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  • Free Music Monday: 06/06/2011

    Pete Lawrie A Little Darker MixtapeI interviewed Pete Lawrie last week and was intrigued to hear about his genre hopping antics and his love of sample based music.

    Later, I found some remixes of Pete’s that I really liked, then I found this.  Pete’s ‘A Darker Light Mixtape’.

    On his soundcloud page, Pete explains about the mixtape..

    ‘When I started writing for A Little Brighter, my debut album, I made a conscious decision to try and reign in my tendency to genre hop. I wanted to make a record as a full body of work. To maybe segue the songs with instrumentals, samples. A feeling of something moving, growing. As time went on, this became difficult. My voice was changing, maturing. Songs from years passed began rearing their heads and the result is more of a collection of songs. Songs that I am very proud of writing, but with more of a jukebox feel than my original vision. A Little Darker is my attempt to finish what I started.’

    A Little Darker by petelawrie

    Pete Lawrie plays the Body & Soul Festival which takes place in Ballinlough Castle on June 18th/19th.

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  • Riverdance is back in Ireland

    riverdanceThe phenomenon that grew from a Eurovision interlude is back for its eighth season in the Gaiety. Riverdance will run from Jun 28th until August 28th in the Dublin theatre before heading sound to INEC in Killarney for shows from August 30th to September 4th.

    Riverdance, Composed by Bill Whelan, Produced by Moya Doherty and Directed by John McColgan is now in its 16th year and has been seen live by over 22 million people world-wide, which is amazing.

    As I yet again fail my Irish citizenship test, I haven’t seen the show live but in my old job about 11 years ago, I had to duplicate the video tapes for the extravaganza. My favourite was the version of Riverdance from Radio City.

  • Competition: Blood Brothers at The Gaiety

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    The lovely folk at The Gaiety have given me a pair of tickets so one of you can see Blood Brothers this Thursday, June 9th.

    All you have to do is leave a comment below and sure why not like my Facebook page while you’re at it! Competition closes on Tuesday June 7th at 3 p.m.

    If you’re not familiar with Blood Brothers, it has won four Best Musical awards in London and was nominated for seven Tony awards, so it’s well worth seeing.  (more…)

  • The Hot Sprockets: Honeyskippin’ Review

    HotSprockets HoneySkippinListening to The Hot Sprockets, it’s hard to make out where they are from, which in a universal world is great and what you’d want. Instead of sounding like they are from South Dublin, these guys sound like the are from the Deep South of the U.S.A. Over the past few years, avid connoisseurs of the Dublin scene will have no doubt seen the band, as they honed and perfected their sound. The culmination of that work is their debut record ‘Honeyskippin”.

    Starting off is the current single Cruisin’, uptempo with a memorable ‘ooh ooh’ refrain and is a great introduction to the album. Recorded in Spain and produced by Boz Boorer, The Hot Sprockets have managed to capture a timeless sound, not entirely crystal clear with a nice vocal effect giving an old microphone feel.

    The album is a definite how to in dirty country rock, that’s not saying it formulaic, it’s saying, The Hot Sprockets have taken classic structures, updated and given them the Sprocket treatment. What they’ve ended up with is a damn fine contemporary dirty rock album. (more…)