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So you’ve spent all of Friday afternoon cursing out whoever made your useless tent, and the rest of the day binge drinking and trying to get ‘Right Here Right Now’ out of your head. Do you have any hope of a Saturday resurrection? Blind Yackety might be able to help you out. The Irish octet draw from their excellent 2012 debut Fences and Furnaces to offer up a fantastic set of world music inspired indie. Opening up the Salty Dog stage, there is a surprisingly large crowd awaiting them. The klezmer rock of ‘Easy Days’ and the eastern melodies that carry the ecstatic ‘Glorious Days’ are the kind of world music inspired pop madness that Zach Condon would make if he wanted Beirut to be a party band. Kitted out in a dress and lampshade/hat, frontman Kevin McNamara’s wild energy and crowd commanding delivery make him seem positively shamanic. The whole group belt out tracks like ‘Black Rain’ with such skill and joy that it’s impossible not to be sucked into their merry, manic world. Even in a weekend crammed with hidden gems and surprise highlights, Blind Yackety truly stand out with a sound that very few others could pull off. Here’s hoping they’ll be winning over bigger crowds this time next year. (Cormac Duffy) - State.ie
So you’ve spent all of Friday afternoon cursing out whoever made your useless tent, and the rest of the day binge drinking and trying to get ‘Right Here Right Now’ out of your head. Do you have any hope of a Saturday resurrection? Blind Yackety might be able to help you out. The Irish octet draw from their excellent 2012 debut Fences and Furnaces to offer up a fantastic set of world music inspired indie. Opening up the Salty Dog stage, there is a surprisingly large crowd awaiting them. The klezmer rock of ‘Easy Days’ and the eastern melodies that carry the ecstatic ‘Glorious Days’ are the kind of world music inspired pop madness that Zach Condon would make if he wanted Beirut to be a party band. Kitted out in a dress and lampshade/hat, frontman Kevin McNamara’s wild energy and crowd commanding delivery make him seem positively shamanic. The whole group belt out tracks like ‘Black Rain’ with such skill and joy that it’s impossible not to be sucked into their merry, manic world. Even in a weekend crammed with hidden gems and surprise highlights, Blind Yackety truly stand out with a sound that very few others could pull off. Here’s hoping they’ll be winning over bigger crowds this time next year. (Cormac Duffy) - State.ie
Discography
Easy Days 7"
Fences & Furnaces Album
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Bio
Blind Yackety is a constantly evolving seven-piece band, incorporating a myriad of influences, from fifties’ lounge pop to psychedelic, Arabic soul music, to Ennio Morricone-esque climaxes.
The sound is spun with multi-layered vocal harmonies, tropical rhythms and spidery guitar, and is at once hypnotic and immediate. Moments of gentle serenity are interrupted by passionate, driving choruses and sudden hopeful impulses. These are songs that call for light in an apparently cold and meaningless modern world.
Blind Yackety released their highly anticipated debut album,
Fences and Furnaces, on the 23rd of November 2012 in Whelan’s.
After playing Whelan’s Ones to Watch 2013, Blind Yackety have been gigging and touring various dates around the country. Highlights of 2013 have been two dates at Body & Soul, Longitude,headline slot on Jack of Diamonds stage at
Knockanstockan and The Salty Dog at Electric Picnic.
In July the track ‘Sanity’ was put up on soundcloud as a taster of what is a work in progress second album.
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