'Encore' is the new single from Wallis Bird's new self-titled album that'll be released on March 9th. This single will demand you wanting more from Wallis Bird! This short single has everything you'd expect from Wallis Bird but she's now heading for that new higher level of songwriting and performance. 'Encore' is driven by the fantastic rhythm section, intertwined stadium rock style keys as well as Wallis' distinct vocal style. The catchy chorus is made for mass fan participation somewhere around [...]
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 [...]
Wallis Bird has announced nationwide tour dates for 2012.
Here is my review of the first Irish festival of the season which took place over the last three days in Co. Louth called Vantastival . I was attending the festival as a blogger, music enthusiast as well as a father as I brought my twin 9 year old boys with me. This was the second year of Vantastival . While the line-up of last year was stronger there was really no comparison to be made to last year's inaugural festival. The organisers [...]
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Last month I shared 10 tracks from various artists lined up for Vantastival here: http://2uibestow.blogspot.com/ 2011/03/vantastival-mixtape.ht ml However with all the quality on offer at Vantastival I had to share another 10 tracks from bands playing the festival. Tickets for the event over the May bank holiday are available here: http://www.vantastival.com/tic kets.html Vantastival Lineup for 2011 Friday 29th April Donal Dineen & Niwel Tsumbu [...]
The lineup for Vatastival 2011 has been announced. It includes Duke Special, Donal Dineen, Wallis Bird, The Cast of Cheers, Jamie Lawson, The Hot Sprockets and many more with further headline acts to be confirmed. The 3 day event will take place on the Dunany Estate in Co. Louth from Friday 29th of April to Sunday 1st of May, with over 70 acts playing on 3 stages. The whole weekend, including camping, costs €85 with an early-bird offer of €70. For tickets and further information go to their website http://www.vantastival.com/ [...]
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The main headliners for this year's Vantastival have yet to be announced but the following list went online : Deep breath .... playing at Vantastival during the May bank holiday weekend will be ...... Donal Dineen Wallis Bird Wallis Bird - Just Can't Get Enough by Dimasn Jamie Lawson The Cujo Family The Hot Sprockets [...]
People jostled eagerly into the beautiful Union Chapel, full of grand expectations for the sole London performance of Anais Mitchell's acclaimed folk-opera Hadestown. Featuring a stellar cast of folk greats including Jim Moray, Wallis Bird (who totally rocked during her support set) and the LEGEND that is Martin Carthy, the pressure was on for them to deliver a knockout show. And at times they did. At times the fourteen-strong cast held us deeply under the spell of Mitchell's superbly written tale, helped not a l... Read more..
Wallis Bird has announced details of a May solo tour where she'll be hitting the main centres along with a gig in her home county of Meath! Irish Solo Acoustic Tour Dates Wednesday 4th – SET Theatre, Kilkenny Thursday 5th – Newgrange Hotel, Navan Friday 6th – The Arts Centre, Wexford Town Saturday 7th – Cyprus Avenue, Cork Sunday 8th – Roisin Dubh, Galway Monday 9th – Whelan's, Dublin This song from her 2007 debut Spoons is simply stunning! [...]
There's never been a better time in recent history to need motivational music and messages which will help us to just keep going. I need positive inspirational messages. These ten songs contain some wonderful messages and I'm going to share them with you! Please hit the artists link if you like the tunes. Dr. Millar - Feel Everything and Love Yourself Dr. Millar - Feel Everything And Love Yourself by [...]
It says a lot about the character of an artist when they begin a gig by bounding onstage with the house lights still on full beam to have a pre-gig chat with their audience. "Just because I'm wearin' a dress doesn't mean I'm a lady now," is Wallis Bird's opening line of the evening, and from there it's straight into the trademark gags and colourful language which make the interludes of the Wexford woman's gigs almost as entertaining as the musical performance itself. One-by-one the band appear from the wings to join in on an acoustic rendition of 'Berlin' – [...]
Co. Monaghan's Ryan Sheridan has been 'discovered' out of obscurity and onto the stages of Oxegen, Benacassim and will be at The Sugar Club for a single launch on September 9th. He also has the Mark Lanagan support slot and the Wallis Bird support slots. www.RyanSheridanMusic.com Upcoming Dates: August 21st Bojangles, Navan, Co. Meath August 25th Supporting Mark Lanagan in The Academy. Sept 7th, The Squealing Pig, Sept 9th 'Jigsaw' Debut Single Launch, The Sugar Club, [...]
Oxegen has come and gone and as all you lucky enough to hit up the festival wash away the several layers of mud that you would have added to your body over the weekend, we have some interviews of the best acts that played at Oxegen over the weekend. Oxegen 10 Check out Videos of all the best International and National acts including Fox Avenue , The Coronas , Ellie Goulding , Diana Vickers and Kids In Glass Houses [...]
Wallis Bird has announced a five-date tour through Ireland this October, with dates in Dublin, Cork, Wexford, Limerick, and Galway. (Full details below.) Tickets are €19.45 and will be on sale this Tuesday 22nd from Ticketmaster and other outlets. Wallis Bird will also play the Oxegen Festival on July 10th. Her latest single, 'An Idea About Mary', will be released online on Friday, July 25th. Wallis Bird October Tour Dates: 6th – Riverbank, Wexford 7th – Cypress Avenue, Cork 8th – Academy, Dublin 9th – Dolans [...]
I was sent info about this today .... Vodafone Ireland To celebrate our announcement of the Vodafone stage at Oxegen, we have an exciting competition for bloggers! We're giving you the chance to win 1 pair of Oxegen tickets for yourself and 1 pair to give away on your blog. In order to take part, write a blog post to tell us why you should win. Send your post to vodafoneview.ie@vodafone.com or tweet us the link for judging. Open until midnight on 16th June. http://www.facebook.com/vodafo neireland?v=wall&story_fbid=10 1514973234793&ref=mf [...]
Enraptured. Spellbound. Infatuated. Any of these words could be used to describe the audience during Anais Mitchell's performance at Bar 12 tonight...
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This week on the blog I'm bringing the best posts from my first blog 'Mixtape4Melfi' over to 2uibestow. With the IMRO thing I've decided to delete that first blog altogether from the internet archives! Part 3 - More Ruby Tuesday posts! Ruby Tuesday – Junah [Appeared on 11th November 2008] I caught Dublin band Junah last month when they played The Village with Doris and Tuner. Junah are a 5 piece who [...]
What a week it's been. Gerry Ryan RIP. RTE had plans not to announce this tragic news of Gerry Ryan's death until 5pm out of respect for the family and also to give the many friends of Gerry time [limited] to be contacted. However as was commented on by many media pioneers yesterday Gerry Ryan's death will go down in social networking history as being the first major story to 'break' via tweets in Ireland. RTE made the right judgement to hold off on the announcement out of respect but the passing of information [...]
Wallis Bird is one of an increasingly rare breed of singers. The Wexford lass is the type who builds a name for herself through incessant touring, wins support though word of mouth more than online hype and slowly acquires a dedicated fan base who – in some cases at least – seem to trail along after her for city after city. Her slow-building career is perhaps the reason why when Wallis picked up a Meteor Award earlier this year – and with it a jump in national level recognition - she looked so shocked and excited she [...]
Garry O'Brien posted this little video on his facebook page yesterday of Wallis Bird and Rea Garvey [Reamonn] performing Black is the Colour on German TV from 2006. Nice version too! Wallis is on a serious tour of Europe at the moment. Details here: http://www.myspace.com/wallisb ird
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