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The Deans consist of Gavin Dean (Guitar, Harmonica and Lead Vocal), Gary Dean (Bass Guitar and Vocals) and Gary Keon (Drums and Vocals). The 3 have a unique companionship between them and boast a very energetic live show. In their 3 year existence as The Deans they have worked with some of the most prestigious rock and guitar legends including Woodstock veteran Henry McCullough (Joe Cocker and the Grease Band, Paul McCartney..s Wings) Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy), Johnny Fean (Horslips) as well as Irish traditionalists Sharon Shannon and Liam O\'Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers).



In June 2008 The Deans released their debut original album simply called \"The Album\" which consisted of 12 tracks. Exactly one year on they have just released their new E.p which is called \"Distraction\". Distraction has a definite atmosphere throughout right from the opening chord. Songs from which have been getting rave responses from audiences and critics alike all across Europe.



2009 saw an extensive tour of Europe which included 35 shows encompassing 7 countries in 6 weeks. Their second European tour of 2009 took in a performance at the prestigious 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival on the 4th July. (See http://www.euronews.net/2009/07/07/montreaux-jazz-festival-opens/). In July 2009 they played two shows with the legendary Godfather of British Blues, John Mayall, in The Academy in Dublin which proved to be hugely popular. 2010 looks very bright for this young band that has yet to leave their teens! </h4>"; win.setDestroyOnClose(); win.showCenter();

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win = new Window('window_id', {className: "alphacube", title: "Gig Information @ www.dolanspub.com", width:600, height:300}); win.getContent().innerHTML = "<h4> Hypnotic Brass Ensemble played an epic sold out show for Streetlife at Dolans back in April at the start of their European Tour. Now 5 months later after playing the main stage at Glastonbury with Gorillaz and every festival from Benacassim to Roskilde, recording a BBC Session at Madia Vale and making new fans in every corner of the globe, they return to Dolans for what is set to be the show of the summer.



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With fans including Barack Obama, David Byrne, Q-Tip, Madlib, Jay-Z, Erykah Badu, Jools Holland and fresh news that they (along with Mos Def and Tony Allen) are the new Gorillaz outfit, this band is no ordinary collective. 8 brothers, all the sons of Sun Ra Trumpeteer and songwriter Phil Cohran, playing since they were 3 years of age, Hypnotic have a heritage deeper than most bands will ever attain.

Hypnotics values of sound, form and structure in their musicianship and songwriting hold the live show together tighter than anything you have seen before and this is your second last chance to catch them in Ireland this year ahead of a main stage appearance at Electric Picnic.





This is the real deal folks - music the way it was meant to be. From the heart, from the lungs. These guys dont need to plug in to be heard. As they say themselves, they could play on a boat in the dark - they\'re powered from within.





This show is the type of event that will lift you out of your recession woes and make you want to leave your job to become a musician and not pay taxes to the man!





Tickets are on sale now from Dolans, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and Tickets.ie









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win = new Window('window_id', {className: "alphacube", title: "Gig Information @ www.dolanspub.com", width:600, height:300}); win.getContent().innerHTML = "<h4> Music fans are in for a treat on Saturday August 7th in Dolans Warehouse, Limerick when young Limerick soprano gives a final performance before taking her place in the prestigous San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the autumn. The concert will feature arias from well-known operas as well as jazz and blues favourites. She will be accompanied by Ksenia B,Peter Hannigan, Jim Hanly and Danny Byrt. Special guests on the night include Limerick Baritone Nyle Woulfe, Dublin songwriter Declan O\'Rourke and MC Myles Breen, Limerick actor extraordinaire.









Sarah has just returned from a Tour of Germany, Austria and Slovenia as part of the Classical Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival where she was the solo soprano of Vivaldi’s “Gloria”. She recently wowed Limerick audiences as special guest to Ronan Tynan at his UCH show and performed in The Georgian House on Pery Square in the star-studded “Tribute to Catherine Hayes” event.



This promises to be a night to remember

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Arlo Guthrie starts out this June on an intercontinental tour. “Sometimes you just want to do things yourself,” says Arlo, as he sets off across Europe and the United States with guitar in hand.

