Month: June 2012

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Nell Bryden to perform with Jools Holland at the Peninsular London Soul and Blues Festival on 20th July!

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Nell Bryden to perform with Jools Holland at the Peninsular London Soul and Blues Festival on 20th July!

Nell Bryden

Nell Bryden has the heart of an artist, the mind of a storyteller and the restless soul of a troubadour. These traits are in the genes of the native New Yorker – her parents are a painter and opera singer. But the self-belief and tireless work ethic that have seen her travel 300.000 miles to play 1.400 shows over the past seven years are all her own. In the past she has recorded in Nashville, New Orleans and New York. This time she’s written and recorded her album in and around London: her adopted second home. “A lot of the songs are about starting over, about rebirth and rebuilding,” says Nell. “And finding my way home… wherever that is.” http://www.peninsula-festival.eu/en/Events/London-Soul-en-Blues-festival.html

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Final acts announced for GiftedLive July 5th + special guest The View!

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GIFTEDLIVE> Get closer to the bands you love, without leaving your house.

Final Line up announced for the July 5th show!

Belfast’s premier online music show set in a format similar to a TV show, has announced its July 5th line up. After the success of the recent shows featuring well known luminaries such as Duke Special, A Plastic Rose, Pugwash, Wonder Villains & Two Door Cinema Club to name but a few – the July 5th line up is as impressive as ever.

Broadcasted live and direct from stunning venue The Belfast Empire Music Hall and hosted by well-known BBC Radio 1 presenter Philly Taggart, Giftedlive has announced more special guests for the July 5th show.

Full line up announced below

Thursday 5th July: Live acts on the night:

The Answer – will be putting on an Exclusive performance of their highly regarded ‘Rise’ album!

David Kitt- Choice Music Award Nominee will be playing some of his best known hits plus more!

Kopek– playing tracks from their critically acclaimed album ‘White Collar Lies’ which has seen various tracks synced across Tv & Film worldwide such as Saw3D, American Pie Reunion, MTV and Sky Sports!

The Riptide Movement- The Band who are known as one of the best Busking bands to come out of Ireland will be getting their rootsy rock stuff on and delivering some quality tunes from their new Top Charting album.

Other acts include: Cosmo Jarvis & BeeMickSee

+ Special Pre-Recorded Performances by

The View– ahead of their eagerly awaiting 4th album release of ‘Cheeky For A Reason’ the Scottish band will be dropping in a giving us a preview of tracks from the album and chatting to Philly.

General Fiasco– playing songs from their latest release ‘Don’t You Ever’!

Other very special acts include:  Shake!, Droids & Nanu Nanu

*All GiftedLive.com shows are streamed for Free – Live & Online.  And if you’re worried that you’re missing out on the adrenaline-fuelled impact of a live gig; that feeling will vanish once you watch your favourite band live – in real time – on your very own front of house seat, from your own home, lap top or mobile device. GiftedLive.com offers you the chance to share the ‘live gig experience’ …but with all the creature comforts of home.

See it for FREE Online Shows starts at 9pm on @ http://www.giftedlive.com/

Or attend the gig in The Belfast Empire Music Hall on this night Adm £10 at door! arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Join in on the banter on the night in real time/ Interact with the hosts/ Have your say on the performances!

www.facebook/giftedlive 
www.Twitter.com/gifted_live


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Adela & The Meanits reveal music video for Andy.

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Set to release new single ‘Andy’ in July (The 13th) Adela & The Meanits revealed the official music video for the track. “Andy is a song I wrote after a male friend of mine tried on my mothers clothes. The idea of both a male and female persona intrigued me and gave me the idea of this character; Andy”- Says lead singer Adela Meally.

The video’s story line follows ‘Demi Whore’, a well known Dublin Drag Queen, as she sets off on an interview for a job, in both personas of ‘Andy’. Bold and efficaciously fun, this charming song and video is taken from the album ‘Kinda Wild’ which will be released in the August 2012 in support of the Long Road Home tour the band will be taking on which involves playing 32 gigs in the 32 counties of Ireland in the month of August.

“Combining all the charming characteristics exuded so effortlessly on the stage: upbeat, off-kilter pop-songs that skateboard down the hand-rail between chart and alternative that make it quite impossible not to fall a little bit in love with Adela. And her multi-talented Meanits of course! (GMan). ‘Andy’ is a contagious little number that will lodge inside your brain where the word ‘FUN’ resides and it’ll bloody damn well refuse to leave! But don’t take our word for it, check it out!” (FUGM) 

LINKS:

www.adelaandthemeanits.com

http://www.facebook.com/Adelaandthemeanits

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Determined musician Nell Bryden refused to let hair loss ruin her life.

