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Hoovers & Sledgehammers - 22nd August, Mulroys, Castlebar supporting Story of Hair.
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DRUNKEN LUST PRESENTS; Shiu-Yeung Hui (maher shalal hash baz, london has let me down) mini tour
DUBLIN; 29th aug; Toners, baggot st. Shiu-Yeung Hui, SO COW, George Worrall. 9pm, admission 5euro.
Shiu-Yeung Hui has mastered a beguiling
sophisticated-naive style overflowing
with humanity and beauty and that's what makes this Chinese musician so
special. He is a member of the rather splendid cult errant pop group Maher
Shalal Hash Baz, and like the Japanese collective his songs pick apart
conventional ideas of musicality by embracing fragments, happy accidents and the
spirit of amateurism. The artist's simple victory is his ability to revive the
idea of the simple redemptive power of song; that what can seem like trite
over-sentimentality in popular music, can in the right hands be transformed into
the source for an achingly beautiful lament or celebration.
Attached to
all, but in lovely little bits his jigsaw music can recall Daniel Johnson, The
Pastels, Ekkehard Ehlers, Tiny Tim, Rachels or even Arthur
Lee.
"Possessed of a quiet dynamism which can turn on a sixpence like a
firework; a type of person not found among Japanese; like an airplane painting
pictures on a cloud, Shiu will join the ranks of great modern Chinese artists."
Tori Kudo, Maher Shalal Hash Baz
www.myspace.com/londonhasletmedown
So Cow (backing tapes show) is the ongoing musical project of a young Tuam gentleman by the name of Brian Kelly. 2008 has already seen him tour the US and Canada on the back of his latest album 'I'm Siding With My Captors' and the HWCH show will coincide with the release of his latest 7" 'Commuting'. So Cow has been described in some quarters as Swell Maps meets Abba.
www.myspace.com/socow
George Worrall is a musician heavily influenced by the heritage of early to mid 20th century Americana, influences which he infuses with his own particular touch to create original and fresh country blues songs.
Bray 30th; Harbour bar; Shiu-Yeung Hui, Brian Cullens Love Bullets, The bastard rain. 9pm admission free.
Brian Cullens Love Bullets; www.myspace.com/briancullenslovebullets
The Bastard Rain; www.myspace.com/thebastardrain