Heineken Green Spheres to Touch Down in Cork

3rd Apr 2006

HEINEKEN GREEN SPHERE TO TOUCH DOWN IN CORK

Sightings of UFO's over Cork City in recent days and weeks have now been explained. Heineken has launched it's latest series of music events, Heineken Green Spheres. The very first Heineken Green Spheres event kicks off in The Savoy, Cork on Tuesday, 18 April 2006. Emerging from the UFO will be the headline act - the multi-faceted dance music maestro's Soulwax, presenting Nite Versions and their alter ego 2Many DJs.

Citizens of Cork need to be on their guard on the 18th April when the invasion is taking place for fear of any abductions. Those who are lucky enough to voluntarily gain a ticket for the episode will live to tell the tale but will never be able to pass on the experience of the epic event they will have encountered. To see it is to believe it.

Radio Soulwax tour features the brothers spinning dance discs under their moniker of 2 Many DJs as well as striking the chords on their synthesisers as part of the full live Soulwax line-up. The Savoy in Cork will be completely transformed as Soulwax commence the Heineken Green Spheres series of events.

'As dance producers they are touched by the hand of God'. NME

'Music's latest craze is certainly a twisted one. Some are even calling it bastard pop. How else do you explain Destiny's Child singing Bootylicious over Nirvana's sacred smells Like Teen Spirit' MTV

Heineken Green Spheres is set to bring the sounds of 2006 to life in a series of live gigs across Ireland. This exciting new series of multi-sensory music events featuring some of the world's most innovative talents is brought to you by Heineken Music. The B movie theme will be brought to a whole new level at all stages of Heineken Green Spheres, with each Green Sphere landing invading different cities and towns with different alien species. The remaining dates and venues will be announced over the coming months, but not always in a conventional manner. You have been warned.

By registering on the site, http://www.heinekengreenspheres.ie, music fans can receive regular text messages and emails about upcoming invasions in different parts of the country. Those lucky enough to be chosen will be offered a FREE ticket. There will be 750 free tickets available on the website from today. Protect yourself and apply for a ticket.

SOULWAX - '2 Many DJ's' - biography

In times where moms give their sons and daughters DJ-courses for their birthdays and bootlegging has become an Olympic sport, it is nice to see a record that sets a new standard in the genre of mix-albums: '2 Many DJ's' from Belgian groove-gurus Soulwax.

Fans of quality left-of-centre rock music will know Soulwax from their highly acclaimed album 'Much Against Everyone's Advice', which made it into the British Top 40 and got rave responses in Japan and Australia. But there's much more to the two brothers than meets the eye. Apart from being chairman of the Belgian Carpenters Association (Stephen) and having a black belt in tae kwon do (David), they are also masters in blending the finest products of music history together into a catchy, hilarious and -above all- intriguing groove exploration. From politically incorrect prog-rock to funky r&b, from trendy hiptrop to banging German techno, ja: if it gets a booty going, the Dewaele brothers have it in their record collection.

Blending beautiful tunes is far from new for the Soulwax brothers. Back in the dark days of 1999, David and Stephen started a DJ-show on Belgian national radio, called 'Hang The DJ', where they did exactly that. Years before bootlegging reached the trendy pages of The Face, they were already making their own mixes for inclusion on the show. Inspired by the philosophy of one Grandmaster Flash, they cut together the best bits of funky tracks into an even funkier mix. It was then that classic mixes of Blackstreet with Grandmaster Flash, Beck with Prodigy and Beastie Boys vs Herbie Hancock with INXS vs AC/DC saw the light of day. Praise the Lord.

After having wooed Belgian and Dutch crowds for a few years with these eclectic sets, they went on to impress the most cynical part of the world, the London scene, a loud yet harmless species. The British capital, where approximately 67% of the population (including 17% of women over 65) owns two decks and a mixer, is used to a thing or two, but Stephen and David immediately raised quite a few eyebrows with sparkling sets for London's independent radio station Xfm, national institution BBC Radio 1 and appearances at the renowned Trash nights in London and Arthur Baker's Sunday Sessions in The Elbow Room.

Impact on the trendometer: a fat 9.5. "When we played our first set for Xfm", says David, "several club owners phoned up during the transmission to ask us to come and play their venues." And when an (unnamed) DJ played Soulwax's classic bootleg mix of Skee-Lo's 'I Wish', Survivor's 'Eye Of The Tiger' and The Breeders' 'Cannonball' at a London club night and pretended he was mixing it himself, it became official: Soulwax was hot property. Even Jarvis Cocker showed his appreciation for their skills and none other than ¸ber-producer Felix Da Housecat invited the brothers to collaborate on his new project: a girlband called Glamarama. You gotta believe it'