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City: Dublin, Ireland
State: Dublin
Country: IE
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Monday, March 03, 2008
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Current mood:  accomplished
Category: Music
Hey peoples, Lots of interesting and some odd stuff to tell you about. The month of February raced by. You can check out our last blog to see how our first touring experience in Italia went. No sooner had we arrived back and we were plunged (willingly I'll admit) into awards season and rag week festivities around Ireland.We faired ok actually. I'll leave the good stuff to the end: Resounding losers at the meteors, but we did get to see the first "live" performance from reunited Boyzone.We then went over to Cricklewood in London where we were presented with the "Best Rock Act" at the Irish World Awards. A surreal night was enjoyed, hanging out with Dana, the Furies and all the great and good of the Irish diaspora. We were well looked after and it was while sitting in the hotel's comfortable bar that we got a call from Gugaí in the Róisín Dubh, to tell us " In Love with Detail" had won their album of the year accolade. The Róisín in Galway is one of the first venues that gave us a chance to play and we love it there, so to get the award is fantastic. Interspersed with all this winning, losing and meeting our heroes, we've had some great shows at various RAG events around Ireland, particularly Tralee, Carlow and Limerick. We probably had our best Cork show yet at Cyprus Avenue the other week, so thanks to everyone who came out. Hope you liked the new songs (some of which are already on youtube... *Shakes fist at internet*) That brings me to last week and the Choice Awards in Vicar St. Dublin…….we didn't win…..but we'd a great evening. We got to play two songs and the crowd was excellent. It felt really good to be playing with all these other great acts, all of them Irish. Congrats to the Brilliant Super Extra Bonus Party. Early in the day we'd a photocall for an article to be printed in a Canadian magazine about emerging Irish acts. They wanted us to pose with Bodhrans, Galtee sausages and pints of guinness (we did the guinness)…. looks like we've a bit to do, to prove to the world our culture has evolved since the 1920's. So we're heading stateside this Thursday, in search of more awards, women and treasure of any sort, laden with casks of guinness and reels of pudding for barter. I've just been informed foodstuffs are not permitted through customs? NEW PLAN We're gonna bring GUITARS and play FESTIVALS in NEW YORK, CANADA and we'll finish at SXSW in AUSTIN, TEXAS. Click here for updatesrock. Ró
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Current mood:  catalyzed
Category: Music
Saturday
Woke up around 4.30, after two hours sleep. Myself and Nial were djing last night and we ended up having a late night. Which probably wasn't sensible. Mashed loads of clothes into a shoulder bag and headed for the airport, where i met the others and our tech, the legendary Adrian "Goujons" Garry. Checked in around 5.30 and by about 12 we were standing outside Eurocar arguing with them about getting a GPS system. When we eventually got the GPS (off a different company) we collected the car and quickly realised all our guitars, drum stuff and pedal box wouldn't fit. Our trusty GPS informed us it was five hours to Rimini, so we sent a text to our promoter saying we wouldn't be on time for the 4 o'clock soundcheck... Got a new car, which turned out to be slightly bigger. After plenty of head scratching we set off and the Gouj began to get used to the wrong side of the road driving. Slowly. We sent a text to say we'd probably be at the venue around 7.
Pretty soon i realised I'd left my passport, printed confirmations and various other stuff in the other car. Great!
The GPS tried to take us up a road that was still under construction at around 5. We got lost. Another text was sent. We decided not to stop to eat because the GPS voice lady told us we were gonna now be there around 8.
Sometime around 9 we arrived we collapsed out of the car, stretched our numb arses, apologised, rolled on stage and did a quick soundcheck.
The Venue was great, a big warehouse on the outskirts of town with crazy art and lots of little rooms and stuff. After a quick pizza we went on and played. The sound was good and we tried out two new songs for the first time, currently called "You can make sound" and "Water over our heads". They sounded good, if a little nervous. The crowd was stuffed with kids in full fancy dress, some as lego men, clowns, a group as tetris blocks and a couple of Leprechauns. After the gig we'd a few beers by the book shop (yes, there was a book shop in the niteclub) and ate all the crisps and chocolate and little cakes on the rider. I wonder could we survive just eating the food after gigs? Bring on the mouth ulcers.
Gouj quote of the day:
"Whassa story with them black cats? Cos one passed me there and i got me luck straight away cos the bus came quick. How long does my luck last?"
