Choice Music Prize Previews: Adrian Crowley – Q&A
Conor caught up with Adrian Crowley on a train to Cologne to ask him about his Choice Music Prize nomination… Hi Adrian, congratulations on your Choice Music Prize nomination for I see three birds flying. Obviously you’ve been nominated in the past (in 2007 for Long Distance Swimmer and winning in 2009 with Season of...
windings, New Single + Video
So you remember how one of the more heartwarming things to happen in January was the nomination of windings’ album I am not the crow for the Choice Music Prize? Well, Steve Ryan and friends are releasing a new single from the album, to precede the Choice announcement at Vicar Street on March 7th. It’s...
Yo La Tengo – Fade (Matador)
Yo La Tengo visit Vicar Street at the end of March – Conor dusted off one of his favourite musical fantasies to check out their latest, 13th, album… First published on The Underground of Happiness I used to have a Yo La Tengo fantasy. It involved pulling up in traffic next to a boyracer, one...
First Aid Kit at Vicar Street in November
Attention Swedish fans (no, this isn’t about the EUROS). First Aid Kit is the name of a band with whom you’ll be acquainted if you’re into exquisite harmonies, made up as it is of Stockholm sisters Klara and Johanna Soderberg. Their album The Lion’s Roar came out earlier in the year, produced by Mike Mogis...
Explosions in the Sky + Low for Vicar Street
You know there’s a stretch in the evenings when the incredibly tasty summer shows start rolling out like lawnmowers, taken out of winter cold storage (reminds me, I must cut the grass…). Harmonic (with Aiken Promotions) are at it again, this time with an Irish-only exclusive at Vicar Street (July 10th, 8pm), featuring two of...
Tune-Yards at Vicar Street in July
Great news for fans of stonking pop music (technical term). The wonderful Merrill Garbus (and hopefully friends), aka *Tune-Yards, will be returning to Ireland on July 15th to play Vicar Street in Dublin. Garbus is turning into one of the most hardworking women in music, having been on tour, it seems, forever, in support of...
