A music blog from Ireland.
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Tonight Ghost Estates and Twinkranes launch a split 7″ at the Button Factory as their Record Store Day 2013 release. Support comes from The Notas, who just did an interview with TPOE today. After seeing them live last week I agree with ‘atmospheric soul’ as a good description of their sound. Ghost Estates, who have
Friday, April 19th, 2013
When the Record Store Gay promo video was released the other week, the tracklisting was still under wraps. Now the full compilation is available to stream and there isn’t a melody lolly in sight. In the last...
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
Ahead of the release of Soul Brother as a Record Store Day single, The Hot Sprockets have unveiled this video by Fin Keenan to launch their new song into the world. What do you think of it? I’m...
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
April 20 is about record stores everywhere else but here in Ireland it’s Record Store Gay with a free all-day event at Outhouse. There are DJs, a cafe, a pop-up record stall stocking many Irish labels and...
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Happy days are here again, for record stores at least, as one springy venture celebrates a year of operations this weekend. It’s the first birthday of Elastic Witch, a tiny business that’s made a big difference to...
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...
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Trapatoni’s Men is gonna make everyone who hears it wanna go to a gig after a match and roll home with a bag of chips humming the chorus! I’ll be getting misty then about football players I’ve...
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...
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Nice bit of news to start the week that comes courtesy of the Electronic Rock Ireland Collective, who will release a free digital compilation of nine Irish electronic/rock artists on 12 December. Harmless Noise-featured artists with music...