A music blog from Ireland.
Friday, March 29th, 2013
On Wednesday night acts for Indiependence 2013 were revealed, bringing some to-be-expected, some interesting and some downright weird names to the Irish festival circuit. It was announced last week that UK chart-toppers Bastille were headlining, and last night followed with the preliminary list of acts to grace the stages at Cork’s three-day fest. As an
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...
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Blimey, Forbidden Fruit is looking bloody good! Irish artists on the bill include Autumn Owls, Daithi, Toby Kaar, Kool Thing, Le Galaxie, Little Green Cars, MMOTHS, Reid, RSAG, Shit Robot, Trinity Orchestra, We Cut Corners, White Collar...
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Trash. Vibrant! Fun. Dull as dishwater. Agile lyrics but plods on and on for ages. These are just a few of the notes I looked down at over a cup of coffee in the Morrison Hotel at...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Something unusual for Monday! The marauding pair known as Low Sea have freebooted A Pirate’s Life from We Cut Corners‘ recent album Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards and dragged it, screaming, into a lair...
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Interesting how the Internet works – We Cut Corners‘ debut album Today I Realised I Could Go Home Backwards was released two weeks ago and it feels like an age. Tonight the launch gig takes place in...
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Yesterday a very excited (!!!!!!) announcement was made of the 2011 IMTV Awards nominations. IMTV, from the company who make Fade Street, aim to recognise the best Irish music videos of the past year by way of...
Friday, November 11th, 2011
In a funny turn of events, one of the most-laid back and interesting meetings of this year happens to have been with a band who released, amongst others, one video I disliked intensely. Considering the 99% negative...