- ESTEL + STEVE MACKAY (STOOGES)
- BRAINS
- HOOKER NO. 1 (Graham Lynch Rest)
- VOMIT NEST (Steve Barry Rest)
Records by YOKO - Or Nearest Offer ... 'Deathless Dirges Dancing Down Dream-Drapes'
Venue: Cyprus Avenue
Date: Friday August 20th
Doors: 9pm
Adm: €8
Tickets available from the Old Oak and www.tickets.ie
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In August this year ESTEL embark on a short tour across Ireland with legendary saxophone player, Steve Mackay on board as a member of the band. These gigs promise to be some of the most anticipated events in the Irish underground’s calendar for the 2010.
ESTEL originally came into contact with Mackay during a recording date with Mike Watt that resulted in the acclaimed ‘Untitled 1’ album.
Expect a full set of ESTEL tracks with some of Mackay’s solo pieces and maybe a little Stooges thrown in for good measure.
Be there and enjoy.
"As interesting an underground career Mackay has lead, what's he's doing now with the Radon Ensemble is the most mindblowing...they exude a future blowing energy such fringe-genre music can readily use...Tripping and metascoping sax jowl action..." - from Bull Tongue by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley
”There are people out there -- trust me, I'm friends with them -- who claim that "Fun House," the second album by protopunks the Stooges (Iggy Pop's first band), is the greatest album ever…One of the record's most distinctive features was the blasts of saxophone provided by Steve Mackay which helped make it more than just a garage rock record, adding to the claustrophic intensity of the music...” - The Washington Post
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Saxophone player Steve Mackay has known no boundaries when it comes to confronting varying musical forms. His effortless transition between playing methods engages the instrument he accompanies, equally capable of joining a background drone or leaping to the forefront.
An active professional musician since the mid sixties, Mackay first found fame as the Funhouse-era sax player for The Stooges, (once inspiring Miles Davis to forcefully plug his ears during an NYC gig) then continuing on a long, varied voyage through styles as a member of the Violent Femmes, backing Residents' guitarist Snakefinger, collaborating with J Mascis and Mike Watt and nearly the entirety of the musicians from the Radon collective.
In the most bizarre twist to his lengthy career, Mackay is considered dead by major media and rock historians. Reports of his drug overdose in the 70s have been perpetuated by MTV, VH1 and Rolling Stone. A steady stream of inquiries to Steve's mortality has persisted since his re-emergence with Radon.
From 2001-2003, Mackay teamed with Radon to meticulously compile his experimental epic "Michigan and Arcturus". The fresh blood of his sonic architect co-conspirators has inspired a venture into wholly unique musical territory. For the Radon Uropa 7 inch series, Mackay donated the painful clamour of his pinball duet Punk Machine and supported this release with west coast shows in 2003.
In the next years, Mackay accelerated his activity with a barrage of collaborations. He reclaimed his position with the Violent Femmes, on stage and in the studio, toured 5 continents with the Stooges and Radon Ensemble, lent his talents to a track on the second Grails record for Neurot Recordings, backed Smegma for concerts and recordings, toured with Zu, was called upon by The Dirt Bombs, popped into recording studios in mid tour locales such as, Ireland, Belgium and Turkey, led an Israeli improv band in Tel Aviv, threw down with Portuguese unit Mecanosphere, and appears on both volumes of “U.S.S”., an ongoing Radon backed collaboration series with members of Soopa, Ovo, Barbez, Love 666 and more. Whatever the style, wherever the place, Mackay always brings valuable contributions to the table.
2006 saw the long awaited release of “Tunnel Diner", finally catching the rock n roll path his work with Radon had taken. The band invaded Europe for the occasion sharing the stage with noise luminaries like KK Null and Wolf Eyes.
The latest years have seen the Radon Ensemble become a vehicle for Mackay's composed works. Sessions with Mike Watt, Kamilsky, Henry Barnes (Man Is The Bastard, Amps For Christ) have been in the can and awaiting to see daylight with a full glorious album of Steve Mackay songs.
Still has sax, still traveling.
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Fiercely independent, Estel have been a mainstay of the Irish underground for more than a decade now. Formed in Dublin city in 1999 and pursuing a musical path taking in various strains of krautrock (from the motorik rhythms of Neu! to the kosmische leanings of Ash Ra Temple and Cosmic Jokers), off-kilter post punk à la Pere Ubu et al, and a heavy dose of ominous, synth-heavy horror soundtrack fare (think Goblin's spine-tingling Suspiria and the more sinister moments of various giallo cult classics), the band continue to forge ahead uncompromisingly, ploughing up new furrows as they go.
