After the !!! gig in Whelans on wednesday night the good folk from U:mack are throwing a party upstairs in whelans.DJing at the party will be Tyler Pope of !!! and formerly of LCD sound system, who rocked it at the last !!! after show in kennedys. Also playing are Skinny Wolves, and the u:mack DJ's. Should be the perfect thing after sweating to !!!.

!!! (chk chk chk) aftershow party
DJ Tyler Pope (!!!)
Skinny Wolves & u:mack DJ's
Free Admission to !!! audience
limited capacity
upstairs at Whelans
11.15 wednesday July 8

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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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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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Tickets available on the door for shellac's gig in the button factory tonight!!

U:MACK
presents
Shellac
+ HTRK
Tuesday 28 October
The Button Factory

TICKETS €20 from Road Records, City Discs, Spindizzy, Sound Cellar & online at www.tickets.ie/umack


Shellac - The End Of Radio

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U;Mack has done it again and made me a giddy school girl with their line up of upcoming gigs so heres the lowdown

The Melvins return to Dublin with their buddies Big Business & Porn on Saturday October 4! Their amazing new record “Nude with Boots” is out now on ipecac.
Math Rock pioneers Don Caballero make their debut Irish appearance in Crawdaddy on Friday November 14. Their new album “Punkgasm” is out now on Relapse Records.
And venue still to be announced but These Arms Are Snakes & Russian Circles play Dublin on wed November 19th (fuck yeah i was thinking about heading over to Engerland to try catch one of their shows over there)

(full details in the read more)


U:MACK present
MELVINS
BIG BUSINESS
PORN
Saturday 4 october
The Button Factory
DOORS 7.30pm (early show)
TICKETS €24 from Road Records, City Discs, Spindizzy, Sound Cellar and online at www.tickets.ie/umack

The Melvins - "Suicide In Progress"


U:MACK present
DON CABALLERO
Friday november 14
Crawdaddy
DOORS 7.30pm (early show)
TICKETS €16 from Road Records, City Discs, Spindizzy, Sound Cellar and online at www.tickets.ie/umack

Don Caballero- Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex (new line-up playing old tune)


Born of the ashes of seminal art thrashers Botch and Minneapolis punk heroes Kill Sadie, Seattle’s These Arms are Snakes are fast-becoming an integral part of the Pacific Northwest’s ever-dynamic musical fabric. Employing sinister guitar licks mixed with equal parts snarly vocals and a penchant for spaced out musical long form - has painted the buzz heavy Snakes as anything but conventional. The band has toured endlessly, plastering both coasts with their livid live shows and with their eyes squarely focused on progressing and challenging all the current notions of hardcore, These Arms are Snakes are now poised to take their game to the next level – bringing all the passion and promise of their previous endeavors to splendid completion.These Arms Are Snakes will release their third album, Tall Swallower & Dove, via Suicide Squeeze on October 6.

These Arms Are Snakes "Horse Girl"


Russian Circles is a three piece instrumental post-metal/post-rock band from Chicago. Similar to fellow Chicago residents Pelican, Russian Circles play epic, sprawling music which runs the gamut of heavy discordant metal to soft delicate passages. They are also known for their energetic live shows.Formed in late 2004 by guitarist Mike Sullivan and bassist Colin DeKuiper (both formerly of another instrumental band Dakota/Dakota), they quickly recruited Dave Turncrantz, formerly of St. Louis band Riddle of Steel. In 2007 DeKuiper departed the band and Brian Cook (These Arms Are Snakes and Botch) took on the role of bass player for the writing and recording of their newest album, entitled ‘Station,’ recorded in Seattle with Producer Matt Bayles.

Russian Circles - "Enter"

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u:mack
Present
Doug Stanhope
Thursday 04 September
The Button Factory
Doors 8pm
Tickets €20 FROM ROAD RECORDS, CITY DISCS, SOUND
CELLAR, SPINDIZZY & ONLINE AT www.tickets.ie/umack

Doug Stanhope on Immigration



www.myspace.com/dougstanhope

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U:Mack continue their path of bringing excellent music to the country at an affordable price. The fact that they have managed to somehow get around the monopoly created by other prickish organisations is commendable indeed and the fact that they've managed to get three awesome bands together in one venue warms the cockles of my cold heart.

Click on the read more for analysis of each.





It didn't make things any easier for the later bands that the most enjoyable part of the night for me was the opening act Chrome Hoof. Filling in for Liars who just had to run off and support Radiohead on their U.S. tour, the Hoof put on one of those performances that make you stare hard with jaw dropped and a puzzled but pleasured expression on your face. Its hard to describe exactly what it is that I saw on that stage but its certainly something that isn't for everyone. Not everybody will dig their combination of funk/punk/post-rock/electro/metal but those people are all fucked up in their mind-thoughts. Won't be missing these punters again.



