A music blog from Ireland.
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
This weekend the Camden Crawl takes over Dublin for its second year. Billing itself as a metropolitan springtime festival with 150 music and comedy acts across two days and fifteen venues, the inauguration of the Dublin Crawl was boosted considerably by the brand awareness surrounding the original event in London which began in 1995. I’ll
Monday, April 29th, 2013
Welcoming the news of an EP release and Irish tour dates. I got in touch with Candice Gordon to ask some quick questions about her music. Over the past year this Berlin-based singer and guitarist has been...
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Seven years strong, Galway’s own DIY hip hop festival the Community Skratch Games is back this weekend and I’m going out to Galway to experience it all firsthand. Borne of the Vince Mack Mahon crew’s shared affinity...
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
This blew my socks off on its release on Tuesday; God Alone by Altar Of Plagues, which premiered on Pitchfork. It’s the first glimpse of music from their forthcoming third album Teethed Glory And Injury, due for...
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
So I’ve been sitting on this new EP Deathly Words by Spekulativ Fiktion, aka Sean Murphy, for a few days and its appeal has only grown stronger with repeated listens. Eight tracks spanning just under 20 minutes, its...
Friday, January 25th, 2013
A few years ago Declan Kelly began experimenting with the acoustics of/in an abandoned car park seeping with seawater. The cavernous, dying space provided an eerie backdrop for performances by musicians of various experimental natures and resulted...
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
A long and twisting road has led to this juncture at which the band Windings have just released a third album I Am Not The Crow . I chatted to Steve Ryan last week ahead of a...
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Something special from And So I Watch You From Afar. A tour video from their recent stint in China that documents their travels halfway across the world to give China some of that face-melting rapture. And China...
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Fan-made video for Sometimes. Crazily in love with this, if I had a car, all I would do is nightdrive listening to MBV. Dublin’s at its most beautiful when it’s incredibly sunny or too dark to see...