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  • Diary: Avec Sans // Live at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen

    Diary: Avec Sans // Live at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen

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    Avec Sans // Live at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen // June 9 2016

    Hoxton Square Bar was the venue for Avec Sans album launch on June 9th, following the release of ‘Heartbreak Hi’ on June 3rd.

    I’ve been a fan of the duo since I heard them first in 2012 and have played them on the radio but tonight was my first time seeing them live.

    The duo, Alice Fox and Jack St James, have a pretty slick live set up. Fox provides the vocals while St James, has a keyboard and three Novation launchpads on stage which face the audience. Apart from letting the audience actually see that you’re hitting a few buttons and triggers, the Launchpads also provide a pretty cool visual, with a preprogrammed light show accompanying each song.

    Those familiar with the pair, will recognise, Shiver, The Answer, When You Go and current single Heartbreak Hi, which to be honest is so bloody catchy, it’s a crying shame it’s not blowing up on every radio station right now.

    Avec Sans describe themselves as an electro pop group. In the past there seems to have been a little bit of snobbery with being called a pop group, of any sort, but these guys have nailed that. They produce really great pop songs, songs that we should be hearing on the radio, songs that have the potential to be very popular.

    The pair are quite a visual band, always appearing in monochrome, and the lengths they go to to maintain the detail is immense, down to having a white microphone cable for contrast.

    The night is finished off with an encore rendition of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill, which is simply spectacular.(Listen and Download the studio version here).

    Visually striking, sonically beautiful, the world needs a bit more Avec Sans in their lives.

    Get the album

    Watch the video for Heartbreak Hi.

  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 119

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 119

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    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 119 // May 28 2016

    On this week’s show, I had the opportunity to kick back and play some of the best new music around. Here’s what happened:

    1. Shura: What’s It Gonna Be
    2. Broods: Couldn’t Believe
    3. Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Mayflies
    4. Niamh Crowther: I’ll Be
    5. Eoin Boyle: Tear Out This Heartache
    6. Band of Horses: Casual Party
    7. Catfish and The Bottlemen: 7
    8. Michael Kiwanuaka: BLack Man in a White World
    9. Jake Morley: Watch Yourself
    10. Avec Sans: Heartbreak Hi
    11. Hvmmingbyrd: Ray Of Light/Teardrop
    12. Metronomy: Old skool
    13. Funeral Suits: Tree of Life

    Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

    Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

    Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

  • The London Ear // Show 111 with The Mining Co and Alan Markey

    The London Ear // Show 111 with The Mining Co and Alan Markey

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM

    Show 111: March 19 2016

    On Show 111, I was delighted to be able to chat to Michael Gallagher of The Mining Co. about his brand of London Americana. His new album ‘Burning Sun & the Atomic Powers Within’ is out now.

    Also on the show was filmmaker Alan Markey, whose short Fat Freddie’s Drop is now available on the RTE player.

    Here’s what happened:
    1. The London Ear Intro
    2. Avec Sans: Heartbreak Hi
    3. Shura feat Talib Kweli: Touch
    4. Chat with filmmaker Alan Markey (Part 1)
    5. Audio from Fat Freddie’s Drop film
    6. Chat with filmmaker Alan Markey (Part 1)
    7. The Gurriers: Not Yet
    8. The Mining Co.: Country Heart
    9. Chat with Michael Gallagher of The Mining Co. (Part 1)
    10. The Mining Co.: Burning Sun and The Atomic Powers Within
    11. Chat with Michael Gallagher of The Mining Co. (Part 2)
    12. The Mining Co: Homeward Bound
    13. Ryan Vail: Wounds
    14. Clock Opera: In Memory
    15. Billion: Slave to the vibe

    Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

    Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

    Watch the trailer for Fat Freddie’s Drop here:

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    Listen to The Mining Co.’s Album,’Burning Sun & the Atomic Powers Within’.

    Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 89 // 05-Aug-2015

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 89 // 05-Aug-2015

    The London Ear Show 89

    On this week’s show I had the opportunity to chat to Irish boyband, Taken, who were in London. I caught up with the guys the night before they opened for Stereokicks’ last show. Nice lads.

    Here’s what went down:

    1. The London Ear Intro
    2. Sample Answer: Good Boy
    3. Just Millie: Not OK
    4. Sinead O’Connor: The Foggy Dew
    5. Lethal Dialect: New Dublin Saunter
    6. Grainne Hunt: Lilacs
    7. Buffalo Sunn: Told You So
    8. Whisky Stain: The Lord’s Revolver
    9. The Answer: Gone Too Long
    10. Avec Sans: When You Go
    11. Tongues: Religion
    12. Chat with Taken
    13. Taken: All It Is
    14. Chat with Taken Part 2
    15. Damien Ike: Kingdom Come
    16. The Chemical Brothers: Go (Instrumental)

    Thanks for listening, The London Ear is broadcast every Wednesday and repeated every Sunday night at 9pm. It’s broadcast on DAB radio, UPC Channel 944, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. You can also listen to the show on mixcloud or in the widget below.

    Don’t forget to check out the new RTE 2XM website.

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 89 // August 5 2015 by Nessy on Mixcloud