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LAUNCH YOUR MUSIC CAREER



MyTuneRox! is giving it\'s Irish Artists the chance to really launch their music careers with the 2010 Rox Star Live competition.

WIN!! A PROFESSIONALLY RECORDED ALBUM!!



We will take the winning band and professionally record and produce a top class album. We will also provide the winning band with a managed facebook campaign to ensure that the 1st single released makes it into the Official Irish Charts, launching the winning artists career on a national level and guaranteeing national radio air play!

HOW DO I ENTER??????



How do I enter I hear you cry???? Simply register with MyTuneRox!, upload a track, and get yourself 25 fans or more and you will be in the running for the live stages of the competition.

HOW DO I GET FANS??????



How do I get Fans? MyTuneRox! provides a tool for spreading the word about your music, you can import you email contacts directly from a gmail account or manually enter contacts. Then simply select from the spread the Word message menu and you can get your friends behind your campaign to get discovered! Your Friends can simply select the \"Become Fan\" option on your personalised artist homepage! </h4>"; win.setDestroyOnClose(); win.showCenter();

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win = new Window('window_id', {className: "alphacube", title: "Gig Information @ www.dolanspub.com", width:600, height:300}); win.getContent().innerHTML = "<h4> The band formed after a chance meeting they had in a bar in Berlin with two homeless Irish twins named \'John and Shelly\'...its a really good story so we won\'t ruin it here....



This is a band unafraid to match their musical peers and they know how to write great music. They signed a publishing deal with Big Life Music Ltd (Snow Patrol, The Verve, Badly Drawn Boy…) being one of the only independent Irish bands to do so. On the lead up to their Debut album launch John, Shelly and The Creatures performed on Ireland’s biggest and most well known TV shows THE LATE LATE SHOW, achieving quite an accomplishment for an unsigned band doing it on their own, then again they are not your average unsigned band. Their album has received rave reviews from national Publications, declaring the band as BRILLIANT.



Described as \'effortlessly monumental\' (AU Magazine), there is \'no better advertisement for the Belfast scene right now\' (Nialler9) as John, Shelly & The Creatures are \'one of the most exciting new names - bursting with talent\' (STATE.IE)



\"John, Shelly and The Creatures songs do what really good songs should: sneak up on you, twist preconceptions, change your mind and then take it over\". The Irish Times



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Ireland\'s premier Diva will be introduced by the Queens of Ireland Sheila Fitzpatrick and Madonna Lucia and followed by La Boutique.



Niamh Kavanagh

Described as the “Rolls Royce of Irish singers”, Niamh Kavanagh has appeared twice for Ireland at the Eurovision finals.



In the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest , before an international audience of over 350 million people, Niamh wowed audiences with a powerful rendition of In Your Eyes and achieved a resounding victory for Ireland. The second of Ireland’s famous three-in-a row victories, the song, In Your Eyes, went on to achieve double platinum status.



Niamh returned to the Eurovision stage in 2010 with the song It’s For You. An Irish/Swedish collaboration, the emotional ballad perfectly showcased her ability to tell a story through a song and Niamh took Ireland through a strong semi-final into the finals after a three year absence. It wasn’t to be Niamh’s year on the tele-voting, but her inspirational performance produced the only standing ovation of the night from the 18,000 crowd at the Telenor Centre in Oslo.



Niamh has been singing for most of her life, beginning with choirs and small local bands, training her voice, while at the same time indulging her love for music. She really came into her own in 1990 when Alan Parker, director of The Commitments film, paid tribute to her vocal talent featuring her commanding renditions of several soul classics on the film’s hugely successful soundtrack album. She toured extensively with the group performing at such illustrious events as the 1992 Grammy Awards in New York and the Commitment to Life Concert in Los Angeles.



Niamh has also collaborated with some of the finest Irish and international artists including, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, who featured on her debut album, Flying Blind and complimented Niamh on her unique voice. Niamh also made an acclaimed contribution to the Secret Garden album, Inside I’m Singing. Her rendition of Simply You, joins other songs written by ESC winners Secret Garden and Brendan Graham, and saw her sharing album space with Elaine Paige and Barbra Streisand.



