The affliction of Moley

Howya!
We have been picking up chatter among the media, our sources have been noticing that corollaries are being made between Brother band Size2shoes and the latest X-Factor pop sensation John & Edward. Our research indicates that this may be as a result of Moley’s ill fated Limerick X-Factor attempt several weeks ago, just before the ‘Jedward’ sensation. Moley was eliminated from the 1st round of Limerick X-Factor and is still pretty emotionally sensitive about the experience, get well soon Moley.

The links between ‘Jedward’ and Size2shoes are meatier than one would think at first glance. Their dad is from Limerick apparently! Jedward, also like Eoin & Moley, are into good old fashioned entertainment. Do you think that a collaboration with “Size2shoes feat. Jedward” is a good idea? Let us know, we are floating the idea to a number of PR companies worldwide, maybe we could emalgamate to make the greatest boyband that Limerick has ever produced! Watch this space
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Eoin, Nóirín & Mícheal @ book launch

Hey shoes fans!

Whassapenin? So much goin on in the s2s world of wonder… We sang in Galway as part of Julie Feeney’s band – we were the backing singers! Class tunes, check her out! Dr. Nóirín Ní Riain (our mom!) launched her book in Dublin 10 days ago! She is some legend, Size2shoes played a tune at the launch and wrote a short rap extolling her, and the books, virtues! It was dope and it rocked the house – in fact as a direct result the books publishers (Veritas) asked us to launch a kids book in Dublin in November! I think they must think that we are wacky dudes, but roll on kids book launch! Will let ya know details soon.

Of course the next big thing for Size2shoes is a series of gigs round Ireland in November starting in Dublin on November 6th @ The Sugar Club! Special guests the inimitable Julie Feeney and the legendary Paddy Maloney (The Chieftains). See the gigs page for a full list of the gigs! Moley entered a local X-Factor comp last week and got knocked out in the first round! Bummer…

We got reviewed in Hot Press this month also (the issue with Glen Hansard on the front) and it was a good review, the guy who reviewed it said that the album was ’so peachy keen and full of good advice that it makes me crave for paranoid schiziphrenic drug addicts with scar tissue and battered four track recorders’ – wowsers, looks like the s2s debut album is really converting the cool kids !

How are you? Tell us!
Feel free to use the size2shoes.com website as an agony aunt/emotional advice service…we are here for you…
xx
s2s

George Bernard Shaw Theatre

Hey you,

we’re just in the door from our gig with Julie Feeney in Galway. It was a roller-coaster of a day; so much fun. We had a mammoth rehearsal with her and the Contempo String Quartet, then ran on stage to do the support slot, then ran back stage for a quick costume change, then on to do backing vocals for Julie’s gig. For those of you who don’t know who she is, and for those of you who do, check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI1TGrkNUmg

One of the best Irish music videos I’ve ever seen.

And at Size2shoes we were saying that we’ve never seen a list of the top ten best Irish music videos…

Off to take over the world or Carlow tomorrow. We’re on KCLR (sp?) Radio tomorrow at 11.45, and then on Saturday opening up for the Hothouse Flowers. Then we’re thinking of checking out these crazy Indians in Dublin on Sunday; check this out!

nice!

And, for those of you still reading, you can check out two new clips that we’ve just put up on youtube at youtube.com/size2shoesofficial – tell us what you think!

We haven’t sent this round to our full mailing list yet; waiting till the time’s right, so let us know what you bloggers think before we release it on the masses

You’re all Impossibly Beautiful!

s2s

Click to see our sexy ticket

Hey y’all,
Big shout out to all who came along to our Size2shoes Single Launching Extravaganza on Wednesday night! The good people at the POD presented us at their reputable Crawdaddy establishment. We even had our first ever ticket that was available through Ticketmaster! Big news here at S2S HQ!

There was a bunch of hip Teddy Bears there who had seen us for the first time at Electric Picnic – big shout out! Another couple of heads had seen us support Julie Feeney in the same venue a couple of months ago and came along to check out the full show.

So, next week sees us doing a couple of really sweet support gigs. Thursday the 24th supporting Julie Feeney at the Town Hall in Galway. Then on the Saturday the 26th we’re opening for the Hot House Flowers at the opening of their new Behemoth – the VISUAL Arts Centre – this is a MASSIVE contemporary arts centre with a 400 seater theatre.

Trying to think of some juicy gossip to release, but can’t think of anything that would be appropriate. There was this one time when Moley… ah…

Oh and one more thing… if you do hear our single on the radio, text the station and tell them that it’s the best thing you’ve heard since Man in the Mirror! It’s called Sittin’ by the Sea.

Peace
s2s

The Vault

size2shoes’ latest website feature, ‘The Vault‘ is LIVE! Dozens of live tracks, interviews and unreleased tracks are to be added to the new mini-site, which offers free downloads. You can also (100% optionally!) make a small donation for your download. If you wanna hear interviews, learn to beatbox with Moley, hear a collaboration with Bobby McFerrin or [soon!] hear a few projects that will come to fruition in the future check out The Vault at vault.size2shoes.com – make sure to bookmark it!

