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Culchie Calling Cards – Gigs – August 30 – September 5 2010

GIGS

On Friday, The seventh Electric Picnic starts is Stradbally. This is a biggie and others here have already covered it, so I’ll direct you to their coverage.

Triskel Art Centre presents ‘Two Solos’ on Wednesday 1 September, not in the centre, but in the River Lee Hotel (formerly Jury’s) Western Road, Cork. The jazz soloists are Eugene Chadbourne on banjo and Paul G Smyth on piano.

Paul Melia’s  first solo live show in Dublin will take place on Wednesday 1 September in Bewley’s theatre on Grafton Street. From a piano playing seven year old two of the major influencing factors in Paul’s musical development were his somewhat aborted classical training alongside the fact that he is synaesthetic; the neurologically-based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Its different with most people. Sometimes the music tastes salty, or pointy, or orange. Its also surprisingly common amongst artists, writers and musicians. This is why amongst his musical influences are rainbows, stars and colours. His début album Hold Onto The Colours will be released early next year.

By way of a preview, here’s the video for the current single ‘Miss You’

TICKETING

Jay Brannan is playing another Irish date as part of this almost world tour (The US, UK and Ireland). I guess he liked his last visit here. He plays Crawdaddy at Dublin’s Old Harcourt Station on October 16. As for his style, well he has an artistic crush on Sinead O’Connor.

And what the heck, here is a preview too. As you can tell he is still recording YouTube clips in his bathroom (for the acoustics I presume)

ALSO PLAYING

Belfast
Thursday 2 September
Chief – Auntie Annies, Belfast

Dublin
Wednesday 1 September
Chief – Academy 2, Dublin