The Pale at Folk Holidays Festival

Matthew Devereux

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The Pale play RTE Radio 1 Arena session

Sean Rocks - presenter of RTE Radio 1's Arena arts programme

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Click here for podcast of Arena Session

The Pale have recently recorded a session for RTE Radio 1’s flagship arts programme “Arena”. It’s hosted by Sean Rocks and it airs every weekday at 7.30 pm.

The Pale’s session will air on the evening of the 15th Sept and you can tune in by going to RTE’s website at the following link: -

http://www.rte.ie/radio/index.html

Tracks recorded include “You Play Indie Music”,  ”Lights Out Boys” and a special version of the programme’s theme tune(!) along with a conversation between Sean and Matthew about The Pale’s past, present and future.

We also hope to link to the podcast of the interview / session shortly after it is broadacst, just in case you don’t catch it first time round. Enjoy!

L-R, Darren Flynn, Aidan O'Grady, Sean Rocks, Matthew Devereux, Shane Wearen, Andy O'Brien

New Video – “Chocolate Factory”

Animated videoclip for The Pale’s “Chocolate Factory” created during Folk Holidays Festival 2009 in Namest nad Oslavou.

Many thanks to Vlad’ka Macurová, Veronica Szemlová, Marek Gabriel Hruška, Linda Audyová and the many others it took to make this video!

Busking in Náměšť town square

Matthew and Shane busking “The New Resistance” in the town square in Náměšť nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, during the Folk Holidays Festival week.

New Video – “You Play Indie Music”

Directed by Mark Cantwell (ItIsOn) and Matthew Devereux

On set for “You Play Indie Music”

Matthew Devereux, Mark Cantwell

Video director Mark Cantwell gets up close and personal with Matthew on the set of “You Play Indie Music”

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Eamon Carr interviews Matthew Devereux

IT’S BEYOND THE PALE

One of Dublin’s quirkiest bands are bigger in Budapest than they are at home

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Why Go Bald, The Pale’s debut album titled after Dublin’s iconic neon sign, was released in 1990. A few years later the band enjoyed their biggest success with Dogs With No Tails, which became a Euro hit again in 2001 when covered by a Turkish ska band.

Perversely, The Pale’s mainman Matthew Devereux was operating below rock’s  critical radar until the release over the last few years of two impressive albums on the excellent label, 1969 Records.

“I’ve been threatening to make these records for quite a while,” says Devereux. “I’ve got OCD when it comes to songwriting. For each record I produce 40 tracks and keep breaking it down until I find a theme or family group. I like a song to be slightly like a cousin. I’m a fan of the classic songwriters like (Nick) Cave. I’ll recognise a song and say, ‘That’s a cousin of another song because it has that gammy eye or quintessential red hair.’ I theme-ise the songs.” Read more »

Proper Order – Reviews

METRO Newspaper, Thurs 21st May, 2009

Proper Order
1969records
Review by Eamon de Paor  **** 4/5 stars

From the unexpected return of Blur  to the surprisingly convincing resurrection of Take That and Boyzone, 1990s nostalgia is heavy in the air at the moment – so it’s probably as good a time as ever for The Pale to release the best album of their career.

Still dogged by the ‘wacky’ tag that has followed them since their once inescapable 1992 hit Dogs with no Tails, the Dublin four-piece long ago grew into a more mature and interesting proposition (without abandoning that trademark mandolin) – and Proper Order offers irrefutable proof that sometimes musicians are at their most articulate in their autumn years. Read more »

Proper Order

“Where can I get it?”

You can order the CD, which includes a 12 page booklet containing lyrics of all songs, from 1969records.com. The record is distributed by RMG and available in all good record stores nationwide. For digital downloads you can get the MP3’s now from 7digital.com

The First Delivery

This Hot Press cover is from the around the time of the very first full album “Here’s One We Made Earlier” in 1992.