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Ambassador, Meteors, and other stuff...

7 months ago

Is it December already?

Lordy. Well, This Friday 14th we'll round off an amazing year for us by playing our biggest ever Headline gig, in the Ambassador Theatre in Dublin. There ARE some tickets still available from
http://www.ticketmaster.ie ... and from Road Records, Freebird and Sound Cellar in Dublin. Get yours soon!

As well as our gig we're proud to have been nominated in the "Best Band" and "Best Album" categories at the Irish Meteor Music Awards. Its an audience vote thing, so if you'd like to vote visit http://meteormusicawards.meteor.ie .

Over November we did our first tour of the UK, and it was great. For example: in Brighton, Ross's snare went missing, we partied with transsexuals, Our driver, Cathal, took the Harry's Challenge and won, and we'd a brilliant gig to a receptive crowd. I wish we'd kept a diary for the rest of the dates... Hello to all the new friends we met and signed up to our page, we'll be over again soon....

So anyway, this Wednesday morning we'll be on Ian Dempsey's Breakfast Show on Today FM playing one of our favourite Christmas songs... Have a listen if you're awake..
We'll also be on Icon on Phantom on Tuesday, Anna Livia on Wednesday as well as Spin's Breakfast show on Thursday morning... Its a busy week alright..

Well anyway - if we don't see you this Friday in the Ambassador, Have a great Christmas and a happy new year.. and thanks for supporting us, its fantastic how nice people have been to us, all the messages we got when the album went top ten and when Ross got injured, the presents people brought for us to instores... we really appreciate it all. hopefully next year is as good, and hopefully we'll see you during it...

Thank you for reading...
Kieran
+ Nial, Ro, and Ross
Delorentos

Do You Realise out this Friday!

8 months ago

In your November edition of Delorentos: behind the laughter...

New EP "Do You Realise" released this Friday 9th November, featuring the single Do You Realise and including three new tracks, all wrapped up in a sexy little limited edition package. Available in all good record stores, y'know.

We've set up a new mini-site for the ep, with lots of cool pics, info, tabs, etc, and we've also just finished shooting a video for the single which will be posted up on the site soon. Simply go to: http://www.delorentos.net/realise

The band will do two free mini instore gigs to launch the EP... in HMV Shop Street, Galway at 5pm on Friday 9th and the following day will be in BPM Records, Waterford City at 3pm, off the square.

Tickets are on sale for our final show of the year in Dublin's Ambassador Theatre on Friday December 14th, get yours now from ticketmaster: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/18 0...

This is our biggest headline show to date and just in time as we will be one of the last acts to play the theatre before it closes as a live music venue in January. We're very happy to announce that Messiah J & the Expert and Super Extra Bonus Party will also perform on the night, making it proper eclectic, yo.

We've started work on the next record. Initial sounds are good, that's all i can say

And finally, we'll be doing our first tour of the UK this month. Taking in England, Scotland and Wales, with nine shows, starting in London on the 20th and finishing in Derby on the 29th. see our gig listings for details. If you're on the island of Britain, hopefully we'll see you on that, its going to be great.

ps. we're playing a song on the Podge & Rodge television show, on rte2, Tuesday night, check it out! talk soon, kindest regards,

R�

delorento.

New single Stop out now!

11 months ago

Hey all,

A lot to tell you about as the summer continues to be really busy for us. We'd a great weekend at the Oxegen Festival in Punchestown. As those who were present will testify, and if you've seen pictures, it was a bit of a mud fest again this year, but there were some stunning performances. My highlights were Kings of Leon and Interpol on Saturday and Arcade Fire on Sunday, where a rainbow came over the crowd as if they'd planned it; there's gotta be some divine connection going on there.

We'd a great show ourselves too, thanks to all of you who stuffed into the tent and sang along and generally made our afternoon, oh and hope you liked the beach balls!

To see myself and N�al on our first wander around the festival after our show, click on http://www.hotpress.com/av/3875970. html

The only dampener on the weekend, apart from the obvious, is that we didn't have Ross on stage with us. I can tell you that his foot injury is a lot better and we're hoping he'll be back next month. He says hello. (if you've any pictures or just want to tell us about your weekend let us know!)

