The
Spirit Store = Music, Comedy, Gigs, Venue, Bar, Drink...
George's
Quay, Dundalk, Co. Louth +353-42-9352697
JUNE
2013
Fri
21st June Luka
Bloom
Doors 8pm - Tickets €20 Luka’s reputation as one of Irelands leading
performing and recording artists is not hindered
by his stunning new release. His first release
of new material since ‘Eleven Songs’ (2009)
carries on the high standard to which Bloom
fans worldwide are accustomed. Bloom is at
the top of his game with ‘THIS NEW MORNING’.He
has a catalog of quality recordings that would
make any budding songwriter aspire to. The
combination of his melodic thought provoking
material, along with his incredible skill
in reading and connecting with his audience
on classics such as 'The City of Chicago'
and 'You couldn't have come a better time...'
makes this praise worthy. BUY
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Fri
21st Backroom Bashment DJ's
Downstairs - FREE
BACKROOM BASHMENT in'a D area!... Sounds for
your Spring vibrations!!! Righteous Reggae...Heavy
Hip-Hop + Dirty Dubstep brought to you by
resident DJ B. Augustus + special guests!
3rd Friday of every month.
Sat
22nd June Whole
Lotta Voltage
Doors 8pm - Tickets €10 Following their brilliant debut Spirit
Store performance in January,Whole Lotta Voltage
return for another show . “We believe that
a true AC/DC Tribute should be as close to
the look, sound and energy as the real thing.Whole
Lotta Voltage makes the audience feel that
they are watching the kings of hard rock live
at the peak of their powers in 1979 with their
notorious wild style”. BUY
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Sun
23rd June Desert
Hearts + guests
Doors 8pm - Tickets €10
As a band they've released two albums across
a career which seems to place quality ahead
of quantity. These albums came out on Rough
Trade off-shoot Tug Boat Records (Let's Get
Worse) and Glasgow / Belfast indies Gargleblast
and No Dancing (Hotsy Totsy Nagasaki). The
eagerly anticipated 3rd album ‘Enturbulation
= No Challenge‘ is released May 27th onsale. BUY
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Sun
23rd June Traditional
Session
Downstairs FREE 6-9pm
Based around the core group of Philip Hickey
(Accordian), Pat Dunne (Banjo) and Tommy Derby
(Acoustic and vocals) this weekly get together
of folk and traditional musicians is a wonderful
way to spend your early Sunday evenings.
Wed
26th June Morgan
OKane + guests
Doors 8pm - Tickets €12.50
Deeply steeped in old traditions, O'Kane treats
the banjo differently than you've heard it
before and brings a punk sensibility to his
music. Add in Zeke Healy on dobro, ( who sounds
like a mix of Ravi Shankar and Jerry Douglas),
Ferd Moyse on fiddle (Hackensaw Boys) and
Liam Crill on spoons and the sound is vibrant,
fresh, mesmerizing and joyful. The result
is an irresistibly compelling performance.
BUY
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Fri
28th June The
Rubberbandits + Guests The
Trampz + MojoGoGo
Doors 8pm - Tickets €18
With filming just wrapped on their first full
length tv show for Channel 4, the Rubberbandits
head into Summer 2013 with a bag on their
faces and a song in their hearts. A series
of appearances at the best uk festivals, an
almost sold out 12 night run at the Edinburgh
Fringe and the release of their Irish chart
topping album Serious about Men worldwide
mean that Mr. Chrome and Blindboy Boat Club
have lots to look forward to.Coming off the
back of new single “Black Man”,cult hit “Spastic
Hawk” and “I Wanna Fight Your Father” ”, the
Limerick duo launched their debut album late
last year. BUY
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Sat
29th June Finnian
Kelleher, Mark Durnin,Sean Bradley €7
admission
Three emerging local songwriters and special
guests “In The Round” playing their songs
with new arrangements and a few surprises.
Mark has not played here for some time but
Sean and Finnian are no strangers to the Spirit
Store stage.
Sun
30th June Grainne
Duffy and Band + guests The Stonecold
Hobo
Doors 8pm - Tickets €10
‘In a world of chic rockers Duffy is the real
deal’-Henry Yates,Classic Rock Magazine. 'the
spiritual heir to Rory Gallagher, an Irish
blues singer of real integrity'Sunday Times
Grainne is a unique talent,raw and powerful,
edgy and elegant. Growing up in Co. Monaghanshe
gained exposure at an early age to such defining
influential artists as The Rolling Stones,
Fleetwood Mac and The Pretenders by raiding
her elder sisters’record collection and very
soon was developing her own musical tastes. BUY
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Sun
30th June Traditional
Session
Downstairs FREE 6-9pm
Based around the core group of Philip Hickey
(Accordian), Pat Dunne (Banjo) and Tommy Derby
(Acoustic and vocals) this weekly get together
of folk and traditional musicians is a wonderful
way to spend your early Sunday evenings.
