The randomiser brings all the boys and girls to the yard
Jim Carroll
Music for Haiti: Andy Irvine, The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, The Hounds and Big Monster Love play a Haiti benefit gig at Whelan’s in Dublin on February 14 with tickets at €15.
There are also two Belfast4Haiti benefits in the city on January 31. The Answer, In Case Of Fire, Panama Kings, Kowalski, General Fiasco, Cashier No. 9, A Plastic Rose, Not Squares and dozens more will play the Limelight, Katy Daly’s and Spring & Airbrake from 3pm, while there are DJ sets from David Holmes, Phil Kieran, Japanese Popstars, Boxcutter, Col Hamilton, Psycatron and many more at the Stiff Kitten that night.
There’s a Haiti Earthquake Fundraiser in Cubins. Cork this coming Friday. On the bill: The Frank and Walters, John Spillane, Interference, Two Time Polka, The Nail Drivers, Hot Guitars, Steve Housden and many more. Admission is €15
If anyone else is running a Haiti benefit gig around the country, please feel to post details in the comments field below. Meanwhile, here’s Arcade Fire’s Regine Chassagne on her homeland, while Wyclef Jean admits that his Haiti charity, Yele Haiti, made “mistakes”.
The New York Times muses on the web’s “drive-by anonymity” and culture of nastiness.
It had to happen: Sub Pop moves into the world music market with new label Next Ambiance. Next up: Tad Doyle’s concept album with the Master Musicians of Jajouka.
It’s not just record labels who are doing the merger waltz – Billboard sees a load of digital music companies jumping into bed together in the year ahead.
Per ATL, the mighty LCD Soundsystem play Dublin’s Tripod on April 20 and 21. UPDATE Per press release from POD Concerts, tickets for the April 20 show (€36.50 and €39.50) go on sale on Friday.
Anyone want to read a “rambling tirade from a 37 year old technophobe”? You might change your mind when the rambler in question is DJ Shadow. Dude starts the year with a lengthy post about the state of the musical nation.
Can you fly a kite on the radio? Interesting piece from Siobhán O’Connell about movings and shakings at RTE Radio One and 2fm including a bit of a spin from somewhere about a swapping of the Ryans (G Ryan to the senior station and Tubs to 2fm). Given that we hear a few contracts are up for renewal in March and that there’s talk of one or two big moves afoot at 2fm, it’s a case of don’t touch the dial. Meanwhile, we also hear of changes in the air at Today FM with new recruits on the way.
If only our good friends in the Green Party had insisted on a public inquiry into the banking debacle when they were negotiating the recycled programme for government back in October, they wouldn’t have to go around huffing and puffing about the need for a “hybrid” inquiry right now. Then again, they were more interested in the fate of the ferrets back then. Or was it squirrels? On the inquiry tip, Fintan O’Toole poses a couple of questions which might be asked.
OTR bookclub: fantastic review of former New York cop Edward Conlon’s memoir Blue Bood which certainly persuaded me to go off and buy the book.
As featured in the ace Up In The Air:
Is a technophone like an iPhone?
Ivor – more like a Nokia 5310. Blast your eyesight!
Gutted to see the LCD Soundsystem gigs are on weeknights.
As for the Greens, have they even managed to hold onto the ‘gains’ they made in the PfG?
Joe – in fairness to the GP, the ferrets are OK, they managed to screw over young people in the Budget AND they had a huge success with the Minister for Snow. Look out your window. Do you see snow? No? There you go. Snow’s gone thanks to John Gormley. Huge success for the GP.
Bit of a random thought for the morning that’s in it…
While I can appreciate there might be a bit of a lull post-xmas, has anyone else noticed that TM has only added about 3 gigs total to its’ listings since xmas?
The O2 hasn’t actually announced a sausage since pre-xmas which for a venue that was churning them out at one point, is a bit unusual.
Am I reading a little too much into this (sign o the economic slow down) or could this simply be a few acts/promoters/etc just holding back…?
James D – I did a piece in The Ticket in Dec about what gigs were ahead in 2010 and promoter Peter Aiken made the point that there would be very few “big” gigs in 2010 because the acts just aren’t touring. Now, I know there’s a lot of small to mid-sized acts touring in Jan through Mar – more than usual, in fact – but he may be right about the bigger shows. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/1231/1224261433740.html
And, on a similar tip, we haven’t heard a word about Oxegen or Electric Picnic acts either.
Tickets for the Haiti Benefit at Whelan’s in Dublin
http://www.tickets.ie/secure/booking1.aspx?event=KPLK4
the ex in the button factory…. that’s a “big” gig as far as i’m concerned…
(i know what you mean though)
john @ 7 – have edited your post to say Dublin benefit as there is more than one Hait benefit going on countrywide.
Also people should note that ALL ticket fees – inc booking fees – from this show will be going to the Haiti appeal fund.