I have the great pleasure to announce The "Realise" Tour of Ireland in September/October this year. The dates for the tour are posted up on delorentos.net and also in our gig section.. For the Dublin show, tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster, WAV, sound cellar and city discs and are on sale now. Book your tickets now: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/9 53015

The final bit of news is that we're releasing "STOP", the 3rd single from our debut album In Love with Detail, this Friday 20th July. It is a limited edition release, available in HMV, Tower Records and most other music stores and includes new live favourite "She's So Modern" and a deadly remix, our first, of STOP by our very talented friend Jape. (Our overseas friends can get a digital copy on iTunes or a physical copy from Road Records while stocks last)

Later yo!
R�,
delorentos

Oxegen, Blast, and Metatarsals...

1 year ago

Hello!

Plenty of drama since the last time we posted up a blog... Unfortunately the bad news is that Ross suffered a serious foot injury a couple weeks ago from the amount of gigs we did, something to do with his metatasal. Which is a foot bone. or something. Hopefully he'll be back soon.. -Thankfully our friend Gareth has been able to fill in for him on live duties, thanks Gareth! (www.myspace.com/garethaverill) He's also very handsome.

We're releasing a new single "Stop" which is coming out July 20th -it'll have 3 tracks:

1.Stop

2.She's so Modern

3.Jape Remix

(If the cover looks strange, its a mild optical illusion). You can check out a preview of the remix (our first!) on our myspace page, and please check out Richie's myspace page : http://www.myspace.com/richiejape You can also see a high-quality preview of "She's so modern" on youtube, from our gig in Thomastown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXz _RHrDMPU). Oh yes.

to everyone who came to see us at the two Arctic Monkeys gigs at Malahide Castle...
Thanks! It was great. We were the first band to ever play there! It was great meeting Supergrass, The Coral and the lads from the Arctic Monkeys, we'd a stunning weekend. Also, sorry to the Monkeys for warping their football. Kieran and Myself were also were lucky enough to meet the director of The Arctic Monkey's video for Fluorescent Adolescent, Richard Ayoade, we're fans of his work. If you get a chance check him out in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA3S DHWkUsc (Warning: you may completely love this)

Thanks to everyone that came to the Blast all ages gig in Dublin's Radio City last Saturday, it was one of the most mental experiences we have ever had at a gig! There was a full scale stage invasion and crowd surfing... You can see a clip of the gig here (courtesy of phutloose) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_pf swxZEK8 . The youth of today, wha?

Finally, we're playing Oxegen, on the Pet Sounds Stage, Saturday at 4pm, we're really looking forward to it, see you down there, it's going to be great!

If you know anything about Metatasals, or simply want to wish Ross well, please drop a note... :)

Seeya the next time,

N�al
and Ross and Kieran and Ro.

www.delorentos.net

Fires, Dublin Castle, and Gigs, gigs, gigs..... :)

1 year ago

Hello Again!

It's been a while since we posted up news here, and since the last time a lot has happened...

First and foremost, we'd like to thank all of you that picked up "In Love With Detail", the record went to number 7 in the charts, which we really didn't expect, and to those of you that have spread the word, it's been amazing playing gigs to people that know the songs, singing them back to us, thank you thank you thank you!

Since we came back from the States, its been all go, So over the last month we have played 30 gigs, made a video for Eustace Street with some friends and fans of the band (THANKS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!) and have met lots of interesting people along the way,

We've tried to play an all ages gig in every town we've been, and thanks to everyone that turned up to see us knock out tunes in random record shops and shopping centres in Ireland, (as well as those of you that came to the night gigs!) it's been a lot of fun so far, long may it continue....

....Our van went on fire coming back from Limerick, it was a challenge putting that out with bottles of water (special thanks to Ferg for trying to drive through the smoke and to Stephen for picking us up from the middle of Kildare)...

�We played Dublin Castle for the first time, having been in Waterford till 7am that morning, it was great to see people giving it loads on the cobbled ground, damn the consequences!!

...we regularly played 2 gigs a night, including a recent 3 hour haul from Galway to play the Trinity Ball at 4am, which has to go down as 2 of the best delorentos gigs (for us) ever.. hello to everyone who stayed til 5am watching us!

