Meteor & Tatler Award winner Luan Parle has had numerous hits & accolades including Meteor Award for Best Irish Female. Her top 10 hit single 'Ghost' spent three months in the Irish Charts and was the most played Irish single of that year featuring on numerous number 1 compilation albums.
Roll The Dice was Luan's last EP release with 3 single releases from the EP "Day Is Done", "Roll The Dice" & "You're Not Here". All singles topped the iTunes Chart, with 'Day Is Done' peaking at no. 8 in the Irish Airplay Charts & no.35 in the overall airplay charts, reaching an audience of almost 8 million listeners
Parle signed her first record deal at just 12 years of age before later signing with Sony Music & Elton John's management company Twenty First Artists.
Luan has written and recorded with some of the worlds most successful songwriters & producers including Grammy award winning Bill Bottrell (Sheryl Crow, Michael Jackson, Prince, Travelling Wilburys, Elton John) & Billy Steinberg (Madonna, Roy Orbison, Cyndi Lauper, The Pretenders, Whitney Houston, The Bangles, Celine Dion).
After spending the past few years touring extensively in Germany, USA, UK, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia & Ireland, Luan will release her fourth studio album "Never Say Goodbye" February 7th 2020. The album features 10 original tracks including two co-writes with Dire Straits guitarist Hal Lindes.
"My Something Beautiful" will be the first single release from the album out Jan 17th 2020 kicking off her nationwide tour.
"Luan Parle is quite simply one of the most exciting singers to emerge from Ireland, or any other country for that matter! She is a superb song smith as well" Herald
“With a voice pure and true, Luan Parle sings from the heart but aims for the gut. From lovelorn country ballads to gothic Americana to hard-hitting social commentary, with this album Luan's songwriting has matured to the point where she can rightfully claim to be the Emmylou of the Emerald Isle. Nashville are you listening?” Nick Kelly - Music Editor broadsheet.ie
“With ‘Never Say Goodbye’ Luan Parle has delivered her finest collection of songs to date…The single, ‘My Something Beautiful’, blends jangly pop/rock smarts with country textures…guitar- driven with an insistently jaunty pace, it’s is the kind of song which would sit happily in the repertoires of Emmylou Harris, Natalie Merchant or even The Bangles.  There are echoes too  of Fleetwood Mac in the seductive chorus and the tune is firmly grounded in that classic, West Coast FM radio sound which has proved so enduring over the years. To put it another way, If Parle guested with [the late] Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers at their peak, the results would sound something like this…”  Colm O’Hare, Hot Press

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Glen Hansard (The Frames/Swell Season) - "The best thing you can say of any artist is that I believe him when he sings... This is the case with Sean Kangataran. Like other seekers before him, John Fante and Mic Christopher, he's working it out in private, then once it's expressed and its coordinates are located you're free to listen. We all have a soft spot for a trier. This is a beautiful and honest document from a life being lived in the present."

Colm Quearney, often known as 'Q', is one of Ireland's most talented song writers and musicians.

http://www.qvibration.com 
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In addition to releasing three acclaimed solo albums, he is a former member of legendary Irish bands Lír and Dragonfly. Colm is also the head of song writing at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIIM). Check him on on Spotify etc or see links below for more music and videos. 


To Buy Q's albums visit : http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Q12

From Donamede in Dublin, Colm has performed with Cathey Davey, Damien Dempsey, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Mundy and Mark Geary, and has played guitar and co-written songs with Jerry Fish, The Pale and Bronagh Gallagher. Colm performs widely throughout Ireland, the UK, Europe and the U.S and also runs The Qube recording studio in the North Strand area of Dublin.

RIDDIM (ROOTS INCORPORATING DRUMS DANCE IMAGINATION & MUSIC) is a brand new festival dedicated to hosting all things rootical in their elements through visual and musical expression.

The aim of the festival over the next 12 months is to bring you a fusion of musical styles and genres including Reggae/ Ska/ Dub/ Hip-Hop/ breakbeat/ Jazz/ Funk/ Soul/ Roots/ Folk/ Electronic Dub/ Dubstep and Drum n'bass which through musical progres...sion have already been fused together in so many variations worldwide. This has created somewhat of a tree with many branches combining cultures, language, expression, art, music and ideals for a better world. THIS IS RIDDIM!!! This event will be the first of a number of RIDDIM FEST fundraisers for a planned open air festival event in 2012.

The festival is officially launching in Twisted Pepper venue, Middle Abbey street, Dublin on Saturday 9th of April where the whole venue shall be overrun with rootical vibrations and rastafarian variations. If that's not enough to blow your mind and you fancy the full on festival experience, get yourself down to the bassment where Pogo/ Bodytonic music shall be keepin' those heads ringin'...

Headline artists performing on the night include:

MAIN STAGE ROOM:

THE BEAT (UK)

FUSION FAMILY (Dr. Sadler single & video launch)


& Dj Mog-Y (roots/ ska/ dub/ 80's mash up)

THE MEZZ

FIREHOUSE SKANK MEETS ROOTICAL SOUNDSYSTEM (4 hours of skanking!)