Sunday
Woke up in the hostel around 10.30. Full European Breakfast was some easy singles on some tiny bread and some Coco pops. The rest of the lads arrived. Ro and Gouj had chocolate cake and coffee. Then me and Ross ate the last of the Pretzels from last nights rider. I took plenty of vitamins, it might end up being a tough week.
We haven't a gig tonight so we headed up to The Republic Of San Marino. We drove up and up and up Mount Titano to the tiny tax free state. Ro is driving today, and its the foggiest day we've ever seen. He did a great job going up the bendy roads. We'd be lost without our GPS, you couldn't see past the bonnet. Its very beautiful and historic, as well as being very touristy. Every second shop is a souvenir shop. As its Sunday everything else is closed. I looked for a fridge magnet. If i wanted a laser sighted bb gun, a massive engraved sword or giant boxes of cigarettes i could've had my pick, but little novelty magnets must be banned.
We took lots of impressive photos, but unfortunately the amazing views weren't available unless you wanted to see lots of different types of clouds. Afterwards we drove about 3 hours through beautiful valleys, along mountains, though massive tunnels. It was like the backdrop of a eighties Bond film.
When we got to the Lochness pub in Riva le Garda we were wrecked. They were very kindly letting us sleep in the venue on couches. It was pretty cold, but they were very hospitable and we watched the superbowl and drank enough to sleep soundly. At the halftime show we discussed Alicia Keys Ghetto Booty. Its big. Probably shouldn't have worn white zebra skin pants.
Gouj quote of the day: (when the fog lifted)
"does this mean we're driving above the clouds now?"
Monday
Woke up shivering at around 9 o'clock to the sound of a kango hammer outside. Did a quick phone interview, and then the very enthusiastic Manager made us a pot of penne and mince, and as a pointer of the day to come, he encouraged us to have traditional liqueur aperitif. It was pretty revolting, but he was so friendly that we tried to drink. At least the rest of the lads did, I did a sneaky spill in the sink. I hope he doesn't read this… We're gonna have to get different accommodation tonight. Getting six hours sleep isn't a good idea, regardless of how much we want to experience everything.
We went for a walk and quickly realised we were in an incredibly beautiful little holiday town. The surrounding mountains seemed to completely enclose it, with snow capped peaks above us in every direction. Its pretty deserted as its off season, but we found a nice hotel, and then went for a walk along the beach. Ross and the Gouj muck about with the camera. I got a text this morning saying that Mainline, a band we kinda know of from Dublin, have broken up. Myself and Nial talked about how hard that decision must have been, as right now we couldn't imagine not playing gigs or us not being a band. Wandering around an Italian Mountain village before souncheck reminds us how lucky we are and not take things for granted.
We popped in to "Marilyn Irish Bar" (not sure of the connection there…) and had some cappacino's and played electronic darts. It wasn't very Irish, there was a Union Jack outside and a French tricolour. An English fella asked for a Latte in front of us. He wasn't very happy when he got a glass of milk.
Soundcheck was great, Tiny little venue, but it sounded lovely. Milo, the soundman, recorded it so we could listen to the new songs. We had a few beers, pizza and more darts, and after a quick lie down, we returned to the find a small crowd outside. Its "Carnivale" so all the staff and a couple of people were in fancy dress again. Buoyed by the soundcheck playback, we opened with "Water over our heads" and after a great gig and lovely response encored with "until the next time". So far Italian audiences don't go wild, but they kind of listen appreciatively if they like, or go out and smoke if they don't. Afterwards, the manager made us drink all "Irish Carbombs". Bad idea. You could see the bailey's curdling with the coke as you drank it. He told us we had a free bar. We lived up the stereotype and got pretty drunk. There was lots of hugging. There's a picture of Nial with a motorbike helmet on, and I've no idea when that happened. Packing the car with rain dripping from our faces in the pitch blackness while drunk – for some reason – is the last thing I remember.
Gouj quote of the day:
"I've a small mickey, but a fast arse. There's your f*cking quote of the day..."