We've got lots of gigs coming, up including playing with The Arctic Monkeys, Supergrass and The Coral at Malahide Castle�

...we were even on the premiership a few times over the goals!

�and there is more to come, so keep checking out the gigs listed here and on delorentos.net, as we'll be posting more up over the coming weeks and months....

Let us know about any funny stories from your end - ie - the girl who asked we sign her arm so she could get our names tattooed there, (!) the guy who brought his elderly mother to a gig to meet us, the girls who skipped an exam in Cork...

All the Best,
N�al, (and Ro, Kieran and Ross)

p.s � A special note has to go to The Immediate, now broken up, -they were one of the most inventive bands to come out of Ireland in a long time, and it was a pleasure and privilege to play with them over the last couple of years, you will be sorely missed.

In Love With Detail... 20th April...

1 year ago

Hi Hello....
Its almost here! For us, the biggest moment of of our musicial life so far happens in ten days; we release our debut album, In Love With Detail. We've already had a lovely reaction in the press, with very favourable reviews in Hot Press, Totally Dublin, and The Irish Times.
We'll be doing loads of cool stuff to promote the album over the next month, as well as all the gigs there'll be co-presenting a radio show (yay!), lots of other radio and tv and newspaper interviews, articles and reviews.
We'll also be doing a massive amount of all age daytime instores where we'll be playing a few songs and saying hello...

Here's the list of the instores: (we'll put more up as they're confirmed)
Tralee, Roxy Records, 1pm 19th April.
Ennis, Record Rack, 1pm, 20th April.
Galway, Zhivago, 6pm, 20th April.
Waterford BPM, 1pm, 21st April.
Wexford BPM, 5pm, 21st April.
Maynooth Golden Discs, 1pm, 23rd April
Cork, Virgin, 4pm, 24th April.
Dublin, HMV Grafton St, 1pm, 26th April.
Limerick, HMV, 4.30pm 27th April.
Dublin, Tower Records, 2pm, 28th April
Belfast, HMV Donegall St, 4.30pm, 1st May.
Cork, Golden Discs, Mahon Point SC, 1pm, 3rd May.
Dundalk, CD World, 4pm, 4th May.
Portlaoise, Heartbeat City, 2pm, 19th May.

there'll be loads more... (let us know what to expect!)

We're also releasing Eustace Street as a single, and we spent yesterday making a video. Thanks to Second Aspect and everyone who came down, it was the best fun we had in ages!
pics! :- http://www.distortionghost.com/stat i... The Video will be done in a week or two and we'll stick up here and on youtube and stuff too.

Right, we've to go practice some acoustic versions of songs...
Hopefully we'll see you all over the next month, we can't wait to until you hear the album If you're going to the Dublin or Cork gig get your tickets asap on http://www.tickets.ie ... don't be disappointed!

see you soon,
Kieran
+ Delorentos

News, Meteors and Album stuff!

38 years ago

How's it goin', We're back from 2006, and a very Happy 2007 to you all...

Just to keep you updated on our progress.. We finished ALL the recording for the album a couple of days before Christmas, just in time to get some last minute presents and rush back to our homes... we recorded 5 songs:

The Rules
Stop
She's so Modern
Eyes Open
All This Time

The last two were recorded completely live in the basement of Sun Studios in the very early hours, while Temple Bar was a mixture of people struggling to get home, and people struggling to get up.

The sounds of these people filtered through the vents in the studio and look like they're staying on the record...

We're in the very early stages of mixing the 14 songs that will form our first album, over the coming weeks we will have a clearer idea what's going to make it, or not. This is one of the most exciting times for the band, and we can't wait till it's ready

We managed 2 weeks off from each other over Christmas (except for a brief period where we gave each other presents -thanks for the magic set Ross btw!) then we took on 3 gigs in 3 days over New Years, which were eventful to say the least....

Friday, Oldcastle, County Meath.
We landed at Oldcastle after some of the windiest, most disgusting weather Ireland has seen all year... and the gig was outside... in a Marquee.

