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21. October: The clip from TFFA Pappenheim was broadcasted: IRXN was part of the very first broadcast of the new format 'hin@weg' with Karen Markwardt on SWR Fernsehen (German Public Broadcast Station) ...

30. August: The broadcast date is now fix: IRXN will be part of the new format 'hin@weg' with Karen Markwardt on SWR Fernsehen (German Public Broadcast Station) ... and this already in the very first show on 11.10.21 (8.15pm).

You'll see some recording of our live performance at TFFA Pappenheim :-)
>>> Review of that show in Weissenburger Tagblatt
>>> video about the recording on YouTube
>>> pics

26. July: 'Wolfspfad' is voted CD of the month on musikverrueckt.de! A rating of 1,8 and nine of ten points to buy are a really amazing result!

'... Really hot stuff that is smashed onto the dance floor by the lads of IRXN! Pogo for the strongly fit ones! ...'

July/August: MundArt (the art in using dialect and idiom) is travelling 'cross the country and lakes - IRXN is, besides many other artists and bands, part of that :-)
On following pages you can get an idea of what it means and how it works (curretnly only available in German) - MundArt at it's best >>>

28. May: The SWR (TV station) is recording parts of our live show at the TFFA in Zimmern. Besides the live-video we recorded as well an interview with Karen Markwardt from the SWR. We'll announce the date of the broadcast seperately.

>>> news-article from the concert in Weissenburger Tagblatt
>>> some more videos of the recording on YouTube
>>> pics

22. May: New Live-Videos out of the 'Vogelfrei 2011-Tour' - IRXN unplugged or plugged but always sweating on stage at Liederbühne Robinson / Runding, MundArt - Festival / Schierling, Holledauer Rock-Frühling / Wolnzach, Schabernack / Krailling, Bachbett / München, ...
>>> check-out @ IRXNs YouTube-Channel!

'Münchenlied' available now

25. February: The new Single 'Münchenlied' - a dedication to the perhaps most beautiful city in the world is released today and availalbe at the known download-portals! >>>

12. February: FOTOWUT has made this wonderful video during our kive-performance in Munich Bachbett on 21.01.11 and uploaded to their YouTube channel. In addition to the video (there are more available from the show!) they also added a nice photo-session>>>
>>> more live-videos from and about IRXN

Hart & Zart IV with a song from IRXN

>>> Download now @ iTunes!

18. December: The newest edition of this famous Compilation series delivers again Bavarian artists in known quality: the range is from heavy Hardrock in Bavarian idiom via speedy Bavarian Ska to psycadelic Rock-opera, from grungy three minutes via dub-groove Reggae to melodic Ballad - the whole range of 'New Bavarian Folk'.
MundArt Ageh - SHOP >>>

IRXN at WOBO 88.7 FM

07. December / 12. December: WOBO is one of the most unique radio stations in the United States. WOBO offers Big Bands, Blue Grass, Classic Country, Gospel, Celtic, Scottish, German language, Sports, Contemporary Classics, and much more. IRXN debutates with the actual release 'Vogelfrei' - You may lsiten as well via live-stream. Besides the featuring shows 'International Showcase', 'Over the Rhine' or 'Celtic Fusion', IRXN is now part of the rotation on this station ...
Excerpt-Recording of 'International Showcase' >>>
Excerpt-Recording of 'Celtic Fusion' >>>

IRXN at BR Volksmusik

03. December: The editorial departments for Folk music of the Bayerischer Rundfunk are offering a small but great tool now. Simply hear good Folk music whenever you like and ghow you like ... you are your own DJ and compile the songs you want to hear. And IRXN takes part - check-out the category Tradimix >>>

IRXN now on Celtic Radio

23. November: Both IRXN-Longplayer 'Wolfspfad' and 'Vogelfrei' has made it into the rotation at Celtic Radio (including Highlander Radio!). IRXN is one of a very few bands that achoeved that not being origined in the 'mainlands' of Celtic culture. We're quite happy about that fact and encourage everyone to vote for / request one of our songs from either 'Wolfspfad' or 'Vogelfrei'.

