Then get thee to a new free admission mid-week venture called Performance. It is intended that Performance will not be another four band bash or sloppy showcase, but purvey a diverse range of eclecticism incorporating everyone and everything from singer -songwriters to techno fetishists. The action begins aptly enough on Halloween night in the Temple Bar Music Centre with Aqualung, 8-Ball, Ay Cee and Little Green Techno Elves with the added attraction of innovative eye candy and drinks promotions. For futher information visit http://www.fintino.com/performance/ or contact [email protected].

Another rendez-vous for diversity of a slightly harder kind, Ground Zero – the punk/hardcore/ska orientated night in Parnell Mooney’s on Thursdays, has changed its name to the far more advisable and sensitive GZ. Forthcoming attractions include Baseball Fury, Puget Sound and a Halloween spectacular from the Warlords of Pez who played a stormer in the Guinness Storehouse under the auspices of the Fringe Festival... in addition to scoring a real coup with two Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and the Mad Professor dates. Frontend Synthetics present another Synthetic Allsorts compilation launch on Thursday November 1 at Mono. Doing the launch honours will be Ambulance (live), David Donohoe (live), Droid’n’Slug, Americhord and Rod (live), which we should assume is unfortunately not Rod Stewart. The main Synthetic release project for the Spring will come from Daniel Figgis – producer of the superb classical pop masterpiece Skipper. A remix album is currently being worked on and in the meantime you can check the new Figgis release S’Leap from the house of synthetesia. On a similar tip, D1 Recordings have just released Dave DonohOE’s debut album (barring of course output from the Floors on Dead Elvis)

Stanley Super 800 who featured on these pages before as spokesman and lead singer of The Shanks has been trying his hand at a hybrid of psychedelic folk/trad electronica in between support slots to Adam Snyder and Will Oldham. New artists on the go include Brian Haig and brand new Pine Lodge residents The Dirt Floor Blues Band featuring Ari Sheahan of the Pornographic Pussycats and Hot Sauce. The session the boys recorded in the Lodge last January is now available as a live CD entitled Sounds So Cheap...

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