Our video of the week comes from Dublin band – Sal Vitro.
Formed in January 2011 from the bones of Dublin-based band Roadrunner, Sal Vitro are a no-nonsense rock outfit “who capture the essence of rhythm and blues with a rock and funk edge”.
In their very first gig, Sal Vitro impressed judges and fans alike and won the Live and Unsigned Battle of the Bands.
Due to demand Mastodon have added a second date to their Irish tour. Mastodon will play The Academy on Tuesday July 3rd.
Mastodon have never really done anything the “conventional” way. The Atlanta-based band formulated their own brand of highly-skilled hard rock over a decade ago when others were rehashing 80s metal, and went on to mastermind a string of complex concept albums while much of the music world was centered on making digestible singles.
The band’s latest album The Hunter is yet another universe bending, high energy masterpiece from the band that helped shape hard rock for the 21st century with their previous albums: Remission, Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye.
With this year’s festival and gig line up announcements coming fast over the past few weeks we couldn’t help but notice that Foo Fighters and The Black Keys had been added to the Tennents Vital 2012 line up.
The Foo’s will headline the Tuesday night at this year’s festival which takes place at Boucher Road Playing Fields in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on August 21st 2012.
With that in mind rumors have started to spread that the Foo Fighters have been confirmed for a date during the succession of Marley Park dates in Dublin which are set to take place between June 25th and August 31st, 2012.
Along with being our ‘Video of the Week’ for their cover of Bob Dylan’s ”It Ain’t Me Babe” which you can take a look at HERE, we are also happy to announce that the band’s brand new website is up and running.
You can find it at: www.salvitro.com
For anyone that does not know who Sal Vitro are – you need to be listening to this band!
It was more of the most high anticipated gigs of the year – it sold out within minutes and tickets were being sold for up to twice the original selling price. Friday seen the Red Hot Chili Peppers roll into town to play at the O2, Dublin.
It has been a good few years since I last seen the Chili Peppers live. They seemed to of had a love affair with Ireland for a few years making appearances at Slane, Lansdowne Road (now known as the Aviva) and also a huge concert at the Phoenix Park.
Despite approaching their 50th birthdays, the surviving founders of California’s premier rock outfit still know how to bring the house down. Support on the night came from Fool’s Gold from Los Angeles but unfortunately due to the match traffic on the way into town – I missed the majority of them. From reports I was told that they were really good and it is a pity I missed the chance to see them.