Ok, the Dublin line up is a bit vague, but free is free! There’s a series of gigs happening around the country with some of the best up and coming Irish bands. […]
Jägermeister Freezer Sessions – 4-12-2013 – Workman’s Club
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts – Daughter – Session
Have you been following NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts? And if not, why not? There’s more than a few tasty sessions for you to download. Bands such as Daughter, Efterklang (playing here on […]
New Music: Arcade Fire – Afterlife – Video
Another video has dropped off Arcade Fire’s new album, which will be released on Oct 29th. Ok, it’s not as good as Reflektor, but it’s still an impressive song and gives me […]
New Irish Music – Women’s Christmas – Bubble On A Shelf
So Ireland has a brand new scuzzy, alt-rock, all-male trio. They’re called Women’s Christmas (Feast of the Epiphany, January 6th if you must know!) and they’ve just released a wonderfully lo-fi song – […]
New Music – James Vincent McMorrow – Cavalier
James Vincent returns to the fold, with the first track off his new album ‘Post Tropical’. It sounds like the new album will carry on in a similar fashion to what has […]
New Irish Music – Bouts – Jittery/Nothing Good Gets Away
Irish indie-alt-rock outfit BOUTS have just unleashed the playful new music video for their song ‘Jittery.’ It comes just a week (and a bit) ahead of the release of their brand new […]
More Than Conquerors | Everything I’ve Learnt | Album Review
This debut full length offering from Belfast’s More Than Conquerors, is a record which, had it been released while I was in my late teens, would no doubt have been devoured effortlessly, […]
New Music – Brokeback and Daughn Gibson – Whelans -25th November
Some good news for a Tuesday lunchtime, with Brokeback announcing their European tour, and including a date in Whelans on Monday November 25th! See Brokeback’s new video for Tonight at Ten / […]
Sufjan’s Open Letter to Miley Cyrus
I miss Sufjan, he hasn’t made any noises in a while, so it’s good to here him spouting his usual nonsense, and this time Miley takes the full two barrels. Ok, possibly […]
Competition – Win Efterklang Tickets @ Button Factory – 26-10-13
Efterklang are back in town in a little under two weeks time, as they play the Button Factory on Saturday the 26-10-13. We have two tickets to give away to one lucky […]
This Is How We Fly – Album Review
The much-anticipated self-titled album from This Is How We Fly has been released and it is a joy to behold. TIHWF is a contemporary folk band consisting of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on fiddle […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (14-10-13 to 20-10-13)
So, the Dublin Theatre Festival is at an end, and we’re all a bit exhausted by it all. We need some time to recover, right? Well, sadly, it’s another busy week out […]
New Gigs Announced – Per Ubu, Neutral Milk Hotel
Yes, indeedy, a couple of very exciting gigs on the horizon. Pere Ubu is David Thomas and a variety of other musicians, and they’ll be in the Village next month. I’ve never […]
Young Hearts Run Free – John Peel’s Shed – 25th Oct
Another date for your diary for the Young Hearts. If you haven’t gone to one of these nights, it’s about time you sorted that! This time out, along with the usual collection […]
Pete Molinari – 28th October, 8pm The Village
I think Richard said it best. “Pete Molinari could sing the f*****g Yellow Pages and make it sound cool” – Richard Hawley With an obvious nod to Dylan, he creates some lovely […]
62nd Wexford Festival Opera – 23 Oct – 3 Nov 2013
The Wexford Opera Festival is out for new blood! With the festival starting in just over two weeks time, they’re starting a campaign to make Opera ‘savage’, according to the video below. […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (7-10-13 to 13-10-13)
This is the last week of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Yup, we’re almost there with the madness of festival season, so make the most of the last few remaining moments. There’s also […]
Dublin Gig Guide – October 2013
Another month slips past, and we’ll miss September, it was a good one. Still, October won’t be all bad, right? Hmm. So what’s new on the gig scene then? Well, Justin Vernon […]
Ticket Competition: Fidil & Solo – St. Audoen’s Church – 5th Oct, 2013
Those wonderful people at Improvised Music Company are offering one lucky reader two tickets for the gig in St. Audoen’s Church this Saturday (5-10-2013). All you have to do to be in […]
Arcade Fire – Here comes the Night Time
Arcade Fire are getting the hang of this viral advertising yoke, but I guess you’re always going to get attention if you get Roman Coppola to do your videos for you. This […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (30-09-13 to 6-10-13)
So, another busy week on the streets of Dublin, with some very special events on around the City. There’s Dublin Theatre Festival with all the fun things that involves, also Hard Working Class […]
This is how we fly – Button Factory – Friday 27th September
The Bottlenote Festival is a very small festival, but perfectly formed! If you saw Mice Will Play last week as part of the Fringe, or if you’ve heard us rattle on about […]
Beautiful Irish Music – Clare Reel by Martin Hayes and Denis Cahill
From the staggering album Welcome Here Again from a few years back. Peerless fiddle from Hayes with a beautifully understated accompaniment on guitar from Cahill. Happy Monday!
Things to do in Dublin this week (23-09-13 to 29-09-13)
It’s another week of change, with the Fringe festival sadly departing for another year, but the Theatre Festival starts, so you’ve no chance of being bored. It’s also Arthurs day on Thursday […]
Irish music – A Plastic Rose – This Side Of Winter
The guys from A Plastic Rose have recently relocated to Nottingham to be in the thick of the music scene in the UK so the very best of luck to them with […]
Melbourne music – Milk Teddy
Some music, when you hear it for the first time, can hit the spot or scratch and itch you didn’t really realise you had. When I heard a few tracks from Melbourne […]
Animus – Lir – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
Two sisters, Anna and Rose Bettle, live together and share a shocking past that is clouded in mystery. They are tainted by their history and border on unhinged, with the doll of […]
Mice Will Play – Project Arts Centre – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
Did you know that one breed of mice, known as Black Six was the second animal ever to have its genome published after humans and accounts for 99% of all laboratory rodents? […]
New Music – Róisín O – Hold On
Róisín O’s new single ‘Hold On’ is a faint and lilting piano song, with her haunting vocals layered over. The single builds throughout, with strings adding to the sound, before they are […]
No More Workhorse 