Haven’t read Blue Blood as yet but if you’re after a good read, check out ‘The Given Day’ by Dennis Lehane, an epic that takes place mostly in Boston after WW1, fantastic read. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Given-Day-Dennis-Lehane/dp/0552775584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263903176&sr=8-1
No Slane or one off outdoor Punchestown either Jim! If memory serves me correctly they were on sale before Christmas last year.
JC – exactly – both AC/DC and Oasis summer ’09 shows were on sale months ago at this stage. It’s going to be a quiet year out in the fields. Anyone any idea how Green Day @ Marlay Park is doing? Would have thought that show would have sold out right away, given their O2 sales performance and that they were mooted for Slane.
Agree with The New York Times piece. The internet has led people treating others like crap. Not healthy.
Oh and just finished The Wire last night. It was the megathreads on here that convinced me it was worth watching.
And wow what a finish to the series. Was up to all hours watching the last 4 hours or so. I’m off to read the old threads now
For Belfast folks;
http://www.eventelephant.com/belfast4haiti
Click on registration, and you’re set!
Tickets are £10, payable by Paypal or Debit/Credit card
Interesting letter in the paper last week about someone who was trying to donate money online but most of the sites wouldnt let them unless they gave their contact details so in the end they gave to goal who dont ask for these details. Whilst they do a lot of good work its interesting to see all the charitable organisations competing for funds. Why not set up the one fund which they all can draw from or would that get in the way of their business models?
That Lehane book is excellent. Mr E’s book is very good too but not exactly a barrell of laughs. His albums tend to get overlooked but considering the amount he puts out the quality control is quite good.
As for the Bank Investigation all they need to do is read the 4 or 5 books that came out last year. If they go down the route of the Ryan/Murphy reports whats to stop themn from publishing half the conclusions like they did in one of those reports? If you look at America where the Goverment has been hauling senior bankers into congress or where Madoff is already in jail or even Iceland where the people have said no more, we are like sheep not doing anything about it. The system is set up here in such a way that those who cause the problem get away with it. bear in mind the only person to go to jail as a result of the beef tribunal was a journalist who wouldnt reveal her sources!! Need I type anymore.
nerraw – that NY Times piece really does hit the nail on the head. I’ve had a few offline conversations with folks about that in view of a few things and it’s clear to me that such ugliness is turning people away in force.
mully – ta
feathers – i thought that letter was very striking – http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2010/0116/1224262467815.html – especially as it chimes with a perception amongst many donors that very little of their donation actually reaches the people who need it most. Still, better to make a donation than just start another Facebook campaign/petition.
Those books – by the Four Angry Men, to use the phrase they’re using themselves – are excellent. Shane Ross’ book is forensic in terms of the bank problems and it certainly could be used as the opening statement in an inquiry. Will it happen? Will it fuck. It’s at times like that the mudguard on the government were supposed to come into their own – remember all their high and mighty talk about accountability and ethics when they were in opposition? Instead, they’re going around today like headless chickens trying to make up “hybrid” inquiries which they think will keep both the government and the general public happy. Idiots.
Heard that the Point was closed for repairs following the ferocious Cat Stevens and AIDA geriatric riots.
Maybe the Choice Music Awards shindig(sponsored by Heinz & Flahavan’s) should be held there too before they do the joint back up. No point in also thrashing a perfectly good venue like Vicar Street.
JD – we approached both Heinz and Flahavan’s but they weren’t interested because we didn’t have Bats, David Kitt or Patrick Kelleher on the list. Bloody elitist beans on toast and porridge merchants.
Didnt mean not to donate to charities but I find it bizarre that they are really turning away money just so that they have contact details. Also meant to say that have half the recommendations of the report werent published. Whats the point of having a report with recommendations and then not show what they are so that they can be acted upon? Also suspect whatever is set up will be insuch a way that either it cant be published for legal reasons or that it will be published which will bias any legal cases.
I recall last year you going on about ticket master and what details they keep of sales of tickets. Now that you are doing the choice awards do you get weekly updates of sales or is that between the venue and ticketmaster? Primevare line up is getting better and better. are the LCDreleasing a new album?
Feathers – sorry, didn’t mean to imply that’s what you meant above.
As for not publishing some of the recommendations, we can surely call them the known unknowns (or the unknown knowns),
Promoters get daily updates from TM so we hear from them what’s going on. Hopefully, we won’t have to use some new-fangled “unforeseen circumstances” excuse.
Last I heard, LCDSS were recording a new album – I think that “Bye Bye Bayou” track they released last year may have come from those sessions.
And, wow, serious Primavera line-up alright – http://www.primaverasound.com/ps.php?seccion=cartel&idioma=en – I think a return visit is called for.
On the lack of gigs subject – Seems to me it’s not just the big gigs that are absent this year but the mid-sized ones too – the Olympia and Vicar St ones. There’s very few scheduled for either venue. It seems like nearly everything coming up is either in Whelans or the Academy.
A bunch of established acts too touring new albums around Europe but not stopping off in Ireland.
JIm – I’ve heard Green Day @ Marley Park is doing steady business but Westlife @ Croker is struggling to shift the seats.