Tuesday
Woke up with a hangover and promptly decided never to drink or smoke again. We had kinda half planned to drop into Venice as its on the way to Udine, our venue tonight, but we slept in and nursed our heads. The Gouj took the wheel again today, and we took our time driving up through the mountains and later through fields and fields of vineyards. The amount we have to do is fairly mad, probably four or five hours a day, and there's no radio worth listening to unless you like faceless emo or European pop punk. Over the last few days I've listened to Sigur Ros on my mp3 thing or read magazines to pass the time but as everyone else was asleep I read the map and talked to Gouj about Steve Staunton going to Leeds. As a Leeds fan, I dunno if that's a good thing. There's lots of cloned "AutoGrill" roadside restaurants along the motorway, and when we've been stopping we've had Pizza and ragu penne. I'm pretty sure I'll get sick of Pizza soon, but right now, I'm starving and its cheap.
After some mild getting lost, we found the very cool "No Fun" club and met Guy, the eccentric but wonderful promoter. The club is kinda like a music obsessives bedroom, with shelves of music books, racks and racks of cd's and music magazines and drawers full of music documentaries and recorded videos of all sorts of music.
Udine is close to the Slovenian border and the culture has a mix of both nationalities, both in Architecture and lifestyle. Guy brings us to a local restaurant, which is basically a big room in someones home. Our meal is delicious, tomatoes on pasta and some Slovenian beer (there goes resolution one). We finish that in a flash and when the waiter comes over we polietely ask if that was a starter. It wasn't. He asks do we want more, we say Si, and he brings some slices of ham and some lettuce. The Italians don't seem to eat as much as our hungry Irish selves, so we resolve to grab some pizza later.
When we return to the venue (which is off a main road and in what seems to be the overgrown courtyard of some apartments) we're surprised to find a big crowd outside smoking (there goes resolution two). We've been lucky so far in that we've had pretty good audiences since we've arrived, and tonight is no different. They clap loudly between songs and there's even a few who've heard of us which is cool. We sell a few cd's, have a few beers and chat to the locals (some of the cd's are getting cracked because we're mashing everything into the car, so we just give those ones out). Before we leave for an early night to our cottage b&b, One regular (his picture is behind the bar) tells me that Guy is crazy, but a wonderful drummer and completely passionate about music. For us, it would be perfect if every promoter was like that.
Quote of the day: (from me this time)
"there's a smunny fell in the car, y'know…"
Wednesday
Had a fairly sore throat this morning, and felt fairly wrecked, but we still managed to get up and have breakfast around 10. The little cottage is beautiful, but breakfast's fairly simple. There's some stupid rule that B&B's can't serve anything that isn't in a packet (why? What about the personality of the owners? The girl who ran it told us her mother made fantastic jam but they weren't allowed give it out… shame) so we had tiny slices of pre-packed toast and Nial and Ro got their coffee fix in. We were up early, and with Gouj in the driving seat we raced down to visit Venice.
We parked in the massive carpark and got the public ferry around the Grand canal, taking photos and marveling at the buildings, the people (texting while driving is one thing, but texting while driving a speedboat is another) and of course, the smell (which isn't as bad as we expected). Its very commercial and busy and as we sidestepped through arcades and laneways taking photos, sampling ice creams, trying on masks and generally being tourists we couldn't help wishing we had more time. seeing Venice in an hour might be an experience, but it certainly wasn't a perfect one.
After a few photos (Ross feeding pigeons, Ross covered in pigeons, Ross with pigeon crap on his top) and a visit to St Mark's grave we headed on to Piacenza. Another long drive was broken up by another half hour stop at another shitty AutoGrill, with more pasta. The whole pasta/pizza thing is beginning to wear thin at this stage.
Arrived at the venue (after a bit of being lost) and was greeted at the venue by the friendly and enthusiastic Alessandro. He's got great English and we set up, have a few beers, more pizza, then do our soundcheck. The venue, a converted paint warehouse just outside the town centre, has a sound limiter installed so it's hard to get into the songs, but the Gouj stepped in and it sounded pretty good by the end. On the way to the hostel (a converted school we think) Alessandro takes me to the practice space he's set up so I can get the itinerary for tomorrow. Himself and his friends set up a little company and run a festival, gigs, and practice rooms in their free time. Again, a dedicated music fan enabling music to get to people. I wonder if I'd be doing that if we'd never started. "Are you writing your blog?" he asks. He's been reading it. I'd better write something nice…
Unfortunately when we get back to the venue there is only a handful of people there, the gig is a victim of last night's Carnivale and tonight's Italy v Portugal match. We play to 9 or10 people, comprising the gentle support band, the staff, and girl who's driven from Milan to see us. The presence of someone who travel so far encourages us to play as well as we can. There may have been only a few folks but they seemed to enjoy it. It's a long way from the ambassador I suppose, but as Ro noted we met our worst Italian crowd, but our first Italian fan.
