Oh no, gig clash crisis for me.
Director -v- Hypnotic Brass Band Ensemble.
Damn it!

really looking forward to Mayer Hawthorne’s album in october.. From what i’ve heard already I’m bloody loving.. His voice and just the general sound of his tracks reminds me alot of Andrew Thompson

Jim – hopefully they’ll do a street show this time around, they usually do when they play here I think. One of my friends bought one of their CDRs that year (this was back in 2003 ) – I keep ‘hinting’ that she should maybe try and find it! I did a blog post on the old blog about when I discovered that Hypnotic and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble were the same thing: http://sweetoblivionlovesmusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/hypnotic-brass-ensemble.html
Apparently there’s a documentary being made about them. Their dad was in the Sun Ra Arkestra, so they come from talented stock.

Dam Funk’s worth following on twitter – http://www.twitter.com/damfunk – as his tweets are a bit silly but he sometimes links to different tracks. Have high high hopes for his set. Stones Throw, the label he’s on, are at http://www.twitter.com/stonesthrow

had to throw this up…

always try our best to make a street show happen…this is from Dec 07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjhPT62tr3k

Regards hypnotic every show that they played in Ireland last year was accompanied by a free outdoor ‘taster’ performance. They played a few tracks on Cruises Street in Limerick on a cold Sunday evening in early December. Never saw what was a very dead street (it was closing time) fill up so fast. They played indoors later, some video from it here
http://short.ie/hypnotic

Am a bit morto I didn’t see either of those reviews, I do read the Ticket, I swear
Will check out that group, thanks for the rec. Sounds right up my street.

Those videos are amazing!

It’s the noughties equivalent of the hula hoop, only with less ‘interaction.’

nerraw –

To be perfectly honest, OTR keeps me busy as things stand without adding another strand to things – and I really don’t have any desire to keep people uptodate with what I’m doing all day.

However, it’s really noticable of late how many Irish bloggers have embraced Twitter full-on and abandoned their blogs because it’s much easier to do 140 chars than write a post. The number of uptodate Irish blogs must be really falling. But when I see the reaction here to recent posts like the ones on 2fm and Irish bands whinging about reviews, I’m happy to be old-fashioned and stick with blogging for a while longer. Yes, I’m sure you can have and do both – but like Facebook, it just ain’t for me.

sweetoblivion – no, as I said above, you can do both but I know I’m not alone in noticing that the number of blog posts in feed readers have really nosedived of late as some bloggers abandon their blogs and turn to Tweeting instead. Nothing wrong with that – no doubt, the good blogs will survive (and thrive) – but it is worth pointing out.

In fact, veteran Irish blogger Bernie Goldbach was on about the same thing yesterday – http://www.insideview.ie/irisheyes/2009/08/blogging-lifestyle.html

“What’s unfortunate is how blogging itself is sliding down the scale of community connectivity, replaced by the instantism of Twitter and the group hugs of Facebook.”

sweetoblivion – absolutely – and no doubt, the new Twitter is currently also around the corner. What I find interesting is that people who were 24/7 blogging evangalists have now moved onto hawking Twitter and will no doubt move on to flog something else when the time comes.

What they forget as they flirt along like a teenager at a disco is that what’s important is the message and not the medium.You can blog and Tweet and Facebook and Bebo all you like but if you’re not actually saying/sharing/communicating/contributing something interesting, it’s really just babble.

I think we just said pretty much the same thing there…so another argument averted on OTR!

“I forsee a severe case of Irritable Vowel Syndrome if that comes to pass”

snarf!

There’s definitely been a dearth of new Irish music blogs in the last year, not sure if it’s related to Twitter or the shininess of the new fading or what. Pretty disappointing I think. Any possible virtual community that existed there has fractured out into a combination of Twitter, facebook and blogs and they haven’t really been replaced.

And If I see one more newspaper article on Twitter saying something along the lines of “it’s just a soapbox for idiots, the vain and the inane” like that Sunday times article over the weekend, i’ll puke.

Graham Linehan wrote about this last week
http://glinner.posterous.com/the-conversation-23

Twitter is great for sharing news bits, links, recommendations etc but I ain’t giving up the blog just yet.

nialler9 – good to hear!

