We are delighted to announce that DC Tempest are teaming up with MOVEMBER IRELAND for the release of our latest single “Sometimes”, taken from their latest EP entitled “Cities”. The single will only be available via iTunes and will go on sale on Friday, 11th November.
All proceeds from this release will be donated to Movember Ireland, supporting Prostate Cancer Initiatives. Along with releasing the single, members of the band will be sporting a Moustache for the month of November as the craze of ‘Movember’ is now in full swing. Alan will also be in New York City later this month to promote the single and hopefully raise funds for this wonderful cause.
Musicscene.ie and DC Tempest have teamed up together to offer you the chance to win tickets to attend DC Tempest live in The Grand Social.
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Cities goes on sale this Friday on iTunes.
The new 5 track EP is the bands first release in over 18 months and it’s already beginning to get some great feed back. Be sure to click on the image on Friday that will take you to the iTunes store in your region.
“Cities” will then go on general release on CD format on August 26th. The band will be having a big big big launch party in The Grand Social in Dublin. Admission is €10 and the first 50 people in with receive the limited edition EP package. Everybody else will receive a copy of the the standard CD upon admission.
Support will come in the form of some of the hottest upcoming acts to come from the Northside of Dublin in the form of’ Capture’ and former bass player of DC Tempest, Stephen Kennedy’s ‘The Competition’. Alan Starr will be doing a DJ set after it so it’s a whole night of DCT fun and music. Hope you can join us.
We’ll be treating all you DCT’rs to some new tracks from our EP at this years Indiependence Festival. This year the festival features Editors, The Coronas, Ash, Gemma Hayes, Ham Sandwich and loads more musical treats. We’ll be on the Cyprus Avenue stage this year so be sure to pop by.
Go to the official site for information on all the acts and ticket availability.
Hey folks,
Sorry we haven’t been as active as we’d like to be over the recent months. We’ve been working on lots of different things and we’ve been really trying to put the best foot forward for our next release. I think it’s fair to say that we haven’t been very prolific when it comes to releasing material, mainly because the face of the band has gone through lots of changes which in turn means our sound has continued to change with it. We’re slaving away in the studio working on our new EP entitled ‘Cities’. It will be a 5 track EP and it’s something we’re very excited about letting you all hear. All the recording of it is nearly done, thank God! We’ve done most of it in our Area 94 studio and some in The Nutshed Studio, Clara .
The lads were nice enough (or crazy enough) to let me work closely with Steve Averill on the Artwork design for ‘Cities’. We’ve also aligned ourselves with a wonderful French artist, Alexandre Guillaume. Alexandre’s artwork has helped shape the theme of this EP. His abstract art is really quite amazing and it just seems to fit perfectly with the landscaping sounds that Lee and Seán have brought to this batch of songs. He lives in New York and as some of you may know the biggest changes to come in both my own personal life and songwriting has come from my visits to the city that never sleeps.
Another big thing that is very exciting is that one of the songs on this EP won’t be written by me. Lee has penned a couple of great songs and one of them will be included on it. Trust me, you won’t be disappointed. He might even put me out of a job! (gez I hope not).
We’ll be playing them all at Vantastival on April 29th if you’re planning on dropping by, it’s going to be a great festival. Try get yourself some tickets.
That’s all for now folks. All the guys say hello and hope to see you real soon. We’ll be doing the ‘odd’ gig here and there but we won’t be making any announcements until we have ‘Cities’ ready.
Love and Light
