haunting and uplifting melodic songs exploring the darker side of the human condition. His debut album, the critically acclaimed Choice Music Prize nominated COPING MECHANISMS (2006), was the Irish Times’ record of the week, Foggy Notions’ album of the year, and is in the Hot Press list of top Irish albums of all time.
Highlights among his live shows include 2007’s Electric Picnic, 2008’s Future Days, The Kilkenny Arts Festival 2009, and abroad at EUROSONIC in Holland, Berlin’s Popkomm and New York’s Intelfest, The Chicago Cultural Center, and repeat visits to London’s influential Kosmische Club.
€8 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings from WaV).
Whelan’s Indie DJ from 11pm til late or you might even catch the end of Jaime Nanci and the Blue Boys in the front bar (9pm, Free).
Whelanslive.com presents
+ guests
“I’ve hated most things at least once, so maybe now’s the time for some fresh devilry”
From the opening strains of an ancient Canadian harmonium on ‘Sun in my Bones’, the new windings’ record I Am Not The Crow reveals itself as an album full of scope, dynamic musicianship and imagination.
As the eight tracks play out, it also reveals itself as an album in the most meaningful sense of the word – a collection of songs united by a common purpose, each lending itself to the next, adding to the entirety. It’s this notion of what an album should sound like that binds I Am Not The Crow so well.
More than one year was spent on the recording of I Am Not The Crow – its A-side recorded in Montreal’s Hotel2Tango studio and the B-side on the northwesterly coast of Ireland in County Donegal. windings may have brought a little of Canada back to Ireland with them as there are echoes of one of Canada’s greatest ever musicians sprinkled throughout the album.
The classic guitar sound of Neil Young & Crazy Horse surfaces on tracks such as the opener and the magnificent ‘Cleaner’, and there isa traceable lineage from windings to their producer Efrim Menuck (GodspeedYou! BlackEmperor) to one of his great influences, David Briggs, producer of that archetypal Crazy Horse sound.
As any good album should, I Am Not The Crow ebbs and flows in the right places. For the most part a live recording, the spiky side of the band comes through on ‘Alkaterian are Alright’ and ‘This is a Conversation’, while Side Two kicks off with the record’s title track and a song that wouldn’t seem out of place on songwriter Steve Ryan’s previous two-headed hardcore monster, giveamanakick.
The change of pace is followed by a thoughtful brace of tunes in ‘Cleaner’ (whose refrain of “blinded by sound” is a perfect sentiment for the album) and ‘In Need of Some Repair’, before winding it all up with the majestic seven minute closer that is ‘Local Broken Man’.
Albums like this don’t happen without a lot of thought and consideration, emanating from a group of musicians whose collective focus is so obviously on producing a record they could stand by for the rest of their lives. It is meant to be inclusive – a collaboration with the listener that forges something personal with the band.
It’s not an easy task and it is something that maybe takes several albums to get right – but when it clicks, it works beautifully. I Am Not The Crow is the work of a band on top of their game, both in a musical and symbiotic sense. Songwriting at its best.
“Behind broken windows and boarded doors, in the gutters beneath misplaced manhole covers, The brightest light did shine”
Whelanslive.com presents
In association with Dublindoesfridays.ie
– Live from the Window at Whelan’s –
Complimentary Finger Food – actual food and not a band called ‘Complimentary Finger Food’ 
Friday 19th October 5pm
Dublin Does Friday’s returns to drag you shaking and bopping into Whelan’s front bar next Friday 19th October at 5pm. There will also be complimentary finger food and the odd game or two with some free drinks to be won so whether you’re a Whelan’s regular or just curious to see what all the fuss is about then pop in next Friday to kickstart your weekend with a bang.
Moo! on stage from 6pm.
– Acoustic –
+ guests
THE 4 OF US, hailing from Newry, Co. Down are one of the biggest bands ever to emerge from Northern Ireland
They were voted one of the Top 10 Best Irish Bands Of All Time, along with the likes of U2 and Thin Lizzy, in a recent TV3 series.
POD presents
———————————
The JIM JONES REVUE show scheduled to take place at Whelan’s last week (4th Oct) has now been rescheduled for Thursday 24th January 2013.
The band is about to release their new album “The Savage Heart”, which will be JJR’s first new release since landmark TV appearances on Jimmy Kimmel live, and Later with Jools Holland.
The album expands the group’s sonic remit 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.
Original tickets for last week’s cancelled show will be valid for the rescheduled show in January.
———————————
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.”
+ guests
STAND hail from the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. The band was formed in 1998 by four schoolmates who began gigging at school assemblies and then into the clubs of the city.
Whelanslive.com presents
+ The Mighty Stef & Echotape
Whelan’s Newest Music Night
TUESDAYS | 3 BANDS | €5
– Whelan’s main venue –
Confirm on facebook HERE
Whelanslive is proud to present a celebration of new Irish music. Every Tuesday will see the upstairs venue play host to a series of the best of new music this country has to offer.Three hand-picked bands showcase their originality, performance and amazingly fresh songwriting skills.It is a great opportunity to see the next round of Irelands unsung and unsigned.
