A music blog from Ireland.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Excellent array of bands on the bill for this year’s Castlepalooza festival in Tullamore, Co. Offally, taking place from 29-31 July 2011. Get this for starters :: Adebisi Shank, Daithi O’Dronai, Elaine Mai, Enemies, Go Panda Go, Jape, Jogging, Kid Karate, Le Galaxie, Lost Chord, Moths, Planet Parade, Sacred Animals, Sleep Thieves, Squarehead, The Casanova
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Tremulous, thunderous, deep delicious dubstep-rock from Darkstar. VisionAir, one of the best new bands in Ireland today. Donal Dineen, finest DJ in the land (as testified by winning Best Radio at the Digital Socket Awards). How...
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Following on from the Autumn EP, VisionAir have released a second free collection of new songs that, contrary to my expectations, are not called Winter. They should be called Deadly but they’re actually using A Vision as...
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Today Day & Night Magazine ran a feature with the top ten free Irish downloads. It’s Nialler9‘s weekly column for the Independent’s culture magazine supplement so you can rest assured it’s all good stuff. An excerpt from...
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Here’s a really cool set from Donal Dineen’s Small Hours show on Today FM. Featured Irish artists include Adebisi Shank, Meljoann, Solar Bears, Strands, Visionair and Caoimhin O’Raghaillagh. They’re enough to make a stellar mini-mix but it...
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
GODS HAMMER!!! by VisionAir Was waiting a few days for this to drop – VisionAir are Richie Egan and Niall Byrne, one part Jape, two parts The Redneck Manifesto. Their new project hasn’t exactly been kept...
Friday, October 1st, 2010
This Saturday at Twisted Pepper see the arrival of Brainlove Records and Napoleon IIIrd, Pagan Wanderer Lu, Stairs To Korea and Mat Riviere to these shores, brought to you by the superior music site Ragged Words ::...