We featured Leeds duo Fossil Collective a couple of times last year. They’ve just released their debut album, Tell where I lie, on Dirty Hit and are coming this side of the Irish Sea for a couple of dates next week. From what we heard then, Midlake were a particular reference point, albeit in a...
Things are hotting up on the gigs front for sure as something like spring arrives in Cork. In close succession this weekend at Cyprus Avenue, you have Fionn Regan and John Grant, and the Southern Gothic Festival is in full swing at Crane Lane Theatre (plus a couple of other venues). *By the way, you...
Just an addendum to the Stout Fest details earlier. Here is the full tour itinerary for Grant Hart in this part of the world in May/June, joined, as you can read below, by some well-known Cork names. Legendary alt-rock cult hero Grant Hart begins a blistering tour in support of his new album The Argument...
UK psych rock band The Lucid Dream play their first Irish shows later this month…here singer Mark Emmerson gives us five favourite tunes 1. Verve – She’s A Superstar Starting off with the band that got us truly inspired as 15 year-olds back in 2000 (me, Luke and Wayne have been in bands together from...
Photo: Bríd O’Donovan www.showshotshare.tumblr.com There’s a tasty music lineup for the inaugural Stout Fest, presented by Murphy’s, and taking place over the June bank holiday weekend at the Beamish & Crawford site in Cork. Seasick Steve headlines, Grant Hart is back in town again after a strong performance at Cyprus Avenue last December (Steve’s review...
Australian-born Margie Lewis has been living in Ireland for 5 years. She has been involved in many bands, but this was a solo gig. She played autoharp – plucked, hammered and looped, but not the customary strummed. On other songs, she played beautiful violin, and on each tune, she looped her vocals – words, sounds...
Photo: Bríd O’Donovan www.showshotshare.tumblr.com Fear Stalks The Land were in touch about their new single, which they are launching this weekend. This from the Book of Faces event page. Alright folks… we’ve been very quiet of late, but we’ve been preparing a surprise for you… we are very pleased to announce that on May 3rd...
Conor caught up with Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss in advance of their show at The Pavilion on May 19th… Hi Mike, thanks for taking the time. Where are you now? We just got back home to Philadelphia from a 2 week tour to the midwest, USA supporting the new record. This is your first...
Photo: Simone della Fornace www.flickr.com/softblackstar Great news lately of a return visit for Low to Ireland. In Cork, we still talk fondly of their sell-out gig at Cyprus Avenue last July. Jaysus, it was pretty sweaty that night, but in a good way. *By the way, check back on Simone’s full photoset from that gig...
EARCEL, which stands for European Arts Radio Creative Exchange Lab, takes place on Thursday May 9th at the Rua Red Centre in Tallaght in Dublin. The event is hosted by the Curious Broadcast people and is billed as “a day of creative exchange on contemporary and experimental approaches to sound and radio.” There’s an interesting...
As you’re no doubt aware, The Altered Hours release their debut EP Sweet Jelly Roll with a Recordings today. You’ll find all the relevant purchase links on their own website here: http://alteredhours.blogspot.ie/ And the vinyl edition will also be on sale at the Cork launch at The Pavilion on May 11th – presumably at their...
We wanted a single day of recording recently and wound up in the serene environs of Kilcoole (the town they used for Glenroe). Nestling within is the birthplace of a huge number of great Irish releases – The Hive Studio. Engineer, member of Enemies & Kidd Blunt & general champ Eoin Whitfield brings you up...
