NCH Landmarks: The Jimmy Cake - Brains

NCH Landmarks: The Jimmy Cake - Brains

About the show

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Brains, The Jimmy Cake will play the album in full - in their first concert in just under a decade. 

The Jimmy Cake began life in Dublin in the late 1990s as das Madman, blazing briefly and chaotically, to burn out and reform at the turn of the century as a nine-piece band, blending accordion, clarinet, saxophone, glockenspiel, trumpet and DIY percussion around the core of guitars, bass and drums.

Brains was released on their own Pilatus label in 2001. In five tracks, they announced something hitherto unheard: at times raw, fearless and experimental, in other places fragile and intimate, moving restlessly between folk, post-rock grandeur and something far more elusive. It became one of the fastest-selling independent releases of that year, garnering universal praise, hailed as “mind-blowing," "spellbinding" and “divine.” The Irish Times wrote, "despite the multitude of cooks, the broth tastes damn fine.” 

Some distance has been travelled since that Whelan's launch in the summer of 2001, but the influence of Brains can be heard on many of the boundary-pushing bands that followed in its wake.  

Presented by NCH

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