Jinx Lennon

JINX AND SPECIAL GUEST KILDARE MAN FIA RUA WILL PLAY ROISIN DUBH(UPSTAIRS)ON THURSDAY APRIL 25TH

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JINX ACCOMPANIES ED HAMELL ON HIS IRISH TOUR FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 20TH ROISIN DUBH GALWAY,THURSDAY 21ST BOURKES LIMERICK,FRIDAY 22 CLEERES KILKENNY,SATURDAY 23 CYPRESS AVENUE CORK,SUNDAY 24TH SPIRIT STORE DUNDALK

ON 23 JANUARY AS PART OF TRAD FEST 2013 JINX WILL PERFORM IN THE DIFFERENT KETTLE OF FISH ALTOGETHER ON ORMOND QUAY AS PART OF THE ''OTHERED VOICES'' PROGRAMME FROM FARCRY PRODUCTIONS .ALSO APPEARING WILL BE 2 GREAT VOICES FROM MODERN IRELAND OPHELIA AND MISSELAYNEOUS.AUDIENCE WILL BE LIMITED TO 50 PEOPLE SO BOOK ASAP CONTACT FARCRYPRODUCTIONSLTD@GMAIL.COM.THE REST OF THE PROGRAMME FOR OTHERED VOICES IS BELOW HERE

OTHERED A TERM THAT REFERS TO THE ACT OF EMPHASIZING THE PERCEIVED WEAKNESS OF MARGINALIZED GROUPS AS A WAY OF STRESSING THE ALLEGED STRENGTH OF THOSE IN POSITIONS OF POWER(CITATION NEEDED).OTHERING CAN BE DONE WITH ANY RACIAL,ETHNIC,RELIGIOUS,OR GEOGRAPHICALLY DEFINED GROUP OF PEOPLE EDWARD SAID

THE RADIO DOC RESPECT YOURSELF:THE PUNK POETRY OF JINX LENNON CAN BE DOWNLOADED AS A PODCAST BESIDE HERE GO TO LINK HERE

RESPECT YOURSELF:THE PUNK POETRY OF JINX LENNON A DOCUMENTARY BY KEVIN MC CANN LM/FM RADIO MONDAY 29TH OCTOBER 6 PM FEATURING CHRISTY MOORE,PAT MC CABE ,PETER MURPHY ,FERGAL MC KEE, EX BAND MEMBERS,FRIENDS AND FAMILY

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LEGENDARY DUNDALK BAND CHOICE HAVE REFORMED AND WILL PLAY A SHOW WITH JINX LENNON AT THE DUNDALK GAOL ON THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER. THE VENUE IS IN THE ORIEL CENTRE BEHIND DUNDALK GARDA BARRACKS. CHOICE ARE FEATURED ON ANDY VOTEL'S LABEL FINDERS KEEPERS WHICH EXPLORES IRISH POST PUNK D.I.Y. AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC.

SATURDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER 8 PM.E.S.P. TV SHOWCASE AT PALLAS PROJECTS, THE COOMBE,DUBLIN acts include JINX LENNON,VALERIE FRANCIS,BLOODYENDS ET MUCHO MAS!! E.S.P. TV is a nomadic showcase of primarily NYC-based experimental music, video art and performance formed out of Louis V.E.S.P. Episodes are taped in a variety show format with rotating guest hosts in front of a live audience. The process involves live green-screening, signal manipulation and analog video mixing. The entire night is recorded to VHS and edited into half hour episodes for airing on cable TV in New York City.

