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Month: May 2017

CALL THE DANCERS

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CALL THE DANCERS

Ronan Ó Snodaigh, Eoin Dillon & friends. 7-9pm (until 27th Jun) – FREE – WHELAN’S BAR – Facebook event “Whelans First Ever Regular Trad Session” Believe it or not Whelan’s has never hosted a regular trad session. No one knows quite why but what we do know is what we want ‘Call The Dancers’ to achieve. There’s a clue in the name. Trad geeks may recognise ‘Call The Dancers’ as a battle cry issued on ‘I gCnoc na Graí / In Knocknaree’ a live album by Tony McMahon and Noel Hill from 1985 that captures the spirit and passion we humbly hope to take a stab at generating. Call The Dancers is where Rónan Ó Snodaigh and Eoin Dillon and friends will share the tunes they love. They’ll be sharing them with each other and with the dancers, drinkers and groovers who cross Whelans threshold each Tuesday for the next three months. This will be blistering. It will ooze the excitement of our glorious music and bring it to the world with the force it deserves. Call The Dancers is for and by people who adore trad and can’t get enough of it. We’ll be updating who the guests are when we know. Sometimes we will know in advance, sometimes we won’t.

AFTER THE GIG

Whelan’s Silent Disco, now every Mon, Tue & Wed from 11pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best [Free Entry] plus Late Bar.

CALL THE DANCERS

Free Entry 2016 Live from the Window

CALL THE DANCERS

Ronan Ó Snodaigh, Eoin Dillon & friends. 7-9pm (until 27th Jun) – FREE – WHELAN’S BAR – Facebook event “Whelans First Ever Regular Trad Session” Believe it or not Whelan’s has never hosted a regular trad session. No one knows quite why but what we do know is what we want ‘Call The Dancers’ to achieve. There’s a clue in the name. Trad geeks may recognise ‘Call The Dancers’ as a battle cry issued on ‘I gCnoc na Graí / In Knocknaree’ a live album by Tony McMahon and Noel Hill from 1985 that captures the spirit and passion we humbly hope to take a stab at generating. Call The Dancers is where Rónan Ó Snodaigh and Eoin Dillon and friends will share the tunes they love. They’ll be sharing them with each other and with the dancers, drinkers and groovers who cross Whelans threshold each Tuesday for the next three months. This will be blistering. It will ooze the excitement of our glorious music and bring it to the world with the force it deserves. Call The Dancers is for and by people who adore trad and can’t get enough of it. We’ll be updating who the guests are when we know. Sometimes we will know in advance, sometimes we won’t.

AFTER THE GIG

Whelan’s Silent Disco, now every Mon, Tue & Wed from 11pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best [Free Entry] plus Late Bar.

CHERRY COMEDY

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CHERRY COMEDY

Every Monday Upstairs at Whelan’s featuring TBC ^ Upstairs ^ Facebook event Cherry Comedy bring you a truly electric night in Whelan’s every Monday – This is stand-up comedy brought to you by young, new and emerging talent on the Irish comedy scene.

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CHERRY COMEDY

Buy Tickets 2016 no seat

CHERRY COMEDY

Every Monday Upstairs at Whelan’s featuring TBC ^ Upstairs ^ Facebook event Cherry Comedy bring you a truly electric night in Whelan’s every Monday – This is stand-up comedy brought to you by young, new and emerging talent on the Irish comedy scene.

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CHERRY COMEDY

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CHERRY COMEDY

Every Monday Upstairs at Whelan’s featuring TBC ^ Upstairs ^ Facebook event Cherry Comedy bring you a truly electric night in Whelan’s every Monday – This is stand-up comedy brought to you by young, new and emerging talent on the Irish comedy scene.

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CHERRY COMEDY

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CHERRY COMEDY

Every Monday Upstairs at Whelan’s featuring TBC ^ Upstairs ^ Facebook event Cherry Comedy bring you a truly electric night in Whelan’s every Monday – This is stand-up comedy brought to you by young, new and emerging talent on the Irish comedy scene.

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CHERRY COMEDY

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CHERRY COMEDY

Every Monday Upstairs at Whelan’s featuring TBC ^ Upstairs ^ Facebook event Cherry Comedy bring you a truly electric night in Whelan’s every Monday – This is stand-up comedy brought to you by young, new and emerging talent on the Irish comedy scene.

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CHERRY COMEDY

Buy Tickets 2016 no seat

CHERRY COMEDY

Every Monday Upstairs at Whelan’s featuring TBC ^ Upstairs ^ Facebook event Cherry Comedy bring you a truly electric night in Whelan’s every Monday – This is stand-up comedy brought to you by young, new and emerging talent on the Irish comedy scene.

