BSITWT #81

Four Tet - 'Love Cry'

Available to buy here. Nice appetiser before Hebden's latest album There Is Love in You comes our way, it is due for release in January next year. You can preview some of the artwork for it at: www.fourtet.net.

Added bonus following on from Ferg's heads up on BSITWT #80: Four Tet - 'Love Cry' (Joy Orbison remix)

Feel Good Scene

BSITWT #80

Jose James - Blackmagic (Joy Orbison's recreation)

Something a bit more housey than we are used to here. Delightful though. Joy Orbison appear to be a bit of a hit at the moment. Watch this space

Breakestra and the Candidates

Two delightful little additions to my musical world have stumbled by me this evening. Having looked at an old copy of The Ticket's New Music section, I popped onto the Myspace of the Candidates. They are a group of youngsters from Dublin, but beyond that I don't know much about them. However, they are providing something very rare for an emerging Irish group- a blend of funk and soul that would be much more at home in black America, and which really gets one in the mood for a dance.

As it turns out, they are supporting Breakestra, a hip hop/soul act from the US that have done work no less than Chali 2na (or charlie tuna in English) of Jurassic 5ive (five in English) in the Button Factory soon. As I listen to their latest album Dawn til Dusk, I am loving it all! Their music has all the elements, a fantastically deep, rough vocal, a jazz flute, and the classic injection of brass required. This promises to be an ass shaker!!!

The Candidates and Breakestra play the Button Factory, Sat 28th Nov

The Candidates Myspace
Breakestra Myspace
Breakestra - Need a little love (rapidshare)

HOMELIGHTS Festival - Whelan's, Dublin. Friday 27 - Monday 30 November 2009

Taken from the HOMELIGHTS MySpace page:

HOMELIGHTS is a weekend of music & visuals co-curated by Irish recording artist Adrian Crowley and independent music promoters Foggy Notions. It is a sister festival to Adem’s HOMEFIRES in London and the Fence Collective’s HOMEGAME in Fife and draws upon the themes of community and artistic kinship.

The line-up features numerous artists who Adrian has forged friendships with on his musical travels during his five album career to date, including some of his Fence Collective compadres, as well as legendary folk artists such as Vashti Bunyan and Andy Irvine for whom he holds great admiration.

This inaugural event will also double as a celebration of Adrian’s freshly consummated relationship with influential Scottish independent record label Chemikal Underground who will release his beautiful conceived fifth album Season of the Sparks in November 2009.

A long the way there’ll be numerous surprises, impromptu collaborations and surprise guests. Tickets are on sale including including the excellent value weekend tickets available from www.tickets.ie

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Friday Nov 27th. Upstairs @ Whelan's. 8pm
Adrian Crowley & Friends (solo performances & collaborations)
Tickets €12 incl booking fee
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Saturday Nov 28th. Whelan’s. 3pm – 10.30pm
Adrian Crowley (full band performance)
James Yorkston
Adem
Alasdair Roberts
& special guests tbc
Tickets €20 incl booking
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Sunday Nov 29th. Whelan’s. 3pm – 1.30am
Vashti Bunyan (full band performance)
Adrian Crowley (accompanied by Geese)
Andy Irvine (Planxty, Sweeney’s Men)
Minotaur Shock
Lord Cut-Glass (Chemikal Underground)
& full line-up tbc
Tickets €25 incl booking fee
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Monday Nov 30th. Whelan’s 8pm – 11pm
Dosh (Anticon)
Hulk (Osaka)
& special guests tbc
Tickets €15 incl booking fee
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Limited number of weekend tickets available from www.tickets.ie priced €45 (incl booking fee)

http://www.myspace.com/homelightsfestival
http://www.myspace.com/foggynotions
http://www.myspace.com/adriancrowley

Filter - Irish Electronic Music Conference

Specifically aimed at Electronic music, Filter will bring together a host of Irelands DJ's, Producers and Music professionals to the Riverbank Arts Centre for a selection of talks and workshops covering topics relevant to Dj's and Producers within the Irish Electronic Music Scene.