THE FELLA BELOW THIS PARAGRAPH WILL APPEAR AT THE DIALOGUE CULTURE SPACE,VYNER STREET LONDON ON SATURDAY AUGUST 11 FOR MARATHON IRISH FESTIVAL,SUPPORT BY MARK CORCORAN .JINX WILL ALSO APPEAR ON RESONANCE FM 104.4 ON FRIDAY 10TH AT 2 30 PM ON THE PROGRAMME''WAVELENGTHS'' PRESENTED BY WILLIAM ENGLISH.MORE INFO ABOUT MARATHON IRELAND GO TO LINK BELOW THIS LINE

ONSTAGE ARE ONLY DEVICES TO ASSIMILATE AND ACCOMMODATE THE LYRICS TOWARDS THEIR PROPER DESTINY.NO NEED TO HIDE BEHIND THEM LIKE 5 YEAR

NEXT WEEK THURSDAY 16TH JINX PLAYS IN CANAVAN'S TUAM FOR THE EARWIG ARTS FESTIVAL SHOW STARTS CIRCA 9 PM

THE IMAGINE FESTIVAL WATERFORD HAS BEEN CONFIRMED FOR OCTOBER AND TOUR WILL START IN OCTOBER 2012.NEW SONGS TO UPLIFT AND REPEL HIBERNO AND BEYOND.NO OLD SMELLY GREEN JERSEYING OR CONDESCENDING THE WORKING CLASS PSEUDO BLOODY GUTHRIE WOODY,NO BIT OF HOUSING ESTATE ROUGH WET DREAMS FOR THE SILVER SPOON MEDIA MUNGHEADEZ.BE YOURSELVES AND STOP PRETENDING YOU PIZZ FIZZY LEMONADE.HUMAN BEING MUSIC MUST BE MADE &&&&&

ETAP RECORDERR SESSHUNS-JINX LENNON TAPES CHEAP AND NASTY BUT RAW AND REAL TRY THIS UN

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In be amongst the highs, we catch the equally surreal worlds of The Amazing Few and Jinx Lennon. The Amazing Few seem to work on the same on-stage-party ethos as The Go! Team, except lifted direct from a seriously muddled mind. They’re somewhat less musically inspiring than the London band’s cheerleaders, and revel in a kind of cabaret shock factor, but it does little for us. Jinx Lennon, whose built a reputation on beats layered with the oddest of social observation, seems more like a machine gun spattering of assorted disconnected phraseology than anything coherent, though his text sunglasses are memorable, at least

HAIL TO TRAMPZ TOMMY COOPER IN CONCRETE JUNGLE BORDERLAND TWILIGHT ZONE MEETS ''WHATS GOING ON''MARVIN WITH A WARDDROBE THAT WOULD'NT SHAME AN EPISONE OF COLUMBO CIRCA 1973 AND I FIGHT GANDHI PURE 1994 SABOTAGE BEASTIES AND HOOKS HOOKZ HOOKISSSSSSS THE UNMORBID HILLS OF TIPPINGS WOODLOOKED ON LUVERLY,BLUUDI COLD THOUGH LADS

ETAP RECORDERR SESSHUNS -MORE FROM THE TAPES OF JINX LENNON ITS GNARLY SOUNDING BUT RAW N REAL GO TO LINK JUST BELOW HERE

Jinx Lennon gets theatrical with new show on post-boom Ireland

Arts Week with Judy Murphy - judymurphy@ctribune.ie

Fans of Dundalk singer Jinx Lennon who are used to seeing him perform his hard-hitting songs in concert venues around Galway can prepare for a change of scene as he presents his new theatre show at Nuns Island Arts Centre this weekend.

The unusually titled show, Man V Energy Vampire – Behold this S-S-Self Indulgence Gene is running as part of Galway Theatre Festival and has been in development for the past few months.

Jinx (real name David) describes it as a “bizarre manual on how to stay sane and find integrity in post-boom Western society”.

“A lot of lyrics in my songs have been begging for theatrics,” says Jinx about this show, which features the singer and his alter ego, Free State Nova, in a mix of music, visual imagery and social commentary on the post-boom state of the Irish nation.

“My alter ego is standing as a Dickensian character, like the ghost of Christmas past, present and future,” Jinx explains, adding that his show speaks to people who “might not have a voice in modern society”.

