The CLUAS Archive: 1998 - 2011

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This edition features Daragh Anderson of Codes, who has taken time out from a busy schedule that includes gigs in London, The Academy and Oxegen, to become the Sixth Key Note Speaker.CODES

Favourite Songs from the Past Year
Radiohead - All I Need
M83 - We Own The Sky
Idiot Pilot - In Record Shape
Unkle - Keys To The Kingdom
MGMT - Time to Pretend

Favourite Song Ever
I'll cop out and say John Cage's  4'33", then it can pretty much be whatever I want it to be
  
Favourite CODES Song
Currently In Algebra but it changes every few days
  
Favourite New Band/Artist
Favourite new Irish band Irish band - Halves, and on the international front currently digging The Envy Corps
  
Favourite Band/Artist Ever
  
Favourite Gig This Year
Elbow - Vicar Street
  
Favourite Gig Ever
Polysics in the Garage in London for the pure insantiy of it
  
Favourite CODES Gig Ever
Playing a charity show in Marino College in Dublin when the PA exploded in the first 30 seconds. We turned everything down and got everyone in really close and finished the show completely acoustic with no mics. It was the first time we really held a crowd. It wouldn't have worked anywhere else. Those disaster moments are always the most enjoyable in hindsight, especially when you pull them off somehow!
 
Favourite Venue
  
Favourite Piece of Musical/Recording Equipment
Our shiny Macbook Pro for opening up a whole world of cut-up electronia to us
  
Download or CD/Cassette/Record
I don’t have a Vinyl player anymore so CD's.  I'm a big "Album" fan in a traditional sense.  I like thinking of an album as a particular snapshot of an artist capturing their particular mindset at a point in time. It's about the whole package the way an artist intended it to be received.  The artwork, the sleeve notes, the songs themselves of course, the audio quality and listening from start to finish uninterrupted in the order that the artist defined. The kids are losing touch with that!
  
Favourite TV Show at the Moment
Not a big TV fan. Any old school sci-fi will do though

Best Movie Ever Seen
Again, tough to call, I love films. A toss up between; Lost In Translation by Sofia Coppola or any of Darren Aronofsky's films

Greatest Book Ever Read
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Most Listened to Radio Show
AAA on Phantom I'd say, though not a keen radio listener
 
What's in Store for CODES Next
Busy Times! Playing the Pigalle in London on Tuesday, Playing our biggest headline show yet at the Academy on July 5th, and playing Oxegen on the IMRO New sounds Stage on July 12th at 9.15pm. Then off to London again for the rest of July and commencing work on our debut album. It's always good to be busy!

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2005Michael Jackson: demon or demonised? Or both?, written by Aidan Curran. Four years on this is still a great read, especially in the light of his recent death. Indeed the day after Michael Jackson died the CLUAS website saw an immediate surge of traffic as thousands visited CLUAS.com to read this very article.