The Lobby Bar on No 1 Union Quay was an iconic live music venue in Cork City, which closed its doors in 2005. This book tells the story of the music and people who passed through the Lobby Bar during its seventeen year existence. At one time there were four public houses neighbouring the Lobby, with music becoming a key element linking each venue by the 1990s.

The Lobby Bar – Music Through the Windows of Union Quay, Cork also delves back into the history of the musicians and venues that shaped the musical landscape of Cork. It is a book that celebrates, in words and pictures, the many magic nights of music in the Lobby Bar.

More info at http://www.facebook.com/lobbybarbook

The Lobby Book is available from:
Easons and Waterstones on Patrick St,
The Pavilion bar on Carey’s Lane,
Liam Russells on Oliver Plunkett St,
Porters in Wilton and Douglas Court,
Carrigaline Bookshop,
Philip’s Bookstore, Mallow Town,
+ plugd in the Triskel Centre

From December 2011 The Lobby Bar book is available to buy on www.ebay.ie

Full details and current progress can be found below this promo video…

fundit.ie page: http://www.fundit.ie/project/ten-past-seven-want-to-record-new-music

The festival site is located a 15 minute walk from the town, while camping is available on site with the relevant ticket. Prices start at €59 for two days (without camping) up to €99 for three days with camping.
Full ticket details and booking links here:
www.indiependencefestival.com/?page_id=3

The Cork News spoke to the organisers about this year’s festival and the planning involved:
www.thecorknews.ie/articles/indie-pendent-spirit

The complete festival line-up and further information can be found at the Indiependence website: www.indiependencefestival.com

See the Indiependence website for the latest full lineup; meanwhile some highlights include:

Bavaria Main Stage
Headliners include White Lies, Alabama 3, Reverend & The Makers and The Coronas

The Cyprus Avenue Arena
Delorentos, Jape & Duke Special

The Monster Mash
The stage will see a mix of rock, electro and DJ’s from mid afternoon to early morning.

The Square
Live music, comedy, DJs, live electro, merchandise, vendors & chillout area.
“…a new addition for 2010, it is an arena within a village within a festival…
a 1,000 capacity tent where you will be able to see just a little bit of everything.”

Tickets priced at €59 (or €79 including camping) are available online from Ticketgroup.

More info at www.indiependencefestival.com

This year’s one day festival sees acts performing over 4 stages:

The Blue Tent
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY AND THE CAIRO GANG
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS
THE FRANK AND WALTERS
MICK FLANNERY
JOHN SPILLANE
NEON FLEA CIRCUS

The Little Big Tent
FUTURE TRAD COLLECTIVE
BRIAN DEADY
O EMPEROR
THE CÉILÍ ALL STARS
SUCKITT & C
JINX LENNON
BRAY VISTA
JOEL PLASKETT
TREMBLING BELLS
TKO
THE SOCIAL SERVICES
FREEZERROOM

De Barras Sitting Room
THE HANDSOME FAMILY
INTERFERENCE
LUKA BLOOM
LOW MOUNTAIN
GAVIN MOORE
LJ HILL (OZ)
TRAMPSTERDAM
DEAD CAT BOUNCE (COMEDY BAND)

An Realt Dearg tent
JOHN DALY
CRAIG SMITH (6TH BOROUGH PROJECT)
SUNDAY TIMES SOUNDSYSTEM
ELECTRIC UNDERGROUND DJ’S
BOOCHY
SEAN GALVIN & ADAM DUNBAR
SHANE BREEN
JOHN COAKLEY
JACK BUCKLEY (MOONS)
BRIAN RING
DR. HERRINGBONE DREAD

Tickets at €55 are available from:
www.tickets.ie
Cork Tickets (ex Plug’d Records), Washington st, Cork, 021 4276300
De Barra’s, 55 Pearse st Clonakilty, 023 36549 Wed 6pm – 11pm.

Camping is available within the festival grounds for €10 per person.
Tickets can be purchased at the gate between 6pm and 9pm on Friday 30th July and from 1pm on Saturday 31st.

More info at www.corkxsw.com and www.myspace.com/corkxsw

Livestock is a one day music festival which aims to support Irish artists through local festivals concentrating on Music and Art.

LiveStock festival has established reputable artists performing alongside new emerging acts offering both the opportunity to showcase there work to a large audience.

Ireland has some of the finest artists in the world and we are very fortunate to be able to play a small part in showcasing this talent.

This is the 3rd LiveStock Festival and it has been host to some of the finest acts in Ireland today including most recently, Delorentos, Codes, The Chapters, Ian whitty & the Exchange, 21Demands, T.K.O., The Hot Sprockets, and more.

LiveStock Music Festival — Saturday 3rd July 2010

The Courtyard Bar, Schull, Co.Cork

Admission €8, Gates 2pm.

www.myspace.com/livestockcork

www.facebook.com/livestockfestival

Camille O’Sullivan
with support by Maria Doyle Kennedy at Charles Fort
Saturday 10 July 2010 7:00 PM
Expect fire and ice, pure passion and drop-dead cool as Camille O’Sullivan gets in touch with her inner rock goddess with a new show for Kinsale Arts Week.
Tickets : €35

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
with support by Oleku (Nigeria) at Charles Fort
Thursday 15 July 2010 7:30 PM
This July audiences at Charles Fort can brace themselves for the thrill of experiencing one of THE most exciting live bands of the moment.
Tickets : €28

The Bootleg Beatles
with support by David Hope and the Henchmen at Charles Fort
Friday 16 July 2010 7:00 PM
It’s not the Beatles but you simply won’t believe it! Re-live the sights and sounds of the sixties as the world’s premier Beatle band visit Kinsale with their spectacular stage production featuring all the classic Beatle hits.
Tickets : €35

Kinsale Arts Week is a multi-discinplinary Arts Festival. It commissions new work in all genres and supports both established and emerging artists.

