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  • Thank plug it’s Friday

    November 13, 2009 @ 2:13 am | by Jim Carroll

    In The Ticket this week, 50 Cent tells us why it’s tough out there this weather for a hip-hop playa, we profile a new DIY guide for girls who want to rock and Cymbals Eat Guitars share the contents of their rider with us

    There’s New Music hip-hip-hurrahs for Free Energy, C!ties, Slow Motion Heroes, Traz and Percolator, while the Music News has stories on Other Voices, Autobahn’s Mad Hatters Ball and Fucked Up and friends doing their version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

    Album of the week comes from Michael Nyman and David McAlmont (a glorious collaboration) and there are also reviews of releases from Twinkranes, Ceu, St Catherine’s Homes for Lazy Infants, Tori Amos, JLS, Noelie McDonnell, The Mountain Goats, Keith Jarrett and many more.

    New flicks for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure) include The White Ribbons, 2012, Harry Brown, Cold Souls, Amelia, Taking Woodstock and Tulpan. Plus movie news, DVD reviews and the weekly quiz to make you realise you don’t know as much as Donald Clarke.

    All this AND - ta-dah - the finest guide to going out in the land.

    The Ticket: flying high every Friday

    This is probably (with a bit of luck) the only OTR plugs post which will ever be written in Newark Airport, New Jersey. We’re en route to Canada for the Music Newfoundland and Labrador conference, but the weather has meant flights are delayed and I’ve found out more about this airport than I ever really wanted to know. Rang Bruce to see if he wanted to do lunch, but the dude was out. Still, found this reminder of the aul’ sod while I was wandering around trying to stay awake….

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    The OTR plugs service is open for business. Plug and recommend away to your heart’s content, but remember to declare an interest where one should be declared. Please note that plugs are accepted on the whim of OTR and may be edited for length/clarity/common sense. Events with a commercial sponsor are really ads and will probably not be published in this slot. Please note that I’m a couple of thousand miles away so comments will not be updated until the afternoon. Over and out.

    • 21 Comments »

    1.
    November 13, 2009
    9:47 am

    Labrador conference, if you the dulux dog is giving a speech will you get his autograph for me? :)

    Comment by petee
    2.
    November 13, 2009
    10:24 am

    The IDA is running a big print and tv campaign in the US right now - the NY Times carried a feature on it last month.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/business/media/19adnewsletter1.html?_r=1

    “Privileged class of innovators”? Ho ho.

    In defence of Newark airport, it’s got a Krispy Kreme stand AND a Brooklyn Brewery bar. Beat that, JFK.

    Comment by Fiona
    3.
    November 13, 2009
    12:01 pm

    Mark Eitzel playing Tobergal lane in Sligo tonight
    DOI: want to see more proper live music in Sligo instead of the normal Brendan Bowyer stuff that is normally on

    Comment by Feathers McGraw
    4.
    November 13, 2009
    12:46 pm

    Susie Soho follow up the release of our debut single, Spinning Top, with a gig tonight in The Odessa Club.
    Doors are at 8pm, we hope to see you there!

    Comment by Susie Soho
    5.
    November 13, 2009
    1:11 pm

    Ok might aswell start pluggin!

    I run the Pavilion in Cork and we are celebrating 12 years of the Revelation Sound System tonight Jeremiah & Benjamin joined by Prof. Ruff Chuff & Mr.Brown (Wiggle)
    with Cian Finn & Fyahred (Intinn, Italics) ,Dub Investigation (Dublin)
    and Hakuna Matata Acrobatics (Cork)

    VJ Present (Wiggle)
    Visual journey with VJ PresenT

    Tomorrow Shane Johnson spins in Go Deep while next week himself and Greg Dowling celebrate their 21st birthday party!!!!!! The Birthday sold out in a day but part two on Sunday week is pay on the door (10 euro) and will feature local DJ’s aswell (Shane Linehan, Tall Keith and Adam Dunbar)

    Beforehand there is a DUKE SPECIAL show as part of the Murphys Little Big Nights Out

    This Sunday it’s FRESH AIR LIVE featuring…
    KATIE KIM + SPILLY WALKER + DONAL DINEEN

    Have a great weekend, get those plastic inflatable green hammers blown up we are going to South Africa!

