News In BriefsCROUPIER

Those top lads in Croupier have a special Christmas show coming up in The Workman’s Club that they need to share with you.

Having just played at The Button Factory for the Community of Independents Series 3 launch, they will now embark on a series of shows on a mini tour. This culminates in December when they support Windings on Dec 6th in The Roisin Dubh and then head back to Dublin the next day for a Christmas show in The Workman’s Club with Benny SMiles and other special guests to be announced.

CROUPIER LIVE 2012

• Friday November 10th – The Button Factory – Community Of Independents Series 3 launch.
• Thursday November 15th – The Twisted Pepper, Dublin (Forward/Slash)
• Friday November 16th – Auntie Annies, Belfast with Before Machines
• Thursday December 6th – The Roisin Dubh, Galway (supporting Windings)
• Friday December 7th 2012 – The Workman’s Club, Dublin with Benny Smiles (PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS TBA)
• MARCH 2013 – EUROPEAN TOUR. DATES TBA

HORSEMEN PASS BY

Horsemen Pass By, purveyors of original soundtracks for trash and cult cinema, are playing a special show at the Corona Cork Film Festival Club in the Opera House on Thursday 15th November at 10pm.

Joining them on the night will be members of Fear Stalks The Land on piano, double bass and guitar.  There will be support from The Karman Line who are a Cork based electronic twosome.

Entry is free with a ticket stub from any Film Festival or Opera House show.

www.facebook.com/Vitaphonic / www.corkfilmfest.org

DC EXPERIMENT

The DC Experiment are readying the launch for their album ‘Parallel Universe’, which amazingly was recorded in 2010 but never got a proper release.

That’s all changing which a gig in Captains Live in Blanchardstown on Friday 16th November. Admission to the show is just €5 on the door and show starts at 8pm.

Support on the night will come from Colour the World.

BARRYGRUFF PRESENTS

The next in the series of BarryGruff Presents will see him grab another three acts for a good night of music in Dublin.

BarryGruff series will be in Arthurs on Thomas Street, which has recently been taken over by The Mighty Stef as booker. So the gig will be on Friday 23rd November with a double headliner of The Statics – who just released their latest single ‘Holiday’ – and The Violet Roadkills.

Support on the night will be from Wayfarer with admission on the night costing you NOTHING. So free gig in Arthurs on November 23rd. Doors at 8pm.

The Statics [Facebook | Soundcloud | Twitter]
The Violet Roadkills [Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter]
Wayfarer [Facebook]

HEAVY SOUL

Just a small update here on Dublin/Edenderry based indie band Heavy Soul. 

It seems they have been busy over the last while, battling it out in the Global Battle of the Bands and have just been in contact to let us know they are now finalists (the second Irish band in the final since Kopek won in 2005) for the grand finale on 9th December in The Scala, London.

The big prize is 100k US dollars and a record deal and a support slot on a large world tour, so it would be huge for the band to seal it. GP would like to wish them the best in the final. Bring it home lads.

Heavy Soul [Facebook] [Global Battle of the Bands]

FOX.E AND THE GOOD HANDS

Fox E and the Good Hands have a big show for the band coming up this Thursday.

They will be playing a show in The Odessa Club on Thursday 15th November to showcase new tracks from the forthcoming album as well as launching their Fund:IT campaign.

Support on the night will come from She’s A Beauty (one of the bands who helped us out on Coast to Coast: Tea and Toast) and as a nice coincidence it’s also Fox.E’s birthday!

Doors are at 8pm and admission is €5.

ALIAS EMPIRE

?Alias Empire have just sent us over the new video for the first single from their new album ‘Safety In Numbers’.

The track is called ‘Lay Down’, and was produced, directed and edited by Greg Corcoran.

aliasempire.com / aliasempire.bandcamp.com