[SIZE=+2]STEVE MACKAY + ESTEL[/SIZE]
Date: Friday 20th August
Venue: Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Adm: €10
Full line-up t.b.c.
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 Tounge 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 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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http://stevemackay.org/
http://www.estelrocks.com
http://www.myspace.com/estelrocks
Date: Friday 20th August
Venue: Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Adm: €10
Full line-up t.b.c.
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 Tounge 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 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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http://stevemackay.org/
http://www.estelrocks.com
http://www.myspace.com/estelrocks