Over the past ten plus years, Estel have recorded music in the studio with Adrian Crowley, Mike Watt, Steve Mackay and more, and have shared the stage with bands such as Sikhara, Ovo, 90 Day Men, Bilge Pump, The Apes, Party of Helicopters, Funeral Diner, Black Eyes, The Ex, Hoover, Cult of Luna, Mike Watt and the Secondmen, Lightning Bolt, DJ Scotch Egg, Acid Mothers Temple, Das Wanderlust, The Duloks, Owls, Liars, Michael Gira, Devendra Banhart, Check Engine, Ninetynine, Art of Fighting and every Irish band ever, ever!
"Imagine for a minute that the Irish rock underground is a scary warren of tunnels. A bit like somewhere from the land of Mordor in Lord of the Rings except you can access it through a secret portal in the Lower Deck or the Boom Boom Room. It’s a cold, damp, labyrinthine place full of discordant, relentless, yet fascinating music. If bands like Adebisi Shank and Bats are the freshly-hatched spawn who guard the gates to this netherworld, chances are that Estel reside somewhere within it’s darkest vaults. They’d be a huge glowing maggot, or monstrous spider, an enigmatic creature that has resided beneath Dublin for ten years now, dreaming up dark, uncompromising instrumental music, oblivious to the fads and fashions of the world above" [ANALOGUE ZINE.]
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BRAINS was formed by laapot666 in 2009 and plays Blackened Rock n Roll exclusively. Brains' ultimate aim is to create serious, honest and dark Rock n Roll steeped in the influence of traditional rock arrangements, black metal atmospheres and psychedelic/stoner vibes. BRAINS released their debut demo in early 2010 entitled STRANGE MEAT and made it available as a free download. Since then BRAINS have been putting in much work in the jam room and on the live circuit with a view to becoming a live force to be reckoned with.
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Steve Mackay:
http://stevemackay.org/
Estel:
http://www.estelrocks.com
http://www.myspace.com/estelrocks
Brains:
http://www.myspace.com/laapot666
http://brainscork.bandcamp.com/
- BRAINS
- HOOKER NO. 1 (Graham Lynch Rest)
- VOMIT NEST (Steve Barry Rest)
Records by YOKO - Or Nearest Offer ... 'Deathless Dirges Dancing Down Dream-Drapes'
Venue: Cyprus Avenue
Date: Friday August 20th
Doors: 9pm
Adm: €8
Tickets available from the Old Oak and www.tickets.ie
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In August this year ESTEL embark on a short tour across Ireland with legendary saxophone player, Steve Mackay on board as a member of the band. These gigs promise to be some of the most anticipated events in the Irish underground’s calendar for the 2010.
ESTEL originally came into contact with Mackay during a recording date with Mike Watt that resulted in the acclaimed ‘Untitled 1’ album.
Expect a full set of ESTEL tracks with some of Mackay’s solo pieces and maybe a little Stooges thrown in for good measure.
Be there and enjoy.
"As interesting an underground career Mackay has lead, what's he's doing now with the Radon Ensemble is the most mindblowing...they exude a future blowing energy such fringe-genre music can readily use...Tripping and metascoping sax jowl action..." - from Bull Tongue by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley
”There are people out there -- trust me, I'm friends with them -- who claim that "Fun House," the second album by protopunks the Stooges (Iggy Pop's first band), is the greatest album ever…One of the record's most distinctive features was the blasts of saxophone provided by Steve Mackay which helped make it more than just a garage rock record, adding to the claustrophic intensity of the music...” - The Washington Post
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Saxophone player Steve Mackay has known no boundaries when it comes to confronting varying musical forms. His effortless transition between playing methods engages the instrument he accompanies, equally capable of joining a background drone or leaping to the forefront.
An active professional musician since the mid sixties, Mackay first found fame as the Funhouse-era sax player for The Stooges, (once inspiring Miles Davis to forcefully plug his ears during an NYC gig) then continuing on a long, varied voyage through styles as a member of the Violent Femmes, backing Residents' guitarist Snakefinger, collaborating with J Mascis and Mike Watt and nearly the entirety of the musicians from the Radon collective.