Renowned for the strength and adaptability of her voice; able to produce in turn the depth and resonance of jazz, the pure clarity of the ballad, the power of rhythm and blues and the driving energy of the very best of soul music, this is Niamh Kavanagh and “It’s For You”.

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JOE PUG

Messenger – out in Ireland 11th June

Follows up his Irish tours with Josh Ritter & Steve Earle with headline dates



Thursday 16th September – Whelans , Dublin (upstairs)

Friday 17th September – Roisin Dubh, Galway (upstairs)

Saturday 18th September – Dolans, Limerick (upstairs)

Tickets : €12

“If my thoughts are hard to gather / if I don’t know where to start / it ain’t my mind that matters / for I have an unsophisticated heart.” - Joe Pug, “Unsophisticated Heart”



It worked like this, for Joe Pug: The day before his senior year as a playwright student at the University of North Carolina, he sat down for a cup of coffee and had the clearest thought of his life: I am profoundly unhappy here. Then came the second clearest.



Pug packed up his belongings and pointed his car towards Chicago. Working as a carpenter by day, the 23 year-old Pug spent nights playing the guitar he hadn’t picked up since his teenage years. Using ideas originally slated for a play he was writing called “Austin Fish,” Pug began creating the sublime lyrical arrangements that would become the Nation of Heat EP. The songs were recorded fast and fervently at a Chicago studio where a friend snuck him in to late night slots other musicians had canceled. He was short on money, but his bare-boned sincerity didn’t require much more than a microphone and it dripped off of each note he sang.



The early rumblings of critical praise for the EP were confirmed when his first headlining gig sold out Chicago’s storied Schubas Tavern in 2008. As word spread, Pug struck upon an idea that would later prove to be one of the most significant in his young career. He offered his existing fans unlimited copies of a free 2-song sampler CD to pass along to their friends. He sent the CDs out at his own expense, even covering the postage. Inside each package was a personal note thanking the fan for helping to spread the word. The response was overwhelming, and to date he has sent out over 15,000 CDs to 50 states and 14 different countries. Without access to radio, Pug managed to turn his fans into his very own broadcast system. The offer still stands, and to this day it’s featured prominently on www.joepugmusic.com.



“Look, in the end, I just trust my fans, and the nature of people in general. I need to pay my bills like anyone else does. But I also don’t think it’s right to ask someone to pay $15 when they don’t know what they’re getting. So in a way by sending out these CDs, I’m wagering that they’ll like my music, and that if they do they’ll come to shows, buy CDs, and help me spread the word even further. And so far I’ve been proven right. Without question, the more sampler CDs I send out, the more music I sell.”



Nation of Heat took on a life of its own, passing from friend to friend and iPod to iPod. The crowds swelled and the media took notice. Tours in the USA with Steve Earle, M. Ward, and Josh Ritter followed, as did invitations to Lollapalooza and the Newport Folk Festival. He crisscrossed the country incessantly, traveling mostly alone in his 1995 Plymouth Voyager with no stereo or air conditioning. As the tours went on, he became closely linked to the burgeoning indie-folk scene that was coalescing loosely around Pug and his young contemporaries in bands such as The Low Anthem, Langhorne Slim, and Horse Feathers.



After over 200 shows, Pug took a brief respite to record his full-length debut. If Nation of Heat heralded the arrival of a talent to watch, Messenger assigns Pug a more deserved spot. From the opening notes of the title track that leads off the record, it’s clear that the artist has no intention of retreating to the comfortable or the familiar. While the scathing war indictment “Bury Me Far (From My Uniform)” and the sparse, poetic “Unsophisticated Heart” illustrate that Pug is still a master of the guy-and-guitar song, it’s the supporting cast Pug brought on board that truly brings out the record’s subtle beauty.



From the haunting, ethereal pedal steel guitar that sneaks delicately under “The Sharpest Crown” to the barrelhouse rhythm section that propels “The Door Is Always Open”, it’s clear that Pug is as comfortable exploring this new territory as he is solo. “The first record, it was a breeze,” he says. “Didn’t even know we were making it, just me and a guitar…the songs completely unadorned. This one, it’s like that thing where there’s an explosion and you realize how many options there are in the world.”



