Bedroom sounds

First, it was brought to my attention today that this site made the final list for best music blog at the awards to be held in Cork this weekend. Gulp. I'm delighted, but feeling a bit scaldy faced and undeserving too. In the unlikely event that this should win anything, I'll be sending down Sacheen Littlefeather, a beautiful Native American by day (by night, she's Trevor Nevin, a cross-dresser from Carlanstown), to collect the award and highlight the forgotten plight of Native Americans living on reservations around Kells.

The others who made the list
MP3hugger
Nialler9
State blog
On the record

Belgium is a weird place. But more of that in my next post where I will try to describe the undescribable and desperately toss some impotent adjectives around the sublime gig Wolfgang Voigt played in Leuven. Two thoughts. The entire country of Belgium smells of waffles, and the centre of Leuven reminds me for some odd reason of Dundalk, except err, more ornate.


Belgian Waffles: fun and games until your heart spazzes to a halt as you ejaculate sputtering arcs of congealing fat out of every orifice.

Some nice sounds from Ireland:

I thought a Tenaka was a type of shape-shifting raccoon ghost with huge testicles from Japan. I was wrong. It turns out that's a Tanuki. A Tenaka is a Limerick man (who may or may not have huge testicles) who lives in Galway and makes understated pastoral electronica in his spare time. Think the clockwork rhythms of Plaid, the folky sensibilities of Fridge, and some hushed singing. If Greg from Masterchef heard it he might say "emotive bedroom electronica DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS".

MP3: Tenaka-Alaska

And, Tenaka's full EP can be downloaded fer free right here



Jamie Clarke strikes me as the sort of dude who spends Autumn sitting in golden fields wistfully blowing dandelion clocks and thinking about lost love. Because it's not Autumn all year 'round Jamie needs to channel his natural melancholia elsewhere, so he plays in The Ambience Affair with his friend and drummer Marc Gallagher. Jamie and Marc just released their new EP 'Fragile Things'. It is a heady collection of emotive folk numbers driven by Jamie's raggedy feelings and the impressive militaristic roll of Gallagher's percussion. Catch them before (a) Jamie's heart stops being broken (b) it's Autumn and the dandelion clocks are out. Oh, and the lads are a force of nature live. They are capable of leaving an audience completely spent.

MP3: The Ambience Affair-Fragile Things

And finally, Kells news. I am so very close to securing a vegetable allotment in the fields on the Oldcastle road. Talk about exciting. It's a steal at €40 per year and it's bigger than my back garden. I know I'm running a serious risk of becoming a vegetable bore, so shut me up if I ever break off from licking Animal Collective's arses to shite on about carrot fly.

Oh and last of all, the rather excellent Dent May is supporting Animal Collective in Tripod. Hoo-ray.