Line-up /
DJ/Producer Mark Kavanagh,
DJ/Producer Orla Feeney
David Timpson - RTE Pulse Station Controller,
DJ Christian Homan (Twilight on Pulse),
Jack Fox – Press officer for RTE Pulse,
DJ/Producer Kid Handsome,
DJ/Producer Reuben Keeney
Label Boss Desy Balmer - Nice&Nasty / DXR
Label Boss Paul Newhouse - Redboxrecordz

11am
1 Hour Logic Audio Workshop with Jeff Timony AKA Kid Handsome

12pm
1 Hour Ableton Live performance workshop with Enda Rochford AKA Captain Random

1pm Lunch

2pm
Forum of Peers – Discussion of relevant topics for DJ's and Producers.
Featuring:
Mark Kavanagh, Desy Balmer, Orla Feeney, Paul Newhouse, David Timpson, Christian Homan, Jack Fox, Jeff Timony, Reuben Keeney,

3.30pm
Technical/Hardware Demonstrations from FUTURESOUNDS.IE, Barry Dempsey (Monad/Virtue Studios)
ITF Scratch mixing champion DJ Flip who will give a demonstration on various turntable techniques

THIS IS A FREE EVENT - HOWEVER , TICKETS MUST MUST BE ORDERED IN ADVANCE FROM THE RIVERBANK BOX OFFICE

EMAIL: boxoffice@riverbank.ie
Email your details and the details of any additional guests

http://www.riverbank.ie/

Train from Dublin to Newbridge departs Heuston at 10.15 arriving at 10.52 - €13*

*We go the extra mile for you here at BTBW.

Andrew Bird, Casino de Paris, 13.11.09

American troubled genius Andrew Bird brought his solo act to Paris last Friday to the delight of a sold out Casino de Paris. While there were many highlights, including the classic Imitosis, there was definitely a sense that Bird is at the end of a long, sleepless frenzied journey*. The sounds were great, his genius was obvious, but the energy did not seem to be there in his one-man violin/whistling/xylophone/guitar show. Although this comparison is harsh considering the talent of Owen Palett, Bird's show falls a long way short of Final Fantasy's equivalent. The encore really left us with a smile, as Ben Jaffe from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (not sure where that is...) joined Bird on stage with his tuba for two barnstorming tracks. Here is one below:



*not only was there a sense, he actually said "I've been on the go for a long time and I need a break"

Grizzly Bear, Vicar St; Nov 1st

Sunday. You're tired, hungover and broke - Adrian Childs' flirtatious relationship with Lee Dixon on Match of the Day 2 should be the most complex thing you face all evening. Alas, one fateful sabbath, you're begrudgingly hauled through the curiously baltic microclimate that seperates Dublins 4 and 8 at the whim of a sadistic promoter. Lo and behold, your arsey Sunday mood is at once forgotten, and the rest of your evening is spent floating to the chimes of a gifted Brooklyn quartet.

Thus went Sunday last. Grizzly Bear were beautiful; every bit as harmonious, sparse and rich as their two classic records suggest. The broody Colorado was turned into an expansive epic; Two Weeks sounded like one of the best pop songs of the decade, and While You Wait For The Others swept you along its journey from a folky crusade into a harmonious show-stealer. The silent devotion was something to behold. A magical evening.

Secret Wars 2 - Bernard Shaw - 7 November 2009

Having introduced the infamous live street art battle to Dublin back in July, Secret Wars picks back up its pens for a very special battle! At 7pm on Friday 6th November, Secret Wars will be hosting a one off clash with the jumbo International's creative conference known as OFFSET in The Car Park of The Bernard Shaw. This event will see Secret Wars Dublin battling a team of guest artists chosen to represent OFFSET.

Visit www.secretwars.co.uk || www.iloveoffset.com

Lusine [LIVE] @ Lowerstate - 14 November 2009

www.lowerstate.ie

Perfection

Joy Division - Disorder

Really late and lazy review

Fabric had their 10th birthday recently, it was really tome, like.

Starting on Sat night and finishing early Monday morning, it was something to behold. BTBW saw Michael Mayer, Andrew Weatherall, Matthew Jonson, Ivan Smagghe, Steve Bug, and Ricardo Villalobos over a 24 hour period with a massive snooze in the middle somewhere. Highlight by a mile was Decompression by Jonson, although Villalobos' set full of evil gems was also great. Actually they were all great, God bless them. The people there are tossers though. Berlin pisses on London when it comes to that scene. Sorry....