• Inaugural Hollow Sounds Festival Announced

    May 14, 2015 - By 

    Jape, Slow Skies, I Have A Tribe, Elephant and The Man Whom are amongst the acts set to play the inaugural Hollow Sounds festival at the scenic Ballykeeffe Ampitheatre in Co. Kilkenny this Summer. Set to take place across the weekend of July 3-4, the festival – presented by KPB and Homebeat – promises to bring together a line-up of forward-thinking Irish music and classic cinema to the Kilkenny countryside venue. On the Friday, Happenings will be making their Kilkenny debut by screening The Goonies (we’re sold!). Sounds like a really cool and intimate event in the making. Snap up tickets for the festival – which go on…

  • First acts announced for Indiependence 2015

    March 10, 2015 - By 

    Ash, Mark Lanegan Band, The Dandy Warhols and Jape are amongst the first ten acts announced to play this year’s Indiependence Festival. Set to return to Deer Farm in Mitchelstown, Cork, across the weekend of July 31 to August 2, the festival will also see performances from Gavin James, Admiral Fellow, Little Hours, The North Sea, Wyvern Lingo and The Flaws. Go here to buy tickets to the festival.

  • Jape @ The Woodworkers, Belfast

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    Going to see Jape for the first time in a while is always an interesting proposition, seeing as the lineup can often be entirely different from the previous occasion. Such is the case tonight – they’re still a trio, albeit with a different drummer from the Ocean Of Frequency tour, and Richie Egan is still front and centre of course, with Glenn Keating still his right hand man but things have still been rejigged, with Egan now on bass and sampler rather than guitar and keys, and Keating on electronic percussion and sequencer. It’s an interesting adjustment and seems to…

  • Jape Irish Tour

    February 24, 2015 - By 

    Richie Egan brought his band Jape on a tour of Ireland in support of the immense new album This Chemical Sea , taking in the Academy in Dublin, Roisin Dubh in Galway and Cyprus Avenue in Cork (plus a later date in Belfast which will be covered in a few weeks). Check out our three comprehensive galleries below from each night by  Sean McCormack, Tara Thomas and Brid O’Donovan. Roisin Dubh, Galway by Sean McCormack. The Academy, Dublin by Tara Thomas. Cyprus Avenue, Cork by Brid O’Donovan.

  • Jape – This Chemical Sea

    January 29, 2015 - By 

    How do you follow up not one, but two Choice Music Prize winning albums? This is a dilemma that so far no one has ever had to face other than Jape’s Richie Egan. He’s Ireland’s answer to PJ Harvey in that respect, although even she didn’t win her two Mercury Prizes with two consecutive albums.  First properly establishing himself with 2008’s Ritual, still a bona fide Irish classic and arguably Egan’s first solidly consistent piece of work, having benefitted from the success of minor hit single ‘Floating’ to show him which direction to settle on, 2011’s Ocean Of Frequency was…

  • Watch: Jape – Seance of Light

    January 19, 2015 - By 

    Having suitably blown us away with the video to ‘The Heart’s Desire‘, Jape has returned with the video (or should we say, short film) for ‘Seance of Light’. Chronicling one man’s colourful occupational escapism (that is to say: getting off his face following a failed job interview) the video was directed by Dave Tynan and produced by Dave Leahy and Liam Ryan. The concept of the video was based on ‘Bleached’, a short story by Dave Rudden. Check out our live session with Jape here and make sure to check out Jape’s column on the recording of The Chemical Sea…

  • TTA Session #005: Jape

    December 22, 2014 - By 

    In the first of a short series of videos, our latest live session features Jape AKA Richie Egan performing his latest single, ‘The Heart’s Desire’, in Malmö, Sweden. ‘The Heart’s Desire’ is the first single to be taken from Egan’s forthcoming fifth album, The Chemical Sea. Make sure to check out Richie’s column on the recording of The Heart’s Desire in the January issue of our physical magazine. As well as Belfast’s Woodworkers on Saturday, March 7, Jape plays the following live dates in January, February and March. Watch the live session below. Follow Jape and Ian on Twitter.

  • Jape announce Spring 2015 tour

    December 3, 2014 - By 

    With his new album, The Chemical Sea, set for release on January 23, Jape AKA Richie Egan & Friends have announced a forthcoming European tour. Kicking off in Lilla Hotelbaren in Stockholm, Sweden on January 28, the tour will conclude in Barcelona’s Razzamatazz on March 6, taking in Dublin’s Academy, Galway’s Roisin Dubh, Limerick’s The Kasbah Social Club and Cork’s Cyprus Avenue along the way. The announcement coincides with the reveal that ‘Séance of Light’ will be the second single to be taken from The Chemical Sea. Make sure to check out the January issue of our magazine to read Richie’s…

  • Watch: Jape – The Heart’s Desire

    November 17, 2014 - By 

    What a feast for the senses ‘The Hearts Desire’ by Jape is. Aside from being an incredibly enjoyable slice of fidgety, cosmically-inclined electro-pop, its video – created by Conor Finnegan  – is the most visually satisfying, boundlessly colourful thing we’ve set our eyes on in quite some time. Dig the track? It will feature on Jape’s forthcoming fifth album, The Chemical Sea, which is set for release in January. Watch the video for ‘The Heart’s Desire’ below.