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‘I grabbed Dad’s hair clippers to take control of my alopecia’

Nell Bryden spoke so bravely about her hair loss for the first time over the weekend in the Daily Mail:

READ HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2163672/Nell-Bryden-alopecia-Musician-talks-hair-loss.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Positive face: Nell sees her condition as a 'wake-up call' for life

Positive face: Nell sees her condition as a ‘wake-up call’ for life

Excerpt: Sitting in front of the mirror in my New York apartment, I saw a reflection I hardly recognised. I looked sick. My hair was so thin, large patches of my scalp showed through. My eyebrows and eyelashes were practically gone, too. This wasn’t me, I thought. It felt like a nightmare. But it wasn’t.

Until this moment, I had never realised how much my hair had been intertwined with my identity.

I picked up the clippers I had borrowed from my father and I raised them to my head. At the moment the buzzing metal hit my skin, a giant clap of thunder rang out. Rain began to fall outside as what was left of my hair fell to the floor.

Just three weeks earlier, I had bouncy blonde locks that I could gather into a ponytail or curl into ringlets. I half-heartedly complained about bad hair days but I never really had any. Sure, I had my little insecurities, like most women, about my thighs and my nose, but my hair had never been one of them.

I was confident, healthy and feminine, and I assumed that I would always stay that way. If you had told me when I was younger that I’d be completely bald by the age of 33, I’d have laughed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2163672/Nell-Bryden-alopecia-Musician-talks-hair-loss.html#ixzz1yn5yStPo

Nell’s new album ‘Shake The Tree’ is out now and she returns to Ireland on July 10th for an acoustic session in The Ruby Sessions in Dublin before her Electric Picnic performance on Aug 31st.

For more info see: https://www.facebook.com/nellbrydenmusic

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Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson ready for Irish Leg of their European tour

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Here is one band you do not want to miss out on live:

 

Irish Tour dates:

Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson will be touring nationally to support Wiley Ways.

JUNE

22nd of June Amplified Bar, Newry, (N.IRL)

29th of June The Listening Post, Colraine (N.IRL)

JULY

Sun 1st – Crane Lane Theatre, Cork (IRL)

Tue 10th – The Greyhound, Kilkee, Co/Clare (IRL)

Wed 11th – Kennys Venue, Lahinch (IRL)

Thur 12th – Monroes, Galway (IRL)

Fri 13th – Cobblestones, Dublin (IRL)

Sat 14th – Roisin Dubh, Galway (IRL)

Sun 15th – Whelans, Dublin (IRL)

Mon 16th – Mick Murphys, Ballymore Eustace (IRL)

AUG

Fri 10th – Black Box, Belfast (N.IRL)

Thur 30th – Boyles, Slane (IRL)

Fri 31st – Electric Picnic, (IRL)

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The View announce a three-date Irish tour in Belfast, Cork and Dublin, this September.

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With the release of their new album on July 6th, The View announces a three-date Irish tour in Belfast, Cork and Dublin, this September.

The View will play:

Fri 7th Sep: BELFAST, Limelight

Sat 8th Sep: CORK, Cyprus Avenue

Sun 9th Sep: DUBLIN, Whelan’s

Tickets for their Dublin show is priced €22.90 incl. booking fee and on sale this Friday 22nd at 9am from Ticketmaster outlets and online at www.ticketmaster.ie

‘Cheeky For A Reason’ will be released by the bands new label Cooking Vinyl on July 6th and preceded by a single “How Long” on 25th June.

The album is the band’s fourth, after the Mercury-nominated #1 debut ‘Hats Off To The Buskers’, the Top 10 follow-up ‘Which Bitch’ and 2011’s Top 20 ‘Bread & Circuses’, and is currently being recorded at Liverpool’s Motor Museum Studios with producer Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, Razorlight, Foals). Early track titles that are vying for inclusion on the album include ’Bunker’, ‘The Clock Has No Sympathy’,’ Anfield Row’ ‘How Long’ and ‘AB’.

The self-penned album includes three songs written by Kyle & Kieren with writer/producer and unofficial 5th member of Kings Of Leon – Angelo Petraglia.

The Scottish quartet will preview the album’s release by embarking upon an intimate UK tour in June & July. Allowing Irish fans to embrace the feedback prior to September, where we will see The View come to Irish shores to play three dates in Belfast, Cork and Dublin.

Links
www.theviewareonfire.com

Irish PR contact: Linda@goodseedpr.com

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New Single from Adela & The Meanits announced: ANDY out July 13th

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 Adela & The Meanits:

Single ‘Andy’ Ft. bonus track ‘Comic Book Dreams’ Out July 13th
+ The ‘Long road home’ tour of Ireland..
32 counties & 32 gigs in the month of August!

Adela & the Meanits are a band so red hot cool they must surely be illegal, or at least seriously frowned upon by squares. After a chance encounter on a St Patrick’s Day float in Portlaoise, Adela met drummer Ros O’ Meara. Then a member of several bands, Ros introduced Adela to Barry Hayes who in turn introduced everyone to John Davidson. Like peas in a far out pod… catapulted from years of abject obscurity in the Irish midlands… they soon became a group of four: Adela and the Meanits.