Although this move into theatre is a new departure for the folk/punk singer and campaigner, it’s not an entirely unexpected one for Jinx, who was recently described by Irish Times reviewer Brian Boyd as “a rare talent”.

“In my old band, which I played in during the 1990s, we did a lot of theatrics,” he says, adding that their props included mirrors, worms and vacuum cleaners.

And a couple of years ago Jinx took part in a series called Parlour Plays on RTÉ Radio 1, in which some of the characters from his songs were brought to life for a radio drama. That made him eager to explore the medium further, he says.

Man V Energy Vampire – Behold this S-S-Self Indulgence Gene will include cracked mirrors, a film, knives, screwdrivers, a six-string guitar and bullhorn noisemaker, as well as a tape recorder and mini disk player for a disembodied voice.

Jinx, who has written some new material for this show, says that the message in the songs is reinforced by this voice and by background imagery.

He describes this new format as “slipping sideways into the world that’s already there in the lyrics and making it more visual”.

THIS EXTRAORDINARY EVENT BACK BY PAUL SULLIVAN ORGANISER OF STATIC .A SPACE ............A CLOSED DOWN TERMINAL IN CORK AIRPORT........... A PLETHORA OF POSSIBILITIES IN A POST OIL WORLD ....................... THE IMAGINATION OF LOCAL/INTERNATIONAL ARTEEEEESTS

INTERVIEW WITH PRESENTER SEAN ROCKS AND 2 SONGS ''NOTHING BUT A LEPRECHAUN''AND A NEW ONE ''TRAINING FOR THE RIOTS'' . ARENA LINK HERE

THANKS TO ROSCOE VACANT FOR THE GLASGOW GIG IN THE 13TH NOTE ON 10TH NOVEMBER .ROBERT IS A GREAT FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH ON THE GLASGOW SCENE,GREAT NIGHT ,GREAT ENERGY ,WITH GIROBABIES ,ROSCOE HIMSELF AND MY OLD FRIEND ROBERT SARAZIN BLAKE,ALSO DAVE HUGHES IN DUNDEE FOR DROUTHIE NEEBORS SHOW WITH HIMSELF ,ROBERT AND THAT NEWPORT GUY ,MORE NEWS LATER

HAD A GOOD ENOUGH OLD TOUR WITH JCC. GLENS CENTRE MANORHAMILTON WAS THE BEST ,FANTASTIC SOUND FROM RAY THE HOUSE ENGINEER THERE.THE PAIRING OFF FOR THE TWO ARTISTS SEEMED TO WORK.UPWARDS AND ONWARDS AND F**K IT.

Ireland is a classic Ken Rogoff-state, a country whose sovereign debt woes can clearly be traced to the cost of bailing out its banking system, and the fact that its banks are still having problems have thrust the country back into the European sovereign debt maelstrom BUSINESS INSIDER Yes there is a lot of pain out there and not enough passion about the shityness............................................

JINX LENNON IS ABOUT TO RELEASE HIS NEW ALBUM 'NATIONAL CANCER STRATEGY'WITH AIDAN FOLEY IN MASTERWORKS .HE RECORDED IT IN MARC AUBELE AND KEV WHYTE'S MULE STUDIO IN RATHGAR SINCE LATE FEBRUARY .IT'S FOR RELEASE IN OCTOBER.BESIDES MISS PAULA'S MAGIC TONSILS ,THERE ARE GUEST APPEARANCES FROM CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT ,THE STELLAR DUBLIN POET STEPHEN JAMES SMITH,FORMER WHIPPING BOY COLM HASSETT PROVIDES SOME EXTRA PERCUSSION ON SEVERAL TRACKS AND MARC AUBELE (GUITAR)AND BILL BLACKMORE (TRUMPET) APPEAR ON THE SONG ''IT'S NOT GOOD TO BE ALONE IN YOUR HOUSE WHEN THE WEEKEND COMES''.OVERALL THE SOUND VEERS TOWARDS SUICIDE'S 2ND ALBUM AND THE SECOND JINX ALBUM ''30 BEACONS OF LIGHT...................''

