Munster Express Online

 Have you missed topless percussive action of late? Are your ears pining for beats and grooves? Oh, happy days, the wait is over! as Traffik Indie Club based at Forum Waterford brings you not 1 or 2 but 5 live bands on Easter Sunday Night. With Shane Barry & the Distractions, Fighting Spiders and Gorbachov on the main stage, Percolator and Kite in the Loft and Louis on the decks it’s sure to be one big indie party!!

 

Shane Barry and the Distractions

music was created for radio and that is where it will flourish, with pure melody and style that draws the listener into each song within seconds of hearing the first note. Backed by his superb band The Distractions that includes a powerful brass section Shane Barry is a force to be reckoned with on the live music scene in Ireland. The opening track on the album is entitled “Let it be Known” which is the perfect message to give to the masses. Let it be Known that Shane Barry and the Distractions are about to take Ireland by storm with their debut Radio Friction.

Gorbachov

are a five-piece rock outfit from Waterford. They have been together for five years, unleashing their own brand of idiosyncratic robot-rock to delighted punters up and down Ireland. After cutting their teeth on the live scene here, and releasing a number of self-financed singles, they moved to Liverpool to record their much-anticipated debut album on the independent label Pirate Industries, and to introduce England to the awesome might of the Chov. Our heroes spent the next year practising furiously, fine tuning their already-powerful live act. They also recorded their debut album, which was called “Can’t Start the Machine”. Since returning to their native shores, they found the time to defeat over 450 other bands to be crowned Murphys Live 2008 Champions.

Hatched in early 2008, Fighting Spiders, from the darkness of their lair, spawned their own breed of electro-pop. Combining pounding electro beats, pulsating synths, and sweeping ethereal pads with live percussion, guitars and brass, Fighting Spiders have created a sound which is both epic and instant. These 5 arachnids aim to take rock and roll, dismantle it piece by piece, load it onto the shuttle and set course for the sun.

“We are Ian, Jason and Eleanor. We’ve known each other for a good while.” So says Ian Chestnutt, guitarist and vocalist of Percolator.

Percolator sound nice and muddy. Rough, feedback laden, sometimes quite dissonant, but with some dream pop touches too. Overall it’s a versatile sound that can go from stomping to serene at the flick of a switch, or as Ellie puts it “from song to song we can go from almost aggressively noisy to fuzzy and melodic and at other times eerie

Kite

are a locally based four piece band featuring heavy rocking guitar riffs and some band members will be familiar as ex members of the Red Eye Society.

Free CD – Traffik DJ Mix

On Easter Saturday April 11th Traffik are giving away a free cd to all our music lovin’ friends. The cd will be a compilation of tracks selected by our resident Traffik Dj’s Louis Tommy and Zoe. So what can you expect to hear?

Imagine a DJ capable of blending the jackhammer sound of System of a Down with the shock tactics of Marilyn Manson and rage of Nirvana. Well, that’s not all DJ Louis is about. His inimitable couplings of, say, the Jackson Five with Rage against the Machine or James Brown with Radiohead, builds partners of sound that are quirky and weird and should not work but do.

In recent years, the name of Louis has been invariably linked with that of Tommyboy, another legend in his own lunchbox when it comes to Waterford’s Indie scene. Manys the occasion in the past the two have had every tailfeather in the Forum shaking and his choices promises to be no exception.

Guaranteed to bring some retro fun to the cd is Traffik regular Zoe. Zoe plays a wide selection of your favourite tunes from rock, funk, indie and soul and far too much in between to mention.