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Last Updated: 10/27/2009

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City: Dublin
State: Dublin
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Signup Date: 4/22/2006

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Friday, November 20, 2009 

Current mood:  nerdy
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Our recently recorded 2FM Session will be broadcast on the Dan Hegarty show on 2FM this coming Monday. We tackled recent single 'Align the Seas', live favourite 'For No Man' & one of our recent tunes currently titled 'Time'. You should all be listening to Dan Hegarty anyways but now your reasons are manyfold...
2:24 PM 
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 
I gotta stop reading my horoscopes, that day (read below) of, how shall I put it, misguided events apparently was my own personal worst day of the year. I know it felt like it for me but Gemini's the world over must have been shitting themselves. It was like a day of someone constantly poking you in the eye & apologising saying it will never happen again & each time you'd believe them as it wasn't deliberate. Anyhow, in case anyone thought that's why there hasn't been any words appearing here in a while, let me put your mind at ease. I don't think it is. Maybe. We've been working quietly & diligently, hopefully & modestly on new materials in the 'TAP' HQ (I don't know). Though we have the fantastic Hard Working Class Heroes festival coming up shortly (Oct 18th / The Button Factory), we're mostly in album mode in our collective head & are happily stocking up on supplies, musically speaking in our underground lair or burrow if you will. If you don't understand that we're writing like mad feckers, developing our sound, ruthlessly discarding songs & jumping fearlessly into newer ones with such vigour that we've frightened ourselves. God knows what will come out of this enthusiasm but for now we're happy with progress so far... The picture below illustrates what it looks like from my point of view in the jam room, though luke is not usually standing there. For now I'll say a brief goodbye...

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 
So tomorrow we wander blindly into the studios of Today FM to perform for mister Paul Mcloone. I only say blindly because I'm not that sure where the offices are. We rehearsed into the wee hours last night working out our stripped versions of songs using only 2 guitars a keyboard & three sets of vocal cords. We'll be performing 'Align the seas' since our good buddy Paul has been playing it on this show already, new song 'For no man' & a cover of 'Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In the Aeroplane over the sea'. Hopefully we'll get copies of said sessions so we can give you Mp3s or the likes. Tune in tomorrow night for the next episode...
1:48 PM 
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Monday, August 17, 2009 
Our "Align the Seas / Belong' 7" is now finally available in Road Records,Tower Records & our online store. They're limited edition & each one comes with a unique code to download high quality Mp3s of the tracks. Go forth & multiply little babies...
7:58 AM 
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Sunday, August 16, 2009 
Round 3, Whelans, 7th August. After just getting our freshly minted 7"s into Road & Tower Records after months of back & forth with test pressings & the like we breathe a collective sigh of relief as our 7"s actually have our tracks on them & not some obscure french jazz, & as cool as it probably is we wouldn't be over the moon about it being on our debut vinyl. In our previous post we mentioned them arriving but we hadn't yet had a chance to listen to them & though Vinyl is on a major comeback these days due to the inherent uncollectability of Mp3s, record players aren't as plentiful in the workplaces of Dublin as you'd imagine. Thank you again Road Records. So onto Whelans... Our first support 'Little Green Cars' pulled out a couple of days before the gig so our main support was a fantastic band called 'The Murder Clues'. With more energy than a Duracell bunny on some of kind of Coke/Speed & a frontman with a pair of lungs that would fill an air balloon with a sneeze, they hopped & bounced their way through an impressive set. Monsieur Mcloone on Today FM is also a fan of theirs, & he's got good taste (he must do, he plays our stuff***). Anyhoo, with more unfamiliar faces than usual we horsed into our own set playing a few new tunes, 'You're Right, I'm Wrong', 'For No Man' & 'The Bullet' being the three newest ones that have not yet been recorded & thankfully all got a reaction that made our nethers all tingly. Can I say that? Fuck it, it's done now. Whelans always just feels like home for some reason but I guess any band that's ever played there would understand, it's just an amazing venue to play... So horse through the set we did, it's now our official word for playing a set, 'horse', & then sold our first copies of the 7" from the ridiculously small table that housed our records & tees, which was manned beautifully by the lovely Dawn. Thank you Dawn. Out into the world our little babies go after all this time, & the excitement of having our music on vinyl is probably as you'd imagine it to be, a little odd at first but comforting once you've gotten used to the extra weight of carrying it with you everywhere. We're popping into say Hello to Paul Mcloone next week, or at least to record a Green Room Session with him so keep your ears peeled & tuned to Today FM. We'll be doing 2 of our own songs & a cover version. What will the cover be? We're not entirely sure ourselves yet, but will most likely be one of the 3 songs mentioned in our Rockers Dozen in Hot Press last issue. Until then...
3:47 PM 
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 
So we rocked up into Phantom last night only to discover that had we walked we would have got there quicker. John Caddell was rather calmly hanging around outside having a smoke while his show was continuing upstairs. We proceeded to invade the building with bicycles, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, boomboxes & a newly purchased mini-korg jobby type keyboard fandangly. This is us stripped. The deal is Cathal intros the show, plays a few tunes then calls us in to play a track, though we have a few minutes to set up. So going out live we begin our newest finished tune 'for no man', which must have been mentioned here more than anything else so far, only to be stopped about 10 seconds in due to a mysterious buzzing noise that is taking over everything. One by one plugging things out we trace the source of the disturbance to a Canadian transformer that is attached to a pedal board attached to a guitar attached to a Canadian. So Luke plugs out his effects & we're ready to go again. You learn something new every day ordinarily & in a band I think you learn 10 new things every day, I'm not sure it ever ends. So the one thing we've learned so far today is that being in a band adds 9 new things to learn each day, only 9 more to go so. On another note our 7"s have arrived, we're all excited as they look like vinyl & smell & taste like vinyl, weird. Vinny got his picture taken with Steve Reddy receiving the first copy & if you're our friend on Facebook you can see the looks of sheer delight & excitement on both their little faces. Beautiful.
2:01 PM 
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 
I appear to have slowed down on the old updates, but you know the old saying if you've nothing to say etc... blah blah. We've been busy working on the new song 'For No Man' getting it into some semblance of shape for Castlepalooza. Said 'palooza was last Saturday & was rather enjoyable, there's a great vibe in the Castle Grounds for the weekend, no hassle, everyone mostly arsing around with no real set intention, which is the way a festival should be in my mind. It's not really about the music even though the line up was rather good, it seems to be about having a good time, relaxing, hanging (over), & possily getting mashed, though I'm not sure what that means... It's now Wednesday & due to a chance meeting with mister Cathal Funge at the weekend in Charleville Castle we're popping into Phantom tonight for a quick interview & a lash through one or two songs. Our shortlist for the songs have been the two from the 7" (coming out friday, plug*), which are 'Belong' & 'Align The Seas' & someone suggested our new one 'For No Man', which may end up being played either. It's all wide open people so have a listen in tonight from 10-12 Midnight on http://www.phantom.ie if you fancy The Angel Pier stripped. We're all geared up for our gig this Friday night in Whelans with The Murder Clues & Little Green Cars, it's been a while & it's still our most fravourite venue to play, can't wait to hit that stage again. Bring it on...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 