JINX LENNON AND MISS PAULA FLYNN PERFORMING TAXI MAN FACE AT ''THE RAILWAY '' BELTURBET,SEE LINK BELOW

Just when you thought you had him pegged-rusted railway girders, smokestacks, petrolheads and lugubrious self-harm in the leisure-suit celebritocracy, Jinx Lennon sinks his arms to the elbows in the barrel of molasses that is atomised, free state anonymous Ireland and plucks out a gem that would make Burt Bacharach proud. The Orange Cranes Of Greenore is Ginsberg and Hal David on their holidays in Louth-certainly. But it is also an indication of just how deep Lennon¡¯s reserves actually are, and just how tender and surprising his imagination can be. Andy Williams sings Eraserhead. If Kavanagh was a mystic on a five-bar gate, Jinx sits on a milk churn,

''A brilliant soul singer, a cross between Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, and Ian Paisley!'' -- Keith Allen - Actor -

WE HEAR MANNIX IS GOING FOR LORD MAYOR OF BAWLYA OUGHT- A CLEE- AA SOUNDS GOOD TO US,ANYTHING ONCE THAT FELLA NAMED AFTER A BAG OF CRISPS DOESN'T GET IN

THE RADIO PLAY ''KNOW YOUR STATION'' WAS BROADCAST RECENTLY ON RTE RADIO 1.IT CONSISTS OF SITUATIONS AND CHARACTERS BASED ON THE LYRICS OF JINX LENNON

FROM THE RTE RADIO ONE WEBSITE''KNOW YOUR STATION - .ITS A TOUGH ,NON SENTIMENTAL LOOK AT WHERE IRELAND CURRENTLY IS. THE PIECE WAS DEVISED BY WRITER/ACTOR/DIRECTOR MIKEL MURFI AND MUSICIAN JINX LENNON WITH PAULA FLYNN AND EITHNE HAND AT THE TYRONE GUTHRIE CENTRE.DIRECTED BY EITHNE.SERIES PRODUCER,KEVIN REYNOLDS'' SEE MORE ON THE LINK BELOW

''In the last two years i've been to maybe 10 gigs and 4 of them were Jinx Lennon's'' -Christy Moore-Musician/Folk legend

ONE OF THE HARDEST GO-ERS ON THE MUSIC SCENE HERE MISS PAULA FLYNN HAS HER OWN SHOWON RTE'S DIGITAL STATION 2XM ''THE C WORD''AN AVALANCHE OF ROOTS MUSIC AND INTERVIEWS WITH IRISH MUSIC MAKERS HEAR THE SHOW EACH MONDAYNIGHT ON THE INTERNET AT 10 PM.FOR MORE INFO GO

Her debut album, which bravely excludes this or any other covers, shows the Armagh native to be a remarkably talented and distinctive songwriter

MC KEE'S SHITTY SHIT SHITS,POETRY CHICKS,PIG,WASPS V HUMANS AND CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT. WE WERE LOOKING OUT FOR INTENSE OFF THE WALL ACTS WITH HONEST RAWNESS AND NO BULLSHITNESS AND IT WAS GREAT WHILE IT LASTED BUT ALAS .............................................................................................

FILMED BY DARA MC CLOSKEY WHO MADE THE RTE 1 ARTS LIVES DOCUMENTARY ''NOISEMAKER''ABOUT THE WORK OF JINX LENNON

ALAN FARRELL HELPED FILM IT AND SOUND WAS RECORDED BY MARC AUBELE.ITS YOUR BASIC LIVE SHOW AND MAY BE TOO RAW FOR SOME,FOOTAGE WISE BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A BASIC BUDGET!!