Reemo, Myp Et Jeep Gig Off
In case you missed the note doing the rounds on Facebook earlier in the week, Reemo (who were due to play tonight in The Zoo on Parliament Street) announced midweek that the gig wouldn’t be going ahead. They would have been joined by guests Myp Et Jeep.
We asked the band if they’ve got plans to reschedule and they’re considering August, though possibly with a change of venue. The band are up next in Cyprus Avenue in Cork on Friday July 24th.
Have You Voted For Pierre?
Pierre Lec’hvien is one of the buskers looking for your vote before round six closes on Sunday evening. You can vote for Pierre, Pete, Shane or Liam by visiting Busker2009.com.
Here’s Pierre performing on the harp outside Dunnes on Kieran Street on Saturday June 27th.
Battle Of The Bands Registration Opens
IT’S THAT time of year again when Kilkenny’s budding musicians get ready to go to battle to win the title of ‘Best Band 2009′ in the 9th Hype Entertainment Battle of the Bands competition.
Entries are now being accepted and bands are advised to get their names down quickly as the contest is set to kick off in mid July.
Application forms are available at Essaness Music, St Kieran’s Street, and Broderick’s Music Warehouse, New Building Lane. Bands can also enter the contest online (and we’re encouraging acts interested in doing so) by visiting the official BOTB site at BattleOfTheBands.ie.
The new website, created by Event media especially for the competition, will also cover the entire contest through photographs, reviews, interviews, videos and more.
Organisers are this week finalising the prizes that already include a demo recording package, an EP recording package and a website, photography and PR package for the lucky winners. Sponsors so far include Broderick’s Music Warehouse, The Mill Recording Studios, Essaness Music, Kilkennymusic.com, Ross Costigan Photography and Zoo Club.
Plans to launch a South East contest have been put on hold until next year to mark the 10th anniversary of the competition.
The competition is restricted to bands within Kilkenny City & County (north and south of the county). To register today, visit BattleOfTheBands.ie.
Kilkenny 400 Busker 2009 Round 6 Voting Opens
Voting has opened in the sixth round of the Kilkenny 400 Busker 2009 competition where you can help another of this past weekend’s buskers towards a €200 prize and a potential place in the final this autumn.
To cast your vote, visit Busker2009.com today. Voting closes this Sunday, July 5th, at 6pm GMT. Suspicious voting patterns, use of proxies, or spamming will result in all votes from those IPs being removed. Judges decision on the winners is final.
News On Slave Zero’s New Album
Slave Zero have posted an update on their MySpace and on the forum here in relation to their new album, Exempt From All Tolerance, which gets its release on August 20th this year. The album was recorded and mixed in Silverline Studios in Wicklow and has been mastered by none other than Richard Dowling who has worked with Napalm Death, Carcass & Entombed to name a few. The official CD launch/ full tour and merchandise will be released in the coming weeks but for the time being they’ve uploaded “Engineering opportunities to ‘ordain’ the innocent” to their MySpace profile to keep fans entertained until August. They’re also working towards relaunching the Slave Zero website and will be giving away the track as a free download.
The album itself gets a launch in Whelan’s in Dublin on August 20th though you’ll be able to catch the band in Galway at An Pucan next weekend on Saturday July 4th.
The tracklisting for the new album looks like
- Exempt from all tolerance
- Antidote to suffering
- Engineering opportunities to ‘ordain’ the innocent
- A sacrifice for the greater good
- Impervious determination undermining a malignant ambition
- The insult that feeds
- Allegiance of deceit
- Straight for the jugular
- Vengeance
King Of Pop Dies At 50
Sky News’ website has been crawling. Google’s news search was inundated with the same two words, ‘Michael Jackson’. With the news breaking last night, late-risers (or those who missed it) will get up this morning to find that Michael Jackson has died at age 50. Some people are already comparing the day of his death to that of JFK (See here).
Jermaine Jackson read a statement for news declaring that the King Of Pop had died following cardiac arrest at his home yesterday at 2:26pm local time, though cause of death remains unknown until the autopsy results come out. Paramedics had attempted to revive him for over an hour before declaring the singer dead.
You can watch Jermaine Jackon’s statement to journalists here on Sky.
