Trash Culture Revue May 2011
It was a busy DIY Arts Festival this time around. Plenty of skills exchange performers from as far away as New York entertained us during an unforgettable Trash Culture Revue
POETRY AND LITERATURE
Tales, Tunes and Poems with Colm Scully and the Pig Executive
Direct from the Leitrim Pig Executive comes, Eileen O’Toole A.K.A. Wee-wee-wee All the Way Home and Conor McManus A.K.A. KP along with Colm Scully A.K.A. The Poetry Wolf. You’re guaranteed a squealing howling show
Eileen O’Toole
She is a sparkling raconteur who blends Canadian sensibilities with County Leitrim madness.
Living in the deepest, darkest most mysterious part of downtown Drumshanbo Eileen maintains a healthy disrespect for the instruments she plays – ukulele, child’s piano accordion and the empty pint glass + pen.
In the 2011 Trash Culture Review she is delighted to be reading from FORCE 10 magazine, telling new stories and singing fresh songs.
As a member of Dermot Healys writing group the Pig Executives her code name is Wee-wee-wee all the way home.
Read her blog @ artistinireland.com
Conor McManus
Conor Mc Manus has read his quirky short stories and poems on the Trash Culture Revue special Arena arts show on RTE radio;has a regular slot in the spoken word tent at the Electric Picnicand performs at obheal in cork regularly. He’s been published in Force Ten literary magazine, and long listed for the Fish publishing short story award in 2009.
Colm Scully
Colm Scully is a poet, working and living in Cork. He is a regular contributer to the OBheal open mic sessions on a Monday night in the Long Valley Bar in Cork. He has been published recently in Cyphers, The Stony Thursday Book, Boyne berries, and has a poem in the forth coming issue of The Poetry Bus. He likes to take an ironic look at things, and deals with subjects as diverse as the history of Language and The Industrial Landscape
Catching The Moon: A lunchtime poetry and harp recital
Four women poets and a harpist give a recital over lunch
Kathy D’Arcy
Kathy D’Arcy is a Cork poet whose first collection, Encounter, was recently published by Lapwing Publications. She currently studies and teaches Irish women’s literature, and works with homeless teenagers, but she originally qualified and worked as a doctor. She writes musical accompaniments to some of her poems, and has been involved in theatre, dance and performance for many years. Her short play, ‘Retreat’, was performed in the Granary Theatre in 2008.
‘Encounter is the best first collection of poetry I’ve read for a long time’
Ian Parks
Anja Bakker
Anja Bakker B-Mus is recorder player, harper, singer and conductor who lives in West Cork.
She studied Recorders in the Cork School of Music and has won numerous competitions in the Feis Matthew, the Feis Ceol as well as winning the chamber music competition in CIT. She has been a soloist with the East Cork Choral Society.
She conducted the ‘Famine Commemoration Concert’ in Skibbereen (2009) and played in the National Concert Hall in September of the same year. She programmed and played an celebrated fundraiser for Amnesty International 50th Birthday of the Charter of Human Rights.
In 2010 she carried a 26 string harp from Clonakilty West-Cork to Santiago de Compostela in North-Western Spain. A 2400 km journey about which she is currently writing a show.
Jennifer Mathews
Jennifer Matthews was born in Columbia, Missouri in the USA. After studying for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria she moved to Cork in 2003 and continues to live there now. Her work has been published in Mslexia, Revival and Poetry Salzburg, and has read at the New Writers Showcase in the Heaventree Poetry Festival in Coventry, UK. In 2010 she was anthologised in Landing Places (Dedalus) and has work forthcoming in RunAmok and the Cork Literary Review.
Shirley McLure
Shirley McClure was winner of Cork Literary Review’s Manuscript Competition 2009 and runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2009, her début collection of poetry, Who’s Counting? (Bradshaw Books) will be launched by Poetry Ireland in September 2010.
‘Quirky and wise, studded with razor-sharp double entendres and droll fantasies, these poems introduce a refreshing new voice in Irish poetry’
Bloodaxe poet, Katie Donovan
Tina Pisco
Tina Pisco’s publications include two best-selling novels, translated into five different languages: “Only a Paper Moon” (Poolbeg 1998), and “Catch the Magpie” (Poolbeg 1999); a collection of newspaper columns: “A West Cork Life”, and a cookbook “West Cork Fusion” (both Random Animals Press). Included in the first Fish Short Story Prize Anthology, she was shortlisted for both RTE’s Storyland project, and Best Documentary and Best of Cork in the 2010 Fastnet Short Film Festival.
