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The Arrangements

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About Me


The Arrangements are a four piece Indie/Rock outfit from Waterford (Ireland), officially grouped April 06, making their first public appearance in Paul Flynns, Waterford 20th April, followed by a support slot with UK Chart Toppers The Feeling in Whelans, Dublin, 2 days later. The following month saw the band embarking on a mini 5 date tour supporting Polydor's latest signing, Irish indie outfit The Flaws ,Their music is a blend of Indie Rock with a good helping of pop sensibilities, blending the occasional synth/piano melody into the mix to adjust the colour and contrast. This is not a manicured pop affair, but a hard edgy infectious aural assault, with the rhythm section delivering a driving thunderously tight performance. Add the outstanding emotive falsetto vocals from your front man, coupled with urgent lead lines from Kenny, and you have a 4 piece packing one major punch. The Arrangements have a no-filler policy, and with an arsenal of hook-heavy catchy tunes, they are ready to make a major impact on the music scene. In November they were picked as the local support (Waterford) on the 2FM 2moro tour, and in December their track Mr.Frazier was featured in the Coke-iTunes Irish podcast. January 07 saw the band being invited to perform a 2FM session for the Dan Hegarty show. With invitations to the IMRO showcase tour, the National Student Music Awards & a video from Tisch, 2007 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for the band.

Check out our awesome Tisch/Hotpress winning video!!! Directed by Olivia Abtahi


We play Castle Palooza - August 2007

2FM Session 07

2FM Senior Producer, Ian Wilson, very kindly offered us a session and we were extremely delighted to make the trip up to Studio 8, Mon 15th Jan. On Monday we recorded 4 tracks, and Tuesday these tracks were mixed with the very competent & sounder than sound, Richard McCullough on engineering duties. Loads of pics & video fooh1tage to follow.
Dan Hegarty with The Arrangements in session, Monday February 5th, 12 midnight - 2am.

Awards

Mr. Frazier has garnered a couple of awards from the ever popular GarageBand.com website. Its been track of the day twice and is currently track of the week. Go us!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/17/2005
Band Website: thearrangements.com
Band Members: Michael Dreeling - Guitars / Vocals
Joe Kenny - Lead Guitar / Vocals
Nathan Power - Bass
Enda Coates - Drums / Vocals / Spacebar / Laptop / Click

Influences: Our influences are mostly alt rock, if we had to narrow them down into just a few...

Foo Fighters,Weezer,Hard-Fi,Placebo,Editors,Feeder,U2,The Strokes,Killers,Pixes,We Are Scientists,Boy Kill Boy,Radiohead,etc...

Currently listening to....

Bloc Party, Royseven, The Blizzards, Director and every drop of music on MTV2.
Sounds Like: Some Songs with Serious Alternative Rock, Others with catchy pop bits....
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Teenage Kicks cover version

We recorded this version of the Undertones classic for a recent competition and wanted to share with ye!!
Posted by The Arrangements on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:00:00 PST

Thru to NSMA Finals

Hi everyone,We've made it through to the NSMA Finals in the Village in Dublin.We're playing with 5 other bands for a top prize, recording time, cd pressing, the lot.Wish us luck!Mike...
Posted by The Arrangements on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:45:00 PST

We're making a video with NYU

Hey people,We have won a HotPress competition which means that we get to make a music video!!!! Yes, how cool are we. Evidently, not very, as we still can't work out what its going to be about. Anyhow...
Posted by The Arrangements on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:15:00 PST

Selected for National Student Music Awards (NSMA)

Hey All,Well we have indeed secured ourselves a slot on what will be the biggest competition for Irish bands this year, the Bank Of Ireland NSMA's. This is the big one for unsigned bands. This years g...
Posted by The Arrangements on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:09:00 PST

IMRO Showcase Cyprus Avenue, Cork.

We were one of the lucky bands that were selected to play this years IMRO Showcase. It's a showcase of up and coming talent from around Ireland. You can read more about it here : www.imro.ie ...
Posted by The Arrangements on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:50:00 PST

2FM Session 07

2FM Senior Producer, Ian Wilson, very kindly offered us a session and we were extremely delighted to make the trip up to Studio 8, Mon 15th Jan. On Monday we recorded 4 tracks, and Tuesday these track...
Posted by The Arrangements on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:47:00 PST

New Photos

We finally got the finger out and decided to get some new shots taken. Let us know what you think. Theres also some pics of us in Studio 8, in Dublin recording our session for 2FM. LaterzMick...
Posted by The Arrangements on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:48:00 PST

Picked for Coke-iTunes Podcast

We were picked by 2FM DJ, Jenny Heuston, to showcase one of our songs, Mr.Frazier in this months Coke-iTunes Irish podcast, see www.coke.com/music. Some details regarding Coke-iTunesCoca-Cola and the ...
Posted by The Arrangements on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:34:00 PST

*** 2fm 2moro 2our ***

*** 2fm 2moro 2our ***--------------------------------------------------------- --The Arrangements are delighted to announce that we have been chosen as special guest on the RTE 2fm 2moro 2our when it ...
Posted by The Arrangements on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:19:00 PST

We uploaded a new demo!

Let us know what you think of "Its Alright" We recorded it in our own cheapo attic type studio.Lyrics Uplanded also!
Posted by The Arrangements on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:19:00 PST