February 2013
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Live new song recorded in Los Angeles for the...
Adebisi Shank perform a new song live from Entourage Studios in Los Angeles. It was recorded to multitrack and mixed by Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Indian Handcrafts) while the band was over for their summer tour in the US with Fang Island. This is part 1 of a 3 part session.
August 2012
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Gizmodo Gets Genki Shanked & Last 3 US Shows!
If you need a song to get you revved up and ready to go, look no further; Adebisi Shank has you covered. This Irish trio puts out some seriously upbeat math-rocky craziness, and Genki Shank (free dl) from their album This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank is a great introduction.
A bit more intuitive than some of their other, mathier tunes, Genki Shank has a great galloping beat...
Genki Shank Los Angeles Style at The Troubadour
Adebisi Shank - Genki Shank live at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA on August 10, 2012.
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Adebisi Shank American Tour with Fang Island...
Adebisi Shank will be coming back to the US this Summer to support their Sargent House brothers Fang Island on part of their tour in celebration of Fang Island’s new album MAJOR release. Joining them on a few of the shows as well will be Zechs Marquise. Now that’s a whole lot of Sargent House Family Riffage. FANG ISLAND & ADEBISI SHANK //MAJOR TOUR 2012 08/10 Los Angeles, CA @...
July 2012
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BBC Music Live Show Review: Belfast
Adebisi Shank, Toby Kaar at Bunatee Bar, Belfast - Thursday July 26th Given that tonight’s gig in the Bunatee Bar is first and foremost an opportunity for Dublin rockers Adebisi Shank to test out new material as part of their “New Tunez” tour, it would be natural to assume that they might be a tad rusty on the live circuit these days - particularly as their most recent round...
June 2012
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IRELAND : Adebisi Shank Playing Some New Tunez...
Adebisi Shank have three shows coming in Ireland, with some New Tunez for you all. ADEBISI SHANK LIVE 26th July 2012 - Belfast - Bunatee Bar 27th July 2012 - Dublin - Button Factory 28th July 2012 - Castlebar - Live N Loud @ The Clubhouse
May 2012
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A Joyful Slog - A Documentary
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...
February 2012
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Adebisi Shank to Play Mexico & Luxemborg - March...
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.
December 2011
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Alarm Magazine Names Their Top 50 Albums
Adebisi Shank: This is the Second Album from a Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House, 3/15/11)
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2011's Holiday Song from: Cliff Richard & Adebisi...
Happy Holidays from Adebisi Shank
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Adebisi Shank- Mick Roe's Audio Interview with...
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.
November 2011
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Live Review / Electric Picnic 2011
Adebisi Shank - Gig Review - Electric Picnic 2011
10/10
Hypnotic, electrifying performance from a very talented trio!
Adebisi Shank, what a name…what a band! I had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time at this year’s Electric Picnic to catch these lads in action and action it is! The sound that this band of three achieves is incredible. The whole...
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CGak Remixes - "Genki Shank"
Adebisi Shank as remixed by Cgak - Check out more of his remixes of Sargent House bands on the Don’t Sleep Remix album here
October 2011
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Surfin' USA / Quicksilver Featured Artist
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...
ADEBISI SHANK & CAST OF CHEERS TO HEADLINE...
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...
September 2011
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Musical Mathematics Feature // Adebisi Shank
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...
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Live from Electric Picnic 2011
Adebisi Shank perform International Dreambeat live at Electric Picnic. Thanks Cock And Bull TV for the visuals.
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Irish Times Review: Electric Picnic - Sept 3, 2011
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...
August 2011
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The State Live Review : Castlepalooza
…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...
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July 2011
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Terroreyes TV : Adebisi Shank Session
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.
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Flab Mag: Q&A with Vin of Adebisi Shank
FLABmag: I know you’ve already been asked about the band name, but I read that you said it was meaningless, yet your Wikipedia page says it’s a nod to Simon Adebisi, one of the most notorious characters on the HBO prison drama, Oz. If it’s true that it is that’s brilliant! My question is, what was your favorite storyline involving Adebisi on the show? (I loved when he went straight after...
Pure Magic
Adebisi Shank (pure magic) from TERROREYES.TV on Vimeo.
June 2011
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Behind The Hype : Live Review Los Angeles 6.27.11
Show Review: Le Butcherettes/Tera Melos/Adebisi Shank at the Troubadour
Last night, three of the most talented bands affiliated with Sargent House came together for a show at the Troubadour. Adebisi Shank, Tera Melos and Le Butcherettes played to a mostly-packed house of SH fans, many of which were clad in various shades of flannel and/or beards.
