Ana Egge recently released Bad Blood via Ammal Records on August 23rd. The 12-song set was produced by Steve Earle and recorded atLevon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY. Bad Blood was mixed and mastered by Ray Kennedy (Earle and Kennedy’s production partnership includes the Grammy winning Lucinda Williams album Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, the Ron Sexsmith favorite Blue Boy, and many more). Steve Earle stated, “Ana Egge’s songs are low and lonesome, big square-stare noir ballads which she plays on a guitar she built with her own two hands and sings like she’s telling us her deepest, darkest secrets.”

 

Buddy Mondlock writes songs. He does it so well that some great songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums. Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith and Janis Ian, to name just a few. But there’s nothing like hearing the guy who wrote ‘em sing ‘em. He’s not going to pin your ears back with those songs. He’s going to draw you into his world. Where a single snowflake follows the trajectory of a relationship, where you get your pocket picked by a Roman cat, where morning tumbles into noon and where dreams that don’t come true still count.


 

In association with the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival Elevens is a four piece musical and visual concept created by Martin McCann – Vocals (SACK) and Tony Barrett – Guitar (BRILLIANT TREES). With the addition of Mark Healy on extra guitar (THE JOSEPHS/SUBTONICS/JERRY FISH & THE MUDBUG CLUB) and the photographic projections of Aidan Kelly (CANDY), both mediums are married for an unforgettable live experience. Acoustic guitar based and with the additional colour of Omnichord, Melodica and Toy Bells amongst other gadgetry, these songs of love lost and found, are aided by Kelly’s urban landscapes incorporating interactive tell tale snap shots of everyday life.

 

Kaleidoscope are delighted to present a late night evening of music, in association with the Goethe Institute and Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival on October 12th at The Odessa Club in Dublin. We present a night of theatre, text, song and chamber music together in a true celebration of boundary breaking composers, brought to you by exceptional musicians and performers. To celebrate 50 years of the Goethe Institute in Dublin, the UBDTF have a exciting strand of German theatre running through their programme, under the banner “The Radical Mind”. Kaleidoscope curators, Cliodhna Ryan and Kate Ellis have responded to this with a diverse and exciting programme celebrating radical German composers through the ages. The evening opens with Nick Milne, one of Europe’s finest viola da gamba players playing J.S.Bach’s Sonata for Solo Violoncello No.1, followed by Beethoven’s powerful and dynamic String Trio in C Minor, performed by the combined talents of William Butt on cello, Joachim Roewer on viola and Cliodhna Ryan on violin. Helmut Lachemann, one of Germany’s most influential living composers brings us straight to the present day. Kate Ellis will play his gritty yet intimate virtuoso cello masterpiece, “Pression” for solo cello. We stay with the contemporary, as David Stalling and award winning actor Olwen Fourie present a new work, devised for the occasion, inspired by Goethe’s work. To end our celebration of groud-breaking German composers, we are delighted to welcome the wonderful Julie Feeney, accompanied by Conor Linehan on piano, who will perform excerpts from “The Seven Deadly Sins” by Brecht/Weill, to send us into the evening with what is sure to be a memorable performance. We would like to acknowledge the support of the Goethe Institute, without whom this event could not take place.

 

The Wheels of Destiny team (Murt Rice and John Mahon) is taking part in The Race Around Ireland (2100kms in 132 hours) to raise funds for the charity Aware. We are hosting this night to help them to their goal. Aware's mission is to create a society where people with depression and their families are understood and supported, are free from stigma and have access to appropriate therapies to enable them to reach their full potential. Come along and have the craic and test yourself against friends and strangers in a general knowledge table quiz. Odessa Table Quizzes are famous for fun, competition and romance and were recently featured in The Irish Times Magazine.

