So Liss Ard makes a comeback to the festival circuit, landing on Aug 4+5, just outside Skibbereen. There are several tasty names on the music bill already (we’ll leave the literary and food elements to a different blog), but two have caught my eye straight away. Bob Mould Band play Copper Blue The ex-Husker Du...
Just recently I had the pleasure of speaking with a man who is keeping the music scene alight in the west of Ireland, his name is Finbar Hoban. Ask any band who have cut their teeth on the Irish scene in the past couple of years about Finbar and most if not all will greet...
The Stripes Long Gone, Kate Bush(s), Lady Grew (not pictured), Carried by Waves and Death by Chocolate.
It’s great to see Derry/London-based indie Smalltown America still out there nourishing new talent. A label that has been nothing but consistent with their output since 2001. Branding the stamp this time around is former psychobilly art-rockers Red Organ Serpent Sound-man Chris McConaghy under his new Our Krypton Son moniker. Released as both a limited...
When Birmingham punk band The Prefects split in 1979 some of the members went on to found The Nightingales. Throughout the eighties, despite an ever changing line-up, the band attracted plenty of positive feedback and reviews – notably from John Peel. They disbanded in the late eighties but still played occasional gigs before a full...
Indiependence 2012 steps up a gear with the addition of “high church amplified” rockers British Sea Power to the bill. This is a band who’ve largely passed me by but one good friend of mine is a big fan. And last year, he recommended I check out this article about a book written by the...
Born and raised in Co Galway, 24 year old Laura Sheeran has been writing, recording and gigging since 2007. In that time she has given birth to various soundtracks for both theatre and film, released a series of videos she has filmed in tandem with her music and become involved in various music projects including...
Tim Smyth of country/folk duo Hidden Highways outlines five of his favourite songs 1. Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra – Some Velvet Morning I’m not sure where the Lee Hazelwood thing started…I think it was on the Movern Caller soundtrack that I first heard this. Psychedelic country? Who’d have thunk it? The change in time...
Some news just in from Note Productions re the Transcendentalists show in Dublin at the weekend. It seems that an extra show has been added on Sunday afternoon due to demand. And it’s all ages people. Read on. Sunday 20th May The Sugar Club, Dublin 3pm Matinee Show Tickets 20 Euro including booking fee. A...
Vicky Langan, performance artist and curator of Black Sun, talks us through her upcoming Galway show next weekend ‘Judas Steer’, is a special event, presented by the Galway Arts Centre this Saturday May 19th. It will feature a live solo performance, film screening (DIRT, the brand new video by myself and Max Le Cain, will...
Eoghan was one of two reviewers we sent to the first ever Camden Crawl Dublin last weekend – here he puts his own festival experience into some perspective, with the benefit of a few days’ distance Eoghan’s review of Day 1 of Camden Crawl Dublin here Ronnie’s review of Day 2 of Camden Crawl Dublin...
Dublin band The Star Department were in touch about their new single. It’s called ‘Porcelain doll’ and is taken from their upcoming album The pea green boat. The tune itself is an intriguing slice of shoegazey drift with hushed vocals. It’s over before you know it and would generally make you feel like hearing more....
