&7 News

&7 Management and Projects has stopped operating with it's principal Gary Sheehan moving to a new role at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. 

Current Contacts for Artists : 

The Gloaming : barquemgmt.com

Cathal Coughlan : cathalcoughlan.com

Thread Pulls : threadpulls.com

Iarla O'Lionaird : iarla.com

Rainfear : rainfear.com

&7 Management and Projects has stopped operating with it's principal Gary Sheehan moving to a new role at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. 

Current Contacts for Artists : 

The Gloaming : barquemgmt.com

Cathal Coughlan : cathalcoughlan.com

Thread Pulls : threadpulls.com

Iarla O'Lionaird : iarla.com

Rainfear : rainfear.com

Having recently completed recording of their debut album which is due for release in Spring 2013, The Gloaming will end the year with a series of intimate Irish shows.

Sunday 2nd December, The Pepper Canister Church, Dublin

Info : http://aikenpromotions.com/

Wednesday 5th December, Triskel Christchurch, Cork

Info : http://triskelartscentre.ie/events/2223/the-gloaming/

Thursday 6th December, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge

Info : http://www.riverbank.ie/shows/the-gloaming-0

Friday 7th December, Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire

Info : http://paviliontheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873486084/events

Sunday 8th December, The Limelight, Belfast

THE GLOAMING AT GROUSE LODGE 

The Gloaming have just hit Grouse Lodge to start recording on their debut album. Martin Hayes, Iarla O'Lionaird, Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh, Dennis Cahill and Thomas Bartlett are joined by mix engineer Patrick Dillett known for his work with David Byrne, Hannah Cohen, Glen Hansard and many more... 

BOWERBIRD - MODERN FOLK AND BEYOND FOR CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL 

Choice Music prize-winning songwriter Adrian Crowley and Gary Sheehan, &7 and  have curated a weekend of music around the idea of modern folk for the festival. 

"Their live performances so far have been revelatory… Future dates are likely to cement them as one of the great forces in Irish music."  The Irish Times

Ahead of the band's only Irish show this summer, The Gloaming release Live in Dublin, as a free download with The Ticket andirishtimes.com tomorrow Friday 13th April. A masterful slice of their debut sold-out show at the National Concert Hall, Dublin last August, the Live in Dublin EP is one 21 minute track which captures the power and excitement of  live.

The band are also pleased to announce Sam Amidon as support for their show at Vicar Street on Saturday 12th May. 

The New Yorker on Live In Dublin EP :  "The Gloaming unites musicians who come at Irish music from different perspectives. The master fiddler Martin Hayes, who grew up in County Clare, and the guitarist Dennis Cahill, his longtime partner, ground the group in the traditional. So does Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, who was born in Dublin and plays the fiddle, five-string viola, and hardanger fiddle, which is the national instrument of Norway. The vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird shares their approach, he’s a master of the sean-nós song, but like the hardanger fiddle, his background suggests something else might be afoot, he recorded a number of albums with Afro Celt Sound System in the nineties.

But The Gloaming doesn’t have a world-music sound. What it does have is Thomas Bartlett, a young piano player and songwriter who has worked with Yoko Ono, Bebel Gilberto, David Byrne, Antony, Grizzly Bear, Nico Muhly, and the National, as well as recorded a series of quiet, intense albums as Doveman. Barlett’s sparse, subtle piano playing is laced through the Gloaming’s music, moving it, and the music of Ireland, in captivating new directions" 

Sam Amidon :  The show will see Sam reunited with his childhood friend Thomas Bartlett of The Gloaming who he formed a band with at the age of eleven called Popcorn Behaviour! 

Sam Amidon was born and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont by folk musicians Peter and Mary Alice Amidon. He has released three albums of radically re-worked folksongs: "But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted," recorded at his then-home of Harlem in 2006 with Thomas Bartlett; followed by "All Is Well" in 2008 and his latest "I See The Sign" in 2010, both recorded in Iceland with producer Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Sam started on fiddle at the age of three and by eleven had formed a band called Popcorn Behavior, with childhood friend Thomas Bartlett and younger brother Stefan, to play New England fiddle tunes. They toured internationally, gathering attention from NPR, CNN and The Boston Globe and releasing five albums by the time they graduated from pretend high school which they did not really go to (at the time it was called "homeschooling"). His first solo album, released in 2001, was a collection of traditional Irish fiddle tunes, simply titled "Solo Fiddle." Since moving to New York City in 2002 that he began to play and experience first-hand all of these other kinds of things. Since then he has collaborated with a myriad of artists including Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Beth Orton, Shahzad Ismaily, Glen Hansard, and Bill Frisell.

