Eurosonic Noorderslag is Europe's main conference and showcase festival for European music. With 180 European acts performing in more than 20 venues and over 3,000 music professionals from all over Europe attending and it's next week! EuroSonic highlights one European country with a flourishing musical climate, and 2012 is Ireland's year to shine. The acts selected to play this year are: Bitches With Wolves, Cashier no9, Fionn Regan, We Cut Corners, Emmet Tinley, Foy Vance, Funeral Suits, God Is An Astronaut, Hello Moon, James Vincent [...]
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The 'New Music Night' in the Set at this year's Kilkenny Arts Festival showcases five very different home-grown acts on Tuesday 9th August. Somadrone Thread Pulls Margie Lewis. Geppetto and Cork's Toby Kaar Photo by Colin Bennett Here's one of the many tracks from Toby Kaar you can listen to here: http://soundcloud.com/tobykaar Dolly by TobyKaar
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I'm delighted to be part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival Bloggers Team of really nice people with a passion for the Arts. The scale of what's on offer in the historic town of Kilkenny is simply amazing. All the arts are covered and there's massive variety on offer. This Arts festival along with Cat Laughs and the Rhythm and Roots Festival must make Kilkenny the cultural capitol of Ireland? Check out the vast programme of events here: http://www.kilkennyarts.ie/ The music line-up [...]
A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs in the comments. This post gets a lot of hits every week. Highlights this week include Laura Marling (new album A Creature I Don't Know just announced ), Popical Island's All-Dayer, Kelis and Emalkay and if you're heading outside Dublin - The final ever performance of The Knife's Tomorrow In A Year and Fleet Foxes, Owen Pallett and Agnes Obel live At [...]
Starting today, Wednesday, and running for the next four days is Whelan's Ones To Watch Festival. More than 30 Irish bands will take to various Whelan's stages to show everyone just how strong 2011 is going to be. Some bands you may be familiar with, and more you will never [Read more]
Part four of my best albums of 2010 counts down numbers 40 to 31.
Thread Pulls are a two man band from Dublin, Ireland making minimalist Foals -y tracks. This is what my mother has to say about them, "That band sucks! It sounds like some kind of jungle....you know.....tribal kind of crap." She is from New Jersey by way of Brooklyn and her fave bands are AC/DC and Iron Maiden. Personally, I think they sound kind of like Spacemen 3 , IMO, one of the best bands ever. Maybe a little like Spacemen 3 plus some kind of jungle....you know...tribal kind of crap. Also, have you [...]
The leaves are tumbling and sometimes you can smell turf burning on the breeze. I'm on mid-term break from my school job and forcing myself to find little things to enjoy during this steely October before what will probably be the most grim and austere Christmas we will experience in a generation - what with that front-loaded budget of pain to pile-drive us all further into the murk. So, I try to look upwards. The ground is all mud anyway. And the fallen leaves in Kells are uniformly diseased. They mostly come off the trees green, which seems odd at [...]
The opening track on New Thoughts , 'How To Talk', contains a little bit of everything that Thread Pulls bring to the table. Unrelenting drums, throbbing bass, modal trumpet sounds and stark, oddly lazy vocals; it's all there. Over the course of this, their debut album, the two-piece expand on these same sounds and make a great case for the creative benefit of limitations. Thread Pulls are possessed of a regimental, no-frills approach that is rare in a band of their ilk. With every song coming in under the five-minute mark, they have resisted the [...]
The opening track on New Thoughts , 'How To Talk', contains a little bit of everything that Thread Pulls bring to the table. Unrelenting drums, throbbing bass, modal trumpet sounds and stark, oddly lazy vocals; it's all there. Over the course of this, their debut album, the two-piece expand on these same sounds and make a great case for the creative benefit of limitations. Thread Pulls are possessed of a regimental, no-frills approach that is rare in a band of their ilk. With every song coming in under the five-minute mark, they have resisted the [...]
