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Magical Girl Promotions 2nd Gig - Friday 9th March 2007 in the Boom Boom Room (above Pat Conway’s pub) Parnell St, Dublin 1. 9pm. €8
Renminbi (New York) + Dae Kim (Waterford) + Janey Mac (Dublin)
Magical Girl is a Gig night in Dublin with a big ol' irregular, alternative, independent, feminist, queer, diy, heartbeat.
Renminbi
Combine stripped-down punk basics with head nodding, freaking out, keyboard grooves and apocalyptic build-ups and that’s a little of what Renminbi are. Renminbi are Lisa Liu, Sue (SMV) and Jim Archer. The band formed in New York 2003 as a side project for guitarist Lisa Liu who was looking for a space where she could unleash her complicated sense of rhythm and her unusual song structures.
Renminbi started out with Lisa on guitars/vocals and Jenny Johnson, a classical composer, on drums. Soundscape obsessed Sue soon joined on keyboards and the band produced it's first ep, ‘The People’s EP’ in 2003. Half of the band's songs are instrumental.
Their sound is often compared with Sonic Youth, Slint and Mogwai.
In 2004 Renminbi completed their 2nd ep ‘The Great Leap’.
Gigging around clubs in New York got them invitations to play Ladyfest Richmond, Ladyfest Ohio and Ladyfest East. In April 2005 they headlined aLAF’s Grrrl Rock night, with Irish bands Estel, Easpa Measa and Medea playing support.
April 2005 saw the departure of Jenny who left to finish her Phd in classical composition. The band took a break for over a year and then started to look for a new drummer.
In October 2006 Jim Archer joined on drums and the gig invites for Renminbi started rolling in again around New York.
Seeing Renminbi live is something else. You can hear the genius in their live sound. Pitting frenetic drumbeats against postrock keyboards and angular guitar, Lisa will look all serious whilst Sue does a Animal impression on her little keyboard which has a big sound.
Renminbi’s Dublin gig on Friday 9th March is the start of their mini-tour of Ireland and the UK before the release of their full length album in 2007.
Listen to A Delay mp3 on http://www.myspace.com/renminbi
Dae Kim
Dae Kim, based in Waterford, has been together in various guises for the last 18 months. They are Terry Cullen, Katie Sullivan, Tommy Farrell, Elly and Ian Chestnut. They released their album "Matador" in Nov 2005 on Irish independent Sofa Records.
Road Records (Dublin) gave the album this excellent review
“The debut album from Dae Kim featuring ex drummer with Irish outfit Ten Speed Racer Terry Cullen along with Katie Sullivan on vocals and Dave Grimes on guitars, a collection of sounds falling somewhere between the lush dramatics of low, Galaxy 500 and the layered guitar genius of Slowdive and My BloodyVvalentine, mellow slow building walls of noise interspersed with some very sultry vocals and acoustic tracks, a very fine debut.”
Listen to: All That Glitters mp3 http://www.myspace.com/daekim
Janey Mac
Janey Mac are the new kids on the Dublin gig circuit with all the experience and wisdom of the old kids of the Dublin circuit. They formed in winter 2006 and have played all of two gigs. Janey Mac are Emily Aoibheann, Cathy Clare and Brian McNamara. The band is experimental, alternative, multi talented, intelligent musicians swapping instruments with each throughout their set. Janey Mac is not the first experience of being in a band for any of them. Emily played in Pinboy Skinny and now plays in Party Weirdo. Brian plays in a band from Laois called Zing and Cathy as well as playing manages Dublin based band House of Cosy Cushions. Watching Janey Mac play live is watching a band ‘create’.
Their bio from their myspace page reads,
‘Emily considers the learned guitar. Cathy discourages it, tapping her foot, her finger ticks. Holding hands and basses they spit into the magazine made rock star crotches and swing their sick heads into the violent noise boom caress, radiating from the blistered fingers and scream throat-raw roar. Child-like choruses and logical incompetents flurry along fret boards while drum sticks are sacrificed in the name of an exorcismic hysteria. Visitors from improbable painted frequencies may bolt from the blue surprise with tin whistle toots and oil brush lamp lick. Virginity. Polygamy. Crane Fly. Telly. It is Janey Mac. Then Brain joined...’
