Holt album Launch & Boxes/Damien Frost/United Bible Studies

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Holt
Team Discovery Channel
Toners, Baggot street, 8:30, Wed March 24. 4 euro

Those of you who know Dave Colohan as the singer from United BIble Studies will hear an entirely different strain of his output in the Australiana band Holt. We all know somebody who went to Australia for a year with some friends, these friends formed a band and are still writing songs about their time there. They've got one good album out of it so far. It's called '80 Mile Beach'. It's too radio-friendly for a grotty little cd-r release and is out now on Deadslackstring records. The album will be on sale on the night and in Freebird. Support comes from yet another Village project Team Discovery Channel who released an elegaic 3" on New Zealand's Pseudo Arcana label recently. 4 electric guitarists weave in and out of each other. It's all improvised but very tuneful.

The Following night, United Bible Studies will be playing with Boxes and Damien Frost in the Lower Deck, Portabello, Doors: 9ish. Adm: €6. This will Rock.


Holt
Named after the Australian prime minister Harold Holt, who went for a swim and never came back, 80 Mile Beach delves into Australian culture through the use of Banjo Patterson poems (The Flying Gang) and songs about Holt’s disappearance (Harold’s Tactical Withdrawal). Their songs reflect lives on the move and endless dirt roads, broken hearts and desert crossings, the sound of rainforests at night and birds on distant islands...

The music itself is as varied as the subject matter...wide-eyed country, thundering squalls of guitar, wine-stained piano and finger-picking, sad blasts of trumpet and the drone of didjeridu, bleary-eyed harmonies and haunting late-night sounds. It’s an eclectic mix that that the band like to call the first Australiana release, although you’d have to ask Andy Irvine about that one…
Holt