Four Waves Festival

Dublin Digital Radio celebrates 4 years on air with a 24 Hour Audiovisual Livestream. Four Waves will celebrate a diverse range of ddr. Residents and Irish based artists including R.Kitt, Fears, Sunken Foal, Eomac, Sim Simma, Natalia Beylis and more.

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Kicking off at the stroke of midnight on Saturday December 12 on listen.dublindigitalradio.com, Dublin Digital Radio will host a showcase of audiovisual livestreams, video gigs, conversations and more reflecting its ever-changing, always experimental and engaging residents and friends of ddr.It’s been one cold harsh year for live music. In collaboration with Live From Guerilla Studios and Box Moon, we want to fill the live music shaped hole in everyone’s hearts by delivering an electrifying day of live music interspersed with specially created music videos for the occasion.

We will also be releasing a ddr. compilation as part of our 4th birthday, and it’s the biggest yet: 18 tracks showcasing the incredible talent from some of the residents that keep the show on the road here at ddr. The compilation is a heady mix of oddball electronics, heavy club hitters, ambient bliss and spoken word from the likes of Reetabix, Clíona Ní Laoi, Variant Crew, Belacqua, Cosmo and plenty plenty more. This year for the first time we are also putting out a limited edition cassette. We’re keeping it a proper family affair with screen-printed inserts and covers made by Declan Synnott, featuring artwork from Karen Browett, both of whom are also longtime ddr. residents. BUY COMPILATION HERE 

The celebration will take place between ddr.’s  spiritual home of Jigsaw, Mountjoy Square, in Dublin’s North Inner City, Rebel Reads in Cork and in ddr's studio in The Complex. You can watch it all online at listen.dublindigitalradio.com.Expect ferocious live sets from Dublin’s favourite kitchen, genre defying video experiments, sleep concerts and more. Connie Keane aka Fears has been a regular resident on ddr. throughout lockdown bringing us various special radio shows, and she joins the line up for Four Waves. Connie says   “I’m so excited to be back in jigsaw with ddr. They’ve been a huge part of connecting in 2020 for me, hosting my online dance parties, stories about #boyproblems, and my single launch back in Spring. ”

We want to bring you the chaotic energy of a Jigsaw night to the safety of your home with sets from R.Kitt, Sim Simma, Eliza more. R.Kitt will headline Four Waves live from Jigsaw. He says “doing the radio has been so fun over the last few months, but it's also been a constant social outlet. shout out to everyone keeping each other company in the chat box, yis are the best. it'll be bittersweet to be in jigsaw without yis, but i'm excited to dance in the aura of past sweaty dance sessions, so close to our memories. the scent of those nights has been in me dreams over the last few months."

Every cent we raise from this stream is going to the artists once we cover costs. So please, if you can,  donate the price of a gig ticket (or festival ticket if you’re feeling generous). You can pick up a “pay what you like” ticket from EVENTBRITE or drop us a few bob via PAYPAL. The event is open to everyone but please do drop a donation if you can.

We’ll also be having an online music quiz on December 10 to cover costs for the day. Challenge your friends to see who is the superior music fan. Tickets will be released soon, stay tuned for details of where to get tickets, and what prizes are up for grabs.

Line Up: Fears, R.Kitt, Lolz, Sunken Foal, Eomac, Sim Simma, Henry Earnest, Ngoni Egan, Fulacht Fia, Eliza, Daisies, Natalia Beylis, Moving Still, Fomorian Vein, Mama Matrix Most Mystical more to be announced!

Cathy Flynn from ddr says “We wanted to celebrate the fourth birthday of ddr. with a splash so we have taken the plunge into the world of audio visual streaming for Four Waves. We all miss our favourite venues , so we wanted to give you all a peek inside Jigsaw as part of the party. You will also experience some video art, and live performances and djs sets from Cork and beyond! It is an honour to work with Decy and Natalia from Box Moon and Thom and the Guerrilla Live crew, who brought us the best live streamed gigs this year and helped us all cope with the lockdown blues. We hope you will consider giving us a donation in support of the artists involved in Four Waves - it’s been a tough year with no gigs and very little structural support coming for the arts, so Four Waves is our way of trying to give a little back to the scene which gives us so much!”Decy Synnott Natalia Beylis from the summer’s Box Moon online gigs are delighted to be involved with celebrating ddr.’s fourth birthday.

Declan Synott says “Just like our Box Moon nights in May and June, we're so excited to bring you some of the best, wildest, and strangest from across Ireland and we're so excited to team up with ddr. and Live from Guerilla Studios to help celebrate 4 years of our favourite radio station. We'll be presenting more videos and performances from old favourites, new favourites and obscure-hiding-under-a-rock-forever favourites, along with talks, videos and as much messing as we can get away with. See you in the chat box!”

12 THE DECEMBER 2020 LISTEN.DUBLINDIGITALRADIO.COM

Thanks to Karen Browett for the illustration.