Articles by Simon Roche
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Simon is State's Art Director as well as running his own graphic design studio (Smoke & Mirrors) out of Copenhagen, where he has tolerated pickled herring and very pretty girls for almost five years. He spends his days designing album covers, magazines, books and maps and can often be found eating the local roasted hot dogs and pursuing his quest to find the perfect pint of Classic.
Website:http://smokeandmirrorsstudio.dk/
Denmark’s DJ/producer/musician Anders Trentemøller has just released his second album Into The Great Wide Yonder and State… caught up with him in downtown Copenhagen a few hours before he boarded a tour bus for a month of gigs around Europe. Still fresh in our mind was his mind-blowing show at Roskilde in 2009 and the
Between 1994 and 1996 Underworld created something extremely hard to do once, never mind twice – they recorded two albums of electronic brilliance that have aged so, so well they may just be timeless. Dubnobasswithmyheadman and Second Toughest…… brought a real warmth and intelligence to what was essentially techno, while still able to produce dance
By way of a taster for State’s panel discussion ‘Does Music Need Design Anymore?’ at the Offset 2010 design event in the Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin this weekend here’s a quick look at the heavyweight design posse who have kindly agreed to take part. State’s art director Simon Roche will host the discussion at 4pm…
Just confirmed is the full line-up for the ultra-special State happening at the Offset 2010 design event. Our panel was hand-picked by State.ie’s art director Simon Roche with the aim of discussing the possible futures for designers in the realm of music. The idea for this panel discussion came from a State.ie interview with Shaughn…
After the shut-down amid crowd safety fears the night before, the festival website this morning reveals that the acts on the second day have been rescheduled to allow the event to close at 11.30pm instead of the 6.30am blow-out planned originally. Some acts have been cancelled (including Ireland’s Yes Cadets) but most have been pulled…
Now in it’s fifth year, this mini-festival gathers a number of international acts to play across it’s four stages spread out across the tarmac and in the hangars of Hitler’s old city airport – the majestic Tempelhof. This year they have cleverly got hold of Fever Ray, LCD Soundsystem and Robyn, all drawing big crowds…
Wolf Parade
The second best band in Canada rip straight into the better, older tunes from the off. As the rain finally purges itself from the clouds above the tent Wolf Parade raise an almost-full tent to a sing-along, air-punching team with a blazing ‘I’ll believe in Anything’ early on. ‘Cloud Shadow On The Mountain’…
There aren’t many tours that come with their own trailer and there aren’t many tours which take in relatively small venues that employ a theatrical production company to help build it. The plan for Jónsi’s first solo album tour is a cross between film, art, theatre with animation and, of course, the live music element.…
Originally part of a score for a contemporary ballet, a collaboration between the choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, prolific composer/producer Max Richter has now expanded the music contained within Infra…. While classical in construction (string quintet, piano) Richter weaves many elements of found sounds into the album, and it’s the fuzzy sound
Canada’s Wolf Parade are in a tricky spot. In 2005, after producing Apologies to the Queen Mary, a debut album of raw, angular brilliance they equalled, or bettered it, with 2008′s At Mount Zoomer. And so the third one, Expo 86… arrives with all this this baggage and a certain weight of expectation.
With a massively interesting line-up for anyone interested in graphic design, photography and illustration, and specifically where these areas relate to music, Offset 2010 takes place from October 1st-3rd in the Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin and aims to bring the very best of Irish and international visual talent to the city.
Now in its second…
The fourth day really begins where we left off on the third day. Some days are so long that you can hardly believe what you fitted in and we have just remembered that at around 3am Saturday night/Sunday morning, with a flash mob of new friends we met in a bar, we were dancing to…
The third day of a four-day festival is often potentially the best – your body has got used to the abuse of late nights, constant standing and perhaps one or two more beverages than normal. Here at Roskilde there’s also an influx of one-day ticket holders who have been waiting until the weekend to arrive.…
The day begins with a solution to who the mystery hugging-man was last night. He is a member of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble… who open Friday in the best way possible – with a mass of pumping trombones, trumpets etc and by the end of the first minute of dancing and gyrating no-one remembers they have
