These are some pictures taken on the Pop For Export sessions at The Cavern Club,Buenos Aires on July 23, 2013. Flamedown, Baby Scream and Louder Than Motion's singer Aghus Samur performed that night.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Flamedown.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Flamedown.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Flamedown.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Flamedown.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Baby Scream.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Baby Scream.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Baby Scream.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Baby Scream.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Aghus Samur.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Aghus Samur.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Aghus Samur.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Aghus Samur.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. Aghus Samur.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires.
Pop For Export 07-2013 at The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires.
"Somehow Love Conquers Pain is The Kavanaghs' first album", says bass player, singer and composer Tiago Galíndez in the video documentary that comes with the CD version of the album, the bands' second one containing original material (besides the releases Christmas Again (Single) and the covers EP This Is Where We Come From). "In our first album [The Kavanaghs, 2009, ES 2215] we wanted to sound and to look retro. We wanted to be like our heroes, like the bands that influenced us. There's a change in this new album". Their debut album deliberately sounded (almost) like it was recorded in the 60's. Guitars without effects, Beatle basslines, lo fi drums, acoustic pianos, clean voices in the middle of the stereo image. In Love Conquers Pain the band seems to want to tell us that they grew tired of being compared to their idols and took to the studio all the gear they didn't use for the first album: guitar pedals, digital effects, subtle synthesizer lines, elaborated vocal arrangements and post-disco music drum patterns. Luckily, the musical and songwriting talent they shown on the first album were kept.
Love Conquers Painopens with the single "Tonight", a fast and powerful song with a little bit of The Strokes' guitars. It is followed by "Come On (Before The Wind)", written by the drummer Seba Cairo, the slower "It's Real" and "Emma Peel", the first direct reference to the 60s, the swinging London and classic pop culture (Emma Peel was the fictitious name of the girl from The Avenger classic TV series). Then there's a ballad, "Something's About To Happen", the powerful "That's All You Need To Know", that should be a hit single, "Those Days", again written and sung by drummer Seba Cairo, "About Tomorrow", reflexive and almost melancholic, sung by Tiago. Track 9 is another composition by Seba Cairo, "I Need A Pity Day"; track 10, an almost 70's funky song, crossed by guitar lines so processed that they resemble synth lines, "Last Dance", that gives way to another ballad, "Away From All We Know", that keeps growing till it reaches a Hey Jude-like final chorus full of voices. The last two tracks are the hyper catchy and radial "Love Scripts", pure powerpop with 60's tambourines, and the quiet "Waiting For The Times To Change".
This last song, relaxed and careless in which the main character seems to adopt a passive philosophy, is a strange way to finish an album that The Kavanaghs have made a conscious effort for it to be unforgettable. The CD version of the album comes as a 7'' deluxe digipak (the size of a vinyl single disc) that comes with a high quality booklet with pictures taken by Elio Truant and Ruben Abud in which the band walks around a wheat field outside of Rosario, their home town. The same effort and dedication was given to the music video for "Tonight" in which the members of the band play cards for a lot of money until a girl gets between them and causes a car chase at a famous Rosario tunnel. We like to bet high, The Kavanaghs seem to say in a subtle way, the same way we bet high by making this second album, improving the sound, the voices, the mastering, the pictures, the packaging and everything that depends on us. We are a today band, not one from the 60s, and we want to reach today people with a modern and accessible sound.
We come from Rosario, Argentina, but we want to conquer the world. If there's any justice in the land of pop music, sooner or later The Kavanaghs will. In the meantime, let's have some fun listening to Love Conquers Pain.
Arttist: The Kavanaghs Album: Love Conquers Pain Release date: October 03, 2011 Genre: Rock, Powerpop, Label: Eternal Sunday Catalog #: ES 2232
Tracklist01. Tonight
02. Come On (Before The Wind)
03. It's Real
04. Emma Peel
05. Something's About To Happen
06. That's All You Need To Know
07. Those Days
08. About Tomorrow
09. Need A Pity Day
10. Last Dance
11. Away From All We Know
12. Love Scripts
13. Waiting For The Times To Change
All songs written by Tiago Galíndez except for 02, 07 y 09 by Seba Cairo. Published by Eternal Sunday/ Universal Music Publishing.