    Comment by Stevie G
    6.
    November 13, 2009
    1:46 pm

    Popical Island gig this Saturday upstairs in Whelan’s: Jonny Fun and the….Hesitations launch their debut album Carpe P.M

    Support comes from Mumblin’ Deaf Ro & Sean Lynch.

    Come and have a listen if you think you’re fun enough. http://www.myspace.com/loveandlime

    DOI: Island-master at Popical Island http//:www.myspace.com/popicalisland

    Comment by Mike
    7.
    November 13, 2009
    1:55 pm

    Tonight at Twisted Pepper!!

    MUD: Reach Present FANU, DJ TRAX & FRACTURE // EXXON VALDEZ

    Serious night of Drum n Bass for the heads this Friday 14th November with a triple header featuring some of the most exciting producers on the underground scene - Finland’s Fanu and UK’s DJ Trax & Fracture.

    Upstairs on the Stage we’re very proud to present Dublin’s newest & fresh sounding hip-hop crew Exxon Valdez. They’ll be performing a live show of their own material and a DJ set of hip-hop, soul, funk and heavier bass beats.

    DoI : Promoter :)

    Comment by Gary Devitt
    8.
    November 13, 2009
    2:00 pm

    I’m off to the Saskatchewan Dachshund Conference myself this weekend. We’ll compare notes at a later date.

    Comment by Matt Vinyl/The Golden Maverick
    9.
    November 13, 2009
    2:07 pm

    petee and matt - woof!

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    10.
    November 13, 2009
    3:06 pm

    There’s a new DIY label in town called Subplot Records. There myspace is at:
    www.myspace.com/subplotrecords
    and its swanky website will go live on Dec first before its official launch. Come check it out.

    DOI, I am one of the bands on the label.

    Comment by Stone Throwing Youths
    11.
    November 13, 2009
    3:27 pm

    Cannot stress enough how bloody amazing C!ties are. An album would cause a ruckus for sure. Get them into the big gig scene rightaway, I say.
    Oh and everyone should get to Academy tonight to see SEBP sing Comets live with Heathers, along with BATS, Le Galaxie and Band On An Island as support. That’s a great big scoop of good bands there.

    While I’m here: http://iheartau.com/mag/issue-61-pleasantly-ravaging/

    Featuring hot stuff from AIR, EDITORS, PHIL KIERAN, SUFJAN STEVENS and a host of zingy others along with (*DOI Alert*) my own killer interview with HEALTH backstage in Dublin. ‘Mazin’…

    http://www.iheartau.com.
    http://facebook.com/iheartau
    http://www.twitter.com/aumagazine

    Comment by Naomi
    12.
    November 13, 2009
    3:37 pm

    The playlist for the recent Sweet Oblivion show on 2XM is up on the blog: http://sweetoblivionlovesmusic.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/sweet-oblivion-playlist-11th-november/

    There are videos for nearly all the songs so if you missed the show, you can catch up - don’t forget it’s repeated at 10am on Sundays too!

    I just set up a facebook page for the show in the last week too: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweet-Oblivion-on-RTE-2XM/166294689606?ref=mf

    Am hoping to do a ‘listeners’ favourites’ show in December so if you want your fave song of 2009 to be included post it on the page.

    ~Aoife

    Comment by sweetoblivion
    13.
    November 13, 2009
    3:38 pm

    Firstly: Brooklyn Brewery bar! Beats most airports then. They were selling Brooklyn Lager in Tesco on a special offer for a while, strangely. Lovely stuff. Just need a Pieminster next door.

