A music blog from Ireland.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
New video for Bomb City 7’s songParanoia…the kind of music I love at gigs but I will never watch this video again. Gross! Paranoia is launched this Thursday 22 March with support from The Animators and the Alice Kona Band. bombcity7.bandcamp.com (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Trailer for the 2012 Spirit of Folk festival which takes place in late October – for 24 hours on 29 March early birds can get bargain prices of just €50 for camping weekenders. I interviewed Rhob Cunningham...
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Mysterious music often finds its way to my inbox and even when it comes with interesting details, I’m never quite sure what to expect. Gentleboy EP is one example, the work of Paul Maguire, an unsolicited...
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
This morning it was announced that Halves, Dublin’s sprawling instrumental band, will release a limited edition live recording for Record Store Day 2012 on 21 April. Recorded in the Dublin Unitarian Church on December 9th 2011 the...
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Nice one! wondervillains: We’ll be back in England this June for Dot to Dot Festival. We’re playing Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester. Check out the lineup on this cool poster!!
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Villagers, Tieranniesaur and Kormac’s Big Band are among the first slew of artists named for the 2012 Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle, Westmeath this June. They join the mightily impressive line-up that boasts M83, St Vincent...
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
An email with a link to this new set of tracks from Cork’s Private Underground Residence arrived last night but I didn’t listen. I already heard this track Snuffbox last year. Woke up muttering “private underground residence”...
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
This goes up cos it’s fucking wild. Devonwho is based in San Francisco and has a new EP Strangebrew out on the Dublin electronic/hip hop label All City Records in April. TV motion graphics rule. Props to...
Friday, March 16th, 2012
This is it lads. Time to bid farewell to Richie Egan, the grounded star of pop, as he leaves us with the magnificent Ocean Of Frequency and prepares to depart for a new life in Sweden. A...