Author: Press Officer

Other Voices season gets into full swing in the coming weeks, as further details of the TV music event of the year are unveiled. The world renowned music recordings will take place in front of a live audience in St. James’ Church, Dingle, Co. Kerry on Saturday December 1st, Sunday December 2nd and Monday December 3rd, with the IMRO Other Room closed recording session taking place on Friday November 30th. While the day-to-day line-up has yet to be revealed, almost all of the artists performing at St. James’ Church over the three day music extravaganza have been confirmed: Aaron Dessner (The National), Kodaline, Local Natives, Luluc, Owen Pallet, Palma Violets, Paul Buchanan, SOAK, The Staves, The Strypes, The Unthanks, This Is The Kit and Villagers. The IMRO Other Room artists, as well as the Other Voices Viewer’s Choice nominees, will be announced shortly.

A new dimension to this year’s event is the much welcomed announcement that RTÉ Two will broadcast live from St. James’ Church on Sunday December 2nd. The broadcast will bring a selection of performances to a huge Irish TV audience, who will be able to watch Other Voices live for the first time in its eleven year history. The broadcast will run from 7pm to 9pm on RTÉ Two on Sunday December 2nd and two artists confirmed for broadcast already are Villagers and Paul Buchanan, with more to be announced. Irish viewers will also be able to tune in and watch the performances live from Dingle on Sunday December 2nd and Monday December 3rd at www.RTE.ie

With the capacity of St. James’ Church limited to posterior space for just 80 musical fetishists, the Other Voices team work hard each year to create an exhilarating festival atmosphere on the streets and in the hostelries of Dingle, throughout the weekend. Thousands of music fans set up camp in the many fine hotels, guesthouses and B&B’s scattered across Dingle and while some manage to nab Church tickets the majority spend the weekend enjoying the Intune Network live streaming of the Church performances in many of Dingle’s favourite pubs including Benners, Foxy John’s and McCarthy’s. Other Voices fans will also enjoy the Music Trail, a series of free music events which take place in the fine establishments of Dingle on Saturday and Sunday. This year’s Other Voices Music Trail will feature artists performing at the Church and the IMRO Other Room, as well as many Irish acts including Daithi O’Dronai, Toy Soldier, Neon Wolf, Mick Heslin and In The Willows. A number of very special guest performances in and around Dingle over the weekend are on the cards!

Following the Dingle recordings, Other Voices will head north in February 2013 for a three day residency at Glassworks in Derry-Londonderry on February 8th, 9th and 10th, celebrating the city’s eminent status as UK Capital of Culture 2013. Already announced for the Derry-Londonderry leg of the three part musical journey are Marina and The Diamonds, Django Django, Neil Hannon and Jesca Hoop. In April, the TV music event will journey eastwards bringing Other Voices to the heart of East London for the first time, produced in association with the Barbican. The London venue is yet to be confirmed and artists taking part in the Derry-Londonderry and London outings will be announced soon..

Curated by Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy
In association with Quiet Music Ensemble and St. Anne’s Church

24 November 2012, 3pm – 9pm
St. Anne’s Church, Shandon, Cork
Admission €5

For the seventh year running, The Guesthouse presents SONIC VIGIL, a marathon of new and improvised music, sound art, live electronics, installations and more.

SONIC VIGIL is curated by Cork-based artists Danny McCarthy and Mick O’Shea, who are internationally renowned both for their visual work and their ground-breaking sonic explorations as duo the Quiet Club. Their invited guests include prominent solos and collectives from the Republic, including Harry Moore, Katie O’Looney, Karen Power, Jesse Ronneau, Tony Langlois, Paul Hegarty and Anthony Kelly plus Gruenrekorder artist Tobias Schmitt (Frankfurt).

The Vigil features Ireland’s unique Experimental Music group, Quiet Music Ensemble, which will be giving world premieres of 8 new pieces by up and coming composers from Ireland, Scotland and the USA: Andrea Bonino, Francis Heery, Alexander Hunter, Donal Mac Erlaine, Rachel Ni Chuinn, Robin Parmar, Conal Ryan, Charlie Sdraulig.

Hosting the Vigil this year is St. Anne’s Church, Shandon, which is renowned as home of the ‘Shandon Bells’, the trademark sound of the city. The Vigil includes a brand new piece for the bells by composer/improviser David Stalling.

Cork City has one of Europe’s hottest improvisation scenes, and the Sonic Vigil is the climax of the year’s events. This is an event of extraordinary sounds, incredible diversity and cutting-edge creativity. There’s nothing else like it in Ireland!

