Grizzly Bear at Vicar Street November 1st

Analogue managed to blag the wonderful Cáit Fahey a photopass to Grizzly Bear at Vicar Street a few weeks ago. A little of the magic of that gig is bottled below… Highlights of the night for me included ‘Ready, Able’ and ‘He Hit Me’.

Analogue Episode 1

Analogue Episode 1 from Analogue on Vimeo.

Analogue is proud to announce the launch of Episode 1 of a new bi-monthly web series featuring interviews, music videos, short documentaries and live performances.
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Episode 1 running order:
Kronos Quartet & Wu Man interview
Interlude: Music vid for ‘Finds you’ by Patrick Kelleher
So Cow interview and performance of ‘Bat Toes’
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Directed by Graham Seely & Tim Gannon and produced by Brendan McGuirk
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All feedback welcome.

Hipster Youth

Nope this isn’t another blog post obsessed with laughing at or glorifying hipster kids. Hipster Youth is the re-incarnation of Porn.exe, a gameboy infused one man electronic outfit. Dubliner Aidan Wall is on a mission to reinvent the way in which we think about the modern 8 bit aesthetic. Crystal Castles it ain’t but there are some parts that I could see Timbaland potentially shoplifting for his next producer gig. Hipster youth is fun, intricate and at times emotive music. Hearse Road Trip is a free 6 track Ep that’s well worth checking out.

Download Hearse Road Trip

Launch of Analogue Episode 1

Analogue presents…
HUNTER-GATHERER

THE GREAT LAKES MYSTERY

ANGKORWAT

Screening of Analogue episode 1

Dj Karluss

@ the Joy Gallery, Rutland Place, Dublin 1
Thursday November 5th
Doors 7.30pm
Entry €5

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Analogue is proud to present of a screening of Episode 1, a brand new online music tv show featuring the Kronos Quartet & Wu Man, Patrick Kelleher and So Cow.

Following the screening Angkorwat, the Great Lakes Mystery and Hunter-Gatherer will perform.

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You can check out the pilot episode featuring Adrian Crowley, Jimmy the Hideous Penguin and Final Fantasy here.

Atlas Sound to play Whelans Nov 21st

Foggy Notions have just announced that Atlas Sound will be playing Whelans on November 21st with support from Hulk.

The last time I saw Bradford Cox play Whelans with Deerhunter was a bit weird. The setlist and performance was great, much better than their previous Andrews Lane show. What was weird eh? Just Bradfords between song banter, he seemed to be tripping balls. “Mellow yellow… I feel like I’m floating down a waterfall of pink candy floss” or something to that effect was proclaimed from the stage at one point. Then at another point Bradford seemed to get pretty irate when the audience wouldn’t describe their bedroom walls to him. It was a sunday gig, I wouldn’t have expected much in terms of crowd participation. Still a brilliant gig all in all.

I’m looking forward to hearing material from his new album ‘Logos’ live. I haven’t got the album yet but I have heard two or three songs from it. The title track and the track with Laetitia Sadier, Quick Canal are both perfect specimens of lush laid back indie. Oh and his collaboration with Panda Bear on Walkabout ain’t half bad either. You can download Walkabout over at the 4AD website.

Tickets for the Whelans gig are €13.50 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office, Tickets.ie, City Discs, Road records, Sound Cellar, and Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. Logos is out on 4AD / Kranky now.

Win tickets to Heineken Expressions in Tripod tonight

Heineken Expression Dublin kicks off in Tripod at 8pm tonigh with In Flagranti, The Field, Sarsparilla, Donal Dineen and The Juan MacLean (DJ Set) all providing quality music. Visuals on the night come from TADO, Serge Seidlitz, Phil Dunne, Steve Simpson, Chris Judge, Gaetan Billault, BRENB and danleo. (You might remember Phil Dunne from the excellent Animal Collective illustration he did for Analogue at the beginning of the year.)

The event is free and you can register for tickets here. Heineken also gave Analogue 2 pairs of ticket to giveaway, so to avoid the hassle of registering and printing out tickets. The first two people to mail info at analoguemagazine.com with Heineken Expressions in the subject line will have to their names on the guestlist plus one for tonight. Winners announced by 5pm.

Analogue Hour no. 42

Here’s the playlist from last night’s show on 2XM. If you missed it you can tune in to the repeat on Sunday at noon. Heading off to Health now in the Village, should be earbleedingly good.

The Analogue Hour no. 42
Rain (live) – Woods – Play the Live Woods
Society Jam – Lovvers – Society Jam 7″
You’re a Target mp3 – No Age – Losing Feeling EP
Swords – Leftfield – Rhythm and Stealth
Die Slow – Health - Get Color
Deadbeat Summer – Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
Psychic City (classixx remix) – YACHT – See Mystery Lights
Let the Right One in – Becoming Real
Saga (ft. Santigold) – Basement Jaxx – Scars
This New Technology – Midnight Juggernauts
Black & Blue – Miike Snow – Miike Snow
Ghostwriter - RJD2 - Dead Ringer
Rome (Neighbours ft. Devandra Banhart remix ) – Phoenix
Where is my mind – Pixies – Surfer Rosa

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Where you been darlin’?