Writer-in-Residence at Tigh Filí, Cork, Tina Pisco’s first collection of poetry, “She Be” (Bradshaw Books) – about love life and laundry – will be launched at the Irish Writers Centre on November 4th 2010
MUSIC
The Big City Folk Collective (New York) present an alt/folk night
Niall Connolly
From New Mexico to Budapest, Niall Connolly has played over 250 concerts in 10 countries in the last year. Performing at festivals, embassies, theatres, cinemas, bookshops, hot springs, rooftops and basement bars, Connolly has built a fanbase as loyal as it is diverse. In fact, this album was funded entirely through an online campaign supported by fans worldwide. He is, at heart, an astonishingly talented storyteller and Brother, The Fight Is Fixed spirals through time from the marshy landscapes of Cork, Ireland to the overspill of the modern metropolis.
Lauded by New York’s Death and Taxes as “being at the head of a new breed of politically engaged eloquent singer-songwriters emerging from New York’s most populous borough”, Cork-born Connolly has crafted a highly regarded niche for himself as one of the leading lights in the New York music scene, curating a variety of music nights each week in the city that never sleeps.
‘I promise your evening will be full of good music, stories, and all around entertainment. Mr. Connolly’s music carries amazing character. Niall’s charm and way with words are prevalent in lyrics that have an amazing universal appeal. With three studio albums (and a live one) under his belt, Niall takes you through a variety of emotions and musical styles, all with abundant zeal and talent.’
American Indie
‘Niall Connolly is simply too damn good to be missed’
The Village Voice, New York
‘I cannot remember the last time I heard such a moving collection of songs.’
Kurt Wagner of Lambchop
niallconnolly.com
Casey Black
Casey Black was born and raised in Nashville, TN, where his dad is an NSAI Hall of Fame country songwriter. Casey began writing and recording songs in his basement at 14, and signed with EMI Music Publishing just 5 years later, making him one of the youngest staff songwriters in Music City.
In 2001, Casey moved to Los Angeles and recorded his first record, Vacations. The record was placed at number 8 on a list of the Top 40 Records of 2004, by Tricia Halloran of LA’s famous KCRW radio station. Its title track was featured on ABC’s Greek.
Now a New Yorker, Casey recorded his forthcoming record, It Shapes Me As It Goes, in a tiny one-room studio in Brooklyn. Already, the video for the first single, The Sarge, was recently featured on The Daily Dish, the popular blog of Atlantic Monthly Magazine. Casey’s most intimate record, It Shapes Me As It Goes is a distillation of all of Black’s signatures: lyrics which casually cut to the bone of subjects like war, boredom, and lust; a conversational, crooning vocal style; and a finger picking he picked up in Nashville. The record is to be released digitally on May 24th: advance physical copies will be available on this tour.
reverbnation.com/caseyblack
Warren Malone
New York based singer/songwriter Warren Malone is originally from Manchester. He loves to sing, he loves to write songs and he loves to play guitar. He loves traditional folk music as much as he loves a great pop song. He loves his new album and he doesn’t care who knows it. He doesn’t love writing bio’s and pretending to be a third party. He loves a good audience. He hates stupid pop stars with shades. He has a fear of being falsely accused, He’s done some bad things, He tries to be good, He loves to sing. He sings all day everyday. The first record he ever put on was a Hank Williams record. He was 4 years old. As a child he loved Elvis.
He used to draw and sometimes still carries a sketchbook. He loves Mexican food. He lived In San Francisco for five years and it changed him forever, He can cook but only if it involves just one pan, He loves beer but tries not to drink it. He loves fiddle tunes. He loves brother duets with mandolin and guitar. He loves to hear great harmony singers and has fantasised about being the high lonesome harmony singer in a bluegrass band, He has been high and lonesome he has made some promises he knew he couldn’t keep. He knows he has some secrets but he can’t remember what they are. He hates cool people. He will let you know if he likes you. He loves his family. He remembers things from his past but doesn’t know if they really happened, He loves to sing. He can’t believe he didn’t end up in jail. He’s played a lot of gigs, He’s played a lot of street corners. He’s had to talk to a lot of strangers. His parents met when his father was in prison. That’s a whole other story. It would make a great movie actually, youth, violence, crime, singing, prison, love, jealousy, family, murder and more singing. He loves repetition, He loves his new album and he doesn’t care who knows It.
