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JULY 2010 Wth the exhibition / gig coming up in Cafe Chao in a few weeks, we've just added an Art Gallery page here
JULY 2010 I'll be playing solo at the america festival in Åmål on Saturday 17 July at 7pm. Also on the bill are Little River and Joe Fournier.
JUNE 2010 Along with Jessica Carlsson I'll be exhibiting paintings at Cafe Chao, Stigbergstorget 8, Gothenburg in the last week in August. The opening is at 8pm on Thursday 26th. I'll play a solo set. It's the first time in ten years that any of my pictures have be seen in public, so maybe it's a bit overdue. There's going to be a bigger show in November, more on that later. In the next few weeks we will be adding a gallery to the website, and later on an archive of over 100 pictures. In the meantime, here's a few recent paintings from the last 12 months.
MAY 2010 A few festivals are booked for the summer. I'll be playing the Åmål Americana Festival July 17 as well as the Harlanda Kulturfestival June 12. See you out there.
MAY
2010 New single is out now. 'Time Is All We Have'
c/w 'When I first Came To Town' is a limited edition transparent hand-cut lathe,
cut by the legendary Peter King in New Zealand. But don't worry if your record
player is in the attic, each 7inch comes with a free CD. You can get it here
from the wonderful U.K indie emporium Norman Records for £4.79.
http://www.normanrecords.com/
FEB 2010 Last year Ed Hannon at The Devil On 45 fanzine asked me to write something, so i scribbled down a few ideas and hacked out an artcle entitled 'The Devil's Music - Rock 'n' Roll's Romance With The Occult'. The mag came out last September, but if you didn't get a chance to get a copy you can read the text in full here
JAN 2010 I'll be playing a
'special guest ' slot at Henriksberg Tackterass,Göteborg
on Friday January 29. It's the launch gig/party for The Don Darlings new album.
I sing on one track on the album, and on the 29th I'll play a short solo set, as
well as a few numbers with the 2120's, and later join the Don Darlings on stage.
Doors are at 9pm. Should be fun.
thedondarlings.com
http://www.myspace.com/the2120s
DEC 2009 OUT NOW... new album
'Two-Way Mirror' a collection of unreleased tracks, lost songs and outtakes.
Only available at gigs and from this website through paypal.
NOV 2009 Some
good press from Åmål, Sweden this Hallow'een.(thumbnail opens in a new window)
OCT 2009 Mansions Of Gold finally gets a German release this month through Cannery Row
Records. The re-issue booklet is slightly different, better we think. It's distributed by Pool, and should be in all good record shops and
I'll see you out there on the road....................
Wed Oct 14 GÖTEBORG Kontiki
Mon Oct 19 HAMBURG Pony Bar
Tues Oct 20 BERLIN East Of Eden
Wed Oct 21 LEIPZIG Noch Besser Lebe
Fri Oct 23 WURTZEN NDK e.v.
Sat Oct 24 BERLIN Artliners
Sat Oct 31 ÅMÅL Cafe XO
Thur Dec
10 NÖRKOPPING Munken
Wed Dec 16 NÜRNBERG Pegnitzbühne e.v.
Thur Dec 17 STUTTGART Kap Tormentoso
Fri Dec 18 VILLINGEN Cafe Limba
Sat Dec 19 FREIBURG Egon 54
SEPT 2009 When Oriol Stardust designed the new poster for the Spanish gigs, I was prompted to find some old ones we've used over the years, and I found more than a few. You can see them HERE
SEPT 2009 We found another bunch of old newspapers in the attic so we scanned the relevant bits, including a long forgotten interview with Olaf Tyaransen from way back in the last century. Well, 1997 in fact. You can see them right HERE
SEPT
2009 A
new review of 'Mansions Of Gold' from Alt. Country, Netherlands.
Swampy cowpunk in de geest van Beasts Of Bourbon, dat past helemaal bij een songtitel als The Women Around Here. Het is te vinden op Mansions Of Gold (Cannery Row Records) van Eamonn Dowd & The Racketeers. Doesn’t Matter Of All is stevige paisley underground waarop Dowd klinkt als Steve Wynn. En de rudimentaire rock van 45 gaat aardig in de richting van Tav Falco, vooral door de dwarse inbreng van de ritmesectie. Holly I got your records, been playing them all day long / Got a hellhound on my trail, and my head is full of songs / ‘round and ‘round at 33 and then at 45 / I got my 45’s. Heerlijke harde rootsy rock-’n-roll die past tussen oude favorieten als Dr. Feelgood en Graham Parker en bovengenoemde namen, dat is wat deze Ierse band op Mansions Of Gold te bieden heeft. Dowd heeft niet alleen een voor dit genre uiterst geschikte schuurpapieren strot, hij beschikt ook over de juiste songschrijverskwaliteiten. De elf nummers op deze vijfde cd hebben stuk voor stuk pakkende melodieën. Voeg daar het soulvolle spel aan toe en het mag duidelijk zijn dat deze overigens met net geen half uur speeltijd wel wat korte cd een regelrechte aanrader is. Verkrijgbaar bij CD Baby en mogelijk ook bij een ruim gesorteerde platenzaak
SEPT 2009 Here's
a new review of 'Mansions Of Gold' from Folkworld in Germany.
