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...
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...
Friday, April 27th, 2012
“This event is a fundraiser – monies raised will be used to allay some of the operating costs inevitable with running an alternative art space in Dublin. ” – thejoinery.org An amazing gig tonight to raise funds...
Friday, December 9th, 2011
After several years building up a reputation on live shows and two EPs, the release of It Goes, It Goes (Forever and Ever) in October 2010 pummelled Dublin band Halves into the strata of successful debut albums....
Monday, November 21st, 2011
One thing about this year that really stood out was Myles O’Reilly‘s contribution to low-budget music videos. I suspect he’s friends with most of the subjects he shoots but all the videos revolve around good editing that...