IRXN with a song on Alpenpower BAYERN 2010/11

21. November: Kicked-off in the Saturn-shops is the new compilation 'Alpenpower BAYERN'. Together with Saturn in Munich, the Donnerwetter Musik GmbH has released a CD that presents the actual Bavarian-Idiom-Music-Scene 2010. IRXN has provided the title 'Flügelkuss' from our actual release 'Vogelfrei' and find ourselfs together with mighty heroes of the scene like Claudia Koreck, Bürgermeista, Haindling, Willy Astor and many more.

IRXN live bei der Ali Khan Radioshow

11. November: IRXN took part in the legendary talk-show of the 'King' Ali Khan. Two hours of talking and the very special explanaitions on some played IRXN tracks - fun!

IRXN live on Radio-Z

08. November: IRXN live @ Florian Söllners 'Blaue Stunde' on Radio-Z. With a lot of fun we were playing unplugged (one song together with Florian) and did a lot of talking about our plans.

NEW: IRXN - Mediapage on The Celtic Crier

25. October: IRXNs Sub-Site was expanded with a mediapage, where you can find new pics as well as newest videos. Das kalifornische Web-Portal hat sich voll und ganz dem Keltentum verschrieben. The Site was created to share the passion for everything Celtic, including music, festivals, folklore, art and history.

IRXN-songs now @ Radio-Marktkalendarium

03. October: Radio Marktkalendarium ist 'das außergewöhnliche Radio für außergewöhnliche Hörer' (Extraordinary radio for extraordinary people) IRXN was taken into the dedicated playlists 'Folk' with songs from both 'Wolfspfad' and 'Vogelfrei'..

IRXN featured on 'The Celtic Crier'

01. October: IRXN was taken into the band-listing as the only non-english speaking band so far. TheCelticCrier.com is a group of avid lover's of the Earth and all things Celtic. The Site was created to share the passion for everything Celtic, including music, festivals, folklore, art and history.

IRXN-songs now streamed on Mittelalter-net.de

30. September: The very best out of the German Medieval-scene - Every Thursday is reserved for the friends of Irish Music. IRXN was taken into the dedicated playlists with songs from both 'Wolfspfad' and 'Vogelfrei'.

'Vogelfrei' played in CD-showcase on IRFT Celtic Radio'

27. September: The entire CD 'Vogelfrei' is being played completely (!) at IRFTs CD-showcase - we're quite proud of that as this shows that our new album is accepted quite well overseas!
IRFT - an US-Radio Portal (based in California) fully dedicates to celtic musik and provides special shows covering dedicated topics besides the 24/7 streaming.
>>> tune in the extract

IRXN live at Radio Alpenwelle

22. September: Sylvia Frei guided us - really competent - through an hour live where we really had fun. We performed unplugged 'Wuiderer' in small cast as Berni was on tour in Scotland, and raffled off free entrance for the tour-stop at Huglfing, T-Shirts and CDs (of course the new 'Vogelfrei') at the next day's 'Morning-Show'
>>> tune in the morning-show

24. August: The official Video from the new album is ready now - a wonderful production we are really proud of! Conception and creation were made by Michaila Kühnemann - THANKS !!! We're happy to see your comments >>>

'Wolfspfad' played in CD-showcase on IRFT Celtic Radio'

08. August: The entire CD 'Wolfspfad' will be played in completely (!) at IRFTs CD-showcase.
IRFT - an US-Radio Portal (based in California) fully dedicates to celtic musik and provides special shows covering dedicated topics besides the 24/7 streaming.

'Zigano' most requested song on IRFT Celtic Radio'

29. July: IRXN's 'Zigano' from the album 'Wolfspfad' championed on IRFT Celtic Radio (USA) the recent week in the most requested - charts. Once a week - every thursday - there's a dedicated show around the top20. With 'Pyromanien' (#2), 'IRXN' (#15) and 'Wuiderer' (#18) we were able to place songs from both our albums 'Wolfsfad' and 'Vogelfrei' which will be released in September.