With his debut album finally out, the options only get more numerous for the 25 year-old-singer. He already made his Irish debut shows supporting Steve Earle (who has quite literally taken the young Pug under his wing) and Josh Ritter on tour in April and returns to Ireland in early September for headline duties (date to be announced).

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win = new Window('window_id', {className: "alphacube", title: "Gig Information @ www.dolanspub.com", width:600, height:300}); win.getContent().innerHTML = "<h4> John Cooper Clarke was born on the 25 January 1949 at Hope Hospital, Salford, Lancashire. His father George was an engineer, and his mother, Hilda, was an unpublished poet. He has one younger brother.After teenage years as a Mod, John served time as an apprentice engineer, a lab technician at Salford University (then Salford Tech, where he was interviewed by Tony Wilson for Granada TV) and also a lead type compositor. After a brief unsuccessful marriage, and a stint living in Dorset, John returned to Manchester and started reading his poems in clubs.



By 1976 and the arrival of punk, he was initially the support act for many seminal punk bands such as the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Fall, Joy Division, Elvis Costello and Siouxsie and the Banshees, to name but a few; His biting, satirical, political and very funny verse delivered in a rapid-fire performance style. Before long, John was headlining his own gigs and drawing huge crowds of fans. John had an striking visual appearance; tall and thin with a mess of black hair, black sunglasses, drainpipe trousers and cuban-heeled boots. He was dubbed “The Bard of Salford” and given the moniker “punk poet”. During those heady days, John recorded four studio albums, and released two live LPs. He also had limited success with the release a few singles, but it was the live arena where John found the greatest success and acclaim.



As punk began to wane in the early 1980’s, John’s star seemed to fade a bit also. He found himself with a personal battle on his hands as he struggled with a serious heroin addiction, which he eventually kicked in the early 90’s. During this time, he met his current partner, Evie, who is also mum to John’s daughter, Stella, born in 1994.



Since the punk days, he has been recognised as one of England’s most important poets and performers. Despite this, he shuns publicity and interviews, as he hates talking about himself. He has said, however, that he enjoys performing now more than he ever used to, having more confidence and stability in his life.



As a result of the current popularity of the 70’s punk phenomenon, John has been seen and heard more in the media over the last few years than in the last few decades. Sky TV recently dedicated an entire night’s programming to John, the Culture Show on BBC interviewed him for a special feature, and he made a brief cameo as his younger self in the Ian Curtis biopic, “Control”.



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Hot on the heels of a jam-packed festival run that see the band play the likes of Oxegen, T in the Park, Reading & Leeds, Underage, Summer Sonic and Pukkelpop festivals; the Irish trio are set to headline their own UK & Ireland tour this October.



Anticipation is building around what will be the band\'s first Irish headline tour, with the Irish news dubbing them \'a force to be reckoned with live\' and recent T in the Park reviews lauding their \'rousing beats and punky anthems... a massive hit with the crowd\' (Sunday Mail).



General Fiasco have earned the praise of rock audiences across the UK from their recent Kids in Glass Houses support tour culminating in a nomination for Best British Newcomer at the Kerrang! Awards later this month.



General Fiasco are a feisty Northern Irish trio comprising of Owen Strathern on Lead vocals and bass, his brother Enda Strathern on Lead guitar and vocals and their friend Stephen Leacock on drums.



Their debut album ‘Buildings’ due to be released in March 2010 reflects the frustration felt watching friends succumb to alcohol and doing nothing to better their lives.

“It’s all quite upbeat, poppy and rocky but the contents are all pretty bleak,” says Owen, “It was being aware of everybody wrecking themselves and not realising it. I’m sure everyone has something they really want to strive for, something they really want to achieve and it’s the frustration of not being fit to achieve it yourself and watching people not even try.”



By the age of eighteen Owen had been playing bass with another act for a few years, occasionally gigging at their home town Magherafelt’s sole rock bar with his younger brother Enda on guitar. The local scene was big on talk, small on walk; everyone dreamed of getting out of Northern Ireland, but nobody knew how.



