BATS release their debut full-length 'Red In Tooth & Claw' on Richter Collective on August 31st. Album launch is in Andrew's Lane on the 29th August with Adebisi Shank & Jogging.

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video of BATS playing the new song shadowfucking at their album fundrasier a few weeks back. the winged sexpests have taken flight and are currently recording the debut album with Kurt Ballou in between looking for witches in Salem.

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gigs and stuff in the read more


FRIDAY

GRAVEYARD (Skinny Wolves + Umack DJs)
Its Ghoul time again. Back from the Grave
20 February at 08:00
Anseo (upstairs)
Camden Street

Skinny Wolves + UMack DJs break out the death jams.
Zombie beats from the grave and new rotting flesh from the other side.

Expect this kind of nonsense from the wolves...
Telepathe, Rainbow Arabia, Ariel Pink, Cabaret Voltaire, Mi Ami, Black Dice, Fad Gadget, Ike Yard, DAF, Hawkwind, Killing Joke, Chrome, Suicide, Pink Military, Six Finger Satellite, Loop, Gang Gang Dance, Silver Apples, Soft Cell, Gina X, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Ruth, Prag:vec, Mahjongg, Indian Jewelry, High Places, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Pylon, Talking Heads, Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, The Distributors, Xmal Deutschland, SPK, Palais Schaumburg, Kraftwerk, GD Luxxe, Chromatics, Arthur Russell, Wooden Shjips, Animal Collective etc...

its FREE by the way...



Good Manners Cost Nothing Presents:

Private Underground Residence(Cork)
Herv
Lamp(Cork)
MP Inferno

The Lower Deck, Portobello
Friday 20th february
EUR 6 / EUR 5 before 9

SATURDAY


CIAN NUGENT
"Spare simple playing that is rich with emotion and truly beautiful" Other Music
PATRICK KELLEHER
"A strikingly assured exercise in evocative experimental pop that deserves notice" Analogue magazine
HUNTER-GATHERER
"Narcoleptic electronica [and] haunting synths" Analogue Magazine

Address: The Shed behind No. 236 South Circular Road, Dublin 8.
Directions: 19 or 122 bus (leaves from O'Connell St heading south), get off at the Mosque (ask driver) and continue in same direction as bus up to the crossroads, take a right down donore avenue and take the first right down a small lane. The Box Social is the third door on the right! See google map link here


Bats signed to the Richter Collective in 2008 and will be recording their debut album with legendary Converge member/producer, Kurt Ballou at the end of Feburary this will be their last gig before they head off to record - Not To Be missed !


SUNDAY

On sunday seomraspraoicinema will be showing WALTZ WITH BASHIR more info here

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Richter Christmas Party and its also a fundraiser for BATS to go over to Salem Massachusetts and record a full length album with Kurt Ballou of Converge fame.

Be there its gonna be HEFT!!!

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new music video for Wicklow own synth powered renegade Sarsparilla. directed by Fergal Brennan.


Sarsparilla has been added to the Richter Xmas Party/BATS Album Fundraiser in the Lower Deck ,with BATS,NOT SQUARES in the Lower Deck on the December 19th

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U:MACK present
These Arms Are Snakes
Russian Circles
Wednesday november 19
Andrews Lane Theatre
DOORS 7.30pm (early show)
TICKETS €16 from Road Records, City Discs, Spindizzy,
Sound Cellar and online at www.tickets.ie/umack
These Arms Are Snakes have a reputation of being a amazing live as do Russian Circles so should make for a very good night, support on the gig comes from BATS



These Arms Are Snakes "Horse Girl"


Russian Circles - "Death Rides a Horse"


www.myspace.com/thesearmsaresnakes
www.myspace.com/russiancircles
www.myspace.com/umackproductions
www.umack.com

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Dublin


Cork


What are people dressing up as???

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BATS(them sex pests) play Crawdaddys this Saturday at the amazingly late hour of 1.40 am!!

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New video from the lads from Bats off their EP for the song Nautilus Vs. Irish Ferry.
the video was done my Conorbat and Timbat.

Bats - Nautilus Vs. Irish Ferry

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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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what is The Vinny Club sound well it sounds like Rutger Hauer and Kurt Russell are playing a Commodore 64 in the back of a DeLorean traveling at 88mph. Ferris Bueller's on the roof having a lightsaber fight with Clubber Lang. There's a gremlin chewing on the flux capacitor and a T-800 on the bonnet punching through the windscreen. Bono's driving and so much more.

