13 Dec 08 @ 5:34 pm
size2shoes are on Bebo / new video
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size2shoes are now on Bebo, where you can listen to all tracks from their upcoming album. They also have a new video which can be viewed on the video page, MySpace, Bebo etc. Spread the word! If you like, you can subscribe to the size2shoes YouTube channel. The new Facebook page is also on the way, so stay tuned and share your thoughts and ideas!
Bebo: bebo.com/size2shoes
MySpace: myspace.com/size2shoes
YouTube: youtube.com/size2shoesofficial
30 Oct 08 @ 5:59 pm
Sunday Independent Article
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Sunday October 19 2008
They are fairly lively, these two young men. In fact, the synergy between Eoin and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin on North Great George’s Street, Dublin, on Friday puts you in mind of Simon & Garfunkel or Steely Dan unplugged. Or even a harmonic early Sixties Mick and Keith undrugged.
The sons of acclaimed Irish musicians and singers Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Nóirín Ní Riain, Eoin and Mícheál (he calls himself Moley from The Wind in The Willows) play as size2shoes. Their acoustic performance at the Cobalt Cafe was a revelation of note-perfect harmonies (Temper Temper among them) and improvisation (Moley does Snoop Dogg in a Limerick accent while Eoin does an angsty Nick Drake).
Galway chanteuse Julie Feeney, whose new album will be out next February, joined the brothers on stage for a mesmeric and dreamlike Celtic hymn that owed as much to Van Morrison in his meditative mode as it did to the spirit world.
After the swooping vocal dynamics of their show, Eoin and Moley unwound over a drink with yours truly. Moley waxed lyrical about being Ireland’s foremost academic in rap performance practice in the south west of Ireland. (He has an MA in ethno-musicology at UL.)
He listened to a lot of gangsta rap in the dormitories of boarding school while his older brother Eoin started writing in troubadour guitar style. “We combined our creative forces to form size2shoes in 2002,” says Eoin adding that they have just recorded a self-titled album on the label that their father created.
Eoin says that size2shoes was inspired by “an American girl that Moley was kind of seeing and she was very small”.
“She was one inch off being a dwarf,” Moley says. “We never got beyond the kissing. I didn’t want to unleash the madness!”
Speaking of madness, movie star Russell Crowe played with them in a pub in Limerick two years ago.
After the show they became firm friends over strong spirits. They were supposed to reconvene in Los Angeles but Moley somehow “got the dates wrong”.
Russell blanked out a few days off American Gangster, remembers Moley, “so he could go on the piss with us for the weekend and he said he would get some creative types to come with him and we would all hang out together.
“So he rang us to tell us he was staying as Mr Black in the Presidential Suite in the Beverly Hills Hilton. We had to tell him that we were still in Ireland. ‘Oh, I better call off the troops then.’ We haven’t spoken to him since.”
- Barry Egan
09 Oct 08 @ 9:02 pm
size2shoes on ‘Sanctuary’
size2shoes have appeared on the mainly trad ‘Sanctuary’ album, featuring Irish superstars Moya Brennan of Clannad, Mary Coughlan, Cara O’Sullivan and mother Nóirín Ní Riain. The album will go to various families, through charities, supporting victims of domestic violence in Ireland. Tonight a free download by Nóirín Ní Riain has become available.
A concert will take place in Derry in the Millennium Forum, which hosts 1000 people. Book your tickets or find information on the album, including Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated Irish artists. You can purchase the album at iTunes US, iTunes UK, or search for your country here. size2shoes will perform the Scottish Gaelic “Mhorag ’s na Horo Ghellaidh” as well as other songs such as “How Can I Keep From Singing?” at the concert.
Free Ní Riain download: Celtic MP3s
Ticket Information (Venue): Millennium Forum
iTunes US: Listen to Samples / Purchase
iTunes GB/Ireland: Listen to Samples / Purchase
29 Sep 08 @ 9:03 pm
Full Tracks from upcoming album!
Keep an eye out on the website player (linked on the pic on the left) and on MySpace over the next two days for three full tracks from size2shoes’ upcoming, self-titled, début extravaganza! Don’t forget to let the lads know what you think, and feel free to post any website suggestions!
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10 Aug 08 @ 4:44 pm
Welcome!
Hallo and welcome to the official website for size2shoes! Over the next few days you will be able to hear samples of the bands upcoming self-titled album and view some cool content. Why not join the mailing list or subscribe to the RSS feed? Enjoy the site and keep and eye out for up to date news and dates from the band.
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