Howdy folks. Just a heads up that The Jimmy Cake with support from the awesome Hands Up Who Wants To Die & Natural History Museum are playing the Workmans Club on Wellington Quay on Saturday 18th September. It's 10 bucks in and tickets include first option on a timeshare condominium in the heaven district when you die.
The Jimmy Cake
http://www.thejimmycake.org/
http://www.myspace.com/thejimmycake
Photo By Ian Pearce
Formed in 2000 from the simmering ashes of the recently defunct Das Madman, the Jimmy Cake were only initially to play a one off show in Eamonn Dorans. But people kept coming, and the music kept getting louder. Since then, with four critically acclaimed albums under their belt, The Jimmy Cake have constantly been at the fore of experimental music in Ireland.
The Jimmy Cake are performing in Dublin’s newest venue, The Workman’s Club this Spetember the 18th, with support from Hands Up Who Wants To Die & Natural History Museum. Armed with a new set and a new sound, they are reduced from a cast of hundreds to a slimmed down six piece. We also find the Jimmy Cake’s music equally stripped back: where once there were strings, accordion and tubas there is now the esoteric appeal of the vintage synths and tightly coiled, pounding rhythms. Guitars are back, and they mean to do some business. Headlifting, powerful, hypnotic, The Jimmy Cake have embraced change once more, and, it’s with this feckless bravado in mind that they embark on their latest adventure. In 2009 they played to a full Meeting House Sq at the DEAF fundraiser and on the Crosby Stage at Electric Picnic. This year The Jimmy Cake have already played to a packed Whelans, Temple Bar Gallery, FrontEnd Synthetics 10 year anniversary show and most recently a hotly received gig with legendary Krautrock pioneer Damo Suzuki in Dublin’s Crawdaddy.
Hands Up Who Wants To Die http://handsupwhowantstodie.bandcamp.com/
Hands up who wants to Die are four furious messers who got together in late 2008 to make music that would capture the zeitgeist and inner city pressures of the crumbling society that surrounded them in the Dublin, Ireland. Their songs have been described as “off-kilter noise rock”, and as “socially aware slab punk with constant discordant meanderings”.
Hands Up have played many corners of the world touring Belarus, Lithuana, Ukraine, Holland, Germany & England. They have shared the stage with The Redneck Manifesto, Adebisi Shank, BATS, Don Vito, Marvin, Warlords Of Pez and many more.
They will be recording their debut album in August after the success of their split 10” vinyl with Cork based I'll Eat Your Face. The album will be released later in the year on Dublin based Independent label The Richter Collective.
Natural History Museum http://www.myspace.com/naturalhistorymuseum
The Natural History Museum is a collaboration between Dunk Murphy (Ambulance/Sunken Foal) and Carol Keogh (The Plague Monkeys/The Tycho Brahe). The songs generated are often darkly comic, hinting at the macabre - liminal themes that suggest a sense of disquiet - not-too-nice on the melodies and nearly nasty on the rhythms.
What started out as a recording project has now developed into a live show. The Natural History Museum will be playing various dates around the country, pending the release of their debut album, Attenborough.
The Jimmy Cake
http://www.thejimmycake.org/
http://www.myspace.com/thejimmycake
Photo By Ian Pearce
Formed in 2000 from the simmering ashes of the recently defunct Das Madman, the Jimmy Cake were only initially to play a one off show in Eamonn Dorans. But people kept coming, and the music kept getting louder. Since then, with four critically acclaimed albums under their belt, The Jimmy Cake have constantly been at the fore of experimental music in Ireland.
The Jimmy Cake are performing in Dublin’s newest venue, The Workman’s Club this Spetember the 18th, with support from Hands Up Who Wants To Die & Natural History Museum. Armed with a new set and a new sound, they are reduced from a cast of hundreds to a slimmed down six piece. We also find the Jimmy Cake’s music equally stripped back: where once there were strings, accordion and tubas there is now the esoteric appeal of the vintage synths and tightly coiled, pounding rhythms. Guitars are back, and they mean to do some business. Headlifting, powerful, hypnotic, The Jimmy Cake have embraced change once more, and, it’s with this feckless bravado in mind that they embark on their latest adventure. In 2009 they played to a full Meeting House Sq at the DEAF fundraiser and on the Crosby Stage at Electric Picnic. This year The Jimmy Cake have already played to a packed Whelans, Temple Bar Gallery, FrontEnd Synthetics 10 year anniversary show and most recently a hotly received gig with legendary Krautrock pioneer Damo Suzuki in Dublin’s Crawdaddy.
Hands Up Who Wants To Die http://handsupwhowantstodie.bandcamp.com/
Hands up who wants to Die are four furious messers who got together in late 2008 to make music that would capture the zeitgeist and inner city pressures of the crumbling society that surrounded them in the Dublin, Ireland. Their songs have been described as “off-kilter noise rock”, and as “socially aware slab punk with constant discordant meanderings”.
Hands Up have played many corners of the world touring Belarus, Lithuana, Ukraine, Holland, Germany & England. They have shared the stage with The Redneck Manifesto, Adebisi Shank, BATS, Don Vito, Marvin, Warlords Of Pez and many more.
They will be recording their debut album in August after the success of their split 10” vinyl with Cork based I'll Eat Your Face. The album will be released later in the year on Dublin based Independent label The Richter Collective.
Natural History Museum http://www.myspace.com/naturalhistorymuseum
The Natural History Museum is a collaboration between Dunk Murphy (Ambulance/Sunken Foal) and Carol Keogh (The Plague Monkeys/The Tycho Brahe). The songs generated are often darkly comic, hinting at the macabre - liminal themes that suggest a sense of disquiet - not-too-nice on the melodies and nearly nasty on the rhythms.
What started out as a recording project has now developed into a live show. The Natural History Museum will be playing various dates around the country, pending the release of their debut album, Attenborough.