Billed as 'a tour of legitimate sharing', rhizome[s] features three like minded musical acts, all of whom have been forming rhizomatic connections resulting in collaborations, remixes, one-off events and so on. The tour brings them together for a series of shows with collaboration at the heart of it. With work shared in advance of the concerts, each act will present their own sets yet each performance will also feature collaborations between the artists developed for the tour. The dates are: Thursday 7 October, Club Head Bang Bang, Tralee Friday 8 October, The Model, Sligo [...]
Tomorrow night (Wednesday 29th) sees Thread Pulls, Dinah Brand, Richer Than Astronauts and Little Beauties play live in Whelan's at a tribute night for Derrick Dalton. The night marks the second anniversary of Derrick's death, and the posthumous release of two records, an LP by his solo project Aeromodeller and a 7" single by his band Crumb. Derrick played in Hey Paulette and Mexican Pets before forming Crumb, who released the LP Evenings and Weekends in 2005. The new Crumb 7" Like Goodbye features two songs (on red vinyl) that were completed by Dez [...]
Sometimes less is more and that is certainly the case for Thread Pulls . This two-piece make one hell of a racket and the sheer, bodily force of the sounds they concoct is in full effect for the launch of their debut album, New Thoughts , in The Workman's Club. Consisting solely of bass, drums and a cacophony of looped trumpet and vocals, they draw on many of the same krautrock influences that so inspire fellow Dublin rhythm merchants Twin Kranes. While never as fearfully intimidating as their motorik brethren, they are more dynamic and more loose in [...]
The sound that Thread Pulls have crafted on their debut album New Thoughts is motorik, minimalistic and mantric. Built on a foundation of repetitious drum hits and bass notes, this basis allows Gavin Duffy and Peter Maybury to employ the use of ambient drones, seemingly free-form vocals, unconventional instrumentation and extra percussion. It's a record you let seep into you. Sample three tracks from the record below. Thread Pulls' album launch party takes place this Friday in The Workman's Club with support from Logikparty & DJ Monty (Roller/Sparkers). Tickets are €12.50. [...]
A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments. Top 3 gigs this week: Sunday 26th Sept: Bedroom Community presents The Whale Watching Tour: Nico Muhly , Ben Frost , Valgeir Sigurðsson , Sam Amidon @ National Concert Hall (€25, win tickets ) Thurs 23rd Sept: Arthur's Day - Various venues around the [...]
Right now we are at the chrysalis stage, an as yet undisclosed shape metamorphosing inside a pulsating cocoon, perhaps to become Slake Moths, feast on human, animal and xenian souls, and shit bad dreams over the spires of New Crobuzon. Or maybe something else. Stare at the black slate that we are and wonder what [...]
Setting out to transform an electro-folk album into pure electronica is a brave venture. Particularly when you're setting out to transform a record as well received as this one. It's safe to say that Patrick Kelleher's debut album You Look Cold was enthusiastically praised across the board. His layered approach in combining genres created something quite strange and yet quite beautiful. But less than a year since the original comes the cheekily titled You Look Colder - the remixes. Sequels to greats are often set up to fail but thankfully, You [...]
After recently gracing the cover of our Faces of 2010 special , Patrick Kelleher has announced the remix album of his debut will drop on the 16th of April on Osaka Records . The 13-track album called You Look Colder features remixes from Jape, David Kitt, Skinny Wolves, ThreadPulls, Skinny Wolves, Catscars, Toymonger, Hunter-Gatherer, School Tour, Katie Kim, Hulk, Fucktotem, The Booklovers and Legion of Two. The launch gig takes place Upstairs in Whelan's on the 16th of April. You can listen to the Jape remix of [...]
DEAF are kicking things off a little early this year with a fundraising event on the 21st of August in Meeting House Square (which will have a temporary roof & full bar for evening - let's hope that addresses the sound issues.) Tickets are €10 from tickets.ie and in the shops below from Friday. The lineup is: The Jimmy Cake , Dark Room Notes , Spilly Walker , Boxcutter , Channel One , Thread Pulls , Sarsparilla , Patrick Kelleher & his Cold Dead Hands . [...]
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