Since a couple of weeks IRXN is now in the top20 with various songs from both teh albums 'Wolfspfad' and 'Vogelfrei':

02. September:
'Zigano' (#3)
'A Tropfa' (#8)

19. August:
'Zigano' (#4)
' Vogelfrei' (# 6)

05. August:
'Zigano' (#1)
'IRXN' (#7)

29. July:
'Zigano' (#1)
'Pyromanien' (#2)
'IRXN' (#15)
'Wuiderer' (#18)

22. July:
'Ewigkeit blüaht' (#1)
'IRXN' (#2)

01. July:
'Zigano' (#1)
'Schlafende Maid' (#20)

IRFT - an US-Radio Portal (based in California) fully dedicates to celtic musik and provides special shows covering dedicated topics besides the 24/7 streaming. IRXN was featured 'new artist' on 23. of June and has the two complete albums 'Wolfspfad' and 'Vogelfrei' in the rotations. Started in July there is a live-show as well with Josh Bronson in Maine where the Bavarian band IRXN was introduced inside the Celtic Universe!

First official IRXN fan-page live!

23. Juli: IRXN proudly presents the first known fan-page - news from our active Swabian supporters are now subsequently added to that myspace site. XXL Thanks to Stefanie and Beate for a really great job and ongoing support for IRXN (applause!!!)
>>> http://www.myspace.com/irxxn

IRXN on Radio Goethe in the US and globally

RADIO GOETHE was founded in November of 1996 to present a vibrant, dynamic and interesting German music scene to listeners abroad. The show airs live (with a stream) in San Francisco on KUSF on Thursday nights 8:30pm - 10:00pm PST and is also syndicated on dozens of stations mostly in the US and Canada, but also in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Denmark, Switzerland and Germany. For a complete list of stations go to the [RADIO GOETHE] site www.radiogoethe.org.

'BY-on': IRXN staatlich gefördert

"BY on" is an official Bavarian Support Project for top-acts residing in Bavaria, which gets budget from the Bavarian Government and was initially started by media like Bayrischer Rundfunk or PPV-publishing, as well as professionals from music labels and hosts. As band you cannot apply for being supported, you are proposed and selected! Proposals usually are made by AR-Managers, Event-Managers in the scene, Booker, as they have an indepth scene-view and know who is eligible for being supported in that way.
For the Music-Business coaching the famous band Schandmaul was providing various insights, the media-part has been covered by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Media-Partner are: Bayerische Rundfunk (Bayern3 / on3-radio / on3-startrampe / on3-südwild) and PPV Verlag (Soundcheck, guitar, keys, recording).

Pre-Listening: Radio Monacensis - the Medieval Broadcasting now includes songs from 'Vogelfrei'

Medieval-Rock, minstrel music, folk music and traditional tunes of the middle ages at Radio Monacensis: http://www.laut.fm/#monacensis. IRXN-songs from the upcoming release 'Vogelfrei' (Ewigkeit blüht, La Rotta, Palästinalied) are broadcasted in various playlists.
Tune in! - you will listen to a outstanding mixture of medieval music!

Erste Impressionen der 'Vogelfrei 2010' -Tour

IRXNs 2010-Tour started on the Festival der Vielfalt in Waldmünchen (Festival of Diversity - unplugged!) and went on in Traunreut (with complete backline!) on the Mundartfestival (Festival of Dialect). Meanwhile we've been celebrating also in München (Klangfest), Wien (Vienna Folk Festival) and Regen (Drumherum) ... and this was only the beginning - IRXN on Vogelfrei-Tour ;-)

'Stehaufmandl' on Klangfest 2010-Compilation (VUT)

IRXN presents 'Stehaufmandl' from our upcoming album 'Vogelfrei' on the Compilation: Klangfest 2010. The Munich Music Scene will celebrate a festival on 22nd of May in the Munich Gasteig: From Rock, Pop, Reggae to Worldmusic and Jazz, including Music-Cabaret and Bavarian Folk - the whole creativity and variety of the vibrant Munich Music Scene will be sensible. The CD with all top-artists of that event is available NOW.

