Category: Entries 2010 A-E

B & The Honeyboys – Set My Heart on Fire


B & The Honeyboys are a Blues/Rock/Roots outfit from Ireland committed to pushing the boundaries of the blues/roots genre. Formed in early 2006 by B (vocals) and K.J. Mac (guitar), the line up is completed by Paddy Joyce on bass and Shane Atlas on drums.  Their songs inject a freshness and vitality into the Blues/Rock/Roots genre and are emerging as one of the leading lights in the Blues Rock revival.  Live, B & The Honeyboys pull out all the stops with an energy and passion that has been winning them fans from all corners of the world and are an absolute must for fans of roots music with an original twist.

B (aka Aileen Mythen) is a ‘real discovery, her bluesy voice filling your head with pure soul as she gets under the skin of the songs and sings them from the inside out’.  ‘Further proof that white folk can sing the Blues’. (Jackie Hayden – HOT PRESS)

‘These guys aren’t playing on the trend for pop songs that harp back to the big band days.  They are a big band with the big vocals to pull it off’. (Limerick Event Guide)

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Flying Columns – Model Town

In their own words….

Flying columns are an indie/rock/alternative four piece from county Wexford, Consisting of Michael D’Arcy (lead vocals, guitar), Ritchie O’Donnell (vocals, lead guitar, and keyboards), Paul Reade (bass), and Michael Sutherland (Drums). Good friends since childhood and school, they started writing their own music in early 2009, along with various cover gigs all over the county including a live residency in ‘the music factory’ Wexford. Flying columns began to carve-out and create an individual style of music very much representative of their own characters, tastes and influences respectively. In early 2009, they demoed their first tracks strobe’ and ‘model town’ in Fast-lane studios in Donabate, North Dublin. Due to its popularity in a live setting ‘strobe’ was entered as a representative for the band in the JD-SET all-Ireland battle of the bands to which the columns dually qualified for. Through their constant gigging and an aspiration to reach out with their music on a broader base, flying columns then began to receive support on a local and national level. ‘Model town’ received play on local radio station ‘Beat102103’ through the Irish beats programme with local music guru and DJ Rob O’ Connor. Then in March 2009, Flying Columns received a review of their first demo by Jackie Hayden in national music magazine ‘Hotpress’. Mr. Hayden who viewed Flying Columns in a heat for the JD-SET expressed their demo and live performance as ‘Dynamic’, ‘Energetic’ with ‘touches of Kings of Leon’ through their ‘raging guitars’ and ‘bleeding vocals’. Then finishing the article by highlighting the band as ‘Ones to watch’ for the future. More recent shows include support slots to award winning acts like ‘Director’ and ‘Damien Dempsey’ along with also being Shortlisted for ‘most promising Irish band for 2010′ at this years Meteor awards. Flying Columns are currently writing and recording their first E.P and hope too have a collection of their first songs available in the summer of 2010, along with a small Irish tour to back up the release.

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The Barley Mob – We Go The Distance

Rising Stars Winners – 2010

In their own words….

Formed in April 2010 by 27yr old singer/songwriter Adam Daly – Dublin,Kildare based uplifting/Reggae/Soul band “The BaRLeY MoB” marked their arrival onto the music scene by winning the Dublin City Soul Festival’s global emerging artist search “Rising Stars” 2010 in May,  leading to an open-air gig on May 30th at the “Soul Picnic” in Dublin’s Merrion Square to over 5,000 people…after just 5 gigs together!

Immediately after this, the band immersed themselves in gigs on the Dublin music scene, playing various showcase gigs including The Ruby Sessions and The Zodiac Sessions to name but a few and consequently we were invited to play at music festivals around the country including; “NPLD” in Sligo, “LiveStock” in Cork, and Raithlin Island’s “Jigs and Rigs” .

The band have become involved with several charities in their short time together, and have played various gigs for the people of Oxfam at their many fundraising nights called “OxJam” as well as playing fundraisers for the Pakistan Flood Victims and The Haiti Disaster.