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CHERRY COMEDY

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CHERRY COMEDY

Every Monday Upstairs at Whelan’s featuring Totally Wired!, Sean Nolan, Aine Gallagher, Chris O’Neill, Andy Gaffney, Stacey Losty & Clare Cullen with Joanne McNally as MC. ^ Upstairs ^ Facebook event Cherry Comedy bring you a truly electric night in Whelan’s every Monday – This is stand-up comedy brought to you by young, new and emerging talent on the Irish comedy scene.

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CHERRY COMEDY

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CHERRY COMEDY

Every Monday Upstairs at Whelan’s featuring Rory O’Hanlon Ruth Hunter John Sheehan Padraig Williams Roz Connolly Alan Maguire & Aoife Dooley with Richie Bree as MC ^ Upstairs ^ Facebook event Cherry Comedy bring you a truly electric night in Whelan’s every Monday – This is stand-up comedy brought to you by young, new and emerging talent on the Irish comedy scene.

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HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF

DOORS DELAYED TIL 8:30PM

DUE TO DELAYS WITH THE FERRY Buy Tickets 2016 Sold Out master Aiken Promotions present

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF

plus support FENNE LILY _ Main Venue _ Facebook event ‘’Incredibly easy on the ear…Alynda Segarra draws on her Puerto Rican roots with a genre-bending album of anger, yearning and songs that just flow’’ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ – The Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★ – MOJO ‘’Pulsing with pride, honesty and flair’’ ★ ★ ★ ★ – The Irish Times

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SHALOSH

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SHALOSH

plus support _ Main Venue _ Facebook event Dublinjazz.ie in association with Teddy D Promotions ltd. are proud to present Shalosh, one of the most energetic bands on the European circuit today.

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(SANDY) ALEX G

Buy Tickets 2016 master Aiken Promotions presents

(SANDY) ALEX G

plus support Ó Facebook event _ Main Venue _ Tickets priced €16.50 go on sale this Monday at 10am through www.whelanslive.com, www.ticketmaster.ie & usual outlets nationwide. New album Rocket Out May 19th Indie-pop artist (Sandy) Alex G has announced a Dublin date for Whelans on October 17th. At the end of “Poison Root,” the opening track on Alex Giannascoli’s new album, Rocket, the 23-year-old artist repeats the phrase “Now, I know everything” again and again, his voice seething over a clatter of banjo, violin, and acoustic guitar sounds. It’s difficult to ascertain the exact tone: does he really think he knows everything? Or are these incantations a form of self-assurance, covering up insecurity? The tension between ambition and self-doubt in this closing refrain is typical of Rocket’s fourteen tracks. Over musical backdrops that effortlessly jump from sound collage to country pop to dreamy folk music, the cast of characters that Alex G inhabits have fun, fall in love, develop obsessions, get into trouble, and burn out. Rocket illustrates a cohesive vision of contemporary experience that’s dark and foreboding, perhaps especially because of how familiar, or to use Alex’s word, “unassuming,” the settings are. With a goat-adorned cover painted by Alex’s sister, Rachel, Rocket is the Philadelphia-based artist’s eighth full-length release—an assured statement that follows a slate of humble masterpieces, many of them self-recorded and self-released, stretching from 2010’s RACE to his 2015 Domino debut, Beach Music. Rocket’s sessions began shortly after Beach Music’s ended, with Alex tracking songs at home, by himself and with friends, in the gaps between a hectic 2015 and 2016 touring schedule. Both albums were mixed by Jacob Portrait (Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bass Drum of Death), who lent them a fine-tuning that retains the homespun personality of earlier efforts. Amid the process, in the fall of 2016, Alex made headlines for reasons outside his own releases. He had caught the attention of Frank Ocean, who asked him to play guitar on his two 2016 albums, Endless and Blonde. More than any stylistic cues, what Alex took from the experience was a newfound confidence in collaboration. “I always have a hard time letting people play on my stuff,” he says, “but I saw how comfortable [Ocean] was using other people’s playing.” Alex’s previous albums are largely solo affairs, but Rocket wears this collaborative spirit proudly. Touring band members Samuel Acchione and John Heywood contribute guitar and bass, both soloing on “County”; Samuel’s brother Colin plays bass on two songs as well. Emily Yacina, a more frequent collaborator, sings on “Bobby” and “Alina,” and Molly Germer shows up throughout the album on violin and vocals. Germer’s violin was a game-changer, as the instrument “added a texture that I can’t get on my own,” Alex notes. The looser, collaborative approach helped cultivate the variety of musical styles that Rocket presents.. In addition to its fluid network of musical styles, Rocket showcases Alex’s ability to project the perspectives of several characters while maintaining a strong personal voice. With Rocket Alex was “trying to create narratives that anybody could still inhabit,” he says, “but that had a more concrete quality.” He takes on the voice of memorable personalities such as what seems like an over-confident boy (“Powerful Man”), an alienated schoolgirl (“Alina”), and a couple with a creepily ambivalent relationship (“Bobby”). Their stories are at turns heartbreaking, puzzling, and hilarious; yet no matter the setting or the way he manipulates his voice, you always get an ineffable sense of “Alex G” as well as what he refers to as “an American perspective.” “I want [Rocket] to be completely unassuming,” Alex says. “I wanted it to be full of these characters that don’t know how crazy they are.” Rocket doesn’t have a pointed theme so much as these general feelings of unsteadiness and incomprehension—feelings we remember from growing up and that creep into the everyday life of adulthood as well. In some ways, the album’s title encapsulates this sense: “I like the word ‘rocket’ because it sounds immature, attention-seeking,” Alex explains. But while rockets certainly make a big impression, they also burn out. On Rocket, the myopic character’s teeter between the initial explosion and the ultimate burning out. Alex himself, though, in a collection of songs that’s both his tightest and most adventurous, is poised only for the ascent. — — — — —

