Strange Brew

Chatting with Grasshopper from Mercury Rev again - it’s been a while!

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Loads of new music this week. Have a good one!

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Very excited to announce that the remarkable Anna B Savage will be playing Róisín Dubh on Friday 21 March.
The new album, You & i are Earth, produced by Spud Murphy, is out 24 January

On sale tomorrow at 10am from roisindubh.net

Link in bio for Strange Brew #390 - White Knuckles - with gugai on 8radio.com from 13/09/24

This week, I talk to Danny from Amigo The Devil about Leonard Cohen after shots of Jager and amazing cheese from Sheridan’s. And a great visual joke that doesn’t translate well to radio, but that’s life I guess. Also featuring - Julie Dawson, Laurie Shaw, Porridge Radio, Piglet, Soccer Mommy, Pebbledash, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, Mercury Rev and Really Good TIme

Link in bio for Strange Brew #389 - Brand New - with gugai on 8Radio from 06/09/24

Gurriers love a bit of Charli XCX - plus music from Really Good Time, HousePlants, Bantum, Pebbledash, Why?, Maria Kelly, Bedrooms, And So I Watch You From Afar, Silverbacks, Arab Strap, Tramp & Villagers

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Strange Brew presents
SKINNER
Thursday 06 February / Róisín Dubh
Midnight // Free

Lisa O’Neill ❤️

The last of the tickets for Lisa O’Neill this Monday night are on sale over at tht.ie

Irish singer, songwriter and electronic music producer Rory Hall—better known as Proper Micro NV —releases his sophomore album Microsaurus along with the music video for ‘Who else?’ via Strange Brew today (link in bio)

Hall celebrates the release with a show at Limerick’s Record Room on Friday, 18th October with The JLB (from Kero Kero Bonito). Tickets are €10 + fees and available here .



Hall says of Microsaurus : “I’ve been working on a new album for about five years or so. Microsaurus feels as right as it’s ever going to feel. It’s 11 tracks but it could have easily been about 30. I have to admit that I found it quite hard to trim everything down and let certain songs go, but that’s that. It’s truly the record I have always wanted to make—a big, electro-pop type of album.



“I really hope people like it and get something from it—an emotion, a reaction, a dance, a feeling.”

I can’t believe you haven’t seen...
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Wednesday 30 October / Pálás Cinema
Free can of White Hag

“To a new world of gods and monsters!”

So intones Dr. Praetorious to Dr. Henry Frankenstein, toasting their new friendship with a glass of gin (“my only weakness”) before proposing a partnership. He unveils a series of miniature living humans, each in its own bell jar: Homunculi, he says, which point the way to full-scale experiments in the creation of life. “Alone,” he tells Frankenstein, “you have created a man. Now, together, we will create his mate.”

Their quest forms the inspiration for James Whale‘s “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), the best of the Frankenstein movies–a sly, subversive work that smuggled shocking material past the censors by disguising it in the trappings of horror. Some movies age; others ripen. Seen today, Whale’s masterpiece is more surprising than when it was made because today’s audiences are more alert to its buried hints of homosexuality, necrophilia and sacrilege. But you don’t have to deconstruct it to enjoy it; it’s satirical, exciting, funny, and an influential masterpiece of art direction.

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David Hedderman’s on the show this week! Let’s try and get that flip flop brand ambassadorship locked down. Feast your ears on a load of new stuff, including new singles from Proper Micro NV and Shark School. And it’s almost the last time we remind you ro get those Mercury Rev tickets.

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Go see Shark School at tonight at 11.30pm in cellar 🔥

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SNÕÕPER tell me their favourite song this week, plus some acts that were awesome at Breakout West in Saskatoon last week and lots of other stuff. Go see Shark School tonight at Ireland Music Week!

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Houseplants are coming to Róisín Dubh on the 27th of December, tickets on sale this Friday at 10am.

HousePlants is the project of producer Daithí & Paul Noonan (Bell X1).

The sophomore album, Half Known Things, arrives in October 2024. It promises the same blend of optimism and driving rhythms that have come to define them—music that pulses with hope, created by two artists who find power in collaboration and connection, always with an eye on the dancefloor.

HousePlants have been touring as a 5-piece live band, playing All Together Now and Beyond the Pale festivals among others, and opening for Chic and Leftfield.

