Being able to count Hollywood A-listers amongst your fanbase is a compliment not too many acts can lay claim to, but Large Mound are the exception. Mr Vince Vaughn chose ‘Your Holiday Is Boring’ as his profile song on MySpace, very impressive indeed. You can check out the excellent new video for the track at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir86jho35dc&feature=related.
The band have been busy on the live circuit of late – check Hotpress.com for upcoming gigs.
On a live note, the very wonderful Prison Love (pictured) played a blistering set in Whelan’s when they supported bluegrass legend Dirk Powell recently. The south Dublin band entertained with a fine selection from last year’s long-player A Night In The Box, the two highlights of the set were their fantastic cover of Motorhead’s ‘Ace Of Spades’ and vocalist Barry’s impressive push-up solo.
Another recent live highlight was the double whammy of Story Of Hair supporting Limerick’s We Should Be Dead at their Crawdaddy album launch –watch that space! News from the SOH camp is that a long-player is in the pipeline, hooray!
The Kinetiks' new single ‘Bite The Bullet’ hits the streets on February 29. Recorded last summer at Grouse Lodge and produced by Gareth Mannix the song gets the year off to a great start for the band who had a very successful 2007 which saw them notch up live appearances at Castle Palooza, Cois Fharraige and a support slot to The Enemy at the Ambassador.
The next release from Limerick’s Out On A Limb label will be the new Crayonsmith single ‘Lost In A Forest’, which will be available to download from March 7. The launch takes place that night in Whelan’s with support from Somadrone. The track is taken from Crayonsmith’s forthcoming debut album White Wonder (due in April).
‘Lost In The Forest’ will be previewed on MySpace from Friday, February 8. The artwork, designed by D.A.D.D.Y., can be viewed online now.
Dublin popsters The Gandhis have just released their debut single ‘Zaza’, which is available from www.downloadmusic.ie. Catch them live in The Stables, Mullingar on February 15.
Mullingar residents The Aftermath are putting the finishing touches to their debut album which is due in April. Expect plenty of live action in support of the release. In the meantime the guys hit the live circuit in the UK in March and Johnny will be playing some solo gigs in Portugal in February with Duncan Patterson.
Tyrone’s Pocket Promise have uploaded three new recordings to www.myspace.com/pocketpromise and the EP mix of ‘Facing Down’, ‘Something Unreal’ and ‘Déjà Vu’ is now available for your listening pleasure. The band recently launched the 'Waving At Strangers' EP at a packed show at The Empire Music Hall and will be supporting Aslan in O’Neills of Coalisland on Feb 16 before embarking on a UK tour. The band have been getting lots of airplay of late, recently appeared on Balcony TV for the second time and Joe even found time to do some drumming for Gemma Hayes.
Dublin folk star Jenny Lindfors has also been busy of late. She has just finished supporting Angus and Julia Stone on their UK tour. Catch her supporting the excellent Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit on February 16 in Crawdaddy and on the box on the February 27 broadcast of Other Voices with Juno Falls, Seasick Steve and Sinead O’Connor.

For live updates tune into The Last Splash, Sunday nights 8-10, with Alison Curtis on Today FM (email: [email protected])