Limerick residents mourning the loss of Thomond Park should be heartened to hear that there are lots of exciting goings-on on the local music scene. Firstly the long-awaited release of the Giveamanakick album will happen on November 11. We Are The Way Forward is their second opus following on from Is It Okay To Be Loud Jesus?
To mark the launch of the album, the band will be playing an instore on the release day in Tower Records in Dublin, which will be followed by an extensive Irish tour. Check hotpress.com for details...
...Two tracks from the forthcoming Ten Past Seven debut album Shut Up Your Face, due for release early next year, will be available as a radio single and online via www.tenpastseven.net from November 14. The Limerick noise merchants will be playing a rake of dates to mark this seminal moment in the history of Irish rock...
...Also, tinkering away in the studio are Rest, who are putting the finishing touches to two new tracks which they have recorded with Ciarán O’Shea and Waiting Room, who are currently in France recording their second album.
The location for their creative endeavours is the ever-popular Black Box Studios and lending his production skills to the project is ex-Frames man Dave Odlum. They will also be playing their first Cork show in almost a year on Friday November 25 at Cyprus Avenue...
Four years in the making but well worth the wait is the new long-player from Somadrone entitled Fuzzing Away To A Whisper. The album is a sonic cocktail of styles from electro-acoustic to electronic pop music and is available from all good record stores or as a mail order CD or Digital Download on www.trustmeimathief.com. A limited edition CD version of the long out of print 10” EP ‘Let’s Depart’ is also included. 
…Fellow Dubliners Channel One will be working in the studio in the next couple of weeks on their debut single. Will keep you posted on on track listing, remixes and release date. In the meantime Channel One will play Psychotic Reaction @ Pogo-The Pod on November 5 and have a prestigious support slot to The Young Gods at their show in the Temple Bar Music Centre on November 30.
In addition to these live duties, they will be supporting Humanzi’s Irish tour. Check hotpress.com for details....
...Humanzi release their single, ‘Fix The Cracks’/’Get Your Shit Together’ on November 4. This highly-anticipated debut will be released on the fledgling Sound Foundation Recordings, in conjunction with the Fiction Label (home to Snow Patrol). The band have already announced a handful of headline Irish dates to coincide with the release. In addition they will be playing UK dates with Hard-Fi and some UK and Irish dates with Ian Brown…
Songwriter Stephen Hill is showcasing his radio single “Conspiracy” in a number of venues around the country shortly. ‘Conspiracy’ is the first track lifted from Stephen’s forthcoming debut album. Stephen won the hotpress First Cuts Song of the Fortnight in November 2003 for his song ‘Down My Way’...
Another busy gent is Barry O’Brien who after a hectic 2005 supporting the likes of The Walls, Aslan and The Revs, will be taking his power pop trio to Crawdaddy on November 17.
Fans can expect a preview of tracks from the debut album due early next year...
In Northern news, Veteran’s debut EP Letting Go is finished and available. Polished to the high standards at Komodo Recordings in Hillsborough, it boasts four new tracks that showcase the band’s own brand of funked-up rock. It can be requested or downloaded for free from www.veteranmusic.com...
Downpatrick’s The Answer have just announced the first date on their Irish tour. The band have confirmed a date on December 8 in Belfast’s Empire Music Hall. More dates to be announced soon.