On another note, I keep hearing rumours that U2 will finish up the world tour with a blow out in Landsowne Road.
Good afternoon, (I’m going to give this being polite on the net thing a go).
@10 I’ve heard nothing but praise for The Given Day, must give it a read. I wonder if it’ll get the movie treatment a la Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone.
The Shane Ross book is well decent. It’s startling what a tribe those guys are, interbreeding, rugby chumming, all buying K Club houses like they were going to create some utopian cult centred on golf. All that was missing was some Freemasonry but the GAA corporate boxes and the Galway Tent fill in for that I suppose. Couldn’t help hearing Ross’s voice as I read, eminently readable for that reason. Oh and Jim Flavin’s home free, which inspires no end of confidence.
Vicar St doesn’t seem to have that sprinkling of ancient but excellent acts this year really. Bo Diddley and Al Green style gigs are what I have in mind.
Also that’s Primavera Club you’ve linked to Jim as opposed to Primavera Sound no?
That’s an interesting NYTimes article although it stops just as it gets going. Good to know that the internet hasn’t just brought out the nasty side of Irish people. The recent online debates about Lisbon, the Budget and public Vs private sector have been toxic. I’m amazed (maybe I shouldn’t be) at how quickly people become dehumanised in these discussions.
Still nothing on Ticketmaster, pod.ie or aikenpromotions re: LCD Soundsystem. If on sale tomorrow you would have thought that news would be published by now..
Primavera’s line up is good, but Coachella will take some beating this year
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a7ec9b42970b-pi
JC @ 22 – obviously Westlife’s new direction (which I’ve heard several of my peers in the writing and talking about music game go on about) is not to their fans’ liking
Major @ 23 – have corrected that link. And check out Pat Leahy’s “Showtime” too if you haven’t done so – a fantastic book on how and why we’ve ended up with 13 years of FF rule
MDR @ 24 – I’m also amazed at the new goldfish mentality in which people move from something being THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER! to completely forgetting about it 24 hours later.
JJ @ 25 – I think it’s a POD gig and yes, strange that there is no pre-sale info on TM yet
Joe @ 26 – nice. Still, SXSW in March is the big one for me.
Kate McGarrigle has has died aged 63.
any news on when the LCD tickets go on sale thought it was today but ticketmaster have nothing listed for the gigs
petee – just got press release now which says just ONE show (April 20) so we can probably expect the second show to be added once that one sells. Tickets are €36.50 and €39.50 and go on sale on Friday at 9am.
thanks jim
40 quid? 40 BLOODY QUID?!!! Who does James Murphy think he is?
Yes, I have seen LCD Soundsystem before, and yes they are great, and yes I do wanna see the new material live. But there’s no way I’m paying nearly half the price of an earlybird Primavera ticket to see him @ Tripod.
THIS AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND!
Just got Blue Blood for 10.99 in Reads. Bargain. I can’t read that review in work but I assume it’s the review that was in the Sunday Times on Sunday. Sounds very promising.
@ theharro – if you’d bought an earlybird ticket for Primavera then you could’ve spent the difference on an LCD ticket!
theharro – calm down, calm down! James obviously needs the dough for, I don’t know, a new pair of runners or something
fiona – i’d love to know what’s the Irish sales count for Primavera
P&M – yes, review in the ST. Really looking fwd to reading it now. After I finish the stack of books in the to-read pile, of course. Next up and continuing my fascination with pro cycling and doping: Bad Blood by Jeremy Whittle. And if any of you cycling fans have not read, David Walsh’s From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France, make amends pronto.
Jim: Woulda thunk Nike were keeping him in footwear for the rest of his hipster days after LCDSS did that mix disc yoke a few years back!
theharro – maybe his feet have grown?
HAITI FUNDRAISER,
Special Brew a ska tribute band based in Dublin.
They play all the 2-tone classics by The Specials, The Beat, Bad
Manners & Madness.
Vasco Junior – Dublins finest indie band
ex-Brilliant Trees guitarist, Tony Barrett,
Acoustic sessions…..Special Guests
And DJ
Hey all, Please invite your friends to this event,
All money Raised will go to Haven,
Haiti Benefit Concert for Concern
Wednesday February 17th, 8pm
Whelan’s, Dublin
David Kitt
Jape (solo electronic)
Legion of Two
Patrick Kelleher
Goodtime John
Tickets are €15 from http://www.tickets.ie or WAV box office [1890 200 078]. Both ticket agents will donate booking fees minus VISA charges to the fund as well.
Noise control play the twisted pepper this sunday to Help the Haitians Charity Extravaganza
A kick-ass party, all proceeds going to help the haitians.
The line up so far – Noise Control, Simon F, Nick James, Worries Outernational, Steve Donaldson (live), Howlin Dowlin, Rob Walsh, Ophelia and many more to be announced.
Come for the music, stay for the food, drink, prizes and pole-dancers.
Doors open at eight. Admission 1