/ / / THE FLAWS TO PLAY OXEGEN We are delighted to annouce that the flaws will
be playing the IMRO New Sound Stage, Friday 10th July 22.15pm
at this years Oxegen festival. The lineup at this years festival
is amazing and we were delighted to be invited along for what
should be a great weekend.
/ / / NEW TRACKS FOR ALBUM NO. TWO Over the past few months the band have been writing
lots of new material for the 2nd album and quietly laying
down some demos at Tumbleweed Studios and their own A/B Studio
rehearsal space. The lads are very pleased with the outcome
so far and are looking forward to showcasing these new songs
to a live audience at Oxegen ’09.
/ / / NEW SLOW DANCE VIDEO
/ / / 'THE KILLING MOON' COVER
The band have also recorded a cover of Echo And The Bunnymens
"The Killing Moon" for a charity album in aid of
Aware. The album “Sparks In Mind” was released on 1969 records
in June 2009 and also features cover versions from BellX 1
, Republic Of Loose, Lisa Hannigan and Damien Dempsey among
others.
/ / / FRATELLIS SUPPORT AMBASSADOR
DUBLIN The flaws have been invited as special guests to
the fratellis for their sold out show in the Ambassador, Dublin
on Sat 15th Nov. If you have a ticket try to make it in early
& spread the good word.
/ / / 2FM SESSION SUNDAY 9th NOV
The band recorded a 2fm session including an interview with
Cormac Battle for his show which will be broadcast beetween
9.30pm-12 midnight this Sunday the 9th Nov. The lads did two
new songs: ‘Stretch of the Evening’ and ‘I don’t wanna dance’
and they also did a cover of Killing Moon by Echo and the
Bunnymen.
/ / / UPCOMING TV APPEARANCES... Oct 9th - RTE TV The Café-performance of new single
'Idolise' 7pm Oct 10th - TG4 TV Sile acoustic performance of Idolise,
snippet of Out Tonight Video and competition 17.30 Oct 15th - TG4 Imeall new arts show performance of
Idolise 23.05
/ / / THE FLAWS ON DOWNLOADMUSIC.IE
COMPILATION Downloadmusic.ie
has released a compilation of the best independent irish music
packaged on a 1GB USB key. The compilation includes The Flaws,
Saccade, The Rumours, Driving By Night, The Radio, Roberta
Howett, OrphanCode, SUDDYN, Ro Tierney, Codes, Justinmanville,
Dirty Epics, Jo and the Flood, The Kinetiks, Vesta Varro.
A must for fans of Independent Irish music.
/ / / RTE's EURO 2008 CLOSER
/ / / FREE
DOWNLOAD 'NO ROOM' ON NOKIA MUSIC STORE
The Flaws 'No Room' is availalbe as a free download on the
Nokia
Music Store. Simply register on the site and download
your free track.
/ / / BEST
BAND NOMINATION ON BALCONY
TV
The Flaws are nominated in the Best Band category of the BalconyTV
Music Video Awards 2008. You can watch the nominations being
announced by Tom and Pauline of BalconyTV here: http://www.balconytv.com/
The award night, to be held in Dublins Sugar Club on June
20th 2008 will celebrate the best of BalconyTV in the past
year.
/ / / NEW
DOWNLOAD SINGLE 'OUT TONIGHT' The
Flaws will release their new single ‘Out Tonight’, on the
May 16th as a download only. Taken from their Choice and Meteor
nominated debut album ‘Achieving Vagueness’ The band have
also put the finishing touches to the video that will accompany
the track, shot in documentary style with live and backstage
footage from their tours over the past year.
Its available from all the usual online outlets or text 'music
950' to 57501 to add download to your account at www.downloadmusic.ie.
(Texts cost €1, which includes operator revenue share. ROI
only).
/ / / FESTIVAL
FEVER - GLASTONBURY / ELECTRIC PICNIC & MORE... The
Flaws have been announced in the lineup for no less than 9
summer festivals including Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, Castlepalooza
and Indie-Pendence among others and possibly even more to
be added. The lads are all off buying hats, shades, raincoats,
wellies, toilet roll, baby wipes & all the other festival
essentials. Hope to see you out in about.
