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ThisDarkRoom

bio/boredom

1 day ago

It all started in early 2005, a few months after Aidan and Ruairí first picked up their guitars. To get a band together, they recruited their good friends David O'Keefe on drums, Joe Cronin on 3rd guitar and Daniel Casey to sing for them. Young and naive as to how bands and the local scene worked, they played 2 charity gigs in their school in Crosshaven, playing Shes Electric by Oasis and Under The Bridge by RHCP.
The next year and a half was a barren spell for the band. Aidan left and focused more on improving at playing the guitar. The rest of the lads jammed, but no more gigs were played, and original material was never focused on.
In 2006, Aidan rejoined the band, with original songs Ernst, When, Funky Boxmore and Broken Shell. At this point it was mostly Aidan and Ruairí jamming guitars. By the end of the year Joe, Dave and Dan had all been let go, not being as committed to the band and to music.
For the next year, Aidan and Ruairí wrote many more songs, but still needed the rest of a band!
In mid 2007, during a dour Irish clalss, they asked their friend Shane Desmond to come in on bass. He duly accepted, Aidan and Ruairí decided to both take on vocal duties, and the band was almost complete.
For the next part, more songs were written (too many), notably Dr. Quirkys Good Time Emporium Will Make You Sick, but one thing was missing: a drummer.
Ex-guitarist/bassist/mult i -instrumentalist Joe filled in for a while, but this never materialised. Looking as far as the internet could see, finally, in late February 2008, thanks to a friend of the band, Siobhán Hughes, Eoghan O'Loughlin was recruited on drums.
The band was now complete, and 3 practise sessions and a few weeks later they played their first gig in Mallow (they almost didn't, but that story is for another day), as part of the blastbeat competition. While missing out on the winning spot (won by fantastic Overplay), they duly enjoyed it and made good friends in Rock The Rubicon.
Since then they have played a gig in the Triskel supporting Rock The Rubicon and in Skibbereen Town Hall, both of which were so much fun!
Now, i'm sick of writing "us" and "we" as "they", so i'm going to say that now that our leaving cert is almost over (Ruairí, Shane and I, Aidan, are currently enduring the misery), we are looking forward to summer of jamming, writing, recording and gigging as much as we can :-)

Thanks a lot for reading, i apologise if you got bored to death haha, and thanks for checking out the page!
Aidan
TDR out

we got the rising festival! :D

1 month ago

so our first gig of 2009 is confirmed already haha! i want to say thanks to everyone who voted us in. its appreciated beyond belief!
Aidan

Triskel and Skib gigs! :D

4 months ago

hey, last friday and saturday saw us play our 2nd and 3rd gigs, in the Triskel Arts Centre and Skibbereen Town Hall.
the triskel gig was supporting Rock The Rubicon, with Los Banditos playing first, and screwing immediately after playing, taking half the drum kit and the bass amp with them. ok that was a bit of an exaggeration, but the drum kit was messed up for Eoghan afterwards, and a few screwups happened because of that. despite that, and a "forgetting to tune our vocal chords" in places we had great fun, mainly because the crowd were brilliant:) (thanks to Brian actually for being a heckler for the evening:L). Rock The Rubicon were headlining and put on a brilliant show. i haven't been that entertained in a long time! thanks again to them for having us support them!

last night we made the trek down to Skibbereen to play for Cork Live Promotions in the town hall. setting up there was a good atmosphere (there was pizza:D) and set the tone for the evening.
things didn't start off too well though:Lwe were on first, and my guitar was turned up waaay too loud (my fault really) and we couldn't hear the drums for most of the gig!!! because of that, we played our first song, Ernst, the worst we've ever played it. it was all over the place:L so my guitar was turned down, and we settled in with a blink182 cover (man overboard) which went down really well:) seriously we got lucky with the crowd!!!

Broken Shell

6 months ago

this song has been around for a while (you can a much older version of the song with our old singer, Dan Casey, at our bebo page http://www.bebo.com/thisdarkroom ) and we'd love to hear what you guys think
thanks for checking out the page!

TDR out

Ernst

8 months ago

christmas greets, as i'm sure you can see, we have uploaded a song, called Ernst. we used a drum machine due to our lack of a drummer, but hopefully you'll like the song.
there are plenty more songs we have finished bar the drums, which will be uploaded as soon as they are recorded, if blastspace lets us of course :-)
anyway, hope you like the song, check back soon for more
merry christmas,
TDR

ThisDarkRoom

bio/boredom

we got the rising festival! :D

The Rising Festival 2009: vote us in please!!!

Triskel and Skib gigs! :D

Surreal Sounds review Ernst!

Broken Shell

is it just me...?

Ernst

Recording stuff...