Deaglan
New Member
MONEY MARK
(Beastie Boys)
& KID KOALA (Ninja Tune)
+ Jape
+ Neosupervital
CrawDaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, Dublin 2:Tel:4780225
Sunday 24 April. Doors 8pm
Tickets €18 standing, €22.50 seated available from Ticketmaster and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
Keyboard whizz producer MONEY MARK (aka the fourth Beastie Boy) will make his debut Irish appearance at CrawDaddy on Sunday April 24th. You may remember the Beastie Boys sidekick’s catchy ‘Hand In Your Head’ single from a few years back. While not collaborating or playing with The Beastie Boys on tour – he finished a mammoth European tour with them in December 2004 – the keyboard obsessive makes his own funky 21st Century pop music, with his latest release ‘Demo? Or Demolition?’ betraying a rawer, earthier sound than before. He has also worked with the likes of Beck, Femi Kuti, Trick Daddy and even appeared on the South Park soundtrack! He will be playing live with a bassist and scratch maestro KID KOALA augmenting his keyboards and vocals.
The show will also feature the debut Irish appearance by Montreal based electronic whizzkid Kid Koala. Discovered by Coldcut’s Jon More, who heard his ‘ScratchScratchScratch’ mix tape while visiting Canada, he soon signed to More’s Ninja Tunes label. He joined Money Mark’s band and warmed up for the Beastie Boys on their 1998 ‘Hello Nasty’ tour, before releasing his ‘Carpet Tunnel Syndrome’ LP in 2000. He went on to tour with Radiohead, DJ Food and DJ Vadim in 2001. Kid Koala's second full-length album on Ninja Tune "Some of My Best Friends are DJs" was released in October 2003. The live show will incorporate music, animation and comedy into one complete cabaret performance.
MONEY MARK BIOG
Money Mark is a superb musician in his own right, but is probably best known for his keyboard/organ wizardry with The Beastie Boys. Money Mark is the alias of Mark Ramos-Nishita, also known (unofficially) as a Beastie Boy.
Born in Detroit, he then moved to the West Coast where he grew up. His involvement in music began early, working with the likes if the Dust Brothers. He worked as a carpenter for a theatre company and it was through his carpentry that he hooked up with the Beastie Boys. They asked him to mend their gate and were so impressed they asked him to help remodelling an old Atwater Village building that later became Grand Royal’s main office.
They discussed their musical preferences and it soon became apparent that they were into similar music. The Beastie’s then discovered that Mark was not only good with his hands working with wood, but was also a very skilled keyboardist. The rest as they say is history… He has worked on many of the Beastie Boys projects, toured with them and also found time to pursue his solo career, releasing his debut ‘Mark’s Keyboard Repair’ LP in 1995. In 1998 he had a Top 40 UK hit with the insanely catchy ‘Hand In Your Head’, which was lifted from his second LP ‘Push The Button’. The album saw him reach a whole new audience and in June of that year he played to 60,000 people at the Beastie Boys organised ‘Free Tibet’ gigs in Washington’s RFK stadium. He has worked with an amazing amount of artists, including Beck, Femi Kuti, Iggy Pop, Trick Daddy and he even features on Southpark’s soundtrack!
KID KOALA BIOG
In 1974, Kid Koala a.k.a Eric San was born in Vancouver, Canada. By the time he was twelve years old, and after many years of classical piano lessons, the young Eric discovered an increasingly popular sound that he would eventually make all his own. After making his first "scratch" on his sister's record player, he began saving his money from paper routes to buy his first turntable set-up.
By the early 1990's, Eric was living in Montreal where he had moved to study early childhood education at McGill University. While djing in clubs, he began to attract the public's attention. In 1995, when Jon More (co-owner of UK record label Ninja Tune, and half of Coldcut) came to visit Montreal, Eric's innovative and humourous mix tape "Scratchcratchratchatch" ended up playing on the car stereo. Shortly thereafter, Eric, now Kid Koala, became Ninja Tune's first North American signing.
Following the signing, Kid Koala released a string of remixes and began touring North America with Ninja Tune artists such as Coldcut, DJ Food and DJ Vadim. But it was not long before his skill, innovation, and performance style led him to attract attention from those outside the club community. In 1998, he received an invitation to join Money Mark's band, and then went on the road to open for the Beastie Boys on their "Hello Nasty" world tour.
In February of 2000, Ninja Tune released Kid Koala's debut album "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome". The album received great praise and was featured in the international press for having defied expectation. The album was accompanied by both a video game and 32-page comic illustrated by Kid Koala himself. A tour featuring 6 turntables and live musicians soon followed and took the young artist throughout North America and Europe.
After the release of his first album on Ninja Tune, Kid Koala continued to tour extensively as a member of groups such as Deltron 3030, Lovage, Bullfrog and also as the opening act for international recording artists Radiohead.
But while he was on the road, new projects were brewing. Kid Koala continued to keep himself busy on his downtime with the help of pencil and paper. Many sketch books later, his first book Nufonia Must Fall was published in March of 2003 by ECW Press. This 350-page illustrated love story about an out-of-work robot and a workaholic girl was accompanied by a Îsoundtrack' of short record of original, experimental piano-based compositions. The original music and his characters set the stage for a North American tour of intimate, sit-down venues, during which Kid Koala lay his fingers down not only on the turntables, but on the wurlitzer- and on the remote control of an old slide projector.
Kid Koala's second full-length album on Ninja Tune "Some of My Best Friends are DJs" was released in October 2003. It is an album (with a 50-page book) that clearly shows the evolution of a young artist, expanding on musical themes from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as well as introducing entirely new musical concepts, and keeping in the aesthetic of Nufonia Must Fall. This album will be supported by tours in North America, Europe and Japan, and will incorporate music, animation and comedy into one complete cabaret performance.
