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Check ‘Space Race’ on Spin.com, peep the new dates below.
5/24 – Hudson Terrace, New York
5/25 – San Francisco
6/02 – Forbidden Fruit, Dublin *
6/03 – Forbidden Fruit Afterparty, Dublin
6/15 – The Nest, London
6/21 – 6/23 – Japan DJ tour
7/01 – Wavefront, Chicago
7/13 – Razzmatazz, Spain
7/14 – Benicassim, Spain
(* The Shit Robot Show Live)
TSRS gets its first live outing of the year at Dublin’s Forbidden Fruit festival – Saturday June 2. More dates to come!
Annie had the first play of ShitBot’s ‘Space Race’ on Friday – check it here.
Shit Robot joins The Rapture on their German dates this week – catch him with the band on the below dates.
07/05: Zaak, Dusseldrof
08/05: Zoom, Frankfurt
09/05: Lido, Berlin
Shit Robot returns with a new 12″ on DFA. Limited pre-orders are sold-out, but you can listen to a sampler of the new release below. Or tune in to Annie Mac on BBCR1 tonight to hear the first play.
You can download the Deluxe Edition of ‘People Street’ from iTunes right now – contains the original album, remixes and videos.
The Kanyu Tree’s Irish tour begins this week – keep an eye on local press for more info.
The Kanyu Tree support Friendly Fires this Wednesday. Fancy that.
Shit Robot plays Ultra Sao Paolo on December 3.
TKT’s first headliner tour begins this week, taking them all the way to the end of the year. We’ve added another date in Sligo on December 2. The band join The Coronas for five dates in the Olympia in December.
ShitBot provides the covermount mix for the new issue of France’s finest, Tsugi. A few familiar faces on the cover too…
Watch The Kanyu Tree perform ‘Shelf Life’ on The Saturday Night Show (IoI only).
Further The Shit Robot Show live dates and DJ announced: Dublin, Barcelona, Lisbon, Paris x 2 and more here.
Grab the excellent Planningtorock ‘Pizzo’ for free while its hot.
The Kanyu Tree’s debut album ‘People Street’ entered the Irish charts at #4 on its first week. 
‘People Street’ pre-order is live on iTunes – includes two bonus tracks!
The MCDE remix of SR’s ‘Answering Machine’ is streaming on Pitchfork now. The wax is out today too. Digital in two weeks. Also, check below for a smart video from his recent Shit Robot Show Electric Picnic headliner.
The Kanyu Tree will release their debut album, ‘People Street’, on Sony Music Ireland on September 30. This is the cover artwork. Pretty, no? See the band at Electric Picnic this weekend, and on tour through September and October.
MCDE and Planningtorock (doing a doubler) have reworked ‘Answering Machine’. This is what the 12″ looks like. It’s in-store on wax on 17/09, with digital following a couple of weeks later.
For more on US dates, check here. The Robot’s new DJ mix – inspired by one A. Weatherall – is downloadable from the Synth Eastwood website now.
Pitchfork have the first play of the Fergal Brennan-directed video to ‘Losing My Patience’. Have a looksee.
Shit Robot opened for LCD Soundsystem at T5 on March 30. Village Voice, Prefix Mag and Brooklyn Vegan gave their tuppence worth. Some nice pics below, courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan.
It had to happen…
Mick Heaney speaks to the curators on the upcoming Less But Better exhibition. Which opens next week by the way – April 7 at the Exchange. Read all about it in its PDF-ular glory here.
Pitchfork have the jump on the new Hot Chip remix of ‘Losing My Patience’. Lucky devils.
The Shit Robot Show now has a logo. And if you are heading to see it at any of the upcoming US dates (which begin at SXSW this week) you can get a (wobbly) preview right here.
Delighted to be doing some work on this upcoming exhibition, Less But Better, about designer Dieter Rams, which takes place in The Exchange, Dublin, in early April. For more information, click here.
The Shit Robot Show is coming. Alarmingly soon. Check below for upcoming live dates, more to follow.
Live Dates:
04/03: Fabric, London
17/03: 508 (Live Stage) SXSW, Austin
18/03: Vice Loose Control, SXSW, Austin
19/03: La Zona Rosa, SXSW, Austin
22/03: Double Door, Chicago
23/03: Garrison, Toronto
25/03: The Vagabond, Miami
26/03: Ultra, Miami
30/03: Terminal 5, New York (supporting LCD Soundsystem)
31/03: Terminal 5, New York (supporting LCD Soundsystem)
The Shit Robot Show makes its NYC debut on March 30/31, supporting LCD Soundsystem on their last hurrah. More from James Murphy on this right here.
We’ve been quiet, and with good reason. We’ve been working on The Shit Robot Show. Which is the name of SR’s upcoming live-plus-visual live performance thing. You can read all about it in today’s print edition of The Ticket in The Irish Times, or just check it here maybe.