IRXN at RFO-Studio!

IRXN was recording a session for the Regional Fernsehen Oberbayern (Regional Broadcast Upper Bavaria)at 14.05. in Rosenheim with Silvia Stock . Besides 4 songs from teh album Wolfspfad we've been recording numerous interview bricks with every single musician ... a first broadcast can be viewed at the RFO Mediathek.

IRXN live and unplugged!

IRXN has spend quite a bit time in creating a solid accoustic-program. This will be celebrated various times during the 'Vogelfrei'-Tour ... IRXN without effects and distortion - purely power! Celebrate with us this very different kind of IRXN. Premiere will be at Festival der Vielfalt / Waldmünchen on May 15th.
>>> Tune-in a bootleg of 'Kloakriag', taken during our practicing ...

'Vogelfrei' soon on a video

IRXN was doing a first professional video-shooting recently for 'Vogelfrei' which will be released soon. A full day od sun, inspiration, fun and really great ideas in a part of Upper Bavaria which is called picturesque fo a reason - in prefessional manner ... the result will be uploaded to youtube soon.

'A Tropfa' champions the Folk-Charts on allmusic.de

In the overall-charts our song from the album 'Wolfspfad' entered the Top-Ten: rank 8!
In the sub-category 'Folkiges' IRXN champions with 'A Tropfa' (status on 31.03.10)
IRXN is more than happy with numerous Downloads/Votings for our song!

'AUSREISSER' now calls 'VOGELFREI'

After nights of discussion we agreed to call the new album 'Vogelfrei' (Ostracized ) instead of the used working title 'Ausreisser' (Runaway). We feel that this fits far better the lyrics and the songs in there - typical artist discussion :-)
The new album now will be finalized for distribution asap.

'Löwenblut ... ist blaues Blut' on myspace of TSV 1860 München

IRXNs powerful hommage to the Löwen (Lions) is now also uploaded to the official myspace of TSV 1860 München. Besides the song the respective video is also available there. In hope to see 'Em back in the first league soon :-)

IRXN's most famous restaurant in the valley of the river Altmühl

IRXN after an exhausting day in studioback again in Gasthof 'Zum Hollerstein'. A MUST-SEE if you are in that area - just drop in and enjoy friendly service combined with really great frankonian speciality food!

Interview by Ulrike Zöller for BR-broadcast station

Moderator Ulrike Zöller and IRXN on 14.01. - Interview for BR (Bayerischen Rundfunk) in which we dived into IRXN, the upcoming CD release 'Ausreisser' and a bit into the processes of our creativity.

Radio Monacensis - the Medieval-Radio broadcasts songs out of 'Wolfspfad'

Medieval-Rock, minstrel music, folk music and traditional tunes of the middle ages at Radio Monacensis: http://www.laut.fm/#monacensis. IRXN-songs from the actual release 'Wolfspfad' are broadcasted in the playlists 'Mittelalter-Mixtur 1-6', 'Abend-Mixtur', 'Nacht-Mixtur', sowie 'Irish and Celtic Music 1'.
Tune in! - you will listen to a outstanding mixture of medieval music!

celtic-rock.de adds songs from the album 'Wolfspfad'to their actual playlists

at: http://www.laut.fm/celtic-rock you can listen to IRXN in the playlist 'Whats New!' and in future also in 'All Day Long'.
Tune in - this Internet-Radio provides the creme of New-Folk!

'Löwenblut ... ist blaues Blut' played at first game in MUC Arena

09. Aug.: IRXNs Hommage to the blue Lions was played at the first home match of the new season '... wo mia san da is oben, mia spuin eich an die wand ...' was the melodic supoport to win the match against the team from Koblenz.

