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SoundCheck #6: bye bye July, hello Ham Sandwich

Podge and Niamh from Ham Sandwich, two of the most rocking frontpeople of any Irish band, fuck it, of ANY band fullstop (.) will be rocking SoundCheck this Thursday (July 31st).

Miss their set at your peril, it shall be a musical Monopoly board with Buckfast, Kells, MGMT tunes, rock and roll and general anarchy all channelled into what is perhaps our most anticipated guest DJ slot so far here at SoundCheck Castle. SoundCheck residents Quigo and Sarah Fox will be providing the tunes before Ham Sandwich hit the decks.

See y’all Thursday @ Spy, South William Street 7pm – 11pm.

Don’t forget, it’s free in and cocktails are 2-for-1. Don’t worry if you skipped dinner to get there, we’ll have cakes at the ready.

The SoundCheck Bitches

xxx

new upcoming guest DJs: Phantom in the house!

Our homies Sinead Ni Mhordha (Access All Areas, Phantom 105.2fm), Irish Times ledgebag and blog God Jim Carroll (Irish Times, On The Record Blog, Saturday nights on Phantom) and Nadine O’Regan (The Kiosk, Phantom 105.2fm) have just been added as special guest DJs for SoundCheck in the coming weeks. These peeps know their tunes, so we can’t wait to check them out!

August 28th
Sinead Ni Mhordha (Phantom 105.2FM)
+ SoundCheck DJs

September 4th
Jim Carroll (Irish Times, On The Record blog, Phantom)
+ SoundCheck DJs

September 11th
Nadine O’Regan (Phantom 105.2FM)
+ SoundCheck DJs

SoundCheck: now on Fridays too!

We takin’ ova like HOVA! SoundCheck, your rocking Thursday evening spot, will now be in Spy on South William Street on Fridays too! You can expect similar stuff; great music, an eclectic mix of DJs, movies, sweet treats, and an all round good vibe. And of course, cocktails will be 2 for 1 all evening. Yes, that’s 2 for 1 cocktails on a Friday night.

SoundCheck on Fridays starts this week!

On Thursday, Ham Sandwich will be in the house playing a mix of tunes for y’all and on Friday, UnaRocks and Anthony Remedy will be mixing it up with indie and more.

Party on. Wayne.

SoundCheck #5: July 24th

SoundCheck #5 is tomorrow, tomorrow, there’s always tomorrow. That’s Thursday the 24th. So come on down.

On the tune supply will be Haido (his first set for us, expect some upbeat indie/electro with a twist), Sarah J Fox (Foxy is back in the hizzouse having returned from touring with SoundCheck buddy Adrian Crowley), Quigo (pictured above, lookin’ hawt) and UnaRocks.

We are still in heated talks about what tasty treats will be there for tha eatin’ and what movie there for tha screenin’, but I’m sure we’ll stop punching each other and come to an agreement soon.

See yiz there, 7pm – 11pm, Spy, South William Street, free in, two-for-one cocktails, y’all know the drill.

Oh, and join the SoundCheck Facebook group if ya get a chance.

Rock.

The SoundCheck Bitches
xxx

SoundCheck chart: late July

The SoundCheck chart loosely sums up our ten favourite songs at the moment. For late July they are in no particular order:

Queen Kong V You’re Only Massive – ‘Booty’
The Bug – ‘Poison Dart’
Fight Like Apes – ‘Knucklehead’
The Ting Tings – ‘Great DJ’
Death Cab For Cutie – ‘I Will Possess Your Heart’
Jape: ‘I Was A Man’
Mystery Jets – ‘Umbrellahead’
Vampire Weekend – ‘Mansard Roof’
MGMT V LCD Soundsystem: ‘All My Children’
A Place To Bury Strangers: ‘I Know I’ll See You’

(FLApes pic by FionnTimes, @ Oxegen ‘08)

Upcoming SoundCheck guests

For the purposes of fun, entertainment, variety and general awesomeness, we’ve invited some savage bands to come down to SoundCheck and DJ. Get into it. Oh, and more special guest DJs along with what’s listed here will be announced soon.

July 31st
HAM SANDWICH
+ SoundCheck DJs
Yup, Podge and Niamh Sandwich will be in the house playing you a selection of their favourite tunes. We have no idea what to expect, but it should be something along the lines of a Buckfast-soaked indie rumble.
www.myspace.com/eathamsandwich

August 7th
Queen Kong V You’re Only Massive
+ SoundCheck DJs
With ‘Dot-Dash’ – the highly anticipated collaborative album between QK and YOM – about to drop, SoundCheck will play host to two of the most intriguing bands around. You’re Only Massive announced just today that they are to split as a band, so this SoundCheck party is being billed by the band as their ‘last hurrah’. You’re not going to want to miss that, are ya?
www.myspace.com/qk
www.myspace.com/youreonlymassive

August 14th
C O D E S
+ SoundCheck DJs
As soon as they get back from wrecking the gaff with a series of London gigs, C O D E S will be dropping in to DJ. With music epic enough to make Muse blush, we can expect some loud, fun and rocking indie from these dudes.
http://www.codes.ie/

As usual, all of these SoundCheck evenings go from 7pm – 11pm, are free in, and feature tasty cakes, two-for-one cocktails, good tunes and good people.

 

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SoundCheck #4: Rize, margaritas, choooons

Yohoho and a 2-for-1 cocktail. Sorry…

Anyway, SoundCheck #4 was our most funsies yet, we think! If you missed it, a great crowd came down to listen to some quality music (choice cuts from UnaRocks and Quigo were Dizzee Rascal’s ‘That’s Not My Name’ cover, a fair whack of MGMT and Santogold and Sam Sparro because he rocks. Bonnie Tyler nearly got cracked out, but that’s for another night), drink some brilliant cocktails (how good were the margaritas?) and watch David La Chapelle’s ‘Rize’ which we had projecktin’.

We also had a super big selection of treats; French fancies, cherry bakewell tarts, chocolate muffins and star icing queen cakes. They went super quick. We’re looking into getting Mr Kipling to sponsor the night

 

Big ups to Queen Kong who dropped in to say hi, they’ll be DJing @ SoundCheck soon, which we’re really looking forward to. Along with QK, we’ve got some savage guest DJs coming up soon, which will be announced shortly.

Roll on Thursday!

The SoundCheck bitches

xxx

SoundCheck #4: July 17th

suuuppp.

SoundCheck returns, as it tends to do, weekly at Spy on South William St, 7pm-11pm, this Thursday. I know, right?

What do we have in store for you? UnaRocks and Quigo plus some special DJ guests playing za tunes. Last week, everything from MGMT V LCD Soundsystem, Adam Tensta, Nine Inch Nails, Fight Like Apes (unreleased tracks), Kanye, Holy Fuck and Jape dropped, so although it’s impossible to really predict what we are gonna play, it’s always good.

As usual, cocktails are two for one. Mojitos, cosmos, whatever, you dig. Cheap as. Yum. Plus, we have our surprise sweet treats to put some carbs in yo bellies.

Come down, hang out, grab a drink, bring your mates, listen to some good tunes. Rock it.
GIFT the late night indie club is up after.