Haiti Fundraiser at Twisted Pepper

Well done to Aoife Barry (above) for organizing a brilliant fundraiser and Cake Sale for Haiti with BATS, Hunter Gatherer, Groom playing live and Nialler 9, Popical Island and Mary Jane Girls djing after. Great Night!

*Updates*

It’s been a while since I updated what was going on. I’m currently working on an interesting Japanese based illustration, more info on that soon.

Will be sorting The Former Soviet Republic’s album artwork out next week, and I will be working on an album cover for a band called Stone Throwing Youths from Cork which sounds like a very exciting project and can’t wait to get started on it.

The PDF of State.ie Faces of 2010 should be out really soon so I’ll put up the link for that when I get it.

Couple of interesting photoshoots coming up, will be looking for some people to model for me. One idea will include someone having a pizza for a face :/

Paid off Pavement ATP for May, hopefully sorting out a photopass for Primavera in Barcelona again this year and planning Canada for the Summer Holidays. Yay!

Sundara’s Roxy Music Revisited Cover

Here is the cd cover, poster and promotional banner from the Roxy Music Revisited Competition that Sundara won featuring photos I took.

Click here to see the large version of the cd cover

Click here to see the original photos from the shoot

Bitches With Wolves

Twinkranes

Vengeance and The Panther Queen

Click here for the feature on State.ie

My Snow Polar Bear!

I decided to make a Polar Bear out of snow in the back garden!

Adebisi Shank

BATS

Marvins Revolt

Henparty release LADS 12″ for FREE

Click here to download the album

State Midnight Mass this Thursday

The State Midnight Mass is back for 2009, featuring the DJ skills of the State.ie massive, Loreana Rushe, Niamh of Ham Sandwich, Messiah J and Gav from Super Extra Bonus Party. There will also be the famous lucky CD dip on the night.

This year we’ll be teaming up with the good people from Love Music Hate Racism who’ll be looking to get you on board and maybe stick a couple of quid in their bucket. Come down, let us put faces to names, tell us what we did wrong (or right) this year and join us for the odd drink. The venue is Shebeen Chic on Great George’s Street and it all kicks off at 8.30pm and it’s FREE all night.

Click here to RSVP.

*Updates*

Heading to ATP over in Minehead this weekend! Really looking forward to Papa M, Deerhoof, Fuck Buttons, Modest Mouse, Afrirampo, Beak> and The For Carnation. Should be a seriously awesome weekend. Just measured my hand luggage to make sure I don’t get fucked by Ryanair for extra charges.

I’m photographing The Richter Collective Christmas Party tonight featuring Adebisi Shank, Bats and more down in Twisted Pepper. Tomorrow night I’m djing in Kobra Bar at the UCD Conway Institute Christmas Party, so I expect loads of science nerds dancing to some 80s music! Haha!

Sonic Youth

Hollie’s Birthday Card

Really quick birthday card I made for Hollie for her 19th Birthday, loosely based on the monster I designed for Fight Like Apes- Lend Me Your Face single cover. Just used an edding pen and colour pencils because I was running to catch the last post before 5.30pm. Typical An Post didn’t deliever it on time anyways!

The Comic Cast Mixtape #2

Liam & Craig of The Comic Cast kindly invited me to co-present The Comic Cast Podcast Mixtape # 2. I had to pick 5 songs from comic-book, illustration and animation related movie soundtracks. I spoke about my choices and tried to be witty and hilarious inbetween the songs. Expect lots of laughter, mistakes and all round nerdiness!

Click here for all the info and linkage on The Comic Cast Website

www.TheComicCast.com

Atlas Sound

Click here for review at state.ie

Jay Reatard

Henparty in Connected Magazine

Photograph I took of the band Henparty in this month’s Connected Magazine.

http://www.myspace.com/henparty

*Updates*

My poor little car got vandalized on Halloween night so I decided to swap Dublin for Mayo to relax and clear the aul head! Went to visit my Mam for a few nights and helped out with her boutique called Kalora on Teeling street in Ballina. If anyone is ever around that area drop in and check out the clothes they are amazing.

I got offered the job of photo editor at state.ie, which I greatly accepted. I have worked with state as a photographer since they started out in 2007 so I am more than happy to take on this role. The lads at State have great plans for the future and I’m delighted to be part of the editorial team!

I got the prints back from Ian’s album shoot yesterday and they turned out alright, just a bit darker than I expected so need to do some touch ups on them in photoshop and lighten them out, but there’s a definite potential album cover shot which I’m happy enough with once I fiddle around with the images.

Just a reminder I’m djing at Cassette tonight with Vinny at 11pm in Wax on South William street and tomorrow night I do my first vinyl set in over a year down in the basement of Shebeen Chic opposite The George on Georges street. Expect lots of weird and wonderful music from the depths of my record collection. Should be an interesting night really looking forward to it!