IRXN places two songs in the download top-ten of Soundgarage

09. Aug.: Both the songs 'A Tropfa' (#4) and 'D'Liabe' (#6) entered the top-ten of Antenne Bayern Soundgarage. The famous Broadcasting Station provides this platform for bands not(yet) under major-label contract - IRXN is delight that our songs are well-accepted and downloaded in a significant figure.

New partnership: IRXN meets Himmel Arsch & Zwirn

Shortly before our vacations we've experienced another highlight, which was filed with help from Donnerwetter Musik: The trendy vogue-label Himmel,Arsch & Zwirn provides the stage-outfit of IRXN in the coming season. The unique product line is not just an outfit but an attitude - what IRXN is in music, Himmel Arsch & Zwirn is in vogue - therfor a rather logical co-operation.
>>> more about Himmel Arsch & Zwirn

IRXN auf dem Sinnflut in Erding

Directy after the show, Berni was interviewed: ... and IRXN explains in the Interview, why traditional bavarian music is quite tight eith Irish Folk.

IRXN Live on Radio Lora 92.4

Moderator Willi Rodrian invited and IRXN was for one hour live on air at 'Folkfenster' on Aug. 03./10 pm. Besides songs from the actual album played live and unplugged and an extensive interview, the audience of Radio Lora 92.4 could experience IRXN indepth ... and win CDs/t-shirts.

Donnerwetter Musik GmbH and IRXN negotiate co-working relationship

IRXN is really looking forward to that relationship with Donnerwetter Musik GmbH, negotiated before playing the charity-concert for Toy RUN MOd e.V. on 06.06.

Donnerwetter Musik GmbH offers services for artists practicing idiom music in Bavaria. It is a service-agency and publisher for modern Bavarian folkmusic and cabaret in all genres. Donnerwetter Musik GmbH serves a broad network for success and is an established full-service-provider targeting qualified market-positioning and professional guidance for the artists under contract.

>>> more information on the donnerwetter musik - Web-Site

'Löwenblut ... ist blaues Blut' - a 'must-have' for all 60er now available as Download!

>>> Download at Amazon, napster or iTunes
>>> alternative for the friends of fancy cover-artwork: order Maxi-CD

IRXN supports UNICEF

Leave the sofa - pull on your sneakers ... At the Wolnzach run IRXN supported two of the participating kids.

>>> IRXN not only in music ... projects, we support

IRXN-Interview at TFF for the Folkfenster on Radio LORA 92.4

Directly after the show on sunday, July 5th, in Rudolstadt - before leaving for to play at the Mundartfestival in Waldmünchen - the crew was interviewed by Willi Rodrian for the Folkfenster/Radio LORA 92.4 on the following monday.
>>> Interview (Extract of the broadcast of 06.07.)

The Spirit of Bavarian FolkRock live auf dem TFF in Rudolstadt
- impressions - inspiration - transfer - motivation - enthusiasm - openness - spirit - feeling -

This all and more we found, the three days at the biggest (!) Folk-Roots-World festival on earth, with more than 1000 artists from 30 nations ... and it was enriching to enjoy two really great shows there in front of a great audience. The openness for the 'new' and the enthusiasm for the 'different' was both challenging and inciting. The deep dive into the inimitable width of world-music presented there definitely is an experience - for both artists and audience.

>>> Impressions of night and day
>>> Interview made by Wilhelm Rodrian (Folkfenster/Radio LORA 92.4) on sunday

'Wolfspfad' around the Globe ...

'Wolfspfad' is always taking part. We recieved various letters that prove 'Wolfspfad' is spreading well - and IRXN is very pleased to hear that ;-) --- Send us your 'Wolfspfad'-pic from wherever you are currently working, living, taking vacations, passing through, intermediately stopping, pegging out, grafting, sleeping ... with identifying landscapes, whatever - we will post them as well in the dedicated album.

>>>send to info@irxn.net or direktly using this link<<<