Die irische Band Eamonn Dowd & The
Racketeers begeistert mit ihrem guten alten Americana Rock seit Mitte der 90er
Jahre die Fans. Das neue Album „Mansions of Gold” hat Dowd (Gesang,
Gitarren, Mandoline, Harmonika, Orgel, Fiddle, Perkussion) gemeinsam mit dem
Schlagzeuger Chris Teusner, dem Bassisten Les Keye und drei ausgezeichneten
Gastmusikern aufgenommen. Alle neun Songs und die zwei Instrumentalstücke
stammen aus der Feder von Dowd.
Beginnend mit dem tollen Country Punkrock „The Women around here“ bringen
die drei den Zuhörer sofort dazu den Takt mitzuklopfen. Egal ob mit Bluesrock
wie bei „45“ oder mit echtem Punkrock wie bei „Money“ die Jungs lassen
es rocken. Beim instrumentalen „Stanton Street“ ist das Zusammenspiel von
Dowd an den Gitarren und Darragh O’Kelly am Piano hörenswert. Aber Dowd singt
auch wunderschöne traurige Balladen wie „Autumn Leaves“, bei dem sein gefühlvoller
Gesang nur von der akustischen Gitarre, der Mundharmonika und dem Bass begleitet
wird. „Sweet Angel“ klingt ein wenig wie die Rolling Stones als sie noch
bessere Zeiten gesehen haben; hier gastiert Beverly Bouvier am Saxophon. Mein
Lieblingssong ist die Rockballade „Nobody knows“. Sie beginnt mit stillem
Gesang und Gitarrenbegleitung, dann stimmt Jack Cawley mit seinem Banjo und Keye
mit dem Bass ein, werden aber zwischendurch von markigen Gitarrenriffs
unterbrochen, ein brillantes Arrangement.
Die drei Iren haben ein erstklassiges Album produziert, das irgendwo in Raum und
Zeit verloren zu sein scheint. Sie folgen keinem Trend und kümmern sich nicht
um kommerziellen Erfolg und vielleicht gerade darum ist ihre Musik so besonders
SEPT 2009 A
while back I was asked by Ed Hannon from The
Devil on 45 zine to write something. So, in keeping with the tone of the
publication I put together a piece entitled "The Devil’s Music - Rock n’ Roll’s Romance With The Occult"
From Robert Johnson, to Jimmy Page to Genesis P-Orridge,
musicians have had a long lasting liaison with the Prince of Darkness, so I
reckoned it was worth a study. The mag is available from various record shops in Dublin
and in other major cities. Full details can be found on the their myspace and
you can also get it mail-order
from thedevilon45@yahoo.ie
Check it out, I've got all the back issues myself !
http://www.myspace.com/thedevilon45
AUG 2009 The good folks over at CD Baby have used 'The Women Around Here' on their recent rockabilly podcast. We're in good company, Per Torres and Rusty York also get a spin.
JULY 2009 The Albums &
MP3's page has been updated. Basically we found a bunch of stuff we'd forgotten
about. A Swedish compilation with a previously unreleased track, a Cannery Row
sampler, an EP from 2004, a radio promo CD-R from 1998 !!
JUNE 2009 A review of Mansion
Of Gold from Rootstime, Belgium.
Van ons zult u volstrekt geen klachten horen want "Mansions of Gold" maakt dit deels goed. En dit al meteen met de opzwepende openingstrack, "The Women Around Here", tevens eerste single van deze plaat, maar het daaropvolgende "Doesn't Matter At All" vonden we iets
minder. Neen, het volgende hoogtepunt is het briljante "45": rockende groove en zeer grote klasse alom.
Na de lekkere countryrock van "Nine Bridges From Town", het zeer korte instrumentaaltje "Stanton Street" is er even tijd voor een prachtige ballade, "Autumn Leaves". Onze favorieten? jazeker het daaropvolgende, absoluut superieure "Sweet Angel" - waarin een aantal accenten aan het groepsgeluid zijn toegevoegd door middel van banjo, orgel en sax door een aantal gastmuzikanten - daar hebben we veel bewondering voor. "Mansions of Gold" is gelukkig weer een echte Eamonn Dowd & The Racketeers plaat. Een plaat die het beste van zijn voorgangers, Exit Hellsville (2005) en "Silver And Dust" (2006) lijkt te verenigen en een verrassend veelzijdig geluid laat horen waarin Dowd en zijn band doen waar ze inmiddels al geruime tijd goed in zijn, maar ook de nieuwe wegen niet worden geschuwd. De instrumentatie is weer wat rauwer en meer rockend als "Silver And Dust", maar klinkt ook opvallend opgewekt. Dowd's stem is zoals altijd sfeerbepalend, net als de prachtige verhalen die hij in zijn songs weet te vertellen. Luister naar "Mansions of Gold" en je begrijpt wat ik bedoel.