Quote of the day: Ro:
"When I went to Ghostbusters 2 I got so scared that I begged my dad to take me home. He didn't."
Thursday
We got up and went for a stroll around Piacenza. Another day, another very nice city. Myself and Nial got a cappuccino and a croissant in a little side street café while Ross and Ro and the Gouj took photos of each other in front of various buildings. Gouj is doing a kinda documentary on DV camera and its pretty funny so far. Might not be able to show our families without some heavy editing though. After a moment of panic where we lost the car, we paced it down the Motorway to a little town called Castillo Fiorentino. After last night we were dying to have a great gig so we didn't know what to expect when the ancient walled city appeared in front of us. By far one of the most visually arresting places we've been, the mountaintop village is enclosed within high thick walls and the tiny streets play havoc with the GPS. When we pull up at the Velvet Underground (after lots of funny looks from locals and some precision steering from Goujons) we emptied the car and surveyed the damage of our trip so far. Two guitar cases are broken, a few leads need to be thrown out, lots of the cd cases are cracked and broken and a few of our power adapters are held together with tape. It's a bit dispiriting, especially since we just bought new cases after the last airline broke the old ones. The venue, like the rest of the town, is spotless and after soundcheck we stroll about looking at the stunning views. "Beats the bollix outta Bray eh?" says Nial as he pans his camera over the landscape. Later we watch some Italian telly while we have a few beers and wait for dinner.. They love monkeys in adverts on the continent, and sexy girls in skimpy tops dancing about while a live audience claps. And why not? After a proper meal – pasta, lots of salad and cake (we'd all murder some vegetables and potatoes at this stage though) – we resign ourselves to a small crowd of older people from the old town and check into our pretty self service b&b at the bottom of the mountain. After a lie in we return to the Castillo, the gates of which close at ten. Using the key to the city we were given earlier (it was more of a garage door clicker than a big ornate steel key, disappointingly) we returned to the pub and to our happy surprise its stuffed. There's an American school nearby and scores of art students from Colorado and Texas are sitting in front of the stage. From the start the reception is fantastic, and we go on to play our best gig of the tour so far in the most unlikely place. Encouragingly "You can make sound" gets one of the biggest cheers of the night. Afterwards we drank with the Americans until the owners asked us to leave, then stood outside being loud on the steep thin streets. Despite getting completely lost on the way home and driving round in circles til Ro spotted a landmark, it was a night to remember all round. "I had never considered Italy as somewhere I could live" said Nial later "but now? Now i can imagine it…."
Quote of the day: Ross
"Whats the story with all this salad shit? I may as well be lying in a field with a face full of grass…"
Friday
We got up around 11 when the landlady knocked at the door. We've had some funny sleeping arrangements on the tour so far, for example Nial and Ross shared a double bed in Riva De Garda while Myself and Ro shared in Udine, and so this morning Ross wasn't too happy as Nial had taken all the covers and kicked the crap out of him in his sleep. We went back up to the Castillo for breakfast, videoing the drive and the view as we went, and played some pool and video games before we headed to Rome. The drive was only 3 hours and we were determined to avoid the dreaded pasta/pizza axis of evil from another AutoGrill so we didn't stop, and arrived at the venue at 4. There was a poster outside of a bloodied male torso holding a decapitated sheep foetus baring the slogan "queers not lambs" and the area was covered in (crap) Graffiti and dodgy looking characters so we didn't really know what to expect. We went for a walk, stopping into an internet café to have a quick listen to a version of "basis of everything" we'd recorded in Irish, and grabbed some coffee and looked over some pictures of the tour on the Gouj's computer.
When we returned we did our soundcheck and waited for our food and to be brought to hostel. Unfortunately the fella looking after it, Manuel, was delayed and so after a fruitless search around the neighbouring streets for the hostel we ended up inhaling some kebabs (no pizza!) and getting changed in the pizzeria across the road. The staff didn't know where to look. We legged it back in and got on stage just in time to play a full set and encore to a great crowd. During the gigs we've been trying to speak Italian as much as possible, a few phrases, picking up words on the way, and tonight was the first time we tried all of them, some worked, some didn't, and we even got corrections called up to us. I think some of the audience thought it was funny. It's a deadly venue, with mad abstract paintings and (cool) graffiti on the wall.