Couldn’t think of a title to kick back into the blogging with so I just lifted a lyric from Yacht whose funky sounds are currently keeping the autumnal blues at bay, for now. So what’s been going on in the Analogue world over the last while I hear you ask?

Well to begin with the Analogue Hour is still going strong each week on RTE 2XM, I’m about to broadcast my 42nd show (It goes out tomorrow night – Wed the 30th of Sept) which is mad. To think almost a year ago I sent a cheeky email to the head of New Media in RTE asking for a show and here I am now a veteran DAB broadcaster with what I can only imagine to be several thousand loyal listeners hanging on my every word and recommendation…

Analogue reincarnate as an online music tv show is also plodding along very nicely. It’s a fairly challenging project for myself and the two directors involved as we attempt to develop a format that works but that also stays fresh and interesting. Coming from a print background to video has been a learning curve to say the least. Luckily the directors Graham and Tim are new to the concept too, as their past work was generally short films. All going well Episode 1 (that’s the first after the pilot) will be going online in the next two weeks or so.

All that leaves in terms of Analogue shenanigans is the website. Yep it’s been a little inactive over the last while, what with the radio / video taking up most of my time and most of the Analogue writers of yesteryear moving on to bigger and better things. Hopefully though over the next few weeks I’ll gradually get blogging a bit more and do a few interviews.

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Anyways here’s some things I’m digging right now:

Another Likely Story (Neon Indian Remix) – Au Revoir Simone

I love Neon Indian, great pop tunes brimming with synths and psychedelic leanings (‘Should have taken acid with you’ is the title of one song, go figure). Above, Au Revoir Simone’s track ‘Another Likely Story’ gets a ethereal reworking with beats and synth rolls that remind me of the soundtracks commom to many 80′s action movies.

Animal – Miike Snow

Miike Snow are amazing. Paul Lester in the Guardian has Miike Snow in a nutshell when he refers to them as “coolly emotional Scandinavian pop with unobtrusive experimental flourishes”. On their myspace, it’s says they’re playing in Carlow in November which I suspect may be as part of the Heineken Green Energy gig with Digitalism and Marina & the Diamonds.

photo by Dagny Piasecki

ESPERS // THE CAVE SINGERS // WOODS to play Shred Yr Face tour in Dublin & Belfast

Last year it was No Age, Los Campesinos! and Times New Viking, this time around it’s Espers, the Cave Singers and the awesome Woods‘ turn. Catch them in Crawdaddy on the 11th of November and in the Speakeasy in Belfast on the 12th. I’ve no idea how much tickets are.

SHRED YR FACE 3*

08/11/09 : Instores – London (UK)
09/11/09 : The Farmhouse – Canterbury (UK)
10/11/09 : Hare & Hounds – Birmingham (UK)
11/11/09 : Crawdaddy – Dublin (EIR)
12/11/09 : Speakeasy (Radar Club) – Belfast (UK)
13/11/09 : Stereo – Glasgow (UK)
14/11/09 : The Electric Circus – Edinburgh (UK)
15/11/09 : The Cluny – Newcastle (UK)
16/11/09 : The Brudenell Social Club – Leeds (UK)
17/11/09 : Academy 3 – Manchester (UK)
19/11/09 : Fleece – Bristol (UK)
20/11/09 : ULU – London (UK)

* (Face shredding may not actually occur…)

Analogue launches online music tv show pilot

Analogue Episode 0 from Analogue on Vimeo.

Just months after announcing that Analogue Music Magazine was to cease print, Analogue is excited to return in video format. Analogue plunges into the brand new world of online music TV with Episode 0, a pilot for a bi-monthly web series featuring interviews, music videos, short documentaries and live performances.

Analogue aspires to use an innovative visual aesthetic to explore the diverse spectrum of music we love (from indie and folk to classical and electronic) from both home and abroad. Beginning with Episode 0, Analogue breaks from the traditional approach to music television and starts afresh with a progressive format applying diverse cinematic techniques.

Episode 0 begins with Choice Prize nominated Adrian Crowley chatting about the creative process behind his lush new album ‘Season of the Sparks’ (recently picked up for european distribution by Chemikal Underground) and a haunting performance of two songs. Next comes ‘Interlude, a segment that uses original footage accompanied by specifically chosen music to emphasize a particular theme or subject. Part documentary and part music video; both vie for visual control of the piece. The premiere ‘Interlude’ focuses on the Dublin docklands and features original music from Galway based scratch/electronic artist Jimmy the Hideous Penguin. Toronto’s violin virtuoso Final Fantasy brings the pilot to a close with an interview about his soon to be released album ‘Heartland’ and a performance of tour favourite ‘Lewis Takes off his Shirt’.

The Analogue web series is directed by Graham Seely & Tim Gannon and produced by Analogue founder Brendan McGuirk.

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