• Spectrum @ Drogheda Arts Festival

    April 25, 2018 - By 

    An outright highlight of this year’s Drogheda Arts Festival, Spectrum aka Pete ‘Sonic Boom’ Kember will perform at Droichead Arts Centre on Friday, May 4. An exclusive Irish date, this is an unmissable opportunity to catch the Spacemen 3 founding member and E.A.R musician’s decades-spanning solo project. Support on the night comes from Drogheda’s very own ethereal down-tempo pop collective We Eat Electric Light, producers and musicians driven by a mutual interest in electronic and organic music, noises and sounds. They are working towards a cassette EP release soon via Drogheda-based thirtythree-45. Tickets – very reasonably priced between €18-€20 – are available…

  • Q+A: Dublin’s White Collar Boy on SPECTRUM & Debut LP Permanent Haze

    March 9, 2017 - By 

    Set to play their first live show of 2017 at new-fangled Dublin festival SPECTRUM on Saturday, “post-nothing” duo White Collar Boy talk to Brian Coney about progression, their forthcoming new album and the importance of festivals like SPECTRUM. Go here to buy Full Weekend Tickets to SPECTRUM or here to buy Tickets to the White Collar Boy gig. Your debut album, Permanent Haze, is set for release later this year. How was the writing process for the release? Most of the tracks on the record have been kicking around for the past few years and slowly developed into more finished cuts at our space…

  • SPECTRUM 2017: An Interview with IMC and HomeBeat

    February 23, 2017 - By 

    Presented by Improvised Music Company in association with Note Productions and HomeBeat, SPECTRUM is a new festival experience for fans of innovative music-making. Set to present three days of stimulating music “at the creative intersection where jazz, contemporary, rock and electronic music collide”, the Dublin festival – which runs from March 10-12 at Whelans and The Opium Rooms on Wexford St, Dublin – will have a focus on the live and improvised, complimented by a compelling programme of talks. In the first of a two-part feature, Brian Coney chats to Kenneth Killen (director of Improvised Music Company) and Emmet Condon of…

  • SPECTRUM: Creative Music for Curious Ears

    January 27, 2017 - By 

    Presented by Improvised Music Company in association with Note Productions and Homebeat, SPECTRUM is a new festival experience for fans of innovative music-making. Set to present three days of stimulating music “at the creative intersection where jazz, contemporary, rock and electronic music collide”, the Dublin festival – which will run from March 10-12 at Whelans and The Opium Rooms on Wexford St, Dublin – will have a focus on the live and improvised, complimented by a compelling programme of talks. From a debate on the excessive classifications of modern music led by Professor Matthew Causey from Trinity College Dublin, Paul…