Choon choosing

Been sussing this Club AC30-esque DJ set for the Butterfly Explosion gig this past few hours and have come up with a very self-indulgent Cauls-esque 30 mins of mostly melodic, but mainly ethereal and dissonant heart-wrenching tunage… mmm, contradictory!

Only pity is, I came up with an hour and a half’s worth really, not 30 bloody short minutes! So I have this extended dream DJ set and a shortened one prepared… I’m ready for all!!

I’ll throw up a list tomorrow if anyone finds it in anyway enlightening tonight… or just come up and ask!

LOUDNESS awaits.

Butterfly Explosion AC30 DJ Cauls… ahem…

Would ya look at my name!!! MY NAME!!! Oh the pride…

http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/events/other/2009/sep/17/butterfly-explosion/

Cheers for the DJing opportunity Gazz… t’will be an ace night!

Expect some of this and this…

ASIWYFA return!

So tis AC30 gig time again and the wonderous ASIWYFA are back with a vengence this Sunday, this time on Whelans Main Stage. With Enemies and C!ties.

You can follow the build-up here on facebook and here on last.fm. Free downloads on last.fm event page too. Bonus.

This Is How It Ends EP launch

TOMORROW NIGHT!!

Been waiting for this for a while.

I met This Is How It Ends as a musical collective when I asked them to support ASIWYFA in Whelans,  last November. Having been promised some stomping yet ethereal tunage from Thom, one of the original members, after that out-of-this-world M83 performance in Vicar St… he kinda wasn’t wrong.

They recorded the EP, got some amazing art work done and now they’re introducing it to the world in Twisted Pepper avec some gorgeous visuals, free EP’s for all and sundry and two more amazing Irish bands, Groundburst and Percolator flying the flags for atmostpheric and beautiful soundscapes.

The lovely Aoife Barry did an interview for State here.

And a man with impecible music taste, Paul Murphy, did one for Drop-D.ie here.

So, last Club AC30 Dublin til the end of September, and after last Friday’s escapade into unreal amazingness via Alias Empire’s audio visual assault, don’t miss this one!!

Pre-show interview madness

Jeez! The Alias Empire promo is flowing!

Thanks Aoife for the deadly interview. Aoife is an amazing Journo who as been known to track down rosé swilling members of Amusement Parks on Fire in Berlin for one hell of a drunkenly empassioned interview involving a lot of random stuff she invaliably had to cut out. What a ledge of an intrepid reporter.

Here’s that one if I’ve got you interested…. http://www.amusementparksonfire.com/ (Bottom of page)

And here’s the AE one… http://www.state.ie/alias-empire-interview/

Alias Empire on Phantom live in studio. Tasty.

Alias Empire on Phantom last Saturday morning… amazingness!! Ac30 plugging makes for a happy Cauls!! Thanks guys

Alias (Dry) Empire (County)

This Friday.

Expect it to be heavy and mesmirising.

Bring some glow sticks!

Best named band in the world are back! Plus Heart-melty tunage.

Betamax Format are BACK!!!!!!!!!!! Watch this space for future Club AC30 linkage.

Also… Swimming album title track ‘The Fireflow Trade’ is sending me to heavenly places!

Bought Hotpress today as I was waiting for Janette to arrive townwards and was unreal surprised to see a Sleep Thieves pic on page 28, from the Club AC30 gig back in  February… And the AC30 backdrop all bright and shiney in the background. Plus Sorcha tells me their new EP (launch next Wednesday in Whelans!) has similar pic on the sleeve!!! Woop!

Doesn’t take much to make me happy eh?!?!

And here is said Hotpress pic in all it’s glory…

ASIWYFA conquer

So Sunday night. What amazingness. I was a little, well massively hungover and sleep deprived after Codes and co in ALT the previous night, and my brother Davey had just arrived, so appearing at soundcheck was painful, but the minute I saw those lovely chirpy Belfastians hanging around the stage door of the Whelans smoking area, I thought, ah cop the fuck on, this is what it’s all about. And it is.

Watching all three bands sound check was a treat in itself. It’s hard to encapsulate what lovely and pretty hilarious guys ASIWYFA really are. Rory arrives over with one of the new album tshirts for me as they set up the merch, wow this is gonna be a special night I figure. The place is pretty packed out by the time Enemies arrive on stage, after punters flowed the minute the doors opened. Eagerness to get involved in this particular post rock experience was paramount. Word had obviously spread after the November show. Enemies surprised me, very engaging stuff… and Maybeshewill with a fantastic girl bassist. Ace.

By the time ASIWYFA came on stage, the place was mental with anticipation. Sheer untapped energy flowed from the entire performance.  Every leap from the stage was wrapped tightly in an immense enthusiasm and passion for those tunes. The audience was in rapture. Sell out gig, so all bands were sent on their merry way with some cash too. I’m pretty sure that I’ll not be able to have these guys in this intensely small venue when they return later in the year. To bigger and better things they proceed, starting with an intense 29 date tour of these general parts and continuing on to Europe and… the World!

Then I saw the album sleeve… I got a fricken mention! Does it get any better than this my friends?! What a night. Oh and Nay and the ClubAC30 shoes

Onwards and upwards to the next one… a very different affair on Whelans main stage on Friday, 26th June with Alias Empire, Le Galaxie and Percolator.

And a good few more random ClubAC30 ideas and plans on the horizon. Shur don’t I love to be scheming.

Classy Nay and her beautiful shoes. Ah.

ASIWYFA reply to FWW freaky threat shit

Be afraid dudes, some of us are gonna be Upstairs in Whelans on Sunday with these dudes, welding axe in a terrifying fashion. Fooooook!