To win a double pass to King Khan simply email us at egoeccentric@live.com with the subject "The Supreme Genius of King Khan and His Sensational Shrines" and I will pick a winner at random

Foggy Notions presents: King Khan & The Shrines
+ Jack of Heart

Whelan’s, Wed October 7th, Doors 8pm

Tickets €14 plus booking fee from www.tickets.ie, WAV, City Discs & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide

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Synth Eastwood Presents
Synth Eastwood Has You Surrounded
The Spiegel Tent, Georges Dock,
10th of September. 10pm—2am

Featuring Multiple Speaker and Multi Screen action, dipping you in an AV bath of champagne.
We have 3 pairs of tickets to giveaway keep reading to find out how to win.

Beginning with a pre-show from 8pm-10pm in CHQ Georges Dock (beside the Spiegeltent) in which The Spatial Music Collective will be showcasing some of their most recent multichannel tape work accompanied by a free drink reception kindly supplied by Absolut Vodka.

Synth Eastwood Has You Surrounded begins at 10pm guiding you into spaces you've never ever been before. Four speakers and Four screens will surround you on the dance floor as a synergy of spaced out audio/visuals explodes before your very eyes and your very ears. Music on the night includes a rare appearance and DJ performance from Synth Eastwood himself, followed by quadraphonic DJ sets by the party purveyors extraordinaire Choice Cuts, Tu-Ki, and seasoned spinners DJs Jaycee and Funboi. This will be eye echoed by four screens of visuals from SE, Fergal Brennan, D.A.D.D.Y and many more.

To win a chance of winning a pair of tickets just email us @ egoeccentric@live.com with the subject "Synth Eastwood Has You Surrounded" and tell us whats your favorite thing to be surrounded by is, our favorite will win

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Crayonsmith play upstairs @ Whelans on Friday 7th of August with support from Pikelet (Evelyn from Baseball) and Extreme Wheeze (Joe from Alex and The Ramps).Crayonsmith will also be debuting some new songs at the gig one of which you can hear on their myspace in demo form.
Anyway in order to win a double pass to the gig all you have to do is email us @ egoeccentric@live.com with the subject "crayonsmith" and we will pick the winner at random and email you back.

check out some videos in the read more


crayonsmith-lost in the forest



Pikelet, "Beyond The Sky" (live @ the Enterprise, London)

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SJ Esau plays Upstairs @ Whelan’s Saturday the 1st of August with support from At Last an Atlas and Northstation. And we have a double pass to giveaway to the show, all you have to do is email us @ egoeccentric@live.com with the subject "SJ Esau Competition" to be in with a chance to win.
Big thanks to foggy Notions for the tickets
SJ ESAU is a master manipulator of organic sounds, a singer with a sense of humor, an ear for the beautifully bizarre, and a maker of expansive and explosive ventures into unexplored musical back alleys.

At the age of ten Samuel Wisternoff, as he’s known to his mother, was halfway through a four-year rap career in the burgeoning late 80s Bristol scene. He has freestyled with 3D from Massive Attack, Tricky turned him onto the great adventures of Slick Rick, and under the name TFP, Sam (still ten years old) and his older brother were signed to Smith & Mighty’s prestigious Three Stripe Records.

Before retiring from the rap game at twelve, Sam battled his way to second place in the cutthroat DMC emceeing championships. While his brother Jody went off to pursue dreams of becoming a world-renowned deep house DJ/producer SJ Esau was busy carving out the most unique of existences for himself. Through a number of band incarnations, various solo explorations and ongoing collaborative projects, SJ has developed his own carefully constructed brand of chaos which neither repeats itself nor spins wild beyond the realm of comprehension.

With three and a half SJ Esau LPs under his belt (plus Stop Touching My Cat, a compilation of reworked SJ originals featuring WHY? among others), Wisternoff brought his impressive body of work to Anticon in 2007, releasing the internationally ballyhooed Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse. In 2008, he returned with Small Vessel, and in May this year he released covers record The Gist which promises to “ruin” the works of They Might Be Giants, Broadcast, Deerhoof and more.

