Honningbarna – Q&A
Ahead of their 4-date Irish tour, Honningbarna frontman Edvard Valberg gave Niall some uncompromising answers… Hi, first of all could you tell us a little about the history of the band, how you first got together? We got together at school when we where 17 and did what all 17 year old guys interested in...
Fred – The Pavilion, Cork, 25.10.12
Fred cost me a tenner tonight – I ill-advisedly bet a friend that the band did not have a science-related song. I was wrong. I’d forgotten the wonderfully titled ‘The Wondering Geologist’ off 2002’s Can’t Stop I’m Being Timed. I only mention this as Fred were promising to delve into all four of their albums...
Fred – Q&A
Hometown heroes made good Fred rifle through their back catalogue at The Pavilion tonight – Niall checked in with them to see how their 2012 has been It’s been another busy year for the band, between the continuing success of 2011′s Leaving my Empire, to playing Electric Picnic, to swapping tunes with the Franks and...
Hello Moon & The Great Balloon Race – The Roundy, Cork 05.10.12
The G-Man is quickly proving adept at putting on some great shows in Cork. Hot on the trail of Little X’s for Eyes and Yawning Chasm comes a double act in The Roundy. Local lads The Great Balloon Race shared the bill with Dublin’s Hello Moon to deliver a cracking evening’s entertainment. Things kicked off...
Interview – Inni-K
How would you best describe your sound to the uninitiated? ‘A strangely evocative voice over delicate and quirky melodies’ – I had to ask a friend to help me out with this one cause I could spend all day at it and not get anywhere! The voice and the song is always the core of...
Rams’ Pocket Radio – Trajectories
The term auteur is bandied about far too readily these days. However, it applies here as we have a confident young musician who is a multi-talented singer, pianist, drummer and songwriter. Trajectories is a release that brings together Lisburn native Peter McCauley’s first three EPs on the one album. Rams’ has released a confident record...
Ketsa – Al Kemet (Invisible Agent)
To some the notion of electronic music can bring to mind repetitive synth and drum loops with very little to distinguish it from whatever else is rattling around in the electronic litter tray that month. Not so with this release from Ketsa, the latest incarnation of London based Musician, DJ and producer Dominic Giam. The...
Peter Hook & The Light – Murphy’s Little Big Weekend, Cork, 25.08.12
There’s a certain mindset that views Hooky’s touring of Joy Division numbers as almost sacrilegious. I don’t share that mindset; the man was there from the beginning, end of. Himself and Barney Sumner mightn’t be talking anymore but musicians falling out is nothing new, and this is as close as anyone of my generation is...
KaraKara – Bully Mixtape
Nick Hornby described the making of a mixtape as like writing a letter — “there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do”. Infuriatingly Dublin producing talent KaraKara (A.K.A Kieran Dold) makes it sound easy with the 16 track Bully. The 22 year old...