The live dates begin at Fabric on March 4, followed by a series of US dates, including three at SXSW. Plenty more live dates to follow on our soon-to-be rejigged website and SR’s FB.
They’re calling it a ‘Triumph!!
‘From The Cradle To The Rave’ pops up in various end of year listzzzzzz.
Picadilly Records! (no.8)
The Quietus! (no.28)
Nialler9! (no.11)
Rough Trade! (no.62)
Playground Mag! (no.52)
Clash Electronic Selection! (no.10)
Nemone drags Shit Robot into the daytime playlist. Could this be the start of something wonderful? Probably not. Caps doffed to Alex Metric for the double play of ‘Losing My Patience’ on R1 also.
Pitchfork gives away the John Talabot and streams the Mark E edit. Phew.
Proof!
No 26, to be precise.
Erol marks his return to 6Music by opening his show with M.Mayer’s craftily bonkers remix of ‘Tuff Enuff’.
The final piece in the They Are Us jigsaw landed last weekend – a delightful five-page spread in the IoS’s New Review supplement. You can read it here – there’s a PDF on the way… and if you missed out on the screen prints, you will be able to pick them up from Damien Dempsey’s website presently.
You know how hard it is to get a PDF in this town? Or that town…
The RCRDLBL weekly chart anyway. They all count right? Take that Kanye etc…
Merde alors! Sheet Wobot on a rather unlikely looking French evening show! Check it here.
RCRDLBL step up with a radio edit of the new single. Ohhh!
Pitchfork premiere the Eoghan Kidney-directed, Nancy Whang-starring, New York City-located video for ‘Take ‘Em Up’.
The Robot speaks to Richard Kingsmill on Australia’s Triple J. A pretty nifty Robot DJ mix airs on the station on Nov 13.
thanks to Bot fan Bobby. This is GREAT! and while we’re at it, ShitBot’s Ravelton mini-mix for Annie Mac can be streamed right here.
Tuff Enuff’ and ‘Take ‘Em Up’, either side of the weekend.
Five minutes of rave from the Robot, big up Annie…
An expansive interview with Shit Robot…
Philip Bromwell’s lovely piece can be seen on the RTE player – 35 minutes in.
Maser and Damien Dempsey will be on RTE’s excellent Arena show tonight around 7.45pm. We will post the audio once we get it. The exhibition will also be featured on RTE’s Six:One news on Friday.
Maser and Damien Dempsey’s They Are Us exhibition open this weekend – full details here.
A Rave Review from Jim Carroll in the print edition of The Irish Times – check it here.
So the NME, Pitchfork, and The Irish Times all like the record. As do quite a few others.
Deejays like Annie Mac, Annie Nightingale and Pete Tong are feeling the Shit Robot love, while In New DJs We Trust’s Heidi likes the Robot so much, she interviewed him. Phew.
US mega-site XLR8R have the exclooosive stream of SR’s debut album.
A super-nice feature in the print edition of the Irish Times on They Are Us and the lost art of sign-writing, featuring Maser and the son of ‘The Gentleman of Letters’, Dublin sign-writer Kevin Freeney – check in in all its pdf glory here.
Handmade by Maser and Albert Hooi, it was premiered by the nice chaps at NME.
AOL’s rather popular Spinner features ‘I Found Love’.
Dazed Digital speak to the Robot.
Rob Da Bank debuts ‘Losing My Patience’.
‘I Found Love’ debuts on XLR8R, and subsequently pops up all over the place.
Nice, brief TAU mention in the latest Totally Dublin.
They Are Us landed the cover and a nice five-pager in today’s edition of The Dubliner.
SR makes a unlikely appearance on Uncut’s blog.
The final chapter of They Are Us involved painting the side of one of the Ballymun towers in Dublin. A short item on this appeared on RTE’s Six One news on July 30. You can watch the piece on RTE’s player until August 6 via the link below (Forward to c.41 minutes to see item).
http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1077758
The good word continues to spread…
Lots of Shit Robot related stuff going on – here’s one thing we like: the TBD remix of Shit Robot at RCRDLBL.
They Are Us get a mention in The Irish Times’ Saturday magazine, July 26.
This are managing Shit Robot. His debut album, ‘From The Cradle To The Rave’ is due on September 21 on DFA (US) and Coop (UK/EU).
They Are Us is the name of a series of outdoor public art works inspired by Dublin City. They were painted by artist Maser and feature words by musician Damian Dempsey. This.ie is handling PR for this project.
The art works are visible at over 16 sites sites across Dublin. The locations are diverse, and include well-known city centre buildings, prison walls, hidden laneways and one iconic tower. The project will raise funds for the Simon Community. A number of limited edition prints of the art works are available from www.theyareus.ie.
