Leaflog at HWCH

Hi everyone!

As I'm sure you know, Hard Working Class Heroes is happening again all around Dublin on 6/7/8th of October. There are many exciting Irish acts playing this year including Owensie, Squarehead, Toby Kaar and We are Losers. Top of my list to see this year are Tralee lads, Leaflog. I posted about Leaflog before and I'm really excited that they're coming back to Dublin.

 

Leaflog are an ambient instrumental band taking influence from Godspeed, Sigur Ros and Mogwai. These guys are really something, they remind me of one of my favourite bands, Unwed Sailor. They've only been around a short while but they've had some really exciting stuff happen for them recently. The title track from their EP 'Mayday' was chosen for The Irish Blood Transfusion's Board campaign for World Blood Donor Day and they were commissioned to compose the score for Bill Morrison's experimental film 'Decasia', which they also performed live at the 2010 Kerry Film Festival.

They're playing Saturday, 10:15pm, 8th October in the Grand Social, Lower Liffey Street. I can't wait and I'm going to drag all my friends along with me!

See you there!

 

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Help Sí fund her album

Hello!
Ten Past Seven's fundit.ie campaign was very exciting.. right down to the last minute! So happy to see them succesfully reach their target. I was genuinely moved by the surge of online support for the project. They didn't waste any time in getting the recording done either, they're already back from their stint at Black Box Studios in France. Phew! You can view some pictures of their recording sessions and shenigans here.

So, now on to the next worthy fundit.ie cause. I've already posted about Sí a few times on the blog. She's a very talented lady and has been working on her debut album for the last 2 years. She recorded at Fergal Lawlor's studio (The Cranberries) and now she just needs the final financial push to fund the duplication, artwork and packaging to get her album all out there She's aiming to raise €1,800 in total and with 5 days to go she's at the 62% mark, with €1,125.. fingers crossed!

I was honoured when Si asked me to design an accompanying booklet for the CD. This is going to consist of a painting of the lovely lady, hand-written lyrics and some extra doodles. I'm really excited about this project and I'm working hard on getting it finished at the moment. I'll post it up as soon as it's done. In the meantime if you have anything to spare for this project, please contribute. €20 will get you a digital download of the album, the CD and an art/lyric booklets designed by me! You can also opt for smaller or larger amounts on the site with various rewards. Please help out if you can!

Fund it HERE!
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Dorothy and Toto

 

Here's another painting I finished recently. This is for my cousin's daughter, Niamh. She loves the Wizard of Oz so I painted my version of Dorothy and Toto, complete with poppies. The original is going to Niamh, but a few people have asked about this one so I've decided to make prints of this too. I'm in the process of setting up my etsy shop, I'll post here when it's live! Oh, I also set up a tumblr for my art. It's mainly scribbles right now but I'll post my paintings on it when I have them scanned properly. Here's the link, http://jenconnell.tumblr.com/ and I've placed a permanent link in the sidebar too. x

Letter From Belgium EP- Free Download

The new Letter From Belgium EP, LFB003 is available to download for FREE  from mediafire here, or from the bandcamp download link below. The beautiful artwork is by Aoife Barry of Sweet Oblivion and I provide vocals on two of the tracks, 'Still Close' and 'Woodsy'. I'm really excited about this EP, I absolutely love it and I hope you do too. x