At one stage all 5 bouncers were holding down one side of the marquee to stop it flying away in the wind, beer kegs were holding the other end. When the kegs started flying around it was decided that the bouncers were running the same risk, and the gig was cancelled...

BUT saviour came in the form of the band Ham Sandwich (the other band playing that night) who persuaded us to try to play inside Crean's pub.

With the entire crowd from the marquee crammed in to this fantastic little bar, we played one of our most fun gigs, the crowd surfing and Ham Sandwiches trademark confetti added so much!! The drive home at 4 in the morning wasn't to bad after a night like that. Thanks Derek and Noel at Le Ch�ile for taking care of us, you are legends. (If anyone has any photos please send them on to us!)

Saturday, The Stables, Mullingar
Mullingar the next night was another suprise (we've only played there once with the Immediate, to about 10 people) -Playing to a big crowd was great preparation for our New Year's gig the next night in Dublin (for anyone that was there, thanks for helping us practice our New Year's count-down on you!)

NEW YEARS EVE! Whelan's, Dublin
One of the greatest nights we've had as a band started with a panic: me and Ross ran from shop to shop on New Years Eve, trying to get everything together for the show that night. We spent way too much money on crap but as it turned out, it was worth every penny...

We spent most of the day (when we should have been soundchecking) decorating the stage in Whelans with old Christmas lights, decorations, tinsle and lanterns

We started the gig coming onstage wearing masks and spraying the crowd with Silly String, after throwing off the masks and me throwing a can of silly string into the audience (to whoever I hit on the head, sorry about that) we counted down to midnight, throwing Party Poppers and random stuff into the audience, using our bubble gun on the front row, then the Flaws and our mate Una threw Balloons and confetti off the balcony... a stunning night!

pics at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/599236 96@N00/

(photos courtesy of the fantastic Nico Miami www.myspace.com/xrayvisionniamh)

So although being back in the studio is great, it was made all the better with the news that we have been nominated for a Meteor Award! (for those of you that aren't from Ireland, these are the annual awards from the Irish music industry) We are in a category called "Hope for 2007" (which you can vote for on www.rte.ie/2fm) with The Immedite, The Blizzards, Royseven, Electric Penguins and Luan Parle. Although being nominated for an award is stunning, it is difficult to find yourself up against bands that we have met and become friends with over the last year, we're hoping it will be a good night all the same.... Of course, we're gigging in Killarney that night, so we can't go.. maybe we'll organise a satellite link-up.. just in case? :)

Until the next time...

N�al

Delorentos

p. s we are releasing a taster from the album "Basis of Everything" - on vinyl and download will be out mid-February! shhhh...

Tour diary..

38 years ago

We're back after our cool two week tour with Bell x1, and back into the delicate work of the studio and finishing songs. We'll be writing for the next week and getting the final part of recording done between now and Christmas.. but for now here's the collated tour diary originally posted up at http://delorentos.proboards43.com on our messageboard...

Wednesday: Belfast, Mandela Hall.

So.. Day 1 of the tour. Bit tired and feeling a bit under-practiced due to doing the album and trying to get the new songs shipshape, we arrived up in Belfast to the Mandela Hall. After I discovered the gambling machines and quickly lost all my sterling, we soundchecked with a new version of "Stop", "punx" and a slightly tinkered-with version of "The Rules".
At around 9 we played to a big crowd (thanks Belfastians!), and even though we made a few mistakes and we didn't get our sound great, we enjoyed it and hopefully some folks did too.

afterwards, i had some more gambling fun while the lads drank our generous rider with the help of the attractive members of the Fast Emperors... and then we left, got a kebab and we all jumped in a big hotel-bed, partridge family style. Except with more fags and stella.
(interesting bell x1 fact: they have loads of different cheeses on their rider. mmnnn..)

hopefully we'll keep some sort of diary going, but we can't promise anything

K

Thursday: Nerve Centre, Derry.

day 2. Bleurgh... Shouldn't have had that kebab. We arrive at the Nerve Centre, Derry, and after lots of Berocca and water and a good souncheck we wandered around. Had a fairly manky dinner in a superpub place, had a few goes on the gambling machine (note to self: seek help) and sat there smoking cigarettes INDOORS! The novelty! I had a chip, then a drag of a cigarette, then another chip. It wasn't very nice, but it tasted like freedom. smokey freedom. (when we got back the Bell x1 lads told us there was a fantastic place next door.... ah well.)
At the gig we played a new song - "Punx" - for the first time and it was pretty good, and afterwards we sat around with Simple Kid and gave each other nicknames...
(interesting Bell X1 fact: Before every gig they perform the rap from "Gansters Paradise" backstage, with each member taking a verse)*

K

*this isn't true. thats us.

