Dark Room Notes were the next band up at Indiependence after Wallis Bird. I saw DRN play a while back in Cyprus Avenue and have since heard them on the radio where they’re getting some coverage.
A few more photos after the jump…
Wallis Bird was the second act we caught at Indiependence last Sunday. It’s been a while since I saw her in Cyprus Avenue where she plays regularly enough but I was very impressed with her engaging and energetic live act on a bigger stage. I’ll definitely get along to her next gig in Cork which is in Cyprus Avenue on October 18th.
I have a couple of more photos from the gig in the full set on Flickr.
Ian Whitty was on the Cyprus Avenue stage at the Indiependence Festival in Mitchelstown last weekend. We had just arrived at the mudfest where the festival was located this year when we heard Ian playing so we ambled over to the tent housing the Cyprus Avenue stage. The crowds had yet to appear at this stage of the afternoon but Ian and his band put on a great show for those present. His second album from last year ‘Lucky Caller No 9′ is still one of my favourites and has a special place on my mp3 player.
I have a few more photos in the full set on Flickr.
Taken from Brown Envelope, the debut album by Aaron Dillon released last year. I’ve seen Aaron play a few times and I put his site together which is where I just found this vid.
Album available for download on iTunes at just €8.99 or at the following locations.
Plug’d records Washington St. Cork,
Charlies Bar Union Quay, Cork,
The Corner House Coburg St. Cork,
Crowleys Music store McCurtain St. Cork
Daly’s Hotel Donore Drogheda.
Last weekend I finally got around to editing Donncha’s script for adding a border using Gimp to suit my own needs. I like to have a white inner border with the copyright text in the white border. Click here to get the .scm file.
You can check out Donncha’s post for details on how to change this script for your own purposes but the change I made was to add the donal-draw-white-frame function which is then made invisible by setting the opacity to zero. I also increased the inFrameWidth variable to 10 as I wanted a bigger space for the text. I used to use a width of 5 pixels for the black border but I’m happy enough with the 10 pixel black border. I also used to have letter spacing of 1 for the copyright text but I couldn’t figure out the gimp_text_layer_set_letter_spacing () function but life’s too short! If you know how to do this, please let me know in the comments. Still, with a little compromise, I think this is going to save me a lot of time when editing photos.
I’ve also finally set up my shortcuts properly on Gimp so a quick re-size, run script, save as and I’m done.
