Here’s some wacky and jazzy stuff we like-

ZORN

Bad Plus

Jaga Jazzist

Tortoise

Zappa w/Captain Beefheart

I thought Fugazi deserved their own post so here it is.

I’m going to have to buy the Instrument DVD soon for the 3rd and probably not the last time.

Fugazi

But then I thought At The Drive In could go in underneath em.

At The Drive In

Here’s a few videos of bands not from Ireland we got the chance to be on the same line-up as.

Lightning Bolt – made me have to rethink things

Deerhoof – I remember seeing this clip on a VHS brutally hungover. Not a good idea. It took me ages to get into Deerhoof, worth every minute.

Giddy Motors – Best craic we had for a long time. This video was on No Disco.

http://www.giddymotors.com/Video.htm

Noxagt – Total filth with a Viola. thinking about watching Dick Dale on the Old Grey Whistle test DVD after the gig still makes me laugh a bit.

Charlottefield – Sound isn’t great in this video but he drummer is a feast. Their two albums are still some of my favorites ever.

ZU – an honour

I went on a binge of looking at bands I used to listen to before youtube was around. It’s gas, even without seeing how most of these folks operated I think we somehow couldn’t avoid their mannerisms.

Oxes – It was Alan Healy that gave me a listen to these guys after one of our first gigs (or maybe soundcheck of the gig). I remember saying there’s something weird about ‘em. ‘Ah no bass guitar’

Sweep the Leg Johnny -

We did get to see these guys on a DVD I think it was in Limerick when we first saw ‘Michigan Fest’. Sweep the Leg definitely hit the nail on the head for me. I remember Albert raving about Vaz. their savage aswell and we got to support them in Freds.

Cheval de Frise – I can’t remember how I got into these guys It might have been the Kaderfire lads I remember having an album that Steve from Rest didn’t have. I think that was the one and only time that happened.

Don Caballero – They rightly screwed me up. Graham of Rest gave us Godspeed and Don Caballero at the same time. Of course for instant gratification American Don was the winner that day. I can remember someone trying to explain that the guitar player could loop the guitars but it made no sense to me. Its gas how messy they are live. I’m glad we didn’t see this before and held the bar high for being tight live or we would have been a shambles altogether.

Submerged by Kevin Blake

Kev Blake has been a active in the music scenes in Limerick and Cork for years now. We knew him from the Kader Fire days although much of those fine brain cells are gone and memories replaced with new ones. He hid the guitar from us for a while when he started pushing buttons with his own minimal IDM stuff. I think it must have been one of his first few gigs on his own that we got him to support us in the brog two or three years ago (Actually I have no idea how long ago it was). Listening to his stuff live is the real test of his music. I always find myself getting seriously drawn into the feeling of it rather than getting bounced off the wall as it is with alot of electronic of this ilk.

He’s been involved in running the reknowned Electric Underground for over three years and brought us loads of the world best electronic acts from Planet Mu, Black Acre and Warp.

Euphemism by Kevin Blake

He’ll be joining us at Nuns Island Theatre on the 27th of Nov. untz

He’s also done a class remix of a new tune of our ‘Johnstons Cows’ that on our ‘Bothar Buí’ release you can listen to at – http://tenpastseven.bandcamp.com.