Nialler9 http://www.nialler9.com Ireland based MP3 blog - Indie, Electronica, Hip-Hop - A Chronicle of Musical Delights Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:07:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 ©Niall Byrne hello@nialler9.com (Niall Byrne) hello@nialler9.com(Niall Byrne) Music 1440 Irish-based MP3 blog - Indie, Electronica, Hip-Hop - A Chronicle of Musical Delights Niall Byrne Niall Byrne hello@nialler9.com No no http://www.nialler9.com/images/podcast_144.jpg Nialler9 http://www.nialler9.com 144 144 nialler9/rsshttp://feedburner.google.com Win a pair of camping tickets to Oxegen 2009! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nialler9/rss/~3/HTwI3w2U-74/ http://www.nialler9.com/2009/07/02/win-a-pair-of-camping-tickets-to-oxegen-2009/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:30:37 +0000 Niall http://www.nialler9.com/?p=4343 oxoegen That’s right y’all. Thanks to Bacardi who will be bringing the Bacardi B-Live Stage back to Oxegen 2009 on July 10th -12th (next weekend) we are giving away a pair of camping tickets with the added bonus of unlimited access to the Bacardi B-Live VIP arena, for when you need to find a comfy seat and a cocktail on site with DJs like Beardyman, Horse Meat Disco, Dublin Streets, Soundcheck, Filthy Dukes and A Skillz on hand if ya fancy a wee dance.

Oxegen has a completely stonking lineup this year and personally I cannot wait to see Friendly Fires, Foals, Pendulum, Hudson Mohawke, Fever Ray, Mogwai, Jamie Woon, Onra, Goldielocks, Aeroplane, Mumford & Sons, Blur, Little Boots, St. Vincent and on and on. Of course, I’m DJing on Sunday in the Dance Arena at 3.20pm before Fever Ray so look out for that obviously ;)

All you have to do answer the question below in the comments:

What has been the best live act you’ve ever seen at Oxegen and why?

The best answer wins the pair of tickets. You can include Witnness live acts as well if you want. If you’ve never been to Oxegen, tell us the best festival set and you’ve ever seen. Comment lines closed on Tuesday the 7th at noon. Get scribblin’.

You can also win tickets here and here.

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It’s worth a lot more but until Saturday (4th July) you can buy the mighty Reservoir for one dolla. They’re even throwing in a 4-track EP for nothing on top of that. Fanfarlo are lucky that Arcade Fire are on a hiatus because they share the same kind of epic heart and there’s probably only enough swelling emotion in the world for one of these bands at a time. ‘Drowning Men’ even gets off on a near-carbon copy piano/bass motif as ‘Rebellion (Lies)’.

Despite the similarities in tone, Reservoir has plenty to recommend. It’s flush with great tunes with sweeping autumnal strings, crescendos, boisted by violin and trumpet and dashes of cellos, mandolins, ukeleles and melodicas. All of this is drawn together by the voice Simon Balthazar who Maldini reminded me how much he sounds like the pithy-voiced Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!. Despite all the comparisons, Reservoir could be one of this year’s best and it’s only a dollar for the next two days so buy it! I did.

Fanfarlo – I’m a Pilot

Fanfarlo – Harold T. Wilkins


Fanfarlo – Harold T. Wilkins by Stachemou from Stachemou on Vimeo.

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]]> http://www.nialler9.com/2009/07/02/buy-fanfarlos-album-for-1/feed/ 2 http://www.nialler9.com/2009/07/02/buy-fanfarlos-album-for-1/http://www.nialler9.com/mp3/Fanfarlo_-_Pilot.mp3 2009’s best & overlooked albums so far http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nialler9/rss/~3/5tJKGQjOV5o/ http://www.nialler9.com/2009/07/01/2009s-best-overlooked-albums-so-far/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:00:35 +0000 Niall http://www.nialler9.com/?p=4329 clues It’s July 1st, the mid-point of the year, a good time to reflect on what we’ve been offered musically so far in 2009. There’s been some stonkers like Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Fever Ray but you know about them already. I’ve listed my ten obvious favourite records of the year so far and then fifteen overlooked ones (with MP3s) you should definitely check out. Obviously “overlooked” is not exact science but generally, these are records you would like to see get more attention in the remaining six months of the year.

I left out a couple of newer albums like White Denim’s Fits and Paul White’s The Strange Dreams of because they are relatively new and I haven’t listened to them enough to place them here as much as I like them. There are a few others like Black Milk, Ribbons, Solid Gold which were actually last year officially but check them out anyway because they are amazing. Here we go..

10 Obvious Favourites

  1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
  2. DM Stith – Heavy Ghost
  3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
  4. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
  5. DOOM – Born Like This
  6. And So I Watch You From Afar – And So I Watch You From Afar
  7. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
  8. The Horrors – Primary Colours
  9. David Kitt – The Nightsaver
  10. Dan Deacon – Bromst

15 Overlooked Favourites (with added MP3s)

  1. Nosaj Thing – Drift – Coat of Arms
  2. The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage – The Howling
  3. Clues – Clues – Remember Severed Head
  4. Super Extra Bonus Party – Night Horses – Night Horses
  5. Yppah – Yppah
  6. The Holy Roman Army – How The Light Gets In – Elegy
  7. Clark – Growl’s Garden
  8. Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard – Em Are I – Roll Bus Roll
  9. Patrick Kelleher – You Look Cold – He Has to Sleep Sometime
  10. Sleepy Sun – Embrace
  11. Woods – Songs of Shame
  12. Hanne Hukkelberg – Blood From A Stone
  13. Faunts – Feel. Love. Thinking. Of – Out on a Limb
  14. NLF3 – Ride on A Brand New Time – Echotropic
  15. Venice is Sinking – AZAR – Charm City

Feel free to tell me what you think has been somewhat overlooked in the comments.

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Lynch has an “acoustic-y” Myspace page and an “electro-y” Myspace page and ‘Slide’ is truly somewhere in the middle -all sliding, hailing guitar and beats before a distinctly more ambient outro. I like this. Make sure to check out both his myspace pages as there’s some cool stuff there.

Ruairi Lynch – Slide

FYI: “For The Love Of” is the first in a series of exhibitions in Dublin which hopes to bring together Ireland’s talents and showcase them in an accessible and contemporary environment.

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Hard Working Class Heroes takes place over the weekend of 16 -18 October at the following Dublin venues – Andrew’s Lane Theatre, The Button Factory, Academy 2, Eamon Dorans, Think Tank and Twisted Pepper. Weekend tickets are €40, with day passes €18.50. Details of additional events, as well as this year’s Invasion, are still to be announced. Bands and photographers can apply until July 30th.

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Dirty Projectors – Cannibal Resource

They play Whelan’s on September 16th.

http://www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors

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