It unfortunate that The Redneck Manifesto had to follow the Hoof because as good as they are (and they are very very good)- it isn't the first time I've seen them, so the surprise element isn't there. That being said they put on as great a show as they always do.



Despite the fact that this is probably about the 5th time in the last 18 months that Battles have played Dublin its still the first time I've had the pleasure of checking them out. Even after playing "Mirrored" to death all the songs they crack out seem as fresh as the the first time that I heard them. Its hard to believe that 4 men can make that kind of chaotic yet beautiful noise but they manage it. There were a few complaints from those accompanying me that perhaps they shouldn't have played their more recognisable songs like "Tonto" and "Atlas" so early on in the set but to those folks I say "Why should they pander to your preconceptions? They're Battles. They can do whatever the fuck they want".

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Tonight, Skinny Wolves are hosting a club night with New York City's favorite progressive psychedelic noiseniks, EX MODELS!
But also tonight U:mack have Pissed jeanswho bring there brutal, beautiful feedback-drenched riffs to Whelans (they where amazing at ATP)
The gigs will be staggered from what i hear so that pissed jeans will be finihed before Ex Models will be on stage so if you run from Whelans to Transformer you will be able to see both
so Pissed Jeans is on in Whelans starting at eight costing €16.00 with support from Oak and Boom Jackson

And Ex Models is on in Transformer Venue, (new venue below Thomas Reads).
Doors 8.30 until 2.30 - (Bands, 9.00 - 12 midnight)
ADM : 10euro (8e if you are coming from Pissed Jeans with a stamp/ticket)
Followed by Skinny Wolves Club
w/ Skinny Wolves & guest DJs (Willie Jones - Oak /Stitchy Press) till 2:30

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Tsuyama Atsushi has been hospitalised with a lymph node infection and will not be able to perform at tonights concert. Yoshida Tatsuya & Kawabata Makoto have been performing the last few nights of the Japanese New Music Festival on their own, and the reports are that the shows have been magnificent! Instead of 7 sets, the guys will be performing four extended sets, details in the read more.


1.
Akaten

2.
Ruins alone

3.
Kawabata Solo

4.
Acid Mothers Temple SWR ( as a duo with sampler and Bass loop)



KAWABATA MAKOTO solo
Kawabata Makoto is best known for his speed-demon noise-fuzz guitar in Acid Mothers Temple, but he is also widely active as an unparalleled drone guitarist. Drawing upon a huge reservoir of original techniques including metal glissando and bow-work that can summon up the sound of a string ensemble or orchestra, his work in this area cannot be simply categorized as minimal, drone or experimental. You'll find it hard to believe that a single guitar can create sonic worlds of such meditative and elegant depth.



RUINS ALONE (Yoshida Tatsuya solo)
Yoshida is one of the most innovative drummer/composer/improviser in Japan's new music scene. pioneer of Drum & Bass duo RUINS was founded by Yoshida in '85 . Tunes are complicated and mysterious, and songs are sung in the language of their own invention. It's high-tension, wild, heavy, speedy, acute, and powerful tremendous ensemble never sounds like they are only two players. now RUINS had no bassist and currently he has been playing as RUINS ALONE. playing RUINS songs with sampling bass.



ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR (Kawabata/Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Acid Mothers Temple have rapidly become acclaimed as the greatest, most extreme trip psychedelic group in the world. Releases have appeared on labels around the world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. SWR is the AMT Family's most powerful battle-formation yet. featuring Kawabata and Yoshida from Ruins. their crushingly acute freakout sound will pulverize the world's legions of wannabe psych groups.

JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
Featuring Acid Mothers Temple & Ruins
TUESDAY APRIL 29
WHELANS OF WEXFORD STREET

DOORS 8pm
TICKETS €16 FROM CITY DISCS, SOUND CELLAR, SPINDIZZY, WAV BOX OFFICE 1890 200078 & ONLINE AT www.tickets.ie/umack

TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR

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U:mack have announced a replacement for the Battles & Red Neck Manifesto gig on May 15 and that replacement is the mighty Chrome Hoof.

Anyone who saw Chrome Hoof in Whelans last month will know what a show they put on, and that they really are not to be missed.


U:MACK
Present
BATTLES
CHROME HOOF
THE REDNECK MANIFESTO
THURSDAY MAY 15
VICAR STREET
DOORS 7pm
TICKETS €27 FROM ROAD RECORDS, CITY DISCS, SOUND
CELLAR, SPINDIZZY & ONLINE AT www. tickets. ie/umack

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Dirty Projectors have been added to Battles and Fuck Buttons ATP show in London on the 14th of May as replacement to Liars ,this show is a day before the U:mack gig in Vicar street with battles and Redneck manifesto that Liars pulled out of.
mmmmm will U:mack bring Dirty Projectors over too ?
who do you think U:mack should get to fill the slot ???

