Rhythm N' Brews

23/12/2020

Hey peeps... Merry Christmas and all that jazz.
Here go give one of our local boys and massive talents whom we have had the pleasure and privilege of playing on numerous times some support!!!! St John of God aka John Treacy.. Doing what he does best... GLORIA!!!
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22/03/2018

I have had the pleasure of having Stuck on repeat play Rhythm n Brews quite a few times , a gifted musican and a guilty pleasure of mine. Stuck on Repeat - Is Cork based Multi-instrumentilast Electro Pop maker John Ryan. He just released the first single 'Áthas' from his debut EP 'I Will Be A Tree'. Check it out now below , this guy is one to watch guys 😁

https://stuckonrepeat.bandcamp.com/releases

EP: https://stuckonrepeat.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-be-a-tree The first single from Stuck on Repeat's debut EP - I will be a Tree Subtitles available

29/09/2017

Cracker of a band!! Night not to be missed

22/06/2017

15/04/2017

Thank you to everyone who entered our competition for the Rhythm N Brews Easter Hamper!! The lucky winner is.....

13/04/2017

Our Easter competition closes at 4pm Saturday. Winner announced shortly after 😊

So get sharing, get tagging, and make sure to like the page! 😁

COMPETITION TIME!!!

Chocolate is a close second to our love of quality live music so...

Rhythm N' Brews are giving away this lush Easter Hamper to one lucky chocoholic!

To be in with a chance of winning, here's what you need to do:

🍫 Like Rhythm N' Brews page
🍫 Share this post
🍫 Tag another chocolate-loving friend

Winner announced on Saturday evening, 15th April!

Good luck!!! 😄

12/04/2017

COMPETITION TIME!!!

Chocolate is a close second to our love of quality live music so...

Rhythm N' Brews are giving away this lush Easter Hamper to one lucky chocoholic!

To be in with a chance of winning, here's what you need to do:

🍫 Like Rhythm N' Brews page
🍫 Share this post
🍫 Tag another chocolate-loving friend

Winner announced on Saturday evening, 15th April!

Good luck!!! 😄

07/04/2017

Our first music journalist peice by our new member of the family, Mr Eoin Coyne, give it a read and find out what your missing enjoy.

Rhythm and Brews 30th of March

The night was kicked off by Sarah Deegan and I'll be straight with you lads I missed a bit of her set. From what I saw however, she's a real talent. Despite faltering at one point she powered on like a true professional. Now I myself am more of a band guy but I can appreciate a solo musician with a guitar and I can definitely appreciate Sarah's talent and I really think she has a future in music. I love artists that can blend a melodic voice with acoustic guitar and in that regard Sarah is more than capable! I'll be saying this a lot with the artists here but look her up on the social media there and see if there's any other ways you can support her besides just liking on Facebook.

Up next was Tootawl from Cork. The man's music is poetry lads. Another solo artist yet again blending a great voice with the acoustic. I just get a vibe from TwoTawl that I haven't gotten for a while now. If you're like me, you want new music and find it hard in saturated markets of hundreds of bands that all sound the same. TwoTawl is one of the few artists that stand out from the crowd. Two particular songs from his set that stand out for me were; his cover of "The Joker" by The Steve Miller Band (I still call Steve Miller Maurice) of which I'm not normally a fan and his closing song. A country tinged tune and a half! Probably the closest I'll ever come to liking a country song. But like I said these are just two stand out movements from a great set. TwoTawl has an EP titled House on the Moon with the track About Love being a particular favourite for me.

Up next was 1000 Splendid Sons (loving that name btw). I like their concept; A band of multi instrumentalists switching instruments between songs. That's where they fall down for me though. There's good tunes and talent there but they need to work on switching out their instruments. I found it halted the pace of their set and lead to them going slightly over time. I sound like I don't like this band (I do) but once they get the instrument switch down to a science it will allow their true talent to come through. They definitely are talented bringing what I feel to be (sorry if I'm wrong on this one) a very indie/punk/grunge vibe similar to bands such as Beach Slang or Sonic Youth so if I were you I'd give them a listen. Hunt them out on social media and show them some support.

The headliners of the evening were Little Routes showing us straight up what they can do as a three piece. Launching into their set with a band new cover of Gorillaz Feel Good Inc (Humanz is going to be class lads) what stood out for me (apart from the lads being class) was Breen channelling Gorillaz fictional bassist Murdoc Niccals by just going mental on the bass, jumping into the crowd and generally being a beast. As I had hoped their new material is class. My particular favourite being (the as of yet untitled track) which I think should be named Oh ah oh ah. There was the old bit of skullduggery with regards to their decision to ditch most of their original songs in favour of the new ones. Admittedly the boys are much tighter as a three piece but in regards of the shouting of "you should have gotten rid of ginger a long time ago" (I don't support that kind of craic lads but I tell it like I see it) it's obvious people who already prefer this current incarnation of Little Routes to the original.
As well as their new stuff, one of my favourite songs from the set was their Mumford and Sons cover (I recall Blank White Page) because lads you need a little bit of Mumford and Sons. Don't try and be cool and pretend you don't like them!
Little Routes may benefit better as a three piece and with a tighter sound and new tunes we're going to be getting a lot of good stuff from the lads in the future. Finishing off the night was Seán Maher and an amazing cover of Thunderstruck. If you weren't there Thursday night you missed out. And if you're not there next month you're still missing out. Come on just go to the Rhythm and Brews lads.