FURTHER INFORMATION : LIVE IN DUBLIN EP :  The Gloaming : Live in Dublin EP  Tracklisting : Intro (21.33) Recorded live at The National Concert Hall, 20th August, 2011.  All songs traditional and arranged by The Gloaming  Recorded and mixed by Phil Hayes The Gloaming : Thomas Bartlett, Dennis Cahill, Iarla O'Lionaird, Martin Hayes, Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh

The Gloaming release their debut EP, Live in Dublin, on The New Yorker for free download. The EP is taken from their debut live show at The National Concert Hall, Dublin, on August 20th, 2011. 

Get it here : 

The Gloaming and a very special guest will play Vicar Street for an exclusive Irish show this summer on May 12.

Tickets and info here :

25 things to look forward to in 2012.... The Gloaming album It was short, but The Gloaming’s summer tour was invigorating and potentially seminal, with the music bracing and beautiful in equal measure. The supergroup of sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, fiddle players Martin Hayes and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, guitarist Dennis Cahill and classically trained pianist Thomas Bartlett grew from sessions at Grouse Lodge Studios, in Westmeath, early this year. From those recordings will come an album, but before that may be a live EP. Their live performances so far have been revelatory, and they play New York’s GlobalFest in January. Future Irish dates are likely to cement them as one of the great forces in Irish music - The Irish Times 

The Gloaming have joined International Music Network's roster for live representation worldwide. 

The Gloaming make their US debut this weekend when they play Webster Hall, NYC as part of Globalfest. 

Show info can be found here : http://www.globalfest-ny.com/

The show is heavily featured in U.S. press... 

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/03/144442821/the-mix-the-sounds-of-globalfest

LUKE HAINES, CATHAL COUGHLAN

with Andrew Mueller and Audrey Riley

THE NORTH SEA SCROLLS

Friday 2nd December, Triskel Christchurch, Cork 

Saturday 3rd December, The Sugar Club, Dublin. 

The North Sea Scrolls have long been a bone of contention amongst historians, theologians and people shouting at bins in car parks. The Scrolls are believed, in certain quarters, to record a parallel, semi-hidden history of these islands. Now, a triumvirate of unlikely questers has at last pinned down the full story of these legendary documents. They are; Luke Haines, who has recorded as The Auteurs,
Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder and solo; Cathal Coughlan, who has recorded as Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, Bubonique and solo; Andrew Mueller, journalist and author.

This dauntless trio are now ready to share the terrible knowledge they have disinterred. In song.  The parchments reached the hands of messrs Haines, Coughlan and Mueller by means which need not trouble us, and have been meticulously distilled and tactfully rewritten into fourteen new songs by Mr Haines and Mr Coughlan, to be performed on guitar and piano, and accompanied by the cello stylings of Audrey Riley. The songs will be linked by explanatory footnotes read by Mr Mueller.

The truths contained in the scrolls are at once profoundly disturbing and peculiarly reassuring. Certainly, they answer many long-pressing questions. How did a Dublin criminal overlord become an imperial
viceroy? Is England really just two counties – Northshire and Southshire? Could it be that the guttering violence of Northern Ireland is caused by terrorist tribute acts from Australia? Who is Tony Allen? How did Tim Hardin end up commanding a nationalist militia in Cornwall? Can it be true that Morris Men, far from the prancing buffoons of popular repute, are murderous vigilantes – a Cotswoldian thugee cult? Was Chris Evans really burnt at the stake? If not, why not? Is Jim Corr actually right about everything?

“Martin Hayes and his newly convened compadres took an audacious leap of faith into the unknown – and in that leap, drew their audience into a magnetic underworld where light and dark, old and new coalesced to compelling effect…. 

The Gloaming fully exploited the rich sonic possibilities which Thomas Bartlett’s piano, Dennis Cahill’s guitar and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh’s fiddles brought to the party…. The warmth of Ó Lionáird’s voice was immediately evident, as were the show-stopping impact of Vermont-born Bartlett’s lines on the piano…

The Gloaming’s newly forged songs were a revelation. A rendering of Michael Hartnett’s Muince An Dreoilín/A Necklace of Wrens soared on the back of Ó Lionáird’s beautiful Munster Irish, as did the deliciously rough-edgedSamhradh… 

Hayes and Ó Raghallaigh are two immensely differing fiddlers but both are fearless in their pursuit of mood music.

This was music of an entirely different hue: neither slavishly traditional nor wilfully contemporary, it sought out uncharted terrain (some of which was undoubtedly familiar) – and, most impressively, welcomed their audience as essential passengers on that journey.” Siobhan Long, The Irish Times

The band are interviewed in The Irish Times in advance of their Irish Tour. 

In advance of their debut shows this month, The Gloaming, have unveiled an online presence and a track from their initial sessions at Grouse Lodge in February to give folks a sense of what this remarkable new band sounds like.