Upcoming shows:

Damo Suzuki + The Jimmy Cake @ Crawdaddy

Thurs, August 12th

Crawdaddy, Harcourt St

 

www.whelanslive.com presents THE JIMMY CAKE, Whelan's, March 20th

plus special guests Sea Dog & Patrick Kelleher

Saturday 20th March, 7:30pm
Whelan’s, 25 Wexford St, Dublin 2
Tickets €12 (ex booking fee) available from www.tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide, WaV Tickets [lo-call 1890 200 078], City Discs and Road Records.

Whelanslive.com are proud to celebrate 10 years of instrumental rock gurus THE JIMMY CAKE on Saturday 20th March. Currently in preparation for a new album due this summer they play home from home Whelan’s of Wexford Street where the new material will get another airing before finally being committed to disk. Tickets are €12 (ex booking fee) available from tickets.ie, Ticketmaster & WAV [lo-call 1890 200 078].

live at odessa presents "the jimmy cake" 14th of jan

Doors 9pm.
Odessa Club Dame court (opposite stags head)

 

THE JIMMY CAKE
ELECTRIC PICNIC
SUNDAY EVENING 7.30 – 8.30 COSBY STAGE

 

19th Sept, Crawdaddy, Harcourt St
with Laura Sheeran,
€10. Doors 9pm.

the past::

MEETING HOUSE SQUARE (with temporary roof & full bar for evening)
Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Friday 21st August
6.00pm sharp!
Tickets €10.00
Shops: Road Records, Fade St, D2 and City Discs, The Granary, Temple Bar, D2. Spindizzy, Georges St Arcade, D2 (no booking fees will be charged)
Online: www.tickets.ie (plus a minimum charge of .95c)

 

 

8th Aug, Twisted Pepper, Abbey St.
Thumped is 10//2
€10. Doors 11pm

15th Aug, Purty Loft, Monkstown,
State presents...
w/ Jogging
€10. Doors 9. Book tickets here


One For The Road:

A Road Records Benefit & Celebration
Saturday March 14th 2009
Andrew’s Lane Theatre
8.00pm – 2.30am
Doors 7.30PM sharp

€20 + booking fee
Tickets From Road Records, Tower Records, www.tickets.ie & WAV box office 1890 200 078


Featuring:
Jape
The Jimmy Cake
Si Schroeder
Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Adrian Crowley
The Large Corporation (Dudley Corporation Vs Large Mound)
Road Records DJs

On January 15th 2009 Road Records of Fade Street in Dublin City announced that it would soon be closing its doors for the final time. Over the last 11 years Road Records has been a passionate torch-bearer for the spirit of independent music in Ireland. In Dave, Julie & Dylan you had some of the friendliest, most knowledgeable and helpful folk you could ever hope to introduce you to new music and the imminent loss of Road Records will be felt acutely by musicians and punters alike. To celebrate the legacy of Road Records and to help towards the debts incurred by Dave & Julie in keeping the shop open during hard times there will be in Andrew’s Lane on March 14th a wonderful array of live music from some the brightest lights in independent Irish music. This is a clarion call for supporters of independent music to show solidarity with one of it’s great Irish institutions and to collectively ensure that those independent retailers that still remain get the support they badly need to survive and to show that personality, variety & soul so perfectly embodied by Road are not outmoded retail concepts.

www.roadrecs.com
www.andrewslanetheatre.ie

 

Xmas: celebrate the birth of X!

Have an extacular time, friends, we'll be back in the new year, forging on with PURPOSE. Change can happen, unless you're in the pub.

Apparently the Herald reckon we're alright

24 November 08

Thanks to everyone who made our gig in Vicar Street last Friday so very special. It was well worth it. We'll post up some pictures once we have them. It was also filmed, so anything could happen! Anything!

Friday November 21st 2008

The Jimmy Cake (with strings and brass and bells)
With Guest Performances By Chequerboard & Adebisi Shank

Vicar Street

 

Tickets Euro 20 On-Sale Now! Book online »

Blurb:

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Doors 7.30pm

Performances From 8.00pm

Aiken Promotions are Proud to Present a Full 15 Piece Band Performance By The Jimmy Cake with Special Guest Performances By Chequerboard & Eoin Dillon.

This show follows their Sell-Out Performance at Dublins' Button Factory in May to mark the Release of their exceptional 3rd Album "Spectre & Crown". They will also Perform as Special Guests to Kraftwerk at September's "A Day In The Life" Concert in Wicklow.

This Extraordinary album has garnered outstanding Reviews since it's Release ( Press Quotations as below . .. ... ). The Music, an epic, heavenly cacophony, has drawn comparisons to Artistes as fulsome as Planxty & Can and is particularly powerful live where the 9 Piece Band are augmented by Brass & Strings.

