Christmas Gig 13th December!

Hey folks!

On Wednesday, December 13th, Patrick Freyne and his Bad Intentions play a special Christmas gig at Crawdaddy. Support on the night will come from the amazing Miriam Ingram and the fantastic Crayonsmith.

Looking forward to seeing you all there, should be an excellent night!

Here's where you can find out some more about Miriam Ingram and Crayonsmith:

Miriam Ingram
Crayonsmith

Doors 8pm Adm 10e

Also: Here's some of the nice praise we've been getting for the album! Thanks to everybody who's bought it so far. If you haven't got it, it should be available in your local record shop right now, and if they don't have it, they'll be able to order it for you! We'll also be selling the CD online pretty soon, so watch this space.

Anyway...here's the praise:

"Freyne's gravely voice was born for mournful country songs… Patrick Freyne and His Bad Intentions are endearingly ramshackle with their electronic beats and esoteric collection of instruments and absolutely charming to listen to." Bandwagon.ie

"a really lovely record. Sinister and sweet all at once," Rennie Sparks from the Handsome Family (yah!)

"a roughly hewn gem, a record of small but crucial pleasures - adrift in the stew of surrounding commercial dross but so comfortable within its own skin that it's positively life affirming." The Irish Times

"The playing is subtle yet resonant, the subject matter weighty yet often humourous. No mean feat." The Sunday Tribune

"it's my kind of record," Alison Curtis Today FM.

Album Launch

Hi Folks,

We're launching our album "Nobody Ever Dies" in Crawdaddy on 24th October,

Admission is 10 euro

Feedback from the press about the album has so far been overwhelmingly positive, and we hope that you, and your friends, and your friends friends, and your aunts, uncles, cousins, pets, parents, grandparents, children and all other associates or acquaintances will be able to come along on the 24th. We're looking forward to seeing you all there.

Our distributors Gael Linn tell us that the album will be in shops by the start of November, and we'll be playing instore in Tower Records in Wicklow Street at 6pm on November 3rd

latest upcoming gig dates are:

Oct 24th Crawdaddy, Dublin
Oct 31st Roisin Dubh, Galway Supporting Howling Bells
Nov 3rd Tower Records, instore, 6 PM
Nov 3rd Carnival, Catchy Go Go Records night
Nov 4th The Saturday Sessions, The Underground, Carlow (To be Confirmed)
Nov 22nd Strange Brew night, Whelans Dublin

Lastly, as mentioned, the reviews the album has received so far have been excellent, and we hope to have some of them up on the website shortly. The website is undergoing a bit of a revamp at present, so look out for new sections, and lots more Patrick Freyne and his Bad Intentions goodness....

See you all on the 24th

HWCH, tour etc...

Hi folks,

our album should be going into the shops in October and we have a spate of gigs planned.

But for now: We're playing the Hard Working Class Heros Festival on October 14th in Pravda. As part of this festival they produce a compilation of the most listened to tracks on their website.

If you could go here: http://www.hwch.net/bands.php then click on Patrick Freyne and His Bad Intentions and then click on the track (Why are things so Hard?) then you would not only hear that fine song but you would also make us look cool on front of the other bands and girls would like us.

Tour dates announced so far:
27 September - Crawdaddy, Dublin. Supporting Kelley Stoltz
28 September - Roisin Dubh, Galway. Freyne solo
30 September - Crawdaddy. Benefit gig for Aware
1 October - The Boom Boom Room, Dublin. Supporting Jawbone
7 October - Cleeres, Kilkenny
8 October - The Spirit Store, Dundalk
14 October - Pravda. As part of the Hard Working Class Heroes Festival
24 October - Crawdaddy, Dublin. Headline and Dublin launch gig

ALSO: see here for story on rte.ie website

Album Update and Patrick solo tour

Album Update
Good news everyone! as professor farnsworth says...

The album is at last mastered, kudos (damn myspace lingo) to Liam Grant for the excellent job.

Myself and Patrick are currently emailing each other artwork, as we race to get everything together in time for our pressing deadline.

Also, Les has remixed Digging Holes - listen to it live (?) on myspace...

Patrick solo Tour
Patrick's doing a 3 gig solo tour this august supporting Jeff Lewis (also playing solo).

Dates are as follows:
Aug 21 2006 Roisin Dubh, Galway
Aug 22 2006 Princes St. Unitarian Hall, Cork
Aug 23 2006 Crawdaddy, Dublin

Jeff Lewis is a really cool guy who we played with in Crawdaddy earlier this year. Apart from being a genuinely very nice guy, he also plays excellent songs with excellent, often hilarious lyrics, projects short cartoon films. He also makes and sells his own comics.

for more info on Jeff, see http://myspace.com/jefflewisband

Latest News and Gigs

Hey folks,
Here's the latest news

Album:
The album is pretty much ready to be mastered, the provisional release date is in early october

Gigs:
25th July: 4 Dame Lane - Last Tuesdays adm 6e
26th July: Sugar Club, Supporting Trachtenburg Family Slideshow players

peace out

eoin

Gigs

Hey folks,
We're playing at the Sugar Club on Wednesday 31st May supporting Stuart A Staples of Tindersticks fame...

We're also playing in the Hub (underneath the Mezz in Temple Bar, pretty much opposite the I.F.I.) on Thursday June 8th. This gig is a benefit concert for Arthur Lee of the band Love, who is ill with leukamia at the moment. He doesn't have any health insurance (rock and roll!) so this is one of many gigs being held across the U.S. and Europe in order to raise money for his medical treatment. Other acts lending their support on the night include The Dudley Corporation, Jape, and the Mighty Stef.

More info in this RTE entertainment news article

Gigs with Willard Grant Conspiracy and other stuff

Hi folks

Patrick Freyne and his Bad Intentions are supporting the excellent Willard Grant Conspiracy in Crawdaddy on the 28th of April and in the Spirit Store in Dundalk on the 1st of May.

There’s also an interview with me about my film “The Boy Who Was Dubbed” here: http://darklightfestival.blogspot.com/ and I put a video I made for my old band the NPB up on www.myspace.com/patrickfreyneandhisbadintentions

So yet again thanks to the Music and Media Technology Course in Trinity. A year later and I’m still coasting on the projects I made.