Sunday Times Soundsystem

Thats about all I can muster from 6 years of French, never really had a gift for the languages….

Anyways! Heads up on a busy weekend for us (and you hopefully). The French Film festival is in full swing at various venues around the city and county (well the Gate and Ballymaloe this far) but will land firmly in the Pavilion this weekend with some pretty special events lined up Friday through Sunday.  Friday nights sees the re-soundtracking of Germain Dulacs ‘The Seashell and the Clergyman‘ and a number of his shorts by Katie Kim, and Donal Dineen and Newel Tsumbu respectively. The latter pair will then be performing tracks from their upcoming Parish project which promises to be something quite special.

Saturday sees Planet Mu’s Irish discovery of last year ‘Solar Bears’ performing tracks from their damn good debut album ‘She Was Coloured In’, fresh off suporting ‘Twin Shadow’ last February its actually a pretty rare live outing. I’m in.

The closing party on Sunday is headlined by one half of Zombie Zombie and all round synth wizard Etienne Jaumet.  Good show old chap! All the essential deets can be found over at the Film Festival site, get into the pav for 9 each nigt and you can’t go too far wrong!

I shall be playing some recoreds before, in between and after the acts (possibly) on all three nights, things likes Stellar Om Source, Stars of the Lid, Sylvain Chaveau, Holger Czukay, Expo 70, Oneohtrixpoint never, Arp, Emeralds, all that wash-ey synth action that I love but only get to listen to really at home or in my ears as I wander the streets.

Thats not all, also in the pavilion John will be found after Saturdays events playing ‘ouse and techno with other John, John Barry. The lads are getting regular now and rumour has it they hold hands under the turntables. All variations of house going down. Thats Saturday around 11pm. Weekend sorted.