Month: January 2013

SONNTAGS (DISCO/HOUSE)

[EVERY SUNDAY 11PM TIL LATE]

Upstairs @ Whelan’s

Introducing Sonntags!

A weekly Sunday night event held in the upstairs venue of Whelans, concentrating on a mix of underground electronic music with some throwback classics and future favourites. As 2013 gets into the swing of things Sonntags is gearing towards showcasing the city’s best djs along with sourcing the finest international acts for like minded Sunday revellers who don’t want to finish their weekend so early.

Live from the Window at Whelan’s

EARLY HOUSE

7 Piece Funkalicious Band

– PLAY THE FRONT BAR –

7pm – FREE ENTRY

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).

DARKEN THE DISTANCE

+ guests

Their lineup of striking vocal, two guitars, piano/keys, bass, drums/percussion and harmonies gives a huge yet intimate sound.

THURSDAZE

featuring

THIRD SMOKE
JUST NO
RICHARD RICHARD

+ DJ SET NIAMH FARRELL

IN THEIR THOUSANDS

plus guests

Every now and then a band comes along that inspires in its fans the kind of loyalty that moves all boundaries, that will dismiss all critics and will bring truth to the fact that pure honest music will triumph over every discerning voice.

featuring –

THE GREAT OCEAN DIVIDE
ELK

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 –

THE NOTAS
SATORI JE

Upstairs@Whelan’s from Midnight.

Doors: 11:30pm

ADD YOUR NAME FOR GUESTLIST: HERE

Whelanslive.com is proud to bring you The Midnight Hour. Showcasing the best new talent in Ireland.

SONNTAGS (DISCO/HOUSE)

[EVERY SUNDAY 11PM TIL LATE]

Upstairs @ Whelan’s

Introducing Sonntags!

A weekly Sunday night event held in the upstairs venue of Whelans, concentrating on a mix of underground electronic music with some throwback classics and future favourites. aS 2013 kicks off Sonntags is gearing towards showcasing the city’s best djs along with sourcing the finest international acts for like minded Sunday revellers who don’t want to finish their weekend so early.

featuring –

THE OBJECTORZ
& THE #1’S

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.

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Four on four…no weapons…winners take all.

Friday the 15th of February, upstairs in Whelans.

Admission is FREE, just leave a comment on the facebook event page!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/119809891522402/

…the objectorZ
http://www.facebook.com/TheObjectorZ
http://theobjectorz.bandcamp.com/

…the #1s
http://www.facebook.com/thehashtagones
https://soundcloud.com/thenumberones

TICKETS

FREE before 10:30pm, Club entry applies after 10:30pm (Thur/Fri/Sat)

SONNTAGS (DISCO/HOUSE)

[EVERY SUNDAY 11PM TIL LATE]

Upstairs @ Whelan’s

Introducing Sonntags!

A weekly Sunday night event held in the upstairs venue of Whelans, concentrating on a mix of underground electronic music with some throwback classics and future favourites. As 2013 kicks off Sonntags is gearing towards showcasing the city’s best djs along with sourcing the finest international acts for like minded Sunday revellers who don’t want to finish their weekend so early.

Whelan’s Newest Music Night

TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5

OTHERKIND
THE LAST MONROES
SHOOT THE PREACHER
SCREENREADER

Confirm on facebook HERE

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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.

Whelan’s Newest Music Night

TUESDAYS | 3 BANDS | €5

OWEN VAHEY
NEWCO
NATHAN JOHNSTON
BY CHANCE

Confirm on facebook HERE

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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.

Whelan’s Newest Music Night

TUESDAYS | 3 BANDS | €5

CLIFF MASHETI
ANNAVILLA
THE BOXING PLOT

Confirm on facebook HERE

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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 Ireland’s unsung and unsigned.

