Altern 8 Tomorrow Night

Big Dish Go are delighted to welcome back old skool legends Altern-8 to The Underground.

These hardcore ravers from Stafford, England, Altern 8 comprised Mark Archer and Chris Peat, and was an offshoot of their Nexus 21 project. Of the two, Archer was the house music aficionado, while Peat was a former music technology student with an interest for computers. They crashed the UK charts in 1991 with Infiltrate 202 and Activ-8 (come with me), two chaotic slices of hardcore, the latter reaching number 3. They were aided in their chart aspirations by the circulation of fictitious press stories concerning their alleged activities, which included promoting the decongestant Vicks Vapo Rub, which, it was claimed, heightened the effects of Ecstasy; and standing as local candidates for the 1993 General Election.

Their live events were also designed as eye catching performances, where the band donned RAF chemical warfare suits and dust masks. They were aided by their resident dancers Crez, Jon Parkes, and MC MkOne, in the case of their gig at Stafford’s Bingley Hall, an actual shaman. His job was to cleanse the venue of its rock n roll, prior to performance.

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Record Review, Analogue Mindfield, Visionsin Sonic Sense

Visions in Sonic Sense is Analogue Mindfield's third instalment in their quest to create auditory sound-scapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme. In the usual Mindfield style the Dublin based trio Gizzy D, Snapper J and Kitty B are joined by a host of special guests including MC Ishu (Step 13, Manesseh Soundsystem), MC Jaz (DJ Reeza, Scribble Orchestra), Yolazy (The Pale), Asian Dub Foundation's Dr Das and many more for 17 tracks that encompasses dub to drum and bass to trip hop and reggae.

Ever influenced by the golden age of conscious music, roots reggae, Analogue Mindfield bring 21st century updates to the roots message, both lyrically and musically, delivered with sensitivity and passion over stellar riddims.

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Boys Noize for Academy Gig

BOYS NOIZE ANNOUNCE ACADEMY DATE

Boys Noize return to Dublin for a summer date at The Academy on Sunday 31 May. Tickets priced €26.20 incl. booking fee are on sale now at all usual Ticketmaster outlets.

Under the moniker of Boys Noize, German electro tech producer Alexander Ridha has remixed tracks by Michael Jackson, Depeche Mode, Feist, Snoop Dogg as well as British indie anthems Banquet by Block Party and Kaiser Chiefs.

2007 saw the release of Boys Noize debut album entitled Oi Oi Oi which includes the track & Down that features in the Grand Theft Auto IV video game and also used as a sample from Estelle.

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Competition Time, Tom Hingley, Inspiral Carpets, The Academy

The Academy presents the launch night of FREAKY DANCIN.

Room 1:

Tom Hingley Inspiral Carpets

Trev Radiator Trashed

Room 2:

The Brothers Movement DJ set

NoDisko DJs Rory Fitzgerald and Anto Molloy

Friday 30th January sees the launch of a brand new monthly clubnight at The Academy – FREAKY DANCIN. 2 Floors of Fun is what’s on offer with Madchester sounds in the Main Room while downstairs the NoDisko DJs pump out their trademark electro-pop in the Academy 2 alongside special guests THE BROTHERS MOVEMENT.

We have got 2 tickets to give away for this special event, just answer this question, which Gallagher brother was an Inspiral Carpet roadie before finding fame with Oasis.

Answers to paddymurphy@drop-d.ie and be quick its on tomorrow night.

To celebrate the opening night, Inspiral Carpets frontman TOM HINGLEY is flying in for a DJ set alongside Dublins indie prince TREV RADIATOR. Tom will also deliver a live set of Inspiral Carpets classics. If you’re a fan of all things Madchester, and aswell as the very best of contemporary pop & electro Freaky Dancin is the party for you. Tickets on sale now through all outlets nationwide.

Tom Hingley

The Academy

NoDisko

The Brother Movement

Super Furry Animals to Release New Album in March

The best thing to come outta Wales, except for Katherine Kenkins Super Furry Animals will release a new album on March 16 digitally via Superfurry.com, followed by a full physical release on April 21.

In a statement the band said of the album: Musically its based around riffs and grooves we have been playing around with over the last few years. We have enough now for a whole album so even though it is still very melodic we thought we could leave off the acoustic ballads for the time being.

"Its recognisable as a melodic SFA record, but is very focused musically as a cohesive album. And no country rock as Daf [Ieuan, drums] has developed a pedal steel phobia. Which has confined the great Nashvillian instrument along with the saxophone to the banned instrument directive of the SFA board. Theres only one slow number, which isn t slow at all."

The working tracklisting of the album is:

The Very Best Of Neil Diamond

White Socks/Flip Flops

Inaugural Trams

Sounds Familiar

Cardiff In The Sun

Where Do You Wanna Go?

LLiwiau LLachar

Mountain

Moped Eyes

Inconvenience

Crazy Naked Girls

Earth

Prick

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Here is a video too, and it has that fat bloke from The IT Crowd

Record Review, Nikolai Fraiture

Artist: Nikolai Fraiture
Source: Paul Murphy

Boredom can be a terrible thing for a musician, particularly one who has already spent time in the lime light and sold millions of albums. Nikolai Fraiture, bassist with The Strokes delved deep into his shoebox of memories, as his band's hiatus (due to end in Feb '09) began taking longer than expected. Finding rants and poems, written years ago, Nikolai set out to add to them music and melody. Following the footsteps of fellow Strokes members Nikolai created a side project, called Nickel Eye, and has compiled his memories into a debut solo album called The Time of the Assassins.

Musically inspired by the likes of Neil Young, Frank Black, Leonard Cohen and the Kinks, Nickel Eye fuses indie, folk and post-punk monotony into 11 tracks that certainly have the lyrical simplicity of the Kinks' "Apeman" but lacks the honesty of Neil Young and the charisma of Leonard Cohen and Frank Black.

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Record Review, The Trews, No Time For Later

2009-01-28
Artist: The Trews
Source: Robert O Connor

One of the negative affects of grunge, was the Post Grunge scene. Bands like Nickleback, Matchbox Twenty, The Goo Goo Doll’s and Creed managed to tap into a family friendly, almost Christian market with their sleek sounds, wholesome content and overly whiney radio friendly ballads, all masquerading under the guise of ‘Rock’. Because of the clean living ideal that surrounded the bands; parents were more inclined to pick up the latest Everclear or Bush album for their children, rather than allowing them to listen to the likes of Marilyn Manson, Green Dayor Nine Inch Nails. Of course, money comes before integrity in the world, these days, and a slew of imitator’s are still being snapped up by record companies, hoping for a big pay off when one of them releases’ the next How you remind Me or With Arms Wide Open. Nova Scotia locals, The Trews are such a band. Their third album, No Time for Later is filled with feeble attempts at meaningful power ballads, run of the mill stadium rock anthems, that reek of Mitchelstown’s finest and the odd gem thrown in for good measure. Almost everything on this album sounds like something else that bored you to tears a hundred times before. However, there are some notable efforts, nothing to get majorly excited about mind you.

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