Catherine Dowling (vocals, guitar, keys) Stevie Kavanagh (bass, keys), Gerry Horan (guitar, keys), Graham Gilligan (drums).
For US and European bookings please contact
Angus Webster
Angus Webster
PO Box 245
Woolwich
Maine
04579
USA
Contact Phone number 001 207-837-8503
Influences
Serge Gainsbourg, Joy Division, Add N to X, Tom Waitts, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, The Doors, Sparklehorse, The Breeders, Radiohead, Elliot Smith, Blur, Massive Attack, Edith Piaf, Kraftwerk, Stravinsky, Prince, Billy Holiday, The Cure, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Thin Lizzy, Flaming Lips, ....my fingers are tired typing..
Sounds Like
You can buy songs from our first album "Made From Sand" by clicking on the links below:
Round Here
Sometimes
Addicted
Indian Sky
Top of the World
Good Stuff
Kiss Me
Hide
Angel Kiss
Smiles and Lies
Trinity News (live review) - "Happily brimming with talent and seemingly oblivious to their comparatively mundane surroundings, all four are refreshingly unselfconscious onstage and clearly revel in a gig opportunity ... Perhaps if we put Stellastarr in the fridge for a couple of hours, or gave the Cardigans a soul, we would end up with Alphastates. But then again, to reduce this band’s sound to a merely digestible indie-pop stereotype is to cheapen and gravely underestimate one of the most potent undercurrents in the country’s alternative music scene. I look around and their audiences are transfixed. Tonight, the Buttery was plucked from the armpit of stale indie bedwet and propelled skywards toward the lofty creative peaks of a band who I am convinced are poised to record something truly special."
Across The Line (live review) - "’Made From Sand’ is probably one of the most ambitious records to come out of Ireland in a while and here in the Limelight they sound absolutely huge. Alphastates managed to turn in one of the best belFEST performances in recent memory."
Kilkenny People (live review) - "This band will manage to reassure you that there’s still urgency, passion, and art left in music."
Hot Press (live review) - "In Catherine Dowling they have a singer born to live on stage, her WW11 vamp-waitress persona and honeydripping voice pulling them in from the bar from the off. All told, a night that scored an appropriate ten out of Ten."
Alphastates new album, Human Nature is out on the 24th of April, available in stores and online. Here's the Hot Press review, it's in the current issue:
"Completed and then redone entirely from scratch, this is Alphastates' follow-up to their ground-breaking debut, and it confirms them as a major creative force, an inventive respite from blog-standard guitar-driven formulaic rock. Singer Catherine Dowling's presence throughout is a revelation, evoking memories of Shirley Manson and Beth Gibbons, but with a flexibility that challenges both. From the bleeps and rumbles of the gripping opening title-track you can't avoid comparisons with Garbage, and the ghosts of Kraftwerk and Portishead are never too far away either. But whereas with bands of that ilk the technology often dominates the compositional content, this rarely happens with Alphastates. 'Taste' promises the poppy innocence of the early synth era, until Dowling drips her achingly honeyed tones all over it. The irresistible 'Champagne Glass' marries soundscapey electronica with a thumping beat and another fetching vocal. The slinkily erotic 'Swimming' bathes us in swathes of wondrous sounds, Dowling's voice surfing the instrumental tracking like a silken mermaid, and the exuberant 'Astronaut' chimes and pumps with melodic energy. The band reveal a more acoustic side on the forlorn 'Anywhere', while 'Comfort in Silence' reaches out a little further into uncharted waters, before Dowling's frothy voice takes the song home. Karl Odlum's production ensures that Gerry Horan and Dowling's provocative and literate songs are given space to breathe. Human Nature comes from a band finding their own groove in the delicate balance between nature and technology, and giving us a rock album with songs you can dance to."
Courtesy of http:www.2uibestow.blogspot.com
Courtesy of http:www.2uibestow.blogspot.com
According to the internet, our name means this: "the state of relaxation and peaceful awakefulness, associated with prominent alpha brain wave activity." There was good reason why we chose a relaxed name, it is because "excited state" is defined as: "the condition of a nucleus, atom or molecule produced by the addition of energy to the system as the result of absorption of photons or of inelastic collisions with other particles or systems." Pretty self explanatory, I'm sure you'll agree.
Hey, We're having a launch party upstairs in whelans for our debut EP "Dead Man's Dream" on friday night!! please join us! Best wishes The Whiskey Limbs:>
Hey Alphastates, Summer Solstice Greetings from Cork!! This is a video of photos I took early this morning at a Stone Circle near my home.. Wishing you a wonderful day.. :)
There will be a limited guest list for this evening mail back to delayguestlist@hotmail.com with inigo kennedy in the title leaving your details and where you heard about the night.
Hi Alphastates: Thanks for your request. Very good profile presentation and interesting music at your page. Be sure to visit us and listen to our new "After Hours" cd song previews including the latest blogs and photo slide show. Here's wishing you continued success in your upcoming shows! Sincerely, Jean Cabbie & The Secret Admirer Society