The programme features Local, National, and International work including Visual Art, Theatre, Music, Literature, Film, Dance, Architecture, and Family Entertainment. There is a keen emphasis on community involvement in the Festival with many Users of the community engaged in year-round Festival projects. Local artists also have the oppertunity to showcase their work. The Festival seeks to use all possible performance spaces in the historic town including the harbour, the streets, boats, churches and unusual spaces. The audience at home and from abroad are invited to experience the festival and celebreate creativity.

For more information about the festival and tickets for the above events, see www.kinsaleartsweek.com

Having received massive success with his last album Colour Me Colourful and a huge amount of airplay with the hit single One of the Same, Roesy soundproofed the basement of his Amsterdam apartment where he was living and got to work writing and recording Fable. He mixed the album in New York, where he had previously been picked up by Wardlaw Banks and Downtown Music, currently promoting him in the USA

Fable is arguably Roesy’s most down to earth album to date, reflecting on the obstacles we face at the dawn of a new decade, moving between faith and frustration and covering themes of love, fear and the journey between the two. It’s the work of a musician who is completely comfortable in his ability and continues to remain true to himself, this shines through from beginning to end.

“Roesy has a relaxed, gentle-voiced singing style that evokes shades of Nick Drake without sacrificing its own originality” (The Evening Herald)

“Tender-hearted Irish singer/songwriters are two a cent but Roesy’s the best of the lot” (The RTE Guide)

“…armed with a crystalline pair of vocal chords…” (The Irish Times)

To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets for the show on Wednesday night, send an email to competitions@corkgigs.com (subject: Roesy) with your name and the answer to the following question:
Where was Fable recorded?

The deadline for entries is midnight on Tuesday April 27th. Winners will be notified by email Wednesday morning.

Listen to Roesy online at http://www.myspace.com/roesymusic

Boa Morte started the noughties in good company, signed to a fledgling record label based in North Carolina with labelmates that included Ryan Adams’ Whiskeytown. Their debut album (Soon it will come time to face the world outside) was recorded in Dublin by Daniel Presley. Following a lack of movement Stateside, the band contacted Shoeshine Records boss Francis MacDonald (drummer with Teenage Fanclub) who (on the advice of Norman Blake) agreed to release the album on this side of the Atlantic. The UK and Irish press were struck by the immediacy and intimacy of the music.

“Occasionally a record comes along that’s so intimate and immediate you want to disconnect the phone, get under the duvet and forget the outside world.”
— UNCUT

“By the time you’ve got the full measure of their sombre elegance, the band are confirmed masters of the idiom.”
— MOJO

“Like Smog or Will Oldham or any great purveyors of rural lament, it offers warm solace through the perpetual tumbling of the seasons”.
— IRISH TIMES

“…the band end up with swaying, melancholic gems that are so much more than the sum of their parts”.

— www.drownedinsound.com

www.allmusic.com

One writer for Irish music site cluas.com put Boa Morte’s album in his top 5 Irish albums of all time!

John Peel was a fan and twice played the band on his show just before his untimely death.

Between recordings Boa Morte spent some time touring with Teenage Fanclub, playing gigs in Ireland with the likes of Calexico, Howe Gelb & Adrian Crowley and working on the songs for the new album. Following a more than adequate period of rumination the new songs on The Dial Waltz are now ready to face the outside world. The band promote the release of ‘The Dial Waltz’ with gigs in:

Cork (Crane Lane Theatre, Saturday 1st May)

Galway (Róisín Dubh, Saturday 22nd May)

Dublin (Bewleys Café Theatre, Sunday 23rd May).

www.facebook.com/pages/Boa-Morte/485898770295?ref=mf

www.myspace.com/myboamorte

“We are asking Ireland’s musicians to compete in the ultimate test of pop penmanship – the challenge of crafting a truly great Christmas single. Irish musicians have penned some of the most loved and famous Christmas tunes over the years and we are looking to find the next hit. So grab your guitar, a set of sleigh bells and get into the Christmas spirit early this year by writing a cracker of a song!” said Daragh O’Sullivan, Christmas FM’s Joint Program Director.

Artists from around the country are asked to write and record their own Christmas compositions and submit them online through the Christmas FM website at www.christmasfm.ie/songcontest . The closing date for the contest is November 16th 2009.

A panel of leading Irish industry experts will choose a shortlist of the best entries which will be playlisted by the station during its first week of broadcast in December. Christmas FM listeners will then be asked to vote for their favourite song by text.

The overall winner of the contest will be given the opportunity to professionally record the song and be playlisted on Christmas FM alongside their catalogue of classic Christmas hits. The winning entry will also be released online as a charity Christmas single with all proceeds being donated to The Simon Communities, Dublin and Cork.

Christmas FM will return this December in an expanded format, broadcasting throughout both Dublin and Cork. A dedicated charity radio station it aims to raise over €35,000 for the Simon Communities, Dublin and Cork this year through a combination of corporate sponsorship, texts and online donations. The station will begin broadcasting on Monday 30th November, and will continue on air 24 hours a day until 27th December 2009.

For details on the contest see www.christmasfm.ie