JULY
2013
Thu 4th July Craic Haus
Doors 8pm - Tickets €10
As the only pioneers of SHAMROCKABILLY, CRAiC
HAUS hails from California, but brings a heavy
dose of the Emerald Isle to their aggressive
rockabilly sound. Jake Burns of Stiff Little
Fingers calls their SHAMROCKABILLY “FANTASTIC”.
This high energy, tight trio has raised roofs
and brought great cheer to pubs and clubs
all over.Having shared the stage with other
great acts like: -X-, the Bay City Rollers,
the METEORS, DEVIL'S BRIGADE, VOODOO GLOW
SKULLS, the CHOP TOPS, the ROCKETZ and a slew
of touring Rockabilly/Psychobilly band, Craic
Haus make their debut here for a 4th July
party. BUY
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Fri
5th July Fire In Cairo ( A Tribute To The
Cure)
Doors 8pm - Tickets €10
Out of all the bands that emerged in the immediate
aftermath of punk rock in the late '70s, the
Cure was one of the most enduring and popular.
Finally 5 Cure fans have thought to give Irish
Cure fans the chance to to don the eyeliner,
brush of the mascara and relive the 80's!!
The band covers all classic Cure songs from
the debut release 3 Imaginary Boys, through
the hairspray and glitter of the 80's era
and right up to the bands position of 90's
alternative pop darlings. BUY
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Sun 7th July John
Spillane + Guests Doors 8pm - Tickets €13.50
JOHN SPILLANE is a musician, songwriter,
performer, recording artist, storyteller,
poet, dreamer – a canvass filled with color
and brilliance. His music transports the
listener; his live performance captivates
the audience. In a world filled with strife
and upheaval, a time-out with John Spillane
is enough to ease the load a bit on anyone
lucky enough to bask in his light. The man
and his music are pure magic. BUY
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Sat
20th July Jason
Byrne
Doors 8pm - Tickets €20
After being cooped up in the BBC writing and
recording his sitcom ‘Father Figure for the
past few months Jason Byrne is bursting for
a chat. He comes to The Spirit Store in Dundalk
to do what he does best. Stand on stage and
open his mouth. Then after an hour or so he’ll
close it again leaving behind a roomful of
deliriously happy punters who have just witnessed
‘The Outright King of Live Comedy’ The Times,
deliver an hour of comedy ‘So Good It Hurts’
The Metro. BUY
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Fri
26th July Raglans
+ The
Hot Sprockets + 2Minutes2Midnight
Doors 8pm - Tickets €10
Raglans are set to release their highly anticipated
single 'NATIVES' on Friday 28 June 2013. 'NATIVE'S'
is the follow up to Raglans' highly successful
“Long Live” EP and is released through Faction
Records, was produced by Kieran Lynch, (Elvis
Costello, U2, Declan O Rourke) and mixed by
Rob Kirwan (Depeche Mode, U2, The Horrors).
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Sat
27th July The Medicine Show On The Road with
Phil Lee
The Mighty King Of Love
Downstairs 8pm - FREE
Before he settled in to becoming one of the
best songwriters in captivity Phil Lee spent
a couple of decades playing drums, driving
trucks, dumping motorcycles, hauling equipment
and of cource stealing hearts. Ably supported
by Hamish Roberts on slide and acoustic guitar,
this duo played here 2 years ago and brought
the house down.
AUG
2013
Sat
3rd August Duke
Special
Doors 8pm - Tickets €16
You’ll know Duke Special, of course, from
catchy, radio-friendly songs such as Freewheel
and Last Night I Nearly Died. (For the record,
Freewheel was recently nominated the second
best Northern Irish song of all time at Radio
Ulster’s Great Northern Songbook). You’ll
know him also, from his Choice Music Prize
nominations (2005’s Adventures in Gramophone,
2006’s Songs From The Deep Forest) and his
three Meteor Music Award nominations. BUY
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SEPT
2013
Tues
24th September The
Magic Numbers Doors 8pm - Tickets €15
The band will play in the intimate surroundings
of some of most beautiful theatres, churches
and live music venues across the UK and Ireland.Alongside
all the old favourites, the band will be premiering
new material from their forthcoming fourth
album and connecting with the audience through
question-and-answer sessions. Breaking away
from the usual venues and big cities allows
the band to reach out to a new audience. SOLD
OUT ONLINE Remaining
tickets from the Spirit Store
OCT
2013
Mon
28th October Therapy?
Doors 8pm - Tickets €22.50
The band's story stretches back to 1989, when
vocalist/guitarist Andy Cairns, bassist Michael
McKeegan and drummer Fyfe Ewing - three young
men in thrall to Captain Beefheart, The Stooges,
Killing Joke, Motorhead, Detroit techno and
the most scarifying, scabrous loathe songs
oozing from the American noise rock underground
- first set to forging their own none-more-bleak
tales of alienation, desolation and dislocation
in small town Ulster rehearsal rooms. BUY
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