Blood Apple live in the Brewery Bar, McKennas, Monaghan celebrating the Best Pub in Ulster award! This was broadcasted live across todayfm! Stay tuned for some more videos from The Dominican Affair.
Filmed by Dara Mc Cluskey.
I think we stared advertising for this album about 3 years ago, and you may still see it spray-painted around certain parts of Monaghan Town or engraved on the footpath! Well, a few years in the making, this short, 7-track, album is finally being released by ‘The Dominican Affair’.
Readers of my blog are going to be privileged enough to get a sneak preview of the finished product before it is officially released next month. We haven’t decided if we are going to release the album for free download yet; I’m all for it but the others aren’t buying it. But I have provided 30-sec exclusive clips of all of the tracks below. The line-up is as follows; although the CD might not be in this order:
I think that there are wide variety of genres in this album, I couldn’t really hold it to any one particularly but I’m open to suggestions! We got a good deal considering what we paid for I think, and I have to give a big thanks to both Tommy Flack, who recorded the album, and Keith Corbet who mixed the album with Tommy free of charge. I am very happy with the result, although there are some things I would pay more attention to if I was to do it again! We hope to have the albums on sale in the next three weeks or so and they will be available here on my blog from that point on. Without further hesitation h, here are the tracks:
Feedback welcome! If you are interested in seeing us perform we are playing on Allison Curtis Today fm at 11pm Wednesday 21st October 2009, and we are also appearing in Whelans, Dublin on 5th December 2009.
Would you believe it? It’s the first anniversary of my Blog! I have officially been ranting about shite for a whole year!
Anyway to celebrate the birthday of my Blog I decided to do it up a wee bit. I added a nice wee sidebar to my theme, which I am actually thinking of releasing at some stage in the near future. Also I added a new download manager to http://files.macaoidh.name . It is very useful; it keeps track of how many people are downloading what. Hopefully in the future it will give me an idea of what people that view my blog like and don’t like. I will actually have to go over all my previous posts and make sure that the download links are correct considering there was a big change in the link format.
The only real reason I wrote the thing is because someone has commissioned me to do something similar, starting next week. But the commissioned work will be a bit more complete and stuff. So feel free to try and hack my system. I don’t want to find faults when I’m finished writing it and then have to go back… The manager also serves as a very useful tool for me. I have included an admin area in which I can log in, upload files and choose to store them, make them available for download or even to download + password protect them! This feature will no doubt come in handy, I like to think of it as my personal, non-user-information-gathering, version of Google Docs!
What else has been happening recently… ooh I am in the process of making/releasing an album with The Dominican Affair. It is called Stealing the Ceiling. We have our last mixing session this weekend and hope to have it available on piratebay towards the end of October! It will also be available to purchase or download at http://www.holygrailrecords.com
Just thought I’d mention that 6th year is terribly shit. I can manage to squeze about 2 hours of programing in thrice a week. Also I am doing an Introduction to Computer Science Programing course in UCD over the next few months just to prepare me for college and to make sure that I actually want to study Computer Science! It will be good craic to learn Java at that course; I plan to make a facebook application/game when I have learned Java and base it in Monaghan.
Oghgbjkc damn! I just realised that I still haven’t renewed my macaoidh.name subscription! Better get to it… three days left…..
I’m in a band that I haven’t talked on my blog before. The name is “The Pirates” – which we decided to call our selves as some people disliked our original, unofficial, name “Pot Smokin Pirates”. Anyway we recorded an EP, at the moment it’s the untitled EP, last Saturday with Mark Clerkin. Keith Corbet and Mark mixed the tracks for us since then. And now it’s finally ready!
The Pirates are actually the first band that I ever joined. We went through various name changes since our formation three years ago, JesusMcGhee and the upstairs tomato tribute band, the eggsersizers, coke addix, farolite, pot smokin’ pirates…. I could go on! So basically I never ever want to change the name of the band again, it is now and will always be The Pirates. In fact I joined The Dominican Affair through being in this band! For a long time I have to admit that The Pirates were a joke, but this year in particular we have picked up and begun to get serious about it. Last year we ditched all of our originals except two, Mind Trix and Uthenasia, in order to have a fresh start. Usually we throw the things out but since then we have only written two songs, which are the two on the EP, “Cheesecake” (formerly “Boner on a Cheesecake”) and “Funk in My Toast”.
We have gone through various genres. Our older songs are all Punk Rock while our new ones on the EP are very funky. Well I should stop talking now! You can download the album or listen to it on our bebo page.
Any feedback is good feedback! 
edit: It might not be on bebo for another few days after this post…