The Strypes announce "Roadtest" Tour - updated dates

20 date intimate tour for the Cavan foursome.

Emerging blinking into the sun from a long winter in the studio recording their next flop, The Strypes are getting back in the saddle the best way they know how. With a month long tour taking them to 20 of the country’s greatest small and beautifully formed music venues to road test the new songs and flog the old ones to death.

Bass player Pete O'Hanlon said - "We feel this type of tour suits us the best. The idea of playing up close to crowds where you can see the whites of their eyes is thrilling. Where better than Ireland to start a year of touring?"

Drummer Evan Walsh said -.... nothing as he was out when we rang.

From Portrush to Kilorglin and Mullingar to Drumlish, The Strypes “Roadtest” Tour will come to a small to medium sized town near you this month. 

The Strypes agent Joe Clarke said “This is a dream tour to book out, the band get to play these great intimate venues and the audience get to see the band in their natural habitat - small, sweaty and rocking gigs!”

Kicking off on Thursday 26th February in Monaghan and wrapping up on Sunday 29th March in Kilorglin this is a unique chance to see the band tipped by everyone from Paul Weller to Dave Grohl up close and personal.

Tickets for all shows go on sale this Friday 13th February from the the venues and online. Full details at www.thestrypes.com and www.cwb.ie
 

FEBRUARY

Thursday 26 Feb | McKennas Brewery, Monaghan - €15.00

Friday 27 Feb | Danny Byrnes, Mullingar - €15.00

Saturday 28 | Feb Village Inn, Drumlish - €15.00

MARCH

Sunday 01st March | The Spirit Store, Dundalk €15.00

Thursday 05th March | Bakers, Clonmel €15

Friday 06th March | JRB’s, Newbridge - €15

Saturday 07th March | McGrorys, Culdaff - €15

Sunday 08th March | Atlantic Lounge, Portrush - £15

Tuesday 10th March | Boyles, Slane - €15.00

Thursday 12th | Tara Na Ri, Navan - €15.00

Saturday 14 March | Kavanaghs, Portlaoise - €15.00

Sunday 15 March | Hugh Lynchs, Tullamore - €15.00

Thurs 19th | Kenny's, Lahinch - €15

Fri 20th | The Spaniard, Kinsale - €15

Sat 21st | Coughlans, Cork - €20

Sun 22nd | DeBarras, Clonakilty - €15

Thurs 26th - White Horse, Ballincollig - €15

Fri 27th - The Mariner, Bantry - €15

Sat 28th - An Chonair, Dingle - €15

Sun 29th - Sol y Sombra, Killorglin €20

Vote Kormac at the Meteors !

The word over at Kormac 's page is taking a more strident tone today ! 

"So, just one month from today voting in the Meteor Choice Music Prize will be closed. Vote early and vote often for #Wakeup or you'll have to live with yourselves. You filthy animals"
https://www.meteor.ie/choice/

Applications now closed.

There has been an amazing response to our job posting last week for a role at CWB and applications are now closed. We will be in touch during the week in relation to the next stage of the process. Thanks to all who shared the post. Have a great weekend !

We are hiring !

CWB is recruiting an office assistant for our Dublin Office.

ABOUT US 

We produce tours, festivals and one off events for a range of clients from corporate to community organisations working with world class acts and originating and implementing exciting headline grabbing events that deliver, every time.

Our artist management division PPJ looks after the careers of The Strypes, Le Galaxie, Seo Linn, Kormac and Maud in Cahoots co-ordinating international record releases and tours and handling commercial partnerships across the USA and Europe.

ABOUT THE JOB 

We are looking to recruit an office assistant for our Dublin Office  - The Role would include but not be limited to

1. Office Admin - Contracts, liasing with agents, festivals and bookers

2. Database Management - controlling our client diaries, invoicing and expense control

3. Website updates, social media

4. Liasing with pr companies and media for our clients

5, Working on tender, information gathering 

6, Some Travel

7. Problem solving the next issue to come in the door.

ABOUT YOU

You will be a super organised and motivated person who is keen to learn all aspects of the music management and event business. You will have great computer and personal skills and take pride in a job well done.

Knowledge of the Irish and international music business would be helpful but enthusiasm and being able to think in at least 4 dimensions at a time would be even better ! 

Send a one page CV and cover letter to joe(A)cwb.ie by Friday 06th February and we will shout you back !

No hibernation around here

Apologies we haven't updated this news page in a week or two - mainly due to the sheer volume of work that been going on at CWB, so we are going to quickly update in this post and then get back to posting bi-weekly, honest ! 

First up earlier this month we finally got to announce that Le Galaxie have signed a deal with Universal Records. The album "Le Club" will come out in April preceded by a single in March and we will be announcing an album tour & summer festival dates very soon. The Le Galaxie's have also announced the first in an occasional series of  DJ partys with Prom Night on 13th February - Full details over at www.legalaxie.net

Kormac and the big band had a great show at Eurosonic with a raft of festival bookers from all over Europe and beyond there for his show at Huize Mass - you can check out a track from the show recorded for German TV station WDR over at this link. This was Kormac's second TV run out of the month with a stellar Late Late show performance of Wake Up on the first show of the season where they played alongside fellow guests Deepak Chopra and boxing world champion Andy Lee ! Check it out here.

