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48 Gigs I've played or worked at:
3 December 2009, 3:02 am1. Oppenheimer & Tilly & The Wall - Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ 2007?
2. Oppenheimer & The Bravery - Spring & Airbrake, Belfast, 2005?
3. Oppenheimer & The Flaming Lips, Belsonic, Belfast 2008
4. Oppenheimer & They Might Be Giants, Bowery Ballroom 8th August 2007.
5. Oppenheimer & Neon Neon, Viper Room, Hollywood, CA 17th March 2008.
5. Oppenheimer & Hot Chip, South Street Seaport, NYC, Ny, 4th August 2006.
6. Oppenheimer & Ash, London Koko, July 2007.
7. Oppenheimer & Ok Go, Toad's Place, New Haven CT 2009
8. Oppenheimer & President's of the USA, 9:30 Club, Washington DC, 2009
9. Oppenheimer & A Camp, Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY 2007
10. Oppenheimer & Architecture In Helsinki, QUBSU, Belfast 2006.
11. Oppenheimer, Duke Special & Get Cape Wear Cape Fly! - London Metro 2005.
12. Oppenheimer & Frank Turner - Dublin Academy 2009.
13. Oppenheimer & Bob Mould - Glasgow ABC, 2008
14. Oppenheimer & The Like Young, The Beat Kitchen, Chicago, IL 2006
15. Oppenheimer & Math The Band, Brandeis University, MA 2007.
16. Torgas Valley Reds & Bryan Adams, The Odyssey Arena, Belfast 2006
17. Torgas Valley Reds & Sleater Kinney, Spring & Airbrake Belfast 2006.
18. Torgas Valley Reds & Ash, Down Arts Centre (FOH)
19. Element & Muse, Ulster Hall, Belfast - (FOH)
20. Element & Jimmy Eat World, Ulster Hall, Belfast - (FOH)
21. Rocket From The Crypt, Conor Hall, Belfast - 2002 - Monitors
22. To Rococo Rot, Auntie Annie's Belfast 2001 - Tech
23. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Ulster Hall, Belfast - Monitors
24. Olympic Lifts & Lo Fi Allstars - Liverpool Lomax- 2002 - FOH
25. Ugly Duckling - Germany/Aus/Switzerland 2002 - FOH
26. In Case Of Fire & Fightstar - FOH - 2006
27. Olympic Lifts, Notwist & Royksopp, Paradiso, Amsterdam - 2001 - FOH
28. Olympic Lifts & Ladytron - La Scala - London 2001?
29. The Tigerlillies - Kilkenny Arts Festival 2003? FOH
30. JJ72/Feeder/Element/I Am Kloot - Conor Hall 2002? Monitors
31. The Handsome Family - Auntie Annie's Belfast 2000, FOH
32. Joan Of Arc, Owen - Auntie Annie's Belfast 2002, FOH
33. Fridge, Auntie Annie's Belfast 2002? FOH
34. Man Or Astroman?, Auntie Annie's Belfast - helping out
35. Acid Mothers Temple - Auntie Annie's Belfast - FOH - a living hell...
36. Do Make Say Think/ The Dudley Corporation, Auntie Annie's - FOH
37. Rodrigo & Gabriella, Woodstock, Ireland 2004? Monitors
38. The Jamaican Jazz Allstars - Whitla Hall 2001, Monitors
39. Glenn Hansard - Morrison's Belfast 2001? FOH
40. Life Without Buildings, Morrison's Belfast 2000? FOH
41. Papa M - Morrison's Belfast ??? Helping out.
42. Kik 606 - Morrison's Belfast, FOH / Running away
43. Go Commando/Part Chimp/And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Edinburgh - Aug 5th 2001.
44. Oppenheimer & The Chalets, Whelan's - Dublin 2006
45. Oppenheimer & Fujiya & Miyagi, Cyprus Avenue, Cork 2007
46. Jurassic 5, The Empire Belfast - FOH
47. Lambchop, The Empire, Monitors
48. Les Savy Fav, Auntie Annie's Belfast - FOH/Helping Out
50 gigs I've been to (and not worked/played at)
3 December 2009, 2:39 amFacebook list type thing asked me to list 50 gigs I've been to....
I can remember...
1. Kula Shaker - Ulster Hall - Thursday 14th Jan 1996 first gig
2. Manic Street Preachers - Ulster Hall 1998
3. Idlewild - Empire Music Hall
4. Ash, Spring & Airbake 2009
5. The Bronx - Los Angeles, 2007
6. The Bronx, Bowery Ballroom, 2009
7. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Southstreet Seaport, NYC 2006
