Heineken Green Spheres – Glasvegas and The Minutes

Double duty last weekend on assignment for Heineken Music.
The plan was to head down to Cork city and shoot the Heineken Green Spheres. This was a two night lineup, selected venue was The Savoy Theater. Both nights were sold out, so I heard. In case you don’t know the tickets are free, but getting them can be difficult as the are offered online only, and it’s first come first served basis. So stay on the lookout in their site www.heinekenmusic.ie for the next gigs… Dublin is the next location :)

Friday (review here):
Erol Alkan
Simian Mobile Disco

Saturday (review here):
The Minutes
Glasvegas

Here are some photos from the Glasvegas act…

Glasvegas

Glasvegas

 

which was supported by The Minutes:

The Minutes

The Minutes

 

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Kaiser Chiefs at The Olympia – Dublin

Nice gig put up by MCD.ie who invited Royseven to support Kaiser Chiefs.
Yup, these guys are taking over Dublin! Next week they are lined up to play at the Electric Picnic, and given tonights performance I expect the next one to be another demonstration of power.

Here are some photos:

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De La Soul @ The Button Factory, Dublin

Say I’ll go! I couldn’t miss this gig,it’s De La Soul!

The ever cool and crowd mover trio delivered a full house in The Button Factory (event organized by Choice Cuts .ie).

I haven’t seen such avid fans for a long time, everyone was super happy and jumping at the classic beats and rhymes that have put De La Soul in the respected place their deserve to be in.

I will have yet to remenber such a fun stage presence and even mixing with the crowd. Not your everyday artist!

Here are my photos for future memory..

 

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ The Button Factory, Dublin

Hey hey, it’s the cool and brass gang!

The Hypnotic family is back in Dublin for a very special gig at The Button Factory. They are opening up for none other than De La Soul!

What can I say, these brothers are like wine, their gigs get better each year, I am glad I could once more appreciate it.

From the classical themes like War the ensemble also played first time a few new tracks of the upcoming album… stay alert and dont miss it.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a 9-piece, Chicago-based brass group featuring 8 sons of Phil Cohran on horns.

Originally from Chicago, the brothers started as a street ensemble before recording in 2004. They have performed with Mos Def, Aquilla Sadalla, Phil Cohran, The Recipe, Nomadic Massive, Tony Allen and at the North Sea Jazz Festival. In late 2007 they recorded with Erykah Badu and Maxwell. They supported Blur for their Hyde Park reunion concerts on the 2nd and 3 July in 2009. They are also collaborators on a number of tracks off of the third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach.

Band members
Gabriel Hubert (“Hudah”) – trumpet
Saiph Graves (“Cid”) – trombone
Tycho Cohran (“LT”) – sousaphone
Amal Baji Hubert (“Baji” or “June Body”) – trumpet
Jafar Baji Graves (“Yosh”) – trumpet
Seba Graves (“Clef”) – trombone
Tarik Graves (“Smoov”) – trumpet
Uttama Hubert (“Rocco”) – baritone
Gabriel Wallace (“Manuels”) – drums

The event was organized by Choice Cuts.

Here are some photos for your viewing…

 

 

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Gar-Frequency @ The Village – Dublin

Gareth (aka G-Frequency) was clearly on a mission: -get some massive & funky beats thru the fantastic sound system in The Village.

The night still had other guests waiting to play (Ollie Teeba from The Herbalizer) but G-Frequency pretty much set the bar, tune after tune.

It was great to shoot in this venue and this time I had fellow photog Arthuzzi with me. He was a gent, helping out when I needed to change lens, flash, etc. He also took some great photos with his trust-worthy 5D MkII Canon. I had a quick try with it, but soon realized that Nikon (D3!) is where I feel at home with :)

Anyways, here are the shots.. hope you like them :)

G-Frequency by luis-faustino.com

G-Frequency by luis-faustino.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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