The band from Rosario hits the intrnational press again. This time it was Golmine magazine the one that published a critic of their debut album The Kavanaghs.
Goldmine is a (proper) magazine (made of paper) dedicated to music collecting so they know what they talk about when they compare The Kavanaghs with legendary bands like The Beatles, Herman's Hermits, Badfinger, The Zombies and The Kinks.
La banda rosarina vuelve a tener prensa internacional. Esta vez es la revista norteamericana Goldmine la que publica una crítica de su álbum debut, The Kavanaghs.
Goldmine es la revista (revista de papel no blog, virtual, etc.) más importante de las dedicadas al coleccionismo musical, por lo que sus críticos saben de lo que hablan cuando comparan a The Kavanaghs con bandas legendarias como The Beatles, Herman's Hermits, Badfinger, The Zombies y The Kinks.
Los integrantes de Eternal Sunday nos enorgullecemos de anunciar que el video de la canción "Hyde Park", compuesta e interpretada por The Kavanaghs, será usado como himno no oficial del evento y proyectado durante la maratón a llevarse a cabo en octubre en el mítico Hyde Park de Londres, organizada por Royal Parks.
Esto es particularmente importante porque demuestra que los que dicen que sólo se puede exportar tango, folklore u otros estilos típicos se equivocan, ya que una banda rosarina es capaz de posicionar en Inglaterra una canción pop acerca de un típico lugar de Londres cantada en inglés, y todo esto se logró sin una gran estructura.
Nuestras felicitaciones a la banda por probar cada día que es posible competir en los principales mercados del mundo si se tienen artistas talentosos con buenas propuestas.
The Kavanaghs present the music video for "Hyde Park" shot in Hyde Park, London.
"Hyde Park" is the second music video taken from The Kavanaghs' s debut album. It has a retro look that evokes classic 60's muisc videos like The Batles' "Rain" and others.
The Argentinean powerpop/ retro rock band The Kavanaghs toured the UK in August and September, 2009. These are the most important issues about their tour.
· They played 6 shows at the Beatle week in Liverpool, at the mythical Cavern Club, the Cavern Pub and other locations.
· Most bands that perform at the Beatle week cover the Beatles repertoire. However, The Kavanaghs played their own songs plus some covers of their favorite bands (Beatles, Badfinger, Beach Boys, etc.).
· The Kavanaghs' debut album is for sale at most powerpop specialized online stores (Kool Kat, Dreamscape, Not Lame, Powerpop Academy Japan), and most of them recommended the album because of its quality. This resulted in many CD's sold, so some of the public already owned the CD and sung the songs along with the band.
· To have an English audience, in England, singing along to original songs in English performed by an Argentinean band is unheard of. This confirms that Eternal Sunday objectives of exporting local pop music sung in English are realistic.
· The Kavanaghs had different business meetings with labels and agencies. They were invited by EMI/ Parlophone to the private showcase and announcement of the remastered Beatles catalog in Liverpool, they were at Abbey Road studios and in other labels.
· They met several personalities, among them Giles Martin (The Beatles' producer George Martin's son, that remixed the album Love for the Cirque de Soleil), Sir Peter Blake, who designed the famous cover for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and with the Beatles performer Jan Britten Owen, "El Maestro", who knew the band for having shared the stage at the Cavern Club, Buenos Aires. However the most meaningful meeting was with Brian Wilson, the main composer for the Beach Boys, who was touring the UK at the time, who left his hotel room and kindly went to say hi to The Kavanaghs and thanked them for their CD. Tiago Galíndez, the Kavanaghs composer, is a huge fan of the Beach Boys and considers Pet Sound the best album of all times.
· After leaving Liverpool (not without taking pictures at all the meaningful places in Beatle history like George Harrison's house, Penny Lane, etc.) The Kavanaghs went to London where they shot some film for the music video for the song "Hyde Park" and met with music executives.
· In London they performed twice, being the most important show the benefit A Perfect Day that was presented by the actress Helena Bonham Carter, (wife of Tim Burton and actress of the Harry Potter saga among many other films). The Kavanaghs wrote the song theme for the festival called "Let Love Go All The Way (A Perfect Day)".
La banda powerpop/ retro rock argentina The Kavanaghs estuvo de gira por Inglaterra en agosto y septiembre de 2009. Estos son los puntos sobresalientes:
· Realizaron 6 conciertos en el marco de la semana Beatle (Beatle Week) en Liverpool, en el mítico Cavern Club (réplica del club en el cual los Beatles comenzaron su carrera), el Cavern Pub y otras locaciones.