————————–
THE ENEMIES, STEAM BOAT, EMILY WHELAN
__________________________
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
The Enemies are a five piece band from the east coast of Ireland. Formed in 2003, The Enemies released their debut EP in March 2011 which served as a taster for their self-funded first album “Sounds Big On The Radio”, due for release in summer 2012. Made up of a team of experienced and established musicians and skilled professional songwriters, the band will not only entertain you but impress you, and leave you with at least one of their crafty melodies stuck in your head as you dance off into the night.
www.theenemiesmusic.com
www.facebook.com/
The Enemies EP on itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/
Emily didn’t pick up a guitar until she started in college. Though never having taken a lesson, she learned to play very quickly, and has a unique style that separates her from the pack.
Her debut single “Life” was launched in June 2011, and remained on the national radio playlists right through until October – including being picked as Single Of The Week on BBC Radio Ulster, and getting airplay on Today FM, RTÉ and many other stations.
Her new 4 track EP showcases the diversity of Emily’s song-writing capabilities, from the quirky new single “Fred” – already familiar to those who have caught Emily’s live set – to the hauntingly intimate “Games”.
Emily’s songs are about life, love and everything in between. Sometimes quirky, sometimes heart-breaking but never boring, she has a unique style that cannot be pigeonholed into any conventional genre. The searing emotions contained in her lyrics are delivered with such dynamism in her live performances that the audience is captivated until the last breath.
Emily has been working her way into the Irish music scene, playing many well-known venues, including Whelan’s. She has also been supporting some well established names including The Henry Girls and Aslan on gigs throughout the country. Emily has impressed audiences with the intensity and passion of her live performances, captivating her listeners. In 2012, she plans to travel the length and breadth of Ireland to perform her music. She will also be working hard in the studio, writing and recording new material.
THIS GIG HAS BEEN
ORIGINAL TICKETS STILL VALID
MCD.ie presents
+ guests
**Tickets €15 including booking fee on sale this Friday at 9am**
The Lumineers are set to be one of the hottest American bands this year with over half a million singles sold in the USA already.
– Night Vision Single Launch –
+ Adrian Boyle & Keith O Brien’s Missing Links
The Jigsaw Jam launch ‘Night Vision’ ,the first single from their debut album (due in April 2013) in the intimate upstairs venue of Whelan’s.
Whelan’s Newest Music Night
TUESDAYS | 3 BANDS | €5
& MORE
Confirm on facebook HERE
Whelanslive is proud to present a celebration of new Irish music. Every Tuesday will see the upstairs venue play host to a series of the best of new music this country has to offer.
Aiken Promotions presents
+ guests
Having released his debut album, “Little Ripples” to critical acclaim this summer Irish /Spanish tunesmith Eric McGrath headlines his first Whelan’s show Saturday, November 24th.
Demented Promotions Presents
w/ KID KARATE + VACANT
Free Admission // PARTY HARD
Confirm on facebook HERE
————————–
WOUNDS
Wounds are brothers Aidan and James Coogan, Aaron McGrath and Craig McCann. Influenced by The Stooges, Every Time I Die, Amen and Nine Inch Nails, they released their debut EP ‘Dead Dead Fucking Dead’ with rave reviews from Kerrang “Menacing, volatile, and thrilling angular punk sounds – Breathtaking Stuff ” (KKKK) and ROCK SOUND “Rock Sound is entirely in love with the exhilarating noise created by this Dublin punk quintet – more please “ (8/10). With a blistering live show, the band then toured with Gallows, Cancer Bats and Crime in Stereo in support of the release.
Work began on their debut album shortly after, but was cut short when James unfortunately had an accident and was on life support. After what seemed like a miracle of a recovery and a painful time for all involved, James pulled through. Wounds picked up where they left off & finished recording their debut album this year.
Debut album “DIE YOUNG” will be released in January 2013 through In At The Deep End Records.
This gig will also mark the release of WOUNDS latest video for the track NO FUTURE, which will be out on NOVEMBER 1ST
————————–
KID KARATE
Kid Karate are a two-piece band from Dublin, Ireland comprising of vocalist/guitarist Kevin Breen and drummer Steven Gannon. The pair’s music is gritty, raw and brutal; dwelling somewhere between the fuzzy blues of The Black Keys, the danceability of The Rapture and the aggression of Queens of the Stone Age.The band’s musical aesthetic is based around Breen’s thunderous guitar-work and atypical howl, and Gannon’s primal drumming style. These elements combined enable the pair to create music that is catchy and intoxicating. Kid Karate make more noise than two people should.
The duo has performed highly acclaimed sets at Hard Working Class Heroes, CastlePalooza, Forbidden Fruit Festival and Electric Picnic. Their gigs have been described as manic and explosive with club promoters warning guests, “Expect to get the heads blown off you!” – (POD).
Kid Karate’s debut LP, Night Terrors, will be released in early 2013.