MAY 2009 A review
of Mansions Of Gold from Americana UK where they said a few nice things about us
"The wild rover delivers another solid punch...................
Dowd strikes me as the kind of musician for whom the music, the performing is
everything,; he just plugs his guitar in and plays (my kind of musician). This
record is louder and harsher than the last, as though he gained a taste for
electricity and wants to feel its jolt as often as possible. ‘Stanton
Street’ sounds like he’s playing in the rain in order to spark a
short-circuit. Dowd also tours econo, just him and his acoustic guitar.
‘Autumn Laves’ eloquently states why that possibility should mean it is
something that you should look out for. His voice isn’t the best, it is rough
and ready, but it is heartfelt and artless, so that you are more than happy to
hear it pushing the words out.
When they add additional touches like banjo, organ and sax on ‘Sweet Angel’
it is not over-egging the omelette, just tickling the tastebuds with some
musical herbs. His bread and butter is drink. ‘The Women Around Here’ or
‘Nobody Knows’ feature dame alcohol, the latter sounding a lot like the
underrated Steve Westfield with its naked vocal and threatening guitars that
eventually break out a sheet of noise with a prickle of banjo tagging along like
Jiminy Cricket. Dowd seems like the kind of person you’d want to share a beer
with and I’m pretty sure that this would sound all the better if I wasn’t
stone cold sober." (Dave Cowling)
APRIL
2009 New photos in from
Dirk Van Berkelaer from a gig at De Heksenketel, Antwerp in 2007. Thanks Dirk.
MAR 2009 We found some new photos from the recent tour, these ones
are from Kinky Star in Ghent, Belgium. http://www.kinkystar.com/
FEB 2009 The new album
From April
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Old
News
*
New dates have been added to the schedule for The Netherlands and Belgium in
February / March as well as Germany in April. See the Gigs page for details.
*
And so we've come to the last in a series of four download singles we're
releasing this year. 'Sweet Angel', released on the winter solstice costs 99
cents from downloadmusic.ie
You can download the sleeve below if you like that sort of thing.
For the video, we've used footage shot in Berlin in 1983 by Lutz Mommartz,
considered to be one of the pioneers of "other cinema".
Thanks Lutz for the film.
* Tune
in to Swedish radio station K103.5 to hear an interview
with Eamonn this Friday 24 October. He'll also play two songs live,
'Down Into Hell' and 'The Women Round Here.' Here's a link to the
K103 player for live streaming for those of you outside Sweden.
http://130.241.172.94:8000/listen.pls
The Pa Veradan Show goes out at 4pm CET / 3pm GMT.
* All
our singles are now also available in the UK from
downloadmusic.ie sister site textatrack.co.uk.
To download 45 Text track
1549 to 83262 to buy
*The new single is 45, and you can download it by
clicking on the
downloadmusic.ie link below, or if you live in Ireland just text
music 1549 to 57501, and it only costs 99 cents !......there's a
downloadable cover for your jewel case too, The two previous singles
that we released earlier this year "The Women 'round here &
"Doesn't Matter At All"
are also available from downloadmusic.ie
* Here's a new Dutch fan site http://theracketeers.hyves.nl/
* The new album "Silver And Dust" will be released in Germany on Cannery Row Records on October 12, to coincide with a gig at Cafe Zapata in Tacheles, Berlin.
* Olaf Tyaransen, respected poet and author, best known for "The Story Of O" and the controversial "Sex Lines" recently interviewed Eamonn for Hot Press magazine. The piece was published on November 15 2006. Click on this thumb-nail.
* It's
good to hear that Mark Verbert at Radio ZRO in Belgium is still flying The
Racketeers flag. A scan of his playlist tells us he played 'Trouble Around The
Bend' from Exit Hellsville on his show last week.
*
Thanks to Paul Gallagher, there's a few new/old videos up on youtube. Two
versions of 'Million Miles Away,' one from Irish TV when everybody looked so
young, the other is the 1999 promo video. Type
'Eamonn Dowd & The Racketeers' into the youtube search engine, and you'll
find all videos.
*
Exit Hellsville is still getting air-play on Canadian college radio. Several
DJ's at CKCU (Carleton University Radio, Ottawa) have taken to the band,
including John Westhaver, Dave Aardvark, Mike Houston, Steve Kirkland and
Jennifer Priest.
*
We're also on the radio in Norway. Ruben Edvin at Radio Sentrum, Kongsvinger has
been playing tracks from Exit Hellsville on his show.
* Finnish band Projekt have recorded a version of "Woke Up Monday Morning" . It's a cool version too.( Hi Jarno !) Unfortunately the link is broken, or they've taken it off the web.
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