Clockwork Noise re-imagine 'The Ballad of John & Yoko' as a tragedy, at The Last Chance Saloon in Dublin. The video is pretty dark (mood lighting, etc.), but it's the audio that matters...



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Clockwork Noise are headlining The Twisted Pepper tonight, with support from BellaJane, and Biggles Flies Again, AKA Conor from The Gandhis (The Civilians are listed on the poster, but have unfortunately had to pull out).

With the season that's in it, Clockwork Noise have decided to go all festive, and record a Christmas song. The track, a cover of Elvis’ ‘Blue Christmas’, will be given away for free at the gig, along with a super-special-bonus track, all wrapped up and Christmas present-y. Yay.

Things kick off at 8PM, and tickets are €7- gig goers will also get free admission to the awesome Mr. Jones club night which is on afterwards in the Pepper.

Because it would be very 'bah-humbug' of us to deprive non-dublin folk of the chance to hear a christmas song, you can download it here. Go nuts!

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Upstairs at Whelan's, of course.

Lets all be friends, it'll be lovely:

8 Ball

Clockwork Noise

Powered By Springs

See ya there.

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Clockwork Noise play the Village tonight, with support from Neon Flea Circus & Val Normal. Tickets cost €12.50, but if you'd prefer to gettem for a tenner, just email clockworknoise@hotmail.com with your name in the subject line. Just think of what you could do with that €2.50...

The wonderful Jim Carroll has featured Clockwork Noise in today's issue of The Ticket as new music to watch. Check it out here.

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Clockwork Noise appeared on Balcony TV yesterday to promote our new EP, Yes and No and Everything In Between- which is released on April 24th. Thanks to Stephen & Pauline for having us!

The band will be playing a gig on the night of the 24th in Greystones Theatre, opening for the excellent Heritage Centre. We'll have copies of the EP with us for sale on the night, which thanks to the great work of Jochem Van Wetten and Halley-Anne Kennedy will look like this.

The song we performed on the famous balcony is the fourth track from the EP, The Brink, so just for shits & giggles here's the studio version:

Clockwork Noise- The Brink



Clockwork Noise on myspace

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This Saturday night offers a host of live music options in Dublin city, one of which is the launch of Big Melt, the new single from Story of Hair.

The Hairs will be treating us to material from their forthcoming album, Cheap Rate, which judging by previous live shows is bound to be excellent. Support on the night will be provided by the excellent Zing, and our very own Clockwork Noise. As you can see from the poster, admission is a mere 5 euro.

Here's a track from Story of Hair's 2007 Ep, The Ho Ho Stamp, which is available to download free from their website.

Story of Hair- RTE


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More Hair-tunes and a bit of video in the readmore.


Another track from The Ho Ho Stamp, Shoes is a live favorite, and nicely demented.

Story of Hair- Shoes


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A couple of months back Story of Hair provided us with our first Off The Cuff Recording. Here's a reminder of that session:

Story of Hair- Unsteady


Story of Hair- Cheap Rate


Hairs on web

Hairs on myspace

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This is a Clockwork Noise track that's rather homeless- it's not on our album, and doesn't really fit with the material for the new EP (which is mostly up-tempo). Quiet little tracks tend to often get lost these days, as... well, frankly we all want to dance & party. So other than a brief appearance on the band's myspace profile, I guess this is the only way this song is ever going to see the light of day. It's called 'Honest Little Words':




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Katie Gallaghers in Bray may look like the inside of a smokers lung (to quote Withnail and I) and it may contain its fair share of, what is commonly known as, cream crackers but due to the fact that there are three venue size rooms in the building its possible for these elements to co-exist with some awesome tuneage. In fact the line up for the Dead Clubs festival: Mark IV threatens to be just a bit too big for the venue hosting it as the likes of Ham Sandwich, Hybrasil, The Things and our Rob's Clockwork Noise play amongst others.

The fact that they have two stages going with no arsing around in between bands should ensure that all goes according to plan however the best laid plans of mice and men etc etc.

Click on the read more to see what I thought of each act.







