Month: November 2016

Whelanslive.com presents

JOHN COLLEARY

plus support

^ Upstairs ^

As well as performing live, JOHN COLLEARY has also co written and starred in IFTA nominated shows, THE SAVAGE EYE(RTE2) and IRISH PICTORIAL WEEKLY (RTE1).

DAVIS

plus support

^ Upstairs ^

DAVIS release their EP “Simple Words, Complex World” – OUT NOW

Following the release of their debut single “Eager” and second song “Love Hate and Drugs” DAVIS release their EP.

About Davis; they are a folkrock band which was formed by cousins, Gavin (Vocals/Guitar) and Keith Davis (Drums/Vocals). As a self-taught singer and guitarist, Gavin started as a songwriter primarily focusing on playing solo acoustic gigs around Dublin in recent years while Keith toured Ireland and the UK in some local punk/hardcore bands since age 16.

The band is primarily influenced by artists such as Ben Howard, City and Colour, Hiatus Kaiyote, and Bon Iver.

Their debut EP “Simple Words, Complex World” is out now supporting the release the band will play in Whelans on Thursday 19th of January, tickets €6 are available now from WAV.

TICKETS

€6 available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 1890 200 078 (1-8pm M-F, 4-8pm Sat)

– 50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or creditcard bookings. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.

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

AFTER THE GIG

Indie & Alternative Dance Party | Drinks Promos | 11pm til 3am or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue – Free Entry via front door until 10:30pm

MCD.ie presents

PALACE

plus support

PEPPY

^ Upstairs ^

Tickets €13 including of booking fee go on sale Friday 2nd December from Ticketmaster

They sing of escapism, death and diving headfirst into relationships they know will destroy them.

REWS

plus support

BEAUTIFUL CORRUPTION

^ Upstairs ^

REWS are the sassy, high energy, pop rock duo consisting of songstress Shauna Tohill and beat-maker Collette Williams. Together they are creating a genuine buzz on the UK/Irish music scene following the release of their four recent singles.

MCD.ie presents

THE MOONLANDINGZ

FEATURING: LIAS SAOUDI FROM FAT WHITE FAMILY

plus support

_ Main Venue _

The Moondlandingz have announced a headline date at Whelan’s, Wexford Street on Friday March 24th 2017.

Tickets priced €17.50 inclusive of booking fee go on sale at 10am this Friday, December 2nd from Ticketmaster

ON SALE FRI 25th NOV, 10AM

MCD.ie presents

THE AMAZONS

plus support

_ Main Venue _

“Deliciously heavy” – NME

“Undeniably special” – Clash

“[The Amazons] are already getting people hot under the collar with their rowdy rock’n’roll.” – Beat Magazine

Whelanslive.com presents

JAMES McMURTRY

AND BAND

plus support

_ Main Venue _

JAMES McMURTRY RELEASES COMPLICATED GAME, HIS FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN SIX YEARS

“Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.”

THE SOUTHERN FOLD

MOONLOOKSON

plus support

NEIL MORAN

^ Upstairs ^

THE SOUTHERN FOLD

http://www.breakingtunes.com/thesouthernfold
https://www.reverbnation.com/thesouthernfold
http://www.twitter.com/thesouthernfold
http://www.facebook.com/thesouthernfold

“THEY CITE Hank Williams and Kurt Cobain as their inspirations, and they seek to communicate messages of truth and honesty through harmony singing and the craft of songwriting in its simplest, purist, form.” – Kernan Andrews, Galway Advertiser

WE RAISE BEARS

EP LAUNCH

plus support

Eamonn O’Connor (Lucky Bones)

^ Upstairs ^

Celebrating the release of their debut EP, We Raise Bears bring their distinct sound to Whelans. A band noted for “standout live performances” (The Last Mixed Tape) and a poignant and political lyricism

CHEWING ON TINFOIL

plus support

THE SCRATCH

All proceeds go to Barnardos

_ Main Venue _

Hi pals, just wanted to share this with you because Chewy are playing one more gig before the year is out, and then we’ll be looking at doing a release show for our new EP in the new year when we get the records back from the plant.

