David, in cahoots with Diamond Dagger, has a new electronic/house project called New Jackson.Today sees the release of the first single accompanied by a brilliant stop motion video from Fergal Brennan.  The first release, Night Mail EP is out now on Pogo Recordings, and you can pick it up in Elastic Witch and All City or online at Juno or Kudos.

Check out this clip of another track on the EP; It’s not Over below- and click through to the Pogo soundcoud for more snippets

Spilly Walker (aka David and his brother Robbie) have a gig coming up this Friday 16th September at The Workmans Club for the Absolut Fringe Festival called WILD COMBINATION.  Hot on the heels of a great gig at Electric Picnic (read bbc review here) it’s sure to be a stormer of a night.

Spilly are sharing the bill with TR One and AngkorWat, and the live sets will be followed by DJ sets from David Kitt & Broken Audio Movement.

While versed in the language of modernist electronic music, each provide tantalising glimpses into new worlds, demonstrating the vitality of electronic music well into the 21^st century. Music for the head, heart and feet, be sure to bring your dancing shoes.

Doors from 7.30 til late, tickets €12

Potential applicants (producers, instrumentalists, vocalists, and DJs) to the academy workshop will experience an evening where innovative musical figures share their own perspectives on life in the musical lane, offering advice and generally giving insight.

For his contribution David’s going to go through the story of a song from the moment of original inspiration through to writing and recording.  Joining him on the night will be Ex-RBMA participant, Olan O’Brien aka OB from All City Records. When Olan O’Brien (OB) and DJ Splyce opened All City in Dublin in 2001 to sell hip-hop tunes and graffiti supplies, O’Brien knew that he also wanted to start a label. A decade on, the shop is still thriving (unlike so many of its peers), and the All City record label is really going gangbusters.

If that wasn’t enough to whet your musical appetites, RBMA will also feature an exhibition of work from ex academy participant B+ (aka Brian Cross). Author of “Its Not about a Salary: Rap Race and Resistance in Los Angeles” Rolling Stone Music Book of the Year, the Limerick born photographer and painter will show an exhibition entitled GhostNotes: An exploration of the relationship of photography to music through 20 years of music photography, will run on both Saturday and Sunday (19th & 20th of March) which will be open to the public.

B+ will join the workshop as a speaker on Saturday evening, and he, along with David Kitt and other special guests, will play a special club night for Choice Cuts after the session in The Grand Social, 35 Lower Liffey Street. Doors 10pm, tickets €10.

David and Robbie did an on-air session with Donal as part of the first Fresh Air in November last year, where they played Spilly tracks live and brought in some great tracks for Donal to play. You can get a list of the tracks they picked, and a link to listen back to the session, here>

The Cork gig is in a deadly venue for Triskel called the SubStation, being as how it’s an old ESB SubStation.  Kevin Blake is playing too, and Donal will be doing live visuals and DJing at the show. Tickets are €15/12 and available in advance (from Triskel), or on the door. Doors are 8pm, show at 8.30pm.

This will be the last chance to catch Spilly Walker live until the Autumn; Robbie’s away all summer….

It’s Yours (from The Nightsaver) is one of the tracks selected for a new double album of contemporary irish music that was released yesterday. It’s in some great company with tracks from Patrick Kelleher, The Jimmy Cake, Dark Room Notes, Valerie Francis and R.S.A.G among others.  Check out the full tracklisting below, and it should be in all good record stores now if you want to pick up a copy.

Tracklisting

CD One:
1. Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk
2. Codes – This Is Goodbye
3. Dark Room Notes – Love Like Nicotine
4. Messiah J And The Expert – Turn The Magic On
5. Oliver Cole – What Will You Do?
6. The Blizzards – Fantasy
7. Fred – Running
8. The Laundry Shop – Highs And Lows
9. Delorentos – Stop
10. Ham Sandwich – St. Christopher
11. Republic Of Loose – Comeback Girl
12. Mick Flannery – Tomorrow’s Paper
13. The Chapters – Videotapes
14. The Minutes – Ukraine
15. The Urges – The Urges Theme
16. The Revellions – Ain’t No Fool
17. Crayonsmith – Lost In The Forest
18. The Jimmy Cake – Jetta’s Palace
19. Declan O’ Rourke – Galileo
20. Julie Feeney – Myth
21. Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club -Back To Before

CD Two
1. Le Galaxie – We Bleed The Blood Of Androids
2. The Ambience Affair – Devil In The Detail
3. Cathy Davey – Moving
4. Halves – Medals
5. Subplots – Poltis
6. Halfset – Work
7. Stellarsound Ft Paula Flynn – Let’s Dance
8. Róisín Murphy – Overpowered
9. Patrick Kelleher – Coat To Wear
10. Vyvienne Long – They’re Not Waving
11. Lisa Hannigan – Lille
12. Rarely Seen Above Ground – Stick To Your Line
13. And So I Watch You From Afar – These Riots Are Just Beginning
14. Bats – Credulous! Credulous!
15. Adebisi Shank – You Me
16. Heathers – Remember When
17. David Kitt – It’s Yours
18. Valerie Francis – Slow Dynamo
19. The Coronas – Grace Don’t Wait

Explorers Club No. 5: Berlin - Stockholm

David contributed a new track- Still Don’t Know- to the mighty Explorers Club series, an ingenious collaboration between LOAF and Arctic Circle (who David played for in Union Chapel London last month). Each month a new download is made available, with some lovely artwork, or you can subscribe for the year to receive all of the downloads, plus this lovely swag below:

head on over to Lo Recordings to listen to/buy the track

Patrick Kelleher

This is my remix of patrick kelleher’s ‘not leaving town’ from the album ‘you look cold’ on osaka records. the track features on the ‘you look colder’ remix album which is just out. well worth going back the original record too if you missed it last year.

This is a pre-release of the track, the album is due out on april 16th and you can buy it from Osaka here>