+ ERIC McGRATH
Rachel Austin stretches the borders of indie folk and grungy jazz, reflecting the influences of both her childhood home in the mountains of Virginia and her current home in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
+ ROCKET SURGERY
Blind Yackety is a constantly evolving eight-piece band, incorporating a myriad of influences, from fifties’ lounge pop to psychedelic, Arabic soul music, to Ennio Morricone-esque climaxes.
featuring –
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
Doors: 11:30pm
Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.
Aiken Promotions presents
+ ED ROMANOFF
Tickets on sale now priced €23 (including booking fee) from www.whelanslive.com, www.tickets.ie, www.ticketmaster.ie & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.
ChoiceCuts presents
Jamaican Legends
with special guest ERNEST RANGLIN
plus support from FIREHOUSE SKANK (Enda & Paul)
In celebration of 50 years of Jamaican Independence this year we present a very special event.
4 artists who have written music and history together unite with their hand picked band for one night only. Regarded as the most prolific rhythm sections of the past 40 years recording over 200,000 tracks from artists as diverse as Grace Jones, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Gwen Guthrie, Britney Spears, Robert Palmer, Sinead O’Connor and many more.
Sly & Robbie are an institution when it comes to drum and bass playing; innovators and pioneers their back catalogue is unquestionable and so is their showmanship.
Ernest Ranglin is a guitarist composer cited as inventing the core ‘scratching’ style of guitar playing, which permeates in all ska recordings. Ranglin has been recording since the 1950s on mento rhythms, early ska and even early Wailers guitar on “It Hurts to Be Alone”. Ernest has recorded with all the Jamaican greats from yesteryear up until today Bob Marley, Sir Coxsone Dodd, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Clancy Eccles, Jimmy Cliff and is a highly respected jazz guitarist worldwide blending mento, reggae and jazz into his own inimitable stylings.
This gig has just been re scheduled for Sunday December 2nd in Whelan’s of Wexford Street. Please spread the word if you can!
€24 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings from WaV), also available from tickets.ie, ticketmaster.ie, www.entertainment.ie, choicecuts.com but prices may vary.
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).
Whelan’s New Music Night
TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5
Confirm on facebook HERE
featuring THE FORBIDDEN ITCH KEROUAC MR SANDS THE COLD 100 DARRAGH CULLEN MARTIN PIEHLMEIER
MML (MusicMediumLive) is live music co-op which bring unsigned artists and great live music venues together – mentoring up and coming artists and working with artists from all over the world.
+ Norianna Kennedy
Christof, hailing from the lowlands of Holland, was in his early life inspired by his classical singing mother and guitar picking/singing father. Soon he was humming along to Mozart in the back of the car at the age of 5.
+ guests
Cat Dowling has been writing songs for a long-time. She fronted alphastates for a number of years. Alphastates were pioneers in what would soon be known as indietronica. For a number of years, they caused quite a stir.
After the phenomenal success of their Debut EP “The Gathering” and sell out Show in Dublins Academy last week. Hermitage Green are coming to Whelans Thursday 6th of December
Musiclee.ie presents
with Dave Hingerty (The Frames), Brian Hogan (Kila), and producer/singer-songwriter Larry Hogan
Former RTE News Reporter Conor Mark Kavanagh will be back in front of the mic, but in a different way, with a showcase gig to perform an intimate evening of songs from his debut album “Arising From Within” in Whelan’s of Wexford St on Sunday december the 9th.
A once-off band featuring Dave Hingerty from The Frames, Brian Hogan from Kila, and producer and singer-songwriter Larry Hogan will be assembled for an evening of original material, some covers and amusing stories of how the songs came about.
The Sligo-born singer-songwriter will star in the movie “Flynn’s Flames” singing one of the songs from the album ,”Then I’m Yours” and two more of his original songs will feature in the movie, which is on its way to the Cannes Film Festival.
Kavanagh has previously been compared to James Taylor by Harry Browne in the Irish Times, and been quietly involved in the music scene for some years, with two co-writes on Eurovision winner Charlie Mc Gettigan’s album, “Stolen Moments”.
He has played live and solo in the Helix supporting Don Baker and received the runner-up of the month award in the American International Songwriters Association Songwriting Awards.
His debut album was recorded in three bedroom studios under the stewardship of producer Ronan Johnston, who has just written the soundtrack for the Sky TV hit “Moone Boy”.
A Christmas song and a song from “Arising From Within” can be heard on the two links below…..
http://soundcloud.com/larrymhogan/sing-out-christmas-song-by/s-48pl3
http://soundcloud.com/larrymhogan/nothing-without-you-by-conor/s-bMLVI
€15 (€12 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).
Whelan’s Indie DJ from 11pm til late or you might even catch the end of Jaime Nanci and the Blue Boys in the front bar (9pm, Free).
featuring –
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
Doors: 11:30pm
Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.
featuring –
Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.
– Guest List Sign Up HERE –
Doors: 11:30pm
Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.