Other Voices returns to Dingle’s St. James Church from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd December and the first names have been announced for the TV show / mini-festival.
Perfume Genius (Seattle, USA), Songhoy Blues (Timbuktu, Mali) & Aine Cahill (Cavan, Ireland) and the IMRO Other Room artist Katie Laffan has been announced to play in Kerry in December.
It’ll be OV’s 16th year in Dingle, where all their activity began.
The show have also launched the eir Other Voices Open Call 2017, which gives one Irish artist a slot at IMRO Other Room during the Festival in December and for the subsequent broadcast. This year, the prize is augmented with all travel to and accommodation in Dingle for the duration of the Festival, three days in a recording studio with a top engineer, the production company and budget to create a music performance video, along with practical music industry mentoring from the eir Other Voices team.
The eir Other Voices Open Call, supported by RTE 2FM, is an invitation to artists across Ireland, who produce all genres of music, to submit one track to the eir Other Voices team for consideration. Entries are now open at www.othervoices.ie/content/open-call and will close at 6pm on September 22nd, 2017. Last year, more than 900 acts applied for one performance slot at the IMRO Other Room.
Body & Soul have announced their lineup for the imminent Electric Picnic festival at the end of August and it’s another doozy lineup of acts across three stages. Only €229.50 weekend tickets are left but there is a serious lineup including the full list below.
Playlist of additions:
Body & Soul man stage
tUnE-yArDs Young Fathers Perfume Genius Kate Boy Francois and The Atlas Mountains Oum Shatt Lau Moodoid Glass Animals Olof Arnalds Alice Boman Dermot Byrne Florian Blancke & Brendan O Regan Join me in the Pines I Have A Tribe Linkoban Jon Gomm Meltybrains? Tommy KD C.R. Avery Girl Band Altered Hours Buffalo Woman Donal Dineen Ronan O Snodaigh & The Occasionals Sounds of a System Breakdown InterSkalactic Viking Project The Careers Loah Sleep Thieves Grounds For Invasion Youth Mass Mongoose Susan O Neill & The Low Standards Arioso Grouse
UPSTAGE Line Up
Kowton Shanti Celeste P Disconaut Replete o.utlier Chris Farrell TR-One [live] Talkboy UNKNWN [live] Ghosts Ryan Vail Shane Mannion LAKE PEOPLE [live] Donal Dineen Reid Adultrock [live] Discotekken Gilbert Steele Contour Sol & Louche Richem DJKIDCAM Mikey Joyride Soro
EarthShip Line Up
Maud In Cahoots Ruff Chuff Live Crew Come On Live Long Leo Moran & Anto Thistletwaite The Tav Jam Band WOB! Joe Fury & The Hayride Punch Face Champions Willow Sea & Guests Aindrais De Staic & The Latchikos Attention Bébé Stevie G & the Deep South Soul Soundsystem The Eskies Simi Crowns Noelie McDonnell & Band EDFT i am niamh Polyphonic X The Amazing Few Sinead White The Ground Will Shake Koukie Floor Staff Somerville Eileen Keane Malcolm London Symphonic Funk Tradiohead Mikey and The Scallywags Strange Boats G.I.R.O The Cold Draw Louisiana 6 Shay Cotter and the New Blues Analogue Wave In The Willows
Despite this song coming from a very London place and band, there are things mentioned that orbit it towards a Dublin urban environment. The Irish Times and the title (obviously there are North Circulars in both cities) give it some of our local flavour. ‘North Circular’ feels like a 12 years later companion piece to The Streets’ languid poetic club euphoria as heard on tracks like ‘Weak Become Heroes’. A true beauty that offers solace and hope, and a contender for one of the song of the year.
Carrying on from the last track, what makes a song of the year? It’s a combination of personal experience colliding with the shared, the emotion felt and transmitted, the glory of sound eliciting shivers. ‘Can’t Do Without You’ has already established itself as one of those songs through festival appearances, repeat plays and peer sharing. This extended version is primarily for DJs but packs a precious couple of extra minutes into the song which doesn’t need it but is appreciated.
