Sweet Jane & The Ambience Affair
State.ie presents a double bill of the best new Irish talent. Sweet Jane’s origins lie in early 2007. From there they have successfully become one of Ireland’s most exciting new bands. The last 12 months has seen them tour furiously throughout the UK & Ireland, gaining riveting live reviews and media exposure seeing them appear on many ‘Best of 2008′ & ‘Ones to watch for 2009′ lists. In October 2008 their released their debut 5 tracks EP ‘Blackboots & Blackhearts’ through Dead Flower Records & RMG Distribution, which was recorded in Dublin, Ireland and mixed in Philadelphia, USA by the Asteroid No. 4’s very own Ryan Van Kriedt. Sweet Jane are currently knee deep in demo recording’s for their first full length studio album due for release towards the end 2009, accompanied with a strong touring schedule to keep them sweetly occupied and content for the forthcoming months. They also appeared in the first episode of RTE’s new music series ‘The Raw Sessions’.
The Ambience Affair is currently comprised of a Vocalist/Guitarist Jamie Clarke,and a drummer called Marc Gallagher. Jamie had been playing and writing for a while up until 8 months ago when he met Marc in the music shop they work in.Marc came to one of his solo gigs and decided there was room for some drums.
Jamie has been told that he has have had a really weird musical background because didn’t have any ‘cool’ older brother/sister/parents to hand me down music. He’s always had a massive fear that if he listens to ‘older’ music then he will be influenced by it and his part of the songwriting will ending up suffering from originality and it will end up sounding like what has gone before. He’s had this questioned by about 1,000 people so far in his life.
The music is just a progression from the artists who were inspired by the ones he is meant to be listening to. Marc’s musical background is something pretty great,he owns a load of vinyl and has an incredibly eclectic collection of records. Jamie thinks the fact the two of them so similar yet so completely different as regards musicality is a good thing.It helps them forge out their own sound. Trying to forge out that unique sound is something that The Ambience Affair will always strive for.