Friday: Royal Theatre, Castlebar.

Day 3: SO we woke up in our lovely hotel, almost half of us had showers, and we jumped on the bumpy road to Castlebar - stopping over only for soggy sandwiches and Yop in Donegal. We got to the massive venue in Castlebar just in time for our soundcheck, did that, had a few minutes to write a setlist [Until the next time, Punx, Leave it on, Basis, Stop, Do you realise, Waiting and Idle conversation] and then we played just after the venue opened up. Kinda weird playing to a huge venue with a handful of people in it, but i guess the castlebar faithful aren't an early gig crowd... Nevertheless, we coaxed some nice folks up the front, played as best we could and some folks liked it and came up afterwards and said hello. The venue itself is fantastic, and the Bell x1 boyos put on a great show.
Afterwards we had lots of heineken, and cut a rug on the dancefloor. At about 4 in the morning we had chicken burgers in the rain and hoped people would be early risers for the next ones, especially considering Belfast and Derry were so good... early start tomorrow for waterford....

(interesting bell x1 fact: Brian makes a tasty crisp and ham sanger.)

K

Saturday: The Forum, Waterford

Ok, Ro here to tell y'all about day 4 of bell x 1 tour, the day of the 6 hour drive!!!! wooooh! (ghost noise)

actually, the only scary thing was the amount of snax, chickatees and monster munch consumed on the way from mayo to waterford

thanks to those waterfordians who came up front and partied with us during our set, you made the gig!

unfortunately, due to having to leave for home we weren't able to stay around and find these diamonds to thank at the end. hopefully this won't be the case tomorrow night when we're in galway.

having played with the lads at the galway arts fesival this summer, we're very excited about returning, this time to Leisureland. so if you want to see us, be there early, come to the front, and make lots of noise

interesting bell x fact: drummer tim is quite the accomplised dj.
interesting delo fact: we really like crisps, but still prefer yop!

Monday: Leisureland, Galway.

So, Day 85023 of the tour. Actually, its 5. Or 6. So sunday was a day off, we all went and got cleaned up for the south-west leg. We arrived at Dublin airport to collect our special vehicle for the journey down. Unfortunately the DeloJet was in the shop, so we dropped into Budget and got a lovely little Ford Focus to carry us cross country. We hit the road with a post-punk cd to have a listen to what some people say we sound like. Do we? hmmm.. I dunno. It was very treble-y anyway..
We arrived to the massive Leisureland venue (we didn't have time for a swim - next time!) and stuffed our faces with Supermacs' finest cuisine, before soundchecking and getting ready.
Thanks so much to everyone for turning up early, there may have been no drink and the house-lights were up, but we got a great reception and really enjoyed ourselves. Cheers!
After a bit of Simple Kid (SIMLEK ID according to the sign on his door ) and some Bell x1 we headed for some food, (hi to the people who came up to say hello in the diner...! ) and then danced away in the Roisin...

(interesting Bell x1 fact: Tim has a jaffa cake between each song to keep his energy up.)

K

Tuesday: INEC, Killarney.

We woke up in Galway, drank some tea and then hit the road to Killarney. Its longer than you'd think... although, we did get to drive through Gort for the second time in three days which is always good.
Arrived at our hostel in Killarney.. had a lie down.. (when will we learn that drinking solidily every night for a week is a terrible idea? never? oh, ok...) then off to the INEC, to our deadly dressing room under the stage.
After a short soundcheck we went on around 7.45.. at the start there were only a handful.. but it soon filled up (thanks to everyone who did!) and it was fun too. people were calling out for "Basis Of Everything", but we'd decided to omit it in favour of new ones... we had a quick onstage commitee meeting and decided to press ahead without... (sorry...!)
Afterwards outside we met lots of youngfellas, two of which pinched our backstage passes and tried to blag into bell x1's dressing room, eventually ending up on the STAGE going "where's bell x1? we're with Delorentos! take us to bell x1!" with ten bemused road crew looking quizzically at each other... heh...
Anyway.. afterwards we treated ourselves to a nice chinese and then we went drinking.... for a change. That Shane McGowan never had a chance.

