Ballroom # 63

Friday March 30th
The Lower Deck
€8, doors 9pm

Twin Kranes
Thinguma*Jigsaw
Fairlights
Ewa Grigon


Twin Kranes



Kraut rockin' evil dance rock grooves from Dublin

"Somewhere over one third of the way into the first decade of the new millennia in the long dank winter of 2003/2004, three young world weary musicians T.Krane and his child-hood friends and companions The Rooster and Dr Raymond Krane, sat up and dusted themselves down. After some time spent floating in the stratosphere after the implosion of various different musical projects they began to gravitate slowly back to earth and began to realise that time had been kind to their souls and minds but the musical landscape they now co-habited looked considerably dull and un-moving. So with a newly found hunger our heros began to rejuvenate themselves, not unlike a worm or maggot that gets stood on, breaks into many pieces and grows happily and multiplies into some more worms or maggots. They soon began to establish their very own Palmer Space Studios. An other worldly environment specifically set up for the purpose of creating challenging uncompromising electronic pop music. Buried deep within these smokey hallowed walls, through rigorous experimentation with vintage electronics, tribal drums and undying love for popular music and popular culture, a six-legged avant- groove machine monster was born. Now under the moniker TWINKRANES our heros had returned from a long and truly strange migration."

http://www.myspace.com/twinkranes
www.twinkranes.com

Thinguma*jigSaw



Norwegian avaunt folk that with no amplification sure as hell rocks
"This irresistible, revolutionary folk duo will tickle your brain and nourish your heart:Two elusive, exeptional, pivotal personalities - cunningly spinning a web of flamboyant brouhahas within the idiom of their own device: charming, clever, generous, sinister splatterfolk.
Splatterfolk combines elements of traditional british folk with contemporary art music, and spices it up with lyrical and musical components usually associated with horrorfilms and modernistic poetry. There is also an abundance of filmatic references. It's the new revolution within contemporary folk music, and you will find no finer exponents of this subversive art than Thinguma*jigSaw"

http://www.myspace.com/thingumajigsaw

Fairlights


Drone rock atmospherics and reinvented singer song writing

Enda Bates writes, records and performs rock/electronica under the alias Fairlights. His first release, the Deadweight EP, was recorded in 2003 and the debut fairlights album, entitled Scraps, was released on the Alphabet Set label (www.alphabetset.net ) in 2005. Fairlights have played numerous gigs around Dublin including the Ballroom of Romance, Lazybird, the King Kong club and the Deaf festival. The new Fairlights album, Quarterworks was recently launched at Lazybird and it available now

http://www.fairlights.net
http://www.myspace.com/fairlights


Ewa Grigon


Polish experimentalist siren plays with voice, loops and keyboards

Ewa Gigon takes a long sip of beer from her wine glass, she pauses for a second as if deep in thought,smiles to herself and then.........sings! With a voice that goes from a terrifying air raid siren to the seductive sirens of Greek mythology via tin whistle ,cheese grater, and s*x toys, we can only guess what she was thinking during that pause.
She probably wasn't thinking about the fact that she is probably the unlikeliest graduate of Dublin's International Bar, the tiny pub which spawned many of the country's much maligned singer songwriter drones over the last fifteen years.
Where others look to Bob Dylan or the Beatles to inspire their strumming, Ewa takes her cue from the likes of Karlheinze Stockhausen or Diamanda Galas, mixing flamboyant theatrics with bizarre instrumentation and classical technique.
Like a kind of Zelig-in-reverse, since the release of her first album, "Home Made Obsessions" in 2004, Ewa has played with two of Dublin's best bands, (retards) and Queen Kong, and played a host of drawer(jaw)-dropping, glass(jaw)-breaking, mind(jaw)-bending shows around Ireland and Europe.

http://www.myspace.com/ewagrigon