Opening act Marvin are a French electro-noisenik-rock act who fell into the gig by default when their own gig in Limerick was cancelled while at the same time another act pulled out of the Bray gig. Clearly they needed somewhere to play fast and this was just the spot. Its unfortunate that the majority of people weren't there while they were on as they're quite awesome. Check out their Myspace to see what I mean. I'm bitterly regretting not buying their album when I had the chance.






The Things are also a band who need a bigger audience than the one they had at the time they took their stage as their raucous rock n'roll ways come off better when there's a crowd to bounce off and it is a bit of a puzzle that they too weren't put closer to the end.






Rob would like me to tell you that the Clockwork Noise played a blinder and that they're worth checking out if you get the chance and I will say just that. Perhaps the success of this performance might encourage them to get off their arses and play more gigs but this remains to be seen. In any way. Their tunes get stronger and stronger and deserve to be heard by a wider audience so lets hope they do just that.








I'm probably just an old fart or something like that although just how much of an old fart you can be in your mid-20's I dunno but Hassle Merchants leave me a bit cold. Perhaps its the fact that the bands that are surrounding them on the night are ones that are really doing interesting stuff in whatever genre(s) they're embracing but these guys punky-indie-emo-noisy stuff is just a bit too boring for a night like this. Perhaps next time.






Unfortunately a trip to put a lady in the back of a taxi ensured that I only saw the first and last songs of More Tiny Giants however by all accounts they were great and certainly a lot better than they gave themselves credit for after the gig. A point will be made to check them out in greater detail in the future.







R.S.A.G. or Rarely Seen Above Ground were my act of the night (at least of the acts that played in Katie's, more on which later). When I first stuck my head in the door and saw a guy playing the drums to a backing track I said "Fuck that shit" and walked out. For some reason though the strength of the tunes that he was playing along to as well as the strength of the drumming caused me to duck my head back in again a few minutes later and its a good thing I did otherwise I would have looked quite the fool. An April fool if you will. Now it might seem quite gimmicky for a guy to play a solo gig with just himself on a kit and projecting images of himself playing the other instruments onto a backscreen but when you look at the time and effort as well as the innovation that the man has put into his show then you'll be blown away. A good idea of what I'm talking about won't really be found at his Myspace but details of where you can see the chap play again will be and I suggest you get there otherwise you run the risk of looking like a twat like I nearly did (or do depending on your opinion).







If you haven't already seen or heard Ham Sandwich then you've had your head stuck up your arse for the last year and at this stage it probably should remain there because they're one of the up and coming Irish bands that are being played everywhere and with a Whelans gig on next Saturday I was quite surprised to see them playing a little bar in Bray. Still more power to them that they gave it as much wellie as they normally would and more power to lead bloke Podge as he proves he's one of the biggest mentallers in the country as well.



The biggest catastrophe of the evening however was the fate that nearly befell Hybrasil. At ten minutes past two in the morning with Ham Sandwich nearly finishing their set it was becoming increasingly obvious that they weren't going to get to play and then when the Guards showed up it sealed the deal. Despite desperate attempts to play even one song they were stopped and begrudgingly admitted defeat. Luckily the party spirit took over & 'the three non-blondes' stepped in to offer their house as an impromptu venue. Despite it being 4.30 am by the time the band were set up and ready to go they played a blinder and luckily we got some footage of it too. A full report of that will appear in the future but for the time being cheers to the Hybrasil lads & their last-minute hosts for a fucking savage house party.

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As if you had to be reminded, the poster's right there in the sidebar, but tonight sees the Dead Clubs take over Katie Gallaghers in Bray.

Do it...

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The fourth installment of the excellent Dead Clubs Music Festival has been confirmed for this Friday (May 16th) in Katie Gallaghers in Bray.

The festival will feature a huge selection of bands over two stages, and I'm happy to announce that Clockwork Noise will be joining the already excellent lineup- which includes Ham Sandwich, Hybrasil, Rarely Seen Above Ground (R.S.A.G.), The Things and More Tiny Giants.

