No matter how much Irish music I come by when the Vantastival line-up is announced there's always at least a dozen or so bands I have no idea existed. Here's the best of those new bands on the line-up that's yet to be featured on the blog. Cars Love Girls Brother & sister duo Cars Love Girls have a pop/rap sound similar to Republic of Loose! Oh wait it's because they are two members of Republic of Loose! There's [...]
First Fortnight , the mental health prejudice and discrimination awareness organisation returns for a college tour this year that takes place in University College Dublin, Waterford IT and Galway/ Mayo IT this week. Republic Of Loose play each night of the event. A screening of the acclaimed RTE documentary series, I See A Darkness precedes Republic of Loose's headline set on each day of the tour. Dublin took place last night. The First Fortnight event is being staged in association with Union of Students of Ireland (USI), See Change, the National Mental [...]
Cavan's 'Shouting at Planes' are playing the 'Hooley in the Park' festival this weekend in Mullagh, Co. Cavan. It's not a bad line-up but at €25 a tad expensive! Here's the press info: "'The Stunning' will headline on the Saturday evening with support from Republic Of Loose, The Flaws, Ham Sandwhich, Riptide Movement, TKO, Shouting At Planes, Sa La V plus many more. Gates open at 3pm with the first band taking to stage at 4pm. 'The Stunning' will take to the stage at 10pm. Full bar facilities will be on [...]
Republic of Loose headline Slane this Sat ... Friday evening in The Millhouse: With a few hundred Kings of Leon campers in Slane already it's a great idea to have a warm-up gig in The Millhouse in Slane. Tickets are a reasonable €22! Republic Of Loose - You Know It by djilo
This coming Saturday sees a great line-up for the one day 'Festival of the Fires' music festival featuring a truly splendid line-up for the nice sum of €35 if the ticket is purchased before the day and €40 on the door. MAIN STAGE 13:00 – Touch the Earth 14:00 – Aldo (Mexico) 14:30 – Ronan Leonard 15:15 – Pete Courtney [...]
VHS-style vid for the latest single off Republic of Loose's Bounce At The Devil album. Directed by Gareth Averill (of Great Lakes Mystery ) and Luke Franklin (who did the GPO 'Ballet Shoes' video ) and produced by Tidal . if you fancy an expensive Good Friday boozeup with the Loose, have a look at this .
What with the excellent Yeh Deadlies releasing their debut album The First Book Of Lessons on 8 April through Popical Island (you can listen a stream of it here if that takes your fancy), it got State thinking back to December 2008. That's when we tracked down Annie Tierney and her former band-mates from Chicks to talk about becoming famous before the leaving cert, Gay Byrne being mean and record company hell..... Annie Tierney claims she doesn't remember it but on the day she met her husband-to-be, he [...]
Last week saw us host two State Intervention shows with KT Tunstall playing in Dublin and then Republic Of Loose performing a stunning unplugged set at the Viva Retro vintage store in Belfast. Bandwidth Films were on hand to capture it, teaming up with Redcap Productions for our first non-Dublin Intervention. Thanks to all involved, we think this one is pretty special.... STATE INTERVENTION#10: Republic Of Loose from Bandwidth on Vimeo .
It was only this Monday that we staged the ninth State Intervention, when KT Tunstall performed for some startled diners in the Soundbites Cafe , but we're already on to the tenth installment. We're delighted to announce that it will see us getting out of Dublin for the first time, heading North to Belfast. Republic Of Loose are in town to play the Spring & Airbrake so we're taking the opportunity to film the band performing in an unusual location and we want you to join us. Get yourself down to Viva Retro [...]
Here's a rundown of all the events tickling my musical tastebuds! St Patrick's Eve in Vicar Street is the place to hear music to enlighten the soul and the Gaelgoir inside of you! Republic Of Loose - You Know It by djilo ................. The 3rd Inspirations Gig in aid [...]
This version of the Christmas classic appears on the bonus disc to Damien's 2007 album 'To Hell or Barbados' and it's one of my favourite Christmas tunes. Damien Dempsey - O Holy Night by 2uibestow There's lots of Damien Dempsey related news; Damien headlines this festival in Cavan next June. Weekend tickets are €65 and can be bought here: http://shamrockmusicfestival.c om/?page_id=213 [...]
Sligo live looks like an amazing mini festival. There are pub sessions, cafe sessions, gigs in clubs as well as a few well thought out main events! Here's the best of the line-up with some songs of bands and acts you must check out! Fiach Thursday, 21st October 2010 9.30pm The Glasshouse Session Cafe Free Fiach Every Single Day by RisingStars [...]
Sixty four tracks. Four albums. If any a band needed to learn the art of self control, it's Republic Of Loose . Then again, it's this wild abandon that has made them such an intriguing, exciting and often frustrating band over the years. The world, by rights, should have been their oyster from that very first single yet still they find themselves operating on the outskirts of the Irish scene. The amount of store that Republic Of Loose put on this state of affairs is ably demonstrated by the fact that this fourth record was largely recorded in Baltimore, [...]
The Loose will release their fourth album Bounce At The Devil through their own Fish Don't Fear Nets label on October 8th. You may already have heard new single 'The Man' (streaming below) but here's a taster from the album which appears to have a vengeful dark-sided theme if the numerous references to Satan in the track titles suggest anything. Hence, this song is called 'Satan Bounce (Waltz With Satan & The Mechanical Prostitute)' Republic of Loose - Satan Bounce (Waltz With Satan & The Mechanical Prostitute) [...]
Republic Of Loose play a live streamed gig from the O2 tonight at 8pm. Watch it here .
Republic of Loose will play live on Sunday, 24th October 2010 at The Clarence Festival Club, Sligo as part of Sligo Live Sessions . Sligo Live Sessions takes place from Thursday, 21st to Monday, 25th October and weekend tickets for the whole she-bang are available at the early bird price of €75. it will feature almost 100 events, 250 artists, trad sessions, street markets,and World Air Fiddle Championships. Meanwhile, Republic of Loose will release new single 'The Man' on September 24th which was recorded for their forthcoming album in Baltimore.
Lots of new gigs announced today (and a few from last week): Xavier Rudd @ The Academy, Dublin - December 2nd (€30) PVT (formerly Pivot) play The Workman's Club on September 8 as part of an On the Record Presents night. Tickets are €13.50 from Ticketmaster. Yeasayer @ Olympia Theatre, Dublin - Monday 18th October (€23 Ground Floor Standing/Circle Seating and €20 - Upper Circle Seating - tickets on sale next Tuesday) Paolo Nutini [...]
It must be a daunting experience opening the main stage at a major festival at the best of times, yet throw in the occasion of the release of your debut album and the fact that the weather is verging on the biblical and it would be understandable if Eliza Doolittle had merely come and gone without much fuss. As it is, the very factors that could have so gone against her actually work in her favour. The crowd huddled in front of the main stage are clearly in need of a boost and fortunately get just that. She's [...]
This looks like a fun festival in Donegal! Here's a cool version of 'Like A Virgin' by Mick Pyro at The Ruby Sessions:
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