COMMON GROUNDS COLLECTIVE presents

OPEN CANVAS: A NIGHT IN AID OF ART REFUGE UK

line-up below

^ Upstairs ^

On November 29th in Whelan’s, Dublin, we are organising a very special, interactive event: ‘Open Canvas’ in aid of Art Refuge UK.

Lisa Richards & Whelanslive.com presents

FRED COOKE – ‘FREDLINER’

plus support

_ Main Venue _

Fred Cooke returns to his spiritual home of “Whelans”, for his first Live DVD Recording.

Over the last two years Fred has supported Irish Comedy Legend “Tommy Tiernan” throughout the Country.

EDWIN SAMMON

VS CANCER

plus support

Feb 9th & 10th

^ Upstairs ^

Performing stand up for ten years now, Offaly native Edwin Sammon has established himself as one of the most popular comedians in the country. His unpredictable and immensely likeable style saw audiences award him the Tedfest Golden Toilet Duck in 2011 for best comedian

WIN TICKETS TO

DEEZER LIVE

featuring

THE ACADEMIC

^ Upstairs ^

For your chance to win, COMMENT ON THE FACEBOOK POST HERE

SOMA #002

featuring

OTHER CREATURES
+ OTHERKIN DJ sets

^ Upstairs ^

Big love to everyone who came to SOMA #001 and made it such a great night. SOMA #002 will be on Nov 24th starting at the later time of 11pm featuring a live set from Other Creatures. Resident DJs for the night will be OTHERKIN! Admission = FREE.

MCD.ie presents

JULIA JACKLIN

plus support

BAD SEA

_ MAIN VENUE _

Tickets €16 on sale Friday at 9am from Ticketmaster

Following the exception headline show at The Grand Social this month Julia will be back in Dublin for another headline show early next show, Whelans, 25th February.

MCD.ie presents

EXMAGICIAN

[Bella Union]

plus 

WALDORF & CANNON

_ Main Venue _

Having spent the summer playing the international festival circuit and most recently touring Germany with July Talk, Belfast duo exmagician have just announced a new wave of Irish Tour Dates in support of their debut album ‘Scan The Blue’. Following a tour of the UK in January, the band will do a whistle-stop tour of Ireland in February stopping in Dublin, Limerick, Galway & Cork.

‘Scan The Blue’ was released earlier this year on Bella Union Records (home to Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes & John Grant amongst others). The debut album has been steadily building momentum and garnering critical praise both at home and abroad.

exmagician have enjoyed radio support from Radio 1, 6music and Absolute and their appearance at this year’s Great Escape festival won plaudits from The Guardian.

Previously recording under the moniker Cashier No.9, the songwriting partnership of Danny Todd and James Smith move into new sonic realms with their latest incarnation exmagician.

‘Scan The Blue’ is propelled by a love of adventurous, psychedelic sounds. “It’s like early Beefheart meets Add N To X,” says Danny – a measure of just how broad the duo’s influences are. “David [Holmes] lent me a Korg MS-20 and then I bought one myself. That synth shaped a lot of the record.”

Self-written and produced with the help of Rocky O’Reilly (And So I Watch You From Afar, General Fiasco, Mojo Fury), Danny and James’s decision to take the production reins came from their reverential response to songcraft. Each track carefully crafted over time and only tweaked when they knew they were ready to be heard.

exmagican IRISH TOUR DATES – FEBRUARY 2017

FEBRUARY 2017

Thur Feb 2nd Whelan’s, Dublin
Fri Feb 3rd Dolan’s, Limerick
Sat Feb 4th The Loft, Galway
Sun Feb 5th Cypress Avenue, Cork

WALDORF & CANNON

TICKETS

€15 available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 1890 200 078 (1-8pm M-F, 4-8pm Sat)

– 50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or credit card bookings. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.

