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London’s Scouting for Girl’s million selling number 1 debut album connected with a huge audience and reaped multiple sold-out tours with contagious piano-led pop anthems She’s So Lovely, Heartbeat, It’s Not About You and Elvis Ain’t Dead. They have just made the video for forthcoming single ‘This Aint A Love Song’ to be released on 26th March with their album, ‘Everybody Wants to Be On TV’ following on April 9th. The play Dolans Warehouse on Tuesday 20th April

The Rubberbandits have uploaded their new video, ‘Wiliie O’Dea’ Filmed and edited by Dryad’s Saddle on location in Shannon.

Limerick’s echoshell (namely Kieran Calvert and Al Sheahan) with a little help from Fergal Lawler(drums), Billy Mullqueen(bass) and Mike hogan(bass), have been combining their original music and film to create innovative atmospheric landscapes and regularly make their work available on YouTube. Their new release is called “doves” featuring poet and spoken word artist Stephen Murray over a melancholy backing track and flickering images of dance clubs and all-night parties, “and if you were up for it and if you have taken enough drugs and were young and fit enough and not yet dead you could finish off with a bang and party on till the early hours of Monday morning”. It’s stunning work and very worthy of your attention.
Echoshell’s music also features in the opening credits of new Irish/UK movie, “Spiderhole” written and directed by Daniel Simpson which was screened at The Dingle Film Festival last September and will be represented at EFM (European Film Market) in Berlin shortly and achieve international distribution in the near future. You can check out the trailer on spiderhole.com

Balance with Webb on Spin South West (Fridays 9.45pm) is the the place to check out what tracks will be filling dance floors around the world and this Friday 26th February, DJ Paul Webb will be announcing the winners of the coveted guest DJ slots to support himself, Dan Sykes and the legendary Dave Clarke when they play Dolans Warehouse on Friday 5th March. Picked from hundreds of entries the winners will also have their mixes played on the show as part of the build-up to what will be the biggest dance event of the year so far.

Playing Dolans on Tuesday March 3rd are hotly tipped Bangor based band Two Door Cinema Club. Signed to the hip Parisian label Kitsuné Music, the band are only together since 2007 and started out making their music by layering their guitars and vocals over electronic beats made on a laptop and have produced energetic melodic pop music perfect for the dancefloor. Created in 2002, Kitsuné Music is a French electronic music record label and part of the Kitsuné Fashion Label, they have previously released music from La Roux, Simian Mobile Disco, Delphic, Klaxons and Foals and their regular samplers, ‘Kitsuné Maison Compilation’, now on its eight incarnation are essential listening for anyone into indie/dance crossover sounds. ‘Something good can work’ was Two Door Cinema Club’s April 2009 release and is still receiving loads of airplay on national radio and the band featured in the longlist for the BBC’s Sound of 2010. The new single ‘Undercover Martyn’ is out now and the album ‘Tourist History’ will be released on 1st March 2010 via Kitsune/Co-Op label. The bands line-up now features a drummer to beef up the live show, take you seats early, this one could be a blockbuster.
Watch ‘Undercover Martyn’ from Two Door Cinema Club

CoMA Limerick (Contempory Musicmaking for Amateurs) meet once a month to play new music by living composers. This is a wonderful opportunity to explore contemporary music and to rediscover your instrument in a relaxed environment. Musicians of all abilities are welcome to join. Some sight -reading experience is an advantage. Next CoMA event is on Saturday 27th February 11am – 3pm, Admission is free at Belltable’s off-site venue, Red Cross Hall, Cecil Street.

Josh Ritter will play The Warehouse on Sunday April 25th as part of his new album (So runs the world away) tour! Tickets costing €30

Sharon Shannon has just confirmed a date in the Warehouse for Friday March 12th! The line up for this raucous, knee-slapping show is Sharon and her Big Band with Jerry Fish & Carol Keogh(Automata).

With Tickets almost sold out for the first Limerick Show in 7 years from the world’s No.1 Techno Dj Dave Clarke, promoters Streetlife together with Spin South West have announced a Second Room that will showcase new Dj Talent from around the region. The party on Friday 5th March will now stretch over the whole Dolans complex with the upstairs hosted by Spin South West’s Paul Webb’s Balance Radio Show and the search is on for 2 dj’s to complete the nights line up. To get on bill, dj’s need to send a twenty minute mix together with a tracklisting and a short bio to balance@spinsouthwest.com by Saturday 20th February. DJs chosen will join Paul Webb, Dan Sykes and of course Dave Clarke on the line up for one of the biggest dance events of the year ! Winners will be announced and their mixes played on ‘Balance with Webb’ on Spin South West on Friday 26th February. Dave Clarke is a regular headliner at the world’s biggest dance festivals, host of the white noise radio show with over 1 million listeners a week around the world this will be Dave Clarke’s first Limerick show in 7 years.

www.partypeople.ie is to be the new online resource for DJs and artists in Ireland, a web portal where djs and all kinds of artists can advertise themselves and look for services. The launch of partypeople.ie will take place in Dolans Warehouse, Limerick on the 26th of February with DJs from Limerick and Dublin playing all kinds of club music: trance, electrohouse, progressive etc.
The night will start with a demonstration of the Pioneer CDJ-2000 CD players at 7pm. The CDJ-2000 enables playback of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF audio files on CD, DVD-ROM, SD card and USB memory-devices. Up to 35 controls can be used to trigger other devices, such as DJ effectors and software by way of HID and/or MIDI. HID enables easy, precise and native control of DVS systems such as Serato™ Scratch Live, Native Instruments’ Traktor series and MixVibes Cross2 without the need for time-coded discs. For displaying song titles, jacket art as well as detailed track information, the CDJ-2000 has a unique 6.1” Full Color LCD panel and Graphic User Interface so DJs can find information needed to select a song easily at a glance. So DJs are invited to come and see and try them yourselves!
The venue will be decorated in white on the night and revellers are encouraged to participate in the theme and dress in white.

The SongWriter Sessions returns on Thursday February25th with special guest, Vinny Fitzgerald from the band The Truth. Vinny Fitzgerald lead singer and songwriter with Limerick band The Truth launched their debut album, Time O’ The Signs, in Dolans Warehouse in 2009. The album was critically acclaimed at the time and some of the music was used in a made for TV film, The House, directed by Declan Cassidy.  He described The Truth’s music as ”A rich soulful sound with lyrics that speak right at you, the album is a treasure trove of great songs”.  Now Vinny Fitzgerald will perform a special paired down acoustic version of the album at the Limerick SongWriters night at the Locke Bar on Thursday 25th Feb. As Usual all aspiring songwriters are invited to attend and play there songs in front of a live audience.  All types of music and singers are welcome, a limited amount of instruments will be available for use on the night.