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  • irishtimes.com - Posted: October 29, 2009 @ 10:24 am

    Homelights Festival, Dublin, November

    Jim Carroll

    A smashing line-up for the four night Adrian Crowley and Foggy Notions-curated Homelights fest at Dublin’s Whelan’s. The act which stands out for me on the weekend bill is the fantastic Vashti Bunyan on November 29, but there are plenty of others here to tempt you out from your TV.

    The full line-up is as follows: solo performance from Adrian Crowley and collaborations with various friends (November 27, tickets €12); Adrian Crowley and band, James Yorkston, Adem and Alasdair Roberts (November 28 from 3pm, tickets €20); Vashti Bunyan, Andy Irvine, Minotaur Shock, Lord Cut-Glass and Adrian Crowley with Geese (November 29; tickets €25) and Dosh, Hulk and guests (November 30, tickets €15). All the above tickets – and limited weekend tickets at €45 a pop – are available here.

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    • 13 Comments

    1.
    October 29, 2009
    10:42 am

    That looks really good in places. I think the November 30th gig is the one that most appeals to me.

    Also piquing my interest is this Norman Blake/Euros Childs gig on Saturday, really like this tune they did together.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD85ztEncEM

    Comment by Ian
    2.
    October 29, 2009
    10:42 am

    Oh excellent. Very excited about Vashti, hoping his old tour buddies Vetiver can make an appearance somewhere too

    Comment by flynnduism
    3.
    October 29, 2009
    10:43 am

    Ian – v excited about Vashti Bunyan on the bill – and that last Minotaur Shock album was the business.

    Memo to self: put up that interview you did with Vashti about trying to buy a farm in Co Galway

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    4.
    October 29, 2009
    10:50 am

    Vashti Bunyan? Wow, excellent! Anyone notice they used Just Another Diamond Day (the song) in ‘Away We Go’ during the scene where the couple visit Maggie Gyllenhall’s hippie character LN?

    Comment by sweetoblivion
    5.
    October 29, 2009
    12:10 pm

    Oooh, Minotaur Shock! One of their/its tracks, “Vigo Bay”, is on the Colette No.7 compilation from Colette Paris (the shop, not me) and I think Karl Largerfeld put it on the compilation that he gathered/put his name to for Colette Paris also. It’s a fine tune.

    Comment by Colette C.
    6.
    October 29, 2009
    12:45 pm

    That’s a fine line-up – Andy Irvine must have reached “national treasure” status by now. Anybody know what the new Alasdair Roberts album is like? He had a fine album called “Farewell Sorrow” a while back but I’ve let him slip off the radar since.

    Comment by brian
    7.
    October 29, 2009
    2:19 pm

    Re:Vashti – cool, got my tickets

    Comment by Peter81
    8.
    October 29, 2009
    6:03 pm

    thanks for the plug Jim

    tickets here: http://www.tickets.ie/homelights

    Leagues

    Comment by leagues
    9.
    October 29, 2009
    6:49 pm

    Minotaur Shock’s last album was brilliant altogether, one of the best of 08. Nice excuse to dig it out of the digital depths. That’s a decent set of shindigs that is. Away We Go annoyed me, noticed the Vashti Bunyan used as short hand for freakiy hippie too.

    Comment by Major Alfonso
    10.
    October 30, 2009
    11:24 pm

    looks utterly ace. Adem Ilhan is an inexplicably overlooked songwriter. His two albums are solid gold from start to finish.

    Comment by Darragh
    11.
    November 2, 2009
    5:07 pm

    think flynnduism is getting mixed up with devendra banhart…

    ali roberts new album is fantastic… farewell sorrow is an all time fave and i really hope people turn out to see him… last time he was in dublin there were about 30 people there… may have alex neilson drumming also…

    adrian crowley is a big friend of the fence collective and is trying to model this festival on their homegame which is undoubtedly one of the most special festivals in this wee world…

    Comment by Ally
    12.
    November 2, 2009
    5:35 pm

    Hey Ally, Didn’t AC tour with Vetiver last year? I seem to remember reading it here on a tour diary. This should be great.

    Comment by nat
    13.
    November 2, 2009
    5:38 pm

    i’m not sure nat… he may well have done…

    with a bit of luck, AC or JY will convince KC or PT to come along for the ride too…

    Comment by Ally

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