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Friday, October 09, 2009 
Due to phenomenal demand we have announced a third, and final date at the Olympia Theatre for this December. We will now play an extra date on December 13th 2009 in addition to our two shows at the Olympia on Friday November 27th, and Saturday 28th of November. Tickets for the third and final date on sale now. click!

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Sunday, October 04, 2009 


Leaving the Austin City Limits festival yesterday, being pulled by one little tractor and pushed by another, the messiness of the day was all too evident in the muck being scraped from shoes with hotel room keys…ah, good times.

They don't get much rain round these parts, and we're told they really needed it, but they weren't prepared for it on the festival site at all. We know how it can all turn to shit in the rain from festivals in Europe, but here there was nowhere to shelter from the rain. For a couple of hours before we went on, we were down at our stage, sheltering under a rocky overhang, like some kind of desperados. Radio stations and Music Magazines had tiny little tents in the media area, the roofs of which would gather water and have to be cleared with an ould mic stand or stick of some description periodically.
Still, we had a great gig during one of the brief dry spells of the day, and were made feel most welcome.
I saw Willie Rogers and the Soul Stirrers play earlier in the day. He sang A Change Gonna Come, and spoke about how he had sung it for Martin Luther King in the late 60s, and again for the first black president of the United States in 2009. Very moving…
Didn't really see much else, heard Bon Iver from the other side of the fence as we played for one of the radio stations… and a little of The Levon Helm band as we struggled to get the van out of the muckfest of a car park, sliding it into one the lighting towers before the tractor boys pulled us out. Stayed in Palestine Texas last night, breakfast of the tour in Tyler Texas this morning. Still raining. We will not be messing with Texas
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 

Played an open-air festival in Louisville Kentucky last night, right on the river there with the City Skyline in the foreground and stoned dudes in kayaks behind. Love those American city skylines. Disco balls were first made here, and Louisville is also where Muhammad Ali is from.
Cut myself somehow during the gig - a gent in the front kindly pointed out that there was blood coming from my head. Bowling afterwards in Vernon Lanes...the third oldest bowling alley in the country. Bowling is a big deal around here - the guys that organise Lebowski Fest are from here, and the first grand gathering was held at the same Vernon Lanes.

On the road to Nashville now, Bob Evan's for breakfast (hollandaise on the side...). The fuse for the cigarette lighter that powers the GPS in the van kept blowing, and we went through 5 of them before realising that there was a coin stuck in it...Phil Hayes to the rescue Planes, Trains and Automobiles on in the van now. Those are definately not pillows
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Friday, September 25, 2009 
So we stayed in Kalamazoo Michigan last night, in a bit of a sprawl of hotels and eateries and highway. Rising at 11ish, I spotted a Perkins diner over yonder and made my way towards it as the crow flies. Hitting the highway, I walked the grass verge until I got to the flyover, at which point the verge ended and I stood there clueless as to how to cross...The Perkins and the pancakes were calling. I stumbled back down to the highway and ran accross the road to the centre dividing wall. It was too high to scale, so, feeling the onset of rage, like Michael Douglas in Falling Down (though I was just hangry really...) I went back up to the flyover and phoned Dave, who was already in Perkins, for advice.

He recommended walking along the little dividing strip in the middle of the road. So I did. Cars beeping, laughing at the gombeen in the middle of the road. Fuck y'all, I'm getting me some pancakes...

As I went into a rant about no-one walking anywhere in this fucking country, the lads tell me they went to a diner next door to the hotel
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 
Day off in Philladelphia. Got in at 6am this morning from Woodstock. Watching NFL and NASCAR on the hotel tellys having a burger and tater tots...
Flying as a band with musical equipment has become such a fucking melt. Always a battle to get everything on without paying much monies for what used to be free. The Ryanairification of the creaky old school airlines is not pretty. You get the sense that thay find it an ugly necessity in order to stay alive, like a bet-down long time employee having to retrain in some modern bullshit that's all loud and garish...
So we got to these United States last thursday and stayed right next to Northern State prison by Newark airport.
Bearsville Theatre last night. Hallowed turf. The shed where Janis Joplin used to keep her Porsche is now a store for a Chinese restaurant. And overhead the (almost) October sky of Van's Moondance
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Friday, September 11, 2009 
So there I was, in the DJ booth in the 2FM Roadcaster at Electric Picnic listening to Lady Gaga. I was about to do the Just a Minute Quiz with Larry Gogan, who was in Dublin, so I was on my own in said booth with headphones on.
Now Larry Gogan is a bit of a legend, and was the dude who used to do the Chart show on a sunday that I listened to with the tape recorder pressed up against the radio ready to record...
The Just a Minute Quiz has been around forever and has given us some comedy gold over the years - my favourite being "Where is the Taj Mahal?" ans: "Opposite the Dental Hospital!", there being an Indian restaurant of that name opposite the dental hospital in Dublin
So, it was all a little heavy for me.
I told him I was more nervous about the quiz thatn about the gig, and he quickly moved to put me at ease, with the old "It's only a bit of a laugh..."
He then lashed into it...
"The letters AD mean the number of years after the death of whom?"
Me: "Dominus..."
DOMINUS!!What the fuck???!!!
"How many balls in a pool game"
Me: "eh...15"
Larry: "No, one more, 16"
At this stage I was beginning to panic and was considering jumping through the window of the Roadcaster to flee screaming and bloody through the sniggering crowd outside, who could hear all these horrors.
I think they must jump to a list of more remedial questions if they smell a clueless gombeen, as the next question I got was "Where is Skibereen?".
i did get another couple of "queer ones" as Larry called them afterwards -
"Does SuperTed wear boots?"
Me: "He....does!"
Larry "not..."
Now, I was picturing SuperTed unzipping his fur to reveal his red suit and cape, and I swore there were red boots in there too, but no. And may he get the mother of all thorns in his paw on his next outing...
The last one, as the gong went was "From what is a saddle made?" I said cow skin, but no, it's pig skin
So I got a measly 7...there were a few "queer ones", but this wasn't helped by my slow ponderousness and there's no excuses for that first one.
One of the Dark Room Notes boys got 18! ...and I know NeoSuperVital got into double figures. Looking good too
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Monday, September 07, 2009 