/ / / DAN
HEGARTY WITH THE FLAWS AT MURPHY’S LIVE 2008
The Flaws set from their special guest headline slot at the
Murphys Live in Cypress avenue will be aired on Thurs 8th
May at 12 Midnight. The set was recorded by Damien Chanells
for 2FM LIVE at the MURPHY’S LIVE SEMIFINAL in Cyprus Avenue
Cork on April 10.
/ / / FREE
TICKETS FOR MURPHYS LIVE @ CYPRUS AVENUE (CORK) Would
you like free tickets to see The Flaws play Murphys Live in
Cyprus Avenue on Thursday 10th April 2008? Simply email lisa@theflaws.com
with your name, postal address and mobile number and the number
of tickets you require and Murphys Live will post your tickets
to you. Please note the ticket does not guarantee admission
if the venue is full so do come down early. Hope to see you
there, The Flaws
/ / / UPCOMMING
RADIO
Tuesday 11th March - 8.45am - Ian Dempsey Breakfast show live
acoustic/interview
Tuesday 11th March - 11am - Edel Cofffey live acoustic/interview
7pm Balcony TV pre-record acoustic
/ / / TV
- IMEALL GEAL- BBC 2 NI / / / FREE BUS The
Flaws will perform on BBC 2 NI new music program Imeall Geal
on Thurs 21st feb at 10pm - Republic of Ireland SKY channel
144.
The show is being recorded in a TV Studio in Newry on Sunday
17th of February. Thats the night after our upcoming Spirit
Store show.
The good news is that you can go too!!!!!!!! if your in the
area of the North East at least.
Free bus leaving Dundalk at old shopping centre, where Mathews
bus pick up at 12. Free bus returning at 5pm to Dundalk. Refreshments
will be available.
To confirm ticket and bus place- Email ig@bigmountainproductions.com
or call 048 30268719. Foy Vance will also be performing.
Remember its FREE!!!!!!
/ / / UPCOMMING
RADIO Fri
1st Feb at approx 11.30am
Pat Kenny Radio Show, RTE Radio 1, two tracks live and interview
/
/ / UPCOMING TV APPEARANCES
Sunday 27th January at approx 11.55am WETV
- RTE 2 (recorded at rds music Ireland)
Sunday 3rd February at approx 11am WETV
- RTE2
/
/ / CHOICE MUSIC PRIZE NOMINATION We are
very proud to announce that our debut album 'Achieving Vagueness'
has been nominated for the Choice Music Prize. The 10 Album
shortlist was announced last night (9th Jan) and the event
will take place on February 27th in Vicar Street; tickets
are €27 and go on sale Monday, January 14th at 9am from Ticketmaster>>
/
/ / 2 METEOR AWARD NOMINATIONS We are
delighted to announce that The Flaws have been nominated for
two Meteor Awards in the categories ‘Best Irish Album’,
and ‘Best Irish Band’. The awards will take place
at the RDS, Dublin on Friday February 15th 2008.
These are both public voting categories and voting is open
now. To vote for the flaws for Best Irish Band, text "VOTE
BAND 5" to 085 7114444 and to vote for the flaws in the best
Irish Album category text "VOTE ALBUM 4" to 085 7114444. Voting
is open to all Irish mobile networks and will be charged at
standard text rates. Online voting is available on www.meteor.ie
/ / / YOU
AND I VIDEO ON TG4 You and
I will be aired this Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th Dec at
6pm on TG4 / Pop4.
/
/ / THE FLAWS ON PODGE AND RODGE The flaws
will be paying a visit to Irelands favourite bachelors Podge
and Rodge on RTE 2 Tues 20th Nov. The lads will be trying
to strike it lucky on Podge and Rodge's 'Rock 'N Roulette'
where a spin of the wheel will dictate the musical fate of
the band. For a taste of whats in store visit http://www.rte.ie/tv/thepodgeandrodgeshow/
/ / / THE
FLAWS APPEAR ON AIFRIC, TG4 - THURS 6TH DEC The band
make a special appearance on TG4 soap drama Aifric. The show
will be aired on Thurs 6th Dec and will have a guest appearance
by the flaws making their 'acting' debut. Did somebody just
say "the monkees"??
