Trumpets of Jericho – Interview
Photo: Bríd O’Donovan “I think that’s one of the things we’ve got going for us as a band is that we’re not very cool. And we don’t make any attempt to be cooler than we are.” Ahead of the Certain Three Tour alongside Nanu Nanu & Si Schroeder which starts this week, Trumpets of Jericho’s...
Best Boy Grip – The Clerk EP
Best Boy Grip (one Eoin O’Callaghan from Derry) came into our consciousness about a year ago with the impressive Barbara EP. Impressive in that it was very poppy, techically gifted (O’Callaghan’s piano playing is something to swoon over) and did not see a contradiction between the two. This was our review at the time. http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2012/01/best-boy-grip-barbara-ep/...
Office Playlist: Lord Huron – Time to run
So, how’s everyone? (Or “How’re the boiiiiiys?”, seeing as the year just gone was truly the year of Sminky.) Found a new use for that turkey baster yet? Some eye-popping possibilities if you google that shit… You know the way this time of year every media outlet seems to be obsessed with THE sound of...
Noise Staffers Best of 2012
Just to do our bit for the list culture currently doing the rounds, we’d thought we’d randomly poll ourselves here at NOISE HQ for some highlights of the last year. And these were the results. (All live band photography by Brid O’Donovan, unless otherwise stated.) Best Irish Band: Villagers Best International Band: Take your pick...
Top 50 Cork Albums – a P.S.
Welcome back after Christmas, we trust you all survived the festivities. Many of you will have been following our Top 50 Cork Albums series, in which we posted the Top 10 last Saturday. There was a huge response – for which thank you, it’s gratifying that the hard work put in meant something at your...
Top 50 Cork Albums Poll
So folks, it’s the end of the week before Christmas, and the final edition of our NOISE poll of the Top 50 Cork albums is imminent. (It’s also the shortest day of the year, and something about the Mayans…) We will be announcing the Top 10 albums, as voted by our panel, live on radio...
The Great Altered Balloon Hours Race Compilation Interview
Photos: Bríd O’Donovan Ahead of The Altered Hours and The Great Balloon Race sharing a bill at The Pavilion next weekend, Conor sat down over stout with The Hours’ Cathal and The Race’s Marcus to discuss King Crimson in Mayo, recording in Berlin, pissing about and drinking, the ability to tell each other to fuck...
Lower Dens w/ Novo Line – Half Moon Theatre, Cork, 16.12.12
…in which a sparse Sunday night mid-December turnout gets full value from a pair of Baltimore acts. And Conor vows to finally check out the band’s albums… First up Novo Line, aka Nat Fowler, formerly guitarist with OXES, now Berlin resident, who according to soundcloud (paraphrased by himself in his onstage introduction), “misuses a 23...
Review: Richard Hawley – Savoy Theatre, Cork, 06.12.12
Photos: Bríd O’Donovan Everything is cool, these days. So cool, like. Let’s talk about the origin of cool though. It’s hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Some kind of assurance and self-possession, some kind of magnetism. Roy Keane had (has) it, Marlon Brando had it, John Lennon, Jack Nicholson and...
Review: The Great Balloon Race w/ The Maori John Wayne – Half Moon Theatre, Cork, 01.12.12
I must say first what a pleasure it was to walk into a venue and hear Field Music blasting out over the pa (the album in question was Measure, since you’re asking). Up with that kind of thing. Some minutes later, The Maori John Wayne took the stage, not in the manner of the last...
AM on Trensmat
The ever-reliable Trensmat were on the blower with some release news. Just in time for Christmas, says you. The force behind the prolific NZ imprint Pseudo Arcana, Antony Milton has, both on his own label and elsewhere, released a ton of music – possibly literally. Is there such thing as too much of a good...
Other Voices 2012/13
The new series of Other Voices is being shot shortly. This year, as well as the Dingle event, they’re pushing the boat out to create a three city affair, taking in Derry (marking it’s UK Capital of Culture 2013 designation) and London, in association with the Barbican Theatre. The confirmed line-up for Dingle is this...
