A music blog from Ireland.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
New single Barricade from Spies, to follow on from their excellent free download EP last year, Liars Call Me King. It’s loud. I love the striking, bold vocal and the bang of post-punk in the tunes they bring out. Barricade is on sale for €3 as a digital download and launched on 23 April at
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Before it gets mental with all Record Store Day has to offer, there’s one ultra-chilled night planned for this weekend that is guaranteed to set you on the right track for a weekend of great music ::...
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Some hip-hop that’s not only deadly, it has an awesome purpose :: Dead Set Gemini’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight which took place on 12 April 1961, when the Russian cosmonaut...
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Having already linked this on Twitter and my personal Facebook page I hope it doesn’t come across as overkill to post about the interview I did with Hugh McCabe recently. However as a lapsed music photographer and...
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Released on the 11/04/11, EleventyFour‘s Joy Imperative EP has been eagerly awaited by fans of her irrepressible good humour. Gigging since 2008, she makes soft folky, upbeat songs with kaleidoscopic melodies...
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Here’s a new song by Land Lovers, one of three recorded for Phantom’s K9 Sessions on the I-Con show that will air tomorrow night. Land Lovers’ second album, titled Confidants, is due to be released later this...
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
It’s rankled that I neglected to post about Boa Morte’s second album The Dial Waltz when it was sent my way last year. Just arrived at a busy time and best intentions were waylaid as the ever-constant...
Monday, April 11th, 2011
Padraig O’Reilly plays guitar and sings in Dublin’s quirky indie quartet Yeh Deadlies. A founding member of the Popical Island Collective, he is married to Annie Tierney, fellow member of Yeh Deadlies and Tieranniesaur. Having just released...