/ / / UPCOMMING
RADIO Nov
22nd - Anna Livia indie hour - live acoustic session 9pm
Dec 4th - Icon / Phanton FM - live acoustic / interview 8pm
Dec 9th - Last Splash / Today FM - acoustic/interview 8pm
/ / / UPCOMMING
TV APPEARANCES.... We will
be on TV a couple of times this week so dont forget to set
your vcr.
24th Oct The Last Broadcast RTE 2 @ 23.30
25th Oct The Café RTE 2 @ 7pm
26th Oct Nightshift interview @ 00.35
3rd Nov WE TV RTE 2 @11AM
/
/ / 'YOU & I' DOWNLOAD ONLY SINGLE We
will be releasing 'You and I' as a download only single on
2nd November. Copies have been sent to all the local and national
radio stations so if you are not hearing it and would like
to then get on to them with a request.
/
/ / DOWNLOAD ACHIEVING VAGUENESS WORLDWIDE
@ ITUNES Achieving
Vagueness is available to download from various digital music
services worldwide including itunes, Napster, emusic.com downloadmusic.ie,
etc...
/ / / BPM WEXFORD INSTORE 28th OCT We will
be doing an instore in BPM in Wexford on Sunday 28th of October
at 3.30pm
/
/ /
ACHIEVING VAGUENESS
PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE
@ CDWORLD.IE CD World
are now taking online orders for The Flaws debut album Achieving
Vagueness. For those outside of Ireland you will be able to
order it online and have it shipped straight to your mail
box as soon as it is released. Similarily those of you in
Ireland who'd just prefer to order it from your ergonomic
leather chair rather than wear out the soles on your new shoes
you may also order it now by clicking the following link...
CLICK
HERE!
/ / /
ELECTRIC PICNIC The Flaws play the Crawdaddy Stage at 1.15pm on
Sunday 2nd Sept. Its a really great festival so we're all
looking forward to it.
/ / /
DEBUT ALBUM 'ACHIEVING VAUGENESS'
RELEASED SEPT 14TH
The Flaws are delighted to release their debut album on their
own indie label 'Arrivals Records'. The album was recorded
at Grouse Lodge and Tumbleweed Studios and mixed at Apollo
Studios. We are all very happy indeed with the results and
have been getting some favourable feedback thus far.
It will be available in all good record stores nationwide
or download it from various digital music services worldwide
including itunes, Napster and downloadmusic.ie.
/ / /
TV The video for current single ‘1981’ is
on rotation on Channel 6 ‘Nightshift’
The lads perform a brilliant acoustic version of ‘1981’,
on TG4’s POP4 on Sep 1st and on City Channel’s ‘On
the Box’ on the 6th Sep
/ / / JULY
2009
Fri 10th July Oxegen
IMRO New Sound Stage, 22.15pm
The
Flaws will release their new single ‘Out Tonight’, on the
May 16th as a download only. Taken from their Choice and Meteor
nominated debut album ‘Achieving Vagueness’ The band have
also put the finishing touches to the video that will accompany
the track, shot in documentary style with live and backstage
footage from their tours over the past year.
The
Flaws have been announced in the lineup for no less than 9
summer festivals including Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, Castlepalooza
and Indie-Pendence among others and possibly even more to
be added. The lads are all off buying hats, shades, raincoats,
wellies, toilet roll, baby wipes & all the other festival
essentials. Hope to see you out in about. 
Would
you like free tickets to see The Flaws play Murphys Live in
Cyprus Avenue on Thursday 10th April 2008? Simply email 
The
Flaws will perform on BBC 2 NI new music program Imeall Geal
on Thurs 21st feb at 10pm - Republic of Ireland SKY channel
144.
/
/ / 2 METEOR AWARD NOMINATIONS
/
/ / THE FLAWS ON PODGE AND RODGE
/
/ / 'YOU & I' DOWNLOAD ONLY SINGLE
