new club in town

Hi All

From this Saturday night thru the summer and beyond we will be in Andrews lane theatre, Dublin 's freshest spot

Loads of good nights planned with national and international talent

May 3^rd launch party – Arveene, Tu Ki, Deadbots (DJ set) Jamie Skillz, Jon Averill and Chewy

May 10^th DURRR presents – Rory Phillips, The Lovely Jonjo, Hanna and Arveene

May 17^th Rory (Cassette Jam DJs/Ibiza rocks), Johnny Moy w/ Mark Logan on percussion, Philth

May 24^th Downtownsounds and Clampdown w/ Billy Scurry, David Kitt (DJ set), Downtownsounds

May 31^st Clampdown presents James Lavelle (UNKLE), Arveene, Johnny Moy and Jamie Skillz

CLAMPDOWN PRESS RELEASE…
20 years on and still the most exciting parties and events on the planet are being held in industrial spaces, concrete places, factories and warehouses. The attraction has never been more craved nor has been bettered. Big minimal spaces with no fuss or pointless tacky interior design, great sound systems, underground music and art colliding, this has been happening all over Europe from Berlin to Barcelona and Paris to Prague for decades. If you, the people, the music and the production is right the result is better than any nightclub experience you will ever have… no matter what. Celebrating its official 20^th birthday this year the warehouse party as we know it is still going strong and now its coming to Dublin .

From May 3^rd Clampdown and co. will take over Andrews lane Theatre every Saturday night bringing an eclectic mix of music, live acts, art and fun in an ever changing space. We will live sets from our thriving domestic electronic scene and some of the most interesting DJs gracing the decks. Dublin 's finest street artist Maser and crew will be giving the place a lick providing an interesting interior for this vast cavern. Different AV artists and visuals will be on show from week to week to keep it fresh and exciting. Music policy will be forward thinking but anything goes and an emphasis will be kept on the quality recordings from the last 2 decades of disco, punk, funk, house, techno, electro and hip hop alongside future classics and current gems. Full bar all night long and we will be rocking later than all other venues in Dublin city.

We will be playing

Disco, LCD Soundsystem, Carl Craig, Diplo, Liquid liquid, Junior Boys, Punk, Beyond the wizards sleeve, Shit Robot, Kitsune, Surkin, Nitemoves, Baile Funk, Brodinski, Talk talk, ESG, Transmat, PIL, A Certain Ratio, Herve, Giorgio Morodor, Cut Copy, Rub n Tug, DJ Tyrant and Disco Dad, Dancepig, Lil Louie , The Clash, Phuture 303, Rave, Hot Chip, Yello, Plastikman, Can, Holy Fuck, Marlena Shaw, Public Enemy, Model 500, Blondie, Happy Mondays, Chicago house, Can, Boogie down productions, Green velvet, Rock n Roll, Sinden and the count, Herbie Hancock, Erol Alkan , The Specials, Talking heads, UNKLE, ESG, Throbbing gristle, The The, Daft punk, The Cure, !!!, Turntable rocker, Joy Division The Rapture, Grandmaster flash and more..you dig?

A Clampdown presentation

 

www.myspace.com/weareclampdown

Sunday off!

for once, a sunday off, and the weather was fantastic so i went to the beach between Howth and Sutton with Anabela

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then we went for a glass of wine in the Italian quarter where we met Alex and Leni.

then we followed them to play pool in The Palace (besides Whelans- i felt like i was in a pub in England, pool tables, beers and the Artic Monkeys on the radio) and have a few beers.

 

a really good Sunday! 

Why?

in Andrews Lane on Saturday

 

a really great gig

nice guys, good musicians, catchy melodies and rhythm,  fantastic sound, all the lights were working (we changed the dimmers :-),great crowd.

all the ingredients were there to make one of the gigs of the year, and according to some persons in the audience, it was.

according to me it was certainly a memorable concert as it was the first time i was doing lights for an international band. and i fell in love with their music, these nice melodies combine with catchy hip hop lyrics were really cool to work with.

www.myspace.com/whyanticon

 

Coldplay or CSS?

or both

download their new singles:

 

Coldplay, Violet Hill  http://www.coldplay.com/song.html 

 

CSS, Rat is Dead (Rage) http://css.retrofuzz.com 

M83

in Andrews Lane Theatre (A.L.T.) on friday 

i listened to it before going to the gig and it sounds like Air but a bit more catchy (i have to say i don't like Air and find it really boring)

when they arrived to soundcheck i was surprised to see they were all very young, but nice and quiet :-)

their live performance lacked of energy though, nice tunes but not enough effort to use their instruments and too much of backing tracks.

Anthony Gonzalez seemed really happy with the gig and the crowd at the end, saying it was great and thanking technicians.

www.myspace.com/m83

 

p.s i didn't do the lights as the guy i was supposed to cover for was there in fact, and i was kinda happy i wasn't doing the lights when we had a massive problem with the dimmers! 

high five!

borat in 30 seconds by bunnies

http://www.angryalien.com/aa/boratbuns.asp 

The Strokes

new album is on the way

 

english

http://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/36131

 

francais

http://www.lesinrocks.com/index.php?id=60&tx_news[not...

fucking demux!

oh god, a bit of a nightmare in the new venue

everything fine the whole afternoon, went for dinner, came back and everything going crazy, during the show...

all the lights coming on at the same time without touching the desk

all the lights flashing all over the place without touching the desk

desk not recording what we want it to record...

ha, it's gonna be fun tomorrow :-/

if you prefer

the art of photography rather than music, well this link is for you today, enjoy and you'll see me there....

*update: oh no i just realised i have a gig to go to -Psycho Fest in Voodoo Lounge-, oh i'm sooooooo disappointed... ;-) * 

 

http://www.spencertunickireland.ie

 

music is good for the heart

Adam Green : http://www.myspace.com/adamgreen1

 

it's.... entertaining, slow and melo, you want to move from side to side, tap your feet and snap your fingers...