This is quite a fun idea which has been going on for a couple of months, with free impromptu  gigs at strange locations around Dublin, organised by State online magazine. They are […]

It genuinely saddens me that Spain never achieved any sort of lasting success, because although the second and third albums didn’t live up to the wonderful debut ‘The Blue Moods of Spain’, […]

Neill Hannon is following shortly behind Mark Eitzel, and writing his own Musical. It is called ‘Swallows and Amazons’, and is an adaptation of the Arthur Ransome book of the same name! […]

King Creosote is taking a step back from the fast moving digital age, and going all old school on us. He is no longer going to release anything in digital format and […]

Ok, i’m not going to discuss politics, but I am going to discuss another band who’s name is not suited for googling. Why do people do this to themselves? I remember when […]

Street art from around Dublin, and other spots. Does Banksy have a lot to answer for, or is it fun?

As spotted by Thrillpier, Godspeed are making their LONG awaited return to Dublin in December. They play the Tripod on Fri Dec 10. Tickets on sale Thursday 9am, which i’d say will sell […]

The Drop Nineteens almost made a splash in the early 1990s with a song called Winona, which helped their first album, Delaware, to chart in the UK (though not, as far as […]

Seeing as youtube have taken down the world cup goalkeeping gaff, due to copyright infringement, here’s a better version, with Robert Green’s moment re-created with little plastic figures! Click here! And here’s […]

Robert Green officially became an England keeper last night, with that wonderful moment. I was watching it in the Duke, and for some reason, the tv in the corner was about five […]

Grace Jones plays (yeah) in Swords (huh?) on the 21st and 22nd of July! Pretty cool huh. Well, the venue is a bit odd, but its in this place. I’ve no idea […]

The night was billed as Neil Hannon – on songwriting, so I wasn’t sure if we were going to get something that would be suited to the more musically astute amongst us, […]

Through time, many bands worth finding more ears have failed to garner the attention that they deserved. Similarly, anyone with an interest in music inevitably knows of a band or two who’ve […]

Can anyone please explain to me why she is so popular? i think her singing voice sounds like the Sea Hag from Popeye, but maybe i’m being harsh. Who knows. She’s back […]

The trashcan sinatras have just completed a lovely acoustic session on daytrotter.  You need to join to download them, but its well worth giving them a email address for all the lovely things […]

A fun night at the villagers last night, and great to see them at number one in the album charts! Out of the new additions to the list, Jens Lekman, Devandra Banhart, […]

It isn’t a particularly difficult job to mock the official mascots of the London Olympics, so I’m not going to. I think you can probably do that yourself if you go and […]

Tired, sore, slightly deaf, and dreading work tomorrow – all of the usual post-ATP symptoms in place then! Another really enjoyable weekend with some a lovely crowd, and some excellent music, though […]

Some of these places are very cool. I wonder if we’re about to head in to an era of functional architecture, given the state of the various economies. It would be a […]