Cheebah and all that - Limerick, Ireland

Uptown Sounds

 

This saturday night, 12th of December, a2df & leon invite you to join them at the underground bakerplace for another Uptown Sounds -playing funk soul disco house jazz and hiphop -this month they have a special guest, Tony Roche (deloreansuite) -on percussion , its only a fiver and there are drink promos on the night

Mysteries of Christmas

The spirit of the late 80s and parties at secret locations seems to be back this xmas. In the course of just three days Limerick will see two major events  in undisclosed locations. First off is the night after Christmas (26th DEC) which promises over 20 DJs and live acts on two soundsystems at  a Limerick location. Then two days later

"Monday 28th December 2009 .Chalk it down ! ... The Rubberbandits have announced a strictly limited capacity Magical Mystery Christmas Show at a secret location on Monday 28th December.Buses will leave the city centre from 6.30pm and the only way to get tickets is by emailing munkytennis@gmail.com"

Video for Rubberbandits Bag of Glue

Viva revolution

Video for Viva Music Studios Limerick

Operating from a very impressive O Connell Street premises Viva Music Studios have really come to be a vital cog in the Limerick music wheel in 2009. From their successful hosting of the WFMU radio broadcast to the production classes which already has students releasing albums (Beatmistress Cait next Thursday) Viva is definitely bringing positive change to its environs. The feature above include contributions from DJ Eggs, Brigadier JC, Dan Sykes and some footage of that 3 hour radio broadcast last March.

Shane

Brother Culture Dubplate

Video for Brother Culture- Roots Factory dubplate

Brother Culture, second generation irish MC out of Brixton drops an exclusive dubplate for Roots Factory. Riddim by Brigadier JC.

Roots factory plan a massive new years eve bash, in Dolans with YT, responsible for one of my favourite tunes of the last few years "England story".

Shane

Shafiq Husayn

Lil' Girl from Plug Research on Vimeo.

interview tomorrow night on the block from 9-45 (spin south west) with shafiq husayn who is one third of the all mighty sa-ra creative partners, now and again erykah badu producer and whose fantastic solo album ‘en a free ka’ has just been released…

pc

TOKiMONSTA in Limerick

 

This Saturday in the Cuckoo Box. Free Gig with TOKiMONSTA from LA. In advance of her first Irish appearance she did an exclusive mix for the block radio show on Spin South west last weekend. You can listen back to it here. The LA based producer has in the past few months been getting a lot of airplay by the likes of Giles Peterson and Mary Anne Hobbs. John Lillis has an excellent interview with her here in the most recent LEG. Ramp Recordings are going to have a release by her soon entitled Cosmic Intoxication. Here is the track 'Let me trick u' from it.

k.3.Bee

The LIP newsletter has some links to new music coming out of Limerick and it reminded me of  new tracks up on K.3.Bee's site. Bee has been producing music for many years now and the 20 odd tracks on his virb page are testament to his workrate. One of his tracks is due a release on dubculture by the end of this year. Check them out here, some available as mp3s as well.

Shane

Rapido

Video for Rapido - history of hip hop

Know they are a lot of hip hop historys out there but for the Irish viewer this Rapido special will have a special resonance as it was shown here back in the very early 90s. Nearly an hour long , links for part 2, part3, part4, part 5 and part 6.

Shane

Avatar

Video for Avatar live in Tralee

Avatar have been producing some great music from their base in Kerry. Two albums are out there with some sweet atmospheric dubs and very memorable basslines. Bassist James Kennedy is the driving force behind the group and he has had two refreshingly honest interviews on eagsuil over the last few years. The first back in 07 tells of  his background growing up in Tralee. In the more recent one from September (starts 20 minutes in) he talks about the new album 'Like River to Ocean' and an upcoming gig where the whole nine piece band will play in an organic farm outside Tralee. Avatar myspace here.

Shane

Níos Mó

Video for Limerick flash mob

From the same day as just writing my name, a flashmob remembering Michael Jackson.

Video for Dizzy Footwork- from the late late show in 1985

From DJ Laz-e a very interesting followup to the 1984 piece with the Late Late appearance of Dizzy footwork in 1985.

Shane