For a taste of what's to come, check out egoeccentric's review of the Dead Club's last event here.

Tickets are 10 euro at the door, with bands and DJs playing til 2.30 in the morning.

Check out The Dead Clubs on myspace for updates, or stay tuned here.

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As regulars may know, Clockwork Noise have been in and out of the studio for the past few weeks, knocking together songs for our much delayed 2nd release.

Mastering is now complete on two tracks, and where better to debut them than right here.

Here's the song from which this page garnered its name, egoeccentric:



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and this one's called Choose Your Words:



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Let us know what you think, we crave your love and acknowledgment!

You can check out Clockwork Noise on myspace here. Hopefully we'll have some live shows to announce very soon, so watch this space...

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The Clockwork Noise track Saturated has been added to the playlist over on the newly launched Radio Popbitch.

You can become my best friend by requesting the song here.

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So while I did spend some of my weekend partying it up at the Dead Club, I also managed to get some proper work in. Sunday was spent in Newtown's Silverline Studios recording with Clockwork Noise.

It's been ages since we finished the album, and since that was recorded at home, it's been even longer since I've actually been in the studio. Getting back in the swing of things was surprisingly easy, as both Silverline & engineer Ivan Jackman were fantastic. We got a lot of stuff done, (including the guts of the song this blog gets its name from) and it's all sounding great so far. The plan is to get back in in two weeks time for essential 'tweakage', and hopefully the EP will be ready to release by the end of March.

I'll keep you posted on the EP's progress here... or you can always check out Clockwork Noise on myspace.

Read on for some shots from the studio..



Dylan:


Blathnaid:



Aaron:




Jackman & some schmuck with a hat:

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Tis a bit odd to be profiling Clockwork Noise, cause as I'm sure most of you know, I'm in the band, so bear with me and I'll try not to blow our own horn.

Clockwork Noise formed from the ashes of pop-punk-ish Nivola, with the notion of being vaguely experimental, and to mostly record rather than play live. The two Nivola-ites (myself and Dylan Nolan on Bass) recruited Blathnaid Healy on Violin and Aaron Kennedy on drums to record what turned out to be our debut album 'If I Wanted, I Could'. The styles on the album were varied, as we attempted to explore several different directions at once.

We've kept true to our ambitions of not playing many live gigs, having broken it only to support God Is An Astronaut, and play infrequent shows in the Harbor Bar in Bray, but hope to make our SugarLips performance the first of many in the near future as we seek to test new material for our soon to be recorded (long overdue) follow-up EP. Samples of this ever elusive EP have been turning up sporadically on our myspace profile as we take our sweet time with chopping, changing, writing, recording then scrapping everything and starting again.
While you wait for it to finally materialize, you can now purchase 'If I Wanted, I Could' from iTunes. If I knew how to link you to it, I would, but unfortunately have no idea. I'm sure iTunes users won't have a problem finding it..

Clockwork Noise open this Friday night, Nov 16th, at the SugarLips Festival in Bray.

Click me to listen to Clockwork Noise's ambitious genre mixing 'A Number To Make You Cry'.

Check out Clockwork Noise on myspace here.

Keep checking the SugarLips myspace profile for updates.

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Inner Ear has posted a review of the Clockwork Noise material that's on our myspace. They were very nice. I've never heard the Grateful Dead, but apparently they're good, so that's ok with me.
You can read the review here.

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Just heard from Dylan that 'If I Wanted, I Could' is due to become available for download on iTunes on November 15th. Which is exciting.

I have no other details- what it costs etc, but will post em as soon as i get em.

Here's Dylan's myspace post in full:

"Clockwork Noise's first album "If I Wanted, I Could" will be available for digital download from iTunes from November 15th 2007. The album features 11 tracks including 'Simple Problems', 'Talking to Ghosts' and 'Sodium Sweet'.

"The Launch will coincide with Clockwork noise's first public appearances in over a year. The band plan to reinvent themselves from their last stint on the road and push the boundaries of noise."

Woo Hoo- reinvention!

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