Owen put off university in 2006 and dedicated a year to becoming a rock star, writing songs with enough weight and velocity to power their way out of Magherafelt’s cultural black hole. He roped in his brother and schoolmate Stephen and in 2007 General Fiasco moved to Belfast. Their first gig as a three-piece was at Glasgowbury 2007, Northern Ireland’s biggest unsigned music festival. A demo in the summer of 2008 landed them a spot on the BBC Introducing Stage at that year’s Reading & Leeds festival. Their first single ‘Rebel Get By’ was released in November 2008 and their second single ‘Something Sometime’ became Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’. They signed to Infectious that Summer.



In the past twelve months they’ve played the BBC Electric Proms; supported Snow Patrol, Fighting with Wire, The Pigeon Detectives, The Answer and The Enemy amongst others; and embarked on their own headline tour.



The band caused a fiasco when they played on the 5.19 show which ended in a power cut through the entire BBC building. Evidently the excitement around this band just keeps on Building…

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“Colloquial lyricism\'s and insights upon a bed of ‘60’s girl pop influence” Clash

“A major talent” Daily Express

“Orgasmic rocky squealing” Grazia 7/10

“Dreamy psychedelic vocals, fuzzy guitar and electronics. A very pleasant surprise” The Guardian 4/5

“Another smash hit on the way” Look 4/5

“Upbeat, short and sweet” Music Week

“Kate Nash is one of the most modern pop stars on the block” NOTW

“Nash sounds just like herself, and that’s exactly when she shines most brightly” NME 7/10

“The pre-eminent chronicler of pop verité… full of sweet love” Observer

“Steely clarity over a beautiful guitar-and-piano backing” Sunday Times Culture

“Nash is still playful and frequently cutesy, but she\'s toughened up, and her music is all the better for it” Time Out



As the multitude of quotes about her new album suggest, Kate Nash has burst back onto the UK music scene with her second album ‘My Best Friend Is You’ bigger and bolder than ever. Since its worldwide release at the end of April Kate has circumnavigated the world and along the way she has won over the hearts and minds of critics and fans across the US, through mainland Europe and later this summer she will be hitting Australia.

October 2010 will see Kate Nash take the album out onto the road for its first full tour of duty in the UK, culminating with a return to home turf in London at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It comes on the back an already sold-out European tour. Kate has also a full UK festival schedule this summer including performances at Glastonbury, iTunes, T in the Park, Oxegen and V Festivals. The third single from the album, a stand out track called ‘Later On’ will also be released to coincide with the tour.



Mon 4 Oct BEXHILL De La Warr Pavilion

Tues 5 Oct OXFORD Academy

Wed 6 Oct BIRMINGHAM HMV Institute

Fri 8 Oct LIMERICK Dolan’s

Sat 9 Oct BELFAST Mandela Hall

Sun 10 Oct DUBLIN Academy

Tues 12 Oct MANCHESTER Ritz

Wed 13 Oct NEWCASTLE Academy

Thu 14 Oct GLASGOW ABC

Sat 16 Oct LEEDS Metropolitan University

Sun 17 Oct CAMBRIDGE Junction

Mon 18 Oct LONDON O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

www.katenash.co.uk

For more information please contact Ritu Morton at Six07 Press on 07961 124 984 or email ritu@six07press.com

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This year’s winner of the Best Irish Female at the Meteor Awards, Wallis Bird, has announced her first tour in Ireland since the sold out shows of October 2009.

Wallis Bird is back with her second album, ‘New Boots’, the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Spoons’. Having toured over the last two years with artists as diverse as the legendary Billy Bragg and Ivor Novello award winner Gabrielle, as well as playing over eighty headlining shows in Europe during 2008, Wallis rounded off last year by clinching one of the biggest TV campaigns of the year when her storming cover of ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ was used on a nationwide advertisement.