THE CAFE

DUB INVESTIGATION
MICK SORO (Worries Outernational/ Sibin)
ROOTSMAN WURZEL


THE BASsMENT

POGO/ Bodytonicmusic.com presents...
BARRY REDSETTA
JOMA
& GUESTS

join us on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Riddim-Fest/109504665792445

Beaming signals into multiple dimensions and onto your very own stereo system. Meshing everything from funk-electronica-breaks-techno-drum n bass-hip hop-afrobeat-chillout-jazz and beyond..
Performing alongside the likes of Krafty Kuts, Orbital, David Holmes, Blak Twang, C2C, A-skillz, Dj Vadim, SL2, Plump Dj's, Levon Vincent, Dj Flip,  and many other and highly skilled pioneers plus numerous performances at various festivals such as life festival / body & soul / electric picnic and beyond...

Take some good-time revolutionary spirit, add a pinch of psychedelic flavour, simmer it down with some Indie Soul and you are somewhere close to the cosmic vibe of The Hot Sprockets, five blood brothers from Dublin City, drawn together by their mutual love of Rock 'n' Roll.

Performing live, the Sprockets' take-no-prisoners, white hot, bone-breaking approach has lit a fire in men and women of all tastes and flavours, captivating audiences with numerous successful tours across the USA, Canada, UK, and Europe.

Their inherent ability to get the party started wherever they go has led them to take stage at festivals such as Glastonbury (UK), Latitude (UK), Kansas City Irish Fest (USA), Eurosonic (NL), Zwarte Cross (NL), Ebrovision (ES), Fuzion (DE), Indie-Week Toronto (CAN), Electric Picnic (IRL) and countless others around the globe.

Volkswagen, Heineken, AIB (Allied Irish Banks), Bulmers (aka Magners), and Today FM are among some of the companies which have used their songs for major ad campaigns, both in Ireland and further abroad.  They have also been featured on National TV countless times here in Ireland and have graced TV stations in the USA, Europe, UK, and Australia.

With two critically acclaimed albums under their belt, Honeyskippin’, and Brother Nature – the second of which shot straight into the top 10 of the National Irish Charts – the Sprockets are gearing up towards the release of their third album “Dream Mover”, due out on April 6th 2018.

Sonically, this album marks a huge leap forward for these independent rockers!  Produced and recorded by Dave “Skip” Christophers, and mixed by Charlie Russell (Jamiroquai, Kasabian, The Strypes), listeners can expect to hear an earthier soulful psychedelic side to the Sprockets.

Having already unleashed “Right Spots” – the first single off their eagerly awaited third album – and with two more singles and corresponding videos on the horizon, anticipation grows, as Dream Mover is due to have audiences revelling in the classic hooks and sounds the Sprockets are cherished for.

Brian Hogan is a son of a preacher man. During his childhood his father Larry Hogan spent his life singing and preaching the message of the Gospel but wouldn't let Brian listen to AC/DC. So instead Brian started listening to Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Neil Young and grew his hair long. He was handed a bass at the age of 12, got drafted into his dad's Christian band and spent summers touring Europe. The seed was sown and a minstrel's life it was to be, intertwined with sojourns of animation and illustration (credits include the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
 
Since then with various bands notable musical highlights of his career include playing Glastonbury, Reading, Cambridge Folk Festival, the Electric Picnic (Ireland), Womad Festivals worldwide and the Montreaux Jazz Festival. In 2008 Brian with Kila, highly regarded as Ireland’s most innovative contemporary folk and new world artists, shared a number-one-hit alongside U2 and The Dubliners (The Ballad Of Ronnie Drew) and in 2010 an Oscar nomination for animated feature ‘The Secret of Kells’. To date Brian has enjoyed playing with many talented artists including George Hamilton IV, Bono, U2, Ronnie Wood, Sinéad O Connor, Gavin Friday, The Dubliners, Paul Brady, Donal Lunny, Liam O Maonlaoí and Glenn Hansard.
 
After a decade of playing bass in the folk/trad world Brian took the bull by the horns and launched his solo project “Preachers Son” inspired by his childhood heroes. Grit-glam, blues tinged, swamp-rock 2010 saw Brian release his first independent album “Love Life and Limb” mixed by legendary Dave Bascombe (Placebo, Korn, Depeche Mode). And with a take-no-prisoners energy Preachers Son have played the length and breadth of Ireland and internationally Italy, UK, Canada and USA. Subsequent releases include single 'Come On' produced by Marc Urselli (Les Paul, Lou Reed) and 'Jericho' produced by Warren Huart (Aerosmith, The Fray, James Blunt). To date Irish and UK radio play includes Planet Rock Radio (playlisted), BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, Team Rock Radio, Real Radio XS, Kerrang, Q, RTÉ 1, RTÉ 2, Nova, 98 FM, Today FM amongst others.
 
Preachers Son has seen Brian collaborate with a wonderful array of musical guests, but 2014 now sees the emergence of a Preachers Son Holy Trinity with Brian joined full time with drummer Geoff French (The Brilliant Things) and guitarist Mark Walsh (The Cold 100).
 
The latest album '10 Stories Tall' was finished in Los Angeles with Warren Huart (Aerosmith, The Fray, James Blunt), recommended by the legendary producer Jack Douglas. Release is scheduled for summer 2014.
 
"When I heard Preachers Son I thought they were something special. I put them in the studio with my friend Warren Huart. I thought it would be a good pairing. It turned out to be a great one. I am happy to have played some small part in the creation of this wonderful music.” JACK DOUGLAS
 
"Recording Preacher’s Son was an amazing experience for me as they are are an honest raw sounding passionate band, spearheaded by vocalist and lyricist Brian Hogan. You can feel the blood, sweat and tears pouring through these tracks, no pretentions here just Rock & Roll the way it’s supposed to be played!" WARREN HUART

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