Warren Malone has opened for David Gray, Sean Hayes, Chip Taylor, Bert Jansch and many more.
myspace.com/warrenmalone
Eat My Noise with Wasps vs Power and Sailor Sam
Eat My Noise
David Duffy and Peter Power have been composing music together since 2002 in various line ups. However upon both completing a masters in composition in 2009 a new direction was taken. One that steered as far from the contemporary masters they had both just been awarded.
Eat My Noise was formed, with one plan in mind; to get beautiful women dance. With this philosophy at its heart Eat My Noise began life as a straight up dance project. Soon both Peter and David’s various influences came into play and their sound began to take shape. Still in its development Eat My Noise plan on releasing their debut ep in April. Until then there’ll be some demo’s and such up on the page, Enjoy!
breakingtunes.com/eatmynoise
Wasps vs Humans
Debuted as a performance poet at the Mid Summer Festival Cork in 2009, WvHs went on to support Jinx Lennon on a number of dates around Ireland, including a performance in Dublin’s Sugar Club with Captain Moonlight and Christy Moore
Earlier in 2010 he toured with Chunky Planet in a Music Poetry Mash Up, performing at various venues across Ireland including Kilkenny, Dublin, Cork, Clonakilty and the Spirit Centre in Dundalk. He recently performed at The Glór sessions in Dublin, sharing the stage with poets Dermot Bulger and Stephen James Smith. He has also been performing at various venues across Cork including The Savoy Theatre
As a writer, he has previously written four plays for the theatre including ‘Like’, which took in a national tour across the UK including The Brighton International Arts Festival.
Musically, he released an L.P and Single to critical acclaim with UK based 80s avant garde/experimental band, 4,000,000 TELEPHONES, with a tour in Germany, previously gaining interest from national UK press and radio 1, including John Peel. At present is one half of Chunky Planet who have released a single and an EP both receiving Hot Press Pick of the Fortnight
myspace.com/waspsvshumans
Sailor Sam
One talented bass player turned to computers to fill in the gaps. Joining forces with a talented sidekick Sailor Sam was formed. Currently promoting their debut EP ‘Introducing Sailor Sam’. All the tracks from their new EP are available for you to download @ soundcloud.com/introducingsailorsam
Drop – d.ie present Agitate The Gravel and Une Pipe in a 20th Anniversary celebration of the release of the Nirvana landmark album, Nevermind
Agitate The Gravel
Formed in early 2010 out of a love for all things pop and a growing dissatisfaction with current musical trends, Agitate the Gravel spent a year building up an electrifying live set before beginning their onslaught on their native Cork scene.
Striking a balance between infectious riffs, celestial harmonies and sonic mayhem they take influence from past masters of many genres, citing Blur, Weezer and My Bloody Valentine as major influences.
soundcloud.com/agitate-the-gravel
Une Pipe
Concepted in late 2010, Une Pipe were born out of noise-fuelled jams and poetry slams. Aiming to broaden the horizons of the gig-goers of Cork, these four tugs want to express their emotions through music, and some violence
myspace.com/unepipe
Drop-d.ie
Drop-d.ie began in Cork many moons ago as one man with a tune in his head. He did what he had to do, then set about finding others of a like mind to spread the love and do it as only they could. The D has been on a wild ride through the wilds of independent and alternative music, taking in many friends along the way, and losing some as well, but that’s the nature of the beast, and it’s alright when we have you. We started in Cork, we’re proud to call it home, and have our ties to Dublin, so we’re 100pc Irish and put our emphasis on Irish independent music and labels, but our coverage and love of music spans genres and the world.
We’ve been around over six years now, and with a new generation of writers and photographers currently forming the Drop-d collective, in the middle of a new golden age for Irish music and culture, what better time than now to reinvigorate a webzine that’s always been about the music? We relaunch on March 18th with a brand new look and loads of new regular features, alongside the impassioned journalism and eclectic focus the D has become known for, from metal and hardcore to indie and electronica.
