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"…an enticing home-brew of traditional music and left-field rock" (METRO Newspaper)
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DEBUT EP RELEASE ANNOUNCED
We are delighted to announce the release of our eponymous debut ep, which will be available to buy on-line and in selected retail stores (only the good ones!) Further details to be announced soon. Our launch show will be in Whelan's on Saturday May 24th, and we can promise it will be the biggest and best show yet!!
June and July will see us touring this fine land of ours making our first stop in Limerick on June 20th to play Dolan's. Further dates TBA soon...
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TO VISIT OUR MYSPACE PAGE CLICK HERE
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What's Been Happening at Blood Red Mountain... |
Talkin' Electric Picnic Blues (Sept 2007)
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That was a deadly weekend. We love camping out anyway, playing music was just a good excuse. SO here's some things we remember (cloudily)
There was a lot of walking (in fact more walking than music hearing) but thats ok, i like buzzing around the place with nothing in particular to do.
We had a new tent that was a pain in the ass to put up, until we figured that there were factory defects going on and resorted to surgery.
Why do you always realise too late that you didn't bring enough beer or socks.
We played on Sunday night in the Village Hall, it was all barndancin' in the afternoon, but at night there were some savage bands playing. We seen The Sick and Indigent Song Club and Prison Love there on saturday night and the place was jumping.
There was a bit of a delay getting started due to some misplaced instruments, but thanks to some ducking and diving from the production crew, we got the show on the road. An hour late!
But the crowd were deadly, nearly 300, happy, tired, drunk, bouncy people giving it socks for an hour and shoutin and roaring and all that. Loads of people knew our songs, that was scary/only to be expected. Joining us for the night was Gav Carpenter from the Folksmen DC on banjo
At the end we did 'I shall be released' as our encore and 25 people were counted on stage with us singing (not to mention the fact that we couldn't hear ourselves with the crowd belting out the song), including members from
8-Ball, I Draw Slow, The Sick and Indigent Song Club, The Suitcase, Aisling Quinn
Jacqueline Tuck, Aidan from The Happy Gang, Aoife Giles, Olivia
Laurie (a nurse we met),
3 complete strangers (not a band just strangers)!
I bet i left someone out (ah well they'll let me know I'm sure), But the gig was great craic altogether. If anyone has photos of us, I'd appreciate it if we could see them (from a distance even!) as our usual photographer had decided that it was more fun to jam on stage with the accordian than shoot in the mosh pit.
We've got the cobblestone tonight and my voice is in a heap ; ) I'm thinking of getting sponsored by Hall's Soothers
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Cork is More Than Just a Type of Springy Wood (July 2007)
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We made it back in one piece, kinda. I can't talk with the sore throat. Thats what I get for roaring me head off at two in the morn murdering Waterboys’ classics and generally talking much too loudly...(more) |
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Growing Beards & Fiddlers...(April 2007)
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We've spent the last two months regrouping, knocking some ideas around, growing beards and growing the blood red family.
We've added a new fiddle player in Tracey O Grady, who can carry a tune (and an amp at the same time) and plays mandolin and some funny shaker type things when needs be.
Dan Shanahan has finally decided that he's too damn good on the guitar and is now our banjo expert.
Despite trying to maintain a profile of inactivity while we plan our debut release, we did manage to play a few gigs around the place. Last Tuesday session in Dame Lane was a great laugh, the upstairs part of Number 4 is deadly for a sit back and relax type shindig. Check out Peter Morrow's Myspace (he's the curator of the Last Tuesday)
The Paddys weekend festival in the Guiness Storehouse was new ground for us, it's nice to walk into a venue and have all the staff and sound guys treat you with a bit of respect. Big thanks to Kieron Black who lent me his guitar when I broke a string mid set, and his band The Amazing Few turned out to be the star attraction later as they blew the punters away as the headline act.
Albyno Rhino let us grace the same stage as themselves for their single launch, available to download from their myspace site. Again it was a new venue for us in Crawdaddy and a thoroughly worthwhile experience.
More news laterhere |
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