News In Briefs: Shonen Knife / Panama / Thread Pulls / Windings / Nighthawks

SHONEN KNIFE

All female Japanese pop punk three piece Shonen Knife will be down in Whelans this Saturday 13th October. These girls are meant to be a crazy quirky off the wall live experience and if we weren’t finalist for the blog awards we would be down checking them out.

If you need entertainment on Saturday evening, go check out Shonen Knife. Tickets are €15 inclusive of booking fee and are available from Whelanslive.com with doors at 8pm.

WINDINGS

Out On A Limb Records have some more great music for us this month. This time around it’s Windings with their new record ‘I Am Not The Crow’. We streamed ‘This Is a Conversation’ last week and we can tell you now that they have some tour dates down for around Ireland.

Kilkenny, Coleraine, Galway, Clonakilty, Dublin and Limerick are all on the hitlist. Full dates below. We’ll keep you aprised of the album when we know about the exact dates.

Nov 24th – Billy Byrnes, Kilkenny
Nov 30th – The Listening Post, University of Ulster, Coleraine
Dec 6th – Roisin Dubh, Galway
Dec 7th – De Barras, Clonakilty
Dec 8th – Whelans, Dublin
Dec 26th – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick

THREAD PULLS

Thread Pulls have pulled some strings and put together a new 12″ record ‘you Melt Words \ 5/8 Rhythm Here’ and it is due to be released on October 19th 2012. Yes thats next week.

They will be launched the record on October 19th with a gig in The Joinery that night. Launching with them will be Yximalloo & Withering Zithering. The cost of admission is €8 on the door and it’s a BYOB event. The 12″ vinyl ( with download) is a limited pressing of 100 with special packaging including unlabelled vinyl, stamped sleeve and two glossy photographic prints.

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