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About Me

AORTAL
(formerly 'jamesotoole+band')

JAMES O'TOOLE is a well known dublin street musician with an amazing vocal range and well crafted original songs who, in the last year, has teamed up with CONOR FRIEL on bass (conor's also the frontman for punk outfit 'into exile') and, after all kinds of turmoil,mayhem and the arrest of a previous drummer,ENDA ROCHE on drums...
JAMES' voice reflects a childhood in dublin council flats and the years singing on dublin's streets, sometimes soft and vunerable, sometimes venomous...
CONOR and ENDA are both multi instrumentalists and sound engineers and have brought their skills to the writing and arrangements...
showcasing a broad church of influences...
you will rarely hear anything like this live....
the band are busy writing new material and re-working old material for an album release later this year!
Aortal http://aortal.bebo.com/

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/10/2006
Band Website: downloadmusic.ie
Band Members: JAMES O’TOOLE ON VOCALS GUITARS & KEYS........
CONOR FRIEL ON BASS.......
ENDA ROCHE ON DRUMS........

CHECK OUT ’IN LIGHT’ MUSIC VID HERE-
Influences:
JAMES’ influences began at a very early age when his dad would blast zeppelin, bowie and queen with their windows open full volume on the stereo... his own searching brought him through the world of classical (taught himself to write notation and score strings...like on ’sorrow’!)...spent teen years listening to guns n roses, the smiths, depeche mode, the cure, lotsa bowie!
at the moment james is listening to dave gahan, gospel, jeff buckley, anything with honesty and soul!
..."anything bitter sweet and beautiful and angry at the same time....anything REAL!..i dont care what ’style’ it is as long as it has a real ’content’!!"

CONOR’s influences started with springsteen and johnny cash which he heard as a child...over the years listening to all types of music these are some of his favourites- billy talent, my chemical romance, aiden, alkaline trio, the academy is, angles and airwaves, +44, blink 182, good charlotte, guns n roses, papa roach, the used, yellow card...

ENDA’s main influences are zeppelin, interpol and muse...

THE BAND manages to blend all these diverse influences into something of their own....

Sounds Like: an angel while kicking your teeth in....

ROAD RECORDS------ "...moments hinting at something like jeff buckley fronting early smashing pumpkins, there are lots of big explosive guitar heavy emotional alt rock sounds blended in with the odd string led ballad..."
YES FRANCESCA (USA)-------- "A voice like a wild soaring angel with a devil on his back..."
MUSIC REVEIW.COM-------- "you can hear where james is comin from pure heart and soul"
EDDIE JOYCE IMRO------- "Young, Gifted and Irish I’ve been listening to the debut album of Dubliner James O’Toole for the past week. Now I want as many people as possible to get an opportunity to check out his music. This guy is going to be BIG."

Record Label: unsigned....produced debut album independently!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

AORTAL’s album plans....

last year we released some tracks as 'jamesotoole+band' but really this upcoming album will be AORTAL's debut album and will feature 5 or 6 brand new tracks alongside completely re-worked and re-arran...
Posted by aortal on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:22:00 PST

Check out this event: BATTLE of the BANDS @ THE ACADEMY

Hosted By: THE ACADEMYWhen: 19 Mar 2008, 21:30Where: THE ACADEMY (formerly spirit)middle abbey stdublin, Dublin|124 IrelandDescription:THE ACADEMY Click Here To View Event...
Posted by aortal on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:57:00 PST

’BURN’ on the way!

the second track off our next album and probably our next single 'BURN' is on its way...we recorded the basic drums tracks last week and yesterday conor and i added the guitars and bass....just have t...
Posted by aortal on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:52:00 PST

AORTAL.....why?

"The aorta (pronounced "ay-OR-tuh") is the largest artery in the human body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart and bringing oxygenated blood to all parts of the body in the systemic cir...
Posted by aortal on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:04:00 PST

strippers...nuns...and the machete man!...by conor

by conor It all began on 25th January 2008. We were all at my house early so we could fix the trailer up to load the gear into it. We loaded all the gear in and began tying the flight cases do...
Posted by aortal on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:55:00 PST

IN LIGHT VIDEO NOW UP!!!

you can watch it on the myspace profile page...or go to youtube and watch it full screen!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qCP-Kly-Rwjames-cono r-enda
Posted by aortal on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:24:00 PST

IN LIGHT single OUT NOW!!!!!

go to www.downloadmusic.ie and search for 'in light' to buy our new single!!!irish mobile users can buy by texting - music 363 to 57501costs one euro!!the video should be up later today too!!!!very ex...
Posted by aortal on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:28:00 PST

Check out this event: james otoole+band single launch!!

Hosted By: james o'toole+band When: 17 Jan 2008, 20:00Where: CRAWDADDYharcourt stdublin, IrelandDescription:james o'toole+band Click Here To View Event...
Posted by aortal on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:01:00 PST

green satellite awards!

from the blog of Eddie Joyce director of IMRO-"Music Review of 2007 ...
Posted by aortal on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:19:00 PST

80,000 plays!...the video shoot...

we just passed 80,000 plays...which with people having bought the album and downloaded songs from itunes etc is amazing! that's a lot of time spent on the page...we shoot the video for new single IN L...
Posted by aortal on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:43:00 PST