A music blog from Ireland.
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
The eighth Castlepalooza festival line-up was just announced yesterday. While there are more to be announced, the preliminary line-up already boasts some impressive names. The festival takes place in the grounds of Charleville Castle in Tullamore from 2-4 August. The big draws from international grounds must surely be Ghostpoet, Ceephax Acid Crew, Cymbals, Kutmah and
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...
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
A new single Time from the forthcoming Young Wonder EP Show Your Teeth surfaced yesterday. It features vocals from Sacred Animals‘ Darragh Nolan. I think this is the first Young Wonder track I’ve heard that I really like....
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Tonight in the Workman’s Club is a double headliner between Daithi and Elaine Mai – if you’ve been impressed by the musical output of these Galway heads in recent months it’d be well worth heading along to....
Friday, October 5th, 2012
Last night saw the first run of bands across Dublin for the tenth installment of Hard Working Class Heroes. Reports so far have been good: I missed A Dark Horse as I was running late, and Ginnels...
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Get listening: today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day. Pointless celebrations (pancake day, really?) often annoy me but I stand behind International Women’s Day because it’s an important global event that highlights progress. It marks a point...
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Reclaiming through song from The Waterboys, this new video from Feel Good Lost has done justice to the cool, chilled tones of Daithi‘s new song Carraroe. First appearing on Nialler9 yesterday, it features Elaine Mai‘s clear...
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
This is as fresh as a little flower which opens with the dawn :: new music from Galway’s Elaine Mai. Completely different to the other song Softly that was posted recently, it shows a clever aptitude for...