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Saturday, February 16th, 2013

MAP :: The Global Music Bloggers Mixtape – February 2013

February’s MAP Mixtape is here with tunes from 40 bloggers around the world. This month, I put forward Girl Band‘s cover version of Blawan‘s Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage. It’s free to download as part of the MAP Mixtape (details below) or on  the Quompilation #3. Click the play button icon to

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Friday, January 27th, 2012

Fun :: Quompilation #2 Launch

A year ago the local cassette label Quarter Inch Collective announced the release of Quompilation, a selection of 13 Irish bands’ favourite cover versions of new songs. A bright, cheery and accomplished piece of work, the...

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Monday, December 19th, 2011

News :: Quompilation #2

Today the news broke that cassette label Quarter Inch Collective‘s second Quompilation of irish bands’ cover versions will be released on January 27th with a launch gig at Crawdaddy “involving as many of the bands as we...

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Friday, February 4th, 2011

Video :: Harmless Noise

On Tuesday this week I was in RTE to film a review video of downloads, video and music for the RED Radar blog. It was deadly fun…to be honest, I was in my element to just stand...

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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Interview :: Cloud Castle Lake

Nifty interview with Cloud Castle Lake by Karl McDonald for Totally Dublin. They discuss the evolution of their band over the last couple of years ahead of the release of the Quarter Inch Collective’s Quompilation to which...

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Friday, January 21st, 2011

News :: Quompilation

The Quarter Inch Collective‘s Quompilation #1 features thirteen Irish bands covering their favourite songs from 2010. This is deadly in so many ways. A “quompetition” ran from Monday to pair the artists to their respective songs, not...

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Monday, January 17th, 2011

Quompetition :: Quompilation

Some fun for you on Blue Monday. Quarter Inch Collective is finalising the release of the Quompilation #1, a thirteen-track collection of cover versions by Irish bands. I’ve heard a couple already and they’re great, each band...

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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Notes :: To Hear A Song In January Is As Lovely As To Go For A Walk In June

Hello to you, January. It’s been ages but you haven’t changed much. Still doing that grey sky/pale sunlight look I see. Suits you though. Fancy a cuppa and some tunes? Beauty is near. You might remember that...

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Thursday, December 9th, 2010

News :: Quarter Inch Collection Quompilation

Oh my word. This will be phenomenal. You know what makes all this music that much better? The people who go out of their way to make sure it’s treated well. Ian Maleney is sort of like...

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