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Just a heads up on this last show in The Fold series tomorrow. Doors are at 7.30pm, show starts at 8.00pm and it finishes at 10.00pm.
The Fold 4:
Cathal Coughlan (spoken word) / Thread Pulls / Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
St. Audeon's Church, Dublin 8, 4th June 2009
Tickets €12 (including booking fee) available online from Tickets.ie
Cathal Coughlan is one of Ireland's most acclaimed and acerbic artists. A key figure in Irish music Coughlan has released seminal records with both Microdisney and Fatima Mansions. His solo career has included the acclaimed releases Grand Necropolitan, Black River Falls, The Sky's Awful Blue and most recently Foburg.
Cathal Coughlan offered the initial fruits of his unreliability to the world as the first post-punk era was ending, through the medium of his partnership with Sean O'Hagan in Microdisney. Together, they created most of their recorded work while living dissolutely in London, recording five albums. Having alienated some with the melodic gloss of his first group, his second, the Fatima Mansions, refrained from such affronts, being as acerbic and raucous a group as existed anywhere in the world at that time. The group excelled in live performance, though the somewhat random nature of the latter provoked both love and hate in its audiences. Touring heavily in Europe and America through the early and mid-1990's, The Fatima Mansions released four albums, while Coughlan's side-project, the more unexpurgated Bubonique, released two. Circumstances dictated a solo career after the late 1990's, and Coughlan has released four solo albums in his own name to critical acclaim internationally.
"His fourth solo work overflows with the kind of pop nous that today's practitioners would sell their vocal cords for. Foburg remains a quality piece of work, musically and lyrically eloquent, provocative and intrepid" Tony Clayton Lea, The Irish Times
"Coughlan has acquired few peers in two decades of labour and Foburg is one of the finest works yet to be adorned by his distinctive snarl" Andrew Mueller, Uncut
link: cathalcoughlan.com
Thread Pulls are an experimental two-piece with the drumbeat at their core. Thread Pulls became the first Irish band to be invited to play at the celebrated All Tomorrow's Parties festival. After releasing four EPs on 9-pt records as a three piece, they stripped down to the duo of Gavin Duffy and Peter Maybury, and spent the following two years developing their upbeat progressive sound which meshes trumpet, electronics and treated vocals with a no-wave inspired mix of repetitive bass and drums. Thread Pulls are now recording their début album. Peter also makes electronic music as Hardsleeper and in Rainfear. Gavin plays occasionally with Karl Him and Electronic Sensoria Band.
Gavin Duffy - Vocals, bass, trumpet
Peter Maybury - Drums, electronics
link: myspace.com/threadpulls
Dublin-born Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh plays traditional and contemporary folk music on fiddle, 5-string viola and hardanger fiddle in small intimate listening venues. As a traditional fiddler, he performs duos with dynamic Kerry accordion player Brendan Begley and Dublin uilleann piper Mick O'Brien. His Kitty Lie Over album with O'Brien was described in the Irish Times as "a niftier mood enhancer than any drug therapy". In 2007, he released Where the One-Eyed Man is King, an adventurous, self-produced little EP: "It's like if you untangled an Irish session and hung up the choicest bits each in front of its own glowing christmas light and viewed through 3D glasses made of paper and cellophane" says Uncle Earl's Kristin Andreassen. He sometimes performs as part of Iarla Ó Lionáird's Invisible Fields Ensemble, with whom he has also worked on projects such as Idir and Liam Ó Muirthile's Sanas. Caoimhín has recently been studying the work of contemporary folk fiddlers from other countries, including Nils Okland, Dan Trueman and Johan Hedin, and has been writing new material that continues to explore that region where Irish traditional music begins to disintegrate.
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - fiddle, viola, hardanger
link: myspace.com/oraghallaigh
The Fold 4:
Cathal Coughlan (spoken word) / Thread Pulls / Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
St. Audeon's Church, Dublin 8, 4th June 2009
Tickets €12 (including booking fee) available online from Tickets.ie
Cathal Coughlan is one of Ireland's most acclaimed and acerbic artists. A key figure in Irish music Coughlan has released seminal records with both Microdisney and Fatima Mansions. His solo career has included the acclaimed releases Grand Necropolitan, Black River Falls, The Sky's Awful Blue and most recently Foburg.
Cathal Coughlan offered the initial fruits of his unreliability to the world as the first post-punk era was ending, through the medium of his partnership with Sean O'Hagan in Microdisney. Together, they created most of their recorded work while living dissolutely in London, recording five albums. Having alienated some with the melodic gloss of his first group, his second, the Fatima Mansions, refrained from such affronts, being as acerbic and raucous a group as existed anywhere in the world at that time. The group excelled in live performance, though the somewhat random nature of the latter provoked both love and hate in its audiences. Touring heavily in Europe and America through the early and mid-1990's, The Fatima Mansions released four albums, while Coughlan's side-project, the more unexpurgated Bubonique, released two. Circumstances dictated a solo career after the late 1990's, and Coughlan has released four solo albums in his own name to critical acclaim internationally.
"His fourth solo work overflows with the kind of pop nous that today's practitioners would sell their vocal cords for. Foburg remains a quality piece of work, musically and lyrically eloquent, provocative and intrepid" Tony Clayton Lea, The Irish Times
"Coughlan has acquired few peers in two decades of labour and Foburg is one of the finest works yet to be adorned by his distinctive snarl" Andrew Mueller, Uncut
link: cathalcoughlan.com
Thread Pulls are an experimental two-piece with the drumbeat at their core. Thread Pulls became the first Irish band to be invited to play at the celebrated All Tomorrow's Parties festival. After releasing four EPs on 9-pt records as a three piece, they stripped down to the duo of Gavin Duffy and Peter Maybury, and spent the following two years developing their upbeat progressive sound which meshes trumpet, electronics and treated vocals with a no-wave inspired mix of repetitive bass and drums. Thread Pulls are now recording their début album. Peter also makes electronic music as Hardsleeper and in Rainfear. Gavin plays occasionally with Karl Him and Electronic Sensoria Band.
Gavin Duffy - Vocals, bass, trumpet
Peter Maybury - Drums, electronics
link: myspace.com/threadpulls
Dublin-born Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh plays traditional and contemporary folk music on fiddle, 5-string viola and hardanger fiddle in small intimate listening venues. As a traditional fiddler, he performs duos with dynamic Kerry accordion player Brendan Begley and Dublin uilleann piper Mick O'Brien. His Kitty Lie Over album with O'Brien was described in the Irish Times as "a niftier mood enhancer than any drug therapy". In 2007, he released Where the One-Eyed Man is King, an adventurous, self-produced little EP: "It's like if you untangled an Irish session and hung up the choicest bits each in front of its own glowing christmas light and viewed through 3D glasses made of paper and cellophane" says Uncle Earl's Kristin Andreassen. He sometimes performs as part of Iarla Ó Lionáird's Invisible Fields Ensemble, with whom he has also worked on projects such as Idir and Liam Ó Muirthile's Sanas. Caoimhín has recently been studying the work of contemporary folk fiddlers from other countries, including Nils Okland, Dan Trueman and Johan Hedin, and has been writing new material that continues to explore that region where Irish traditional music begins to disintegrate.
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - fiddle, viola, hardanger
link: myspace.com/oraghallaigh
