The Tourorists at the Nest at Coughlans
Formed in the first Irish bar in Lisbon in 2017 and having played their way around Portugal since, the Tourorists come to Ireland for the very first time — for a mini-tour of not-so-mini-places. Bringing their blend of folk, punk, rock and storytelling from the depths of NYC, the mean streets of Lisbon, and the puddles of Cork, Fodasse O'Neill and Communistopher Gomez will take to the stage to share songs of love, death, sudden loss of employment, homeless etiquette, god’s questionable orgasms, Behemoth the Cat, and other stuff too.
The band has released two EPs to date — "Enhanced Interrogation in a fun-sized can" in 2020 and "Project Hector" in 2022 — each accompanied by singles, music videos, and even cassettes. Said Extended Plays were released via Garden Collective and would't have been released at all if not for a host of friends, family, and co-conspirators — including Trafka Studio, Waahs Studios, Mark Waldron-Hyden, Foggy Project, Camcat, S.Awry, the Benfo crew, love, COVID, and more...
The Choke Collective
The Choke Collective is a multi-disciplinary performance art collective made up of Michau Weber, Borko Vranjkovic, Mariusz Pasek and Ciarán MacArtain. They were founded in 2015 and produced Tumbling Birds for Obheal’s Winter Warmer Festival. The piece featured performative adaptations of the poetry of Polish nobel-prize winner, Wis?awa Szymborska and showcased the sound-art of her countrymen, Michau Weber, as well as the groups’ own poetry/theatre making and songwriting. Their sound comprises of spoken word poetry, rap, hip-hop, jungle, drum&bass, alt-rock, dub, techno, electronica and improvised beats built live. They are known for politically charged, socially conscious versus and experimental sound. They are delighted to launch their debut release, Gag Reflex in Coughlans’ alongside comrades-in-adventure, The Tourorists…
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