Cars in Walls, plans in ruin…
July 2, 2008Last week at Club AC30, Dry County played their last ever Dublin gig under their current moniker. Opening up on the night was Cork/Bath band ‘Cars in Walls’, who played a schmantastic set. (A special kudos to their drummer for his moves on the dancefloor during the eclectic’s set afterwards). Cars in Walls are (in their words) “pulling a dry county” and are about to disappear from the live scene for a while as they delve into recording madness for their debut album. Before they go, you can catch them at the ‘Irish Green gathering festival’ in Wexford along with some other decent acts, aaaannd some woeful ones. Here’s some pics:
In other news, the aforementioned deadly holiday I was going on has been ruined more than slightly. Due to a lack of ticket sales, Transmission festival in the Fortress of Kufstein has been cancelled. There will be no Efterklang, Mogwai, Why?, Cornelius, Halves, Parachutes, Stateless, The Jimmy Cake, and more. Mega mega boo. Since this has only been announced 2 FRICKIN’ DAYS before the trip, we tried to think of an alternative plan, since flights are still booked etc. A detour to Roskilde has shown to be far too costly so the plan is to go to Munich, do stuff, get to Vienna for the Sigur Ros gig on Tuesday, and get our flight home. 
Nice and spontaneous in a way…
Get tickets for Dalek (playing a ballroom of romance gig in ALT in November.
Go to Analog for Efterklang and pirate madness in a few weekends time also.
That is it.
I MUST find out what those crazy flute-keyboard things are called?
Major BUMZ bout Transmission. Soon’s I heard I thought of your trip. Can imagine it’s a real pain in the arski for yourself, Halves and Jimmies won’t be too happy either
Still! You’re going to VIENNA
See you when you get back. You’re my Efterklang date, lucky,lucky,lucky yooou xx
The pics are deadly btw!! Really clear tone and sharpness! It’s cool how the second last, you’ve exposed his face really well considering how strong the backlighting was. I like the one with the badges too! Djoo know what those anti-plectrum buttons mean?? See ‘em all over the place!
hey nay,
those flute-keyboard things are called melodicas. have one myself. its good fun.
delayed reply. im in vienna at the mo. sigur ros tomorrow. hopefully good.
the festival being cancelled is a huge pain in the ass. the only consolation is efterklang playing in a week or so in ireland. yay. I shall pick you up at your place at 7 and have you back by 11.