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Si SCHROEDER

About Me

Si Schroeder is a six-foot hairy male who makes 'music'. This 'music' has generally sounded like the combined contents of his record collection (mostly classic sixties pop, scratchy old ethnic recordings and the odd bleep or two), on top of which he layers ruminative, whispered vocals about the tough times we all live in and go through. His adventures have lately brought him into the arms of Dublin tastemakers Foggy Notions (***** Best Album of 2006 for his debut COPING MECHANISMS); nomination for the 2nd Choice Music Awards (the Irish Mercurys); and National radio and TV appearances. An argumentative sophomore album is currently in the works. His current live shows attempt to find a bridge between live electronics, guitars, drums, percussion, and the combined singing of men, women, children and machines. In various guises Si Schroeder has blown the PA systems of Dublin, London's influential Kosmische club, PopKomm Berlin, EUROSONIC in Groningen, Oslo, New York's IntelFest, and Chicago. Expect toy pianos and toy planes, bleeps and beats (and bleats...) bells and chimes, drones and choirs...You can buy 'COPING MECHANISMS' from Boomkat http://www. boomkat. com/item. cfm?id=52651 or eMusic http://www. emusic. com/album/Si-Schroeder-Coping-Mechanisms-MP3-Download/110646 33. html or from iTunes by following the link across the way under 'sounds like'...

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Member Since: 4/8/2006
Band Website: www.schroedersound.com, but best of luck with that
Band Members: occasionally just me singing, playing guitar and kicking a sampler into life - but mostly also featuring some of the following:Radio Operator Kevin Brew (samples, synth, backing vocals); Air Commodore Fiachra Lennon (bass; percussion 2007-); Armoured Car Division Head Brian Mooney (guitar, backing vocals); and lately introducing young footsoldier Neil O'Connor AKA Somadrone (percussion, backing vocals). Cadet John Lambert AKA Chequerboard also steps in occasionally on guitar duties.Past alumni of the SchroederArkestra have included:Battery Sgt Bryan O'Connell (drums, percussion, backing vocals, retired 2008) Master Ciaran Eaton (bass, retired 2006) Dr Jimmy Eadie (bass, retired 2006) Sir Joss Moorkens (drums, 2005)
Influences: Seamus Ennis; Bruce Nauman; Paul Simon; Audrey Hepburn; Dimitri Shostakovich; Stanley Kubrick; Lee Ranaldo; Thomas Mann; Pablo Casals; Patrick Troughton; Brian Mooney; Karl Popper; Laurie Anderson; Yevgeny Yerofeev; Ciaran Eaton; Mark Rothko; Henryk Gorecki; Andrew Warhola; Bjork Gudmunsdottir; James Coleman; Krysztof Penderecki; Aifric ní Bhraonáin; Vladimir Nabokov; Beniamino Gigli; Kate Middleton; Joseph Beuys; Alexander Brailowsky; Saul Bellow; John Lennon; Meister Eckhart; Bryan O'Connell; George Gershwin; Victor Pelevin; John Lambert; Marisa Berenson; Richard D James; Andre Kertesz; Steve Albini; Stan Douglas; Lafcadio Hearn; Neil O'Connor; Peter Ustinov; Fiachra Lennon; Walter Gropius; David Bowie; Matthew Barney; Darragh O'Grady; Hal Ashby; John Burton; Erich Fromm; Thurston Moore; Samuel Beckett; Daragh Dukes; The Artist Formerly Known as Gary Phelan; Enrico Caruso; Jacques Lacan; Morgan Hart; Emile Nolde; Paul Hewson; Junichiro Tanizaki; James Eadie; Lauren Bacall; Peter Buck; Anna Politkovskaya; Johann Sebastian Bach; Immanuel Kant; Matt Elliott; Yasujiro Ozu; Brian Eno; HP; Delia Derbyshire; Niall Browne; Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; James Jewel Osterberg; Allen Konigsberg; Robert Zimmerman; David Cornwell; Paul McCartney; Asterix; Kevin O Brew; Laphroaig; W G Sebald; Thom Yorke; Tom Baker; John E McMahon; e e cummings; Richard Starkey; Ingrid Bergman; Kevin Shields; Michel Houllebecq; Tom Jennings; Peter Sellers; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; Andrew Osborn; Charles M Schultz; George Harrison; John Cale; Slavoj Zizek; Jan St Werner; Sean Booth; Wassily Kandinsky; Leo Fender; Wim Wenders; Erik Satie; Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy; Dave Liebman; Gerhard Richter; Dave LaRousse; George Orwell; Cecile Schott; Lucy Van Pelt; Ciaran Eaton; Albert Camus; Alvin Curran; Hannah Arendt; Akira Kurosawa; David Byrne; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Gyorgy Ligeti; Egon Schiele; Mark Hayes; Aldous Huxley; Hoagy Carmichael; Maggie Gyllenhaal; Nigel Godrich; Richard Nixon; Gustav Mahler; Joseph Roth; Piet Mondrian; Edwin Fischer; John E McMahon; Lindsay Anderson; Lou Reed; Jackson Pollock; Ira Gershwin; J Sheridan Le Fanu; Dave Evans; Greta Garbo; TS Eliot; Steve Reich; Gerrit Rietveld; Rob Brown; Trond Arne Vangen; Alvin Lucier; The Man on the Clapham Omnibus; Michael Stipe; Bob; Joni Mitchell; Gitta Sereny; Dan Deacon; Valpolicella; 'the opposition'
Sounds Like: Buy 'Coping Mechanisms' on iTunes'Duck!' footage shot by Deirdre Lynch'Eyes Wide' video by PM"A Little More" video by some derd niffer"Eyes Wide" live at MaximumJoy, Dublin, March 2008"The Reluctant Aviator" live at EUROSONIC@Grand Theatre, Groningen, Holland, January 2008'Eyes Wide' live at Foggy Notions stage, Electric Picnic, Laois, Ireland, September 2007'Duck!' live at Foggy Notions stage, Electric Picnic, Laois, Ireland, September 2007'A Little More' live at MaximumJoy, Dublin, March 2007'Lido' live at vibrator@Globe, Dublin, February 2005
View Si Schroeder's EPK
Record Label: Trust Me I'm A Thief
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Earthquake hits Si Schroeder in studio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj5vuOYlTOY new track - 'Sirens Everywhere' - from the upcoming album 'Ausgang Man', causes localized seismic event
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 06:41:00 GMT

