Jinx Lennon

I AM JINX LENNON AND I AM MAKING 2012 THE YEAR TO GET THE ANGER OUT AND SAY WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE KILLING THEMSELVES AND SITTING THERE LIKE DOLMENS SUFFERING FEELING THEY HAVE NO VOICE .WE NEED TO GET THE RAWNESS OUT .TO HELL WITH THE EYE-M-EFF!,THE BWANKS,SMILING LEPRECHAUN LEADURRS,THE HATE GROUPS AND NEO NAZIS AND RACISTS LETS GET THE ANGER OUT IN A REAL WAY IN THIS CONSERVATIVE GREY SPIRELAND WITHOUT VICTIMISING THE WEAKER PEOPLE ,PEOPLE ARE SITTING THERE LIKE STEAM ENGINES FOAMING AT THE MOUTH LISTENING TO THE RADIO AND JELLY-VISION ,ITS TIME TO STOP THE FEEEEEARRRRRR!!!!

'IRISH TALISMAN WITH QUICK FIRE VERBAL SORTIES''-EVERETT TRUE, THE VILLAGE VOICE

YEAH SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVERETT BUT MORE RAW I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT AND THE LIGHT IS CALLED 'KICKING YOURSELF UP THE ARSE' FOR THE GOOD .

NEWS:'HUNGRY BASTARD HIBERNIA ' IS NOW DELETED FROM BANDCAMP BUT WILL BE FOR SALE SHORTLY

JOINED THE WHIPPING BOY IN THE GONZO THEATRE CAVAN TOWN ON SATURDAY DECEMBER 30TH .CAVAN IS GETTING MORE RAW AND MAD IN A POSITIVE WAY

MANNIX WILL PERFROM FROM 6 TO 18 DECEMBER IN BLEECKER STREET ,GREAT VISIONS OF HIM PERFROMING IT IN THE IMPERIAL HOTEL DUN DEALGAN IN 2003

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”.

TOLD ABOUT THIS EXTRAORDINARY EVENT BACK IN 2009 BY PAUL SULLIVAN ORGANISER OF'' STATIC ''LIVERPOOL IT WAS GREAT TO SEE IT COME TO FRUITION THIS YEAR .USING THE SPACE OF THE CLOSED DOWN TERMINAL IN CORK AIRPORT IT OFFERS A PLETHORA OF POSSIBILITIES FOR AIRPORT SPACE IN A POST OIL WORLD AND TO OUR MINDS IT USES THE EMPTY AIRPORT SPACES FOR A SORT OF POST APOCALYPTIC/DYSTOPIAN POSSIBILITIES ,USING THE IMAGINATION OF LOCAL/INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS .IT RUNS UNTIL 27 MARCH ,MORE INFO HERE AT LINK GO TO LINK HERE

YOU CAN HERE THE PODCAST OF CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARENA SHOW ON RTE RADIO ONE HERE,MY INTERVIEW WITH PRESENTER SEAN ROCKS AND 2 SONGS ''NOTHING BUT A LEPRECHAUN''AND A NEW ONE ''TRAINING FOR THE RIOTS'' CHECK IT OUT HERE . ARENA LINK HERE

'NATIONAL CANCER STRATEGY' IS AVAILABLE IN TOWER RECORDS ,WICKLOW STREET.THERE IS A LIMITED EDITION OF 500 VINYL LPS RELEASED also available in the septic

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!!