3. letthemusicplay Feat. Kate Tempest – ‘Our Town’
As heard on Jamie xx’s show sitting in for Benji B (as was that Real Lies track), the spoken word parallel here via Kate Tempest, lifts this track up in emotion and meaning. It’s lyrically vulnerable (“let’s spend the afternoon in bed / with three bottles of wine ..forget the shame and awkwardness”) but lines like “let’s just take off all our clothes / and watch the sun set in the city” fit with the clubby synth magic snaking its way in the background which reaches its crescendo in Tempests’ decree – “make this town our town.”
From the same Kitty Cash mixtape Love The Free Vol. II (out Monday) that gave us SZA’s new song ‘Mood Ring‘, ‘Move Me’ from Brooklyn trio Wet has some serious seductive indie R&B grooves going on. Kelly Zutrau gives a moving vocal fittingly for the song title and subject matter.
Perfume Genius‘ comeback song ‘Queen’ is a comeback and a retort also to the latent homophobia that still persists in modern society and that Hadreas feels is a type of “gay panic” when people see him on the street.
“No family is safe as I sashay” goes the chorus of the song which has a languid starry Mercury Rev-style arrangement to it. A slow motion fuck you to those afraid of others who are different.
6. “Old English” ft. Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs & A$AP Ferg (prod. by Salva & Nick Hook)
From the Mass Appeal Compilation Vol. I– ‘Old English’ is a rap banger produced by Salva and Nick Hook.
7. We Are Shining – ‘Hot Love’
A psychedelic blues/hip-hop/gospel jam from the London production duo.
From the forthcoming Lese Majesty album (streaming here on Monday), ‘Forerunner Foray’, part of the first of seven suites on the album, is moe reliant on atmosphere and production as synth notes ping in the distance, the track seeps into your consciousness.
Perfume Genius‘ comeback song ‘Queen’ is a comeback and a retort also to the latent homophobia that still persists in modern society and that Hadreas feels is a type of “gay panic” when people see him on the street.
“No family is safe as I sashay” goes the chorus of the song which has a languid starry Mercury Rev-style arrangement to it. A slow motion fuck you to those afraid of others who are different.
Portishead’s Adrian Utley has produced Too Bright.
Too Bright drops on the 19th of September through Matador.
Yes, this kind of thing happens at a Sufjan show...
A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Let me know if I missed anything of interest in the comments.
Anyone in Belfast, I’m DJing at Animal Disco after Le Galaxie’s album launch in Auntie Annie’s on Friday night.
Ticket giveaways:
A pairs of The Minutes album launch in The Workman’s Club on Saturday. Email [email protected] with your full name before Thursday 6pm to win.
Tuesday 17th May
Ruby Sessions: Gabrielle Aplin, Vertigo Smith, Carol Ann McGowan @ Doyles (€6, 9pm)
Rua Unplugged: Little X’s For Eyes @ O Byrne’s, Bolton St. x Capel St (9pm, Free)
This song does not feature on Perfume Genius‘ debut album Learning, rather it was uploaded to Youtube yesterday. It’s a short sparse piano-driven tune. You can stream Learning after the jump. (more…)
Because Learning is a very intense album that deserves your ears to experience it, it is streaming above. Mike Hadreas’ solo project is a desolate, provocative and devastating listen. Comparisons to Sufjan Stevens abound but Sufjan trades in relief, nerdy joy and caricatures while Perfume Genius deals in possibly harrowing experiences, hopefully not drawn from reality. check out a live video below. (more…)
Jai Paul – ‘BTSU’ A tip from Richie Egan when he appeared on Donal Dineen’s show, Jai Paul is a producer from London who is just starting out. So far, he’s been making electronic R&B with dub frequencies. It still sounds like pop music – just really weird pop music that plays in your brain forever and ever.
Perfume Genius – ‘Learning’ Beguiling dark ballads from a Seattle Mike Hadreas, It’s pretty desolate stuff but makes for fascinating listening. Learning is out now on Matador. Stream it whole.
