Top 5 – Dawes
Wylie from Los Angeles band Dawes mixes us up a mighty fine soul cocktail… 1. The Impressions – We must be in love (Album: Check out your mind) Everything about this song sends such an amazing feeling down your body. It’s pretty much undeniable. Something about the lead vocal and the horn section is responsible...
Top 5 – Lords of Strut
Top 5 from The Lords of Strut . . . . Sexy, acrobatic, aerodynamic – men want to be them and women want to be with them – The Lords of Strut have got it all baby. 1. The Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way When you walk into a room do you want...
Top 5 – You Kiss By The Book
Ahead of an album fundraiser at The Grand Social on July 11th, Simon Dowling of You Kiss By The Book tells us about some favourite tunes 1. Bright Eyes – The Calendar Hung Itself Bright Eyes are my favourite band and one of the biggest influences on my music. I was completely addicted after hearing...
Dead School – Q&A
Ahead of their upcoming Granary Theatre show, Stephen asks Cathal about life in Dead School Photos: Bríd O’Donovan If I met you as a stranger how would you describe the Dead School sound? I would like to think that it sounds very human. We don’t try to align ourselves with any specific genre. You can...
Bowerbird – Q&A with Adrian Crowley & Gary Sheehan
Cork Midsummer Festival starts today, so we thought we’d launch our coverage by catching up with the two people behind one of its most tantalising events, Bowerbird at Triskel Christchurch…Conor put the questions to Adrian Crowley and Gary Sheehan… How did the idea for Bowerbird first come about? AC – Gary approached me with the...
Top 5 – Last Days of 1984
Darren Moloney from Last Days of 1984 suggest some glorious global visions ahead of their Cork gig at the weekend 1. Tune-Yards – Fiya I’ll start of with this video for Fiya by Tune-Yards. We’re very lucky to be playing with Tune-Yards in Vicar St on July 16th. Merrill has the most beautiful voice and...
International Top 5 – Scott McGowan
In the latest of our WeAreNoise Staff Picks, Scott gets pretty riff-tastic, it’s fair to say… 1. Metallica – One Taken from their 1988 album And Justice For All… this was Metallica’s first foray into the realm of music videos. In typical Metallica fashion they did it their way choosing perhaps the most unsuitable track...
Horsemen Pass By – Top 5
Ross & Daniel from Ibero-Scot-Cork band Horsemen Pass By give us their International Top 5, on the day that Ireland take on the EUROS (as opposed to the €€Euros€€, in which case they would certainly lose) Here are our top 5 songs at the moment. Because 5 is a fairly limited amount we’re going to...
Let’s Get Loud
Stephen gets personal with Limerick rockers Dirty Diamonds “Larger than life” is an overused epithet in this day and age. For Dirty Diamonds it just about suffices. Ask them about their first rehearsal or first gig and the general reply is “I can’t remember”. You see Dirty Diamonds don’t live in the past and they...
WeAreNoise International Top 5 – Michael Carr
In the latest of our series of WeAreNoise Staff Picks, Michael muses on joy, heartbreak and the power of the Wah-Wah pedal 1. Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Chile Our dad scarred us for life, my younger brother and me; a C90 tape containing this song bore all we needed to know. To this day I...
WeAreNoise International Top 5 – Stephen Purcell
A couple of weeks ago, our Stephen offered us his Top 5 Irish tunes - http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2012/05/irish-top-5-stephen-purcell/ – here’s his international selection 1. The Beach Boys – Darlin’ (Wild Honey LP) When people mention The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson is normally the first thing that comes to mind. Here it was his brother Carl who delivered...
Top 5 – Funeral Suits
Mik from Funeral Suits takes us on a trip through his record (cd/digital audio) collection 1. The Knife – Pass this on We really like the album (Deep Cuts) that this track is on. We’re really big fans of The Knife. This album and track will always put a smile on my face so I...