Check them out @ drop-d.ie
Marc O’Reilly + Stephen James Smith
Marc O’Reilly
Marc O’Reilly’s roots may lie in Waterford and France, but his sound rests somewhere between the American-influenced folk blues of Peter Green and contemporaries such as Ray LaMontagne and Gomez.
Musically, Marc reveals himself as an excellent guitarist with fantastic fretwork peppered throughout the album. The songs from his new album, ‘My Friend Marx’ vary from gentle and touching odes to more orchestral affairs, unafraid to push the boundaries of the genre where necessary without losing the essence of a songwriter with his feet firmly in the roots of classic folk blues.
‘…a remarkable debut’
Hot Press
‘ …very genuine, atmospheric’
state.ie
‘ …a highly promising debut’
wearenoise.com
marcoreillymusic.com
Stephen James Smith
Stephen is a remarkable performance poet and a bit of a legend in Dublin. Not only is he a former Cúirt International Literary Festival Grand Slam Poetry Champion, he is also the MC and organiser of the excellent weekly Glór Sessions (Dublin’s only weekly poetry event) in the International Bar. Last year he proudly represented Ireland at the Vilenica Literary Festival in Slovenia and is currently recording an EP of Irish poems with musician Enda Reilly. Stephen is a truly hypnotic presence onstage.
‘Stephen James Smith is a ball of hydrogen gas that should be pumped into every household across the land. He knocks seven shades of shite out of all the usual “birds and bees, whey and cheese” nonsense you find at poetry readings’
Jinx Lennon
myspace.com/mrstephenjamessmith
A Nashville songwriting workshop
Come and enjoy a songwriting workshop with Cork singer/songwriter Jennifer Clarke who is all set to record her second album in Nashville, Tennessee. Jennifer has had the honour of writing with Grammy Award winning songwriter Marcus Hummon, Number 1 hit writer Liz Rose (Taylor Swift), Number 1 hit writer Victoria Shaw who founded, wrote with and produced Lady Antebellum’s debut hit album and Number 1 hit writer James Slater (Rascal Flatts). The workshop will be a number of Jennifer’s songs explained from a writing perspective. There will also be some very talented special guest writers! Don’t miss it!
myspace.com/jenniferclarkemusic
The Slackers Symphony supported by Meadhbh Boyd
Due to unforseen circumstances we’ve had a last minute change in line up. Méadhbh Boyd is now playing solo in a support slot to The Slackers Symphony
The Slackers Symphony
Slackers Symphony is an acoustic guitar duo of brothers Ed and James Grannell. They perform songs intended for massive arrangements on two acoustics due to their lack of motivation to get things done. Born and bred in Virginia, US and having attended the same grade school as Dave Grohl theres always a sense of longing for wide open spaces and self loathing. Ed is the main songwriter and singer and James is the lead guitarist, their influences encompass all musical styles and all wrapped up in four minute pop structured tunes. The songs are primarily influenced by writers such as Brian Wilson, Lou Reed, Roy Orbison and Frank Black
‘Verbum’ by Eat My Noise
“Verbum” is an electro acoustic piece composed for choir and electronics. Based on the drawing by M.C Escher, the piece hopes to provide a three dimensional audio realisation of two dimensional art. Through the use of 16 multi point speakers, the mobile audience is invited to roam the space, finding their own connections between the audio and visual.
Trash Culture Jazz + film improvisation
The Dan Walsh Group will provide a live improvised soundtrack to a classic piece of Swedish silent cinema from 1921, Victor Sjostrom’s “The Phantom Carriage”. Originally called “Korkarlen” in Swedish and based on the novel, “Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!” by Nobel-prize winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlof, the film has been cited as a major influence on generations of vital filmmakers including Ingmar Bergman. The tense and often romantic aesthetic of the film will provide a rich and inspirational stimulus for musical improvisation.
Meadhbh Boyd
Meadhbh draws her influences from contemporary classical music, popular culture, you, the world, ‘the party limbo’, lust, successes and failures, people’s quirks, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman, Chilly Gonzales and Steve Reich.
So you wanna see them? (course you do)
Clare-born, Cork-based musician, composer, trad fiddler, teacher and journalist who has turned her attention to making spooky, high-grade experimental pop tunes like “Smelly Defeat”.
