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DEBUT ALBUM CIRQUE DU SLEAZE OUT NOW - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/cirque-du-sleaze/id981401283

"A truly knockout debut” - Louise Molony, Kerrang! Radio

Having upped sticks from the Emerald Isle to hustle their brand of low-slung Rock’n’Roll under the lights of London, Sal Vitro now unveil their debut album 'Cirque Du Sleaze' -  released in July 2015 on IRL. Led by singles 'Wear It Out' and 'It's Not Love', the album is permeated with rabble-rousing vocals, grinning Blues hooks and New Orleans-infused rhythm.

'Wear It Out' – Official Music Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw9qe8YOzjE

Touring extensively has honed the band into seasoned performers. Among others, they’ve joined the legendary Thin Lizzy on their Farewell Tour to a sold out Olympia Theatre, opened for Jeff Beck, and rocked out to audiences 10,000-strong while supporting Status Quo.

“A glorious album of killer tracks, well written and beautifully executed rock loveliness.” - Fatea Magazine

Having met on a modelling shoot in Dublin in 2011, Josh Dunford, Owie Lumsden, John Cuddy and Rourke Bradley joined their powers to tear through gospel choirs and Deep South whisky bars – keeping it together with plenty of homeland charm.

'It's Not Love' – Official Music video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l0dTNDbXw4

Following two packed album launches in The Barfly, Camden and Whelan's, Dublin, the band's sights are firmly fixed on building on the success that they have already achieved in the UK and Ireland. Buckle up and enjoy the spectacle – Sal Vitro have all the tricks to seduce you into their circus until you’re swinging from the Big Top. 

“If you like your rock dirty, sleazy, and retro, then get yourself down to the Cirque Du Sleaze” - Marky Edison, Muso's Guide

“Understanding the order of time is important to anyone hoping to manifest a dream,” says Valerie June. “There is a time to push, and a time to gently tend the garden.”

Since the release of her 2013 breakout Pushin’ Against A Stone, June has been patiently at work in the garden of song, nurturing seedlings with love and care into the lush bloom that is her stunning new album, The Order Of Time. Some songs grew from seeds planted more than a decade ago, others blossomed overnight when she least expected them to, but every track bears the influence of time. See, time has been on June’s mind a lot lately. It’s the only constant in life, even though it’s constantly changing. It’s the healer of all wounds, the killer of all men. It’s at once infinite and finite, ever flowing with twists and turns and brutal, churning rapids that give way to serene stretches of placid tranquility. Fight against the current and it will knock you flat on your ass. Learn to read it, to speak its language, and it will carry you exactly where you’re meant to be.

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OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

The multiple Grammy-winning catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment.

Minimal instrumental funk grooves infused with blues...

"Jermane is bringing soul music right back to its roots"- indublin.ie.
Jen Jermane is more than just a 5’2” singer from Dublin. She is what can only be described as a true soul singer. Sounding somewhere between Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, and Paolo Nutini she represents old-school soul with a modern attitude.


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