Month: May 2014

Take five guys who are lifelong friends, attending school together and growing up around the corner from each other in Bray, County Wicklow who all shared a passion to really make a difference through their music. This gang of indie rockers burst onto the scene early 2013 and have stamped the name Big September firmly into the minds of many since their arrival. They certainly love to live the rock n roll lifestyle and have no qualms about it. This honesty breathes through the songs and especially their live performance.

The spark that started that day in Presentation College Bray through shared musical influences and a realisation that the academic world and normal 9-5 cut and thrust wasn’t going to cut it with these guys was enough to start something that would become quite special and is still becoming very special.

Ana Gog are delighted to announce the release of a new video, “The Old Haunts”.

The video was directed by Luca Truffarelli and features performers Philip Connaughton and Pat Deery.

Ana Gog also wish to announce the release of their new EP on the 23rd of May, entitled “Resemblance”.

They will launch the EP on the 24th May in The Grand Social, Dublin.

Tickets will be made available from this Friday May 9th, and the first 150 sold will receive a free CD.

The track can be streamed here: https://soundcloud.com/anagogmusic/the-old-hauntswav

Ticket links will be made available at https://www.facebook.com/events/1466755286892742/?ref=51&source=1

www.anagogmusic.com

Earning their place among Ireland’s prominent unsigned artists with their alternative, acoustic Indie sound, an award winning album and celebrated video releases. The Co.Cavan based trio take a break from recording the follow up L.P to their self titled debut album and announce a string of tour dates around Ireland.

Paul will perform a very special gig on Fri 30th May to launch his brand new studio album ‘Somebody I’m Not’ in An Culturlann, Derry. 

Paul will be joined by Marty Barr with support from Paddy Nash. 

The new album will be available to buy on the night of the gig and will also be available on iTunes. Tickets will be available from his online Store and An Culturlann very soon.

Pre-order the brand new album now at http://www.paulcaseymusic.com and receive a download of the first track from the album ‘Still In Love With You’ which was used recently on the Hit US ABC Network Series The Neighbors.

After playing hundreds of gigs including all the major festivals three years running, receiving airplay on the likes of RTE Radio One, Today FM and ‘Spin FM, and amassing over 250,000 YouTube hits on their music videos in the last two years, Funzo are finally ready to release their album!

Funzo, founded by singer and songwriter Liam McDermott, have performed over 250 gigs in Ireland since 2009, most notably, Ireland’s (and Europe’s) premiere music festivals; Oxegen, Electric Picnic and Hard Working Class Heroes. In 2013, Funzo’s music videos amassed over 250,000 views on Youtube. In 2008 and 2009, Funzo were invited to headline The Pogues’ Aftershow Party, where they were joined on stage by Shane MacGowan himself. In 2009, Funzo won their third national songwriting contest; Christmas FM’s ‘Search For A New Christmas Classic’, which resulted in mass national radio play and a live performance on TV3’s ‘Ireland AM’, the nation’s #1 morning programme.

Hit songwriter, Brendan Graham, will be the feature of a special documentary, “Fumbling for the Light – The Songs of Brendan Graham”, set to be broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 this coming Monday, 5^th May at 2pm. The show will be broadcast in advance of Brendan’s upcoming “Songwriting in Focus” session at IMRO on Saturday 17^th May.

Brendan Graham is one of Ireland’s most successful songwriters, having written two winning Eurovison entries for Ireland (Rock N Roll Kids and The Voice) as well as one of the most successful songs in the history of popular music, You Raise Me Up, which to date has been recorded over 800 times in 40 languages.

Details of Brendan’s “Songwriting in Focus” session at IMRO are available at our Events page here: https://imro.ie/events/