She’s playing Belfast and Dublin on February 11 and 12 respectively to promote her excellent debut album BiRd-BrAiNs, and now Merrill Garbus has released her very first music video, for the new single ‘Real Live Flesh’. Watch it below. The track is out on limited 7″ and download on February 8, backed with new track ‘Youth’.
Ham Sandwich (pictured), Patrick Kelleher, Sleep Thieves and Butterfly Explosion have all been confirmed for another Dublin benefit gig for the victims of the Haitian earthquake. Dubbed Haiti Aid, the event will feature 14 live bands, and take place across the city’s Whelan’s and The Village venues on the evening of Wednesday, February 3.
Tickets are priced at €20, available from ticketmaster.ie, tickets.ie, WAV box office, Citydiscs, and Road Records, and all funds raised will go towards the work of the Irish Red Cross.
For event organiser Ciara Buckley, Haiti held a special significance before the disaster. “I travelled to Haiti in 2005 to work with the street children there and my experiences of that time have stayed with me ever since. The earthquake has had a truly devastating impact on a country that is one of the poorest in the world. We hope that through Haiti Aid we can raise a significant amount of money which, through the Irish Red Cross, will help the thousands of people whose lives have been affected by the earthquake.”
They’ve already caused a stir following their Gallows support slots in Belfast and Dublin, and more than most Irish bands they’ve been building a reputation across the water, and now the next step in Dublin punk Wounds’ plan of attack is afoot – a storming (srsly, we’ve heard it) seven-track EP/mini-album entitled Dead Dead Fucking Dead. Nice boys. The EP …
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With a new album on the horizon, Brighton twosome Blood Red Shoes have announced a Belfast gig for Saturday, April 24. Wow, that sounds like a long way off. Said album Fire Like This is out on March 1, and we are promised a “gutsy, raw and more intense sound” than debut album Box Of Secrets. For a sneak-preview, check out the videos for the first two singles from the new album – they’re posted below. Lads, try to ration your Laura-Mary viewing time.