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Pugwash live @ Whelans, Thursday Aug 11th

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  • 21-06-2011 6:01pm
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    whelanslive
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    Pugwash + guests

    Thursday 11th August
    Whelan’s Of Wexford St
    Doors 8pm

    Tickets: €10 (incl booking fee) available from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078] & Tickets.ie


    “Pugwash’s Thomas Walsh has been quietly crafting classic pop melodies for almost a decade, but only now is he getting the credit he deserves.” – State Magazine

    In the three years since the last Pugwash album – 2008’s critically acclaimed ‘Eleven Modern Antiquities’ – Thomas Walshe has received nominations for a ‘Meteor Award’, ‘Choice Music Prize’ and the most coveted of all an ‘Ivor Novello’ nomination for his collaborative songwriting work with Neil Hannon on the hugely successful ‘Duckworth Lewis Method’ album. The first ever ‘cricket-pop’ album has been causing a stir all over the world with fans as diverse as Jeff Lynne (ELO), Stephen Fry, Kevin Smith (Hollywood Movie Director) and Sir. Stuart Rose (owner of Marks & Spencers). With a new Pugwash album due out in 2011 Walshe looks to be finally receiving the critical and commercial attention that his work so richly deserves.

    Thomas was born in his parents’ house in Drimnagh in 1969. “Lazy bugger even then I was, not wanting to go to the hospital to be born”. As men landed on the moon and the sixties were officially coming to a grand musical close at Woodstock, Thomas set about listening to all the classic pop music that was streaming forth literally every week from his parents TV, radio and stereo. “My brothers started to bring Al Stewart, Mike Oldfield, Queen and E.L.O records into the house along with Roy Wood, Slade and Gilbert O’Sullivan ones that my Mam and Dad already had there…..you can see why I’m steeped in a love of great pop!”.

    Thomas, in his guise as PUGWASH has released 7 albums in ten years and been given numerous accolades..one of which is still a ‘goosepimple’ moment for him. “Back in 2006 Brian Wilson’s manager David Leaf obtained my e-mail through an acquaintance and sent me a mail saying that Brian loved my track ‘It’s nice to be nice’ and as he was coming to Dublin to play in Vicar Street he’d love to meet me. MEET ME!!?? He came, I met Brian, he said ‘Hey! You’re the nice to be nice guy’, I said ‘Yes’ and he said ‘Great song’…..I still think it was all a fantastic dream to be honest”.

    After years of artistic success it was time to get something more out of the music game, so of course an album all about cricket was the obvious step towards that..??!! No? Well 50,000 sales in the U.K, a Top 40 U.K debut chart placing, numerous award nominations, famous fans (Simon le Bon and Noel Gallagher to name but two more) and sell out shows in London (Queen Elizabeth Hall) and Dublin (Olympia) all within a year of the release of ‘THE DUCKWORTH LEWIS METHOD’ certainly adds up to a resounding YES!!

    In 2010 Thomas & Pugwash were snapped up by the renowned AMA - Music Agency and Thomas has just secured a worldwide publishing deal with SONY/ATV. August 2011 will see Pugwash release their 5th album “THE OLYMPUS SOUND” on none other than the venerable EMI, the bands new home


    http://www.pugwashtheband.com/


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