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

AFTER THE GIG

Indie & Alternative Dance Party | Drinks Promos | 11pm til 3am or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue – Free Entry via front door until 10:30pm

HEARONE LIVE LAUNCH

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY

TADGH
GOOD TIME VILLANS
NC GREY
CALEB KUNLE
NILE ST. JAMES

_ Main Venue _

Ireland’s Newest platform for emerging Irish artists take the channel to the stage for a night of intoxicating music

And we would love to have you there!

TICKETS FROM EVENTBRITE

BLUE ROSE CODE

plus support

^ Upstairs ^

Blue Rose Code November 2016 Exiled Son Returns “Blue Rose Code is as slippery as an eel; a genre dodger; a mess of influences and contradictions. This rare display of soul and emotion will not be boxed, a sign of something special.”– David Kushar of Spiral Earth.

EWAN COWLEY

Special guest

LISA LAMBE

plus support

MARY & THE PIGEONS

^ Upstairs ^

Irish songwriter and guitarist Ewan Cowley releases his debut solo EP ‘The Elevated Life’ with a launch gig this December at Whelan’s, Dublin. Sun Dec 4th 9:00pm Whelan’s, Wexford St, Dublin

Pop the Cherry Comedy presents

DUANE DOOGAN & NIALL FARRELL

ONE FOR THE ROAD

plus support

^ Upstairs ^

Niall Farrell is a young Dublin based comedian, co-founder of the Pop the Cherry Comedy Club and finalist in the 2015 Forbidden Fruit Comedy Talent Search.

MCD.ie presents

FANGCLUB

plus guests

_ Main Venue _

“Grungy 90’s riffs over a throbbing pop heart, they’re a deafening feedback loop of leather and amp stacks with a sugary sweet edge.”
::UPSET::

“What a stormer! My featured artist of the week last week. Fangclub! ‘Bullet Head’.”
::ALEX BAKER KERRANG RADIO::

“Fangclub, you should check them out, they are really really good, we really liked playing that”
::ANNIE MAC RADIO1::

“Well, Fang Club are here to bring the rage and they’re doing a bang-up job of it. The grunge outfit from County Dublin have packed an awful lot of noise into their two-minute single Bullet Head and it is just glorious.”
::JOE.IE::

“Bullet Head spends all of 123 seconds blasting your skull with a bludgeoning grunge rock riff that’ll make you want to hit repeat.”
::NIALLER9::

“Amphetamined, take no prisoners rock with pop hooks that Brian Wilson would be proud of,” is how Hot Press previously described Steven and his bandmates, and we’re sticking to it.
::HOTPRESS::

“The fabulous Fangclub are a band who are bringing back guitar-laden sounds, rebelling against the electro blips and making some great tunes besides.”
::IRISHMIRROR::

“No-nonsense poppy hooks over punishing riffs……The time is now to bare your teeth and join the club.”
::HOTPRESS::

“Fangclub win you over with their sheer enthusiasm and infectious melodies…… That initial ripple Fangclub have caused in the pond is set to become a tsunami.
::GOLDEN PLEC::

“This is a band you want to see in a small venue that’s been packed up to the rafters, their music echoing and pouring out into the streets. Their music is about a “moment”, mainly, that beautiful and wonderful moment where you feel like the world outside of the venue has ceased to exist.”
::DINGUS NYC::

“Sometimes I just want to rock out to something charged. Fangclub have provided me with just that at just the right time”
::7BILLIONPEOPLE::

“Stripped back and very together, echoing early Foo Fighters or Greenday……a great sign of things to come from these!”
::RADIO NOVA::

TICKETS

€13 available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 1890 200 078 (1-8pm M-F, 4-8pm Sat)

– 50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or credit card bookings. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.