Listen to: Big Hairy Boy mp3 on http://www.myspace.com/janeymacmusic
Renminbi (New York) + Dae Kim (Waterford) + Janey Mac (Dublin)
Magical Girl is a Gig night in Dublin with a big ol' irregular, alternative, independent, feminist, queer, diy, heartbeat.
Renminbi
Combine stripped-down punk basics with head nodding, freaking out, keyboard grooves and apocalyptic build-ups and that’s a little of what Renminbi are. Renminbi are Lisa Liu, Sue (SMV) and Jim Archer. The band formed in New York 2003 as a side project for guitarist Lisa Liu who was looking for a space where she could unleash her complicated sense of rhythm and her unusual song structures.
Renminbi started out with Lisa on guitars/vocals and Jenny Johnson, a classical composer, on drums. Soundscape obsessed Sue soon joined on keyboards and the band produced it's first ep, ‘The People’s EP’ in 2003. Half of the band's songs are instrumental.
Their sound is often compared with Sonic Youth, Slint and Mogwai.
In 2004 Renminbi completed their 2nd ep ‘The Great Leap’.
Gigging around clubs in New York got them invitations to play Ladyfest Richmond, Ladyfest Ohio and Ladyfest East. In April 2005 they headlined aLAF’s Grrrl Rock night, with Irish bands Estel, Easpa Measa and Medea playing support.
April 2005 saw the departure of Jenny who left to finish her Phd in classical composition. The band took a break for over a year and then started to look for a new drummer.
In October 2006 Jim Archer joined on drums and the gig invites for Renminbi started rolling in again around New York.
Seeing Renminbi live is something else. You can hear the genius in their live sound. Pitting frenetic drumbeats against postrock keyboards and angular guitar, Lisa will look all serious whilst Sue does a Animal impression on her little keyboard which has a big sound.
Renminbi’s Dublin gig on Friday 9th March is the start of their mini-tour of Ireland and the UK before the release of their full length album in 2007.
Listen to A Delay mp3 on http://www.myspace.com/renminbi
Dae Kim
Dae Kim, based in Waterford, has been together in various guises for the last 18 months. They are Terry Cullen, Katie Sullivan, Tommy Farrell, Elly and Ian Chestnut. They released their album "Matador" in Nov 2005 on Irish independent Sofa Records.
Road Records (Dublin) gave the album this excellent review
“The debut album from Dae Kim featuring ex drummer with Irish outfit Ten Speed Racer Terry Cullen along with Katie Sullivan on vocals and Dave Grimes on guitars, a collection of sounds falling somewhere between the lush dramatics of low, Galaxy 500 and the layered guitar genius of Slowdive and My BloodyVvalentine, mellow slow building walls of noise interspersed with some very sultry vocals and acoustic tracks, a very fine debut.”
Listen to: All That Glitters mp3 http://www.myspace.com/daekim
Janey Mac
Janey Mac are the new kids on the Dublin gig circuit with all the experience and wisdom of the old kids of the Dublin circuit. They formed in winter 2006 and have played all of two gigs. Janey Mac are Emily Aoibheann, Cathy Clare and Brian McNamara. The band is experimental, alternative, multi talented, intelligent musicians swapping instruments with each throughout their set. Janey Mac is not the first experience of being in a band for any of them. Emily played in Pinboy Skinny and now plays in Party Weirdo. Brian plays in a band from Laois called Zing and Cathy as well as playing manages Dublin based band House of Cosy Cushions. Watching Janey Mac play live is watching a band ‘create’.
Their bio from their myspace page reads,
‘Emily considers the learned guitar. Cathy discourages it, tapping her foot, her finger ticks. Holding hands and basses they spit into the magazine made rock star crotches and swing their sick heads into the violent noise boom caress, radiating from the blistered fingers and scream throat-raw roar. Child-like choruses and logical incompetents flurry along fret boards while drum sticks are sacrificed in the name of an exorcismic hysteria. Visitors from improbable painted frequencies may bolt from the blue surprise with tin whistle toots and oil brush lamp lick. Virginity. Polygamy. Crane Fly. Telly. It is Janey Mac. Then Brain joined...’
Listen to: Big Hairy Boy mp3 on http://www.myspace.com/janeymacmusic
