Live: a proper post-rock knees up ... Talons, Alright The Captain & Dead Red Sun

Calling London! Great gig on tomorrow night (January 13th) with two bands I heard recently supporting a band that are new to me. It's a Sweet Beans and Cinematic Music Blog Promotion on in Vibe Bar on Brick Lane.

Dead Red Sun are a New Cross three piece and from what I've heard so far are flipping excellent. This is a photo of them playing a gig in someone's kitchen. Goodness me.

Facility by Dead Red Sun

Alright The Captain started following me on twitter (and so should you) last week, so I had a listen. Then, proud as punch for discovering a new band all by myself, I posted it on facebook ...but of course my mate who lives down the road had seen them play someones kitchen in Dublin. What is it with these bands and kitchens? Again, goodness me. Musically, it's rabid, frantic madness, over driven guitars behind lovely clean lines and tasty bass riffs. Above is what their debut album cover is going to look like when it's released on the 7th of next month. Listen to their blistering debut E.P and the excellent A Cheery Wave From Stranded Youngsters, An Instrumental/Post Rock Compilation here.

Alright The Captain - Honey Badger

Headlining are instrumental-epic-with-a-flipping-violin-too band Talons. Bloody heavy at times, with oodles of guitar noodling and mind blowing musicianship. Wonderful stuff. This is a photo of their van that I nicked from their myspace. (Proving that it's not completely useless just yet ...myspace I mean, not the van). Of course at this stage there really is very little need to visit that silly website, especially when you can head a band as good as this' entire album on Soundcloud

Talons - Hollow Realm by bsmrocks

...also also (terribly sorry), Mom's House Dad's House are playing too! Will write about them again, must be away now to bed, up early making radio jingles all this week!



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Adebisi Shank "take it there"

While I wouldn't usually post videos taken at gigs on mobile phones, what happened last night at Whelan's in Dublin must in some way be documented. Twitter was abuzz this morning with claims that Adebisi Shank's launch of their second album was possibly the best gig EVERRRRRRRRRRRR. I don't doubt it. I saw them a few weeks back and could easily say one of the top 5 gigs I've ever seen in Galway. The level of divilment is palpable in this video, and the craic is most certainly being had. Good stuff, just gutted I wasn't there. Onward Shank, onward!



You can pre-order the album here. You really should.

Lost Chord E.P Launch tonight!

I've just been given devastating news. I have to cover the breakfast show on the radio station I work in, because the usual presenter has taken the day off because she's gonna party it up tonight after the same gig I was planning to go to. As it is I'll be DJing until 3a.m, then in work again at 5:30a.m, but I was planning to go partying tonight, gutted, big style, but that's work for you.

Exciting times for anyone about Galway tonight. Lost Chord E.P launch is tonight, so after months of gigging, recording and getting up to all sorts of shenanigans, the lads have a lovely little 6 track E.P in their hands that they can send to some big label, get signed, water down their sound and go hang out with Stereophonics and Travis or something! ...well that's not going to happen but it will be fun to see what happens these promising young dudes, the only thing that we can be sure of is tonight, everyone will have fun, except me, who has to go to be for 2 hours before getting up for work again.

Support is from Funeral Suits who've gained much love in the west of Ireland through gigging with a few of the bands around and generally being solid dudes and a pretty good band, it'll be interesting to see what their new stuff is like. I'm not massively gone on their solo stuff, rather "indie" by numbers, but their live shows are brilliant and have led to support slots to the likes of Passion Pit so I'll certainly give them another chance.

myspace.com/funeralsuits

There Is No Lost Chord E.P

Cheats Alt
You Do Not Do Alt
Up North
Records Not Fear
Ronald And Nancy
Cheats (Crimes Against Remix)

myspace.com/lostchordband

It's all going on tonight in Roisin Dubh from 9, free in

Word tells me a few of the kids will be dipping off to Kellys for Substance after, they'd feckin' want to anyway or there'll be shlaps! Partying etc. after as ever and stuff