A music blog from Ireland.
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Lots of news from the four musical androids known as Le Galaxie, starting with a headline, free-admission show at the Button Factory on 23 September with a stellar bill of support acts. The UK’s noise rock trio Three Trapped Tigers will finally get to prowl an Irish stage along with their mates Seams, while Diamond
Friday, August 26th, 2011
News is in that six bands have been chosen to play the Dublin Community TV gig for their documentary Community Of Independents. Axis Of, Junior 85, LaFaro, Owensie, Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands and Windings...
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Tonight the experimental music artist and instrument inventor Ed Devane brings the Stop / Run concept to Galway with an ensemble of local musicians collaborating together to make sounds that have never been and will never again...
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Helluva line-up at the Workman’s Club tonight put on by Eleven Eleven. Overhead, The Albatross have just uploaded two brand-new songs to mark the occasion that are free from Bandcamp – there should be tendrils of steam...
Friday, August 26th, 2011
WHOAH. That was an incredible night – thanks so much to everyone who came along to Crawdaddy and the Chocolate Bar for the eighth Future Bright gig organised by Yrs, Trulee! The Deadly Buzz was had: Low...
Friday, August 26th, 2011
An eldritch scene from The Driftwood Manor: Blackbirds Are Screaming. If you thought folk music was all about lonesome roads and ships sailing an empty sea, think again. This video, superbly made by Tiny Epics, is the...
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
So last week I blogged on the track Luther from the young Dubliner Lecs who appeared out of nowhere and suddenly has everyone appraising the state of Irish hip hop again. Yesterday a video appeared online and...
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Been meaning to write about this song Summer In The Sand by Paul Melia for a while now, the draft post for the single’s been sitting here awaiting completion. I just checked his Facebook page to see...
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
One outfit that endlessly enthrals and intrigues me, Deviant and Naive Ted have announced that their “skratch folk opus” Send In The Hounds is now on the Community Skratch Bandcamp with a ‘name your price’ tag. Skratch...