In the most bizarre twist to his lengthy career, Mackay is considered dead by major media and rock historians. Reports of his drug overdose in the 70s have been perpetuated by MTV, VH1 and Rolling Stone. A steady stream of inquiries to Steve's mortality has persisted since his re-emergence with Radon.
From 2001-2003, Mackay teamed with Radon to meticulously compile his experimental epic "Michigan and Arcturus". The fresh blood of his sonic architect co-conspirators has inspired a venture into wholly unique musical territory. For the Radon Uropa 7 inch series, Mackay donated the painful clamour of his pinball duet Punk Machine and supported this release with west coast shows in 2003.
In the next years, Mackay accelerated his activity with a barrage of collaborations. He reclaimed his position with the Violent Femmes, on stage and in the studio, toured 5 continents with the Stooges and Radon Ensemble, lent his talents to a track on the second Grails record for Neurot Recordings, backed Smegma for concerts and recordings, toured with Zu, was called upon by The Dirt Bombs, popped into recording studios in mid tour locales such as, Ireland, Belgium and Turkey, led an Israeli improv band in Tel Aviv, threw down with Portuguese unit Mecanosphere, and appears on both volumes of “U.S.S”., an ongoing Radon backed collaboration series with members of Soopa, Ovo, Barbez, Love 666 and more. Whatever the style, wherever the place, Mackay always brings valuable contributions to the table.
2006 saw the long awaited release of “Tunnel Diner", finally catching the rock n roll path his work with Radon had taken. The band invaded Europe for the occasion sharing the stage with noise luminaries like KK Null and Wolf Eyes.
The latest years have seen the Radon Ensemble become a vehicle for Mackay's composed works. Sessions with Mike Watt, Kamilsky, Henry Barnes (Man Is The Bastard, Amps For Christ) have been in the can and awaiting to see daylight with a full glorious album of Steve Mackay songs.
Still has sax, still traveling.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fiercely independent, Estel have been a mainstay of the Irish underground for more than a decade now. Formed in Dublin city in 1999 and pursuing a musical path taking in various strains of krautrock (from the motorik rhythms of Neu! to the kosmische leanings of Ash Ra Temple and Cosmic Jokers), off-kilter post punk à la Pere Ubu et al, and a heavy dose of ominous, synth-heavy horror soundtrack fare (think Goblin's spine-tingling Suspiria and the more sinister moments of various giallo cult classics), the band continue to forge ahead uncompromisingly, ploughing up new furrows as they go.
Over the past ten plus years, Estel have recorded music in the studio with Adrian Crowley, Mike Watt, Steve Mackay and more, and have shared the stage with bands such as Sikhara, Ovo, 90 Day Men, Bilge Pump, The Apes, Party of Helicopters, Funeral Diner, Black Eyes, The Ex, Hoover, Cult of Luna, Mike Watt and the Secondmen, Lightning Bolt, DJ Scotch Egg, Acid Mothers Temple, Das Wanderlust, The Duloks, Owls, Liars, Michael Gira, Devendra Banhart, Check Engine, Ninetynine, Art of Fighting and every Irish band ever, ever!
"Imagine for a minute that the Irish rock underground is a scary warren of tunnels. A bit like somewhere from the land of Mordor in Lord of the Rings except you can access it through a secret portal in the Lower Deck or the Boom Boom Room. It’s a cold, damp, labyrinthine place full of discordant, relentless, yet fascinating music. If bands like Adebisi Shank and Bats are the freshly-hatched spawn who guard the gates to this netherworld, chances are that Estel reside somewhere within it’s darkest vaults. They’d be a huge glowing maggot, or monstrous spider, an enigmatic creature that has resided beneath Dublin for ten years now, dreaming up dark, uncompromising instrumental music, oblivious to the fads and fashions of the world above" [ANALOGUE ZINE.]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BRAINS was formed by laapot666 in 2009 and plays Blackened Rock n Roll exclusively. Brains' ultimate aim is to create serious, honest and dark Rock n Roll steeped in the influence of traditional rock arrangements, black metal atmospheres and psychedelic/stoner vibes. BRAINS released their debut demo in early 2010 entitled STRANGE MEAT and made it available as a free download. Since then BRAINS have been putting in much work in the jam room and on the live circuit with a view to becoming a live force to be reckoned with.
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Steve Mackay:
http://stevemackay.org/
Estel:
http://www.estelrocks.com
http://www.myspace.com/estelrocks
Brains:
http://www.myspace.com/laapot666
http://brainscork.bandcamp.com/