Rocky IV Reckyrd is a concept album based on Rocky IV (the best rocky film) from The Vinny Club, heres what the press release had to say about The Vinny Club


The Vinny Club is the lovechild of Vinny , bassist in cult Irish band Adebisi Shank. Born out of a dangerous obsession with 8 bit Video games and 80's action movies, his unique brand of synth pop fun will leave you with a boner in your pants and a grin on your face. By the age 11 Vinny had constructed a makeshift recording studio under his bed where he retreated to for hours on end


The album starts off with "Its Not You Its Of"(19833333333333333333) the song i heard at every party last year and it still sounds fresh and even better when your fucked up. From there, the album blasts off with some track you might have heard off his myspace to some ones you wont all with that sexy cracking beats and funky baselines that is the Vinny club sound , they also have a very complex structure but always keeping that pop element (all songs track in at under 3:30 making them quick fast slices of excellence) that makes you grin and, well, get a boner just like the press release said. Ive been struggling over this review because i wanted to do the album justice , but i don't think words can convey what this album is like i feel it has to be heard, and then you will know my joy (stick). I think the only option for you people is to come to his debut gig in Andrews lane on the 31st of may (its only a tenner and you get the album as well) and see it for yourself live. I will be there dancing up a storm to the chiptune bliss. Also on the night will be dj sets from super extra bonus party , Foggy Notions and Bats



To wet your appetite, I now offer my favorite track off the album: Drago's Revenge. Here's what Vinny had to say about the track:

so imagine rocky V, except just after rocky n fam move back to the old neighborhood, drago pulls up in a benz, steps out and punches rocky to death in front of adrian and sage stallone(who shouldn't even have been in that film, like the kid is 6 in rocky IV, rocky V is supposed to be a couple of weeks later, all of a sudden the kids 12 or 13?? anyway), yeah after that he punches the wife and son to death too, but he lets uncle paulie live for some reason(cos he's already dead inside maybe)

MP3> the Vinny Club - Drago's Revenge


so with all that in mind i leave you with


The Vinny Club myspace
Richter Collective myspace

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The Vinny Club is the lovechild of Vinny, bassist in cult Irish band Adebisi Shank. Born out of a dangerous obsession with 8-bit video games and 80's action movies, his unique brand of synth pop fun will leave you with a boner in your pants and a grin on your face. By age 11 Vinny had constructed a makeshift recording studio under his bed where he retreated to for hours on end. His first release was 2007's Tech Noir EP which garnered rave reviews despite being available as a cassette only release, on his own, "Vince Rekyrds". Next came 2008's Rocky IV Reckyrd, a concept album based around the fourth Rocky movie. It's an album bursting with glitchy synth pop fun, super fast melodies, whip cracking sexy beats and more funky basslines than you can shake a joystick at.


The Richter Collective presents:

The Vinny Club album launch party
Andrews Lane Theatre
31-05-08

Vinny Club - Tech Noir Grand Re-Opening

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This weeks hangover mix comes courtesy of Conor from Dublin band Bats.
tracklist and download link in the read more



tracklist
1.Rocky Votolato - The nights disguise
2.Beastie Boys - I Don't Know
3.The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg - A B for A Bee
4.Chromatics - Night Drive
5.Grandaddy - Jeds Other Poem
6.Gang Gang Dance - Egowar
7.Beirut - Elephant Gun
8.Pavement - Spit On A Stranger
9.Shins - Turn On Me
10.Minus The Bear - Pachuca Sunrise
cover by Chris Judge

click here to go to download page

Bats ep "Cruel Sea Scientist" is out now to buy and can be bought from such reputable ye olde music shoppes as- Tower Records, City Discs, Road Records and Plugd Records (Cork).You can also purchase it online at- www.richtercollective.com and www.batstheband.com
bats have some fine gigs upcoming supporting Ex-Models in transformer venue on 14th of may, Horse the Band in Eamonn Dorans on the 1 June and there also playing Mantua Festival on the 3 August.

