Gig at MonroeÕs part of novel venture to promote young bands

The Novel Tour is a new musical venture promoting three of the hardest working and most exciting bands on the Irish music scene today, It has been organised by Cold Room Records, a collaborative undertaking of three bands from the West of Ireland.

Featuring Town Criers, Race the Flux and Ka Tet, the Novel Tour kick started in January in Dundalk and will continue around the country until March. It hopes to provide a platform, introducing three unique bands to audiences across the country giving the bands a kick-start in their careers. The Novel Tour comes to Monroe’s Live on Friday, February 18 for its Galway stop

Town Criers are a four piece rock band hailing from Roscommon. Writing and recording since 2006, they have recently finished their first EP with involvement from renowned drummer Dave Hingerty (currently touring with the Swell season) and Ken McHugh (mastermind of Dublin group Autamata).

Race the Flux are an ambitious rock and electronic four piece, which formed in 2008.They use chunky synthesisers, dramatic piano, innovative guitar and bass phrasing and the use of acoustic and electric drums to achieve their distinctive sound.And the third group, Ka Tet are a three-piece, alternat

ive hard rock group who have been playing together since 2006. Setting up their own label gives these bands a platform to showcase and promote their own original music work to a wide audience. Cold Room Records subsequently set up their own tour entitled The Novel Tour as a response to the rapidly changing music scene in Ireland today.

For more info on the bands, contact ww.myspace.com/coldroomrecords.  Meanwhile, catch them in Monroe’s Live on Friday, February 18