New Clare Bowditch!

Clare Bowditch & the New Slang - Modern Day Addiction (2010)
(click album to download)


01. The Start of War
02. Modern Day Addiction
03. Running
04. A Lucky Life
05. Prinz Willy
06. Your Own Kind of Girl
07. A E I O You
08. The Most Beautiful Lies
09. Break My Heart
10. Bigger Than the Money
11. A Little History (Homage To My Dad Two)
12. Stars



A songwriter from an early age, Clare Bowditch went public with her passions and talent in 1998, upon meeting John Hedigan, with whom she formed the band Red Raku, which released an EP. Upon that band's folding, she started the Feeding Set with collaborators Libby Chow and Warren Bloomer. Together, this act would release the albums Autumn Bone and What Was Left, the second of which was released on EMI. In 2007, Bowditch -- along with a slightly retooled Feeding Set -- released her third full-length, The Moon Looked On.

Clare Bowditch has covered a lot of ground since the fragile folk of Red Raku and her first solo album, 2004's Autumn Bone. She has become, in a sense, confrontational: Bowditch pushes back at the everyday perceptions we acquiesce to and the expectations that would limit her own artistic persona. She now writes social criticism, ranging through the suburbs of Melbourne to alight on privileged (Modern Day Addiction) or young women with a warped body image (Your Own Kind of Girl). She's perceptive instead of preachy and only resorts to polemic shorthand such as the "sell sell sell" refrain of Prinz Willy once she's sketched the situation. The arrangements have taken even greater strides, matching the confusion that undercuts these lives with cushioned beats, overlapping voices and insistent keyboard tones; Bowditch gets inside her charges' worlds with tunes that bear comparison to Fiona Apple. Her backing band, the Feeding Set, has doubled in size to become the New Slang and they're capable of new-wave pop (Bigger Than the Money)

Happy Birthday Mario! 25 today

Julia Stone Solo Album

Julia Stone – The Memory Machine (2010)
(Click album to download)

Tracklist:
1. This Love
2. My Baby
3. Winter On The Weekend
4. The Memory Machine
5. Catastrophe
6. Maybe
7. Lights Inside This Dream
8. What’s Wrong With Me?
9. Horse With The Wings
10. Where Does The Love Go?






The Memory Machine is the debut solo album from Julia Stone. One part of the brother & sister duo ‘Angus & Julia Stone’, known for their distinctive voices and intimate arrangements. Julia’s hushed tones resemble a more traditionally pretty Joanna Newsom, while Angus goes the sensitive-baritone route. Julia recorded the ‘Memory Machine’ in New York in late 2008, the album has been described as both haunting and mellow with dark undertones.


Julia Stone - What's Wrong With Me

Julia Stone - Maybe

This is to pay homage to the 80gb of music I lost due to a damaged hard-drive! :(

If anyones wants to send me some music, feel free to email me!

Todays a day for some Marina!

Cavan at Electric Picnic #3

One time half of Dead Can Dance,Brendan Perry, solo for over 10 years now, minus a world tour in 2005, is still making waves in the music world.

Now based in Belturbet, Brendan Perry and his band play The Cosby Stage at the Electric Picnic on Saturday.

Fans can expect some blasts from the past, some old Dead Can Dance material, but mainly material from the most recent album and a taste of material that will be on his new album next year.

Brendan's music has a moody, atmospheric quality that fits his description of his music as "painting soundscapes".

"I incorporate a lot of different elements into the music," he says. "Atmosphere and ambience would be influenced by working on film soundtracks and scores. Also, from a theatrical background, I like the music to lend itself to being cinema-like in its scope."

Among his credentials: he wrote soundtracks for Sunset Heights, Child Of The Moon and Baraka; forming Dead Can Dance, he and Lisa Gerrard secured a record contract with 4AD releasing nine albums to considerable public and critical acclaim over a period of 16 years; they built up a significant cult audience worldwide, and Brendan's delighted with "how the audience has stayed with us over the years".

There's a world music feel to his work, and the influences are many-fold. A lot of Brendan's inspiration is internal."It comes from the imagination, as opposed to what affects me outside," he says, but the countryside gives "a peace and meditative-like ambience to my life that cities do not offer". "I draw from any given time or epoch. We're certainly not fashionable, we go with what turns us on. In that sense we make music for ourselves first, not for the market," he says.

Also performing with him will be fellow Belturbet musician, Peter Sheridan, together with the other band members, Astrid Williamson, Dan Gresson and Rory O'Brien.

Brendan Perry plays Belturbet Railway Station on Friday, September 3, at 8.30pm. Tickets at €15 are available from Multisound or 086-1275310. He plays The Cosby Stage at the Electric Picnic on Saturday, September 4, at 9.15pm.

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Cavan at Electric Picnic #2

Emilys Eldest an indie folk duo comprising well-known Cavan musician, Eileen Tackney, and Ben Tiernan from Oldcastle, are set to play at the Body And Soul stage on Saturday at Electric Picnic.

Eileen says they're delighted with the prestigious coup."It's a great opportunity, especially considering we're only together a year," said the Maudabawn native who is well regarded for her work with Song Sisters, Blue Valentine's Night Of Tom Waits Music and Cavan Cathedral choir, as well as teaching and arranging work.

When Eileen and Ben starting playing together after they met at a poetry reading, there was an instant creative connection. Their sound is an original, personal and experimental fusion of contemporary and folk music. Eileen plays keyboard, Ben the guitar and they share vocals. "We realised we work very well together and complement each other's music well. As far as we're concerned, this is a long-term venture," explains Eileen.

Eileen was at the Electric Picnic as a punter two years ago and didn't so much as have designs on taking to the stage."I hadn't even met Ben back then, so I wasn't thinking along those lines. It's great to be back as a performer this time," she says.

I'm expecting big things, not because she used to be my nextdoor neighbour, but because their sound is amazing, keep and eye out for their new self titled EP released September 12th.