‘More of this kind of thing, please’
Jim Carroll, The Ticket, The Irish Times
Free Downloads available from: soundcloud.com/meadhbhboyd
ART
A Photography Exhibition by Vanessa Jordan
Vanessa Jordan
‘In a picture, we must be able discover new things every time we see it. But we can look at a picture for a week and think nothing of it any longer. We can also look at a picture for a second and think about it all life long’
Joan Miro
Vanessa Jordan is visual artist from Co Mayo who is currently based in Connemara. She graduated from GMIT with a BA in Print making and was honored as print student of the year. She is currently working on a project entitled, Instrumental.
This is a photographical exploration of music, encompassing both the instrument and the performer.
“It’s a celebration of creativity, shifting the focus between the audio and the visual”
vanessajordan.ie
Text Message: An Exhibition
Gary Baus has always loved the permanence of writing. When human beings learned to write, they learned how to leave a legacy. The thoughts and emotions of individuals and whole civilizations if saved and protected could now outlast them for thousands of years or perhaps forever.
So much of the way we use writing today is disposable. When utilizing instant messaging or facebook our written conversations seem to disappear into a void. Many of our text messages too will be deleted or lost. Where will the ‘love letter’ texts of the grandparents of the future be if they are to be shared with the following generations?
FILM
Mutant Shorts [adventures in film making]
mutantspace.com is kicking off its fourth Mutant Shorts competition. This is the fourth competition in our ongoing film series called ‘Mutant Rooms’. So far we’ve been in the kitchen, the sitting room and the hallway.
It is our intention to develop this series over the next few years and in doing so create a unique collection of films
Connections by RSVP; a 4 day film project
RSVP (Red Sandstone Varied Productions) will make a short film, from start to finish, to co-incide with the festival. The public are invited to join the artists involved, no experience is necessary, only a willingness to commit to the process. “Come and be part of the production team, or, if that is not for you, come and see the finished project and hear how it all came together.”
The process will also be filmed by a second crew, to become a feature length documentary at the end of the project. Crew are also required for this part of the project. Core crew are interchangeable according to availability, you can sign up for a day, or a festival, or all the festivals that is up to you. Funding is being sought but currently the project is unfunded. Core crew- Camera/Editor/Actor/Producer/Public Relations/Composer/Writer/Sound/Lighting if these are your areas of skill, and you care to share, then please do.
rsvp.com
VARIETY
Cork Glor
Enda Reilly
Like many musicians, Enda’s love of songs & singing goes way back – to primary school days, filling notebooks with songs from school and learning the tin whistle. Unlike most musicians, Enda got his first taste of performance during Christmas visits to Mayo, the county of his parentage. Enda was a “Wren Boy” taking part in a traditional outing by children on St. Stephen’s Day – visiting pubs & local houses in costume & make-up to sing or play a tune on the tin whistle or fiddle. A silly song saw a few pence in the hat – an early lesson that entertainment has its benefits!
Later Enda honed his trad skills on violin and performed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in secondary school musical groups. Then a Hohner guitar at age 16 “from Santa” (via O’Neill’s on Capel Street, Dublin) started Enda on a lifelong relationship with guitar music. But it was as an active Gaelic footballer at local GAA club Thomas Davis, that Enda made his greatest musical discovery in fellow athlete & neighbour Peter Keogh. Off the pitch the two started a musical collaboration that would unlock a treasure chest of talent, energy and adventure for years to come.
endareilly.com
Daphne In The Attic
Daphne in the Attic was formed in 2009 by Marcus O’hAilin and Edward Grannel on the outskirts of Cork.
Their mission was to blend Grunge and Swamp Folk with classical string lines and Rockabilly guitar sounds. The pair knew each other for years and had interests in forming a band but it wasn’t until they met the Folk singer Daphne that they had something to work towards. Their styles differ greatly and many didn’t think that a band would be possible but when they merged their two sounds out came a strange, unique, voodoo magic that is, Daphne in The Attic.
Being a long time on the Cork music scene both had great access to fantastic players who they knew could bring their ideas to life. Their setup varies and is known to include such instruments as fiddle, cello, double bass, accordion, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, vocals and harmonies.
“they are what you get when you put Gomez, a really good bluegrass band and a bucket of acid in a blender.”
