This is a documentary looking at some of Ireland’s DIY bands and culture over the last 5-20 years or so. It is a Dublin Community Television production and was made by the Community Of Independents collective that works with the channel. Featuring live footage and audio of various Irish artists including Adebisi Shank, ASIWYFA as well as insightful interviews with some of the people that have been involved in the growth of this scene including Mick about The Richter Collective andCathy Pellow from Sargent House and so many more . Enjoy!

Adebisi Shank will be playing one show in Guadalajara Mexico on March 15th.
and on March 31, 2012 they will play in  the Out Of The Crowd Festival at Kulturfabrik in Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxemborg. Check out the Teaser below.

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Adebisi Shank: This is the Second Album from a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House, 3/15/11)

Released to European acclaim in 2010, the aptly titled second album from Irish electro/math rockers Adebisi Shank achieved North American release this year thanks to the peerless Sargent House.

The management company / record label describes the trio as a blend of Fang Island’s shredding riffs with Battles’ electronic quirkiness and rhythmic playfulness. That description isn’t off the mark, but readers won’t get a sense of the band’s real abilities until they hear its hyper-melodic, polyrhythmic, and — most importantly — jubilant songs in full.

Second Album delivers a maelstrom of zany electronics, unusual distortions, and triumphant, rapidly ascending scales mixed with vintage synths, marimba, horns, and other accoutrements. This is all packaged between and around gloriously catchy and powerful rock riffs, resulting in a manic and buoyant sophomore effort.

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Happy Holidays from Adebisi Shank

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Mick Roe, drummer of Adebisi Shank joins Sully to talk about their music, Ireland, foot clan masks, zebras, and how a drummer runs a record label,  Richter Collective.

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Adebisi Shank - Gig Review - Electric Picnic 2011

10/10

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Adebisi Shank as remixed by Cgak - Check out more of his remixes of Sargent House bands on the Don’t Sleep Remix album here

Adebisi Shank’s music is a scorching-hot mess. This experimental Irish trio possesses an awesome energy that conjures images of hadron colliders, unearthly supernovas, and gargantuan explosions, and we’re not exaggerating about any of that.

With a swirling sound that compounds through tons of frenetic samples and loops, every Shank song builds to a seemingly unsustainable level of intensity. And although comparisons to Battles are inevitable given how these young Irishmen clearly embrace both technology and overtly prog-metal riffage, Adebisi Shank consistently break new sonic ground by incorporating distinct melodies, chugging rhythms, and no shortage of dramatism into their truly ballistic sound.

“Genki Shank,” from the band’s latest record, This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House), was recently used in a Young Guns Webisode. Check it out below!

Two of Ireland’s most respected live bands Adebisi Shank and The Cast of Cheers are set to headline “Tales from The Crypt” Monster Halloween Fancy Dress Ball in assocaition with “Live at The Clubhouse Presents” with All Affairs Fancy Dress and T-Rex clothing next Friday night 28th October at Castlebar Celtic.

Support on the night will come from 3 other bands including Lafaro, So Cow, and We Come in Pieces. Not only that there will be loads of prizes for the best dressed costume including loads od special drinks offers on the night and dont forget the famous Michael Jackson “Thriller” Dance-off!!

Its being almost 2 years since Adebisi Shank last played Castlebar. Since then the band have released their second album titled “This is the second album of a band called Adebisi Shank” and have just recently signed to the famous Sargent House record label in the USA home to such greats as “Fang Island” and “Tera Melos”

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A sharp lookin’ fella in a red fabric mask mans the bass guitar with chaotic precision whilst bouncing in unison alongside the twiddles and strikes of a juddering guitarist. The pounding, commanding, dictating, thumping, clouting drums from behind meet the electric noise in the middle. Strong riffs and hooks bellow and sound from speaker to speaker smashing hot instrumental alternative rock all over the room.  (10/5/2011 @ The Brudenell Social club)

I have never in my 21 years on this planet ever ventured, in any shape or form to the part of the world called Ireland, neither north nor south. I always feel that I should go, but the opportunity has never arisen. St. Patrick’s day in Dublin (as I have been told) is shit-hot, so I don’t know why I don’t just get a cheap flight over. I think I know what I’m going to do this summer.

But, I have been indulging in a healthy dose of Irish rock music as of late. One band in particular have twisted, controlled and captivated my musical mind into a well-fashioned attractive mush.  Adebisi Shank have uncompromisingly been creating a truly one-of-kind sound since the release of their 1^st EP ‘This is the EP of a band called Adebisi Shank’ in 2007.  The brute-force and rawness on such tracks as ‘Horse’ & ‘Jump Cut’ showed the true talent that the Irish instrumental trio possessed in their song writing and showmanship.

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Adebisi Shank perform International Dreambeat live at Electric Picnic. Thanks Cock And Bull TV for the visuals.

Review: Adebisi Shank, Cosby Stage

Atmosphere:  A hugely appreciative crowd gather in the smallish Cosby tent in anticipation of entering the wind machine simulator that is Adebisi Shank live.

High:  Vinny giving his bass guitar away to someone in the front row at the end of the gig much to everyone’s astonishment.

Low:  The feeling that this gig would have been better placed late in the day.

Quote of the set:  “My nipple ring is so sore.” - Bassist Vinny. Well at least we think that’s what he said, it was pretty muffled as he spoke into a mic while wearing a hooded mask.

Verdict:  Adebisi are relentless, and like all of their gigs, you spend as much time trying to figure out how they’re managing to play the sounds they’re emitting as enjoying the actual show.

It’s not the greatest or most atmospheric Adebisi Shank performance of all time (according to fans, that goes to their Castlepalooza set this year) but if being confronted by this illuminating, complex and exhilarating music of an afternoon doesn’t blast away your tent fatigue then you must be cryogenically frozen. - by UNA MULLALLY

…Adebisi Shank were next up and they played their usual kind of gig. So, roughly ten times better than any other gig you’ve ever been to. Seriously though, these three guys have moved to a level beyond compare in this country. Fun, frantic, sweaty, their set had everything you’d expect, culminating in masked bassist Vinny leaping from a wooden platform high up one of the tent’s poles into the welcoming arms of his adoring crowd while joyous noise emanated from the stage. - CLICK FOR ENTIRE REVIEW

Adebisi Shank by Terroreyes.TV - Filmed over the course of two days at the Sargent House shows at Troubadour in LA 6/27/11and the Great American Music Hall on 6/29/11. 
Song: “International Dreambeat” / Video & Audio: Sean Stout, Mix: Eric Ruud

SICK.