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Big shout out to all who came along to check out S2S at the Bandstand, Village Green at Electric Picnic. We really love the support, and judging by the smiles on faces, Size2 fans were left happy little bunnies.

We’d a great day out though, and now we have offically firmly stepped on the first rung of the Electric Picinic ladder; the only way is up.

I’ve just now heard that the Village Green area can be more accuralty described as the Village Brown. The picinic really was a mud fest. Was pleasantly surprised to discover how effecitve a pile of saw dust can be in soaking up mud.

Monday night sees us performing as second headline act at the UCD Freshers’ Ball. For those of you reading from outside of the Republic, Univeristy College Dublin is Ireland’s largest Uni, and a Fresher is a first year student. Will let you know how that goes, but an interesting S2S fact is that last Sunday we got to play for the President of UCC at this classy new venue in Ballymalloe; he came up to us after to profess his Size2shoes conversion; lets see now if we can convert those heathen students. We’ll keep you posted.

Then an interesting kids’ gig for the Killkenny “City” (thank you very much) library, which we’ll have a great time doing. The title of the show we came up with was “Size2shoes Loves Books!”

And, check this out for random… http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/134912746
looks like we can’t open our mouth round these parts without the whole of California getting in on the act. We’ll be opening up for the Hot House Flowers for that night, which will be a bit of a dream come true :”There’s a BLACK CAT”

Stay cool y’all,
s2s

The one and only... Orla Barry!!

You can check out or download the size2shoes interview with Orla Barry below. The upcoming size2shoes feature, ‘The Vault’ is coming soon to http://vault.size2shoes.com, but in the meantime, you can download it all for free over at bandcamp or make a teeny contribution to the band’s music. We’ve just been informed of a very cool upcoming blog, re: electric picnic, keep an eye on the site or join the newsletter!! Size2shoes’ first single is now on the MySpace page, can you guess which song it is?

shiny new photos!

Whassapenin,
Size2shoes were in Ballymaloe for the weekend playin a gig at the newly opened theatre there called The Grainstore. It was a magic weekend as size2 regailed guests in the drawing room of the country house hotel on saturday night with the man o the house Rory Allen. Rory is a savage enteretainer and a store of a huge amount of songs and stories, great craic indeed. We played a gig Sunday night for the public and we were extremely well recieved! What a magic place Ballymaloe is, get there if you can.

Size2shoes will appear at Electric Picnic 2009 on Saturday 5th September, 2pm @ ‘The Bandstand’ in the Body & Soul area of the festival, get out of your tent and get there, would be great to see ya:) We are really lookin forward to it, will let you know how it goes – Size2shoes play the UCD Freshers ball too just before Fight Like Apes take to the stage, which should be pretty rock n roll!

Be Cool,
Leave a message if you wanna proclaim somethin to the world.
s2s

size2shoes live

Hey dudes,
so Newstalk yesterday was pretty rad, Orla Barry is a nice chick, we didnt have much time though really, its nice to be stuck for time on nationaly radio we could stay on air for hours man! We could have our own freakin talkshow! ‘The real shit: with Size2shoes’ every sunday morning or somethin. Anyway hope that orla and her producers have us back at some stage.

Size2shoes are playing in Ballymaloe’s hotel’s little theatre for anyone round cork way, we are also singing with Noirin at the same gig so its a big family exrtravaganza! But tomorrow (Monday) Size2shoes take the stage for 20 mins at the Dome in Tralee sandwhiched between the Saw Doctors and Shane McGowan at the Rose of Tralee fest gig! There are 2,000 tickets sold already so we are looking forward to that! Sharon Shannon is also playing too so it will be great to meet those pillars of the scene

Hope your well and happy with whatever your into dudes, if not why not use the size2shoes comment option as your own special agony aunt, we will do our best to give constructive and sensitive anwers!!

Be Cool.
Moley

The Cobalt Café

Hey dudes,
you around Dublin? s2s play in The Cobalt Café in Dublin this Wednesday as a warm up to the big shoes gig in Crawdaddy in September. Get in!

The Cobalt Café
Cultural Café on Dublin’s northside. The Cobalt Café is oozing character and class in a very old Dublin manner. The atmosphere is perfectly fitting as this Café is located in a Period House on North Great Georges Street.

Just minutes away from O’Connell Street, the Cobalt Café is a family business run in beautiful Georgian surroundings. An exquisite courtyard garden is adjacent where diners can enjoy their lunch in good weather. The garden includes many interesting fixtures such as wonderful sculptures and an old Georgian fanlight that’s propped up against one of the garden walls.

The Café has been open for seven years and is a popular dining spot with Art Lovers and Culturites! The Cobalt doubles as an Art Gallery that showcases the work of up-and-coming Irish artists.

Cheesy!
howya?
s2s