Afterwards we sold lots of cd's and gave away some of the broken ones squashed in the car. There are some Irish girls here who've travelled down from Siena so we chat to them. "Where's the Gouj?" one said. We pointed. "That's him? Holy shit!". The Gouj just nodded, as is his mysterious way. When we finally found the hostel, Ross, understandably, dived into a single bed, leaving poor Ro to face the wrath of Nial's sleep Kung Fu.
Gouj Quote of the day:
"There's no way in the WORLD I'm gonna let no FIAT pass me out!"
Saturday
We could probably write a few guide books now, How to see Venice in one hour for example, and today we got up early for a bit more short-of-time tourist action. Rome is so littered with ancient buildings you find yourself stopping every other street to try figure out what some ruin was. We headed to a walled square from where we got a tram up to the Colosseum. After a bit of looking around we grab lunch down the street from the Arena where the "wacky" waiter serves us suspiciously microwaved food for a reasonable price. I'm going to need a pasta detox after this. Ro and the Gouj got some string beans, our first glimpse of green vegetables that weren't on a pizza in 8 days.
We payed our 11 quid and went into the Colosseum, While The Gouj quoted Gladiator and compared it to Croke Park. Its very impressive, nearly 2000 years old. Criminals used to be torn alive at the mercy of the crowd here, and their bodies dragged through the south facing exit. Something similar happened to us at punk gig a few years ago.
I was just wondering if we would always try to sightsee if we visited places we'd never been, when we saw a few members of the England Rugby team, in town to play the Italians tomorrow. They pretended not to recognise us, so we did the same to them.
We grabbed a coffee and strolled back to start the short drive to Froisinone. Its only an hour away on the motorway, but in Irish terms its Dublin to Tipperary. When we get there we're slightly outside the town and we drive around industrial estates until we get through to someone on the phone who can direct us. We were pretty tired when we finally found the tiny Cantina Mediterraneaneo pub, and we kinda didn't know what to think. We decided not to hang about and wait again like last night, so we went straight to the hotel to find out where it was. Its quite, um, grotty, and bit like the Outlook hotel from the Shining. We don't hang about there either, and return to the venue for soundcheck. The Soundman and staff are very friendly and they put us on a great feed but we can't help wonder if there's gonna be anyone at this gig as its so remote. The owner, max, gets us to have shots of Grappa (bleurgh) and after a half hour kip in Hotel Eighties we head back to find a load of people inside, with scores of cars parked outside. There's about 50 or 60 people inside and another load outside smoking while the punk support band play. Its mad how people are so willing to travel to a venue to see a band they've never heard of, It doesn't seem to happen as much in Ireland, but its great and to our benefit. The venue is small and bright and it's a little naked playing the songs, I think the tiredness of the last 8 days affects us a bit, but it still goes well and lots of people are very complimentary afterwards.
Afterwards we wade through a few drinks and sometime around 2.30 head back to the Bates motel for a few hours kip before our flight. We're all pretty shattered and as my passport is in Lost property in the airport we're gonna go up a little early, and will leave the hotel around 8. We do a short piece to camera for Gouj's video and we summarise the last week and a bit. Its been a great experience, lots of people have enjoyed it and lots of people now have our cd. Hopefully we get to come back…
Quote of the day:
Goujons: "I'd say I could learn Italian in two days."
Kieran: "You've been here a week and you can't even ask for a sandwich!"
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
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Current mood:  bouncy
Category: Music
Greetings from Italy!
The tour is going well so far, you can check out Kieran's blog here:
*Italian Tour Diary*
...and feel free to post your comments on the thread, we've enjoyed reading them so far, in petrol stations and cafes on the side of the Italian motorways.
We've been playing a couple of new songs on this tour, which at the moment are called Water over our heads and You can make sound. They're sounding better each time we play them, hopefully you can hear them soon (unless you're in Italy and have been at one of the gigs, in which case you've probably already heard them)
Just a quick reminder that we are up for two awards at the Meteors, best Album and best Irish Band, which you can vote for here:
Meteor Awards Website
Voting closes this Sunday Feb 10th, so if you're going to vote now is as good a time as any (you can win tickets to the awards show by voting too)
We'll be putting up a bigger, longer with pictures and stuff when we get back, if we come back.
