Dublin based rock trio The Chapman Society are releasing their debut single ‘Blood Red Room’ via digital download from www.downloadmusic.ie on Friday 31st of August.

To purchase the single simply text ‘music 443′ to 57501 (text costs 1 euro). The single is not available UNTIL Friday 31st of August. You must then use the password automatically texted back to you to collect the song from www.downloadmusic.ie in order for it to count as a registration on the Irish charts!!!

The band are holding a launch gig at the Crawdaddy venue the following day, Saturday September 1st. Support comes from The Neon stars and Brian Mc Guinness Admission is 5 euro.

Support much appreciated!!!

www.thechapmansociety.com

www.myspace.com/chapmansociety

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Ireland has produced two guitar ‘Gods’ that often get ranked among the greats such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Peter Green, Jeff Beck, etc. Our guitar heros are Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore. Their playing styles are quite different but both men have much in common - they have crossed some of the same genres - mainly hard rock, blues and blues rock, both have had long-running careers starting at the end of the 60s (but sadly Rory’s was cut all to short by his untimely death in 1995). In the late 60’s Rory came to prominance with his power trio Taste which shared the stage with (and some say upstaged) the great Jimi Hendrix at the legendry Isle Of Wight festival in 1970. At this time Gary Moore was making a name for himself in Dublin as a teenage guitar prodigy and member of the eclectic psychadellic rock outfit Skid Row. He continued his genre hopping career as a member of hard rocking Thin Lizzy, jazz rock outfit Colosseum II and had a long solo career as a hard rock/heavy metal axeman in the 1980s before morphing into a bluesman in 1990. The most obvious difference in playing styles between Rory and Gary is that Gary is more of a slick and flashy player whereas Rory is more raw and rootsy in his playing. Gary has done more experimenting with different genres but in my opinion was at the top of his game as a guitar shredding heavy metal axeman, mostly during the period of late-70s to late-80s. Rory generally kept to the same path throughout his career, alternating between blues and hard rock but getting a bit more into the heavy stuff in the late-70s/early 80’s. In my opinon his best output was during the 70s. Now I’m not going to get into which one is better than the other, that’s just personal taste, instead I’m going to present 2 videos of each of these guitar men in action, and you can make up your own mind who you like best or just do as I do and enjoy them both. The first video for each of them presents their all out rocking side while the second set of videos shows them making their guitars cry. Enjoy.

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Republic Of Loose have upped their notoriety a notch by having their single ‘Break!’ banned by South Africa’s biggest radio station. The controversy arose when a DJ of the radio station 5FM interpreted the songs lyrics as being about unprotected anal sex. Given South Africa’s Aids crisis this happens to be a very sensitive topic for the nation so the station decided to ban the song. The lyrics that got them banned are: “you like it rough, right?“, “I broke, you broke, we broke, she broke, Now tell me what you use” followed by the refrain “Nothing“. Full of innuendo all right but definitely open to interpretation and requiring a somewhat vivid imagination to make the connection to unprotected anal sex.

The double A-side single ‘Aaagh!/Break!’, lifted from their ‘Aaagh!’ album, was released on August 6th and made the top 40 in South Africa despite the fact that the band have never toured there. The ‘Aaagh!’ album was released in Ireland last year and a UK release of the album is forthcoming.

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Damien Rice will play The Opera House in Cork on Wednesday 22 August, 2007. Tickets for this show, priced at 39.20euro (including booking fee) will go on saleáon 11 August at 10am through the Opera House Box office on +353 21 4270022, online at the Opera House and through ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide.

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