Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Fight Like Apes (Pic by Loreana Rushe)
The band that just keeps getting bigger, Fight Like Apes hit The Underground at Harley’s Cafe Bar (formerly the Music Factory) on Tullow Street this Saturday night. The band have four Irish shows scheduled for November including stops in Limerick, Carlow, Dublin and Waterford before embarking on a UK tour in December.
If you’ve not seen this Dublin four-piece before, drop along - you sure as hell won’t be let down!
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Young musicians and bands, bring your demo’s to a special event designed to cover all aspects of getting ahead in the music industry. This event will be held in two locations to enable as many musicians in the South East to attend.
A panel of local musicians, music promoters and people from the music industry will give informal presentations with loads of practical advice: local musicians/music stars of Kilkenny & Carlowmusic.com Ken McGuire, Ross Costigan, Alan Dawson, with Jimmy Trigger of Itchy Trigger Finger will discuss maximising the internet to build your audience, the best way to get your music produced in a studio, and effective ways of working with the media and getting noticed by record companies. Jimmy Trigger will give details on how he and his band worked with kkmusic.com to produce their first successful EP. Davy Holland (formerly Blue Ghost, now Good Tiger) will talk of the changing world of producing music today, along with special guests, Keith Johnson of IMRO (the Irish Music Rights Organisation) and Angela Dorgan (best known for her work with First Music Contact and the Working Class Heroes festival). Ken Allen, Faction Records, HotPress, will also be joining us. He formerly signed bands for Sony and Polydor, and at this event he will gladly take any music demos from the audience.
*ArtLinks Membership is Free, register now @ www.artlinks.ie! Then reserve a place on the Course Page of the ArtLinks website. Tell all your friends, and lunch is included!
The first event kicks off on Saturday, November 10th in the Parade Tower (Kilkenny Castle), registrations from 9:30am. The second event kicks off on Saturday November 24th in Wicklow, details available on Artlinks.ie. Non-members can attend the day for €20 (well worth the price of admission, including your lunch catered for!) and if you sign up on ArtLinks.ie for free in advance, you’ll get a five euro discount, bringing the cost of the day to €15.
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
If you’re in the Carlow / Kilkenny area and want to submit gig listings for the coming weekend / week for inclusion on the Sound System Podcast then you’ve got until 8:30pm tonight. Email info@carlowmusic.com with the details remembering to include act names, venue, date, time, price. If there’s a MySpace link or other useful information you want to include then don’t be afraid!
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Kilkenny acts Bad Mothers Union and Kick Start along with Carlow-based 79Cortinaz and Leo Deering head to The Music Factory this Thursday, October 18th.
The night is a fundraiser for the local Red Cross, trying to finance a new ambulance. If you’re in Carlow on Thursday it kicks off at 8pm, admission five euro.
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