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Tindersticks with 3epkano

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In 1993 the Tindersticks’ eponymous debut introduced listeners to their dark, genre-blending world and instantly struck a chord with music fans in a landscape dominated by fey indie bands and anodyne dance.

Celebrated for their honest, passionate explorations of romance and masculinity delivered in Stuart Staples’s rich, tremulous baritone, Tindersticks have scaled some dizzying heights, from duets with Isabella Rosselini to selling out the Royal Albert Hall. After a five-year hiatus in the mid 2000s, a reinvigorated and newly-stripped-down band returned in 2008 with a flurry of inspiration that has so far spawned three soundtracks, two new studio albums and even music for a Louis Vuitton fashion show. Their latest album, Falling Down a Mountain, finds their sound as distinctive as ever, mixing “bruised glamour and finely-wrought arrangements” (The Guardian) with a new-found playfulness and verve, and their cinematic sense of grandeur is sure to find the perfect venue in St Canice’s Cathedral.

3epkano are a Dublin-based, seven-piece band dedicated to producing original soundtracks for silent and avant-garde cinema. Since their inception in 2004, the group have devised live scores for everything from Tron to silent classics such as Nosferatu, Sunrise and Faust. They have played numerous headline shows in Ireland and the US to great critical acclaim, and been commissioned to produce new music for prestigious institutions such as The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Fringe Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Centre and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, where they formed the centerpiece of BAM cinematek’s tenth anniversary celebrations. Their third album is due for release later this year. Curators of WIRED in 2008, when their programme included Mercury Rev, Spiritualized, Lisa Hannigan and Somadrone, they return to Kilkenny for the third year in a row, bringing their dynamic, experimental soundscapes to the haunting acoustics of St Canice’s.

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Always one of the best bands you’ve never heard of, Tindersticks have been creating quiet moments of musical magic on the margins for a number of years.
- The Irish Times