Album, Video, Tee-Shirt, Product

Lest your personal organiser fell into a vat of curry at the weekend, here's a reminder: the Rollers/Sparkers album launch is on this Friday (July 2nd) at The Cobblestone. Admission is EUR8, doors open at 7.30. We urge you to get there early.

Friday's show will be held in conjunction with a group of Flegendergermanophiles over from the UK known as Kosmische. They will be spinning the wheels of iron in a bid to annex the brain pans and wrest control of your musculature. Also performing will be the marvellous Schroedersound and an enigmatic cardsharp from the Welsh mountains known as The Incredible Kúnto. Be warned: he will seize your credulity and shake it until its rollers fall out.

Speaking of which, the very first Rollers/Sparkers promo video, directed by Ronan Doyle, can be viewed here:
http://www.rollerssparkers.com/rollerssparkers_wake-up.wmv.

If our server is having a nap, you can also find it here: http://www.thumped.com/videohq.php?v=213.

If you are connecting by means of a humble modem, you could try this highly compressed version, which is of questionable quality: http://www.thumped.com/video.php?v=213.

(Thanks to Pete Brady, doyen of www.thumped.com, for this.)

90% finally, if you're looking for something to do before the R/S launch on Friday evening, our pals at Dublin-based label Compact Risc are launching the new album by Northstation, entitled "Bears", in Road Records at 6pm. Northstation is the current incarnation of Steve Fanagan and you can get some idea of the sound of that incarnation by downloading some MP3s here: http://compactrisc.net/bears/. Have you enough reasons to go to the gig yet? Well here's another: it's free.

95% finally, the Rollers/Sparkers album "Second Level Crossing" will be available nationwide later this week. (For a preview of the sleeve artwork, go to http://www.rollerssparkers.com/slc.htm.) If you live elsewhere than the land of Ire, don't fret: we will be able to take Internet orders from our website soon. Also available on the site, and at the launch gig, will be the first Rollers/Sparkers tee-shirt, a sartorial must-have destined to hug chests all the way from Syria to Ballinasloe.

As a young man once yelled, "ROLLERS/SPARKERS! MORE PRODUCT! MORE PRODUCT!"