Top Ten Albums of 2024 – Cathy Brown Our regular Music/ Theatre writer Cathy Brown takes us through her favourite albums of the year. 10. Lemons, Limes and Orchids – Joan As […]
Top Ten Albums of 2024 – Cathy Brown
A Year in Music – 2024 – Jacob Ware (Rapt)
A Year in Music – 2024 – Jacob Ware (Rapt) by Killian Laher How are you, what sort of year have you had? Few twists and turns but life has been kind […]
A Year in Music – 2024 – Karl Whitney (Author)
A Year in Music – 2024 – Karl Whitney (Author) by Killian Laher Karl is the author of “Hit Factories: A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop”, a personal exploration of […]
A Year in Music – 2024 – Aoife Wolf
A Year in Music – 2024 – Aoife Wolf How are you, what sort of year have you had? I’m good, currently in the studio with Julie (McLarnon: Analogue Catalogue)! I’ve had […]
A Year in Music – 2024 – Pat Barrett (Arrivalists)
A Year in Music – 2024 – Pat Barrett (Arrivalists) by Killian Laher How are you, what sort of year have you had? I’m good thanks, I’ve had a quiet year creatively, […]
A Year in Music – 2024 – Zoe Howe (Author)
A Year in Music – 2024 – Zoe Howe (Author) by Killian Laher Photo Credit – Ian Treherne How are you, what sort of year have you had? Overall I’ve had a […]
Top 10 Albums 2024 – Killian Laher
Top 10 Albums 2024 – Killian Laher It’s that time of year…. In a world that can push your nerves to the limit, it’s a great comfort that once again some great […]
Midwinter Swimmers – The Innocence Mission – Album Review
Midwinter Swimmers – The Innocence Mission – Album Review by Cathy Brown The Innocence Mission has been making music for thirty-five years but they are a band that seems happy to remain […]
Album of the Week – 22/11/24
Album of the Week – 22/11/24 Has Kim Deal ever released a bad album? It’s rare for any artist to be able to say that everything they were involved with was at […]
A Year in Music – 2023 – Paul Page (ex-Whipping Boy)
A Year in Music – 2023 – Paul Page (ex-Whipping Boy) by Killian Laher How are you? How are things? I am good Killian, thanks. Hard to believe how quickly that last […]
Top Ten Albums of 2023 – Cathy Brown
Top Ten Albums of 2023 – Cathy Brown We’ve asked some of our regular writers for their thoughts on the best music of 2023. You can see the thoughts of Cathy Brown […]
Top 10 Albums of 2023 – Killian Laher
Top 10 Albums of 2023 – Killian Laher 2023 was the first ‘normal’ year for music since 2019, with COVID thankfully being a lot less prevalent than in recent years. It’s safe […]
A Musical Preview of 2023
A Musical Preview of 2023 by Killian Laher It’s safe to say that the music world is approaching normality after a strange couple of years. On the live front, virtually everybody who […]
Best Films of 2022
Best Films of 2022 For our final post of the year, we’ve decided to have a look back on what we enjoyed in the cinema over the last 12 months! it was […]
Top Ten Albums of 2022 – CB
Top Ten Albums of 2022 – Cathy Brown We’ve asked some of our writers for their thoughts on the Best Albums of the year. you can see Cathy’s thoughts below… 10. Loose […]
Top 10 Albums of 2022 – KL
Top 10 Albums of 2022 – KL by Killian Laher We’ve asked some of our writers for their thoughts on the albums of the year. you can see Killian’s thoughts below… The […]
Albums of the Year – 2021 – Killian Laher
Albums of the Year – Killian Laher 2021 has been an interesting year, full of very good albums but not so many *great* albums. Here are the top 10 as chosen by […]
Albums of the Year – Cathy Brown
Albums of the Year – Cathy Brown We asked some of our regular music writers to tell us about their favourite albums of the year. First up is Cathy Brown with ten […]
Top 10 Films of the Year – 2020
Top 10 Films of the Year In a truly bizarre year for cinema, we had three months of normal service and then a wasteland of closed cinemas and online screenings. It will […]
2020 Music Forecast
2020 Music Forecast by Killian Laher Looking ahead to 2020, the first album of note will be from punk/cheese outfit Beach Slang. The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City will be out January […]
Top Ten Albums of the Year – 2019 – Editors’ Choice
Top Ten Albums of the Year – Editors’ Choice by M. Quinn Just what the world needs, another list of albums! I think the only point of these lists is to get […]
Best Film of 2019 – No. 10 – 01
Best Film of 2019 – No. 10 – 01 So, this is it! Our top ten films of the year all in the one place. Feel free to let us know anything […]
Best Film of 2019 – No. 20-11
Best Film of 2019 – No. 20 – 11 For the purposes of this, I’ve included anything that was released in Ireland in 2019, so that excludes The Lighthouse, Parasite, Uncut Gems […]
Top 10 Albums of 2019 – Killian Laher
Top 10 Albums of 2019 – Killian Laher Although I don’t believe music should be a competition, I do like an ‘album of the year’ list. Every year should have one! To […]
Theatre in 2020 – Preview
Theatre in 2020 – Preview Think of it, the year is 2020, a distant future where we all have flying cars and carry laser guns. Sadly, it never happened, but we do […]
A Year in Music – 2018 – Chris Hooson (Dakota Suite) – Part 2
A Year in Music – 2018 – Chris Hooson (Dakota Suite) – Part 2 by Killian Laher What are your favourite albums of 2018? Zinovia Arvanitidi – No 21 Ivory Wow, lovely […]
A Look Ahead to 2019 in Music
A Look Ahead to 2019 in Music – by Killian Laher It already looks like a good year in 2019 with lots of new albums on the way. First up will be […]
Top 10 Albums of the Year – 2018 – Editor’s Choice
Top 10 Albums of the Year – 2018 – by Morgan Quinn Another good year for music, and isn’t it always! I get very frustrated when people say it was a bad […]
Best Film of 2018 – #10-01
Best Film of 2018 – #10-01 Here at the Workhorse, we love film. We love the quirky ones, the odd ball ones and the ones that are a bit messed up. Here […]
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