This is my first official review of the Rhythm and Brews and it might be a shaky start but we'll grow together.

03/04/2017

Some photos from the other night

29/03/2017

The incredible Tootawl with his official video About Love

Catch Tootawl at this week's Rhythm N' Brews - Thursday 30th March 9pm

Adm: free

See you there!

https://youtu.be/dSCmoD6-yIo

Official music video for About Love, taken from the EP House On The Moon. Filmed and edited by The Reelists. Dancers: Vicky Collins & Ryan Lucey. Concept by ...

28/03/2017

Fantastic write up on Little Routes, who will be joining us this Thursday, 30th March in The Pumphouse!

Author Credit: Eoin Coyne

28/03/2017

The Evolution of Little Routes – by Eoin Coyne

Little Routes currently consists of Seán Maher on vocals and guitar, Briain Casey on the bass and Jamie Fitzpatrick on the drums. It has been interesting getting to this current point in time however.

The argument can be made that Little Routes started on the streets of Kilkenny with an act called Busking for Tea, consisting of Seán Maher and Brendan Burke, former bassist for Little Routes. The boys were known to many as "them two lads that busk down on Kieran Street. They’re class boy.". My first memory of Busking for Tea was seeing the two lads busking outside the town hall. I already knew Sean from school but this was my first time meeting Brendan. I knew already they were something special. The boys slowly but surely built up a following that reached even behind the confines of their home town. Between uploading footage of themselves performing online and playing gigs all over the gaff their music wouldn't be confined to the wall along Kyteler’s for much longer.

Back in the summer of 2015 the boys would release what would turn out to be their only studio album "Tennslatte". This album emerged fully formed and it was obvious the album had been already written in the lad’s heads for a couple of years. Upon a recent re-listen, I remembered how great the album is as a soundtrack to that summer (The summer of love. Not for me but for others, I assume). It was easy to tell this was a labour of love.
At this point, Seán and Brendan had been jamming and gigging with Colin and Jamie for a while. The four boys came together mixing a folky sound with alternative music that combined with electric live shows, good tunes and banter abound. They themselves had released a six-track self-titled EP around the same time Sean and Brendan recorded Tennslatte. Busking for Tea was effectively gone soon after but from this, Little Routes would emerge fully formed.

The boys journey was just beginning. Little Routes popularity was built on entertaining live sets and a likeable image. Apart from being superb musicians they seemed like the kind of lads you could have a pint with (if you ever attend one of their shows in the Brewery Corner you probably have). After their eponymous EP, they continued to develop their sound, writing new material that said that the lads had their entire musical journey mapped out in their heads. As already stated the boys had become a mainstay in the Brewery Corner. It even got to a stage where you could walk into the Brewery on any night of the week and see the lads banging out tunes and providing the craic in equal measure. For this and many more reasons, they started getting attention from further afield.

Little Routes were always going to be far too talented and charismatic to remain within the confines of Ireland, never mind Kilkenny. Last summer they hopped on a plane and charted over to Romania to concur ground there as well. Back in July the boys played at Celtic Transylvania in Beclean, winning hearts and minds abroad as well as at home. Seán and Colin would even return a few months later to preform again. This cemented the fact that Little Routes was quickly becoming one of Ireland's hottest young bands. Returning home triumphant the lads continued to work hard at their art playing gigs abound and making appearances on the radio and generally working themselves to death.

Unfortunately, back in October 2016, Brendan departed the band. Little Routes would continue on however, bringing Briain to replace Brendan - immediately fitting into his position as bassist. The lads continued to pave their path to success playing more gigs proving nothing could stop them. Then, back in December the then four-piece announced their last gig with Colin in The Pumphouse before he went to America. The gig took place on Friday the 13th of January and it was an absolute cracker. The lads were firing on all cylinders with an electric atmosphere the crowd screaming back every single word of all the songs the craic was had and it was a perfect send off for Colin and the original Little Routes.

Now two men down, if Little Routes had been a lesser band it would have stopped them in their tracks. However, the now revamped three piece powered through and with new songs written and more gigs lined up Little Routes isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

28/03/2017

Rhythm N' Brews is delighted to welcome Eoin Coyne on board it's team as our gig Journalist... We know he'll do a fantastic job and coming up soon is his superb article on the evolution of little routes. A great read and you can find the new 3 price little routes at rhythm. No brews in the Pumphouse Thursday 30th of March at 9.

16/02/2017

A bit of Purple Ocean now known as Man Alive

24/01/2017

This coming Thursday at nine Rhythm and brews preform at the Pumphouse , don't miss them !

19/01/2017

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