'LADYFLASH' RE-LAUNCH PARTY

KENNEDY'S UNDERGROUND

THURSDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2008


Featuring live sets from
QUEEN KONG (Single Launch Party)
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STAGGER LEE
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DJ set from SINÉAD NÍ MHÓRDHA

(Phantom 105.2/Chicks On Decks)

Doors: 10pm


Kindly sponsored by Sol

Ladyflash re-launches its highly acclaimed club on Thursday February 28th. This sees the club re-locate from the Button Factory to the popular, award-nominated venue Kennedy's Underground. Now operating on the last Thursday of ever month, Ladyflash will continue to set off the Dublin night scene alight with its mix of great live indie and electro acts and DJ sets from visiting Special Guests as well as a weekly DJ Residency from Phantom 105.2 Presenter/Chicks On Decks DJ – Sinéad Ní Mhórdha.


Hell-raisers Queen Kong are a mix between Siouxie and The Banshees and Blondie with elements of synthesizer wizards Kraftwerk thrown in for good measure. The band have played high profile support slots for bands such as all-American band The Like and indie act Good Shoes. Another momentous occasion in the life of Queen Kong is that they were once joined by infamous bass-player Krist Noveselic of Nirvana for a jam!

The band have been creating a stir amongst the media with the likes of UK music mag NME stating them as the 'Kings and Queens of the Irish music scene'.
Queen Kong launch their new single 'So Brand New' at the Ladyflash re-launch party.


Stagger Lee play music with grit and grease, that makes you feel sleazy. They want to put sweat and blood and tears back into rock and roll and to celebrate the truth and honesty and poetic justice of the blues. Their sound embodies the spirit of Robert Johnson's Devil-at-the-crossroads and Mavis Staples sultry gospel cry combined with the energy and attitude of The Stooges, The Cramps and Siouxsie Sioux. Highlights to date have included appearances with The Kills, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Duke Spirit, Sleater-Kinney, The Grates, The Long Blondes and Pink Grease in the notorious White Trash club in Berlin .



"The debauched blues of Stagger Lee recalls the explosive aggression of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion" - NME



"...Stagger Lee don't belong in a quagmire of underachieving rock 'n' roll bands; their superior, oppressive redolence of jealousy, longing, loss and lust puts a yawning chasm between them and the deathly average" – In Dublin
www.myspace.com/staggerleeband



Sinéad Ní Mhórdha presents 'Phantom Anthems' on Dublin's alternative Phantom 105.2. She also presents 'Carousel' on Phantom - a daily feature covering events within the world of art and culture. In addition to this, Sinéad reviews new alternative bands and albums on RTE2's 'TTV' every Friday at 6pm.



Sinéad cut her teeth djing in the Temple Bar Music Centre in 2001 with all-girl dj trio 'Chicks on Decks'. Following performances at the Bass Festival, Heineken Green Energy Festival and Galway's 110 th Street - the ladies parted company to concentrate on their own separate projects. Sinéad moved on to dj in venues in Dublin such as The Village, the Sugar Club as well as residencies in Whelan's, Carnival and 4 Dame Lane. She also played in clubs in London such as 'Karate Boots' in The Phoenix off Oxford Circus, which included guest djs such as Graham Coxon.


Sinéad's radio career commenced in 2002, when she started her four year stint as a regular guest panellist on the Dave Fanning show. She also presented on FM104 and appeared on BBC London as a News Review panellist.


But her true calling for radio was undeniably with Dublin's Alternative Rock station - Phantom. After initially joining in 2004 for the temporary licences, Sinéad returned to the airwaves on Halloween 2006 to re-join the ranks as Presenter on Phantom 105.2.

Sinéad has been described as: "a music junkie" and that she is one of Phantom's "leading lights" by the Sunday Independent.

The Star have recently declared Sinéad as " Ireland's First Female DJ Superstar".


Enjoy Sol Responsibly

Toons : Indie, Electro, Punk, Rock 'n' Roll - i.e. good toons to dance to!
Date: Thursday 28th February
Venue : Kennedy's Underground, Westland Row
Doors: 10pm
Admission : €7

Upcoming Ladyflash clubs...

March 27th: Betamax Format

April 24th: We Should Be Dead

June 26th: You're Only Massive


* PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE FROM THE BUTTON FACTORY TO KENNEDY'S UNDERGROUND!