Keep It Fresh

Dave already posted this but it’s kinda something I have a personal issue with. I was really looking forward to seeing the go! team at oxegen this year. I mean REALLY looking forward to it. And I missed them. If you know why then good for you…have a good larf. If you don’t well then…thats the way its gonna stay. Anywho, The Go! Team play the following dates.
23rd October
The Olympia, Dublin

24th October
Mandela Hall, Antrim NI

Tickets on sale now through Ticketmaster. I will be going…this time.

Interesting opening and closing tracks on this cast. With regards to the opening track…I like it. Deal with it. The last track is in my opinion really something special. I’d be really interested to hear what others think. I have to say it was fun taking those two tracks and filling the gap in between…

Keep It Fresh Ep.2

Tracklisting

Christina Aguilera - Aint No Other Man
Ratatat - Wildcat
The Young Knives - Weekdays and Bleak Days
Lions In The Street - Lady Blue
The Prototypes - Ici Ou Peut-Etre Demain
AutoVaughan - On the Radio
The Pipettes - I Love You
Kite Flying Society - If I Could Split
The Bicycles - Cuddly Toy
Metallic Falcons - Nightime and Morning

Links

dave recommends...

www.fuzzylogicrecordings.com

www.zunior.com

Just put this up as a little follow on from my new found love of Final Fantasy. Arcade Fire have been talking a bit about their new album due early 2007. This was taken from the latest Hot Press.
“This week we’re recording a huge fucking pipe organ on two songs. What an amazing sound! There’s also talk of recording a few songs with a full orchestra in Budapest. The next couple of weeks we’ll be pulling our hair out!”

- Win Butler (Arcade Fire frontman)

Owen Pallet (Final Fantasy) is helping on the production side of things. Sounds good. Sounds very very good.

Side note: Dans photos from Wednesday nights Joan as a Policewoman gig are being used in an English news paper. I can’t remember which one but I’m sure you will find all the details here.

10 Aug
Roisin Dubh, Galway

11 Aug
Cyprus Avenue, Cork

12 Aug
Crawdaddy, Dublin

I’ll be hittin the Crawdaddy show with Dan in tow to shoot some photo-ma-graphs. Its gonna be good!

Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks

Nice night of randomness last night. I headed into town with Dan last night. He had a couple of gigs he had to shoot at then we we’re gonna wrap things up at First Taste/Antics. We started at the Sugar Club for The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players with support from Patrick Freyne and his Bad Intentions.

I wasn’t imediatly taken by Patrrick Freyne and Co. The best description of their music I can offer is that its based in folk but burrows elements from gospel, pop and rock on some songs. Three songs in they did win me over Continue reading ‘Half a gig and bacon double cheeseburger…’

Final Fantasy had always been a name I’d heard around (it does kinda stand out) but had never really given it any more thought. This changed all that. I highly recommend watching this video and seeing how a song can actually be ‘made’ in front of you.

Watch the video at The Anchor Center.

Final Fantasy - This is the dream of Win & Regine (Live @ Alchemize)

hello hello and welcome to the first of what will hopefully be a regular podcast. Check out the About page for all the details on this wee venture of mine. Remember this has been put together on bare bone equipment so please bear with the sound quality. Please give feedback positive or negative…I’m learning something new all the time! Couple of things I wanna mention:

>I’m looking for and intro/outro jingle for the show, about 15-30 seconds long. If anyone wants to put something together it would be well appreciated…I’ll even give you a pressie!

>Think something should feature on the show? Send in the mp3, link or suggestion!

Bit of a theme with this show. It was band names a had trouble saying. Oh well, things can only get better! Be sure to check out Peter, Bjorn and John. I dare you not to whistle along to that track. The rather cool video is on their myspace.

Keep It Fresh Episode 1

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Playlist

Los Campesinos - You!Me!Dancing!
Freakplasma - Punk It
Cansei De Ser Sexy - Lets Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
Tiga - Burning Down The House
The Cat Empire - Hello
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
Regina Spektor - On the Radio
Lucero - I Can Get Us Out Here Tonight
Scouting For Girls - She’s So Lovely
The Evening Episode - Lovely Creatures
The Walkmen - The Rat

Links

dave recommends…

fuzzy.boiler

subpop

slow dance

first taste

Okay so this was the first podcast I ever did. It’s a bit dated at this stage but the music still holds. This podcast was the original format with just First Taste in mind. Took us some time to get our bearings on the whole podcast scene which was the reasons for the delay. Anyway future podcasts will be more regular and hopefully weekly. Check out here for more info on First Taste. Below is the tracklisting from this podcast:

Razorlight - In The Morning
Protokoll - Moving Forward
The Futureheads - Skip To The End
Office - Busy With Other Things
Cold War Kids - We Used To Vacation
The Fratellis - Creeping Up The Backstairs
Every Move A Picture - Signs Of Life
Scanners - In My Dreams
The Rapture - WAYUH
Forward Russia - Eighteen
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

First Taste Podcast - One