Bats Myspace
Bats website

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April addition of 5 Bands Podcast is online now, this month they are joined by Rupert from Bats

Tracks featured:

1. Neon Blonde - "Headlines" Remix (Adam Clarke)
2. Themselves - "Revenge of the Fern"
3. Down I Go - "A Wasp In a Jar"
4. Hymie's Basement – "21st Century Pop Song"
5. Circle Takes the Square - "In The Nervous Light of Sunday"

get it here

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To celebrate the release and launch of their new album 'White Wonder',Crayonsmith have decided to only put a meagre €5 door-tax on the launch gig in The Academy this Saturday 19th April.

They be going in to the night with DJ sets from Skinny Wolves and Out On A Limb till 2.30am after the gig.

Also on the bill are Cap Pas Cap and Bats.
So 3 bands + DJs in a major venue on a Saturday night til 2.30am for €5!

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Ex Models play Transformer on Wednesday 14th of May
more info in the read more

Ex Models is a no wave-influenced band based in Brooklyn, New York
The band, based around brothers Shahin and Shahyar Motia, was started while they were in high school. They reunited after college to make their debut, Other Mathematics. It was released in 2001 on Ace Fu Records. The subject of their lyrics range from sex to Jean Baudrillard and his philosophy about Simulacra. For example, on "The Birth Of Disneyland" vocalist, Shahin Motia, sings "See the grown-ups act like children. It's a way of living." Many compare Shahin's vocals to David Byrne of Talking Heads or Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo.

Their second album, Zoo Psychology, was released two years later. It took ideas from the first album, but broke more rules. The songs became more dirty and noisy with peculiar time changes. By this time, bassist Mike Masiello left the band. Zach Lehrhoff replaced him, partaking in vocals as well.

By 2005 the band had pared down to the duo of Shahin and Zach and a 3rd album Chrome Panthers was released marking a new direction, even more repetitive and minimalist, the band dubbed Fundustrial Noise. Contributing on record and, occasionally, live was drummer Kid Millions of Oneida. Eventually the rhythms became more primal and live the band would utilize as many as three drummers.

Support on the night is from SEA DOG and BATS

Ex Models - 32 Weeks

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its gonna me mind melting

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The leather wings of Bats will be flapping there way down to Cork on the 14th of March and they will be bringing the truly awesome Crayonsmith with them as well. the gigs in Cypress Ave and its free in. And then after that they will drag their withered carcasses back up to Dublin to play Whelans (upstairs) with Arcada on the 15th of March and entrance a mire 7 Euro.
posters in the read more.





Bats myspace
Crayonsmith myspace
Arcada myspace

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I recently found my old copy of Scream, Dracula, Scream! and had forgotten what a great record it was from a great band.
So in honor of the rediscovery heres the video for On A Rope from 1995


Rocket from the Crypt - On A Rope


MORE GIGS ahhhhhhh

The Ex. play Whelans on 24 April.

XIU XIU have confirmed for Whelans 22nd May.

AIDS Wolf play dublin on the 21 May with support from Bats

Anyone wanna buy a slightly used kidney from me

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kinda of a round up of news here
first off...
www.richtercollective.com have a new blog/podcast they will get 1 artists a month to select 5 obscure bands from their own record collection and introduce us to them. Its a monthly thing , this month they are joined by Estel drummer, Bushy.
upcoming guests include:
Hornby (We Are Knives)
Rupert (Bats)
Vin (the vinny club)
check ithttp://5bands.blogspot.com/


Them sexual winged mammals bats are supporting Chrome Hoof on the 12th of Feb in Whelans , they also have an instore a few days earlier on the 9th of Feb in Tower Records.

Sunset Rubdown (who released one of my favorite records of last year) play Crawdaddy on May 20th. Never seen them before and really looking forward to this.
Sunset Rubdown Live in Chicago "Stadiums and Shrines II"


Why? have expanded as a band to include Fog members Andrew Broder and Mark "Bear" Erickson, cant see this being a bad thing myself.Anticon will release Alopecia on March 11, with a European release on Tomlab to follow.
heres WHY? Video for rubber traits of 2005 "elephant eyelash" LP


Up next not really news but damo showed me this class The Mae Shi video.Track taken from their forthcoming album "HLLLYH" on Moshi Moshi Records. Video directed by The Mae Shi (self-directed). check it
The Mae Shi - Run to Your Grave

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