· La mayor parte de las bandas que participan de la Beatle Week son bandas que cubren el repertorio de The Beatles. The Kavanaghs participó con su propio repertorio, al que le sumaron algunas canciones de sus bandas favoritas (Beatles, Badfinger, Beach Boys, etc.).
· El álbum debut de The Kavanaghs está en venta en las principales tiendas online especializadas en powerpop, (Kool Kat, Dreamscape, Not Lame, Powerpop Academy Japan), y la mayor parte de las tiendas destacó el álbum por su calidad. Esto hizo que el álbum se vendiera razonablemente bien en formato CD y en formato digital en las primeras semanas, con lo cual parte del público ya conocía las canciones de la banda y las coreaba en vivo.
· Que un público ingles coree canciones originales de una banda argentina que está tocando en inglés en Inglaterra es un hecho inédito (y confirma que los objetivos de Eternal Sunday de exportar música local en inglés son realistas).
· The Kavanaghs tuvieron diferentes encuentros de negocios con sellos y productoras ingleses. Fueron invitados por la gente de EMI/ Parlophone al evento privado de lanzamiento que se realizó en Liverpool de los CD's remasterizados de The Beatles, estuvieron en Abbey Road Studios y en la sede de varios sellos importantes.
· En la gira se encontraron con varias personalidades, entre ellas Giles Martin, el hijo de (el productor de los Beatles) George Martin, quien realizó las mezclas de Love, el álbum de The Beatles para el espectáculo del Cirque De Soleil; con Sir Peter Blake, quien diseñó la famosa portada del álbum Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band de The Beatles; con el famoso performer Beatle Jan Brittens Owen, "el maestro", quien conocía a la banda por haber compartido el escenario en Cavern Club de Buenos Aires. Sin embargo el encuentro que más emocionó a la banda fue con Brian Wilson, el compositor de The Beach Boys, quien estaba en gira por Inglaterra con su banda y bajó del cuarto del hotel a saludar a The Kavanaghs y a aceptar de regalo el CD de la banda. Tiago, el compositor de The Kavanaghs, es un acérrimo fan de Beach Boys y considera que el mejor álbum pop de la historia es Pet Sounds.
· Después de Liverpool y de sacarse fotos en todos los lugares emblemáticos para los fans de The Beatles (la ex casa de George Harrison, la calle Penny Lane, etc.) The Kavanaghs viajaron a Londres, donde filmaron material para su segundo videoclip, "Hyde Park", y mantuvieron reuniones con sellos y productoras.
· En Londres realizaron dos shows, siendo el más importante que encabezaron el festival a beneficio A Perfect Day, que fue presentado por la actriz Helena Bonham Carter (esposa del director Tim Burton y actriz de la saga de Harry Potter entre muchas otras cosas). The Kavanaghs también compusieron y grabaron la canción tema del festival "Let Love Go All The Way".
The Argentinean band The Kavanaghs will tour the UK in August and September, 2009. The first shows will take place at the legendary Cavern Club in Liverpool, during the Beatle Week. After that they'll perform in different places across the country, being the most important their presentation at the A Perfect Day festival. The Kavanaghs not only were invited to perform, they wrote and recerded the theme song for the festival called "Let Love Go All The Way (A Perfect Day)".
Eternal Sunday bands performed live at the Cavern Club (Buenos Aires) as parto of the Latin American Beatle week.
The Kavanaghs, the retro rock band from the city of Rosario, reached the final at the battle of the bands, that took place on Sunda, December 7th, leaving many dozens of artists that performed Beatles covers behind. The audience loved them.
Another Eternal Sunday artist present at the final was Jorge Vazquez, who sung leading his new band Just Us. He was awarded as the best vocalist.
Latin American Beatle Week, The Cavern Club, Buenos Aires.
Jorge Vázquez, Emiliano Canal, Jan Britten Owen
Emiliano Canal, Just Us.
The Kavanaghs, Emiliano Canal, Jan Britten Owen
The Kavanaghs live at the Cavern, Buenos Aires, Beatle Week.
Just Us live at the Cavern, Buenos Aires, Beatle Week.