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https://www.facebook.com/ogabby666/ Ó (formerly Eskimeaux) is the recording project of songwriter and producer Gabrielle Smith. The project began in 2007 when Smith started releasing experimental and noise albums through 2010, and developed the sound over the years into the realm of more structured songwriting (2011’s Two Mountains), EDM (2012’s Eskimeaux), and more recently, as evident in her new album, O.K., beat-driven and poetic bedroom pop.

TICKETS

€16.50 available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 1890 200 078 (1-7pm M-F) – 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 Silent Disco, now every Mon, Tue & Wed from 11pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best [Free Entry] plus Late Bar.

VINCI

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VINCI

LIARS SINGLE LAUNCH

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To celebrate the follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut single, ‘Lions’, Dublin five-piece band, VINCI, bring their massive sound to their second headline show at Whelan’s this year.

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SAM AMIDON

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SAM AMIDON

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Sam Amidon The Following Mountain out May 26 Album is Amidon’s first collection of completely original work Experimental folk artist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Sam Amidon will return to Whelans on 7th November 2017. Nonesuch Records releases The Following Mountain, the newest solo album by Sam Amidon, on May 26, 2017. Created with producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Regina Spektor) and Amidon’s frequent collaborator Shahzad Ismaily, it represents a new approach for Amidon, who shifts here from his previous norm of re-working traditional folk songs and presents nine wholly original compositions, with some lyrics drawing on traditional sources. The album features a rare guest appearance by drummer Milford Graves, known initially for his work in the 1960s with free jazz legends Albert Ayler and Sonny Sharrock. The Following Mountain is available to preorder from iTunes, the Sam Amidon Store and the Nonesuch Store, with an instant download of the album track “Juma Mountain.” Nonesuch Store pre-orders also include a limited-edition print autographed by Amidon. Spring tour dates for Sam Amidon are listed below. The Following Mountain was made during two distinct recording sessions: an initial weekend in Brooklyn where Ismaily and Amidon brought in Graves, percussionist Juma Sultan (Jimi Hendrix), and saxophonist Sam Gendel for a heavily improvised session; followed by time in the studio over the summer in London, where Amidon worked with Leo Abrahams to shape and develop the songs. “The Following Mountain is a walk through the thickets of the imagination,” Amidon said, “… a personal mythology of sounds and visions and characters. It is my first album of original music, but is still linked to the Appalachian music I love, as well as improvisation, beats, Don Cherry, Vermont, London.” The Following Mountain is Amidon’s sixth album and follows Lily-O, his 2014 Nonesuch Records collaboration with guitarist Bill Frisell.

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LAUCAN

Debut album “FramesPerSecond” out 21st July Preorder: http://bit.ly/2tQjmhk Digital: smarturl.it/FramesPerSecond  

TICKETS

€20 available online from WAV Tickets or Lo-Call 1890 200 078 (1-7pm M-F) – 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 Silent Disco, now every Mon, Tue & Wed from 11pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best [Free Entry] plus Late Bar.
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