The latest single off Nick Cave & the Bad Seed’s lovely new album ‘Push the Sky Away’ is called ‘Mermaids’, and the video is below. It’s taken from a live performance by […]
Nick Cave – Mermaids
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Conversations on a Homecoming – Gaiety Theatre – Review – 07/05/13
Two young men who were inseparable during the early part of their lives have gone in different directions, Tom (Garrett Lombard) has chosen to stay at home, work as a teacher in […]
Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin – Sunday Review – 05/05/13 – Pictish Trail, Kid Canaveral, Forrests etc
The day after the night before. It’s always hard to go at day two of these things with as much vigour as you did the previous day, but where there’s a will, […]
Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin – Saturday Review – 04/05/13 Echo & the Bunnymen, Fionn Regan, PVT etc.
My biggest fear at events like this is that I’ll be at the wrong gigs, that I’ll miss the one that everyone ends up talking about, the defining point of a generation, […]
Things to Do in Dublin – 6th – 12th May 2013
Oh man, everything hurts! I can’t point at a body part that is working within normal parameters! Yes, we’re recovering form the Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin and three solid days of music! […]
Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin – Opening Party Review
The Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin kicked off festivities with an unusual collection of bands in Whelans on Friday night (3/05/13). Windings started off the night at an unexpectedly early time of 7 […]
Shiver – Declan Hughes – Free Reading Today – Project Arts Centre
Rough Magic are going hard and heavy at Declan Hughes’ work at the moment. There’s a freebie this afternoon at the Project Arts Centre, which should be worth a visit. Project Arts […]
Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin Timetable
The official one is below, and you can be dancing from 7 until 3AM! I’d be impressed if you keep going that long, especially with another day of bands tomorrow. If you’re […]
Movies – 03/05/13 – The Gatekeepers, I’m so Excited etc.
Another week at the movies, and it could possibly be described as a slow one, but maybe we’re all just recovering form the hype of Iron Man last week! The big release […]
Chris Dave – Sugar Club – 9th May
Ok, you possibly don’t know who Chris is, but that’s your fault, not his, right? You can put this right next Thursday in the Sugar club! Chris is a jazz/ hip-hop/ Gospel […]
Kim Deal – Hot Shot
This is the second in the solo 7″ inch series that Kim is releasing, and it’s quite lovely! It’s guitar drive and shouty as only Kim knows how. The singles are limited […]
Lee Noble – Ruiner – Album Review
Lee Noble’s album ‘Ruiner’ is a distant and haunting affair. From the opening sounds you know this is going to be something unusual as each song builds from layered images or fragments […]
Conversations on a homecoming – Gaiety Theatre – Review
Note: We have reviewed the latest production of ‘Conversations on a homecoming’ here. This is our review of the Druid Murphy play ‘Conversations on a homecoming’ which was in the Gaiety Theatre […]
Whistle in the Dark – Gaiety Theatre – Review
As Druid Murphy has just to the Gaiety Theatre, we thought it was a good moment to repost our reviews from the Theatre Festival last October! This is the first of the […]
Gig Guide – 01/05/2013 – Low @ Whelans, The 1975, ASAP Rocky etc.
So many new gigs announced this week, I simply don’t know where to start…. ah, ok, there isn’t that many, but the main one that tickles my fancy is that Low are […]
Glenn Jones – My Garden State – Album Review (Thrill Jockey)
“This is where the frogs live” Writing in 2009, Composer and Percussionist Gerry Hemingway spoke of ‘place’ in music. This can be the place one experiences music in and also the emotional […]
Meteor Camden Crawl Schedule/ Timetable type yokey
[Update: Official full timetable is below!] Ok, it’s not actually a time table, as they haven’t given us the times yet, but it’s an ordered list of bands in venues, so you’ll […]
Pacific Rim – Trailer
Ok, I know the trailers for Blockbusters always look amazing, but are actually generally better than the movies themselves, but this one is going to be different, right? Right? Pacific Rim is […]
Things to Do in Dublin – 29th April – 5th May 2013
This is a big week around the streets of Dublin, as it’s the May bank holiday weekend, with a variety of festivals and other junk to see and do. Meteor Dublin Camden […]
New Music: Daniel J. W!shington – Giving me my Hand
Daniel reminds me of Why? which is always a good thing. There’s a nice touch of madness about what he does, and you’re never sure what direction the song will take next. […]
End of an Era ATP – The Last Weekend ATP events ever???
Sad news, but not completely unexpected, as they have had some well publicised financial difficulties over the last few years. According to the ATP web site, these are to be the last […]
Movies – 26-04-13 – Iron Man 3, Bernie etc
The Critics were all in good form this week, and seemed to like most of the new releases, and there’s even a few surprises along the way! Iron Man 3 was meant […]
Gig Guide – What next for the Killers? 24-04-2013
Mr Reynolds has alleged the band The Killers was imposed against his wishes as a joint headline act for the 2012 event because the majority shareholders in the festival company, the FRD […]
Ghostpoet – Some say I so I say light (PIAS) – Album Review
Ghostpoet’s debut album ‘Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam’ over achieved in many senses. It was a low key release that received wide acclaim and even a Mercury Music prize nomination. So Ghostpoet […]
Richard II – Peacock Theatre – Review
Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s historical themed plays, telling the tale of the King’s fall from grace and eventual demise (I doubt I’m ruining the story on too many people by […]
The Fry Chronicles on Audible – Review
I love Stephen Fry. I should get that out of the way now. I have read all his novels and the first of his autobiographies, Moab is my Washpot. I religiously watched […]
Digging for Fire – Project Arts Centre – Review
Digging for Fire is a play by Declan Hughes that was previously performed by Rough Magic in 1991. It is a play about contemporary Ireland of the period that is just shrugging […]
Justin Walter – Lullabies and Nightmares – Album Review (Kranky)
“I set out to record an album of completely improvised music that fused my experiments with the Electronic Valve Instrument and my love of held sounds on the trumpet. In recent years […]
Things to Do in Dublin – 22nd – 28th April 2013
In terms of odd ball festivals, the Dublin Bay Prawn festival must rank pretty highly! It runs in Bray from the 25th – 28th of April. To find the full series of […]
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