Divine Wind Love sounds like the name of a hippy love child - hard to believe it translates as “Kamikaze Love”, the sinister title of the new Rubens single. God bless Wikipedia, an endless source of useful/useless information. The quartet have just finished recording their debut album with Gareth Mannix (Republic of Loose, The Chalets and Humanzi) and to mark this auspicious occasion have announced a slew of nationwide dates.
The tour, featuring a new line-up, rolls from March until mid-April and includes co-headliners with Pugwash and Boss Volenti.
Also newly album-ed is Ger Wolfe, who hits the live circuit this month to promote The Velvet Earth. His fourth album of new-roots music will be released into shops nationwide on March 24. Ger also appears on Ardan on TG4 on March 11 with the full Skylarks band live with Pádaí ?‘ Lionard. Don’t forget to tune in!
Also just out of the recording studio and back on the road are Reemo. The fruit of their labour is the double-a-side ‘Who You Are/Line’, which is currently available at all good record shops. Other interesting dates in their diary are March 13, when they swing by Eamonn Dorans to record a student film and March 23 for a show in the Voodoo Lounge. Then they are off to New York for more live action.
Fresh from support slots to with Hothouse Flowers and Aslan, Bailer are releasing their new single ‘Tonight’ on March 12 in Crawdaddy. The offering was recorded in Jam Studios in Kells and was co-produced and engineered by Martin Quinn. The band also appear as part of the St. Patrick’s Day festivities in The Guinness Storehouse at 3pm. Check www.bailermusic.com for release information.
On a ghoulish note, Galway’s The Ghostwood Project are coming off the road in late March to lay down tracks for their debut EP. After a busy year on the live circuit with such domestic luminaries as Jape, the Redneck Manifesto, Giveamanakick, The Dudley Corporation, Fred, Rest, The Things and Waiting Room, the band have decided to transfer their energies to the studio. Before that, there’s a prestigious support slot to iForward Russia! on their Irish dates – not to be missed!
Farewell To Glory is the new EP from Hidden From Nowhere. A few appearances on the college circuit precede a proper Irish tour in April and then it’s off to France in May – it’s well for some! Their new web home at www.hiddenfromnowhere.com will go live soon.
And finally… news from the Defect camp (another bunch just out of the studio) is that the loveable Corkonians are back out on the live circuit with gigs at Cyprus Avenue on March 11, The Well House on Paddy’s Night and a support slot to metal gods Primordial on their upcoming Galway visit….RAWK!