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Month: April 2013

PURLING HISS

Whelanslive.com presents

PURLING HISS

[DRAG CITY]

plus guests

Wild Rocket

It takes balls to let Purling Hiss get in your face- their records are a half-corroded, screaming roar of high-end guitars crushed together, obliterating vocals and drums with their singular assault. Well, if you’ve got balls, get ready to swing ‘em! With Water On Mars, Purling Hiss have broken out of the basement, run through the bedroom and are now loose, out in the streets, blasting one of the great guitar albums in the past couple minutes. Yes, Water On Mars, from the swirling sound of Purling Hiss – Drag City’s gonna let you have it, come March 19th, 2013!

Water On Mars is Purling Hiss’s first recording outside the fuzzy confines of Mike Polizze’s inner rock utopia, where the first three albums and EP were constructed in solitude with a home-recording setup. Over the past couple years, Polizze’s been working with a band and fine-tuning new songwriting ideas while playing shows all over the place. Now there is a center to the Hiss maelstrom, with Polizze’s guitars slugging, sizzling and spiraling their way around the rhythm throb, singing disaffected in shifts both aggro and slack (and around to the back) through the course of a song, with production highlighting the schiz by buffing the raw power into a streamlined blast. If that doesn’t rattle your caveman brain, nothing will! Purling Hiss have a deeply satisfying way of drawing from the red, white and blue wells of 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s rock to inform their own sound, giving things a retro ring while doing what they do in the Philadelphia of today – and no other time could apply, really. So bring your neanderthal face out to space, grab a glass, and prepare for a pour from Water On Mars, Purling Hiss’ first banger for Drag City, out in March!

Wild Rocket Some time in the distant future there was a shift in the magnetic field around a star in the system of Sirius which lead to an influx of cerebral radiation bathing the Earth of the present. Our planet is now drenched in the collective consciousness of a trillion minds reaching forward from the aeons past and back from future aeons ahead all to one period, in all dimensions, with one voice. That voice has been interpreted by shamans and physicists alike, each interpretation different-each correct. Wild Rocket interpret this voice and translate the message into rock, both physical and metaphorical. When Wild Rocket began to interpret the message is irrelevant.Time is irrelevant. A cosmic trigger has been pulled. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnvvasMIO6I    

TICKETS

€12.50

Advanced tickets available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings from WaV), prices may vary from other ticket agents.

Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.

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).

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR w/
DON VITO, DAIKIRI & TURNING DOWN SEX

Whelanslive.com & Stay and be lads presents

The Midnight Hour w/

DON VITO

(Germany)

DAIKIRI

(France)

TURNING DOWN SEX

@ Whelans Upstairs

Doors 11.30pm (Late Show) Free Admission via Guestlist

Please sign up here to receive guestlist – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEo4RHF4cTRBV2VKVkZqZTVlTVE1VkE6MQ#gid=0

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Don Vito –

Don Vito are a Leipzig three-piece that bash out playful and naive yet metallic and abrasive noise-rock. It sounds like the soundtrack to a cartoon children’s disco in a steel factory. The band’s description of their music “hyper kinetic instrumental noise tohubohu” couldn’t be any more accurate. The moment Don Vito let a bit of chaos out of the sack all appendages within hearing distance begin to fidget hysterically. It is like being hit with the spray from a machine gun. Welcome the apocalypse of rock smiling at you from three lunatics who appear to thrash at their instruments more than to play them. But somehow they never loose continuity in this chaos of interwoven high speed-grooves. Don Vito does not need to follow the rules; the rules have learned to follow Don Vito. Remarkably, they are free from genre and categorization. They have delightfully blended post-puberty carelessness with just a touch of self-irony.

From now on, you will no longer have to think of that brainless wanker from Jackass when you hear the name Don Vito, but rather of that kick-ass band from the bowels of Germany.

Listen here – http://donvito.bandcamp.com/

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Daikiri –

Duo with the feet of “Myster Möbius” and the hands of “Le Singe Blanc” play lightning bolt-style madness

Listen here – http://daikiri.bandcamp.com/

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Turning Down Sex –

Turning Down Sex is an instrumental trio from Dublin. Begun as an attempt by three friends to make interesting instrumental music, this pursuit has led them toward a bizarre and unique musical style. In the few years since these early days, Turning Down Sex has played with many of Ireland’s great hard and loud bigwigs including Ten Past Seven, BATS and No Spill Blood. They play regularly in Dublin and around the country, and are known for their intense performances and sweaty, sweaty hands. Their music is fast, loud and erratic, pumping out a heady mix of genres such as math-rock, hardcore and ‘Alternative & Punk’. The resulting sound is a musical hunter-gatherer of sorts, running around the ears of the audience as if they were primeval caves, stuffing them with nutritious berries of dissonance, and skinning flesh from the burst carcasses of harmonically erratic riff-beasts.

Listen here – https://soundcloud.com/turningdownsex/masterflesh https://soundcloud.com/quarter-inch-collective/turning-down-sex-no-retreat-no/

DAYDREAM REGIME

DAYDREAM REGIME

plus guests HAWKLION

Daydream Regime are a five piece band from the Wicklow mountains who seem totally tune with their surroundings. Formed through a mutual love of all things noisy, obscure and beautiful, they blend lush soundscapes with blissed out melodies which would see these neo-psychedelic’s sit comfortably on a couch with the Super Furry Animals . Songs like ‘Postcard from Venus’ and ‘Shot in the Dark’ will take the listener on a stellar journey but ultimately show a band who really understand and love their craft.

 

TICKETS

€5 on the door

Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.

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).

POLICY, THE SIDEWALKS, TOMMMY CULLEN & BEACH BAND

Whelan’s Newest Music Night

TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5

POLICY THE SIDEWALKS TOMMMY CULLEN BEACH BAND

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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.

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COBBLESTONE, ENTHEOS & WAKING UP SUNDAY

Whelan’s Newest Music Night

TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5

COBBLESTONE THE HOT SOUL PSYCHOS ENTHEOS WAKING UP SUNDAY

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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.

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EMPATHY, WHITE ROADS, WE THE PEOPLE & MORE

Whelan’s Newest Music Night

TUESDAYS | 4 BANDS | €5

EMPATHY WHITE ROADS WE THE PEOPLE

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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.

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