CD 1

Michelle Brennan
Michelle Brennan is a Cork based songwriter and vocalist, with a unique take on the blues.
Her enthralling mix of smokey nursery-rhyme vocals and Sean Nos influenced performance has developed through two self released EPs, "Happy?" and "With Hannah's Help". She has performed regularly in venues around Ireland such as Temple Bar Music Centre, The Lobby, Whelan's, Spalpin Fanac, Sirius Arts Centre, and The Bodega and was shortlisted for Whelan's "Brave New Stage" competition in 2005.Michelle is currently writing tracks for her new EP, due out later this summer.
myspace.com/michellebrennanmusic

Box Camera
Box Camera is fronted by songwriter Mike Lyons who has been playing in Cork bands on and off since 1992, with fuzz pop outfit Treehouse, Hooky and as a solo performer. Hooky was selected from the IMRO Showcase series in 1999 to play at a London Showcase for new talent and at that time, Ian O Doherty of The Star, described them as "the best unsigned band in the country". Most recently Hooky has produced new recordings for Irish acts Arm the Elderly and The Driven. The Box Camera album was engineered and produced by Simon at his Are You Listening? Studio in Cork. The new album is currently available in local record shops in Cork and online at cdbaby.
myspace.com/boxcamera

Colum Regan
COLUM REGAN is a singer-songwriter from Cork who has been living in Cardiff for the last 6 years. Over the last few years he has supported such acts as The Frames, Charlotte Church, John Spillane, Flook, and Tom Baxter amongst others and has played in the UK’s and Ireland’s premier venues as well as The Bitter End and Arlene’s Grocery NYC, and gained a loyal and enthusiastic fan base.

As capable solo as he is backed by his band, his live shows have generated a real buzz and the audience is growing. 2006's standout performances at Shepherds Bush Empire, London, The Spiegel Tent, Cork city, Summer Sundae Festival, Leicester have helped to raise his profile and his debut solo album “GO” is now eagerly awaited.The album was recorded at Albany Studios, Cardiff and will be released by tWOhEADS music , and features some of Wales' finest musical talent.
www.newdruids.com
myspace.com/columregan

Silo
Silo are an indie band from Cork, with a lot of grunge influences. We recently recorded a new demo, which was recorded and produced by Ross O'Donovan (Waiting Room's "Catering For Headphones" and Ten Past Seven's "Shut Up Your Face"). Watch this space for news about upcoming gigs, and a new website.
myspace.com/thesiloband

Queen Kong
This band deals with sexual dominancy/submission, pain love, anger, et cetera, but always with charisma and panache. With a style and flair that´s infectious. With a humour and a cork accent that´s charming.We had a Band this special on our doorstep and they´re forced to make a wage in Dub-il-in te-owen.
myspace.com/qk

The Misty Way
Misty Way are a Cork 4 piece best described as a punk alternative collective. Jamming in a freezing container they are hoping to emerge sometime. The drums were going a rap a tap tap.
myspace.com/themistyway

Arm the Elderly
Arm The Elderly arrived in 05 with a simple plan . Play it loud and make it groove , play to a crowd and make em move . With plenty of experience behind them having played in groups such as Bass Odyssey and Anonymous Groove in the past, our four heroes set about constructing the world of Arm The Elderly. Since the release of their debut ep" This Is not For Entertainment" it gone to become somewhat of a cult classic in their home country with praises from critics and fans including pick of the fortnight in hotpress. This alongside Arm The Elderly's no holds barred approach to their live shows has seen them play up down the country doing their own shows and in support of acts such as , The Sultans Of Ping , Republic Of Loose and Public Enemy . At the time of writing Arm The Elderly are back in the studio recording their debut album which should be out in the new year . With a host of live shows and new album on the way" it will never cease till the black flag of Arm The Elderly is on every street"
www.armtheelderly.com
myspace.com/armtheelderly

Lotus Lullaby
Mixing the fun and energy of pop, rock and electronica, lotus lullaby use the term 'Collisionism' to describe their music. With unashamedly pop driven songs all about the best things in life... sex, music, love and finding your own unique voice and place in the world, the band is on a mission to bring positivity and joy to the masses. Their outstanding, frenetic and uplifting live shows have recieved fanatical receptions from audiences and critics alike. They were National Student Music Award Winners 2006 and Murphys Live Winners 2006.
www.lotuslullaby.com
myspace.com/lotuslullaby