See you then,
from Kneel, and Ro, and Ross, and Kieran
(delorentos)
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Monday, December 10, 2007
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Current mood: excited
Category: Music
Is it December already? Lordy. Well, This Friday 14th we'll round off an amazing year for us by playing our biggest ever Headline gig, in the Ambassador theatre in Dublin. There ARE some tickets still available from >here< ... and from Road Records, Freebird and Sound Cellar in Dublin. Get yours soon!  As well as our gig we're proud to have been nominated in the " Best Band" and " Best Album" categories at the Irish Meteor Music Awards. Its an audience vote thing, so if you'd like to vote visit >here<.  Over November we did our first tour of the UK, and it was great. For example: in Brighton, Ross's snare went missing, we partied with transexuals, Our driver, Cathal, took the Harry's Challenge and won, and we'd a brilliant gig to a receptive crowd. I wish we'd kept a diary for the rest of the dates... Hello to all the new friends we met and signed up to our page, we'll be over again soon.... :)    So anyway, this wednesday morning we'll be on Ian Dempsey's Breakfast Show playing one of our favourite Christmas songs... Have a listen if you're awake.. We'll also be on Icon on Phantom on Tuesday, Anna Livia on Wednesday as well as Spin's Breakfast show on Thursday morning... Its a busy week alright.. :) Well anyway - if we don't see you this Friday in the Ambassador, Have a great Christmas and a happy new year.. and thanks for supporting us, its fantastic how nice people have been to us, all the messages we got when the album went top ten and when ross got injured, the presents people brought for us to instores... we really appreciate it all. hopefully next year is as good, and hopefully we'll see you during it... Thank you for reading... Kieran + Nial, Ro, and Ross Delorentos
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
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Category: Music
In your November edition of Delorentos: behind the laughter... New EP "Do You Realise" released this Friday 9th November, featuring the single Do You Realise and including three new tracks, all wrapped up in a sexy little limited edition package. Available in all good record stores, y'know. <>We've set up a new mini-site for the ep, with lots of cool pics, info, tabs, etc, and we've also just finished shooting a video for the single which will be posted up on the site soon. Simply go to: http://www.delorentos.net/realise .You can also now listen to the new mix of 'Do You Realise' and previously unheard track 'All This Time', on our myspace player. The band will do two free mini instore gigs to launch the EP... in HMV Shop Street, Galway at 5pm on Friday 9th and the following day will be in BPM Records, Waterford City at 3pm, off the square. Tickets are on sale for our final show of the year in Dublin's Ambassador Theatre on Friday December 14th, get yours now from ticketmaster here This is our biggest headline show to date and just in time as we will be one of the last acts to play the theatre before it closes as a live music venue in January. We're very happy to announce that Messiah J & the Expert and Super Extra Bonus Party will also perform on the night, making it proper eclectic, yo. We've started work on the next record. Initial sounds are good, that's all i can say :) And finally, we'll be doing our first tour of the UK this month. Taking in England, Scotland and Wales, with nine shows, starting in London on the 20th and finishing in Derby on the 29th. see our gig listings for details. If you're on the island of Britain, hopefully we'll see you on that, its going to be great. :D ps. we're playing a song on the Podge & Rodge television show, on rte2, Tuesday night, check it out! talk soon, kindest regards, click here to subscribe if you haven't already... Ró delorento.
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Monday, October 08, 2007
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Current mood: excited
Category: Music
Hello! First and foremost, thanks to everyone that's been coming out to all the gigs on this tour, we've had some of the best crowds we've ever played to, and it's been amazing having people singing the songs (sometimes FOR us) and in more than a couple of occasions, joining us on stage, Thank you!! We're really looking forward to the rest of the gigs... We'll be throwing some photos of the tour on this site, but in the meantime there some cool ones from the forum >Whelans Photos< >Forum Photos< check these out (courtesy of Anna and Jenny Coady) 
The reason we are on this big tour of Ireland is that we are releasing an E.P, "Do You Realise" on November 9th, it's the latest single to be taken from our album In Love With Detail. We decided to make this release special, we really wanted it to be something worth having, so Matt Type2Error, who designed the album cover helped us come up with a really nice cardboard cd case, there's a sneak preview of part of it below. 
