Live: David Gray at the Olympia

David Gray, who still holds the record for the bestselling album ever in Ireland (White Ladder), will be headlining the second Barretstown Inspirations concert, which raises money for Barretstown House. It's a great cause, as Barretstown House looks after children with serious illnesses.

Not only will David Gray be headlining, but the following acts are also on the bill: Paddy Casey
Mundy
Duckworth Lewis Method
Lír
Gemma Hayes
Jape
Vengence & The Panther Queen
Ham Sandwich
The Dublin Gospel Choir

The fundraiser will take place in Dublin's Olympia Theatre on March 5th. Tickets cost €30 and are on sale now. It's sure to be an amazing night.

Here's Sinead O'Connor and Republic of Loose teaming up to cover the Beatles' 'You Can't Do That' at last year's gig:

Live: Gemma Hayes - Irish Tour

Gemma Hayes is back with a new tour, which she announced on her twitter feed here. The full list of dates is below, and you can get ticket info for each show on Gemma's official website.

Tour Dates:
Jan 15th - INEC Acoustic Club - Killarney
Jan 16th - Roisin Dubh - Galway
Jan 22th - B Side - Bandon
Jan 23rd - Dolan's Upstairs - Limerick
Jan 28th - Odessa - Dublin
Jan 29th - Spirit Store - Dundalk
Jan 30th - Mill Theatre - Dundrum
Feb 11th - Cleere's - Kilkenny
Feb 18th - O'Keeffes - Clonmel
Feb 26th - Riverbank Arts Centre - Kildare
Apr 1st - Mermaid Theatre - Bray
Apr 4th - Town Hall Theatre - Dungarvan

More info:
http://www.gemmahayes.com/tour.htm

Watch 'Home':

Download: Gemma Hayes - Live at Union Chapel, 8 September 2008 Bootleg

Facebook is a useful tool for chatting with your mates and sharing photos. It's also useful if you want something posted on here. Yesterday I asked using the Swear I'm Not Paul Facebook page what artist would my readers like a bootleg of. Andrew McG was the first to reply. He sent me off in search of a Gemma Hayes live show. Here is what I found. This is from Union Chapel in London from the 8th of September 2008. It was recorded by someone who goes by the name of Powermonkey, and is just over 100MBs as a bunch of zipped/rarred .mp3s. You can download a sample song via zshare, and also the entire thing via Megaupload.

Also, click on the pictures above and below for full-size images which you can use as covers - for those of you who still burn everthing to CD.

Setlist:
1] This Is What You Do
2] Happy Sad
3] Nothing Can
4] Home
5] In Over My Head
6] Farewell To The Pressure Kids (Broken Social Scene cover)
7] Chasing Dragons
8] Back Of My Hand
9] Intro >
10] Oliver
11] Something In My Way
12] Easy On The Eye
13] Out Of Our Hands
14] Evening Sun

Sample:
Gemma Hayes - 'Farewell to the Pressure Kids'

Download:
Full Show



And here's what 'Back of My Hand' looked like live that night: