Some Nice News

Let's begin this new era of camaraderie and blow-jobs with some cheery good tidings from those Out On A Limb fatcats, who are splashing the cash again after their recent snapping up of Cork cunts Hooray For Humans. The Limerick label has now pounced on vulnerable indie-electronica-poppet Crayonsmith and convinced him, by employing a series of techniques they witnessed on a recent episode of 24, to join their shady cabal. They released this statement on the coup:

"Crayonsmith has this week become the latest addition to Out On A Limb Records, the independent label based in Limerick, Ireland.

Crayonsmith is the music of Dublin's Ciarán Smith, with good friends Ruadhan "Big Fists" O'Meara and Ronan Jackson aiding on guitars, keys, bass and percussion.

In 2006, Crayonsmith's debut album "Stay Loose" was self-released on the Musical Voodoo label. Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous was so impressed by it that he personally asked Smith to support his band on their UK and Irish tour. Other shows since the release of "Stay Loose" has seen Crayonsmith play dates with The Decemberists, Islands, Juana Molina, Viva Voce, and Quasi amongst others.

A solo US tour starts on March 21st, with a prestigious guest spot to Casiotone For The Painfully Alone (see dates below). All at Out On A Limb were already big fans of "Stay Loose" , and a batch of new songs since have managed to even surpass that. These new songs are currently being recorded for the second Crayonsmith LP, due out around February 2008, and Out On A Limb is only too delighted to be involved in the release of this.

On another significant note, this will also be the first OOAL release to come from outside Munster!

For more info, and to order "Stay Loose", go to www.myspace.com/crayonsmith . You can also join the Crayonsmith mailing list by dropping a mail to crayonsmith@gmail.com."

Frankly, I'm livid they've signed up a Dublin jackeen bastid but there you go. Money talks, bullshit notions of loyalty and a healthy regional bias, walks. There are rumours that to compensate for his origins within the Pale, Crayonsmith will be forced to perform all his gigs in a Munster rugby jersey.Too right.

Congratulations to one and all on the arrangement. I had the pleasure of meeting Ciaran recently, and he's a thoroughly great chap. I was completely ballbagged at the time though.

Z