Something cool I stumbled across yesterday. Jape are a duo out of Dublin, Ireland and the original song is off their 2004 album The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me. Jape - "Floating (D.I.M. Remix)"
A fresh batch of acts for the Picnic . Oh Land The Vaccines Jape And So I Watch You From Afar Cry Before Dawn Gordon Gano And The Ryans The Jezabels Nightbox Esben And The Witch James Chance And Les Contortions The Minutes Somadrone [...]
Oh Land ( you saw the new video right?) The Vaccines Jape And So I Watch You From Afar Cry Before Dawn (old school Irish) Gordon Gano And The Ryans The Jezabels Nightbox (An Irish band from Toronto's first Irish festival?) Esben And The Witch James Chance And Les Contortions The Minutes (Are these lads still not under-rated [...]

Night Rumours - It's what keeps you up at night. From the basement to the bright lights - you're here today because you love dance music, and want a little more wamp. Hitting Electro, EDM, Techno and back - every week, Amperror (aka electblake ) will bring you the next wave of floor burners. It's not a sundae, it's a massacre. Ok - here we are. After 79 weeks of electro driving the seat we find ourselves in a different nation. A [...]

Lovely stuff from Richie Egan in the form of a mix for Synth Eastwood featuring tunes he's been listening to over the summer months. It includes tunes from John Talabot, Robag Wruhme, Caribou, Four Tet, Deadboy and Blondes. Richie's choices are explained here . Jape's latest single ‘Hands Of Fire / Lying On A Deathbed’ is listenable over at this post. SE Minimix 012 - Jape by Synth Eastwood on [...]
Now in its sixth year, Castlepalooza Music and Arts Festival returns to Charleville Castle Tullamore, County Offaly this Bank Holiday weekend from Friday July 29th to 31st. Last years festival really won me over; some great music and a really nice and relaxed setting. They are also to be commended for their willingness to showcase homegrown acts, [...]

Despite the torrential rain outside, the living room-like surroundings of the Old Queen’s Head in Islington makes for a cosy night in. The London Irish Centre, along with Werewolf Promotions , has lined up an evening to satisfy those with nostalgia for the eccentric stylings of Ireland's fine musicians. Slightly unhinged indie and electro might not be what we were traditionally known for, but it’s certainly a comforting reminder of home when jerky quintet Grand Pocket Orchestra take to the stage. Instrument swapping and melodic indie-quirk make this mumbling, organised mash of a performance absolutely endearing and [...]
Pugwash are one of the bands playing a special tribute gig for Derek Nally in Whelans on Saturday 16th July. The line-up includes Jape, Pugwash, Paul Finn(The Flaws), Ollie Cole, Valarie Francis, members of the Dublin Gospel choir as well as Ham Sandwich. Tickets priced €17.50 can be bought here: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/eve nt/1800451BE9C245B3?artistid=9 53422&majorcatid=10001&minorca tid=1 Pugwash have announced that they will launch the release of the new album – The Olympus Sound – at WHELANS on August 11th 2011. Details of that gig are here: http://www.whelanslive.com/ind ex.php/archives/3186 [...]

Forbidden Fruit was billed in advance as the 'first multi-stage music festival to take place in Dublin city centre', and it seems strangely quaint: not least when one of the visiting bands namechecks the city and you instinctively feel the urge to correct them, only to realise that yes, we are in Dublin. However, as with many first-time music festivals it's not without teething problems - the queues for drink on the first day are massive and bafflingly slow-moving. It's a situation exacerbated by the organisers' policy of not letting people leave the grounds and re-enter with a wristband. [...]

