Slowly, the blogging engine builds steam again. I’m determined to make an even greater effort to maintain this blog with some semblance of regularity. Think of it as a Lenten pledge but in a thoroughly unbelieving and a-religious way. Part of the problem I think is that there seems to have been something of a lack of good gigs going on in the Second City lately. That’s not to say there’s been nothing going on – we’ve had Blood Red Shoes, Super Extra Bonus Party, We Should Be Dead … and other stuff too, but I didn’t manage to make some of those gigs and wasn’t massively impressed by others. There’s been a few locals around the place too but all of these gigs just seem like brief sparks in an otherwise dark and disheartening January in Cork.
This Friday sees DJ Scotch Egg to Cork. I’d never heard of him before so I decided to check him out in the hopes that he might be worth going to (thanks to a word of endorsement from Niamh at UCC Campus Radio) and let me tell you, he definitely looks worth going to.
Hailing from Japan, but living in Brighton, DJ Scotch Egg is apparently – according to his wikipedia entry- is a “producer of chiptune / gabber music” which actually sounds pretty cool. What it basically means is he makes frantic, glitchy dance-type music with his gameboy, loop pedals and other such things. After the genius of Dan Deacon, I’m thinking this could make for quite an exciting gig. And after seeing video and hearing the myspace tracks, I’m all a flutter for what could be a class gig, this Friday (the 8th) in The Whiskey on Union Quay.