Cartoon
Formed in January 2004, the band have already created a huge live following across Ireland with their heady mix of soul, jazz, funk, soul and house music. Sitting is not an option at a Cartoon show, the will to dance is imperative! With three vocalists and a line up of immensely talented multi cultural musicians, Cartoon are a breath of fresh energy in the dance arena already releasing four vinyl EPs on ultra chic Parisian label Brique Rouge run by international DJ David Duriez and French touch producer Llorca. Anyone who witnessed their blistering Oxegen sets can attest to their addictive beats, energetic house tunes and sexy swagger. In 2005 alone they played with the good and great of the nu-soul/funk scene including UK soul legend Omar, London..s electronic nu-funkster Amp Fiddler.
www.cartoon.ie
myspace.com/cartoonband

Neon Flea Circus
The origins of this band could be traced back to Wexford, by way of Limerick when three friends from school went to the big city in search of an education, in a bid to give their lives some tangible direction. It so happened that all three played instruments, with which they could attempt to replicate the spacey music that nobody seems to play anymore... The three soon found they needed some form of back beat to keep the whole thing in time, so they called another old mate from back home, who graciously joined them and added some groove to the mix. A few months later all but one came to Cork to continue their musical education, and forget everything else they'd learned in the preceding years. Luckily they found a man whose Bass playing fitted nice and snuggly in with the psychefunkamadelic thing that they had been honing for all those years.
www.neonfleacircus.net
myspace.com/neonfleacircus

Sumo
Between them over the last two years the Cork based afri-rock band, fronted by the Congos answer to Jimmy Page the amazing Niwel Tsumbu, SUMU and its members and friends have played every world music festival in the country from Cork Diversity Day to the Dun Loughaire Festival of World Music and Culures. They have recorded not just SUMUs self-titled debut album and the Niwel Tsumbu Duo's "Nzela Molayi" debut, but also guitarist Chris' third solo album "Sonorific", and started a fourth - the Kimia project (formerly Jazmu). Niwel has appeared on National TV and Chris has started two businesses (Offbeat Records and Offbeat Publishing) andsomehow they have found time to start three families, making two-thirds of the band very happy, and only slightly more sleep deprived, parents...
www.sumu.info
myspace.com/sumuband


Green Monitor
Emerging from the loins of root ska combo The Beatroots,Aron Bennett and Loz Fitzgibbon formed GREEN MONITOR as a side project to showcase their more experimental ideas.Taking a passion for playing live,they married it to a love of sound exploration and world dubtronica.With a mutual respect for the likes of Lee Scratch Perry and Augustos Pablo,Loz and Aron set about stripping folk and roots music and reconstructing it using both organic and technological processes.
www.greenmonitormusic.com
myspace.com/greenmonitor

Anacrusis
Anacrusis Started in May of 2002 and have been composing and performing ever since... Their style of music consists of blends from rock, jazz,techno,drum and bass,latin fushion and classical,placing them in a world of fushion/abstract/expeirimental and art-house sound. Diego Joaquim Ramirez(16),started playing drums at the age of 3 and by the age of 4 he was playing in night clubs with his fathers latin band.Diego comes from a very musical and artistic family and has studied many concepts of music and art,he studied percussion,classical piano,and composition in the cork school of music and studied jazz at Berklee college in Italy in the summer of 2005.Diego is responsible for rhythm,time signatures,and song arrangement and offers many versitile elements to the band...
myspace.com/anacrusis0

Komodo
Komodo are Donna McCarthy-Vocals, Jason Carroll-Bass, Kevin O'Mahony-Guitar, Kurt Gaul-Guitar and Brian McSweeney-Drums. Each member of Komodo has a very different background in music. It's because of this difference in backgrounds that each song that's composed has different and likeable flavours to it. It's difficult to narrow down the sound of Komodo but it has been attempted to be called "Edgy..Indie Rock". Komodo have recorded their first demo in Data Studios. The demo has gotten great feedack and it's because of this reaction that their following is growing. The demo consists of perfect harmonies and intelligent lyrics all fused with songs that you can't stop listening to.
www.komodolive.com
myspace.com/komodoband