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Christine Deady and Enda Reilly were announced as winners of the IMRO Christie Hennessy Song Competition 2012 at the live final in The Brandon Hotel, Tralee, on Saturday night for their song “Follow The Water”.

Ten finalists selected from almost 200 entries across Ireland performed their original songs in front of a live audience and panel of judges – Brian Hurley (Radio Kerry), Kieran Ruttledge (Tralee Chamber Alliance), Áine Murray (Kerry School of Music / Siamsa Tire) and Keith Johnson (IMRO).

Christine Deady is a songwriter from Skibbereen, West Cork. She comes from a large musical family and has spent some time earning her badges gigging the Irish music scene. Already in her short career she has been shortlisted Most Promising New Act 2010 at the Meteor Awards, shortlisted by Vodafone as a “Bright New Sound”, and shortlisted in the Best Irish Female category for the Balcony TV Awards, that’s a lot of shortlisting! Christine has spent the last number of years working on honing her craft as a songwriter and is currently in the midst of recording her debut album.

Dublin singer-songwriter Enda Reilly writes in both English and Irish and his Irish songs can be heard regularly on RTÉ Raidio na Gaeltachta and RTÉ 1. To date in 2012, Enda has also had appearances on TG4 and BBC2 NI. He has represented Ireland in Inverness at Nós Úr a minority language song competition and his song Dónal Ná Fág sung by Aoife Scott represented Ireland in Liet 2012 in Italy.  2012 has seen Enda perform in Paris and at the London Irish Olympic House with the poet Stephen James Smith with their Arise and Go! spoken word and song collaboration project. He also reaches out to younger generations through his Climate Change Songs Workshops initiative, bringing fun songs and environmental issues into schools and other groups, through Irish and English. He also plays regularly with the fun-loving collective, The Lazy Band in Dublin. His next project after Arise and Go will be in the Irish language, which he’s currently recording and mixing.

Christine and Enda met on a weekend of songwriting in Carlingford where a number of writers got together, rented a house and shared songwriting ideas, tips and woes and so ‘Follow the water’ was born.

Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism presented Christine and Enda with a cheque for €1,000 on the night, which came courtesy of Tralee Chamber Alliance.

The live final of the IMRO Christie Hennessy Song Competition 2012, hosted by IMRO, took place as a celebration of the life and music Christie Hennessy, one of Tralee´s most famous sons.

The IMRO Christie Hennessy Song Contest is supported by Tralee Chamber Alliance, Radio Kerry, Tralee Town Council, Kerry’s Eye, Tralee Advertiser, The Troubadour Club and The Brandon Hotel.

An invitation to artists of all genres to submit their video for consideration for the final slot at the IMRO Other Room at Other Voices, Dingle, 2012.

The final band will be chosen by Other Voices fans!

International TV music event Other Voices returns to Dingle, Co. Kerry on December 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Already announced for the line-up are Mercury Prize nominees Villagers, legendary Blue Nile frontman Paul Buchanan, Derry breakthrough artist SOAK and eclectic indie folksters The Unthanks. Just added to the bill: an evening curated by Aaron Dessner from The National, which will feature LA rockers Local Natives plus a number of special guests. Breaking Irish band Kodaline will return from the UK to perform at St. James’ Church and Cavan popsters The Strypes will bring their retro stylings to Dingle’s rock’n’roll chapel. Acoustic folk trio The Staves have also accepted the Other Voices invitation. Internationally acclaimed actor and self confessed music junkie Aidan Gillen will again host the Other Voices series. Further artists will be announced in the coming days. Limited tickets for the recorded events will be made available through competitions in the media, as well as on Other Voices social media outlets – Facebook ‘Other Voices’ and Twitter ‘@othervoiceslive’. For all up to date information see www.othervoices.ie

Each year, Other Voices provides a TV and online platform for a collection of emerging musicians and bands in the IMRO Other Room. Speaking of their Other Room partnership IMRO Chief Executive Victor Finn said: “Other Voices takes a significant step forward this year with its expansion from Dingle to Derry – Londonderry and London. IMRO is delighted to be once again part of this unique and special gathering of songwriting and performing talent. IMRO has a strong reputation as a champion and supporter of new music creation and the IMRO Other Room provides the perfect platform for this. Series 11 promises to be yet another exceptional year for Other Voices”.

