Month: February 2015

Brian Mooney and Dylan Tighe will be heading out on a double tour hitting venues in Cork and Dublin this March.

Dylan Tighe’s debut album , Record, was released in 2014 to widespread acclaim. The Sunday Times declared Dylan an “exquisite songwriter,” while RTÉ proclaimed the album “starkly brilliant” and “a deeply personal and deeply moving piece of work”.

Since the 1990’s Brian Mooney has performed and recorded with The Idiots, Jape, Si Schroeder, David Kitt and Beautiful Unit. He founded indie record label, Trust Me I’m A Thief, in 2004 and most recently toured as support for Little Green Cars.

Catch performances from both Dylan and Brian at:

DeBarra’s, Clonakilty – 4th March

Levi’s, Ballydehob – 5th March

Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh – 6th March

Whelans (upstairs), Dublin – 7th March

For more see www.dylantighe.bandcamp.com and http://brianmooney.bandcamp.com/releases.

“Another Fine Mess” is the new album from Dublin ska and reggae band, The Bionic Rats. The album is the third for the band and is now available on Bandcamp.

The album is an independent release, recorded by Graham Birney and Richie Hayes, with contributions from a range of Dublin based musicians including Donagh Molloy on trumpets, Mason McMillen on tenor sax, Antonello D’Orazio on alto sax, soprano sax and flute, Chris Rooney on trombone and Gary ‘bongos’ O’Brien on percussion. Guitars, lead vocals and backing vocals come from Derek Clabby, with Richie Hayes and Graham Birney completing the line-up on drums, keys and bass.

The Bionic Rats have a residency in The Turks Head every Friday at 23:30 and every Sunday in The Foggy Dew at 19:30. The band play their first festival of the year on Saturday 4th April at the Tramore Ska Festival.

For more see https://thebionicrats.bandcamp.com/.

Dublin/Malmö songwriter, Goodtime, releases his new single, “Did You Even Notice?”, on 23rd February.

The track is the first to be taken from his upcoming album set to be released on RITE Label.

The single will be available via iTunes, Spotify, Amazon or direct from Goodtime’s Bandcamp page.

Scotland’s John B McKenna collaborated on the video for the single, a ghostly hypnotic journey through the eyes of Herbert Pontings 1910 imagery of a tragic Antarctic expedition.

For more see http://soundcloud.com/goodtimemusic.

Colm Mac Con Iomaire returns with his second album And Now The Weather (Agus Anois An Aimsir) on 17th April. This is the follow-up to his debut solo album in 2008, The Hare’s Corner.

Tickets are on sale from today for the album launch show in Whelans, Dublin which will take place on Friday 17th April.

Following on from the solo run that was The Hare’s Corner, And Now the Weather marks a return to collaboration for Colm, featuring an impressive line-up of orchestral players and instruments.

The album was recorded by Karl Odlum, Leon O’ Neill and Colin Elliot in studios and homes across Wexford, Wicklow, Sheffield, Dublin and San Francisco.

An accomplished fiddle player and founding member of The Frames, Colm has also had successes as a composer with music featured in both film and theatre.

“The Finnish Line” taken from the album is now streaming on Soundcloud.

Tickets for Colm’s Whelan’s show are €16.50 and on sale now.

http://www.colmmacconiomaire.com

Irish composer, Dean Valentine, has had a series of successes scoring music for film trailers in the past couple of years. He recently scored trailers for “Fury” starring Brad Pitt and Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper”.

The feature documentary, “Close to Evil”, which Dean scored last year is currently showing in film festivals around the world. The documentary tells the story of Tomi Reichental, a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp who now lives in Ireland, and his quest to meet one of the SS guards who kept him in captivity.

Now Dean is working on the score for a feature film, “Tiger Raid”, set in Iraq and starring Brian Gleeson and Damien Molony. The film is due to hit cinemas later this year.

For more see http://www.deanvalentine.eu/.

Elephant, the musical vehicle of Dundalk based multi-instrumentalist Shane Clarke, offers an intriguing live show of intimate acoustic guitars and subtly looped layers tied with colourful melody and enchanting harmonies.

Putting music centre stage, in discussion with composer Stephen Rennicks, ‘Music for the Screen’ will explore the collaborative relationship between composer and director, the possibilities and practicalities around the business of music composition for the screen.

Date: 10th February
Time: 7.00pm – 8.00pm
Location: Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin 2

Email: Bookings

Stephen Rennicks has been writing music for TV and film for the past 15 years. He is best known for his collaboration with director Lenny Abrahamson and together they’ve formed one of Irish cinemas most successful and enduring partnerships. The pair began working together on Abrahamson’s first short film 3 Joes in 1991. In 2004 the film Adam and Paul won Best Film at the Irish Film and Television Awards announcing the arrival of Lenny Abrahamson as a director and Stephen Rennicks as a composer. From there, Rennicks went on to compose the score for Abrahamson’s 2007 film Garage and his 2012 film What Richard Did, both of which won the IFTA for best film. What Richard Did was described by The Irish Times as ‘The most important Irish film of this century’, and it went on to be the highest grossing Irish film of 2012.

Frank is Abrahamson’s and Rennicks’ fifth and most celebrated work to date. Frank stars Michael Fassbender, Domnhall Gleeson and Maggie Gyllenhaal. As a musically driven feature, it has given Rennicks the opportunity to work both as composer and musical director. Rennicks was recently nominated for a British independent Film Award for his score on Frank and Silva screen records has recently released the soundtrack for the film which is available to download on iTunes. Rennicks’ work in film and TV has not been limited to collaborations with Lenny Abrahamson. His television work includes Pure Mule, Bittersweet, and No Laughing Matter. He’s also composed the music for Man About Dog directed by Paddy Breathnach, Stephen Bradley’s Boy Eats Girl and John Butler’s 2013 hit film The Bachelor Weekend. Currently he is writing the score for the Channel Four Drama Cut. –

See more at: http://www.ifta.ie/events/dts/stephenrennicks.php#sthash.ZLrUpSvj.dpuf