Drop-D
reverbnation.com/daphneintheattic
Colm Keegan
Colm Keegan continues to write some of the most interesting and powerful poetry in Ireland today. As a performer he is growing in stature as well (both in Dublin and beyond) and he recently cemented that status as All Ireland Slam Poetry champion 2011. His poem “Ireland is” manages to capture the zeitgeist in this country perfectly with his trademark sense of humour, dark truth and lyrical flourishes. It is as telling and topical now as it was then and, if anything, the poem has gotten even better as a piece of writing. This is real poetry that demands to be heard
Stephen James Smith
Stephen is a remarkable performance poet and a bit of a legend in Dublin. Not only is he a former Cúirt International Literary Festival Grand Slam Poetry Champion, he is also the MC and organiser of the excellent weekly Glór Sessions (Dublin’s only weekly poetry event) in the International Bar. Last year he proudly represented Ireland at the Vilenica Literary Festival in Slovenia and is currently recording an EP of Irish poems with musician Enda Reilly. Stephen is a truly hypnotic presence onstage.
myspace.com/mrstephenjamessmith
Anja Bakker
Anja Bakker B-Mus is recorder player, harper, singer and conductor who lives in West Cork.
She studied Recorders in the Cork School of Music and has won numerous competitions in the Feis Matthew, the Feis Ceol as well as winning the chamber music competition in CIT. She has been a soloist with the East Cork Choral Society.
She conducted the ‘Famine Commemoration Concert’ in Skibbereen (2009) and played in the National Concert Hall in September of the same year. She programmed and played an celebrated fundraiser for Amnesty International 50th Birthday of the Charter of Human Rights.
In 2010 she carried a 26 string harp from Clonakilty West-Cork to Santiago de Compostela in North-Western Spain. A 2400 km journey about which she is currently writing a show.
Tina Pisco
Tina Pisco’s publications include two best-selling novels, translated into five different languages: “Only a Paper Moon” (Poolbeg 1998), and “Catch the Magpie” (Poolbeg 1999); a collection of newspaper columns: “A West Cork Life”, and a cookbook “West Cork Fusion” (both Random Animals Press). Included in the first Fish Short Story Prize Anthology, she was shortlisted for both RTE’s Storyland project, and Best Documentary and Best of Cork in the 2010 Fastnet Short Film Festival.
Writer-in-Residence at Tigh Filí, Cork, Tina Pisco’s first collection of poetry, “She Be” (Bradshaw Books) – about love life and laundry – will be launched at the Irish Writers Centre on November 4th 2010
Brown Bread Mixtape host a variety of performers
For one night only, Dublin’s premier monthly arts night, the brownbread mixtape is coming to the Trash Culture Revue in Cork! Each brownbread mixtape show has a theme. We invite the best contemporary Irish poets, musicians and comedians to perform. They do a performance related to the theme. We all have loads of fun. Simple as that.
The critically acclaimed show is hosted and run by resident MC & performance poet Kalle Ryan, along with his trusty sidekick and multi-instru-mentalist Enda Roche. The show also features original comedic interludes from our resident Brownbread Players sketch troupe, comprised of well known television, radio and film actors Sean McDonagh, Eva Bartley and Gus McDonagh. Also expect a raffle, alternative Irish national anthems and plenty more surprises and silliness along the way!
Playing at the mixtape are musicians Pearse McGloughlin, Fia Rua and spoken word poets Stephen James Smith and Fergus Costello
‘(a) freewheeling atmosphere […] a monthly blend of Scrap Saturday-style sketches, poetry, music and stand-up comedy’
Davin O’Dwyer, Irish Times
brownbreadmixtape.wordpress.com
Kalle Ryan
Kalle Ryan is a writer and performance poet from Waterford. His plays and poetry have been published in New York City and Utah and he can now list award winning songwriter to his credits, having penned “My Blood is Boiling for Ireland”, the Irish Times alternative national anthem competition winner. Together with Enda Roche he runs and MCs the hugely popular monthly brownbread mixtape gig at The Stag’s Head. Kalle is a proud father to his son Casper and lives with his beautiful wife Jessica in Dublin city
‘…there is the feeling you felt at punk gigs in 1977 of no separation between performer and audience.’
Dermot Bolger
myspace.com/kalleryan
Enda Roche
Enda Roche is a highly regarded session musician, having played with some of Ireland’s best contemporary musicians. He is currently recording and performing with respected artists such as Pearse McGloughlin and James Guilmartin. He successfully operates his very own ER recording studio in Leixlip and is known in indie music circles for his organic and friendly approach to recording. Enda is also the award winning producer of “My Blood is Boiling for Ireland” which recently won the Irish Times alternative national anthem contest.
