I'll Eat Your Face (Cork)
Realistic Train
More Than Normal (uk)
Abam

Saturday 31st January
9:00
Thomas House
€5

I'LL EAT YOUR FACE

I'll Eat Your Face is a two-man grinding party pack, brimming with excellence and straddling the divide between the sound of a building site and a 8-year old's birthday party. Guitars and screaming are handled by the fabulous THE BOY, who has a birthmark and a crazy square head. On drums and crying we have handsome streak BARRYTRON, who has fairly long legs and a really skinny face.
www.myspace.com/illeatyourfaceireland

REALISTIC TRAIN

We are a ROCK band originally formed from members of Mongolia (Dunchee: drums, Tob Swift: bass) and Terrordactyl (Owensie Owens: guitar and vocals) while both of these bands were on hiatus, with the aim of writing some psychedelic/ stoner/ garage rock anthems to get us through the dark Irish summer. The original concept was formed more or less over a weekend at the Roadburn Fest in Holland this year, during the consumption of many good beers, blemmers, space cookies and mushrooms. By the end of the dark summer, as the sun re-emerged from the black clouds above us to waste it's distant rays upon our frost painted hills, the intitial project had taken on sufficient momentum to continue as a realistic band. The irony was not lost on each band member equally. "Ha ha ha", we laughed, heartily. Except Dunchee, who did one better and realized his long-term plan to move down under to Melbourne, Australia. In stepped Ruari Conaty, ex-fellow band member of Puget Sound with Owensie from back in the day. Out stepped Ror several gigs later to make way for Kenn Sweeney (Easpa Measa, The Boy You Hit is Dead...). Having recorded our first demo with Dunchee before he departed these shores, we now return to the rehearsal studio of reality to compose more songs from the vast bulk of material that we had generated throught the dark summer sessions. We hope to be back playing live within the next month with some new songs for y'all to sing along to. THE TRAIN IS COMING!!! ROLLING DOWN THE TRACKS INSIDE YOUR MIND!!!
www.myspace.com/realistictrain

MORE THAN NORMAL

Punk rock from the UK

www.myspace.com/morethannormal

ABAM

we are a 3 piece band based in dublin. The song on our page is "Our Lungs" which was recorded in Los Angeles with Rich Mouser and Jimmy Coup in June 08. We have put it up on downloadmusic.ie as our debut single and the wonderful david magnier has made a video for it that can be found on youtube.
www.myspace.com/abamband

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Music video for the awesome ABAM made by David Magnier

ABAM - Our Lungs

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Diane and the shell - "Instruments? Set As Required!"


Diane and the shell play the Lower deck on Saturday (18/10/08) with The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, ABAM and Jezery all info here

(another Diane and the Shell video in the read more)

DIANE AND THE SHELL - "10.000 Feet Tarantella"

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Saturday the 18th of October in the lower deck
info on all the bands in the read more


Diane and the Shell

Diane and the Shell is a Sicilian instrumental indie- math- experimental- rock band.
These four musicians from Catania, Italy are in love with the loudest volume of their amps and have a passion for angular and geometric, yet organic, song structures.The music brings to mind images of a lilting and sensuous dance thousands of feet above terra firma, caressing the outer limits of our atmosphere and roaring back down to earth like a jet airplane. 30,000 Feet Tarantella is a work full of moody irony, joy, and passion. Diane and the Shell illuminates a direct, powerful, and clear sound rich with allegorical metaphors, given life in haunting orchestral arrangements.The grace and sensitivity of their playing belies a maturity and wisdom far beyond their young ages.Their debut, The Red EP, churned forth progressive structures and mutant-disco provocations foreshadowing the fully realized work expressed with this release. 30,000 Feet Tarantella was recorded and mixed by Sacha Tilotta with the artistic production of Agostino Tilotta (Bellini, Uzeda) in one week of amusing and exhilarating delirium. To promote his new record D.a.t.s. toured U.S.A. and Italy.

Diane and the Shell myspace


The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock

Named after a poem about a haunted canal lock, the Spook plucks banjos and twangs guitars, he yelps and he drones and sings songs about doomed revolutionaries, brave partisans, corrupt politicians and constant struggle.
Live the Spook plays solo with guitar, banjo and effects or swells to full band with bass, guitars, drums
The eponymous debut album see songs in the Irish folk tradition expanded into the realms of psych, prog and post rock, channeling amongst other things, the diverse yet kindred spirits of Lift to Experience, 16 Horsepower, Thin Lizzy and The Chieftains.

The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock myspace

ABAM

ABAM are a three-peice from Dublin who have made a habit of making kickass music.
Not descriptive enough for ya? Try..... loud.
They're kinda math-rock kinda punky, kinda Japanese poppy, with vocals that enough hook and melody to them to keep the whole thing vaguely friendly. But don't be afraid to jump around. In fact, jumping around may be quite unavoidable- the beats are amazing. In June of this year the lads recorded in Los Angeles with Rich Mouser and Jimmy Coup.

ABAM myspace

Jezery

Jezery began in January 2005, when four friends with overlapping but individual tastes in music, and experiences with bands, started putting songs together. After solid months of jam making, the jam became a gel-like substance, and Jezery tentatively stepped onto stages.
Rubbish gigs came and went with plenty of lessons learnt along the way. By November 2005 they must have started to do some things right, because Tenpastseven (Out On A Limb Records) asked them to play support on an Irish tour. That same month they recorded a cd called " Be Wide " . It introduces a band still in early development, but with a lot of the fundamentals of their sound in evidence.
In February 2007 they ventured to the studio again to record their second ep, " Six Sided Clothes", launching it with gigs in Cork, Galway, Limerick and Tralee. This is an altogether more coherent record, with a much different sound. The ep is available in Plugd in Cork, and also worldwide through Road Records

Jezery myspace

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Some great gigs this weekend, so the weekend in poster-form in the read more:

Friday Abam album launch


Saturday the vinny club album launch


Sunday Horse the band

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ABAM are a three-peice from Dublin who have made a habit of making kickass music.

Not descriptive enough for ya? Try..... loud.

They're kinda math-rock (before we get caught up in jargon, math-rock is basically intricate, complex rock), kinda punky, kinda Japanese poppy, with vocals that enough hook and melody to them to keep the whole thing vaguely friendly. But don't be afraid to jump around. In fact, jumping around may be quite unavoidable- the beats are amazing.

Check out their myspace page here, where you can listen to 4 tracks- some old ('Zombies Ate My Neighbours'), some new ('Mega Doken'), all with interesting names.

ABAM play Saturday night at the SugarLips Festival in Bray. It shall be fun.

Here's them live at Radio City:

More SugarLips Spotlights to come.....

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