This Is The Kit – Q&A
This Is The Kit plays an extensive 8-date Irish tour next week – we asked Kate Stables about The National, living in Paris…and Beyoncé also came up… Hi Kate, thanks very much for taking the time. Can I ask you first about Bristol, where you were based for quite a while. It sounds like a...
Peter Delaney – Witch Bottle (Out on a Limb)
Peter Delaney is a Limerick singer and songwriter, but I wouldn’t call him a singer-songwriter. Witch bottle is his second album and you won’t hear anything like it in pop music this year. These ten songs are not really for early morning listening, not for best results anyway. They are more conducive to a late...
The Lucid Dream – Q&A
The Lucid Dream embark on their first Irish shows later this month, ahead of their debut album this summer…Mark from the band gave us some background on Carlisle, hooking up with The Great Pop Supplement and psych rock… Hi, where are you at the moment. What’s the view like? I am currently in my flat...
Review: The Altered Hours w/ The Northern Drones – The Pavilion, Cork, 11.05.13
Photos: Rory Coomey http://www.flickr.com/photos/blindedvision/sets/ Check Rory’s full photoset of the gig here At the risk of falling foul of cliché, The Altered Hours’ Sweet Jelly Roll EP launch at The Pavilion on Saturday was almost the definition of much-anticipated. The band hadn’t played a headline gig in Cork city since Christmas, and before that not...
The David Nelligan Thing, Dark Matters, Song by Song
Words: David Nelligan Conor asked me to expand on the themes and ideas in the songs on Dark Matters for We Are Noise readers. I’d be delighted. Given a platform for some self-promotion, any independent act will jump at the chance. Reaching genuine music fans without the might of a PR company behind you is...
Wasps v Noise, New Single
You’ll be familiar with Wasps Vs Humans, that one-man show of spoken word rock n roll. And Eat My Noise, the live electronics duo. They’re getting together to form Wasps v Noise and will release a double-sided single tomorrow. Both cuts have had outings in Wasps vs Humans’ live set but here they receive a...
Interview – The Altered Hours
Cathal and Paddy from The Altered Hours guested in studio with Conor on his radio show this week (The Underground of Happiness on UCC 98.3FM, Tuesdays 11-12 (listen live here) picking some songs and chatting – below is a transcript of the interview covering a discussion of psych rock, house parties in Ballina and recording...
Colm O’Herlihy (The Burn/Burning) – Q&A
Photo: Caroline Kennedy Last week, a 12-date Grant Hart tour of Ireland/UK was announced, including a full backing band made up of some stalwarts of the Cork music scene…we asked guitarist Colm O’Herlihy to give us some more detail on the background to the tour… How did you hook up with Grant Hart? You played...
Southern Gothic Review: Little Annie & Baby Dee – Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, 05.05.13
Photos: Simone della Fornace www.flickr.com/softblackstar Check Simone’s full photoset here Sunday evening, bank holiday weekend, casualties/revellers on Pembroke Street and a brisk trade in Fast Al’s. Inside the Crane, tables with candles and easy chairs are out for something like a New York cabaret. There are connections to Kurt Weill, between the wars, piano leading...
Sundernix – Sundernix
It’s good for the soul to look outside the news feed now and again. Curious band names aside, Sundernix is Liam Trappe, mostly, although he has enlisted quite a few friends to help on this album (Gavin Elsted of Adultrock fame, for example, plays drums on several tracks). Liam describes the project as a labour...
(Heaven must be missing an) Angel Olsen at the Half Moon
Things are hotting up on the gigs front for sure as something like spring arrives in Cork. In close succession this weekend at Cyprus Avenue, you have Fionn Regan and John Grant, and the Southern Gothic Festival is in full swing at Crane Lane Theatre (plus a couple of other venues). *By the way, you...
Purling Hiss – Q&A
Conor caught up with Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss in advance of their show at The Pavilion on May 19th… Hi Mike, thanks for taking the time. Where are you now? We just got back home to Philadelphia from a 2 week tour to the midwest, USA supporting the new record. This is your first...
