March 17, 2013

Goodbye Iowa Recording Update

The Manhattan Syndrome

We think an update might be due now.

 

‘Goodbye Iowa’ is to be the name of The Manhattan Syndrome’s debut Album. It’s been a long time coming, with months of preparation and a ruthless culling of material that didn’t make the grade, but a 10 track album is now beginning to take shape.

We’re delighted to be at Westland Studios, being recorded and produced by Alwyn Walker. It’s pretty cool to be in a place that so many great artists have graced before, Kate Bush, Bell X1, Placebo, to name a few.

Here’s a little taste of the story so far, featuring drum-sticker Sean Hughes.

 

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October 13, 2012

New Album and Dr. Sean Hughes is Reading your Mind

First off, a very big congratulations to our usually monosyllabic drummer Sean Hughes! Ruining drummer stereotypes everywhere, he has just completed his final paper for his PHD in Psychology. Dr. Sean Hughes will soon be mending our problems and reading our minds officially. Well done Sean!

And then:

After many hard months writing and rehearsing, we’re finally getting to grips with what will be our debut album. We have our opening song – one of the few titled ones – and it’s called ‘The one thing that won’t go away’. The rest is starting to take shape, we have the tracks, but the order will be a difficult task.

As for names… well we have some interesting news.

Very soon our Crowd Funding campaign will kick off on the website Fundit.ie, and along with many other rewards for donations, we will be offering 6 song titles. We want the people who help us make the album a reality to leave their mark on it, and having you name our tracks is just a pretty amazing way of doing that.

We also want someone to name the album for us…

Stay tuned for more very shortly. We’ll have some new imagery, and content coming.

 

TMS

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August 7, 2012

Kilkenny Arts Festival

We’re delighted to be playinf at the Kilkenny Arts Festival on Aug 15th this year.

Pick up some tickets here: http://www.kilkennyarts.ie/events/details/new-music/

It should be a great night, with some rgeat acts like Abigail Smith, Anagog, Replete, and Trumpets of Jericho playing, so get down to Kilkenny and enjoy the festival!

 

TMS

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June 13, 2012

Opportunity at The Stendhal Festival

One question….

Vote for The Manhattan Syndrome.

 

Can you vote for us please?

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March 9, 2012

Great review from Dublin Uncut

It’s always great when an unexpected review comes along that you can be proud of.

A big thanks to Dublin Uncut for including us in their list of acts to see.

Right HERE

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February 29, 2012

March 16th poster

The Manhattan Syndrome play The Workman's Club.

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February 29, 2012

The Manhattan Syndrome with The Notas & The Former Soviet Republic.

The Manhattan Syndrome

With support from The Notas & The Former Soviet Republic
March 16th at 8pm.
The Workman’s Club,
10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2.
Entry: €7.

The Manhattan Syndrome take to the stage for their second headline show of the year. Fresh from a packed house in Whelans last month, the band return to The Workman’s Club for the launch of their new label Walk Run Fall Records, with support from rising stars The Notas, and acclaimed songsmith The Former Soviet Republic.

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 The Notas combine the sounds of reverb heavy guitars, haunting, electric synths and heart pounding yet dancey drums to form a wall of sound that will have you dancing from the first note. More information available here: http://breakingtunes.com/thenotas

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 The Former Soviet Republic is the mostly solo project of I.H. Wright, started as a home distraction from the 5-piece Wright was then a part of, until he decided that going it alone was the right fit for him: a stance which subsequently softened with the use of a few guest musicians brought in at the tail end of making The Former Soviet Republic is Made Of This. Perhaps the main consequence of playing and writing alone was that without anyone to tell him that he wasn’t in “that sort of band”, his output has been a schizophrenic mix of loop-based insturmental music, multi-layered and pitchshifted shoegazey guitar workouts, short Beatles pastiches and singer-songwritery stuff that is nearly unavoidable when the only instrument you have genuine muscle memory with is a guitar. http://theformersovietrepublic.bandcamp.com/
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February 21, 2012

Gigonometry – March 1st.

Gigonometry’s Oxjam Ireland is taking place in Sweeney’s bar on March 1st.

It’s a charity event, so you can feel good when you pay in. These events can make  difference, so we’d love to see you there.

If you mention The Manhattan Syndrome at the door you can get in for €5, instead of €8!

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February 14, 2012

Hotpress Lift Off music prize.

ATTENTION! VOTE FOR

THE MANHATTAN SYNDROME!

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for the Hotpress Lift Off music prize.

Please take 2 minutes to click on the VOTE button and register a vote for The Manhattan Syndrome. Every vote is greatly appreciated, this prize is a huge opportunity for us to realise our ambition and record a whole album for everyone to enjoy.

We have the songs, we have the ambition, and now we just need your votes!

Forever in your debt,

The Manhattan Syndrome.

ps: Don’t forget to confirm your vote.

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January 26, 2012

Feb 17th – Whelan’s Upstairs with Nanobot.

We’re delighted to announce that Nanobot have agreed to play with us at Whelan’s on Feb 17th. All in all it should be a great night. You can check out the listing HERE.

And here’s some more about the Nanobot guys, listen and love.

 

NANOBOT are friends from Kells who share a common interest in electro synth music.They started out life as a guitar band, but in recent times the guitars have been almost entirely been replaced with various electronic synths, bleeps and blips.They are hard at work writing and recording their debut album and released a well received E.P called “Sparticles” in March of last year. Having recently played the “Ones to Watch” and “Hard Working Class Heroes” festivals in Dublin, they are an exciting prospect live and not to be missed.

 

We hope to see as many people there as possible, it’s going to be fun.

TMS

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