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THE BOXING PLOT

The Boxing Plot formed 3 or 4 years ago when a group of friends decided that since they weren’t playing sports or doing homework, they may as well be playing music. After countless hours spent practising, drinking tea and eating nachos, The Boxing Plot emerged ready to take on the world, no longer the pale, innocent boys they once were. Maurice “The Heels” Healy and Oscar Jay L’Esnard hold down the low end, providing the beats and the bass lines respectfully. Oilver “Le Monde” Kelly and The Fox shred some serious axe, while The Fox’s lupine croon adds a little spice to the mix. They now
record and play live when the mood takes, and tweet a lot.

http://www.facebook.com/theboxingplot
http://www.twitter.com/theboxingplot
http://www.youtube.com/theboxingplot
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CLIFF MASHETI

Originally hailing from Kenya Cliff Masheti has been performing ever since his teens. His journey began as a former frontman of The Impressionists a Hiphop funk band that won the Blastbeat national battle of the bands competition in 2006 beating over 100 other bands from around the country to claim the coveted prize of a recording contract. This resulted in an EP being recorded in the prestigious ‘Grouse lodge’ studios. That same here he played in Oxygen in the redbull break in tent. As part of the band he represented Ireland in Johannesburg, South Africa He has opened for distinguished acts such as Hypnotic brass ensemble, during a period which the band had a residency in the popular venue The Pavilion in Cork. Among the venues he has played in are The Cork Opera House, The Savoy (Cork), The Half Moon (Cork), Vicar Street (Dublin), Radio City (Dublin) The Button Factory (Dublin), The Tripod (Dublin), The Black Box (Galway) and The National Conference Centre (Johannesburg, South Africa). Following the break up of the band last year he spent the year working on his first solo project ‘The Audition’ which was released in the summer and has already spawned two singles , one with an accompanying video and has received positive feedback for its diverse sound merging different genres such as reggae soul and blues to create a solid debut.

Here’s a link to my website where you can listen to my music. http://masheti.webs.com/
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ANNAVILLA

AnnaVilla, formed in 2012, are a 5 piece rock band consisting of Tony Power, Eugene Markovski, Nion Geraghty, Andrew Quinlan and Andrew Hegarty. They have steadily been gigging around the Dublin music scene and in January 2013 are heading in to the studio to record their debut EP. These lads are set to light up the music world with their enthusiastic and delightful blend of Summer Stoner Rock. They are rockin’ every goddam day and night! Women want to be them and Men want to date them. They will exercise your senses and leave you gasping for more. They are AnnaVilla! Do you have what it takes to be an AnnaVillian?

http://www.facebook.com/AnnaVillaOfficial
https://soundcloud.com/annavillaofficial

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If you want to be involved in the new music night please email Keiron @ newmusic@mercantilegroup.ie

APPIAN WAY

plus guests

KNOTS, THE RIOT TAPES & BILLY FITZGERALD

Single ‘TEIGNMOUTH ELECTRON’ Available on iTunes

BJORN BAILLIE

plus guests

From the village of Delgany, Ireland…Bjorn Baillie has played music since he was a teenager, from late night Dublin clubs as a 15-yr old drummer, to touring the world as singer/guitarist and songwriter of La Rocca.

SONNTAGS (DISCO/HOUSE)

[EVERY SUNDAY 11PM TIL LATE]

Upstairs @ Whelan’s

Introducing Sonntags!

A weekly Sunday night event held in the upstairs venue of Whelans, concentrating on a mix of underground electronic music with some throwback classics and future favourites. aS 2013 kicks off Sonntags is gearing towards showcasing the city’s best djs along with sourcing the finest international acts for like minded Sunday revellers who don’t want to finish their weekend so early.

INNI-K

plus guests

‘Building a song from a foundation of the ukulele and a percussive music box with her loop pedal, she provides beatbox vocals in a folk song with a twist.

SONNTAGS (DISCO/HOUSE)

[EVERY SUNDAY 11PM TIL LATE]

Upstairs @ Whelan’s

Introducing Sonntags!

A weekly Sunday night event held in the upstairs venue of Whelans, concentrating on a mix of underground electronic music with some throwback classics and future favourites. aS 2013 kicks off Sonntags is gearing towards showcasing the city’s best djs along with sourcing the finest international acts for like minded Sunday revellers who don’t want to finish their weekend so early.

