Swanee River

News

07/02/10

Swanee River and the Haiti cause - they need your help

On Tuesday 12th January a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, including the densely populated capital Port-au-Prince. Swanee River like many bands and artist across the world want to help raise money and awareness for the people of Haiti after this horrific natural disaster.

Doing our bit to help.. Swanee River needs you

7th Feb - please log on to http://www.whotune.com/#page=jamcam @ 8pm and check out our live gig from our living room! You can leave us messages, ask for requests and have a chat with us directly all for a good cause. This is part of Jam Cam for Haiti with lots of great artists from all over the world taking part in a continuous 24hour gig to raise money for such a great cause and we our honoured to be a part of it. All we ask is you tune in, if you like what you see please donate to www.unicef.com and email haiti@whotune.com and let them know how much you donated. Please help those in need in a unique 24hr Jam Cam Festival from the comfort of your own home!

25th Feb - Derry 4 Haiti 3 venues 1 cause (more details to Follow)

27th Feb - Haiti Fundraiser The Cellar Bar home of the G Sessions Draperstown

Previous Events

Belfast4Haiti - 50bands over 3 venues 1 cause - Spring & Airbrake We have some merchandise left over from this event, stickers, badges and CD's which will soon be available for purchase @ http://www.bruisedfruitpromotions.com/ all money rasied will be going to the Haiti Appeal. You can also buy some photos from the event from http://www.photoboxgallery.com /belfast4haiti/collection?album_id=306609395 Again, all money going to the cause!

Thanks for your continuous Support

Stevie, Baldie and Coco

06/12/09

Ulster Hall Beckons! Fellow Rockers, yes it is only 8 days to the Ulster Hall date with The Answer! We have had numerous emails about tickets, has it sold out, is there a window we can climb in!!! Ticket Master has officially sold out, however you can phone the Ulster Hall direct as they still have only a few tickets left, so get them in quick!!

We will be appearing on Dublins Balcony TV live on the 07/12 as a press build up to our gig in Whelans, Dublin on the 18/12. Tune in live from the internet at www.balconytv.com to catch us doing a very special acoustic performance from 7pm.

Thats all for now folks, we wish you all a very happy Xmas and keep an eye out for big things in the 2010 Calender for Swanee River! Yeo!

29/05/09

Swanee River supporting UFO, Taste and The Answer this summer!! E.P. now available on digital download!! Hi people, heres the update! Kick off Yer Cloggs is now available on digital download from amazon, i-tunes, rhapsody, napster etc...the usual outlets. If there are any online stores that do not feature it please get in contact with us and let us know. It should be on every one!!

We have just confirmed a major support with Rock and Metal legends UFO at the spring and airbrake on the 12th June. This is going to be huge and UFO have been quite an inspiration to Swanee Rivers music, along with inspiring the likes of Iron Maiden and Metallica to name drop just a few!!! tickets are on sale now at www.geturticket.com

The dates for the Taste Irish tour are nearing completion so keep your eye on the forums, gig pages and the myspace for more updates!!

We have been selected for playlisting on drive 105 and Maiden City FM for the next few months, so keep your ears peeled on sunday nights from 8-10 on both stations!!

Thats all for now folks! keep er Country! Swanee

Contact

Email us at info@swaneeriver.com

About Swanee River

Swanee River is a blend of soul, blues and rock and roll. Hailing from the city of Derry, they began in September 2004 and drew their influences from a range of bands including Free, Led Zeppelin, Spencer Davis Group, Rory Gallagher, Humble Pie and Terry Reid.

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Swanee River began late in 2004 and quickly got on to the touring circuit playing 200 gigs in 2 years with Quigley and Quigley on drums and guitars. They quickly built up a stronglive reputation which climaxed when they came first out of 200 bands in 2006 and won the Northern Ireland Battle of the bands competition, beating an early ‘General Fiasco’ and Chadsko to take the cool £1000 prize money. With blistering onstage shows, the band quickly became highly sought after as one of NI’s –one to watch. They knew it was time to step things up a gear, both with writing and onstage performance.

Shortly after that, in the summer ’06 the band said goodbye to Kevin Quigley and Pearse Quigley and the band took a 9 month break writing, heavily reheasing and adding to the Swanee sound with new guitarist Graham (ragin bap) Baldrick and Connor (coco) McAuley on drums who were long established on the scene before joining Swanee River.

By May ’07 the band felt ready to once again take NI by storm and sold out a string on small club dates across NI and some key supports in the South with the likes of Jaded Sun.

2008 saw them up the game even more by supporting the likes of ‘Taste’, ‘Henry McCullough’ and playing a festival Bill with ASH in the summer ’08. Though it wasn’t until 2009 with the release of their 3rd and highly anticipated EP ‘Kick Off Yer Cloggs’ when things started to really happen.

In April 2009 they were included on the cover mount CD of Classic Rock’s US/Rest of World edition of the magazine and also won an online competition with the magazine to secure being included on the cover mount of a UK edition in August/September. They were also included on the covermount of Hotpress magazine as a build up to Glasgowbury music festival.

In June 2009 they played a selection of high profile shows with ‘The Answer’, UFO and Taste and also a few sessions for BBC radio 1 and BBC radio Ulster ATL that same summer.

The highlight of the summer came through at Glasgowbury festival in July where they rammed a tent for a blistering performance regarded by many as one of the all time highlights in the festivals history. On the same day they recorded two exclusive acoustic tracks live for BBC Radio 1 and Stevie was asked personally by Henry McCullough and the festival organisers to top the bill on the Spurs of Rock stage alongside him finishing his set with the Joe Cocker version of ‘A little Help From My Friends’ which McCullough hadn’t played since Woodstock with Joe himself!!

November saw them perform on BBC ATL show feature 'Raw Money' and also saw them included in an advertising campaign for Microsoft Windows

In 2009 things looked like they couldn’t get much better for Swanee, though they did, and came in the form of a personal invitation from The Answer to play main support on their December sold out ULSTER HALL gig!! The BBC spoke to Swanee River after the show back stage, which went out live on the ‘Across The Line’ show about how they felt about playing Northern Ireland’s greatest venue. Well, the feeling was like something the band had never experienced before, I mean, this was the venue that Led zeppelin played ‘Stairway to heaven’ for the very first time!!

2010 seems to be the year set for Swanee River to do great things, there is rumours of an album and huge UK tours so keep tuned in to swanee-river.com for all the info!!

It is onwards and upwards for Swanee River eventually as they have sat far too long in the shadows as Irelands best kept secret.