As a band we believe that quality of expression is of the utmost importance. To us, music should be emotional communication, telling stories, teaching lessons, having fun, but most of all a gift from the present to the future. Rather than climbing on the back of this months fad.
Joe Cleere, as a music artist has been traveling a long route to hopeful success. Cleere picked up guitar at 11 years old and played his first gig at 12, under the act "Joe plays Jimmy (Hendrix)". At just fourteen Joe recorded his first EP in a friend’s studio in Finland. Subsequently a song from this disc, "How Does It Feel", entered the final of the Jacobs 2Fm Song Contest 2001. The
contest was aired live on 2fm from Vicar ST, Dublin.
Having received a taste for the music world Cleere, kept working hard on improving his song writing, singing and musicianship. He also started building a demo recording studio. Two years later at 16 Joe was back in the 2fm song contest final 2003, this time with a song called "All the Same".
After leaving Cert Joe decided to study a degree in PR & Communications at IT Carlow. His first year in college saw him winning the National IT Song Factor 2005. This was then followed by Cleere and his band winning the 2fm song contest 2006 of which funded the completion of his home recording studio now named "Fretless Records", which has recorded a host of local acts including the recent chart hit "Irish Party" by Shakey which reached 26 in the Irish Charts.
After graduating college Joe began recording his debut album East/West in his own studio Fretless Records. The album was then mixed by Phil Magee (Chili Studio Dublin, Westlife's Brian McFadden, The Script) and mastered in Sterling Sound New York by Steve Fallone (The Strokes, Sonic Youth and James Brown).
This year Joe received an Artlinks Bursary Award of €8,000 to help fund his release. The first single “Queue” will be launched on September 13th from Radio City Dublin and the album will be released in February 2009. The band will also be giving away 10,000 free copies of "Queue" in September 2008 to mark the introduction of the act into the music industry.
Cleere and his Band have been gigging around Ireland extensively over the past few years, playing venues such as Eamonn Dorans, Cleere’s Theatre, Voodoo Lounge and support slots for bands such as The Script (2008). They have also traveled as far as Slovakia to play festivals.
On releasing the album the band hope to start touring further in Europe and the UK.
.... we passed thru. The message is in the music......we hope you enjoy our weekly Reggae Music Video Show.
You can now put our player on your page/profile. It changes automatically each week. Come to www. myspace. com/aroundotown and grab the embed code located below the player. Thanks.
For those of you who can not access my mix this Saturday 9th August @ 22.45 by radio. Then you can listen to it online through the link below instead of the one I gave out yesterday which was the wrong one. Apologies Sean
Please have a listen to our new single "Valentine" and let us know what you think. It will be available on downloadmusic. ie and itunes. ie from Aug 15th Thanks,Tiz
Hey guys! Thanks for adding us and for digging our music! We just posted a new song, "May Our Flag Never Fall"! Check it out and let us know what you think! Cheers from the Suckered In camp!