(interesting Bell x1 fact: Brian plays the keys and lead guitar at the same time in one song, very impressive...)

K

Wednesday: The Savoy, Cork.

Ouch. I think we were supposed to check out of our hostel room at 10.30, but really, that was never gonna happen. Around lunchtime we dragged ourselves out of bed and into the local greasy spoon for a fry. (note to self: never eat a fry again in a place which claims to be "shortly closing indefinitely". hmmnn...). Eventually got on the road to Cork and booked into Sheilas hostel overlooking the city. The Savoy is on the main street, Patrick Street, so no soundchecks can start before 6. Which is bad news for us... when it comes to setting up we end up rushing through it... go upstairs, do a setlist and quickly return to the stage... Cork was one of the gigs i most looked forward to, but there wasn't a massive crowd, i didn't get my sound set up well enough, and our snare broke just as we felt we were warming up... The crowd was small at first but gradually grew and we put our heads down and played as best as we could... i hope everyone that came early enjoyed it sorry about the sound probs, we did our best!
Its tough being the support act, first on, early starts, for these shows, its no-ones fault, its the nature of the beast i suppose. I'd like to think we're making the most of it anyway, we try to play our best at every gig regardless of crowd.. and hopefully a few folks leave enjoying it. I think we could be annoyed by it, but the fact that the Bell x1 lads and the crew are so accomodating and good to us we haven't got any problem. Anyway, everything is a learning curve, and i think we're better at setting ourselves up and looking after ourselves quickly without a fuss as a result of this tour.

Afterwards we went to the brog and swapped clothes with people. Nial looks quite fetching in a ladies red satin top, y'know... and drank. Oh yes dear reader. Thank god we've a day off tomorrow...

(Interesting Bell x1 fact: When they come off stage before their encore they all drink a glass of orange juice and won't go back out until they've answered five trival pursuit questions. Dom's the sport expert, while Dave will only answer the History ones.)

K

Thursday: Day off.

I woke up in Cork, in Sheila's, and quickly realised i broke one of my teeth from drunken escapades last night. rock and roll eh? ah well. So then we went down to the rental car, and discovered that the window was wide open all night. Through the torrential night rain. So, Kieran sat on plastic bags all the way to dublin and got a wet bum. This never happened to Axl Rose... When we dropped the car back (hide plastic bags, stand in front of passenger door, create diversion...) we all went home to our respective houses and had some rest. I, however, went to see the Rapture in the village and had a late night. Tsk Tsk.

Friday: The Point Depot, Dublin.

Friday morning we arranged ourselves and headed into the Point. Its kinda a massive deal playing it, if i look above my computer here i can see all the ticket stubs of all the gigs i've seen here, all the great bands... and its hard to not to be a little proud of ourselves... walking around the arena N�al and me took photos and kinda nodded at each other at the significance of it all...
We got mini kitkats and heineken in the back room, made a few badges for folks who wanted them and went up to do our soundcheck. The seemed to be a few technical issues... we couldn't hear the soundman, the monitor person asked us to do stuff, and all the time the door time was getting closer and people were nervously tapping their watches. We left the stage kinda worried, wrote up a setlist and stood at the side looking out at everyone assembled at the front. When we got the nod went out and gave it everything, and judging on the reaction people liked it. When the time was up, it felt like we'd only been on for about 5 mins...

When we got off stage one of the venue managers walked by and gruffly said "congrats, ye just played the point". Pretty good eh?

Afterwards we drank the night away in the Point private bar. Of course. I managed not to damage any other teeth though, i made sure of it...

Thanks to everyone who helped out on the tour, the crew, managers, and especially the band were all great and we enjoyed every minute of it.

Roll on 2007!

K