I think your man in the Sunday Times was probably bitter ‘cos you’d never written about his band The West Seventies

I have one of those old Hypnotic Brass Ensemble CDR’s in the gaff. I’ll check out which one it is and report back. I mentioned before somewhere that their gig in Battlebridge, Co Leitrim last year was brilliant. They got off the stage (a lorry in a car park) and hugged all the ladies in the audience (about 4 of them). On another aside they all have the same Dad, Phil Cohran (except for the drummer) but there’s three different mothers involved (hence my confusion when originally seeing there were a variety of surnames on the credits).

i take it promo copies of Mayer’s album has leaked then, yeah?

For shame!

Also by the looks of things on the non-official EP timetable. It seems quantic and HBE will be clashing by a half hour

That Cork HBE show is the same night as the Sun Ra Arkestra / Bad Plus double bill.

I’m taking that non-official EP timetable with a vat of sodium chloride

Of course the organisers could avoid all the rumour, speculation and uncertainty for the people giving them €240 by announcing the times themselves rather than leave it until the last minute to boost sales of their laminates.

Dan Deacon not playing the Picnic, apparently he was never confirmed in the first place.

that’s pretty bad form from the Picnic. http://guesslist.ie/2009/08/dan-deacon-is-not-playing-electric-picnic/

According to EP facebook, times are released on Wednesday.

Toddla T is playing in the Bacardi B bar but not sure what time.

Dan Deacon not playing EP now, some snafu on the booking

OC – wouldn’t presume anything with these cowboys

Jim – no I think i should probably stop now. i’m maybe being a bit harsh.

it’s just that they’ve subtly removed him from the official line-up today,without a word of explanation on their website…think there was a similar incident with the Waterboys last year? just think it’s poor form, a press release would be nice. some people probably won’t find out til they pay 20 quid for their timetable. have you any idea whose balls-up it is, incidentally? Deacon reckons it’s not his.

re the Waterboys – http://www.electricpicnic.ie/press/press_20080611.html

skim through that and you’ll see them

daniel – i sit corrected and bow to your superior knowledge of past EP line-ups. Goes to show u that I hardly noticed they were on the line-up to begin with.

As for DD, who knows? Maybe the jig is up and there are only so many times you can play Ireland with the same Sesame Street schtick.

I’ve also just looked at his MySpace as referenced above and can’t find that announcement – anyone got a direct link to it rather than a link saying what it is?

daniel – as I said above, there is no sign of this message on DD’s MySpace. Do u have a link to it?

Dude appears to be playing in LA instead – http://www.songkick.com/concerts/2504781-save-our-state-parks-at-los-angeles-state-historic-park – when was that gig confirmed? Did he get a better offer?

Fact is that bulletin is not now on his MySpace so where did it go? Did it exist? Are their sinister forces taking him over, forcing him to confirm gigs and then forget that he was actually meant to be in LA that same night? If the gig wasn’t confirmed, how come good ol’ DD also confirmed a Body & Soul gig as well? Does DD actually exist or is he a figment of your imagination? What do the CIA and FBI have to say about all this? You say it’s not the end of the world but how do u know that?

Man, I shouldn’t have had that double espresso

Very strange that the message is not there now – most recent message dates jan 09 – and that there is no link from other sources direct to the bulletin. Wonder was DD reminded that Irish gigs pay his bills and to stop belly-aching?

Anyway, EP 09 is down a man – I wonder are aslan free to stand in?

P&M – cheers dude! That book looks like it will be published next year, though he is still writing it.

Ivor the Hypnotic Brass gig in Cork is a late show so won’t clash directly with the earlier double bill! Nile Rogers next week should be great, ahead of the autobiography there is a good biography about Chic worth reading called “Everybody Dance” widely available. Also, since i’m here, i might aswell plug that Dixon, Theo Parrish, Greg Wilson, King Britt and many more are all heading to the Pavilion too.
My favourite Hypnotic Brass memory so far was of the first time they played in Cork. We all went to the Jay Z show where I was warming up and I was driving some of the lads back into the venue and everytime we stopped at lights the guys were handing out flyers and chatting up women hustling them to the show (suprised i didn’t get penalty points)
At a recent Galway show we were all staying at the same hotel and having left the after-party at around 5am i was breakfasting with my wife and baby daughter at 12 am when the lads started floating back (they subsequently missed their flights back to the States which cost them a fortune!)
On stage though, they are immense, one of my favourite live bands. Oh yeah, by the way, Twitter is dead handy!
Have a nice weekend
Stevie