An impassioned performer, ‘New Boots’ captures much of the live energy of her shows. A 5 ft 2 bundle of white heat, Wallis throws herself around the stage with willful abandon, breaking strings, shredding her fingers from the sheer force of her playing, urging the crowd into a collective sing-a-long and throwing her entire soul into each performance with often breath-taking results. Having impressed everyone with the intensity and passion of her live shows, Wallis has nurtured a gig-going following whose admiration borders on the devotional. Her live shows and album release have garnered her rave reviews from all quarters, with 4* reviews being given by national publications.

www.wallisbird.com

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Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd presents

RICH HALL



“Now is the time to grab this chance to see the great man

at work” – THE GUARDIAN

“As close as it gets to a guaranteed good show” – SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

“Intelligent, passionate and angry comedy” – EVENING STANDARD





Star of the recent critically acclaimed BBC4 documentary, How the West Was Lost, Edinburgh fringe favourite and Perrier Award winner Rich Hall is back on the road. Rich Hall has most recently been seen wowing audiences as one of the performers at both Channel 4’s Comedy Gala at the O2 in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital and at the Comedy Benefit in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust at The Royal Albert Hall.

Rich will be performing in his usual style as the grouchy, deadpan comic genius.

Looking like a Pearl Jam roadie, Rich is a master of absurdist irony – he particularly likes to lay into Americans and life across the Pond at every opportunity. As Rich Hall the stand-up, he has visited the Edinburgh Fringe Festival several times and performed at the major comedy clubs in Britain and across the world. He is well known in the United States for appearing and writing on The David Letterman Show - for which he won an Emmy Award.

Rich Hall has been charming sell-out audiences each year at the Edinburgh Festival, on tours throughout the UK, at several festivals in Australia including Adelaide and Melbourne and at London\'s famous Comedy Store. At the 2000 Edinburgh Festival, Rich Hall is Otis Lee Crenshaw won the highly prestigious Perrier Award. Rich Hall’s TV work includes; Rich Hall’s Cattle Drive (BBC4), Rich Hall’s Fishing Show (BBC4) plus numerous appearances on BBC2 panel show QI, hosted by Stephen Fry.

Rich Hall has also written two books; Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society and Things Snowball, both published my Abacus Books.



For further tour information please log on to www.offthekerb.co.uk.









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New Album - Broken Record

Scheduled Release – 13th September 2010



\"About a year ago, after almost a decade in self imposed exile as a would be folksinger, I developed an itch I wasn’t expecting. It seemed that there were aspects to my old life in rock and roll that I missed. Tour buses and product managers, certainly not. But the interacting with musicians, the camaraderie and the joy of hearing one’s music enhanced, and elevated by the aesthetic of others, absolutely. Damn.

I never wanted to make records alone, but somehow I ended up spending much of the 2000’s in a studio with just a bunch of equipment and a computer, or touring with a suitcase and two guitars. Two things made me realise that I needed to rejoin the fray, at least for a little while - I had written some songs which demanded a beat, and I was having great fun with my new acoustic trio - The Small Ensemble. Why not make a rock(ing) record, or whatever it is that 49 year olds make when they try to do that?

Money, for one. I couldn’t afford to just not tour for 6 months and spend $65,000. And I certainly wasn’t about to go looking for a major record deal… Fortunately I’d been working the last few years with Tapete records in Hamburg on a couple of projects and I felt that our relationship was good. I like them and trust them. I’m not interested in doing business with folk I don’t like any more. My friends at XIII Bis in France were also interested. Tapete said they could front some of the budget. For the rest I followed the example of my old Negative pal Jill Sobule and I asked my fans for money. 1000 very forward thinking, not to mention trusting, folk paid $45 for a deluxe edition of an album which wasn’t even recorded.

