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Mumblin Deaf Ro
9/23/2009 8:00 PM at Bewleys
, , Dublin
Cost: 5
Hi,
Some of you might recall my hastily announced hiatus from live performance, since which I have averaged about a gig a month.
Anyway, I’ll be supporting the Kites at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre on Sept 23rd - it costs a fiver, which is less than the price of sponsoring a third world child.
I saw the Kites for the first time last Friday at the Ballroom of Romance and found myself hanging on their every weird (that was my attempt at sounding like a music writer). They’re a band with exceptional pedigree who describe themselves better than I can (see press release below).
I’ll email again with details of stage times or tickets.
In the meantime, I hope you are well and that Chris de Burgh hasn’t been hassling you.
Ro
The Kites
are Gavin Cowley (Guitar, Keys, Vocals), Daithí Ó hÉignigh (Guitar, Drums, Vocals), J.Bassetti (Bass) and Aidan O’Donovan (Drums, Percussion).
Gavin
comes from the 2-piece ‘Boxes’ who have been described... "Unlike a lot of acts that experiment with odd time signatures and complex song structures, Boxes inject as much heart as head into their work. They’re still man-machines, but they play with feeling." - The Daily Page (USA).
Daithí
previously played with ‘Giraffe Running’ ("...rich in idiosyncratic imagination, oddly charming dischordance and strangely realised beauty." – Jim Carroll, The Irish Times) and ‘Daemien Frost’ ("...purveyors of a unique brand of confusing and skittish, skronkified, math rock angularity… think of a twisted and warped Battles, Don Caballero, Gooloo or Othrelm." Kevin Stewart-Panko, Terrorizer).
J.Bassetti
played with ‘Jackbeast’ (An inspirational post-punk band from Dublin circa 1990’s) and the controversial Electro outfit ‘Burning Love Jumpsuit’ who specialised in a subtle form of disco-infused media terrorism. They also featured on John Peel’s ‘Festive 50’ in 2002.
Aidan O’Donovan
is an unknown entity at this point.
If you’re familiar with the band members’ previous outings, you might be at a stretch to imagine what
The Kites sound like. Time has passed, sights have been seen, life has been lived and lessons have been learned. These ‘man-machine’ terrorists have taken stock… Noise has been traded for subtle wordplay and an uncanny knack for transporting the listener to forgotten times and places. The Kites sing about humans, their spirits and conditions and dress their words in old-fashioned tempos and disturbing pianos. All this said, old habits are hard to break… There’s no guarantee that their old mistress, funky polyrhythmic rock ‘n’ roll, will not insist on helping them lay waste to this new-found insight.
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/wearethekites
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