Another charitable group close to the hearts of The Barley Mob is the “Musical Youth Foundation“, an organization that aims to ensure the musical future of children in Ireland, by providing free instruments and lessons to under-privileged kids. Recently this charity was shortlisted for a national funding scheme called “Better Together”, for which they put together a video of their work, the soundtrack of which was “You’ll Never Be Lost (When You’ve Got Music)” by The Barley MOb.

Early July, the band were invited to play their first live radio show on Dublin City FM, which was a great boost for the band. Since then they have performed and been interviewed on several other radio stations including “Global Village” on national station Newstalk 106. Their music has since been played on many local and internet radio stations, prompting an increase in their fanbase.

In August 2010, “The Mob” secured a weekly residency in The Mezz, in TempleBar in Dublin, playing all their own material and it was here they were spotted and offered an opportunity to perform in “Trenchtown Village”, the biggest Reggae stage in Ireland, at the prestigious “Electric Picnic 2010″ in September. Furthermore, they performed 3 shows at the “OxJam Tent” at the Picnic, one each day of the festival..making a total of 4 seperate gigs over the 1 weekend!

In Novemeber, The Barley MOb were chosen as Band Of The Month by online review magazine: Music Review Unsigned.

To date, they have played over 80 live gigs, and released 2 singles, the first of which, “You’ll Never Be Lost When You’ve Got Music)” went to Number 2 in the National chart on Downloadmusic.ie…and the 2nd “Everybody’s Music”..got over 1,000 hits online on the day it was released!!…and they plan to have the album done by the summer of next year.

The band are already confirmed for Dublin City Soul Festival, Le Cheile, NPLD, Rathlin JIgs and Rigs, Electric Picnic and Oxegen 2011 and are currently in talks regarding a slot at Glastonbury 2011.

So Onwards and Upwards for The Barley Mob…

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Clockwork Noise – Egoeccentric

In their own words….

A combination of dramatic vocals, cutting lyrics and hook-driven violin lines, Clockwork Noise are a five-piece band from Co Wicklow, Ireland.

Clockwork Noise have been described as ‘a cut above the usual indie-rock standard’ by Jim Carroll in the new music section of The Ticket, The Irish Times, ‘fearless’ by Rocksellout.com and ‘filled to the brim with warmth and emotion’ by State.ie. The band have also been profiled by Phantom presenter Cathal Funge on his programme, Icon.

In 2009, the band released a five-track EP ‘Yes and No and Everything In Between’ recorded by Ivan Jackman, Silverline Studios, and mastered by Richard Dowling, WAV mastering. The EP was a follow-up to the band’s debut album ‘If I Wanted, I Could’ – a lo-fi, home-recorded offering, which was digitally released.

Since the EP’s release Clockwork Noise have played their songs to audiences at Whelans, Crawdaddy, the Twisted Pepper, the Stables, the Greystones Theatre and the Ballroom of Romance among others and supported bands like Codes, 8 Ball and Heritage Centre.

In April, the band took second place in the King Kong Club competition playing to a more than 600-strong audience in the final at the Village. The result was decided by a mix of crowd reaction and a three-man judging panel of Faction Record’s Ken Allen, RTÉ’s When Under Ether presenter Elton Mullally, and promoter and musician John Brereton

This year, Clockwork Noise are looking forward to playing the main stage at the KnockanStockan music festival, Dun Laoghaire’s Festival of World Cultures and Sligo’s No Place Like Dome festival.

This summer the band will return to the studio to record a full-length album, which will be produced by Torsten Kinsella (God Is An Astronaut).

Clockwork Noise are Robert Maguire (vocals, guitar), Blathnaid Healy (violin), Chris O’Connor (guitar, backing vocals), Dylan Nolan (bass) and Michael Fenton (drums, backing vocals).

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Pocket Aces – Ks Surf

In their own words….

Formed over a rendition of a the infamous song ‘The Constipation Blues’ at the 2006 Rory Gallagher festival in Ballyshannon The Pocket Aces have finally got their shit together to bring you stoned blues for all the family!!

Pocket Aces are Christina Quill on lead guitar, Stephen O Neill on Bass, Dean Broughal on Harmonica and Damien Quill on Drums.

We have played at some of Irelands best festivals including Life and Knockanstockan as well as gigging throughout Dublin.

Hope you enjoy our music and come see us on a stage soon.

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