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JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL is a live project
featuring:-Yoshida Tatsuya (RUINS)
-Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple)
-Tsuyama Atsushi (Acid Mothers Temple)
3 musicians playing 7 different projects in one night..
full info in the read more



JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008

TSUYAMA ATSUSHI solo
Tsuyama is best known for his monster bass in Acid Mothers Temple,but he also has amazing technique of guitar and vocal.He has travelled around the world and accumulated the traditional styles of guitars/vocals in europe and asia. he adds his own interpretations and lyrical sense to create a beautiful but odd "fake traditional" musical world. recently he developed a new figure called "prog.rock >
blues-ization plan". he dismantle the masterpiece of progressive rock, and restructure it as an impromptu blues.

KAWABATA MAKOTO solo
Kawabata Makoto is best known for his speed-demon noise-fuzz guitar in Acid Mothers Temple, but he is also widely active as an unparalleled drone guitarist. Drawing upon a huge reservoir of original techniques including metal glissando and bow-work that can summon up the sound of a string ensemble or orchestra, his work in this area cannot be simply categorized as minimal, drone or experimental. You'll find it hard to believe that a single guitar can create sonic worlds of such meditative and elegant depth.

RUINS ALONE (Yoshida Tatsuya solo)
Yoshida is one of the most innovative drummer/composer/improviser in Japan's new music scene. pioneer of Drum & Bass duo RUINS was founded by Yoshida in '85 . Tunes are complicated and mysterious, and songs are sung in the language of their own invention. It's high-tension, wild, heavy, speedy, acute, and powerful tremendous
ensemble never sounds like they are only two players. now RUINS had no bassist and
currently he has been playing as RUINS ALONE. playing RUINS songs with sampling bass.

ZUBI ZUVA X (Yoshida/Tsuyama/Kawabata)
Eccentric poly-rhythmic a cappella ensemble. It covers from Gregorian chant to ethnic music, to do-wop to hardcore screaming, heavily using irregular rhythms and polyrhythm. All sorts of ideas and aberrant musicality overturn the image of a cappella. their totally meaningless lyrics and desperate performances throw the audiences into the abyss of the laughter and admiration. it makes the concept
of "singing ability"nonsense.

AKATEN (Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Formed in 1995 with the motto of "irresponsibleness" and "perfunctoriness." They easily free themselves from the spell of the traditional seriousness of the art. Using daily commodities like scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera, and plastic
bottle as percussions, and shouting their brand names over and
over as the "songs," the show is performed under the concept of low cost and
maximum sound effect. AKATEN is the experimental convenience store
punk band that provides the sound images of cheap and simple daily lives.

ZOFFY (Tsuyama/Kawabata)
Formed in 1998. Zoffy's music hints both at the members' deep musical knowledge via their improvised performances of troubadour music and European trad, and also at their deep love for rock via their destructivist covers of classic rock songs, that
no longer sounds like anything but ZOFFY. The group believes that humor is essential in music, and their unprecedented performances stray far from the beaten track. Is this the Ultima Thule that rock music has long been aiming for?

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR (Kawabata/Tsuyama/Yoshida)
Acid Mothers Temple have rapidly become acclaimed as the greatest, most extreme trip psychedelic group in the world. Releases have appeared on labels around the world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. SWR is the AMT Family's most powerful battle-formation
yet. featuring Tsuyama and Kawabata from the original AMT and
Yoshida from Ruins. their crushingly acute freakout sound will pulverize the world's legions of wannabe psych groups.

U:MACK
Present
JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL (Featururing Acid Mothers Temple & Ruins)
TUESDAY APRIL 29 WHELANS OF WEXFORD STREET
DOORS 8pm
TICKETS €16
FROM ROAD RECORDS, CITY DISCS, SOUND
CELLAR, SPINDIZZY, WAV BOX OFFICE 1890 200078 & ONLINE
AT www.tickets.ie/umack

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE- SWR


RUINS - Alone


Acid Mothers Temple vs. Ruins

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Two more gigs on the horizon thanks to them folks at u:mack


first its pissed jeans on the 14th of may in Whelans.
And then its the turn of Japanese noise rockers Melt-Banana on the 20 June in Crawdaddy , both of theses bands are meant to be mind blowing live so get your tickets and prepare to have your face melted.
below is a sample of them both live , enjoy

pissed jeans - Closet Marine



melt-banana -Shield for your eyes, A Beast in the Well

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