8. Mates Of State, Nice & Sleazys, Glasgow
9. Mates Of State, Mr. Smalls, Millvale, PA - 2006
10. Les Savy Fav - Empire Music Hall, Belfast
11. The Like Young - The Beat Kitchen, Chicago, IL
12. Kylie Minogue - Berlin, 2001
13. REM, Landsdowne Road, Dublin 1997
14. Beck - Glasgow Green, 2001
15. Kreidler - Auntie Annie's 2001?
16. Mouse On Mars - Reading festival 2001
17. The Good Life - TT The Bears Place - Cambridge, MA 2004
18. Cursive - SXSW 2007 (yay), The Williamsburg Hall Of Music 2009 (Boooooo)
19. Tilly & The Wall - Speakeasy, Belfast 2006
20. Do Make Say Think - The Limelight, Belfast 2001
21. Placebo - Ulster Hall - 1998 & 1999
22. Radiohead - Mandela Hall, Belfast 1997
23. The Cardigans - Botanic Gardens 1996?
24. Au Revoir Simone - Southstreet Seaport, NYC - 2008
25. DEUS - SXSW 2006 -
26. Genghis Tron - SXSW 2008, Public Assembly Brooklyn 2009
27. The Handsome Family - Art College, Belfast 2001?
28. Lady Sovereign - NYC 2009
29. Headlights - SXSW 2007, Auntie Annies Belfast - 2008
30. Reggie & The Full Effect - Irving Plaza NYC, 2007
31. The Spinto Band & Art Brut - Irving Plaza NYC, 2007
32. Ugly Duckling - The Pavilion, Belfast
33. Feverdream - The Front Page, Belfast 2003
34. Life Without Buildings - Morrison's - Belfast 2001
35. The Album Leaf - The Pavilion, 2004
36. Vampire Weekend - NYC - 2007 - BoooooooooooooO!
37. Low - The Empire Music Hall 2000?
38. Sleater-Kinney - Spring & Airbrake Belfast (booooooo)
39. Drugstore - The Empire Music Hall 2001
40. Ash - The Ulster Hall 1997
41. Godspeed You Black Emperor/Sigur Ros - Empire Music Hall
42. Le Hammond Inferno/Olympic Lifts - Empire Music Hall
43. The Dudley Corporation - Lavery's bunker, Belfast 2008
44. Blood Red Shoes - Speakeasy, Belfast 2008
45. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Waterfront Hall 2003
46. Kings Of Leon - The Odyssey - Belfast, Dec 2008
47. Lauren Laverne - Nice & Sleazy's, Glasgow
48. In Case Of Fire, Mandela Hall Belfast
49. Bombfunk MCs - Reading festival
50. DJ Scotch Egg - Lavery's Bunker 2008
Dublin day 2!
30 November 2009, 2:28 amThe crowd at the Olympia on Saturday seems doubly up for it compared to Friday.
Fun was had:
Things that happened on Saturday:
*Finally getting a mini jack to tape for the car stereo to enable the playing of good (and bad) music.
*Eddie Rockets (an american themed Diner across Ireland) - Our one tour treat during these "tough" times.
*Talking about tour buses going on fire.
*Hearing all 30 or so security staff saying "Oppenheimer" in fantastic Dublin accents at the same time during
their pre match briefing.
*Seeing Barry Peak!
*Single handedly loading the trailer in about two minutes during a downpour of hailstones.
*Shaun thinking it was totally cool to leave his car unlocked in the street (with boot open) at 2am while he went inside his house to go to the bathroom (this takes time) while no one else was around. Explanation: "Have you never owned a car? it's what you do" He locked it, we didn't get robbed.
I've been writing more songs in a slightly different style than ever before.
Recorded a new one this past week and got the idea for another one today.
I'm looking forward to seeing where they go.
dublin part 1
28 November 2009, 2:15 pmWe are currently on our way to dublin for the second olympia gig with bell x1.
Last nights highlights included:
A lovely crowd.
A man shooting up on the street outside a restaurant.
One drunk guy not understanding pro tools etc.
Pizza.
Seeing someone we know on the street and all shouting like the cat lady from the simpsons at them.
Listening to radio ulster.
We just got a tape to listen to ipods in the car, I'm lining up dookie by green day, I'm not sure why.
Wexford!
26 November 2009, 2:14 pmSo our first gig with Bell X1 went like this:
10.45am
Shaun picks us up, he had a sore eye that was a little red during rehearsals yesterday,
it's now REALLY red and there's a bump and he is rared out.
He seeks medical assistance while Chris & I wait in the car thinking of the cruelest things we can do.
1. Bag of flour in the face on his return.
2. going into the doctors surgery with a box of marbles being all like "eyes for sale"
3. unsuitable for tour diary - but easily the funniest.
11.30am
Pick up our trailer from storage. The warehouse isn't ours, indeed it's a favour of friend that lets us keep it there.
Chris sees a fork lift truck and jumps in and I'm all like "get out of the forklift" as visions of hundreds of failblog videos go through my mind
When he started it up is when I started to tell him I was going to punch him into the face, so he stopped, but laughed a lot.
We loaded the van and I did some Pro Tools fixing at the studio and we hit the road to Wexford.
Without a means of plugging cds or ipods into the car stereo we had good old Radio Ulster to entertain us.
Getting a shout of from Uncle Hugo we covered the following things;
Shaun hates it when Uncle Hugo blows kisses over the microphone.
Hugo joining his name with co-host Joe as Huoe was brilliant!
Listeners to Hugo Duncan have the best names : "Red Diesel Bertie" and so on!
From there we talked loads about bizarre nights on tour and made it down to Wexford for about 5.30pm.
The hotel was really nice and the staff were super friendly. We got set up on quite a cramped stage and sound check early enough to be given a really nice dinner!
Our dressing room was a hotel bedroom, filled with all sorts of delicious treats and a little tv.
We played to an initially unsure and stand offish crowd, but they soon moved forward and interacted little bit.
In a hotel function room, it wasn't the gritty experience we're used to in Ireland, it was a little bit unusual as a result, but we had our fun.
It was a really noisy crowd in general, even the whole way through the headliners set, half the crowd were loudly talking, quite strange really and we were wondering amongst ourselves if that's normal for Wexford,
as we've never been here before.
We hit the road at 12.30am and made it home before 5.
We were stopped by inquisitive police on the way who were all questions.
The stars were out in Wexford last night, in a way you just don't get to see in Belfast, I think it was
my favourite thing about the day.
We're in the studio today and we're looking forward to the Olympia tomorrow and Saturday!