Éiresol Style - Irish Graffiti

Mantua takes place at Ballingare, Co. Roscommon from the 1st to the 3rd of August 2008.
Tickets on sale from €80 until July, then €100 from July 1st. Available from tickets.ie and the likes.

Line-up as of May 1st 2008…

Main Stage

Múm / Gravenhurst / Daedelus / Build An Ark / Poets Of Rhythm
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / BLK JKS + Much More TBC

Alphabet Set Stage

Clark (Warp, UK) / Taskforce (MFTC, UK) / Shackleton(skull disco, de)
Clouds (live) (nopa, 2nd drop, FL) / Cotti(soul jazz, bassface, UK )
ItalTek(planet mu, uk) / Datasette (AI, UK) / Super Extra Bonus Party
Colz&Grizzle / Sunken Foal (planet mu) / Filaria (bugklinik, acroplane)/ Solen
Sarsparilla / The Wax Ensemble (be) / Infomatics / Ed Devane / Fringe / cignol
Prince Kong fet Jah Balance / Nouveau Noise / Fran Hartnett / Bluefood
16hz&Joanny Oakley / Vince McMahon / Worries Outernational / P77 + More TBC

Rootical Reggae

Festus Coxsone / Levi Roots / Rod Taylor / Tena Stelin / Word Sound & Power
Jimmy Ranks / Conscious sounds / Culture Freeman / Vibronics / Madu Messenger
Jah Marnyah / Universal Rockers / Firehouse Skank / Revelation

Dionysus Stage

Blood or whiskey / Killnaboy / The Dubtones / The Blame / Roosky
Estel / Droppin Bombs / The Offenders / Bats / DEAD PLANTS / El Bastardo
Green Monitor / Hightown Crows / Ilya K / Jinx Lennon / Jung turks
Leonard And Bubbas Delicous Goo-Goo Cluster / Los Langeros / Spank
Rarely Seen Above Ground / Spellbound / Ten Past Seven / Terrordactyl

The Lowend

Friday with REACH: Barry Delta / Ricky Force / Safetyboy / Ernie
Stacks / Code / Source / Jet Li / Bonz / Synergy
Impact Djs / Beckett / Shopen / Gallifari

SATURDAY with WOBBLE: Naphta / Don Rosco / 2-Bit / Major Grave
Redmonk / Nez / Miles Iwes / A-Force
Radikal guru / Noid the Droid / Get Low
Roots Factory Crew

SUNDAY with !KABOOGIE: Sixfoot Apprentice / The Nihilist / Thatboytim / Nedule
Rodney / The Geek / PCP / Dj Class A / Oshroom+Nippoman
Kalpol / Subone / Deeboh / Rickie K! / Halfdutch / Baz
Fukrewindz / Alienhand / Pastamasta / Ste Noor / Assquake Djs

And of course a whole load of visual artistés, food of questionable origin and crusty bongo types.

STALL IT!

Big up DJ Mek who sent us this…

I edited some footage from ’stations of the elevated’ and flung some music under it. (’planet e’ by worlds famous supreme team ‘86)

Incidentally, you can download Stations of the Elevated on the ever-fresh ever-new GraffTorrents blog. And of course Mek’s YouTube page is worth a visit for all sorts of goodness.

An amazing collection of ska, rocksteady, early reggae, calypso, dub, soul and some roots reggae to download here…

Scary Éire 1993/94 in the Rock Garden, Dublin. . .

from the new album “Speakin from Xperience”

Released late last week this, the second album from Dublin-born COLLIE, is taking all the attention away from Tay Zonday for a hot minute. And it’s well worth the price of 3 pints in Dublin!

You can get it direct from his MYSpace page, or from the likes of All City and Road Records in Dublin. For Cork heads, check Roxy @ Douglas Court/Ballincollig.

Right, we’re getting out of this graf game to focus on promotion. Namely the promotion of this man…

Presenting Tay Zonday with a cover of the classic “Never Gonna Give You Up”.

Instant classic!

So it seems we were a little late on the Chocolate Rain front, but now we’re fully subscribed to Tay Zonday’s particular brand of deep hilarity and we can’t get enough.

Here’s the man performing live at a “block party” last week…

and live on the Jimmy Kimmel show…

and finally the 8bit remix (thanks to b0b @ HurtYouBad)

Loads more where they came from!

Big up RISTO for the original linkage.