Whelan’s Newest Music Night

TUESDAYS | 3 BANDS | €5

POD RACER
SANDRA COFFEY
FEDERATION OF LIGHT

Confirm on facebook HERE

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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 Ireland’s unsung and unsigned.

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SANDRA COFFEY

Sandra Coffey’s musical interests were sparked as a youngster during long summer days in the Galway countryside. Her and her siblings would listen to the charts and learn the latest dance moves. Sandra believes that this early submergence in music has stood her well.

She released her first single, Mascara Girl, last September. The song gets inside a woman’s thoughts as she gets ready for a date on a summer’s evening. Sandra followed that up with the release of her second single, Baby Leave a Light on for Me in December. She is currently finishing off her album, which she will release early in 2013.

Sandra has been nominated for 3 awards by Music Review Unsigned. She is nominated for Best Female, Best Newcomer and Best Single (Mascara Girl).
Her musical influences come from a variety of sources from listening to the Beach Boys and Michael Jackson to relishing the songs of Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, the Carpenters and Amy Winehouse.

Sandra has previously performed on RTÉ’s Seoige Show. As part of her appearance on the show, she got to record in Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. Her mentor on that occasion was Eurovision winner Paul Harrington who described her as having “a powerful and soulful voice which can effortlessly reaches high notes”.

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FEDERATION OF LIGHT
Crafted in the loom of the zeitgeist, the tri-threaded weave of The Federation of Light’s an amalgam of Martin (vox, guitar, keys), Jer (guitars, keys, vox) and, introducing, band-in-a-box Alan (keys,vox).

Cork-Irish by the vagaries of twisted culture,multiversal by inclination, The Federation search for the macro in the micro. An attempted recovery from post Catholic guilt, though deserving of most of those pangs,is attended by a parallel reordering following the loss of national sovereignty, whilst never having been empowered.

The Federation are taut with the stress of all that creative tension and, since the world’s beyond saving, in this dimension at least, we want to hit you in the hips. To move you to rudimentary motion, from there to basic, repeating, physical patterns and from there to the embodiment of emotion in form.

If all that sparks synapses coursing through to the thinking brain, then fair enough -as long as you’re dancin

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Federation-of-Light/62407004812?sk=app_2405167945
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POD RACER

“tightly-woven, brilliantly antagonistic alt-rock ” – BBC N. Ireland-Across The Line

“A fast paced melee of hammering guitar lines, pounding drum lines and roving, rumbling bass, combining melody with power ” – loud-stuff.com.

Angry, noisy, trashy, punchy and irreverent as they possibly could be, Irish three-piece Podracer take the post-punk sounds of the 80’s, the subpop sounds of the 90’s and different elements of rock, punk and metal, with lyrical subject matter as diverse as prescription drug addiction, Fox News, hoodies and serial killers, to create short, sharp shocks to the system, cutting out the ego-enhancing mtv-friendliness that so many current “rock” bands are weighed down with.

They made their live debut in their home town of Dundalk’s Spirit Store, supporting Whipping Boy and have since shared the stage with, amongst others, Giveamanakick, Fighting With Wire and Lo Lite in Amsterdam, most recently, supporting LaFaro in Auntie Annies at their first Belfast gig of 2012, which received favourable reviews from Across The Line and AU Magazine.

Their debut single “Easy Singles” released July 20th received 1000 YouTube hits in it’s first week and is taken from their forthcoming debut album “Parking Cars & Pumping Gas”. Produced by Stuart “Marty” Martin (Lafaro)and recorded April 02-05 in Bangor SERC, Co. Down, this twelve track album captures the relentless, high-energy sound of the band live perfectly and was released 29th September 2012

Parking Cars & Pumping Gas is available digitally at iTunes and Bandcamp.

Alan Anderson – Vocals/Guitar
Damien Carroll – Bass/Vocals
Colin Berrill – Drums

http://www.podracer.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Podracer/94729004261
http://breakingtunes.com/podracer

EASY SINGLES VIDEO

HITCHHIKE HOOKER FAN VIDEO

X-RAY LIVE VIDEO

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If you want to be involved in the new music night please email Keiron @ newmusic@mercantilegroup.ie