A music blog from Ireland.
Monday, May 31st, 2010
New isshies of AU Magazine are now out and about all over Dublin! Issue 65 – Well Hung. What you’ll find inside the cover - DAVID HOLMES The gritty shaker takes us through two decades of ground-breaking music making. BLACK FRANCIS The big man on his latest solo album and what happens next for the
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Really liking these vids from Redcap Productions – two songs from The Bonnevilles live at the opening of a tattoo parlour. I’ve found myself digging this sort of sound lately, bluesy punk is just so much fun...
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Earlier in the week I posted the preliminary announcement of acts chosen to play this year’s Glasgowbury festival. On Wednesday the second round of bands were revealed on the Across The Line show on BBC Radio Ulster...
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Last week the Lowly Knights played a very intimate little gig in Belfast’s No Alibi bookstore to around fifty people, performing every song they ever wrote bar one. The super Babysweet guys went along to film and...
Friday, May 28th, 2010
The trio known as Windings have placed their seven-track Brain Fluid cassette on Bandcamp for free download! Whoopah, only for seven days though, til 4 June. With three new tracks and four cover versions (Billy Joel, ABBA,...
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Delighted to post this – the first of Hunter-Gatherer‘s Fingerprint series of free downloads. You may remember the track Serbia from the recent post on the Indiecater Fast Forward compilation of 2010 World Cup-themed songs. The artwork...
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Tragedy has always been the ideal comedy fodder – however I don’t think those involved really expected we’d be breaking our shite laughing at this almost twenty years on but the Late Late Show is an archive...
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Wrap your optic nerves around this! Children Under Hoof launch their mini-album A Collar Can Become A Noose this Friday in the Joinery Gallery, Stoneybatter. It’s ten youroes in and for that price you get the intensity...
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Glasgowbury – the Northern Ireland equivalent of Somerset’s famous Glasto – last night revealed the first set of bands to play this year’s festival, via Across The Line radio show. For a preliminary line-up, it’s looking pretty...