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English musician, producer and inventor Dolby is one of the kings of synthpop. He has appeared at Grammy ceremonies along with Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock, fellow keyboard and synthesizer experts. He played his first solo performance in 25 years earlier this year.
Supporting Dolby is Black Affair is Black Affair, the new project of former Beta Band frontman Steve Mason. He'll be dishing out "retro beatbox electro and synth pop, slightly spacey, slightly disco, sometimes seedy, generally fun." That's what the man says!
POD Concerts & Heineken Green Synergy presents
THOMAS DOLBY
Support: Black Affair (Steve Mason/Beta Band) & Neosupervital
Thursday October 11th
Whelans – 25 Wexford Street – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €15 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.thomasdolby.com
www.myspace.com/blackaffair
www.myspace.com/neosupervital
www.neosupervital.com
www.greensynergy.ie
Dolby* is associated with Synthpop, a form of pop music incorporating electronic instruments. Most of Dolby's work covers a wide range of musical styles and moods distinct from the high-energy pop sound of his few, better known commercial successes. His most recognized song is " She Blinded Me With Science " with sound samples from Magnus Pyke, although he describes this track as his least favorite. The song reached #5 on the U.S. Hot 100 . It was featured very shortly in the " Treehouse of Horror XIV" episode of The Simpsons, where Professor Frink was winning an award at a science convention. It was also sampled at a slower speed by the group Mobb Deep in the song Got it Twisted .
Early in his career, he played keyboards with Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club and is credited on their debut album. Dolby played some synth parts on the Thompson Twins album Set. He is also the author of Lene Lovich's hit single "New Toy," and co-wrote "Magic's Wand" with Whodini.
Perhaps his most popular side-gig was as keyboard player on Def Leppard's 1983 Pyromania album. Due to contractual problems (they did not share the same record label), Dolby appeared on Pyromania using the alias Booker T. Boffin.
Dolby contributed the signature synthesizer sound on the track " Urgent" on Foreigner 's 1981 album 4. On the same album he played the atmospheric synth intro to the mega-hit " Waiting For A Girl Like You ".
In 1985, Dolby appeared at the Grammy Awards, which was televised, along with Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. All four musicians were big on the mid-1980s music scene, and they were also all keyboard and synthesizer experts. That same year, Dolby performed at the Live Aid concert in London as part of David Bowie 's band.
Dolby continued to perform live in the late 80s and early 90s. He supported Depeche Mode in their Rose Bowl concert on June 18, 1988. In 1990, he appeared in the huge charity concert performance of Roger Waters's rock opera The Wall in Berlin. Dolby played keyboards in " Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) " (sung by Cyndi Lauper ), and then played the Teacher's role in the sequence " The Trial".
Dolby returned to his musical career in 2006, completing a string of small dates in California and a single mall opening in Boulder, Colorado before receptive crowds. He performed his first solo public show in 25 years at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco, California on January 21, 2006, surprising the crowd who were there to see local band Notorious. He then launched an American tour, the Sole Inhabitant Tour, on April 12, 2006.
Thomas Dolby also announced a return to musical recording with the intended release of an independently produced and yet-to-be-named collection of new music in 2007.
Thomas toured through out the months of November and December of 2006 with electronic musician BT. This tour included a version of "Airwaves" that BT added his own technique to, and one new song "Your Karma Hit My Dogma."
*Source: Wikipedia
Supporting Dolby is Black Affair is Black Affair, the new project of former Beta Band frontman Steve Mason. He'll be dishing out "retro beatbox electro and synth pop, slightly spacey, slightly disco, sometimes seedy, generally fun." That's what the man says!
POD Concerts & Heineken Green Synergy presents
THOMAS DOLBY
Support: Black Affair (Steve Mason/Beta Band) & Neosupervital
Thursday October 11th
Whelans – 25 Wexford Street – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €15 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.thomasdolby.com
www.myspace.com/blackaffair
www.myspace.com/neosupervital
www.neosupervital.com
www.greensynergy.ie
Dolby* is associated with Synthpop, a form of pop music incorporating electronic instruments. Most of Dolby's work covers a wide range of musical styles and moods distinct from the high-energy pop sound of his few, better known commercial successes. His most recognized song is " She Blinded Me With Science " with sound samples from Magnus Pyke, although he describes this track as his least favorite. The song reached #5 on the U.S. Hot 100 . It was featured very shortly in the " Treehouse of Horror XIV" episode of The Simpsons, where Professor Frink was winning an award at a science convention. It was also sampled at a slower speed by the group Mobb Deep in the song Got it Twisted .
Early in his career, he played keyboards with Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club and is credited on their debut album. Dolby played some synth parts on the Thompson Twins album Set. He is also the author of Lene Lovich's hit single "New Toy," and co-wrote "Magic's Wand" with Whodini.
Perhaps his most popular side-gig was as keyboard player on Def Leppard's 1983 Pyromania album. Due to contractual problems (they did not share the same record label), Dolby appeared on Pyromania using the alias Booker T. Boffin.
Dolby contributed the signature synthesizer sound on the track " Urgent" on Foreigner 's 1981 album 4. On the same album he played the atmospheric synth intro to the mega-hit " Waiting For A Girl Like You ".
In 1985, Dolby appeared at the Grammy Awards, which was televised, along with Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. All four musicians were big on the mid-1980s music scene, and they were also all keyboard and synthesizer experts. That same year, Dolby performed at the Live Aid concert in London as part of David Bowie 's band.
Dolby continued to perform live in the late 80s and early 90s. He supported Depeche Mode in their Rose Bowl concert on June 18, 1988. In 1990, he appeared in the huge charity concert performance of Roger Waters's rock opera The Wall in Berlin. Dolby played keyboards in " Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) " (sung by Cyndi Lauper ), and then played the Teacher's role in the sequence " The Trial".
Dolby returned to his musical career in 2006, completing a string of small dates in California and a single mall opening in Boulder, Colorado before receptive crowds. He performed his first solo public show in 25 years at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco, California on January 21, 2006, surprising the crowd who were there to see local band Notorious. He then launched an American tour, the Sole Inhabitant Tour, on April 12, 2006.
Thomas Dolby also announced a return to musical recording with the intended release of an independently produced and yet-to-be-named collection of new music in 2007.
Thomas toured through out the months of November and December of 2006 with electronic musician BT. This tour included a version of "Airwaves" that BT added his own technique to, and one new song "Your Karma Hit My Dogma."
*Source: Wikipedia