Maud in Cahoots returned to the theatre stage in Dublin this week following last year's award winning run of "The Well Rested Terrorist" at the Peacock for Dublin Fringe Festival. A live reading of "Recovery : The Musical" in the project was packed and you can see some of the videos over on Maud's tumblr along with some demos of new tracks. Maud in Cahoots have  announced the first date on this summer's us tour - details over at http://www.irishartscenter.org/music/maud_in_cahoots.html

We will do updates on Seo Linn's project with the RNLI, The Strypes' second album & tour dates and some exciting new acts we are working with over the next couple of weeks! 

On the production front, it was an emotional closing to Limerick City of Culture on December 27th. It had been an an amazing year for Limerick and for CWB as a company with the transformation of the Culture Factory from empty warehouse to world class performance space hosting Fuerza Bruta and No Fit State amongst others a real high point. The Culture Factory's next incarnation looks set to be as a film studio and having shot the Rubberbandits Channel 4 pilot there, we know it will be amazing for that too !  We are currently working on a number of the Legacy Projects in Limerick for the year ahead and it's  been amazing the impact the City of Culture project has had on the city. Keep up to date on 2015 activity over at http://limerickcityofculture.ie/

Back with a bang: Hello 2015 !

So after a hectic December, January has already kicked off with a bang with the news that Kormac has been selected to showcase that the prestigious Eurosonic festival in Groningen next week where the world's festival bookers come to check out what's hot.

He will be playing the Huize Maas venue on Wednesday 14th and we will be over there doing meetings until Friday 16th so send us a a mail if you'd like to meet about Kormac or any of our roster.

To give you a feel for what Kormac is about here is WHITE NOISE from his current album Doorsteps:

Christmas Time !

The CWB offices will be closed from Friday 19th December to Monday 5th January but we will of course be working almost right through !

Over Christmas we are working on (deep breath) the Panto at UCH in Limerick, Le Galaxie's sold out NYE at Meeting House Square, Kormac with DJ dates at Twisted Pepper on the 26th & Cyprus Avenue in Cork on the 28th and a massive NYE show with the big band in Roisin Dubh  in Galway,  and of course gearing up for next year with a trip to Eurosonic first on the agenda .

Have a great Christmas and here is a gorgeous version of Fairytale of New York that Seo Linn recorded for RTE earlier this week. Ho, ho, ho !

The Week before Christmas !

No rest for the wicked here at CWB with a week full of action ahead. The Strypes finish up their 11 date Irish tour with shows in Wexford on Friday, Sligo on Saturday and Donegal on Sunday. Seo Linn are shooting a video for their forthcoming single in Killybegs with the RNLI on Friday and Kormac is jetting off to dj in Southhampton on Saturday. In massive news our very own Maud Reardon from Maud in Cahoots husband Andy Lee was crowned WBO Middleweight World Champion in Vegas on Saturday night, you can get the full story below  - Massive Congratulations to Andy & Maud and watch out for some amazing new tracks from Maud in Cahoots early next year. 

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/andy-lee-produces-shock-to-become-wbo-middleweight-world-champion-1.2037568

In other news direct from a blistering set at the Church in Dingle last week, Kormac's album Doorsteps has swooped in at No.2 in the Dan Hegarty's top 50 Irish albums of 2014 - thanks  Dan ! 

http://www.rte.ie/2fm/dan-hegarty-the-alternative/programmes/2014/1216/667193-dan-hegarty-the-alternative-tuesday-16-december-2014/?clipid=1755323

The Weekend Ahead - 12/12/14

It's been a busy week here at CWB with The Strypes sell-out Irish tour continuing around the country with Drogheda, Dublin and Kilkenny already done this week and Belfast and Derry this weekend.

The First of hopefully many Annual CWB Christmas Fundraisers for the SVP Xmas Appeal was a great time for all on Wednesday night with Le Galaxie, Seo Linn, Kormac and Leading Armies being joined by The Strypes to play for a capacity crowd in the old school but charming Bello Bar in Portobello. We raised €1450 for SVP and another €400 for the FAST Anti Drugs Campaign and thanks to all the bands, the venue and Absolut Vodka for helping make it happen. 

On Thursday both Kormac & the Big Band and Le Galaxie played the Facebook Christmas Party in the stunning space of CHQ and was super fun. Thanks to them for having us. 

Here is our weekend action. The Strypes are in Belfast Tonight and Derry tomorrow. Kormac is at Other Voices in Dingle tonight and Set Theatre Kilkenny tomorrow while Seo Linn are at Other Voices Sunday afternoon and in Whelanslive on Sunday night !

Other Voices this Weekend

We are delighted that 2 of our roster Seo Linn and Kormac with this Big Band have been chosen to play at Other Voices this coming weekend. It is always a very special weekend and we have great memories of the Strypes show in the Church back in 2012. Here is a handy guide to all the times of all the performances over the weekend. See you in An Chonair on Friday and the Lab on Sunday!