Homework 31 January 2002

KILL! KILL! KILL! present new club nights with a real difference to your nauseous bog standard slapper and chips norm. Taking place every Friday upstairs in Frazers on Dublin's O'Connell Street, the clubs are entitled Peeches, Do You Kompute? and the IMP club. Peeches is fortnightly live music and decks ’n’ drums ’n’ rock ’n’ roll extravaganza which was launched in mid January by Estel and The Pascals. Future attractions include Belfast artists Desert Hearts and Tracer Amc.

Desert Hearts are signed to Tugboat Records which was home to last year's Homework album of the year, Things We Lost In the Fire by Low. Speaking of the greatest contemporary US band in existence, Low's Zak Sally designed the gorgeous vinyl cover template for the current Joan of Arse LP Distant Hearts, A Little Closer, which was used for 200 individually hand-crafted covers by JOA bassist/vocalist Gumbo. Every copy was exhibited in the Guinness Storehouse over the festive season, and remaining copies of this gorgeous highly collectable artefact are available for purchase or mail order from Road Records.

Gumbo is also involved in the IMP club, an improvisation club made up of whoever shows up with an instrument. Damien Frost, Joan of Arse and The Wormholes launched the Do You Kompute? night in an unforgettable wild improvisation stylee. For further information and up to the minute listings, visit www.killkillkill.cjb.net

Not content with being Ireland's leading supplier of leftfield and underground music, Road Records get in on the live event lark with a night of visuals and music in the Project Arts Centre on Friday February 8th featuring The Redneck Manifesto and Jimmy Behan. Jimmy's Kin Recordings label goes from strength to strength with a 12" release from Estonian artist Pastacas - a very smooth, slick and beautiful offering of downbeat electronic called 'No Good Songs'.

Dacianos have announced release details for their second album Hold Music - a two track sonic odyssey that weighs in at just over twenty minutes and thereby officially an album as defined by the BPI.The band, consisting of Barry Kavanagh, Eamon Hannan and various other volunteers, has once again been recorded by Simon Kenny of Schroeder's Cat fame. The sleeve for Hold Music is designed by Seán Hillen of Irelantis and will be available from all discerning record pushers in the UK and Ireland from February 18, 2002.

Good to see Ireland's drum n' bass community doing a festival with a difference on Valencia Island entitled Jungle Republic featuring Zero Tolerance, Rohan, Naphta, Sully and Source among many others.

Meanwhile Cork outfit Fred have just released their wonderfully titled debut album Can't Stop, I'm Being Timed.