This year’s IMRO Other Room will feature a number of new Irish bands, as well as artists from Derry – Londonderry and the UK, to reflect the branching out of Other Voices to new homes in Derry-Londonderry in February and London in April of next year. Applications for a performance slot in the IMRO Other Room reach beyond the 1,000 mark each year, making scheduling an enormously difficult task for the producers. This year, Other Voices have made the decision to give music fans the opportunity to select the artist for the final IMRO Other Room slot.

Other Voices invites artists of all genres to submit a YouTube video (it can be a video or a still image with audio) for consideration. All video applications should be sent via the submisson form on the Other Voices website. Each video submitted will be loaded onto the ‘Other Room Open Call’ page at www.othervoices.ie, where it can be viewed by Other Voices fans across the world. Artists will have until Monday November 19th to submit their link.

After this time, each video will be considered and the entries will be whittled down to a shortlist of approximately twenty, which will then be handed over to a music industry panel from Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK and their three top picks will be announced. Other Voices fans will then have a few days to like their favourite artist on the Other Voices YouTube Channel. The band shown the most love by voting fans will take a slot at the IMRO Other Room in Dingle. There will be a similar opportunity for bands to take part in Other Room events in Derry-Londonderry and London.

Speaking of the announcement, Series Editor Philip King said “Each year, we are inundated with a wealth of incredible young artists wishing to take part in the IMRO Other Room. We shoot this element of Other Voices over one, very long day, taking in as many acts as we can over a multitude of genres. The footage from this shoot is then added to the final Other Voices TV mix and broadcast across the world on a host of platforms. It’s a wonderful opportunity for us to support and nurture fresh new music and a great chance for emerging artists to be seen and heard by a significant global audience. This year, we are delighted to engage with Other Voices fans and invite them to allocate the last IMRO Other Room slot to the band of their choice. All submitted videos will be featured on the Other Voices website for the duration of the Open Call, giving new artists exposure to the many thousands of music fans who visit our site each week”.

For information and full submission details for the ‘Viewer’s Choice IMRO Other Room’ initiative, please go to www.othervoices.ie

Aslan, who celebrate their 30th year together this year, pop into IMRO later this month for a chat and live peformance of some of their greatest hits.

Date: Thursday 29th November
Location: IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Dublin 2.
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Interviewer: Paddy McKenna, RTE 2FM

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To reserve a place at this event send an email to membership@nullimro.ie

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About Aslan

Aslan, who took their name from the heroic lion in the C.S. Lewis series of books chronicling the fictional land of
Narnia, (Aslan is the Turkish for ‘Lion’), emerged from the working class areas of Finglas and Ballymun in Dublin’s Northside, in the mid 1980s. They released a demo single, ‘This Is’, in the Spring of 1986, which was a huge hit and became the longest ever play-listed single on Ireland’s pop radio station, RTÉ 2fm.

After a series of shows in the UK, Aslan picked up The Stag/Hot Press,’ Most Promising New Band’ award and signed to EMI. In 1988 their debut album, ‘Feel No Shame’, went straight to Number 1 in the Irish charts and within a couple of months was certified Gold. In the same year, just as the option for their 2nd album had been picked up, Aslan infamously imploded, torn apart by overindulgence of all kinds.

What was supposed to be a one-off charity gig in July 1993 in Finglas reignited the spark and Aslan landed a new record deal with BMG. Their single, “Crazy World”, entered the charts at Number 4 and became one of the most played songs on Irish radio that year. Its release was followed by their Gold-selling album, ‘Goodbye Charlie Moonhead’.

Aslan’s self-released third album, ‘Here Comes Lucy Jones’, led to the band being nominated in seven categories of the 1997 Hot Press readers poll. A series of successful releases followed including double-platinum “Best of” album, ‘Shame About Lucy Moonhead’, platinum selling ‘Waiting For This Madness To End’, triple-platinum selling ‘The Platinum Collection’, top-ten charting ‘For Some Strange Reason’ and their covers album, ‘Aslan Uncase’d’.

2010 saw the band undertake an extensive Australian tour which took them to Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra.

“Please Don’t Stop”, a film made by Paul Andrews, Daragh Murphy and Ronan Quinn, documenting the band’s 30 years together, premiered in Dublin earlier this year and is now available on DVD. Aslan scored another Irish album chart number one this year when their latest album, ‘Nudie Books and Frenchies’, was released on EMI. Not only did the fans like the album, but the critics described it as one of Aslan’s best albums to date and it received rave reviews across the board.

THE LION IS STILL ROARING…