This is the European Sensoria Band (sometimes known as e+S=B, formerly known as Electronic Sensoria Band) playing in Whelans a while ago. These days every band has a website, a facebook page, a twitter account, a bandcamp page, an electronic press kit, and Christ knows what else, constantly spewing out information about their every coming and going. Not e+S=B. Google any of the variations of their name and you’ll probably stumble across a sporadically updated blog, references to limited edition CD-R releases (but no apparent means of buying them), and occasional videos of them playing in various art galleries and performance spaces around Dublin. I don’t know if the concept of underground music has much meaning anymore but if it does, then e+S=B surely fit that bill. (more…)
Archive for August, 2011
European Sensoria Band
Posted in Bands, Photography, tagged e+S=B, European Sensoria Band, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, The Joinery, The Residents, Thread Pulls, whelans, Wormhole on August 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Rotund Iberian
Posted in Bands, Photography, tagged Another Year Of Rock, Dave Ford, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, Large Mound, long exposure, Raised On Rock, Rotund Iberian on August 25, 2011| 8 Comments »
This photograph is a little different from the usual fare. My band, Large Mound, are putting out an album this year by releasing one song on the 25th day of every month. The whole project is called Another Year Of Rock and this month’s song comes out today and is entitled Rotund Iberian. The photograph above is one that I took during a video shoot for the song a few weeks ago and we are using it for the cover art for the track as well. (more…)
31 Minutes and 4 seconds of Cian Nugent
Posted in Bands, Photography, tagged Cian Nugent, Doubles, Hugh McCabe, large format photography, long exposure, Sixes and Sevens, whelans on August 4, 2011| 2 Comments »
This is a long exposure photograph of Cian Nugent and his band playing in Whelans last Saturday night. Cian is a guitar player and composer from Dublin who has recently released his debut album, Doubles. His playing playing falls very much into the John Fahey tradition and he combines this with elaborate instrumentation and arrangements to produce long instrumental pieces that have a lot in common with some of Jim O’Rourke’s work. It’s great stuff and recently scored a rave review on the massively influential US website Pitchfork. Such things don’t necessarily translate into audience numbers though as Whelans was pretty quiet last Saturday – then again, it’s pretty hard to compete when Prince is playing across town. (more…)