Of course, some constants have remained throughout: Sam Wisternoff still lives in Bristol, and is surrounded by a still under-publicized community of hard-working artists poised to start a revolution in sound. He has two cats (who occasionally provide backing vocals), admires the works of Kurt Vonnegut, and is usually confused, which seems to work out just fine for the rest of us.

SJ Esau - "Part Of A Diagram"

SJ Esau - "Part Of A Diagram" from anticon. on Vimeo.

SJ Esau - "The Wrong Order"


SJ Esau Myspace

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Autumn Owls and Drunken Boat play a double headline in Twister Pepper on Thursday, 30 July and we have a double pass to giveaway and as well as a drunken boat cd and autumn owls ep "On The Trail Of The Disappearing" to the winner.
All you have to do is email us @ egoeccentric@live.com with the subject Autumn Owls/Drunken Boat and we will pick the winner at random.

Autumn Owls have their gig-feet firmly back on after a brief hibernation period while Gary McFarlane (guitar, vocals) and Will Purtill (drums, percussion) trained up two new recruits.
Paul Bermingham on guitar and keys with Niall Jackson taking over bass duties.
Having independently recorded and released not one, but two widely acclaimed E.P's in 2008 (Insomnia Lodge/ On The Trail of The Disappearing) , 2009 has been somewhat of a quiet year so far. However with their debut album a work in progress and recording expected to start in September catch their dark, experimental but melodic tones at one of their many shows over the next month to catch up.


Drunken Boat have been keeping busy for the last few months headlining in Anseo with Red Eskimo and Peter Delaney, supporting At Last An Atlas and then The Hollows for their EP launch in Dublin and Galway. They've played with heroes Joan of Arc and Love of Everything from Chicago and supported The Jimmy Cake in addition to slots in Seomra Spraoi and Whelans. After their gigs with Autumn Owls they plan to head to the studio in September to record a full length album of soothing folky rock and experimentation!

The debut mini-album "Cut the Engines, Raise the Sails" is available in Road Records, Tower, Amazon MP3 and iTunes.

www.myspace.com/autumnowls
www.myspace.com/drunkenboattunes

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Mark Kozelek frontman of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters plays Andrews Lane Theatre on the 23rd and we have a double pass to giveaway. All you have to do is email us @ egoeccentric@live.com with the subject of the email as Mark Kozelek competition and we will pick a name out of the e-hat as the winner , its couldnt be easier

Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon / Red House Painters)
Katie Kim

Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin

Doors 8.00pm

thanks to word of mouth for the tickets
Tickets €20 available from ticketmaster outlets, WAV, City Discs, www.tickets.ie & Plugd Records

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Prefuse 73 plays Whelan’s, Sunday July 12th, with Diamond Watch Wrists , and we've got a double pass to give away for the show.
And all you have to do it answer the simple question
Name the record label which is currently run by Scott Herren (Prefuse 73)and has Eliot Lipp, Icy Demons,The Exposures and Daedelus on its roster ?

email us the answer to egoeccentric@live.com with the subject Prefuse 73 Competition
thanks again to the good folk at foggy notions for giving us the tickets to give away

Tickets available from www.tickets.ie, WAV box office [lo-call 1890 200 078], City Discs, Sound Cellar & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.

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Deerhoof play Whelan’s, Friday July 10th, with special guests Abedisi Shank , and we've got a double pass to give away for the show.

And all you have to do it answer the simple question
Name the record label deerhoof have been on for the entirety of their career ?

email us the answer to egoeccentric@live.com with the subject Deerhoof Competition

Tickets available from www.tickets.ie, WAV box office [lo-call 1890 200 078], City Discs, Sound Cellar & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.

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The In Rainbows Animated Video Contest (to help raise Aniboom awareness)is down to 13 finalists.The winner will have their video an official Radiohead video and also $10,000.
check out the little widget thingy in the read more.



also Gene Simmon from KISS thinks Radiohead are killing the music business.
"The record industry is dead. It's six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They've decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we're going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilised. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we'll record new material."

he also thinks that Radioheads live show is boring to watch.
"I admire bands like Radiohead, but the idea of being that serious? Fuck that, get up on stage and blow shit up! Bands that stand by their microphones and strum their guitars are forgetting one important point - people are bringing their eyes, it's audio and visual. If you're not fulfilling the visual part, it's like watching a movie with your eyes closed.