Pearse McGloughlin
Pearse McGloughlin creates tender and haunting songs of forgotten moments and quiet reflection. Dreamy and atmospheric, his work has an organic aesthetic reminiscent of Mazzy Star or Grand Salvo, shot through with exuberant bursts of emotion. His debut album ‘Busy Whisper’ received widespread critical acclaim and made many ‘Best Albums of 2009’ lists.
‘By the time his next album comes around, expect many more to be kept spellbound by his songs’
Jim Carroll, The Irish Times
‘Sometimes the most intriguing of talents are on your doorstep’
Harry Guerin RTE
‘A collection of haunting and deeply mellifluous songs that gently seep about the ears and promise to wander the mind for some time to come’
AU Magazine
walkperson.net
Fia Rua
Described by Hotpress as “contemporary and timeless” Galway artist Fia Rua’s new album Falling Time might be just what the doctor ordered for these days of uncertainty and change. The album which was released too much acclaim last month offers us a fresh soul full kind of alt- folk that can touch the heart as-well as getting the collective feet tapping. Fia Rua is Eoghan Burke, a man with a very distinctive voice that sings like he means it, with lyrics that vary from tales of heartbreak and loss, to his own unique social commentary. The sound of the album is is hard to categorize, there’s fiddles, guitars and voice, then there’s synths, drums, bodhrans….But it all sits together beautifully, Burke’s vocal never lets you forget who your listening to. Special guest’s on the album include the wonderful Jinx Lennon who’s rant adds yet another dimension to Falling Time.
If there’s a new act that is deserving the nations attention this year its surely Fia Rua.
“a folking brilliant piece of work… contemporary and timeless..45****”
Hotpress
“Falling Time’ is a great album. I often have ‘Dancing About Architecture’ moments when I write reviews where I find it difficult to explain my fondness for an album…1112″
Peter Nagle – 2UIBESTOW
fiarua.com
Fergus Costello
Fergus Costello is a Performance Poet, Songwriter, Musician, Comic Entertainer and Story teller all in one. He was the cuisle international slam poetry champion 2009. He is the current Munster slam poetry champion and was the runner up at this year’s all Ireland performance poetry final which took place in the international bar Wicklow Street Dublin. In a newspaper article Davin O’ Dwyer of the Irish Times said that Fergus’s performance of his “Hilarious comic monologues” was one of the “highlights” of the event.
He lives in Dolla, in North Tipperary, where he is working on his latest musical project” Fergus Costello and the Pound street Band” whose debut Concert took place in the Limerick University Concert Hall in June 2010 which was well received.
Stephen James Smith
Stephen is a remarkable performance poet and a bit of a legend in Dublin. Not only is he a former Cúirt International Literary Festival Grand Slam Poetry Champion, he is also the MC and organiser of the excellent weekly Glór Sessions (Dublin’s only weekly poetry event) in the International Bar. Last year he proudly represented Ireland at the Vilenica Literary Festival in Slovenia and is currently recording an EP of Irish poems with musician Enda Reilly. Stephen is a truly hypnotic presence onstage.
THEATRE
The Tale of Beetle and Bets by Jennifer Williams
Beetle is 12 years old and is always top of her class. She likes to be the best. At everything.
Bets is an 87 years old and lives around the corner from Beetle. She likes shortbread, tea and her little dog, Molly.
Beetle’s history teacher has asked the class to do a report on any part of local history that interests them and Beetle’s mother suggests an interview with Bets.
This starts off a series of letters between Beetle and Bets about life in the ‘old days’ – when people listened to the wireless, baked their own bread and the toilets were outside. But, what happens to the friendship when Bets’ stories get more and more outrageous, and she doesn’t have the evidence to back them up?
A short-story about growing-up and growing old told through letters, photos and knick-knacks, written and performed by Jenny Williams.
Jennifer Williams is a writer and performer originally from Newcastle, Australia. She completed a BA in 2006 at the University of Sydney, majoring in History and performance studies and an Advanced Diploma in Acting at the Actor’s Centre, Surry Hills (graduated July 2009)
November 2010