The boys at Souljacker sent us a few grabs of the Oxegen video so we could show you what it looked like if you weren't there on Saturday weathering the torrential storm to catch a moment in the IMRO tent. In order it's - us on stage (Mark is the shrouded figure behind me in the red), the view of the crowd from the stage (beauty if ever I saw it) & Luke slapping the crowd at the front five each after he realised the drop from the stage was also a climb (who'd have thunk it). One major omission from my previous ramblings is this: We couldn't have done the gig without the generosity & amazing help from our buddy Jamie from The Ambience Affair who also happens to be one of our favourite Irish artists. Well he's my favourite anyway, if ever there was talent to watch, it would be them... So far this week we've dived headfirst into writing again & though it's been a little slow to take off it's just a matter of playing the cobwebs off our collective creative sparring. There's a mouthful. Anyhoo, we started back into a tune we were vibing off not so long ago with the temporary title of 'for no man' (it may remain, time & fate will tell), an intense mellow builder. Again, it's early days but we'll keep you up to date, if it makes it to demo stage then it has a chance...

Darragh
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Sunday, July 12, 2009 


So calling the blog post 'the calm' was a self fulfilling prophecy in more ways than one. Our habit of playing gigs in the stormiest of weather continues, so much so that mister Steve Reddy has renamed us 'Raingel Pier'... We'll let him away with leaving out the 'The'. Apparently from the time we went on stage to the time we left the stage the weather went from slightly rainy to unbelievably stormy, so much there was talk of shutting Oxegen down around 9PM, not sure how true that is. The tent was at capacity before we went on so anyone trying to get in out of the weather wouldn't have had much chance. The gig itself went really well from our point of view & we got an incredible reaction from the hugely enthusiastic crowd. The picture above is a pic that Luke took in the middle of the set, requesting that the lights go up to document the moment. The pic was taken about a millisecond before the lights went up, hence the alien footage like quality... We've filmed the whole thing so we plan to have snippets appearing online on our various sites in the coming weeks, keep an ould eye out for that. The crowd were amazing, if you were there & you're now reading this, thank you from the bottom of our collective hearts... hmmm 'collective hearts' could be a good song name, maybe not, anyways, tired as all hell today after said storm. The adrenalin comedown after a gig like that can only be combatted with copious amounts of alcohol & playing pool with big stars (ahem, luke). The upshot is we loved playing Oxegen & are now gonna be preparing for our next set of shows (Castlepalooza, Tower Instore & Whelans). All going well we'll be playing a couple of completely new numbers in Whelans. Brain melting now, transmission over... Darragh.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009 
The whole Oxegen experience has been shit cool, from dining with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party & David Pajo to playing to the coolest crowd in the world. Thanks to everyone who was there for our set, you know who you are & you all blew our minds... The Angel Pier fellas...
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