Review: A Hawk and A Hacksaw – Half Moon Theatre, Cork, 24.04.13
No matter how well captured on record they may be, it’s safe to say A Hawk and A Hacksaw are fundamentally an act to be savoured in full flight live rather than coming out of a stereo. That is not to take anything away from a fine discography, but it’s when the manic interplay and...
A Hawk and A Hacksaw, in Pictures – Half Moon Theatre, Cork, 24.04.13
Photos: Simone della Fornace flickr.com/softblackstar
Baby Godzilla @ Fred Zeppelins
…and the noise is in town this week too, Cork. Baby Godzilla should feel right at home in Fred Zeppelins, by the sounds of things… DROP-D.IE PRESENTS: BABY GODZILLA (UK post-hc) STOP ALL THE CLOCKS (Dublin instrumental) WHEN GOOD PETS GO BAD (Cork pop/noise) THIS PLACE IS DEATH (Cork grunge/pop) FRED ZEPPELIN’S, PARLIAMENT ST. FRIDAY...
Enter Shikari in Cork next week
A quick mention – possibly of more interest to you of a younger vintage – for a gig happening next week. Return To Energiser Tour: Enter Shikari + Hacktivist + Wounds The Pavilion, Cork Thursday 2nd May 2013 Enter Shikari round off a solid 18 months of touring the world promoting their third album ‘A...
Last Days of 1984, Free Download New Track ‘Lost Hearts’, Pitchfork
Fast in pursuit of their fine collaboration with Sacred Animals, which premiered last week, comes more new music from Dublin’s Last Days of 1984. As featured on Pitchfork earlier, ‘Lost Hearts’ is available to download for free on the band’s soundcloud page. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15353-lost-hearts/ As the writer mentions, it marks quite a departure from last year’s...
The Community Games (Popical Island)
The Community Games seem to have gone off the national radar a bit from what seems now like their heyday in the 1980′s. Presumably their democratic, everybody-wins culture doesn’t really suit our modern reality show narrative arcs. To think that they were even immortalised in song by Aidan Walsh, when post-modernism and Rubberbandits were only...
Tigers of Tin Pan
Dorothy Cotter was in touch. You might know her name from Eleventy Four, a band of hers we featured last year. This time though it was to let us know about another project she’s involved in called Tigers of Tin Pan. To start with, there’s a video and free download of ‘I’ll be loving you’,...
The David Nelligan Thing, New Video + Album Out Today
Cork band The David Nelligan Thing release their album Dark matters today, through Bandcamp (they also have a special hook up with Plugd Records in Cork). And they’ve sent on the last in the series of videos which have trailed the album. If you’ve been paying attention up to now, it won’t come as a...
Thinguma*jigSaw, Final Gig
Andy Wilson was in touch. He happens to be one of The David Nelligan Thing, whose album Dark matters releases tomorrow. However, that wasn’t the reason he e-mailed. It was to do with Thinguma*jigsaw, who, as you may know, play their last ever gig on Saturday night. Read on for Andy’s very interesting background info....
John Blek & the Rats, Debut Album + Tour Dates
We like hardworking bands around here. It helps of course when there are some tunes of substance behind the effort. John Blek & the Rats release their debut album next week and they seem to be hitting both of those criteria on the button, if the first couple of tunes from the album to see...
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Back in the early noughties, music from Eastern Europe was not widely en vogue. Long before Taraf de Haidouks, for example, were appearing at ATP. When Beirut was known only as a war-torn basket case. That’s when Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost struck up their fantastically jittery and infectious folk group A Hawk and A...
K-X-P landing this week
“K-X-P come from Finland, or space.” Those were the opening words of Kieran’s review of the K-X-P gig at the Crane Lane last year (read full report here). One point stressed by Kieran in that review was the need to experience their live show – something I hope to put right this week – good...