Jezery
Jezery essentially came about as a result of four friends and musicians who were sick of dabbling here and there in music when it was all that they really enjoyed and loved. We've played with bands like Ten Past Seven, Loaded Gun Effect, Charlie Don't Surf, The Gurriers, 28 Costumes, Vamos, Wallmark, Communal, Red Sea Pedestrians, Nassau, Lerner, Tone Control, Bilk My Dragon as well as many more and it's been class. In November 2005, we decided to record some songs, so we paid a visit to BPM in Douglas and recorded an 8-song "Demo/CD/EP thingy" called "Be Wide" with Finny Corcoran. Now we're trying to play as many gigs as possible and hoping people like the CD. We're always writing and jamming and stuff cos there's nothing better to do... is there? I spose not, says you.The cd is available in vibes and scribes and plugd records,and off us at gigs.
myspace.com/jezery


Beverens Toy
Beveren's Toy fuses musical elements from predecessors like Smiling Machine, Mongoose and The Glorified Jam as well as an interest in the unusual, the remarkable, and frequently the profane. Their music ranges from quirky, enthusiastic rock to bare-bones acoustic songs drenched in harmony to kicked-back reggae ramblings but always retains a slightly off-centre sensibility. In addition to their common influences, each of the Toy Boys has separate musical tastes and the five are lucky enough to mix in just the right proportions. It's just one of those happy coincidences. They have been described by the Evening Echo as "like the Blues Brothers...worshiping at the Church of Hendrix...the next big musical movement" and by Drop-D as "an AMAZING band...extravagant!" 2007 will see the first single (the video is currently in production) and an album launch.
myspace.com/BeverensToy

My Evil Ex
Having supported both JJ72 & Vinny Peculiar (featuring Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke of the Smiths) on their Irish tours, Dylan & My Evil Ex earned the reputation of being one of the most entertaining and original bands around. The music of My Evil Ex has been described as “Nick Cave molesting Jeff Buckley” due to the haunting vocals, powerful song writing and energetic live performance. My Evil Ex provides the perfect foil for Dylan’s songs which range from dark and atmospheric to the subtle and beautiful.
slingshot.to/dylan


Exit Pursued by a Bear
Exit: pursued by a bear count political and social satirists and expositors of sin, William Langland and Dante Alighieri as influences as well as the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth, James Joyless and other handsome radicals. The music, which began as a direct response to a series of uncomfortable silences and lulls in conversation has become the soundtrack to an investigation of the human condition.
exitpursuedbyabear.com
myspace.com/exitpursuedbyabeartheband

Cian Walsh
A songwriter from Cork Cian started playing music with friend Kieran when both were 17 forming the band Freefall in 1998. Despite the band drawing to a conclusion after just two years the boys plan to reform with new and old material. Meanwhile Cian has been producing some interesting output under his own name....
myspace.com/cianwalsh

CD 2

Brian Deady
A vocalist that has been involved in various groups in cork for the past 7 years. After returning from a year in Australia at the start of the year with the ambition of starting a solo adventure. He started from scratch in Cork. Finding it slow to source the new backing band and with a history of creating and improvising sound with his voice, he took his love for soul/ funk and hip hop and groove music, mixed with some early learned beatbox skills he had formulated as a child, he had an idea. He went into his bedroom , borrowed his brothers 8track , pressed record and this is what happened...
myspace.com/briandeadyfutureretro

Colm Kenefick
Stared Djing career in the Legendary Sweat night at Sir Henry's in Cork back in 1998 and currently holds residencies in the Savoy, Long Island, the Bodega and manyothers around the country. Progressed into the world of production over the last 4-5 years and hasn't looked back since.
myspace.com/colmkenefickmusic

Magdalena Lganska
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Tantric Dex
DJ'ng since 95 Neil Corcoran has held down residencies in Sir Henrys, The White Rooms, Lebowski's, Fast Eddies, Club One, Streetlife/110th St-Cork (Redz), Home, Sublime (Sydney) The Chicken Box (Nantucket), City Limits, The Raging Bull, Zoes & many more. Wiith support slots to Fatboyslim, Jose Padilla, Rae & Christian, Kerri Chandler, Justin Robertson, Dr. Bob Jones, Timo Mass, Jon Marsh & The Sultans of Ping & others over the years.Under his Tantric Dex guise he produces a wide array of music incorporating down-tempo, funk, hip hop, house, soul & electronica.
Myspace.com/tantricdex