 

Members in free. On her debut album, Slow Dynamo,Valerie Francis has managed to cross-stitch a work of coal-burning beauty composed of simple ideas, executed complexly. Old synths, harmoniums, bells, horns, drums, and strings interweave to turn accessible songwriting into something to savour rather than gobble whole (tempting as it is to shovel the whole of Slow Dynamo’s platter down your throat at once). Drones pass by each other like ships at night, while instruments play a hypnotic hopscotch together without ever tripping over each other’s feet.

 

My word, we'd forgotten all about Katell! Members enter for free.

 

Members and guests free.

 

Brought to you by Totally Dublin magazine, this is always a great night of music and... stuff...

 

The Shoos are a four piece band from Dublin. They are the most unlikely set of musicians to be thrown together in any room. They consist of a Sports wear designer, a Suit, an Insomniac and a grown up! Last September they released their debut single "Yeah" which received a lot of National and regional airplay such as FM104's Strawberry pick of the week, Spin 103.8, 98fm, 2fm and Newstalk 106fm.

 

Launch of Splitzo, a collaboration of music/video art by Cortisol Quintet and Mark Linnane. This features an album of new music (produced with Roy Carroll) by Matt Berrill, Colm O'Hara, Justin Carroll, Andrew Csibi and Phil MacMullan, combined with video/animation compositions by Mark Linnane. (Members enter free.)

 

Members enter for free. Kaleidoscope presents an eclectic musical evening in the relaxed atmosphere of the Odessa Club. In May, we feature music from Europe in the middle ages right through to the music South America and the gripping vocal work of Jennifer Walshe.

 

All proceeds go to The Maasai Truck Fund.

 

Kaleidoscope presents an eclectic musical mix in the relaxed atmosphere of the Odessa Club. April sees twelve clarinettists give a very rare live performance of Steve Reich's New York Counterpoint. And there's a new work by Dubliner Jonathan Nangle as well as beautiful music for viola and cello by the 18th-century French composer Francois Couperin. ROBERTO OLIVEIRA (Percussion) Javier Álvarez - Temazcal for Maracas and Tape ROBIN PANTER (Viola), KATE ELLIS (Cello) Francois Couperin - Treizieme Concert a Deux Instruments ORLA Ní BHRAOIN (Violin) Eugene Ysaye - Sonata No.2 "Obsession" for unaccompanied Violin ROBERTO OLIVEIRA (Percussion) Jonathan Nangle - Et Erax Nox for Four Drums (World Premiere) REDMOND O'TOOLE (Brahms Guitar), CLIODHNA RYAN, ORLA Ní BHRAOIN (Violin), BRENDAN LAWLESS (Viola). KATE ELLIS (Cello) Shaun Rigney - The Garden of Forking Paths (after Jorges Luis Borges) DUBLIN CLARINETS Steve Reich - New York Counterpoint LIVE

 

Members free.

 

Grab your mates and get a team together for this quiz night in aid of One Family (Voice / Support / Action for One Parent Families). E15 per head, teams of four.

 

Members free.

 

Free in for members.

 

Chaos Thaoghaire is a night of storytelling, games, camaraderie (ha!), bloody-minded rivalry, and mutual humiliation. They explain it thus, and have important booking info below: Each month, a featured speaker curates the storytelling element. He or she is often a relatively known or established name, and is the headline act in the narrators’ revue. The games and stories are linked by a shared theme that will be different at every event. Each person will tell a funny, moving, or otherwise personal tale, being as free and oblique as they like with the theme, but using no notes. Stretching the truth is encouraged. If we wanted just the facts, we’d go to court (again). The theme takes the form of a statement of opinion. When you arrive, you’ll be asked to vote (usually a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’) on it. Near the end of the night, you’ll vote again. Because a good story makes some kind of statement, our storytellers will have – even inadvertently – swayed opinion in one direction or another. It adds a low-risk competitive dimension to the stories that complements the high-risk story element of the games.

 

Members free. Successors of the Louisiana Five. Skiffle outfit.

