Captain Kennedy
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- www.bebo.com/captainkennedyband
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- Lurgan UK
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- Captain Kennedy are about to release their second 4-track EP Factory Whistle Call in early October through Vinnie Lovelace Records.
“Factory Whistle Call”, recorded at the Start Together Studios at Belfast’s new Oh Yeah Centre, is not smooth, controlled, or delivered with the glossy perfection of much modern pop music. This is cracked, rootsy material. Their harmonies are sometimes crooked, and singer Ciaran Lavery’s voice can get gravelly to the point of death-rattle.
The EP, which has already received airplay on BBC Radio 1, captures the true spirit of Captain Kennedy’s live sound.
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Out To Lunch Arts Festival Review
Stuart Bailie Review of our Black Box gig....
Stuart Bailie (BBC, founder of the Oh Yeah Music Centre and former assistant-editor of NME) wrote a nice little review of our recent gig at the Black Box as part of the "Out To Lunch" Arts Festival.............
"I'm at the Black Box in Belfast on the third week of 2009, but I feel like adjusting my watch back to 1969. The mood is mellow and sweet and folksy. There are many young men with facial hair, and the dress is somewhere between Amish settler, Montana farmboy and Brokeback wrangler. I know that I've seen this look before and heard similar sounds in the past. And then it comes to me. I'm thinking of Robbie Robertson and The Band, getting it together in Woodstock, 40 years ago.
The Band and their pal Bob Dylan had gone to ground to escape the drugs and the intensity of their wild years. The music started sounding more downhome and mysterious while the famous Basement Tapes were an insidious answer to the hippies and acid-eaters of the West Coast.
Such reverberations are resumed in Belfast in the music of Jackson Cage, who add more recent influences like The Jayhawks and Ryan Adams to their deal.
From Lurgan, Captain Kennedy are well immersed in the "old weird America" that writer Greil Marcus covered in his book Invisible Republic. They take their name from a Neil Young song but they're also fit to sing old Dixie down. Excellent vocals. I likes 'em.
The Lowly Knights are fixing to get increasingly popular this year. They're also aware of how an act can get trapped in a look, a scene and a style. "They're selling waistcoats half price in the Rusty Zip," says Cazi, with just a little alarm. Form an orderly queue, young men."0 Comments 291 days
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Roll Ramona from our new EP on our Myspace now....
Arite dudes! We've just uploaded a brand new song from our forthcoming EP "Factory Whistle Call", recorded with Ben McAuley at Start Together and due for release in late September/October.
You can hear "Roll Ramona" on our Myspace now!
http://www.myspace.com/captainkennedy
It'd be great to hear some feedback!!!0 Comments 450 days
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BBC Acoustic Session Tracks added! Have a listen.
Hey! We've just uploaded three songs we recorded live for BBC Radio Ulster's Across The Line programme earlier this year to our Myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/captainkennedy
You can hear Good Action, Caroline and Hard Time Wakin' on the site now.
Hope you enjoy the acoustic loveliness!!
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Sweetest Friend
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Hard Time Wakin
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Mississippi
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ATL Podcast feat. Capt Kennedy (near the end!)
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Take Care of Me
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Bring That Light
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BBC 2 Live ~ Take Care of Me
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BBC 2 Live ~ Good Action
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BBC 2 Live ~ Hard Time Wakin in the Mornin'
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BBC Radio ~ Live Track ~ Suppertime
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Caroline
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here lads u all know me by now lol. here looking to know do you guys wanna be a part of the rock the lough being organised. it will be in october and it will be over three days friday sat sunday (main event) want u guys there if u can please let me know thanks
awesome band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CE86...
Jamesys playing in dundalk on the 12th of june men, but we'd be up for playing anytime from 5 till 6.
Keep us posted. I'll be there either way.
Good luck
gee.
Love you!
Hey guys is that gig in the Black box in Galway?
excellant guys!! listenin to yas on radio ulster now! Ciaran still rem the days in air in scotland me and paul kickin u and mark wilsons ass in that caravan
ya hav sum voice lad, mayb catch up with ya soon, keep goin lads yas can go far 
Great show at the black box last saturday. Thought you blew the lowly knights away!
Great show last night at The Courthouse!
hey guys
i have been listening to some of your music on you tube, i really like it you guys have a good sound, really like hard time wakin, good song
is these anywhere i can down load your songs, i am living in china,
FOR WHOS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS??? THE COURTHOUSE'S??? IM CONFUSED!! LOL
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ayo I was going through peoples profiles, and i think you are an interesting guy, and hot too. I was doing a lil cam show for my friends gettin naughty, hit me up on MSN my names tartariflf@hotmail.com byez
Any chance I could get a copy of the EP?
seen u on bbc2 last night, good performance boys, congrats
i noticed u hav added some new members since i last seen u.
any belfast gigs planned?
I'm rippin' I missed the launch of the new songs lads. Sure I'll hear 'im soon though. Keep it up.
you guys are great, i love ya music!! keep up the good work!! Duke
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