The Twilight Sad w/ Gary Meyler, in Pictures – Cyprus Avenue, Cork, 19.04.13
Photos: Simone della Fornace http://www.flickr.com/photos/softblackstar/
Screaming Demons of Trashville – Top 5
The evocatively-monikered Screaming Demons of Trashville from Dublin headline an Alliance Promotions bill at Triskel next weekend – here’s a custom playlist from them… 1. The Ramones – KKK The Ramones are one of those bands who don’t have a bad song. They are inspiration beyond belief and here is proof that you don’t have...
Top 5 – Morning Veils
Morning Veils is billed as the songs of Elaine Howley – ahead of a gig with Cove at The Pavilion next Thursday we asked Elaine for a few musical cues… Here are our top five. I chose the first three, number four is from Roslyn Steer and Aisling O’Riordan chose no. 5. Thanks for asking...
Purling Hiss, New Single
Fancy something “scummy, blown out, and crusted”? With VERY loud guitars? We thought so. Here’s ‘Mercury Retrograde’, the current single by Purling Hiss from the album Water on Mars on Drag City. As you know they play The Pavilion in Cork on May 19th with Grave Lanterns in support.
Any Room Producer, Home Festival
Eat My Noise Productions were in touch. You’ll remember they were the people behind A:Volution at the Midsummer Festival last year (here’s Bríd’s review of that show). Read on. Any Room Producer Eat My Noise as part of HOME Festival Cork 25th ¬ 30th April curated and produced by Ruairi Donovan Meeting Point – Outside...
Thinguma*jigSaw Farewell Tour Details
Declan Kelly of Abandon Reason in Galway was on to let us know about the Thinguma*jigSaw farewell Irish tour later this month. We asked him for some background and he sent on this. Thinguma*jigSaw are a ‘splatterfolk’ (their very own artistic niche, subtly combining influences from the darker domains of Irish/British/American/Scandinavian folk-music with contemporary art...
Dott, New Video + Album News
Photo: Bríd O’Donovan showshotshare.tumblr.com All is far from quiet on the western front. Galway-based band Dott are hooking up with Graveface Records for their first American outing. Here’s the lowdown. Today Dott are releasing a new video for their song ‘Leave Tonight’ to coincide with the US release of their EP Button on 7″ vinyl...
Demdike Stare, Record Store Day Lineup Additions
Some important news to pass on about activities Plugd-related on Record Store Day this weekend, when Demdike Stare are in town. This was the announcement from Plugd HQ earlier. ahoy! got some super special guests confirmed for saturday… In the TDC, Grave Lanterns, Morning Veils, Elll and Rory Francis O’Brien are playing live from 6.30...
Kraftwerk Mixtapes
With thanks to Delzer for the heads up, some fantastic mixtape activity here from DJ Food which compiles a whole heap of Kraftwerk covers, related radio coverage or spoken word, and music influenced by the Dusseldorf icons. Below are the four links to the fruits of those (extensive) labours. One of the mixes manages to...
The David Nelligan Thing, Album Title Track
The last in the series of taster videos from the new album by The David Nelligan Thing has just landed. It’s the title track and might well be the strongest one we’ve heard yet. It’s also something of a departure from the previous tunes, starting life with a drum machine and lovely soporific bassline, before...
Indiependence, Lineup Additions
News just in from Indie 13 HQ. Your requirement for good-time head nodding over the August bank holiday in north Cork has been sorted, by way of the addition of We Are Scientists to the bill. Foy Vance is also notable in what follows (check out his cover of ‘Billie Jean’). Cymbals we haven’t come...
Demdike Stare @ Triskel Christchurch
Another in a long line of landmark shows takes place at Triskel Christchurch this weekend, marking Record Store Day, and brought to you by the people of The Black Mariah & Plugd. English duo Demdike Stare take crate-digging to new lengths and create a closely curated out there music from it. Here’s some bio. Demdike...