...So we did a new mix of Do You Realise and also put 3 unreleased songs on the cd: All this Time (a new song) and Neon (with keyboards courtesy of Deco from Republic of Loose) -both from the album session with Gareth Mannix. As well as that there is a re-worked version of "Circumstance and Chance" recorded and mixed by Marc Carolan for the E.P. So we hope we've given you something different, and that you enjoy the new tunes... OK... so here is the Big News, this is a massive deal for us, so please excuse the dramatic pause... We will be headlining Dublin's Ambassador on Friday December 14th!  
Tickets go on sale TODAY, Monday October 7th you can get them from here.
Get them soon... The Ambassador is closing in 2008 as the Central Library is taking over the building, so it's going to be great to be one of the last bands to ever play there. We're look forward to seeing as many of you there as they'll let in, it's going to be stunning, until then... Níal and Ross, and Ro, and Kieran click here to Subscribe, too...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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Current mood:  busy
Category: Music
So, we just got back from Tuscany, it was a fairly amazing weekend - three great gigs, great weather, met loads of cool people, and played shitloads of Ping-pong. Its the new Rock and Roll, y'know. We were at this: MyStage Festival . Check out "Mushi" from Denmark, "Strippop" from Italy and "Illectronic rock" from Germany. Anyway - we've a few things to tell you about, so here goes: We're playing Electric Picnic this weekend (yay!) and our stage time is 12.45. Its an early start, so we'll go easy on you... :) The two Whelans gigs in Dublin are THIS close to selling out (check out WAV) - so due to demand, there are 30 extra tickets being made available for each show.....available on ticketmaster > Ticky (check out that dodgy photo). We've added a third Whelans Date, on the the 30th September, its an all-ages gig on the sunday. Tickets will shortly be available through WAV tickets (whelans and village tickets) and ticketmaster, at a tenner, including all fees and stuff. Tickets are selling fast for Cork and Limerick, so if you're planning on going, get in there quick. Tickets here > sTickyAnyway - here's some poloroids we took in Italy -     I'm not really sure whats going on in that third one. Anyway, there's loads more at our bebo page > bebo-ySo, i hopefully you're having a good summer, ours has been pretty crazy so far, Roll on the September tour! hopefully we'll see you on it.... We're off to practice, we're doing a cover version of a classic disco song for Ray D'arcy's show tomorrow morning on Today FM at 11. Have a listen! It might be terrible... :p click here for updates: > ClickyKieran +Nial, Ro, & Ross. http://www.delorentos.net
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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Current mood:  creative
Category: Music
Hey all, A lot to tell you about as the summer continues to be really busy for us. We'd a great weekend at the Oxegen Festival in Punchestown. As those who were present will testify, and if you've seen pictures, it was a bit of a mud fest again this year, but there were some stunning performances. My highlights were Kings of Leon and Interpol on Saturday and Arcade Fire on Sunday, where a rainbow came over the crowd as if they'd planned it; there's gotta be some divine connection going on there. We'd a great show ourselves too, thanks to all of you who stuffed into the tent and sang along and generally made our afternoon, oh and hope you liked the beach balls! 
To see myself and Níal on our first wander around the festival after our show, click on http://www.hotpress.com/av/3875970.html The only dampener on the weekend, apart from the obvious, is that we didn't have Ross on stage with us. I can tell you that his foot injury is a lot better and we're hoping he'll be back next month. He says hello. (if you've any pictures or just want to tell us about your weekend let us know!) I have the great pleasure to announce The "Realise" Tour of Ireland in September/October this year. The dates for the tour are posted up on delorentos.net and also in our gig section.. For the Dublin show, tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster, WAV, sound cellar and city discs and are on sale now. Book your tickets now: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/953015 The final bit of news is that we're releasing "STOP", the 3rd single from our debut album In Love with Detail, this Friday 20th July. It is a limited edition release, available in HMV, Tower Records and most other music stores and includes new live favourite "She's So Modern" and a deadly remix, our first, of STOP by our very talented friend Jape. (Our overseas friends can get a digital copy on iTunes or a physical copy from Road Records while stocks last)
Click here! > uh-huh < Later yo! Ró, delorentos ps- if you'd like to hear us doing an acoustic version of Stop and an *exclusive* cover of a current hit song have a listen to Rick O'Sheas show on 2fm this Friday between 2-5....
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Monday, June 25, 2007
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Current mood: excited
Category: Music
Hello!