After making their powerfully memorable debut performance at Electric Picnic back in 2009, the band have since paid their dues and gigged the necessary venues and festivals in Ireland such as Indiependence, Knockinstockin, Helium, Blue Breeze, Milk, Happy Valley, Dublin City Soul Festival and more.

Their music has been likened to Madness, Sultans of Ping and Lily Allen, but comparisons aside their music contains refreshing elements of pop, folk & trash can jazz that when combined, somehow manage to have a mainstream appeal. With songs that are catchy as f*ck and musicianship that is so roasting hot it is hard to imagine this band staying under the radar for much longer. All four musicians are multi-instrumentalists and incorporate vocals, double bass, piano, ukulele, melodica, drums/percussion, nylon string guitar and violin with effects pedals into each live performance.

Set to release their debut album in August, single ‘Andy’ precedes just in time for this years summer festivals. The upcoming studio album has a definite left of centre pop sound. But for now, taster ‘Andy’ should boost interest surrounding the band in a speed like- is that a bird or a plane- manner.

GIGS: For their album release in August the band have decided to do 32 gigs in 32 counties in Ireland to celebrate the album, all the counties will be covered in the entire month of August! See: www.adelaandthemeanits.com for all updates!

LINKS:

www.adelaandthemeanits.com

http://www.facebook.com/Adelaandthemeanits

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THE VIEW REVEAL NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘HOW LONG’

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THE VIEW reveal new music video for Single ‘HOW LONG’
Taken from album ‘Cheeky For A Reason’

“How Long” is the first single taken from The View’s 4th album Cheeky For A Reason, released through Cooking Vinyl & released on July 9th. ( July 6th in Ireland )

Pre-Order Cheeky For A Reason: http://amzn.to/cheekyforareasontheview
How Long is available to buy now from iTunes: http://bit.ly/howlongitunes

http://www.theviewareonfire.com
http://twitter.com/viewofficial
http://www.facebook.com/View
Notes to Editors
Director:
Scott Davidson for Nipote Film
in association with the Visual Effects Research Lab

Producers :
Rose Hendry & Scott Davidson

Video:
Featuring Martin Compston
with Laura McMonagle, Lauren Andrew, Sky Barr, Julie Wilkes, Lorraine Murdoch, Sonny Rehilhu and introducing Steve Martin

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GiftedLive July show line up!

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…a new way to experience live music. 

Get closer to the bands you love, without leaving your house.

“SITE OF THE WEEK” – THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

Acts announced for the July show!

 

‘Gifted’ has been running at The Empire Music Hall for over 11 years and has showcased some of the finest talent to ever emerge from these shores.  Everyone from Duke Special to The Answer, Fighting with Wire, General Fiasco, The Riptide Movement, Pugwash, Desert Hearts, A Plastic Rose, Wonder Villains, Olympic Lifts, Oppenheimer, Two Door Cinema Club; the list reads like a who’s who of Irish music. Only this year can you watch the show online at giftedlive.com.

‘GiftedLive.com’ are bringing you closer to the bands you love, without you having to leave the comfort of your home. An ‘online music show’ set in a format similar to a TV show, it is broadcasted live and direct from stunning venue The Belfast Empire Music Hall and hosted by presenter Ríonach McGlinchey.

It’s the first online music show of its kind based around a live gig.  GiftedLive.com features the best new music around. From the established stars to the undiscovered gems – they ‘gift it live’ to the world!

All GiftedLive.com shows are streamed for Free – Live & Online.  And if you’re worried that you’re missing out on the adrenaline-fuelled impact of a live gig; that feeling will vanish once you watch your favourite band live – in real time – on your very own front of house seat, from your own home, lap top or mobile device. GiftedLive.com offers you the chance to share the ‘live gig experience’ …but with all the creature comforts of home!

Or you can always come down to The Belfast Empire Music Hall and witness the magic in person. It is a live gig after all! For those of you who do however want to attend the gigs in person, tickets are priced at £10 and are available at the door of The Empire Music Hall Belfast from 8:30pm onwards on the night of each show.

Each performance is filmed on multi-cameras and cut live on location. All performances are archived and available for viewing on www.GiftedLive.com

Thursday 5th July:

The Answer (Exclusive performance of ‘Rise’ album)

David Kitt
Kopek
The Riptide Movement
Cosmo Jarvis
BeeMickSee
+ Special Recorded Performances by

General Fiasco, Shake! & Droids

To attend the above gigs in person:

Doors: 8:30pm / Adm: £10 @ The Belfast Empire

or

 See it for FREE Online

Shows starts at 9pm on @ http://www.giftedlive.com/

www.facebook/giftedlive
www.Twitter.com/gifted_live

For all Giftedlive.com info contact

Linda Coogan Byrne

 linda@goodseedpr.com

+353 851659065

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