The Jimmy Cake
Crawdaddy, Harcourt St, D2
Thursday 23rd of August, 2007
Doors 8pm, €12
In the last seven years, The Jimmy Cake have become one of the most captivating acts ever to emerge from Ireland. With a line up that is nine strong and a unique combination of instruments The Jimmy Cake are a rarity by their very existence, but it is their ability to straddle delicate melody and ferocious power that has won them a dedicated and passionate following.
No doubt said following will be pleased to hear that, after a hiatus of Rip Van Winkle proportions, wherein the Cake were busy wrangling with their personal demons, their various wedding invitations, certain guitar, sax and banjo sized holes in the band and the lengthy recording, re-recording and further recording of the new album, the Jimmy Cake are finally back, playing in Dublin once more, to limber up before the sure-to-be-utterly-triumphant appearance at the Electric Picnic and the inevitable media scrum that will be the Brand New Album Release later in the year.
So don’t pass up this opportunity to hear the Jimmy Cake play the new record and try to throw shapes like it was 2003 all over again, all in salubrious surrounds of Crawdaddy.
Support on the night will be the rather tasty Engine Room Orchestra.