Holy Ghost Fathers Present.. Ballroom # 49&1/2 Featuring The Dudley Corporation Love Story in Blood Red The Lamps Friday 24th of February The Boom Boom Room Above Conways on Parnell Street. €7, doors 9pm, free CD-r to the first 100 The Dudley Corporation For a band determined to take things easy, 2005 saw The Dudley Corporation take the US by storm, with the release and superb reviews there of “In Love With The Dudley Corporation”. Even The Onion climbed on board, describing the record as a “budget trip into the mystic”. Considering band members were living on different continents, it was either craziness or classiness that led the band to take on two huge US tours; one with indie giants Pinback and another major headline tour that included a frenzied response at the CMJ festival. Of the live shows Popmatters said ‘Sweat flew, bodies flailed on stage in a way that was almost awkward, The Dudley Corporation dazzled.” It's been some ride. As well as the US, the bands phenomenal live workrate has taken them to the UK, Iceland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Austria. Their shows are notoriously frenzied, visceral and exciting affairs with one song careering into another or stopping on a sixpence, as they say in football parlance. Past touring has also seen them take in shows with such luminaries as Low, RFTC, The Wrens, Trail Of Dead and Stephen Malkmus. In brief, they play short rock songs with wit, verve, romance and booksmarts. In-between bouts of touring they've managed to release two acclaimed LPs, several 7" singles and been on a slew of compilations. The Lonely World of The Dudley Corporation was recorded in June 2001 at The Delgados Chem19 Studios in Scotland with Andy Miller. In Love with The Dudley Corporation was made in the same studio in 2003, featuring appearances from members of The Delgados, Camera Obscura and The Tycho Brahe and yielded their first Irish Top 30 single, 'What A Human Does'. 2006 looks set to get even nuttier. Currently hard at work on their third album, recording has so far taken place with figures like Rob Bochnick (The Frames), Kris Poulin (Jim O’Rourke, Loose Fur) and Don Zientara (Fugazi, Minor Threat) and in places as exotic as Black Box in France, and the legendary Inner Ear studios in Washington, DC. So far, the lads think it sounds cracking. Expect a US and European summer release on Absolutely Kosher records. The band make a return to shows in Ireland with a low key show at the Ballroom of Romance @ The Boom Boom Room above Conways on Parnell Street, on February 24th ”There is a quiet brilliance about The Dudley Corporation. In Love With is a masterpiece of calculated stop and start rampancy” – Transform ”Can you be in love with In Love With? The answer is yes. A gorgeous wall of sound. Try not to air drum.” – Magnet ”An indie-lover's dream.” – The Eagle Online ”Buy it. The ghost of Chet Baker meets the ghost of Kurt Cobain on a sleepover at Burt Bacharach's ranch.” – Evening Herald ”When your mind whirrs in sync with this Dublin trio's sophomore album, you charge exhilaratingly through a delirious, tortuous race track” – Irish Times ” There is so much greatness in this album that it can't be explained in mere words, a little like love itself. The Dudley Corporation are arguably making the most compelling music in Ireland at the minute. Captivating and brilliant in equal measure” – Alternative Ulster http://www.thedudleycorporation.com Love Story in Blood Red Love story in Blood Red are a great band of Chicago. We asked them what they were like. They said this: "Love like an outrage that won't go to bed mad. Love making - from the foreplay to the cuddling. Or more directly, three goo friends who make th etime to play the songs if a good fourth friend, who just happens to write the songs we all want to play. This happens in the wet heat or the biting cold of Chicago.There is no in between in this city nor is there for this band. There are some reviews below and most will mention the Modern Lovers; some will mention the Kinks. We would metnion, T. Rex, Monks, The Velvet Underground, and Paul McCartney. But, of course, we don't really sound like any of these" "Frightenly good in a wild eyed and hooky Modern Lovers way" Chicago Reader "Pleasingly unpredictable" Skratch magazine http://www.lovestoryinbloodred.com The Lamps [Over years playing in other combos and living in different parts of the world, The Lamps have always reverted to making music together. Some things just feel right. They've developed their own musical vocabulary, splicing disparate musical influences - wurlitzer-jukebox-pop, Buddy Holly, Burt Bacharach alongside the Velvet Underground and the musical hodgepodge that was the John Peel show - into pop songs that stick in your head and doggedly refuse to leave. Like your childhood blanket, favourite whisky or significant other, you'll wonder how you got by without them. It's a good thing you no longer have to. http://www.myspace.com/lampspop