Richie Egan gets around. I'm not saying he's a man slut. He's got his hands in many pots - The Redneck Manifesto and Vision Air being the other two bands he's involved in. But Jape are due to release a new album in September, called Ocean Of Frequency . To attract our attention before then, Jape have made two tracks from the available as a free download. The tracks are Hands Of Fire and Lying On A Deathbed . The latter features [...]
Here's the running order for this weekend's Dublin festival Forbidden Fruit: http://www.forbiddenfruit.ie/ Check out some of the Irish acts on the bill: Ham Sandwich - Animals by Vicente P EDPMC 02 LYING ON A DEATHBED by Jape [...]
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I'm beginning to get really excited about going to CorkXSW this coming weekend. Set in the Liss Ard estate it contains for me a dream line-up of artists that I adore both internationally and homegrown as well as a bunch of excellent artists I'm looking forward to discover. I'm going to write about the artists I'm looking forward to seeing. Bring it on: http://www.corkxsw.com/ The Full Line-up was announced on facebook yesterday: SATURDAY JUNE 4TH [...]
Recently singed to the new music/is/for/losers label, Jape released the double A-side ‘Hands of Fire’/’Lying on a Deathbed’ today, the single is from the upcoming Ocean of Frequency album which is due in September. Streaming below - and free to download using the widget below that - 'Hands Of Fire' is synthy guitar-pop number recorded with Glenn Keating, Ross Turner and Matthew Bolger while ‘Lying On A Deathbed’ features Villagers' Conor O’Brien on drums and guitar and is a reminiscing lament. Hands Of Fire / [...]

As announced last week , Jape releases a double-A side single of new material today. ‘Hands of Fire’/'Lying on a Deathbed’ are the first two new songs to be released before the album Ocean of Frequency hits in September through new Irish label music/is/for/losers . 'Hands Of Fire' is the more radio-friendly of the two, a synth-charged upbeat song recorded in Black Box Studios with the rest of the band: Glenn Keating (bass), Ross Turner (drums) and Matthew Bolger (guitars). 'Lying On A Deathbed' meanwhile features Conor J. O’Brien [...]
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Details of this year's Cork X Southwest Music & Arts Festival have been announced. The festival will take place on Liss Ard Estate in Skibbereen, West Cork on Saturday June 4th & Sunday June 5th. As well as music there'll be comedians, a kids area, seaweed baths, storytellers and a new Slow Food Village. On the bill there's Echo & The Bunnymen, Patti Smith, Yuck, Nina Hynes, Ivan St. John, Fred, Jape, God Is An Astronaut & more . Day tickets are €55 & weekend costs €95, available from EventElephant as [...]

Richie Egan returns to Jape next week with the release of a double A-side single 'Hands of Fire'/'Lying on a Deathbed' next Friday May 27th. through new Irish label music/is/for/losers (which appears to count MOTHS and Sun Glitters on its roster). They'll be the first songs taken from his new album Ocean of Frequency due in September. “I had thought that the follow up to Ritual was finished about three times so far, but I kept getting drawn back to writing [...]
Having spent the past while working on his VisionAir project, Richie Egan returns to his Jape alter ego later this month with the release of a new double A-side single. 'Hands of Fire'/'Lying on a Deathbed' is released on music/is/for/losers next Friday 27th, with the former track recorded at Black Box Studios in France with his regular band and the latter stemming from home sessions featuring Conor O'Brien on drums and guitar. Says Richie of the new recordings, "I had thought that the follow up to Ritual was finished about three times so far, [...]

Adebisi Shank, Jape and Le Galaxie are just some of the bands who'll grace the stage of Charleville Castle, Tullamore as one of Ireland's best festivals celebrates its sixth birthday from July 29 - 30 this year. Yes, Casltepalooza is back. These days, I spend so much time in Tullamore coaching its American Football team, that I tend to forget it is home of one of Ireland's finest music festivals. Taking place on the [...]

The daily running order went online today for Cork's wonderful music festival happening over the June Bank Holiday. I have my early birds bought but I still think this is the best line-up for a festival in Ireland and therefore worth your hard earned cash. Tickets here: http://www.eventelephant.com/c ork-x-south-west-festival-2011 Check out some of the performers here: God is an Astronaut [...]