The Ambience Affair make their welcome return to a live setting this June 8th at the fifth annual Helium Festival. The band have been busying themselves preparing album number two and welcomed the opportunity to play at Helium – which is in aid of Ataxia Ireland. You can get tickets (including camping) for this great micro-festival here.

The Casanova Wave is set to take his bow at the 2013 Camden Crawl Dublin on May 4th. Now in its second year, The ‘Dublin Crawl’ takes place over the May Bank Holiday Weekend and features 150 of the best Irish and international acts across the music spectrum. Get tickets here: http://www.camdencrawldublin.com/tickets

From what was another fine year for music from Ireland, we have whittled out a selection of some of our favourites. 2013 has a lot to live up to.

Well it (the year) didn’t end in the end. Or maybe it will have by the time this comes around. Either way, come and join us on the 26th if you happen across a little town called Donegal, Ireland. There will be an intensely varied spectrum of people spinning disks from 10PM until some time on the 27th. Admission free. Tip jar possibly in operation. Dancing optional.

We are thrilled to be bringing The Ambience Affair to Donegal for their first gig up these parts in what will be a truly intimate setting in The Forge, Donegal Town. The band will be in the north west in November to record their second album in a top secret location outside Letterkenny. Joining them will be amazing local musician Cara Coyle. A strictly limited number of tickets are available on the door but to ensure your place you can book in advance by emailing info [at] bluestackrecords [dot] com.

This year’s Sligo Live Festival is only a few weeks away and we are delighted to be curating our very own stage on Saturday October 27th at 5th on Teeling.  Joining us are three of our favourite acts  - The Casanova Wave, Si Schroeder and Christof. Doors will swing open around 4:30PM so come down early to witness some of the best new music in a cosy festival atmosphere in Ireland’s North West corner…

Joy of Being is the debut full-length album from The Casanova Wave.

Out on Bluestack Records July 13th 2012. Available to buy on Bandcamp iTunes and from shop.bluestackrecords.com now.

The Quarter Inch Collective have done it again. Another ‘quompilation’, another fine collection of covers featuring some of Ireland’s brightest emerging talents, including The Ambience Affair. It’s available to download for free for a limited time. Check out more Quarter Inch goodness at their main site. The QIC represent a number of artists including Ginola, Turning Down Sex and Flok. They also release music on tapes.

We’re not much into fightin’, shmokin’ or indeed drinkin’ but we’ve been enrolled in a musical brawl against the good people over at The Delphi Label.  Representing us on the night will be fresh new things The Debutantes from Galway, along with DJ-Sets from The Ambience Affair and Go Panda Go with Hector Castells providing some stunning Catalan visuals. Waiting in the wings will be a set from AdultRock and on the other side Hush War Cry from Cork, Sacred Animals and visual master Feel Good Lost await. It’s part of Independence Month at POD and will take place in Crawdaddy.

Doors are 8. Admission is €5. Curfew 3am.