So we play the sumptuous Olympia Theatre in Dublin on November 27th - tickets onsale this thursday Sept 10th at 9am from ticketmaster.ie

We also play:

Portlaoise, The Heritage, Thursday Oct 22nd tickets
Pumpkin Festival, Virginia Co Cavan, Saturday Oct 24th tickets
Castlebar, Royal Theatre, Sunday Oct 25th tickets
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 
Our David releases his second solo album, The Victory Dance on August 28th.

Download the first single, Tuesday's Feet, for free here

For touring see www.davidgeraghty.com
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 
In order to get to the sun-kissed good time that was Benicassim 2009, the band had to spend the night at Travelodge East Midlands Airport.
They had to steel themselves and think of what lay ahead when faced with finding a cab in the rain, dealing with arsey receptionist ("Computer says no....") and, having arrived very late, the very real possibility of a Ginsters Pasty for dinner - a Room 101 experience for any travelling minstrel.
Thankfully, there was a M&S foodhall still open in the hanger-like services building that housed le Travelodge. So dinner was had in the otherwise empty foodcourt, the band bathed in the flashing lights and merry chimes of the also empty "Casino". "Think of it as a midnight feast!", said Mr Berlosconi.
The next morning we were back to the airport for Valencia. The previous night had seen a mad sandstorm on site, and the festival had ended early. Many bands had not played, including Kings of Leon. Much of the site was being rebuilt as we arrived, and people were emerging red and sandblasted.
It's a great festival - beach by day, music and carousing by night, and we very much enjoyed our gig
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Friday, July 31, 2009 
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We are pleased to announce our remaining Summer Festival shows and our Fall tours of America and Europe. Tickets are available by hitting "Tickets".

Details are as follows:

The Remaining Summer Festivals :
Belsonic - Belfast, Ireland - 29th August (part of Duke Special's DukeBox)
Electric Picnic - Stradbally, Ireland - 4th - 6th Sept

US Fall Tour :
Fri-Sep-18 Hoboken NJ, Maxwell's, Tickets
Sat-Sep-19 Woodstock NY, Bearsville Theatre Tickets
Mon-Sep-21 Philadelphia PA, World Café Live Tickets
Tue-Sep-22 Pittsburgh PA, Club Café Tickets
Wed-Sep-23 Cleveland OH, Cambridge Room @ HOB Tickets
Thu-Sep-24 Ann Arbor MI, Blind Pig Tickets
Fri-Sep-25 Chicago IL, Double Door, Tickets
Sun-Sep-27 Minneapolis MN, Varsity Theatre, Tickets
Mon-Sep-28 Madison WI, High Noon Saloon Tickets
Wed-Sep-30 Louisville KY, Waterfront Wednesday
Sat-Oct-03 Austin TX, Austin City Limits Festival Tickets
Mon-Oct-05 Birmingham AL, WorkPlay Theatre Tickets
Tue-Oct-06 Atlanta GA, Vinyl Tickets
Wed-Oct-07 Greenville SC, Handle-Bar Tickets
Thu-Oct-08 Annapolis MD, Ramshead Tavern, Tickets
Fri-Oct-09 New York NY, Highline Ballroom, Tickets
Mon Oct 12 Los Angeles, The Troubadour Tickets
Tue Oct 13 San Francisco, The Independent Tickets

November in Europe :
Fri Nov 6 Hamburg, Baltic Saal, as part of Rolling Stone Weekender, Tickets
Thurs Nov 12 Frankfurt, Brotfabrik, Tickets
Sun Nov 15 Stuttgart, Keller Club, Tickets
Mon Nov 16 Munster, Gleis 22, Tickets
Wed Nov 18 Amsterdam, Melkweg, Tickets
Thurs Nov 19 London, Shepherd's Bush Empire, Tickets
Fri Nov 20 Manchester, Club Academy, Tickets
Sat Nov 21 Glasgow, Oran Mor, Tickets

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