Pretty epic album title. The Body of Christ and the Legs of Tina Turner, is the title of Fight Like Apes‘ new album, to be unleashed Friday, 27th August. The band had a pretty busy last year, and after returning to Ireland, with a quick band reshuffle, they decamped to London to work with producer [...]
This week’s weekend tunage is something I heard on Phantom last week, and it’s a remix by Tokyo’s 80KIDZ of the Fight Like Apes track, Lend Me Your Face. It’s due to be released on 4th Dec. Also, according to state.ie, FLA will be giving away a free 17 track live album on 17th Dec, [...]
There’s a few cool gigs coming up in Dublin in the next couple of weeks – apart from the mammoth list we already covered. Scottish outfit Biffy Clyro are going to be playing in The Olympia on 29th October. Tickets are €28 on ticketmaster. I’ve gotten into these guys a bit recently and they’re really [...]
Thursday night saw the return of the Once A Month Club and I took a trip down to see what was going on. The event takes place in Academy 2, and is a platform for small, young Irish bands to ply their trade. Profits raised from the event go to charity – the Special Olympics [...]
Last Wednesday saw New York outfit Yeah Yeah Yeahs arrive in Belfast and I decided to take a little trip up North with a few mates to see them. I left work at 4.30 (thanks to the boss for that) and hit the road from the south city centre about 5.15. We arrived in St [...]
I’ve only recently heard of this music festival for some reason, and being a Corkman, I’m a little ashamed of that fact. But now I’m a little excited about it, having seen the line-up. Saturday 1st August: Bavaria Stage: Ocean Colour Scene, Fight Like Apes, The Chapters, Ham Sandwich, The Stone Roses Experience, Vesta Varro, [...]
I first wrote about the Fight Like Apes video shoot back in April (you can read the post here). Director Eoghan Kidney was putting together a shoot for the new Fight Like Apes single Something Global. The shoot took place in Whelan’s and over 100 fans filmed the band performing. The concept for the video [...]
From the picture above, it looks like the Fight Like Apes shoot which took place Sunday in Whelans was a success! Thanks to Darragh Doyle for the pictures of his that I came across from the event here – he also tweeted live from the event for those that were following. I’m really looking forward [...]
