We had a huge response to this event and it is now at capacity – thank you to all the expressed an interest in coming along but could not be allocated a place. Keep an eye out for more events like this!

B+ / Mochilla
Brian Cross was born and raised in Limerick, Ireland. He attended the National College of Art and Design in Dublin graduating in 1989 with a degree in painting. In 1990 he came to Los Angeles to study photography at the California Institute of the Arts. While at Cal Arts he began work on a project entitled, “Its Not about a Salary: Rap Race and Resistance in Los Angeles” which was subsequently published by Verso Books in 1993. It was nominated as a Rolling Stone Music Book of the Year and made the NME critics best music book of the year list.

Since the publication of the book B+ has continued to work in the LA hiphop community. His first album cover work was for the Freestyle Fellowship (Inner City Griots). Since then he has done an estimated one hundred more for artists from Mos Def, Rza, Cappadonna, Q-Tip, Eazy E, Los Super Seven, Long Beach Dub All-Stars, Ozomatli, Jurrassic 5, Dialated Peoples, DJ Shadow, Company Flow, Blackalicious, Money Mark, David Axelrod, South Central Cartel, Warren G, Yusef Lateef, Madlib, J Dilla, Build an Ark, Cut Chemist, Damian Marley and Yesterdays New Quintet.

Olan / All City Records

10 years on and 50 releases deep, All City has established itself as the torch-bearer worldwide for experimental beats and productions. Championing artists like Hudson Mohawke, Mike Slott, Krystal Klear & ONRA long before the rest of the pack have caught up; All City continues to keep its integirty intact by sticking to what it knows best; selling great vinyl from all over the world, putting out original music on its own imprint and serving the Irish graffiti community with a spectrum of paints and colours to brighten up our neighbourhoods.

David Kitt is an Irish musician that crosses multiple genres. His father and uncles formed a successful touring folk group when he was young so he grew up surrounded by music, and he himself began performing live sets while studying music technology at Trinity College, Dublin. He recorded and mixed the eight tracks of his debut release in his bedroom and this debut LP, the quietly magnetic Small Moments (Rough Trade) was followed by the expansive ambient textures and looping pop mantras of The Big Romance (Blanco y Negro, 2001); his biggest selling record.

His most recent album is The Nightsaver, his sixth LP. The result of two years of late-night experimentation and 80-hour weeks, caught in the reverie of writing and recording in a home studio at the top of a winding staircase somewhere along Dublin’s Grand Canal. Without any of the baggage of collaboration or record company influence he allowed his natural influences to filter through this collection of, what are essentially, concise songs. The free-flowing nuances of disco, Kraftwerk, 90’s house music, hip-hop of all eras and the evolving legacy of crafted synth-pop from Hall & Oates to Junior Boys can be heard throughout.

Since mid-2007, David has also been playing more upbeat electronic music with his brother, Robbie under the pseudonym Spilly Walker.  David Kitt has also recently joined Tindersticks on their “Falling Down a Mountain” album and tour.

This event is hosted and compared by Fergus Murphy