Shark School’s new single Choose Life is out now on all your digital yokies. Go have an ear gawk

“People were always rotten. But the world ‘was’ beautiful.”

I can’t believe you haven’t seen...SOYLENT GREEN
Wednesday 25 September / 8.30pm / Pálás
Free can of White Hag - tickets at Palas.ie

In a densely overpopulated, starving New York City of the future, NYPD detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates the murder of an executive at rations manufacturer Soylent Corporation. With the help of elderly academic Solomon “Sol” Roth (Edward G. Robinson), Thorn begins to make real progress — until the governor mysteriously pulls the plug. Obsessed with the mystery, Thorn steps out from behind the badge and launches his own investigation into the murder.

Galway garage rockers Shark School ‘Choose Life’ with their raucous new single, out on Wednesday, 25th September via Strange Brew, available for pre-order on limited edition 7” now (link in bio). The four-piece release the track just before taking Dublin by storm with their Ireland Music Week show on Friday, 4th October in the Workman’s Cellar at 11:10pm.

Tongue-in-cheek yet cathartic, Shark School jolt themselves out of the doldrums with head-banging guitar on ‘Choose Life’ and order anyone within earshot to “Stop wasting away on your mind numbing sh*t.”
The band tell listeners: “Hey there, are you looking to make a decision? Well boy does Shark School have the answer for you! ‘Choose Life’ is a journey through the depths of space and time and into the realm of girl garage. Designed to make you laugh, cry and go, ‘Hmmmm that was lovely,’ this song will have you nodding your head in approval so hard that you’ll wake up with whiplash.”

Nora Staunton (guitar, vocals), Peggy Ford (bass), Meg Bruce (percussion, backing vocals) and Cathal Curran (drums) formed Shark School in June of 2023 and have quickly made a name for themselves playing with celebrated Irish acts, including NewDad, The Love Buzz, Elaine Malone and many more. The group have played at the festivals Beyond The Pale, All Together Now, Electric Picnic, Whelan’s Ones to Watch and Fall Right Into Place, as well as touring all over Ireland and in the UK. They are known for their energetic sets, punctuated by their sarcastic wit.

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This week, I talk to Danny from Amigo The Devil about Leonard Cohen after shots of Jager and amazing cheese from Sheridan’s. And a great visual joke that doesn’t translate well to radio, but that’s life I guess. So much good new music too. It’d make you sick. And don’t sleep on those tickets for Mercury Rev in October because they are awesome live.

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Just Announced. A very special concert as part of Galway Trad Fest. Iarla Ó Lionáird with Tim Edey.
St. Nicholas Church. Nov 12th presented in association with Strange Brew. Tickets on sale now from https://galwaytradfest.ie/iarla-olionaird-tim-edey/

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Lads, it’s nearly time for the Arab Strap gigs so I hope you’re excited. Gurriers love a bit of Charli xcx, as you will hear. Have a nice weekend.

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Link in bio for Strange Brew #388 - Can’t Be Still - with gugai on 8radio from 30/08/24

This week, I chat to Kneecap about stuff, like the steak Jess from Kai cooked, which was awesome I’m told. Plus Fontaines D.C., Shark School, Tramp, Snooper, Why?, Public Service Broadcasting, Bedrooms, Blondshell, Caribou, Gurriers, illuminati hotties, Kim Deal & more

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A little chat with Kneecap about Jess from ‘s steak, a song they love and such things.

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“Just because you are a character doesn’t mean that you have character.”

I can’t believe you haven’t seen....Pulp Fiction
30th Anniversary

Wednesday 28 August - 8.30pm - Pálás Cinema
Includes a free can of White Hag
This 30th Anniversary screening celebrates the iconic modern classic, in which the lives of two mob hitmen (John Travolta, Samuel Jackson), a boxer (Bruce Willis), a gangster’s wife (Uma Thurman), and a pair of diner bandits (Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer) intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Pulp Fiction soldified Tarantino’s career as one of the great new directors of the nineties and won the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

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Maria Kelly is back with us this week, and tells us about a Niamh Regan song she loves, and there’s a new album on the way, which is great. I also listened to songs on shuffle in the car, and I got The Magnetic Fields followed by Belle & Sebastian, so that was great so have a listen