Marina and Miike Snow in eh…Carlow

We at Make and Deux made the trek to the Dinn Ri complex in Carlow (not just five but seven venues in one, we’re told) last night for the Heineken Green Spheres Digitalism, Marina and the Diamonds, and Miike Snow show.

Now, unfortunately we didn’t make actually make it to Digitalism’s set (we were pleased to find out that it had only been a DJ set in the end), but we were front row centre for both Marina and Miike Snow’s sections of the night.

The venue itself was amazingly decorated by the Heineken folks, with a predictable green glow all over the venue and less predictable men dressed in what looked like either a green screen body suit or a gimp costume. Dinn Ri itself is absolutely huge, big enough to have two stages in fact; one for Marina and Miike Snow, and another for Digitalism.

Although we missed Marina at her show in Dublin’s The Academy just one night before, she didn’t hold back for her show in Carlow. Her set was a mixture of stuff from her Crown Jewels EP and a ton of new stuff that will likely feature on her forthcoming album.

She even treated the audience to two versions of Mowgli’s Road; one a stripped down piano version and the other in its release form. Apparently the Irish fans, or ‘Emeralds’ as we’re now known, thanks, apparently to Joey Kavanagh, get the Mowgli’s Road single first for some reason. Sadly Marina didn’t play my favourite Simplify, but, shit happens.

Miike Snow opened their energetic set with Burial (not Silvia as I thought in my drunken stupor), and only actually played about four or five songs (or seven, but who’s counting?) Fan favourites like Animal and current single Black & Blue were there, but a good 50% of the set was actually made up of the members just jamming with no clear end in sight. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I’d have liked to hear more from their debut album in the mix.

We stumbled upon/followed some of the members of Miike Snow after the gig, and managed to get Paula into a photograph with them (below). Despite claiming they were looking for somewhere that did ‘shots’ (the bar menu for the night was Heineken or, well Heineken), the band retired to their room, or indeed ran away from us.

[Some images: Heineken Green Spheres]