Plenty of drama since the last time we posted up a blog... Unfortunately the bad news is that Ross suffered a serious foot injury a couple weeks ago from the amount of gigs we did, something to do with his metatasal. Which is a foot bone. or something. Hopefully he'll be back soon.. -Thankfully our friend Gareth has been able to fill in for him on live duties, thanks Gareth! (www.myspace.com/garethaverill) He's also very handsome.
We're releasing a new single "Stop" which is coming out July 20th -it'll have 3 tracks:
1.Stop
2.She's so Modern
3.Jape Remix
(If the cover looks strange, its a mild optical illusion). You can check out a preview of the remix (our first!) on our myspace page, and please check out Richie's myspace page : http://www.myspace.com/richiejape You can also see a high-quality preview of "She's so modern" on youtube, from our gig in Thomastown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXz_RHrDMPU). Oh yes.
Thanks to everyone who came to see us at the two Arctic Monkeys gigs at Malahide Castle...
Thanks! It was great. We were the first band to ever play there! Thats Gareth, as you can see, he only has one tooth in this photo. It was great meeting Supergrass, The Coral and the lads from the Arctic Monkeys, we'd a stunning weekend. Also, sorry to the Monkeys for warping their football. Kieran and Myself were also were lucky enough to meet the director of The Arctic Monkey's video for Fluorescent Adolescent, Richard Ayoade, we're fans of his work. If you get a chance check him out in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA3SDHWkUsc (Warning: you may completely love this)
Thanks to everyone that came to the Blast all ages gig in Dublin's Radio City last Saturday, it was one of the most mental experiences we have ever had at a gig! There was a full scale stage invasion and crowd surfing... You can see a clip of the gig here (courtesy of phutloose) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_pfswxZEK8 . The youth of today, wha?
Finally, we're playing Oxegen, on the Pet Sounds Stage, Saturday at 4pm, we're really looking forward to it, see you down there, it's going to be great!
Click here (now!) to be first to know about updates > clicky <
If you know anything about Metatasals, or simply want to wish Ross well, please drop a note... :)
Seeya the next time,
Níal
and Ross and Kieran and Ro.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
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Current mood: bouncy
Category: Music
Hello Again!
It's been a while since we posted up news on myspace, and since the last time a lot has happened...
First and foremost, we'd like to thank all of you that picked up "In Love With Detail", the record went to number 7 in the charts, which we really didn't expect, and to those of you that have spread the word, it's been amazing playing gigs to people that know the songs, singing them back to us, thank you thank you thank you!
Since we came back from the States, its been all go, So over the last month we have played 30 gigs, made a video for Eustace Street with some friends and fans of the band (THANKS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!) and have met lots of interesting people along the way,
We've tried to play an all ages gig in every town we've been, and thanks to everyone that turned up to see us knock out tunes in random record shops and shopping centres in Ireland, (as well as those of you that came to the night gigs!) it's been a lot of fun so far, long may it continue....
....Our van went on fire coming back from Limerick, it was a challenge putting that out with bottles of water (special thanks to Ferg for trying to drive through the smoke and to Stephen for picking us up from the middle of Kildare)...
…We played Dublin Castle for the first time, having been in Waterford till 7am that morning, it was great to see people giving it loads on the cobbled ground, damn the consequences!!
...we regularly played 2 gigs a night, including a recent 3 hour haul from Galway to play the Trinity Ball at 4am, which has to go down as 2 of the best delorentos gigs (for us) ever.. hello to everyone who stayed til 5am watching us!
We've got lots of gigs coming, up including playing with The Arctic Monkeys, Supergrass and The Coral at Malahide Castle…
...we were even on the premiership a few times over the goals!
…and there is more to come, so keep checking out the gigs listed here and on delorentos.net, as we'll be posting more up over the coming weeks and months.... Click here now to be updated.... > clicksies <
Let us know about any funny stories from your end - ie - the girl who asked we sign her arm so she could get our names tattooed there, (!) the guy who brought his elderly mother to a gig to meet us, the girls who skipped an exam in Cork...
All the Best,
Níal, (and Ro, Kieran and Ross)
p.s – A special note has to go to The Immediate, now broken up, -they were one of the most inventive bands to come out of Ireland in a long time, and it was a pleasure and privilege to play with them over the last couple of years, you will be sorely missed.
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