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THE BAND DOWNSTAIRS//

Readers Wives are the band that live in the apartment directly below the location of BalconyTV Dublin. Headed by leaded singer songwriter Niall James Holohan, The Band Downstairs follows the exploits of a hard working band trying to carve a niche for themselves in an over crowded independent music scene.

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EP 16 - EVICTED

 

In this final episode of The Band Downstairs, the band are evicted from their home below the location of BalconyTV Dublin after a dispute with a crusty landlord.

 

It's hard to believe its been almost exactly a year since The Band Downstairs launched, charting the meanderings of the band Readers Wives.

 

 

 

You can watch the entire series of The Band Downstairs in this video player.

 

 

With their second album just around the corner...Readers Wives live on. Find them at

www.myspace.com/readerswives

 

EVICTED!
 

DISKOS BLOG 65, AND 66

February 21st, 2010

 

What a Friday night!

No, I’m not talking about the live Eastenders episode or Tiger Woods’ Bill Clinton impression, but rather the Wives triumphant gig at Dublin’s Shebeen Chic.

The buzz was great – a packed house and awesome support duties from Little Green Cars and Mighty Atomics.

Thanks boys (and girl!), the bar was set very high from the off!

The crowd were awesome too, so thanks for making the night so memorable.

Thanks also to the staff at Shebeen for making the night slightly less memorable when I work up the next morning…

I had a particularly fun night as I both debuted my new bass (cheers Tom!) and spun the, um, Hard Drive Of Steel with a very well received DJ set.

It’s nice to know there’s similar (drunken) minded souls, who like to get locked and rock out.

Now, onto the next run of Wives activity…

Check out our channel on Muzu everyday this week as we go behind the scenes at our video shoot for Victor’s Mother Juliet, culminating in the premiere on Saturday!

We’ve got more in the pipeline in the run up to the release on March 15th of the Victor’s Mother Juliet EP but I’ll keep you up to date on that in the coming week…

Have a good week folks!

We’re definitely be approaching it with a spring in our step!

Disko.

disko@readerswivesband.com

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Soundtrack :

Sabrosa -  Beastie Boys

 

March 6th, 2010

Hey guys!

Have you checked out the Victor’s Mother Juliet video over at Muzu yet?

If you haven’t, go have a gander, it’s been getting a great response so far.

You’ll be able to get a digital copy of the eponymous 5 track EP from March 15th, so check out the vid and whet your appetite!

Next on our agenda is a trip to London to play The Luminaire in Kilburn. So if any of you UK based Wives supporters are knocking about next Wednesday March 11th,  get down there!

We’re playing as part of Jay Mistry’s latest showcase of Irish talent and we’ll be in great company as two of Ireland’s finest, Kyle John Suckling and A Plastic Rose, will also feature on the bill.

Admission is £8 on the door, but if you get tickets online at you pay just £7.

The next month or so is panning out nicely too. We’re back on Irish TV screens at the end of March with another appearance on the Podge & Rodge show, so expect a rocking tune and some uninhibited slagging by the gruesome twosome!

I’ll let you know the exact air date nearer the time.

The beginning of April kicks off then with our first appearance at Phantom FM’s First Friday event at The Academy in Dublin on April 9th.

We’re really excited about this one and you should be too! Get your asses down there!

Spring is in the air and in our step!

Disko.

disko@readerswivesband.com

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Soundtrack :

Some Other Spring – Billie Holiday


 

DISKOS BLOG NO. 63, 64 - LARISSA + ALEKS

February 12th, 2010

Played the Ruby Sessions the other night.

We slightly bent the rules on the whole acoustic ethos thing, but the performance was all the better for it.

After dropping the gear off at Crane Lane, I decided to avail of some public transport to get home.

Namely my feet.

Had my earphones in and was nicely cocooned by James Hetfield whipping Mexico City into a frenzy. You can always rely on 'Tallica to provide some good walking BPMs.

As I went to cross the street at The Olympia, a visibly swaying young gentleman began doing the whole take-your-earphones-off mime act that I so dearly love seeing from absolutely bollocks drunk strangers.

Observing the fact that he was solo and that I had the tactical advantage of sobriety, I decided that the urge to hear whatever revelatory pearls of wisdom he possessed was stronger than the sense of  a potential mugging / being vomited on.

I decided to put on my best non-plussed death stare (which for me involves pretty much zero alteration of my regular face), hit pause and cut Hetfield off mid bark.

"What?" I said.

The walking distillery responded thus :

"Sorry man, I'm not a faggot or anything but I'm going to get stuck into this young one round the corner and need to know if my teeth look ok."

Before my brain could even process the many subtleties of the sentence, he had thrust his face not an inch from mine and helpfully gurned so that I could begin my expert inspection.

"Uh, they look fine," I said, drawing on my college dentistry days that never existed.

"No salad in there?" he asked concernedly.

"All clear," I assured him.

"Thanks man!" he breathlessly thanked, before carrying off on his way again.

As I continued on with my own journey, I had a completely unwarranted sense of pride regarding my dental mastery as well as the thought that a load of some well masticated lettuce was the last thing the "young one" should be worrying about getting in her mouth that night.

Oh, Love's young dream rejoice for romance is not dead.

Happy Valentine's Day guys!

Disko.

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Soundtrack :

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

 

February 13th, 2010

Did any of you catch us on Newstalk the other night?

We popped up on their show Culture Shock and had a very enjoyable (albeit brief) yabber with presenter Fionn Davenport.

Managed to squezze in a slick acoustic version of Victor's Mother Juliet between all the in depth news analysis.

You know, topical and pressing issues.

Like the best songs about unrequieted love.

And the shittiest nineties bands.

Our apperance on the airwaves ties in nicely with some cool stuff we've got coming up in the next week or so.

On tuesday (the 16th) we're gonna be DJ-ing at ALT, the Indie night club at Andrew's Lane Theatre Dublin and then on Friday the 19th we're playing at Dublin's Shebeen Chic on George's Street! Support comes from the awesome Little Green Cars and Mighty Atomics.

This is all towards the release on March 15th of the Victor's Mother Juliet EP!

It's gonna be a good month!

Disko.

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Soundtrack:

Go - Pearl Jam

 

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