 

Members in for free. Multi instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter Abigail Smith has released her first album Night Time Walking. Smith began writing music at a very early age. Her original style of music is the result of a diverse musical up bringing. She has featured on albums by David Kitt, Somadrone, 3epkano, Brianna Corrigan (Beautiful South) and Star Little Thing. She was selected to play at the 2008 Electric Picnic with her group.

 

Chaos Thaoghaire is a night of storytelling, games, camaraderie (ha!), bloody-minded rivalry, and mutual humiliation. They explain it thus, and have important booking info below: Each month, a featured speaker curates the storytelling element. He or she is often a relatively known or established name, and is the headline act in the narrators’ revue. The games and stories are linked by a shared theme that will be different at every event. Each person will tell a funny, moving, or otherwise personal tale, being as free and oblique as they like with the theme, but using no notes. Stretching the truth is encouraged. If we wanted just the facts, we’d go to court (again). The theme takes the form of a statement of opinion. When you arrive, you’ll be asked to vote (usually a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’) on it. Near the end of the night, you’ll vote again. Because a good story makes some kind of statement, our storytellers will have – even inadvertently – swayed opinion in one direction or another. It adds a low-risk competitive dimension to the stories that complements the high-risk story element of the games.

 

This month's selection is scary Spanish film The Orphanage. The Orphanage is a subtly compelling and quietly chilling movie. Laura returns to the orphanage where she was raised, her project being to reinvent it as a home for children with disabilities. Laura transforms the old building to fit it to its new purpose. But before the new residents arrive, the sense that all is not quiet in the dusty rooms and grounds asserts itself. Thinking she may have seen her son's imaginary friend is just one way that sinister presences from the past start making themselves known. Bring a friend - you may want a shoulder to bury your head in.

 

"Deploying a wintery warble and gently chiming synths, he's produced a singular debut, a record steeped in bathos and mystery" (****) - Hot Press. They meant "pathos", right? Wonder who got the typo wrong? Members get into this gig for free.

 

Members in for free.

 

More info here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=258566027831

 

Santa’s Second Coming! Crash Test Cabaret Troupe Appollonia Bellydance Alexia Lace Gooseberry Fluffy D DJ KXB MC Mr Rustle Plus Open Mic Spot, Games & Prizes! Falling out of the fireplace fashionably late on Sunday January 31st is the Crash Test Christmas After-Party.

 

Members of Odessa Club get in free. Afterwards, DJ til late. Supported by Phantom 105.2.

 

This month's pick is Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair's celebrated movie. Although set in the Punjab and with one great dance number, it is not a Bollywood film. Nair made this movie about an Indian family using Western narrative style, which opened this story up for audiences in outside of India. The humanity which infuses it is universal and made it a big hit with audiences and won it critical acclaim around the globe. Although it has darkness at its core, it's ultimately a feelgood movie, a celebration of love, family and life as lived by Punjabis.

 

Tiki Paul curates a rockin night of tribal rock'n'roll sounds with special live bands and DJs.

 

Odessa Club members enter for free. DJ plays til late.

 

A capturing evening of collective dance styles from around the world with professional international and Irish performance artists. Traditional and tribal fusion, Capoeira, Indian/Kathok, Salsa, Tango, Contemporary, Irish, Flamenco, Burlesque, Brazilian dancing and Live drumming.

 

Free to members.

 

Kaleidoscope is a night of live music curated by Cliodhna Ryan and Kate Ellis. Anita Vedres (Baroque violin), Malachy Robinson (viola da gamba), Rachel Factor (organ) – Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Mystery Sonata No. 10, The Crucifiction Cliodhna Ryan (violin), Gerald Perigrine (Cello) – Ludwig van Beethoven, Duo for Violin and Violoncello Vourneen Ryan (flute) – Thea Musgrave, Narcissus Cliodhna Ryan, Anita Vedres (violins), Brendan Lawless (viola), Kate Ellis (cello) – Kevin Volans, White Man Sleeps Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (fiddle) – Original Material