listed property

Hi kidsSi hereI'm delighted to read that i'm the 33rd best Irish music act right now, according to the Irish Times (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2009/0403/122 4243925837.html?via=mr). ...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:07:00 GMT

"Clocked" live at Andrew's Lane, 14 March 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmCCEc5FWNw from the inevitable second album 'Ausgang Man', out this year if the Western World lasts that long
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:14:00 GMT

si on the telly

Hi kidsSi hereI played 'Jump Ship' on RTE's "Other Voices" last night... You can watch it here - http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/228-2490682-512-288.smil - if you're a masochistYou can also vote for it to be...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:03:00 GMT

Si Schroeder - 70s Kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYcdNrXBzSo "SeventiesKid" live in Tripod, 13 Dec 2008
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:03:00 GMT

STEREOLAB support Tripod Dublin 13 Dec

Hi kidsSi hereI'm delighted to confirm that i'm opening for Stereolab in Dublin's Tripod on Saturday 13 December. Maximum Joy are putting on the show and every show of theirs i've been to has been a g...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:38:00 GMT

jumpship

we were in stitches hiding in ditches the world and its' riches gone to ground if we died laughing breathless and gasping would we be heroes the next time round did you try too hard to make the glove ...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:38:00 GMT

Future Days...

Hi kids Si here... like i said i was going quiet for a while... however i'm rearing my head up briefly to make some noise next week. I'm very proud to be the first act of the first ever Future Days...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:55:00 GMT

M83 suppo rt tomor row night

Hi kidsSi hereAt super-short notice, i'm playing a quick set before M83 at Andrew's Lane Theatre. Not sure of ticket prices but i think i'm on at around 8.30. Whoever loves me enough to reply to this ...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:29:00 GMT

some thoughts...

Hi kids Si here ... mid-album now... Just back from playing Belfast, nice to see they have drunk students and big screens with football on them up there too. The show was cool in a 1997 way. Of late: ...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:21:00 GMT