SOME OF the cream of the Irish indie/alternative scene will be gather in the Róisín Dubh on New Year's Eve to ring out 2012 and ring in 2013 with great music.
Headliners (and consequently the first band you will hear in 2013 ) will be Dublin’s indie/space rock instrumentalists Le Galaxie. The band have headlined a number of shows at the Róisín and their cosmic indie-funk always goes down a storm with any audience determined to dance and have a good time.
Wicklow quartet Enemies - Eoin Whitfield, Lewis Jackson, Oisin McMahon-Trench, and Mark O’Brien - can be counted on to play intelligent post-rock that manages to avoid many of the genre’s clichés. Check out their debut album which was released on Richter Collective in 2010.
Daithí Ó Dronaí is one of Ireland’s most exciting young musicians who draws on a background steeped in Irish traditional music with a love of cutting edge indie-electronica.
Using a loop pedal and numerous effects, as well as his violin, Daithí creates music that mixes pounding techno, indie-disco, Irish trad, with an electro edge, and post-rock meets pop.
Not many bands these days cite the blues as an influence, but Dublin duo Kid Karate - Kevin Breen (guitar/synth/vocals ) and Steven Gannon (drums/percussion ) - buck that trend.
Taking their cue from Jack White’s The White Stripes and The Dead Weather and The Black Keys, Kevin and Steven inject a healthy dose of blues/blues-rock into their indie-rock sound, creating a thrilling fusion and showing how the blues still has a lot to contribute.
Kid Karate have just completed the recording of their debut LP, Night Terrors, which will be released in early 2013.
Elaine Mai is a wonderful singer-songwriter from Mayo, now based in Galway. Through the loop pedal, she creates soundscapes from her voice, guitar, and percussive effects to start a song as a solo singer-songwriter and end it as if she is being backed by a full band and choir. Check out her EP Dots on Strange Brew Rekkids.
Doors are at 8pm. Tickets are available at www.roisindubh.net, from the Ticket Desk at OMG, Shop Street (formerly Zhivago ), and The Róisín Dubh.