Sargent House is a label that prides...
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Swerve Review: Sled Island Festival - June 24
“The highlight of the night and one of the best performances of the festival was Adebisi Shank at Vern’s (pictured above). This Irish trio were shockingly good. The music is raucous and fun and the live show matched. They play Dicken’s tonight and you’d be crazy not to rush down there to see these guys”. - Drew Anderson / Swerve - Sled Island Day 3 Recap DON’T MISS ADESBISI...
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Sled Island Fest / America
Adebisi Shank are stopping in Calgary Canada for two shows at Sled Island Festival. Canucks Don’t miss out on what all the talk is aboot. Then it’s onto America for just two shows on the West Coast where they will be playing with good friends and label mates Le Butcherettes and Tera Melos ! Adebisi Shank / Canada/ USA 6/24 - Calgary, SledIsland Fest @ Verns w/ The Soft Pack, Demon’s...
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Journal Of Music: Whelan's Live Review
Disrupting the Form Adebisi Shank’s sound is dangerous, ill-mannered – and irrepressibly exciting. They take apart our expectations of what a three-piece rock band can do.
First Music Contact Tour: O Emperor / Heathers / Adebisi Shank Whelan’s, Dublin - 11 June 2011 - by Liam Cagney
A certain pleasure resides in the well-achieved shattering of an established musical form – in...
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Dublin - June 18th
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Vin gets Noisy with Backstage Noise
Ireland’s own Adebisi Shank recently released their second album, appropriately entitled This is the Second Album by a band called Adebisi Shank. With the album appearing on multiple ‘Best of’ lists at the end of 2010 along having been nominated for the Irish Album of the Year, the band have built upon their previous success, reaching far beyond the borders of our fine Irish boundaries. To...
May 2011
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Los Angeles 6.27 & San Francisco 6.29 USA USA
Sargent House is beyond excited to present THREE amazing bands all on the same night together! Adebisi Shank ‘s first Los Angeles & San Francisco shows ever. (They are flying in from Dublin) and Tera Melos and Le Butcherettes. Holy Crap, what a combo! Make sure to get there to see ALL bands. Adebisi Shank will be playing first each night with Le Butcherettes closing in LA and Tera...
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Calgary & Los Angeles & San Francisco SHOWS
Adebisi Shank will be heading over to Canada to play this years Sled Island Fest in Calgary for 2 Shows. Then they will join up with their Sargent House family and play with Tera Melos & Le Butcherettes in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Jun 24 - Calgary, Canada / Sled Fest @ Verns Jun 25 - Calgary, Canada / Sled Fest @ Dicken’s Pub Jun 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour Jun 29 - San...
April 2011
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UK & Irelands Shows & Festivals
Adebisi Shank will be playing some headline shows in May along with an appearance at Pig Stock Festival. In June they will be doing the F.M.C. Tour joined by Heathers & O Emperor . In July they will play Castlepalooza and then in September they will perform at Ireland’s Electric Picnic.
Adebisi Shank UK/Ireland Shows May 10 - Leeds, UK @ Brudnell Social Club w/ &U&I &...
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Alarm Magazine: Interview
Fusing the distinguished guitar harmonies of Fang Island with the electronic whimsy of Battles, Adebisi Shank is producing a compelling new brand of electronic rock. The cover of its new album, the whimsically titled This is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank, is an apt analog to its music: a geometric, computer-generated landscape trod upon by galloping zebras.
Musically, the...
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Light & Noise LIVE - Adebisi Shank SXSW 2011
Masa - SXSW at the Sargent House / Rodriguez Lopez Productions Show at Emo’s Annex on March 19th 2011.
Click HERE to see photos
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Pop Matters Goes All 8 of 10
Adebisi Shank: This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
By John Calvert 11 April 2011
Does For Math-Rock what Gabba did for Kraftwerk…
World, meet Adebisi Shank: the most fun you can have with your clothes on since the zipper was invented. A word-of-mouth juggernaut in their native Ireland, simply put, this Wexford trio is a jaw-dropping live prospect, as you could...
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Europa Live at SXSW
Adebisi Shank at the very first USA show ever at SXSW 2011 at Plush. Thanks for the video by Sandy Carson and thanks to Native for letting us play on your gear.
March 2011
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Kid wants hits so hit that
Here is an older Adebisi Shank live video of Shunk. But the kid Sean Zissou who made it wants some hits now that AS have gone all big time, so I’m giving you’se all the link to help out. Nice, Right? - CP/Sargent House
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Takes Being In America to get Noticed in Scotland
I came across Adebisi Shank a few months ago due to being a big fan of their US label, Sargent House, which is also home to the likes of This Town Needs Guns, Fang Island, and Native.