I emailed my ideal band - I was making a record, in a studio, old school with tape. Interested? NB. The money is not much, and not negotiable. All said yes. I had a studio band -

Drums, Percussion - Fred Maher (Scritti Politti, Lou Reed, Matthew Sweet, my first two solo records)

Bass, Vocals - Rainy Orteca (Joan as Policewoman, Anthony and the Johnsons, Brilliantine)

Guitars, Mandolin, Vocals - Mark Schwaber (The Small Ensemble, Spouse, Hospital)

Guitars, Banjo - Matt Cullen (The Small Ensemble, The Sighs, Ware River Club)

Keyboards - Blair Cowan (The Commotions, Paul Quinn, Alisdair Robertson)

Pedal Steel - Bob Hoffnar - (Hem, Crash Test Dummies, my Bad Vibes album)

Piano, Violin, Guitar, Vocals - Joan Wasser - (Joan as Police Woman, Anthony and the Johnsons, Dambuilders)

Vocals - Kendall Meade (Mascott, Grammercy Arms)

Production and Vocals - Dave Derby (Dambuilders, The Negatives, Grammercy Arms, Brilliantine)

Mixing - Mick Glossop

Dave Bates, my man at Fontana way back when, kindly agreed to A&R the record.

I played acoustic guitar, banjo and sang

Down to business -

Fred, Rainy, Mark, Dave and I began rehearsals in Williamsburg, NY on March 1st. The next week basic tracks were recorded in Manhattan’s The Magic Shop, engineered by Geoff Sanoff. Overdubs were done mostly close to my home in W. Massachusetts at Slaughterhouse Studios, engineered by Mark Alan Miller. The final recording session (excepting the one vocal recorded during mixing) was April 3rd.

About a month before rehearsals commenced I had about 15 song ideas for the record of which only seven or eight were actually finished or close enough not to worry about. We narrowed it down to twelve to record. I then entered a state of songwriting frenzy which, frankly, undermined my enjoyment of the sessions. We had a deadline. The songs must be completed or I’m screwed. Not to mention Tapete, and the 1000 investors.

Well, we made it. The final lyric was written and then recorded at Mick Glossop’s Magazine Studio in West London on April 22nd, leaving us two days to mix the song and fine tune the rest. Amazingly there was time for a beer (only one) at the end of the final day.

You will need to ask me for details of the recordings, or go to my Studio Journal - http://www.lloydcole.com/weblog/index.php?cat=30 - there is far more than you need there.

The whole experience was, for me, rewarding, perplexing, fabulously enjoyable and heinously stressful. Singing with a rock and roll band in the studio I felt exactly as I did in 1987, or 1995 and then I would see my reflection in the glass of the gobo and wonder who this old guy was… I’m happy we got these songs finished, because I’m not sure I’ll make another record like this again. Having said that, I’m never going back to that room with the computer…

The album is eleven songs all of which I wrote, one to a tune of Blair’s. Tapete will release it in September and there will even be a vinyl 33 and 45RPMs. What kind of record is it? I don’t know. I’m going to ask two friends who know the record well to add a short paragraph each.

Dave Derby - It was an honor and a joy to work on a record with so many great musical minds and--most importantly--so many great songs. The camaraderie and unity of purpose we all had was inspiring. I remember years ago reading an interview with some producer who talked about the difference between working with American and English artists. He summed it up by saying that if you gave an American band an hour to work up a song and a British band an hour to work up a song the American band would spend about 5 minutes talking and 55 minutes jamming whereas the British band would spend about 40 minutes talking and 20 minutes playing. I\'m not sure how that relates to this project to be honest: Lloyd is the only Brit in the band and between the combination a somewhat anglophilic yank and an Americanophilic limey our combined musical sensibility puts us somewhere near the Azores. I do know that we did a lot of talking, and a lot of listening. And a healthy amount of drinking of course ...

Dirk Darmstaedter - Broken Record is the freshest and most lively sounding record I‘ve heard from Lloyd in years! Though I totally love the gentle feel of the last few albums (Music In a Foreign Language being one of my all time favorites), I had almost forgotten how cool Lloyd sounds with a great band behind him. Oh, yeah...and truly excellent songs as well! Writers Retreat!... Wow, where does this stuff come from ????

I will be in Europe in July to talk to many of you who are reading this, and then again in September for the release of the album. There will be solo shows on both trips. For all shows see - http://www.lloydcole.com/weblog/?cat=11

The Small Ensemble will tour in October and November and beyond that, I can’t say. Hopefully the album will be a hug success and we’ll be on the road for several years.

Lloyd Cole

June 2010, Massachusetts, USA

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