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 via front door until 10:30pm | Drinks Promos

MCD.ie presents

HUDSON TAYLOR

plus support

– Main Venue –

Hudson Taylor have announced an end of year show at Whelan’s on Thursday 29 December. Tickets €20 incl. booking fee are on sale now from Ticketmaster outlets and online at www.ticketmaster.ie

Aiken Promotions presents

JENS LEKMAN

plus support

THE DOVE & THE WOLF

_ Main Venue _

Jens Lekman, born and reared in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a songwriter, adventurer and retired bingo hall employee. Traveling our globe as a wide-open receptor of all it has to offer, Lekman repurposes for his own oeuvre the world’s great, lost pop hooks of past and present.

TURN

plus support

STATE LIGHTS

_ Main Venue _

Ollie Cole and indie greats TURN have announced the will play Whelans on the 27th of December.

The band responsible for such amazing hits as “Facedown”, “Summer Song”, “Another Year Over”, Bereta and “Beeswax” return to their old stomping ground

KING KING

plus support

_ Main Venue _

Energetic and Dynamic Soulful Blues/Rock from Glasgow.

Winners of ‘Best Band’ and ‘Best Album’ in The British Blues Awards 2012 and 2014.

THE DRAYS

plus guests

DINAH BRAND

^ Upstairs ^

The Drays featuring songwriter Stephen Ryan (The Stars Of Heaven) released their debut album ‘Look Away Down Collins Avenue’ in June 2015 to wide critical acclaim

ÓDÚ

plus support

^ Upstairs ^

Shimmering indie disco with depth… ready or not, here comes Ódú

Born in New York and raised in the seaside Irish town of Bray, Singer-songwriter Ódú, better known to her friends as Sally Ó Dúnlaing, was always destined to be a curator of colourful pop.

THE STOLES

plus support

^ Main Venue ^

We are thrilled to announce our headline show at one of Dublin’s most renowned venue’s – Whelan’s on Friday the 18th of November!

As it’s our only show for the remainder of 2016 we hope to see you all there!!

A VERY THE ESKIES CHRISTMAS

PART II – THE SECOND PART

with friends

_ Main Venue _

A tradition is born.

Last year was a really brilliant night and a lovely way to wrap up the year so we’ve decided to do it again.

This was a complete sell out last time ’round so get yours quick and we have a time on our hands.

A very special evening for Haiti

BRIAN KENNEDY

plus special guests

ELEANOR McEVOY

MC KATHERINE LYNCH

& more to be announced

_ Main Venue _

Concert to help support the recovery in Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew

All funds raised go to Irish charity Haven and the work they do on the ground in Haiti.

THE STATICS

“She Calls, Rainfall” Single Launch

plus support

^ Upstairs ^

PLASTIC DAY RECORDS LAUNCHED THE DEBUT ALBUM FROM “THE STATICS” “SEE RIGHT THROUGH” ON 28TH OCTOBER 2016

New Single “She Calls, Rainfall” Out December 10th

ON SALE THUR 10th NOV, 9am

ASTRONAUTALIS

plus support

_ Main Venue _

Fresh from his Irish debut back in August, Astronautalis returns in full force with a backing band to beat the rest.

Still celebrating the release of his fifth full-length album, Cut The Body Loose, Astronautalis is returning to Whelan’s

ON SALE THUR 10 NOV, 9am

MCD.ie presents

THE SUFFERS

plus support

_ Main Room _

The Suffers, Live at Whelan’s on Wexford Street, Sunday March 12th 2017.

Tickets €23.00 including booking fee go on sale Thursday November 10th from Ticketmaster.

The Suffers are Houston’s award-winning 10-piece ensemble that have redefined the sound of Gulf Coast Soul.

Whelanslive.com presents

FIGHT LIKE APES

FINAL SHOW

plus support

_ Main Venue _

After 10 amazing years we’ve decided to call it a day. We’re all ready for something new and want to leave Fight Like Apes behind while we’re still all pals and are proud of what we’ve done. Come dance and scream

MCD.ie presents

FRANCES

plus support

CALLUM STEWART

_ Main Venue _

Frances announces her new single ‘No Matter’ which is due for release this Friday, 27th January.

Produced by Mojam (Sam Smith, Naughty Boy), the single is the latest track to be released from the critically-revered talent’s highly-anticipated debut album