Sargent House is known for working with innvoative, highly skilled musicians, and this Irish three-piece fit the bill perfectly.
The band employ no vocals, there is simply no need due to the frenetic...
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This is The Exclaim Review Of A Band Called...
Epic. Everything about Irish trio Adebisi Shank’s second LP screams the word. Their approach to muscular, complex rock music is comparable to Battles, but tempered with head-banging punk vigour and the kind of galloping metallic stomp sure to illicit some serious fist pumping or tossing of devil horns. To slap Adebisi Shank with the math rock tag would be misleading ― seldom do they...
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This is The Review of a Website Called Treble
There’s a lot of crazy shit happening on Adebisi Shank’s quite literally titled second album, This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank. It’s like a Raymond Scott collection gone EBM/industrial. Or, perhaps, prog-rock covers of Happy Hardcore staples. And I haven’t ruled out the possibility that the band has discovered a way to power their Boss pedals with...
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Surviving The Golden Age Goes All 9.3/10
Adebisi Shank: This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank If I showed any amount of foresight, I would have paid attention to what I had in my to be reviewed pile and have reviewed Adebisi Shank on Thursday. It would have been fitting to review the band that The Daily Telegraph called one of the “top 5 best new Irish bands” on St. Patrick’s Day. Instead, I forgot I even had the...
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This is The Review of a Website Called MV Remix
This Is The Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
And now for something completely different. Ireland’s multiple award-nominated Adebisi Shank have just recently released their critically-acclaimed album, ‘This Is The Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank’ (well, what else did you think it was going to be called?) worldwide via Sargent House.
Praise for the trailblazing collective...
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Alarm Magazine: This Weeks Best Album
Adebisi Shank: This Is The Second Album From A Band Called Adebisi Shank (Sargent House)
Released to European acclaim in 2010, the aptly titled second album from Irish electro/math rockers Adebisi Shank has now achieved North American release thanks to the peerless Sargent House.
The record label / management company describes the trio as a blend of Fang Island’s shredding riffs...
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These Are The SXSW Shows Of A Band Called Adebisi...
Adebisi Shank will be playing 3 shows at this years SXSW. The official show will be the Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions show on Saturday, March 19th at Emo’s Annex. All Ages - Doors 7:15pm March 17th - @ Plush at 4pm March 18th - @ BD Rileys Irish Pub (Irish Breakfast Show) - 4:55pm March 19th - @ Emo’s Annex - Sargent House Official / 10:30pm
Line Up for...
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Electric Picnic 2011
Adebisi Shank will be playing this year at Electric Picnic, more details to come once they leak again. “Ireland’s premiere music and arts festival Electric Picnic will be held over the weekend of 2nd-4th of September 2011 in the very grand and picturesque surrounds of Stradbally Hall and Estate in County Laois. “
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It's Man Stuff, So It's Got To Be Good
Album of the Week: Adebisi Shank - This is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
Adebisi Shank’s album originally came out last August, but it’s release Stateside and an Electric Picnic slot has made them worthy of another look, writes Dave Donnelly.
OK, this is cheating a little: Adebisi Shank’s second eponymously-titled album actually came out in Ireland last...
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SXSW 2011 A Few Answers for Limeblog From A band...
SXSW 2011 - Adebisi Shank
If video games would escape from their human masters and run freely through time and space, Adebisi Shank would play the soundtrack of their new adventures. A highly energized roller-coaster ride of explosive rhythmic riffs, percussion and synthesizers where all the sounds seem to be engaged in a mixture of combat, exploratory recon with some tongue-in-cheek flirting!...
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Seattle's The Stranger: This Is The Review of A...
Overwhelming Is Their Default Mode: This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
(Sargent House) Release: March 15, 2011 Thousands of CDs and download links deluge The Stranger’s music staff every year. The majority of these releases deserve obscurity, if not worse. But once in a great while, a totally unknown band will enter our consciousness and blast away—temporarily, at...
This is the SACVS Mixtape of a band called Adebisi...
Photo by Shan Beaste
Sound Colour Vibration presents “This is the SACVS Mixtape of a band called Adebisi Shank“. Volume 31 in our ongoing online radio/podcast series, this mix is as eclectic as they come. We contacted the band and their label Sargent House and they graciously accepted our offer and this is the results, full MP3 320kbps download below. We would like to say thanks to the...
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Europa & International Dreambeat Live From Choice...
Adebisi Shank play Europa & International Dreambeat live at Ireland’s Choice Music Prize Award Show.