The band will be joined on the night for 2 Special Guest Performances by 2 of Ireland's most unique and distinctive Artistes, the sublime soundscapes of Electronic Artiste CHEQUERBOARD and Adebisi Shank

// PRESS REACTION TO

THE JIMMY CAKE "Spectre & Crown" (Pilatus) :

"... unforgettable ... an extraordinary blossoming ... Clarinets, pianos and strings billow out over 54 sublime minutes of what is their best work yet."

****

The Ticket / Irish Times

"A rich and spectacular comeback album, this is The Jimmy Cake's crowning achievement."

****

Sunday Business Post

"This record is simply a work of extreme orchestral splendour."

****

Sunday Tribune

"It'd take at least 5 years to produce something as accomplished and inventive as this!"

****1/2

Hot Press

"An indelible chronicle of nine musicians contributing to a singular and necessary vision"

State

"... it has been worth the wait, as Spectre & Crown is easily their finest work to date. From the opening piano chord of Red Tony, to the final note of Last Breath, The Jimmy Cake hardly put a foot wrong."

Totally Dublin

"Spectre & Crown is The Jimmy Cake's most arresting album to date."

Sunday Times

"By turns minimalistic and multi-layered, Spectre & Crown has moments of astonishing beauty. There are plenty of captivating tracks too - soaring and emotive."

****

Day & Night / Irish Independent

"... one of the most coherent, beautiful albums of the year so far."

entertainment.ie

"I cannot convey how enjoyable Spectre & Crown is."

brainwashed.com

"The album is a moving, sweepingly beautiful, orchestral epic with nine life-enhancing tracks of such diversity and scope that it's hard to fathom that just nine people made it.

... few records will reach the heights that this royally brilliant piece of work reaches. An instant and longterm classic."

10/10

Westmeath Examiner

"Give up your job, lose your friends and spend all day with the headphones on as you scour the earth on your quest - you will not find a better track this year than 'Red Tony' ... here is a piece so epic and emotive that it ranks with anything the legends have come up with ... 'Jetta's Palace', is so urgent and infectious that the clock radio should crank it out first thing every morning, followed by 'Hugs for Buddy'. And at the other end of the day 'Collapsing Cloud Night at the Starry Sky' would soothe anything which has gone .. you hit the pillow ... The musicianship is superb, their potential colossal ... it's not too early to start buying the Christmas presents."

****

RTÉ.ie

"Once you let go, it's a glorious experience."

****

The Dubliner

// The Jimmy Cake // The History . .. ...

{ 2000 - 2001

Lisa Carey: Clarinet/Vincent Dermody: Guitar/Dara Higgins: Bass/John Dermody: Drums/Jurgen Simpson: Accordion/Diarmuid Mac Diarmada: Sax & Percussion/John Brown: Trumpet/Simon O'Connor: Guitar/Rory Carr: Percussion

In the year 2000 das Madman, who had split in 1999 agreed to reform for a one-off show but decided to perform the show under a new name. After much hilarious wrangling, The Jimmy Cake was settled on as a delightfully random phrase which subsequently transpired to have a variety of meanings all over the world. Within six months of their one-off show The Jimmy Cake were in the studio simultaneously writing & recording their debut album "Brains" whichwas released in July 2001 to almost universal critical acclaim. The Summer of 2001 also saw Paul Smyth return to the fold on keyboards.

"...this is simply beautiful music.." - The Irish Times

"Brains could be the soundtrack to dancing on the head of a pin" - The Event Guide

"If the purpose of their music is to cross frontiers, exceed limitations, fill the emptiness and fulfill both audience and musician, then they have done it completely" - Crossfire Magazine, Melbourne

"Roll on the economic crash and burn: bands such as The Jimmy Cake, like cockroaches, will multiply and inherit the earth" - Hot Press

{ 2002

"Dublin Gone Everybody Dead" released on Pilatus Records

"Dublin Gone. Everybody Dead. will bring a stoned tiger grin to your face" - Hot Press

"This is sweet chaos, played by a band not far away from reaching the messiah pedestal that many have already put them on" - Cluas.com

"..intense & beautiful" - Aquarius.com

{ 2003

"Superlady" EPreleased on Pilatus Records to a confused public. It features a choral reworking of ‘Limestone Tiger' & the 14 minute prog hardcore epic title track. Rory Carr departs.

{ 2004

The Jimmy Cake begin writing new material some of which would eventually end up on 2008's Spectre & Crown.

{ 2005

Diarmuid MacDiarmada departs, Mischa Langemeijer begins a short stint on saxophone.

{ 2006

John Brown packs his knapsack and heads off to join the gold rush in America. Michael Fleming joins the band on guitar/banjo/bazouki.

{ 2007 The album is coming out this year. Honest it is. Alex McMahon joins on Saxaphone. Thomas Parkes joins on Trumpet.

{ 2008 Spectre & Crown released.

For Further Information On All Artistes :

 

The Jimmy Cake :           http://www.thejimmycake.org/

Chequerboard :                         http://www.chequerboard.net/

 

 

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