The highs and lows of his career have been well documented, rarely with the singer seen out of the tabloids for some reason, good or bad. He was also due to perform 50 nights at the O2 in London later in the summer with some dates rescheduled due to rumours he was battling skin cancer.
Via Sony / MichaelJackson.com - Five of Jackson’s solo albums – “Off the Wall,” “Thriller,” “Bad,” “Dangerous” and “HIStory,” all with Epic Records, a Sony Music label – are among the top-sellers of all time. During his extraordinary career, he sold an estimated 750 million records worldwide, released 13 No.1 singles and became one of a handful of artists to be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Jackson as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time and “Thriller” as the Biggest Selling Album of All Time. Jackson won 13 Grammy Awards and received the American Music Award’s Artist of the Century Award.
Michael Jackson started in the music business at the age of 11 with his brothers as a member of the Jackson 5. In the early 1980s, he defined the art form of music video with such ground-breaking videos as “Billie Jean,” “Beat It” and the epic “Thriller.” Jackson’s sound, style and dance moves inspired subsequent generations of pop, soul, R&B and hip-hop artists.
I’ve (Ken) got a lot of his albums in my collection, copies of Bad, Thriller and Dangerous knocking around the house on tape as well - music like that will live on, and it’s that music that he’ll always be remembered for.
Reminder On This Week’s Sessions
Just a reminder that the One Take Sessions slated for Cleere’s tonight will not be going ahead as previously advertised. Apologies to all
Shakespeare, As You’ve Never Seen Him
THIS WEEKEND sees favourites of the local theatre scene, The Devious Theatre Company, take to the stage in Rothe House as part of the Shakespeare In The House festival to present their own twist on the classic works of William Shakespeare.
Indeed, the company promises that “you’ve never seen Shakespeare performed like this”, according to co-founder Ken McGuire.
Actors including Scott Barriscale, Stephen Colfer, John Doran, Ken McGuire, Kevin Mooney, Niamh Moroney and John Morton will perform a number of Shakespearean works including scenes from The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Shakespeare’s Editor Sketch, a Shakespearean version of the recent rant by Batman Star Christian Bale interspersed by a selection of monologues and sonnets.
Their diversion into Shakespeare comes at a time when the group, who last year brought us the hard-hitting Trainspotting and comedic Smitten, are gearing up for a production of Willy Russell’s Stags And Hens, running at the Watergate Theatre next month.
“We wouldn’t be a devious group of actors if we weren’t working on a few projects at once”, says Ken. “All the cast involved in our appearance at the festival have been involved in performing Shakespearean works at some point over the last few years from Macbeth to Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and more, versions of which you can also see over the course of the two days.
“We’re also in the middle of rehearsals for our next major production but at some point in your theatre career you’ve got to try your hand at Shakespeare. For us, it just happens to be this coming weekend.”
The festival, now in its second year, runs in Rothe House on Parliament Street this Saturday and Sunday from noon each day and also features performances by the junior and senior groups of Dreamstuff Youth Theatre based out of Young Irish Film Makers here in Kilkenny.
The setting of Rothe House in itself is ideal for the festival as the building of the house mirrors the timeline of Shakespeare’s own career in theatre.
Further information is available by contacting The Devious Theatre Company, Dreamstuff Youth Theatre and the office at Rothe House on 056 - 7722893.
Adam Nolan Wins Busker 2009 Round 5
Adam Nolan has done enough to see himself through Kilkenny 400 Busker 2009 Round 5, winning the round ahead of Chaser, Neil (Eustace) and Pete, all of whom featured in Round 5 on Saturday June 16th.
Voting at the top was close but the saxophone player, later spotted playing at the castle, did enough to seal the top spot and win a €200 prize. Hopefully we’ll see all acts again in later rounds with over a thousand euro, plus a standalone prize of one thousand euro left to play for.
If you fancy your chances and want to register for round six which takes place this Saturday, please click here to do so.
Postponed: This Week’s One Take’s
Due to an unforeseen series of events, this week’s One Take Sessions won’t be going ahead (due this Thursday night). Acts slated to perform, as seen in local papers tomorrow, included Jester, Dubh Ban, Bobby O’Keeffe and Neal Byrne. We’re already arranging alternative dates for the acts in questions but you’ll have to wait until July 16th for the next in line of the One Take Sessions.
Our apologies again to the acts and to those of you who were coming to check them out.
