Come back form local legends Itchy Trigger Finger playing with their new drummer “Big Sexy” Kev.  Support by Eyesclosed who are finally back in action.

Eyes Closed:

Itchy Trigger Finger

Trig Promotions Group Shot.  Some members of both bands missing.

It’s suprising how easily distracted one can get when there are buckets of photos to be put up online.  Its gotten a little dead around the rayobrien.com shelves.  Not that many gigs going on at the same time that i have a night off.  And a night not off was a long time ago!  With a few days this week to scratch my bum a little i have decided (not influenced at all by Aido giving out to me at the weekend) to dig up some old photos that should have gone up ages ago.  Im also going to start taking more photos again.  I have a CD cover to prepare for.  Concept art is done, now all i have to do is create the assets and build the full res layout and piece it all together.  Oh, and of course, release the CD long side a big green mushroom cloud!

Shown bellow is a series of photos taken during the last second edition of Trig promotions featuring; first time on stage “A Message from Vega”, nationwide known Tool tribute band “The Grudge” and one of Dublin’s biggest metal outfits “Hero in Error” with their really tight t-shirts for sale!?!  Even Jimmy had trouble fitting into a small.  Best cut out those cheese burgers dude

A message from Vega:

The Grudge:

Hero in Error:

Group Shot:

Apologies again to everyone for the lateness of the photos.

Shown above is Ben Keating, lead guitarist from much loved and many time featured band on the site, Chemical Addiction. You can check them out on myspace and find out latest info on their upcoming CD, Brian Jones. More photos shown bellow.

A new band to add to the list. These guys had their first gig together at Shirley’s pub in Kells over the weekend. Unfortunately, the pub was a typical “bogger” old mans pub with its set crowd and no real interest in heavy metal and rock music. The guys did their best and performed from start to finish un-phased by the flies buzzing around the room. Hope to see them play somewhere a little suitable like cleeres or the pumphouse sometime soon.

This year saw a slow down in General Rock, there was no summer concert, no organised gigs or promotions at all. Thats not to say general rock has being thrown out the water, its saying that everyone in g-rock cave is flat out with lots of personal projects going. The two boys, adam and steve have opened their comic and gaming store in highstreet called “the shadow gallery”. I was running a graphic design and print house with Tame guitarist and g-rock resident MC Norm Power which has also taken a little back seat due to the rumor called…. the recession!!! dun dun dunnnnnnnn!!! And… Evan, well… he’s still in school! Poor guy! So all in all, there has being very little energy left to throw this years concert and deal with cock fire chiefs and venue owners afraid to try something worth while and we all apologise.

However, i have begun some work with a new promotions company setup by local prog rock legend James Doran, or Jimi Trigger, or countless other names he can go by, it really depends on the day of the week. The company is called Trig Promotions and you can find them here on myspace and bebo to learn more about the fresh new outfit and what is has to offer. Word has it, its run by mother fuckin gangsters.

Shown above is a group shot of Chemical Addiction, Trig and Boo and Hero in Error taken in cleeres after what can only be described as an indescribable gig (go figure!).

I love shooting these guys. All of them are so energetic on stage, especially that ciwi chap. You better be nice to him though cus he might delete you off myspace!! These shots are of a recent gig in cleeres run by trig promotions. As usual, the guys played a stormer and got everyone in the mood for what was an excellent night! Hope you like the photos.

Ok, these two guys showed the entire of Cleeres lastnight, that music and performance dosent have to be heavy, loud or have people with long hair, or any hair for that matter (sorry boo!). A fuckin awesome gig and i really really can’t wait to see them again. I highly recommend checking out Trig and Boo as soon as you can… otherwise they’l fuck your mother…..or your sister!

I have never seen this band before and i had only heard great things about them. Having supported mastodon i should bloody hope so! These buys followed an extremely hard act to follow (trig and boo) and busted the remaining life out of Cleeres. Everyone was moshing and jumping around the place, a whirlpool of hair!!!

At this point of the night, my hangover was pretty much gone, however, my eyes were still fucked ( i blame mario kart on tuesday night….6 hours!!!!). However, miraculously i managed to get a few good shouts out of the guys and hope you all like them.

As always, feedback is much appreciated!

So tonight i learned about such things like putting fingers up your arse, John rambo is the shinizzle, and not all kilkenny music is made up of metal and grunge. Trig and boo, certainly a breath of fresh air and indeed well needed injection of serious off the wall entertainment. It was hard to tell what type of reaction the crowed would give. Everyone has being saying “this is guna be funny”. The suprising thing, it was fucking brilliant!!! Everything from the entrance to abusing members of the audience(including myself!)…. you would have to invent words to describe it better.

Its being a while (as in, eh, never!) since iv seen a crowed of metalers waving their hands in the air and “bouncing” to rap music. I really can’t wait until the next gig. Trig and Boo, lots of respect guys!