Playing in the "First Fortnight" festival this Friday night.

We'll be doing a few new songs as part of the "Therapy Sessions" acoustic night in the Wokman's Club. We're on at 9.15. Glad to be part of the great festival again.

Tickets only 5 squid available on their website http://firstfortnight.ticketsolve.com/shows/126521150/events

The band are playing at "Midnight Musical Circus", a fundraiser gig in Maynooth Student Union Bar on Monday Feb 28th.

This year’s charity is Pieta House - Centre for the Prevention of Self-Harm or Suicide.

You can now make a postal order from this site on our self titled debut album on CD. The album includes a 12 page booklet with lyrics.
There is free postage on all orders worldwide!
Click on the "Buy Music" link to get your copy.

"Photos" and "Video" links have also been updated.

Martin Staunton & the Lost Parade play support to "Alison O'Donnell and BAJIK".

Venue: Crawdaddy
Date: Wed 21st July
Doors: 8pm
Cost: €10
Address: Harcourt Street, Dublin. 

Whelans, Upstairs Gig
Friday, March 12th

The band play their first gig in the upstairs venue of Whelans on Friday March 12th.

Support act to be announced soon.

Doors: 8pm
Cost: 8 euros
Address: Whelans, 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2

First Fortnight Gig.
Friday, January 15, 2010 at 9:00pm

As featured in last weekend's Sunday Independent First fortnight is a live music event featuring Martin Staunton and the Lost Parade, Hitman Lord, Citizen, and Pearse Mcloughlin.

Dj Steve Reddy will follow the Live Music. Doors 9pm, all proceeds go to the Mental Health Ireland Charities.

The event will also feature an exhibition of the work of visual artists Neal Burns.

Admission is €10 and there will be drinks promotions all night.

The band will appear on Today FM tomorrow, Friday April 17th, at 10.20am (ish).

Martin, Grainne, James and Emma will perform a cover of one of their favourite "Feel Good" songs as part of the "Feel Good" series on the Ray D'Arcy Show.

Tune in to find out the song...

"Martin Staunton & the Lost Parade", the self titled debut album is available now on CD and Download.

www.martinstauntonandthelostparade.com

www.myspace.com/martinstauntonbandpage

Martin Staunton and the Lost Parade will release their self-titled debut album on Friday January 16th, 2009. The album will be available in all good record stores nationwide and for those of you abroad or who prefer downloads it will be available internationally via iTunes, Napster and Amazon.

To celebrate the release of this album, the band will play an album launch gig in Whelans on Saturday January 17th, 2009. Stay tuned for more news and support details.

The self-titled album, "Martin Staunton & the Lost Parade", will be available in the following stores from Friday January 16th:

Dublin
HMV: Grafton St. Henry St., Blanchardstown Shopping Centre,  The Square Tallagh,  Swords Pavillion Shopping Centre.
Tower Records: Wicklow St.

Galway
HMV: Barrack Lane Eyre Square.
Zhivago: 5/6 Shop Street,  Dunnes Stores Terryland, Galway Shopping Centre,  206 Eyre Square Centre,  Eyre Square (Beside Supermacs).

Cork
HMV: St Patrick's Street.

Ballinasloe
Xtra-Vision: Society Street.

Tullamore: Heartbeat City

Newbridge: Top 20

Athlone: Music World, Golden Island Shopping Centre

Nass: Top 20

Kilkenny: Heartbeat City.

Thurles: Heartbeat City.

Longford:  Heartbeat City.

Mullingar: Heartbeat City.

Dungarvin: Heartbeat City.

Gorey: Heartbeat City.

Wexford: BPM Records.

Waterford: BPM Records.

Mallow: BPM Records.

New Ross: BPM Records.

Letterkenny: Music Centre, Courtyard Shopping Centre.

Sligo: Quay Side Shopping Centre.

Even Better Than the Disco Thing is an Irish charity album (in shops now) which features covers of well-known disco songs by artists such as Eric Bibb, Republic of Loose, Brian Kennedy and Declan O'Rourke. All the songs were performed and recrded live on The Ray D'Arcy Show.

The album features Martin, James and Emma alongside the Sharon Shannon Band playing the track "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder.

All proceeds from the album sales will go to Barretstown and the National Children's Hospital. They are the perfect stocking filler and as a bonus you will be helping some great causes.

Martin Staunton Band will be supporting Sharon Shannon in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Friday, December 14th. Tickets from €37 at any ticketmaster outlet or online from ticketmaster.ie.

For anyone who hasn't seen Sharon and her band live, prepare to be blown away!
www.sharonshannon.com

Martin Staunton Band to set to play live on Pat Kenny's radio show on Radio One, Friday December 7th 2007 between 10am and 12pm. The band will be performing two songs with a short interview.

One track is available to download free of charge from this website for 24 hours only (until 12pm GMT 12th September). The track, entitled "End of the Line", features Sharon Shanon on accordion.

To download the track you need to subscribe to the Martin Staunton Band newsletter on the front page of the website. For those who have already subscibed please enter your name and email address again in the newsletter sign up section of the front page (you will be only signed up once).

Martin Staunton Band play live with Sharon Shannon (in her kitchen) on the "Ray D'Arcy Show" on Today FM this Tuesday, Sept 11th between 9am - 12.

Sharon will feature on 3 songs on the upcoming album "Lost Parade".

"Falling From Above" and "The Night" are now available to download.

To download via phone credit or card at Sonikdub click here .
To download via iTunes click here .

Songs cost only 99 cents each.

Double a side, "Falling from Above" and "The Night" will be released on download only on jully 27th through the label SONiK DUB. The songs will be available to download on iTunes, SONiK DUB and other music sites.

To pre-order "Falling From Above" via your phone for 99 cents (charged to your phone bill/credit), just text "sonik fall" to 57501. You will receive a pin number and instructions which you must save until July 27th or after.

Martin Staunton Band headline Whelans, Dublin for the third time on Saturday 16th June.

Plans for the summer include a single release in early July and recording an album, to be engineered and co-produced by Phil Hayes (Bell X1, Delorentoes, The Chalets)

Martin Satunton Band are confirmed to play at this year's Castle Palooza festival. Ireland's most intimate, independently run music festival will return this August Bank Holiday weekend, the 4th and 5th.

Now in its second year under the CherryCool brand, this exclusive two-day music festival will again take place in the magical Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co. Offaly - where 2,000 lucky ticket holders will enjoy a fun-filled weekend of music, entertainment and art.

Similar to last year, ticket holders and artists at Castle Palooza will enjoy exclusive access to the castle and its grounds all weekend. For your ticket price you can also enjoy hot showers, great camping facilities along with a full bar and lots of other surprises. (Not to mention proper flushing loos!). Described as "Ireland's best new festival" (Hot Press 2006), Castle Palooza promises to live up to and exceed this reputation in 2007.

The organisers are currently compiling this year's line-up which they are very excited about. It will feature an eclectic mix of excellent Irish talent with music genres ranging from rock to bluegrass and the surprise new addition of some hotly tipped British acts. Tickets are priced at €125 for 2 day camping.

For more information and to purchace tickets log on to www.castlepalooza.com