    Secondly: EXXON VALDEZ is a great name. Two Xs and a Z, add a scrabble triple word score and you’ve won. High expectations could be attached to name like that though.

    Thirdly: WOODS were great the other night, lets have them back and more of the woodsist crowd.

    Finally: Music New Foundland and Laborador? I’m feeling perverse for going to hear some Verdi instead of Irish soccer fans cries of anguish but that’s a long way to travel to avoid seeing Govou ripping through Kevin Kilbane.

    Comment by Major Alfonso
    14.
    November 13, 2009
    3:52 pm

    Florence & her Machine are playing d’Opera House, Cork on December 5th as part of some free music weekend thingy with Lisa Hannigan, Magic Numbers and Ian Whitty. It’s all sponsored by a Cork stout manufacturer to whom I have no connection bar being a consumer.

    Comment by Ivor
    15.
    November 13, 2009
    3:53 pm

    exclusive mix from the first lady of brainfeeder l.a. tokimonsta (who is ireland bound next weekend) on the block tomorrow night from 9.45…

    doi, i present the show.

    Comment by peter
    16.
    November 13, 2009
    4:08 pm

    stagetimes for three gigs this weekend at Crawdaddy, please note the good folks of Cymbals Eat Guitars won’t come onstage till 10pm, by which stage Ireland will have beaten France and be halfway to the world cup!

    ********************

    Fri 13th. Doors 8pm

    GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS (9:30 - 10:30pm)

    Sleeping States (8:45 - 9;15)

    adm €13

    Fri 13th. Doors 11:45pm till late

    WE HAVE BAND (Kitsune) (1:30 - 2:15am)

    Feed the Bears (12:30 - 1:10am)

    adm €12

    Sat 14th. Doors 8pm

    CYMBALS EAT GUITARS (10 - 10:50pm)

    North Atlantic Oscillation (9 - 9:40pm)

    adm €12

    ***********************

    D.O.I - i am da promota

    Comment by Deeko
    17.
    November 13, 2009
    4:21 pm

    Reemo’s new single, cuba-part 1 out is today for download

    www.downloadmusic.ie

    DOI: I’m their speech therapist

    Comment by caroline
    18.
    November 13, 2009
    4:31 pm

    On the Newark/Brooklyn Brewery theme (I am with Fiona on that one BTW), you can now buy 6 bottles of Samuel Adams in Tesco’s for a tenner.

    DOI: One Barney Gumblesque belch.

    Comment by JD
    19.
    November 13, 2009
    4:46 pm

    If only you were allowed out of Newark Airport i(t’s got a Nathan’s Hotdogs Stand too!), you could go to the world famous music club & restaurant Maxwells over in Hoboken - they do perogies that’d make you weep with joy.

    Go and play on the monorail - it kept me sane one 5 hr stop-over….

    Comment by Colette
    20.
    November 13, 2009
    5:12 pm

    Yo,

    Electric Shock tomorrow night at The Twisted Pepper with [deep breaths…] DJ Funk, Jimmy Edgar [Live], Marco Barnardi [Live], Gosub [Live] and more…

    Tickets are only a tenner from the bodytonic online store.

    DOI Half a promoter

    Comment by Giles
    21.
    November 16, 2009
    3:15 pm

    We had a great night on Friday for the launch of the An Taobh Tuathail Vol III CD at The Roisin Dubh! Big thanks to everyone who braved the weather and made the trip down. Super live sets from The Jimmy Cake & Tiny Magnetic Pets

    Just to let you know we have put the CD compilation into a few Dublin indi shops : Road,City Discs,Spindizzy &
    Freebird. More shops around Ireland to follow soon..

    If you live outside Dublin fear not, its available for the same 9.99 Euro
    price plus post & packing here :
    http://www.psychonavigation.com/antaobhtuathail3.htm

    Hope your CD arrived Jim?

    doi: I run the Psychonavigation label

    Comment by Keith Downey

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