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
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...
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
The old story about the salmon of knowledge is one of the most captivating and curious in Celtic mythology, relating the deeds of the mighty Finn MacCool as he sets off in search of wisdom in order...
Monday, January 9th, 2012
Just over a year ago I wrote about a new record store called Wingnut that was opening in Galway on the premises of the Bell Book and Candle bookshop. As regular CD sales diminished and other record...
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Last night @luberachi wrote a blog post about her particular experiences of working as a music journalist in Dublin. Titled Staring At Crotches Should Be My Only Problem, Lou outlined the challenges faced by gig-goers with mobility...
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
I got suspended from school for a day for singing this on a Friday afternoon in 1995 before a long weekend…not that I minded cos it just meant I got the Tuesday off as well! Blur were...
Monday, September 20th, 2010
Cranking their band-years up to eleven, Estel and Chicago’s Smog Veil Records have come together for a digital release of three albums from their back catalogue, 2004′s A Guide In Time Of Great Danger, 2006′s My Dreams...
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Evolution is merciless: every advance and progression comes at a cost. So it goes that 2010 has witnessed great music buffered on free streams before people buy download versions or go directly to artists’ merch stands at...