Tonight! January 5th at 7PM with Jenny Huston and 10PM with Cormac Battle:
The Certain Three Tour Warm Up show with The Lost Brothers, Katie Kim and Puzzle Muteson - live all evening with Jenny and Cormac.
Now in its third year, the Certain Three Tour returns in January 2012 for a ten date run. The creation of Irish based booking agency Word of Mouth, the idea is to feature three acts each with something different to offer and send them out as a triple bill with an alternating running order. The two previous tours have featured O Emperor, We Cut Corners, Alessi's Ark and The Ambience Affair amongst others.
Carefully chosen for the 2012 tour are three acts that have created a significant stir during 2011.
Katie Kim
www.katiekim.bandcamp.com
The Lost Brothers
www.thelostbrothers.com
Puzzle Muteson
www.puzzlemuteson.bandcamp.com
Thursday 12.01 Linehall Arts Centre Castlebar
Saturday 14.01 Half Moon Club Cork
Sunday 15.01 Pine Lodge Myrtleville, Co. Cork
Thursday 19.01 Bourkes Limerick
Friday 20.01 Swan Lane Navan
Saturday 21.01 Theatre Royal Waterford
Thursday 26.01 Roisin Dubh Galway
Friday 27.01 The Workman's Club Dublin
Saturday 28.01 The Spirit Store Dundalk
Saturday 04.02 The Model Sligo
Katie Kim
Katie Kim is the pseudonym of Katie Sullivan, who performs and records slowcore, ethereal, ambient folk/pop, paired with vocals that have been compared to Zola Jesus, Coco Rosie, Cat Power and Joanna Newsom, the music revolves and swims around layers of fuzzy drips and murky clouds but always seems to come to an elegant conclusion.
Her debut release "Twelve" was admired and praised throughout the country and prompted much collaboration with a spectrum of other artists including David Kitt, Milosh, Halves, Mike Scott and Ten Past Seven among others. She is guest vocalist on The Waterboys' WB Yeats album and recently appeared with them on the BBC's Later with Jools Holland
Katie Kim has recently finished scoring and performing an original soundtrack in conjunction with the French Film Festival for Germain Dulac's 1927 controversial masterpiece, "The Seashell & The Clergyman", which is believed to be one of the first avant garde, surrealist films ever made. They performed the soundtrack live to a sell out audience and will be releasing the performance as a multi media package in 2012.
Katie Kim has also just finished recording and producing her next release, "Cover & Flood", which will be a double vinyl release consisting of some 20 songs she recorded over the last 2 years. Some at home, some in a makeshift studio and others by the sea.
Cover & Flood is due for release in January 2012 on Flaming June Records.
http://katiekim.bandcamp.com/
The Lost Brothers
Since the release of their acclaimed debut album, "Trails of the Lonely", the Lost Brothers have kept on the move, calling no place their home.
This year alone has seen them perform in London on the same bill as Bob Dylan & Van Morrison, they opened the main stage at this summer's Electric Picnic festival, and they have been busy in Nashville recording with Brendan Benson of the Raconteurs.
The brothers have just returned from New York where they played the Other Voices Show, with a lineup that included the best of Irish actors (such as Gabriel Byrne), musicians (including GlenHansard), and writers (Roddy Doyle to name just one), alongside American artists (Martha Wainwright and Laurie Anderson). So the Losties are in good company while on the road.
On their follow up album, "So Long John Fante", they continue to keep good company by their side. Recorded in twelve days last year in Sheffield along with Richard Hawley's Band, the brothers delved into their record collection and book shelves for inspiration. Listen to 'The Goodbye Kid'' and you can hear echoes of the Everly Brothers, while still sounding new and fresh, and on tracks such as 'Only by Light of the Moon' and 'In the City' you can hear drops of doo wop influences with a touch of Phil Spector, while on songs such as 'Golden Dawn ' and 'Hollow Call' the Lost Brothers sweep you off into the depth of the forest to get lost with them.
Tipping a hat to their literary hero, John Fante, this is an album that flows in a gumbo melting pot of influences with touches of country, , doo wop, golden era rock 'n' roll dark folk tales that echo John Steinbeck and tales of love gone wrong, while at the same time it's all sprinkled with that magic Lost Brothers dust that makes it all sound just like them. You'd be forgiven for thinking the Losties were a folk duo, but I think not. Their music recalls many genres while remaining genreless. They just sound like the Lost Brothers. Call it what you will, but the truth is that these two brothers have a lot more to offer. And watch this space because this is only a beginning. The Lost Brothers are here to stay.
http://www.thelostbrothersband.com
Puzzle Muteson
Puzzle Muteson is the alter ego of an enigmatic songwriter from the Isle of Wight, who renders his music in a tremulous tenor over a finely spun web of fingerpicked guitar.
Born in London on the Isle of Dogs, the southern English island provided unexpected shelter for the shuddering transformation into one-man band Puzzle Muteson. His grade-school music teacher was first to recognise his unrivalled vibrato, and a little while later a parade of chance and coincidence led him to inhabit Puzzle Muteson, and start shaping a body of songs.
Puzzle has since toured Ireland and the U.K., opening up for the likes of The Fruit Bats, Death Vessel and Sub Pop darling Daniel Martin Moore.
After obsessively listening to Puzzle Muteson's own raw tapes, producer- arranger duo Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly nurtured the songs that now inhabit his debut recording "En Garde", released via Valgeir's Bedroom Community label. The record shimmers with the signature value of Puzzle's collaborators who have previously worked with the likes of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Antony &the Johnsons), Sam Amidon and many others.
http://puzzlemuteson.bandcamp.com/