Sounds from the Hot Press
Sounds From The Hotpress are Chance, Mr. Barton and Breakz. One part emcee, one part beat maker, one part tunrtabilist, yer standard hip hop outfit for all intents and purposes. Chance does the rapping bit while Mr. Barton drinks tea and mucks around with samples and all that lark and Breakz does all that fffrreeeessshhhhh scratching. You can usually find these bowsies lurking around Cork bothering semi-hot beours with low self esteem, making some hip hop.
myspace.com/soundsfromthehotpress


Freezer Room
Drawing from a wealth of experience in electronic, rock, hip-hop, jazz and classical music, FREEZER ROOM has recently put the finishing touches to its debut e.p. Formerly the engine room of popular and innovative Irish band The Shades, production department (producer Graham White and DJ Colm Kenefick) and rhythm section (bassist Rory Dempsey and drummer Jean Michel Cavallo) are again working together to create something different.
www.freezerroom.com
myspace.com/freezerroom

Naked Giant Attack
A cross-channel production collaboration between Darragh from Cartoon based in Cork and Rory Dempsey from Freezer Room based in London. Heavily influenced by Scandanavian jazz trio EST and the quirky production of UK producer Mathew Herbert.
www.nakedgiantattack.com
myspace.com/nakedgiantattack


Tanaman
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Kurtronic and the Middleman
Hailing from Cork Ireland and California Kurtronic and the Middleman have been gathering and decoding many different musical styles and creations spanning over 4 light years. One day they decided to collaberate on writing an EP in the studio in Sonora California "A UFO hotspot".The creative process of our music is mainly influenced by the following ingredients - Time + Space and FUNK. Two polar opposites collided in this reaction causing the fusion of Electro/Funk and Soul the rest is legend.
myspace.com/kurtronicandthemiddleman

Delmar
myspace.com/delmarsounds

Ant O'Brien
Ant has been spinning out the tunes since the first "Electro Disco" radio show way back in 1998. Since then he has established himself as an extreamly eclectic DJ and producer with a fetish for technology and pushing thing a bit further out there. DJ residency including Radio Friendly,Hi-fi, Electro Disco sessions, Candy! (Cork/Galway), Sir Henrys, Junk @ City Limits, Fast Eddies, Bodega and currently the ever popular Sugar @ the White Rooms. This track reflects the Raw, up for it, energetic, yet not always too serious vibe that can be found during one of his current colourfully diverse hybid DJ/Live show sets.
myspace.com/ANTnoize

Dirty Stylus
David George has been making music for almost ten years. Nothing remarkable until you realise he's still only 23. Originally from Edinburgh he has been hanging out on Leeside for the last while Dj'ing and "messing around with sounds".

Not one to stay in a spot for too long he's off to Thailand again soon, where he played a live set at the infamous Full Moon and followed it up with some radio play in the U.S. However he plans to return soon with a host of new sounds recorded in Asia.
myspace.com/djdavidgeorge

Niwel Tsumbu
Over the last 50 years Central Africa has built itself an incredible reputation for giving birth to many of the World’s greatest guitarists, and Congolese Niwel Tsumbu is a fitting ambassador to carry that torch forward into the 21st Century. Raised on the traditional Soukous and Rhumba music of his homeland, he began playing from an early age, and went on to study both jazz and classical guitar - enrolling secretly in a classical music school where he also studied saxophone for a year.
www.niweltsumbu.com


To-ka Tynga
Music that evades all labels, that could perhaps best be described as Latin Pop , Brazilian Afro Pop or Brazilian Jazz. In any case, music that has neither limits nor boundaries, made up of well-known themes in new arrangements as well as own compositions. Live music combines with electronic grooves and diverse solos to take you on an ever-changing journey of sound, deeply rooted somewhere between Africa, Brazil and Europe.
myspace.com/tokatynga


Claysoul feat. Dodge
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www.claysoul.com
myspace.com/claycastlemusic

MGM
The band's name has now changed to Chordinators, comprising of Mary Burns from Cobh, and Gilles Peringuay, from Montpellier, sourthern France.
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Email: Chordinators@gmail.com

Questionmarq
Marq has been at the forefront of the Irish dance scene for the last 10 years with such high profiled residencies in clubs such as Sir Henrys Cork, and U2s club The Kitchen in Dublin.With his musical production Marq goes under the Guise of QuestionmarQ and sticks to his familliar sound of Not-So-Deep-House music...
www.highdigital.com
myspace.com/Questionmarq1

PeoplesRepublicOfCork.com/music