Galway Advertiser 1998/1998_11_15/GA_15111998_E1_029.pdf 

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G A L W A Y S M O S T C O M P R E H E N S I V E E N T E R T A I N M E N T G U I D E - E D I T E D BY )eff O ' C o n n e l l

H e i n e k e n big b e a t w e e k e n d f e a t u r e s Primal Scream & Spiritualised
ard to believe the fourth Heineken Weekender is heading for Galway the First weekend in February. Almost as hard to believe we're only a few weeks away from the first weekend in February! But with the kind of music we're promised, it's enough to make you want things to go even faster so you can get down to some serious dancing.
First up for the Big Beat on the ful riots when they take over the Bay, on Thursday February 5, is stage at Leisureland. Not for the Indie-dance masters Primal faint-hearted, but then you would Scream, hot after the success of n't expect to meet many of this Vanishing Point, the band's most crowd at a Primal Scream concert recent album, who'll hopefully be in the first place, now would you? causing some small but meaning The other bunch who'll be punching holes in your eardrum while they play hypnotic tricks with your own personal rhythmic system by synching it with theirs is the great and formidable Spiritualised, a four-piece with a handle on hooks, melodies and above all - a pulsating jazz-influ enced, multi-textured sound that is aimed directly at your soul. They're playing in Leisureland, along with special guests LoFidelity Allstars (a dangeroussounding recommendation asks us to imagine 'Christopher Walken dancing in a strobe-filled wind tun nel...': uh, huh, sure.), on Saturday February 7. Just let go and heed the message: 'Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space'. Next up, at the GPO on Saturday February 7, is - depending on which letter of the alphabet you're in the mood for - Fatboy Slim, Mighty Dub Cats, Pizzaman, Freak Power, Beats International and The Housemartins (that's not in bold because he doesn't like to talk about it too much) - but if you Day', obviously agrees, having happen to bump into him in the played on Peterson's '96 12 inch), street, he might just acknowledge who also happens to be the founder the name Norman Cook. But then of the Acid Jazz label and head of again, maybe he won't. Anyway, if Talkin' Loud); Jon Carter's you know of him in any of his vir Monkey Mafia, whose single MS tually Tibetan-like incarnations, Steps' will certainly take you more the one defining feature of them all than IS steps to do, was a mega-hit is the boy's knack of mixing a last year, will float its sound in the great tune with some incredible Warwick Ballroom. funky backbeats that'll have your On Saturday February 7 in the teeth vibrating at the same time as Warwick Ballroom, the beat con another infectious and irresistable tinues with Rare, a Derry-based tune seeps into your unconscious. band that features the former gui Talk about an excess of musical tarist and chief songwriter of The riches! On Friday February 6, the Undertones and founder member lovely people who're bringing of That Petrol Emotion, Sean Galway the Heineken Weekender O'Neill, whose band-mates have a are also giving us the chance to distinctive and very infectious dance to the legendary Adrian Sherwood, who more or less invented Dub-reggae, in The Warwick Acoustic Room; also on Friday in the GPO is the scorching jazz-funk pioneer Giles Peterson (this guy is more than just good, as that unbelievable sax-player Courtney Pine, whose latest gig is playing sax on Lou Reed's 'Perfect sound that mixes up funk, Dub, a pristine pop sensibility, and an imaginative mastery of music tech nology. Finally, rounding everything up, there's V Records Night, the mother of all dance -o-thons at the GPO Club, from Quadraphonic, featuring Jumpin' Jack Frost and Bryan G. Tickets are now on sale from Zhivago Records (Tel 091 568209). Over 10,000 music fans are expected to turn up, and Heineken has once again estab lished a special Free City-Wide Pub Trail, with acts performing for free all over Galway city.