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Friday, 17 September 2010
Monday, 13 September 2010
Mighty Stef album news
The eternally excellent Mighty Stef has announced the impending release his of third album, The Mighty Stef and the Baptists, on November 26.
Details are sketchy at the moment, but Stef revealed on MySpace that "album number three contains nine new songs of sin and redemption where hope and hopelessness walk hand in hand down the wet streets of Manhattans Lower East Side to the dingy graveyards of Berlin where the record was conceived, written and recorded.
"Stef travelled to Berlin to form the gothic-folk-rock congregation known as The Baptists before undertaking and executing this record. While drinking heavily in the bars of the city and romanticising about the potential of the project, The Baptists solidified a plan, did some days of rehearsing and embarked on an extreme recording stint with German punk rock legend [and mad-man] Tom Schwoll."
There's no single thus far, but a few days back I did spend an afternoon cycling through the videos on his Muzu page on repeat. The Phantom sessions are great, but the real gem is the video for 'The Mero,' a cover of Pete St. John (of 'Dublin in the Rare Oul Times' fame) with guest spots from Flogging Molly and the last recorded appearance (on record and on video) of the late Ronnie Drew.
The Mighty Stef Feat Ronnie Drew Plus Guests - TheMero
Drama at Crawdaddy on Saturday night
Clearly Crawdaddy was the place to be on Saturday night as fights broke out between bouncers and fans of local pop punk act Home Star Runner.
Nobody goes to punk shows to have a good time, so it's no real surprise that hardly anybody chose to challenge the security staff's "no moshing" rule. Inevitably, somebody did something to get the bouncers' collective goat and people were thrown out.
It was afterwards that the real trouble seems to have started. Allegedly, frontman Stephen Arkins' girlfriend was punched by a bouncer, causing Arkins to go into a rage and get himself arrested by the fuzz, who'd managed to stroll across the road from Harcourt St. Garda Station.
This appears to be a picture of the immediate aftermath of the alleged punch.
A Facebook group has been set up calling for a boycott of Crawdaddy until the situation is satisfactorily resolved. Another band have already pulled out of their planned gig there this week.
This could get interesting or it could go down with barely a murmur. Bouncers throwing punches at people half their size is not on, though, and it will be interesting to see if a formal complaint is made.
[Declaration of interest: I don't know the band and hadn't heard of them before this morning. And although I have been thrown out of Crawdaddy in the past, it was completely my own fault.]
Update: No great surprise that Nay has a much more in-depth write-up already.
Nobody goes to punk shows to have a good time, so it's no real surprise that hardly anybody chose to challenge the security staff's "no moshing" rule. Inevitably, somebody did something to get the bouncers' collective goat and people were thrown out.
It was afterwards that the real trouble seems to have started. Allegedly, frontman Stephen Arkins' girlfriend was punched by a bouncer, causing Arkins to go into a rage and get himself arrested by the fuzz, who'd managed to stroll across the road from Harcourt St. Garda Station.
This appears to be a picture of the immediate aftermath of the alleged punch.
A Facebook group has been set up calling for a boycott of Crawdaddy until the situation is satisfactorily resolved. Another band have already pulled out of their planned gig there this week.
This could get interesting or it could go down with barely a murmur. Bouncers throwing punches at people half their size is not on, though, and it will be interesting to see if a formal complaint is made.
[Declaration of interest: I don't know the band and hadn't heard of them before this morning. And although I have been thrown out of Crawdaddy in the past, it was completely my own fault.]
Update: No great surprise that Nay has a much more in-depth write-up already.
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Video: Villagers - 'That Day'
I have to admit I've never quite bought into the Villagers buzz.
I've listened to his/their album through several times, and while tracks like 'Becoming the Jackal' (easily the best), 'The Day' and 'The Pact' are immense, I don't really think it's deserving of the immense platitudes it's received.
I know I have to tread carefully here, but I've always gotten the sense that one of the reasons people were so enthusiastic about Conor O'Brien's new material was that they were so disappointed his first band, the Immediate, seemed to implode when on the cusp of something really big. I'd be interested to hear whether anybody agrees with me/hates my very soul.
Anyway, here's the video for one of the best songs on the CD, the slightly Simon & Garfunkel-tinged number 'That Day':
p.s. good luck to Conor when the 2010 Mercury Music Prize is announced tonight. He's the only Irish nominee on this year's shortlist.
I've listened to his/their album through several times, and while tracks like 'Becoming the Jackal' (easily the best), 'The Day' and 'The Pact' are immense, I don't really think it's deserving of the immense platitudes it's received.
I know I have to tread carefully here, but I've always gotten the sense that one of the reasons people were so enthusiastic about Conor O'Brien's new material was that they were so disappointed his first band, the Immediate, seemed to implode when on the cusp of something really big. I'd be interested to hear whether anybody agrees with me/hates my very soul.
Anyway, here's the video for one of the best songs on the CD, the slightly Simon & Garfunkel-tinged number 'That Day':
p.s. good luck to Conor when the 2010 Mercury Music Prize is announced tonight. He's the only Irish nominee on this year's shortlist.
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