"One of the biggest compliments we get is [people saying], 'I fucking hate their music but that's the best show I ever saw in my life'."

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Because we love you all so much here and we love to give you free stuff for free we are going to give away some free stuff for...um...free.

The Minutes are a three piece from Dublin who have gigged all over the shop in various incarnations until forming their current band a year or so ago. They've just been signed to Universals digital platform with whom they are releasing their debut single “Harmonic” which is, as the old saying goes, catchy as fuck.

To celebrate this release of single-ness they will play Crawdaddy on the 7th of May and they've given us two tickets for the gig. So do the whole click here thing and enter your name and email address and whoever gets picked out of our top hat (of doom) will get to go there gratis.

Click here for their Myspace and below for some tuneage.



The Minutes - Ukraine

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Aussie singer, songwriter, sometime zero7 collaborator & possible mentalist Sia (whom I like) is coming to Dublin's Crawdaddy on April 15th.

For people who like free stuff, you can text SIACRAW to 57778 and be in with a chance of winning two tickets. As usual with free stuff, terms and conditions apply- they're in the read-more.

While you're checking those out, here's Sia being weird on Jimmy Kimmel:




Deep breath....

Competition closes 5pm 11th April 2008 winners will be notified by phone. Entry is free but may (read- will) incur standard text message cost. Your number will be added to the Sia mobile fan club. For support or help e-mail support@indie-mobile.com

Good luck..

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The following people are the winners of our Beck competition:

Gillan Rowley

Colm Dodd

Ruadhan O'Meara

Jason Gilroy

Andrew McCarthy

The lack of women is indicative of our catchment but congrats to all. All have been contacted by email and details looked for so they can be sent out.
Keep tuned and we'll have another competition up pretty soon

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Our savage Beck competition where you can win one of the Deluxe editions of the album pictured on the right ends at the end of the week so make sure that you get clicking here to enter n'stuff or click on the banner thingy at the side of the page.

And if you really feel the need to draw on the cover of Odelay then you can go here and do just that with all the interactive madness and all


In the meantime enjoy some Beck right now.
The New Pollution

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Woo Hoo!

To tie in with the Off The Cuff posting which you've probably just read, we're gonna run a competition, because everyone likes free stuff.

Story of Hair have been nice enough to hook us up with a few tickets to their performance at the Murphys Live event on Thursday, which also features Ham Sandwich & Stagger Lee.

The show is in Crawdaddy, and rumor has it there'll be free Murphys going, so you'd be crazy to miss it!

To bag some passes, all you have to do is drop us an email with 'Story of Hair' in the subject line to egoeccentric@live.com

We'll pull a few names out of a hat or whatever we can find that resembles a hat, and notify the winners by email.

So good luck, and get emailing!

In other Story of Hair news, the band will be appearing on Edel Coffey's Access All Areas show on Phantom FM this Wednesday. Check em out!

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No you didn't read it incorrectly. This is not bullshit. We here at egoeccentric love you guys so much that we have bribed Universal music into letting us give away some of their stuff- and because the Deluxe edition of Beck's Odelay is out soon, we are doing precisely that.

Click here to enter or even click on the banner ad on the right hand side of the page. And if you've ever wanted to design your own version of the album cover or even watch the Devil's Haircut video then go to the ecard here for fun and frolics


If you haven't got your hands on any of these deluxe editions that are going around over the last few years then you'd be well advised to check some of them out. Other awesome editions include Jeff Buckley's Grace, The Who's Who's Next, Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral and Sonic Youth's Dirty and Goo. All of which come with b-sides and other cool shit.

If you haven't heard and played Odelay to death at this stage then stop reading now and go and get listening because it is without doubt one of the seminal albums of the 90's.

You've got until the 14th or March to get to the link again (here in case you forgot to do it above) and enter or if you really can't wait that long then go to umusic tomorrow to download and pay for it. Which is what you should be doing anyway.

Here's a classic cut from the album in question. Where it's at:

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