A music blog from Ireland.
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Ten years on from the release of JJ72′s debut album, The Quietus caught up with Mark Greaney to discuss the fame and fate of the rock band that almost made it. Now they want to hear from you – if you’re a fan who never lost the spark. Y’see, JJ72 sold 500,000 copies and as
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Skibunny are strange ones – they’re a band for starters. Don’t give me that quizzical ‘ooohkayy’…they’ve been a great many different shades of creative over the years, from promoters and DJs to general awesome partylovers, although they...
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Ah lovely work to his usual high standard, Myles O’Reilly made this for for State.ie – footage from Villagers‘ recent gig at the Workman’s Club, beautifully edited into a six minute documentary of sorts, a reminder for...
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
You may remember the Adebisi Shank vs. Jay-Z mash-up that began circling a few months ago – I still get hits for it on the blog every week – well Gavin Elsted, the guy behind Adultrock, We...
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Looking forward to the new album due from Cap Pas Cap, ever since the brilliant set they played in August as support to Liars showed a fresh new side to their music that I’d never heard before....
Monday, September 27th, 2010
News from the Drunken Boat camp recently suggested a second album would soon sail into view and last night, a first sight of the sails appeared over the horizon in the form of this new tune Cabin...
Monday, September 27th, 2010
This popped up on Bren Talbot’s YouTube yesterday, a video of Legion of Two from the final Ballroom of Romance night at the Lower Deck on 18 September. Their set was the first airing of completely new...
Monday, September 27th, 2010
By rights, Wednesday night should be the launch party of Aeromodeller‘s album First Flight. Recorded by Derrick Dalton, the songs I’ve heard so far are exquisite, fingerwork lacing together frets and steel strings into filigree constructions of...
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Been looking forward since I saw this flyer and it almost slipped my mind until now. The Young Hearts Run Free gigs just get better and this is probably the best line-up of the entire weekend. So...