Jack Daniels have just announced their new format for the JD Set 2011. They will be featuring one of Irelands most successful and respected writers Neil Hannon who will collaborate alongside Choice Prize winning JAPE and multi time Choice Nominee Cathy Davey.
They will play an exclusive free gig at The Button Factory in Dublin on Friday 1st of April (April Fools day no less) and it should make for a storming gig as they perform their own version of Vampire Weekends debut album.
Neil Hannon had this to say about the event
“I’m so pleased to have been given the opportunity by the JD Set folks to rework one of my all-time favourite records, the debut and eponymously titled album by Vampire Weekend. The reason I’ve chosen it is because stylistically, it’s an ingenious marriage of indie pop, African rhythm and classical harmony. Musically, it’s a collection of beautifully honed melodies and taut, perfectly structured chord progressions. Lyrically it’s all witty, occasionally barbed snap-shots of Ivy League colleges and Long Island lawns, regularly veering off on idiosyncratic tangents. But mostly it’s because it kicks ass and makes me happy!”
Tickets for this exclusive JD Set performance at the Button Factory are free and will be available via registration from 1st February on www.thejdset.ie .