A music blog from Ireland.
Monday, March 4th, 2013
This weekend was a low-budget affair but one of choice rather than necessity. I spent Thursday night at the Fallow Records launch at the Joinery and on Friday, headed to a new arts space called Siteation in...
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
A venue as valuable as The Joinery should not struggle to stay open, but then, there are a lot of things in Ireland right now that are not as they should be. On Monday a Fundit campaign...
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, November 13th, 2012
One of the fun bands who crept in this year while making a heap of noise are The #1s, a four-piece moonlighting from an array of different bands (Crowd Control, Loose Nut, The Pacifics and The Spungos...
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Si Schroeder has announced a three-week residency in Whelan’s on Sunday nights from 11-25 November. The left-field singer-songwriter will perform a variety of songs from the new material of his forthcoming album Holding Patterns and old favourites...
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Abandon Reason is the name of a new eight-part series that began last night and will air on Curious Broadcast every Wednesday night at 9pm. The brainchild of Declan Q Kelly, it’s the culmination of a long...
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Some bands adapt well to the Internet, some bands find the Internet has to adapt to them: Large Mound and the Spook of the Thirteenth Lock are two examples where this seems correct. Tonight they perform in...