Ok, it’s Sunday evening, and Friday seems a long time away, but Kanye is trying to fill your life with some cheer! He’s listing some songs on his good friday website. The […]
State Intervention #6
I just like the idea of these things, a free gig in a random location around the city. This time its Peggy Sue and Sons Of Noel And Adrian in coppinger row on […]
Derek Nally RIP
Derek Nally was in Irish promoter and manager who died of a heart attack last July. This is the second gig in his honor, and seems a pretty good line up. Songs […]
Pitchfork v Ireland
Following on from Morgan’s earlier post I thought I would take a quick look at how Irish bands are fairing with the Bastion of Cool (aka Pitchfork). Not too well it seems. […]
LCD Soundsystem
Remember last April’s volcano? Eyjafallajokull by name! I’m sure there’s a band called that by now. We all feared it was the end of those strange metal machines in the sky,and we’d […]
Music for Babies #5
For our 100th post (yes, where does the time go!), we’re dealing with a man that is half crazy professor, half kid’s entertainer. His gigs are the stuff of legends, and mostly […]
Camille O’Sullivan
One thing in the fringe that has been recommended to me is Camille O’Sullivan. It looks a nice mix of cabaret, burlesque and pretty good music. It might be worth a visit, […]
Harmonies
The Harmonic series of gigs around Dublin are getting better and better! They’ve now added Titus Andronicus, Willard Grant Conspiracy, The Acorn, Polvo and Pete Molinari. I’ve never really got into Titus, […]
Pitchfork is good to orphans
Ok, i do a lot of bitching about Pitchfork, but mostly for album reviews like this and this which just seem needlessly mean. If someone is not flavor of the month, they […]
The National Return!
Some good news for a quiet Tuesday lunch time, but the National are returning to Dublin on 2nd of December, with the 3rd and 4th quite likely once the first sells out, […]
Music for Babies #4
I had vaguely heard that They might be giants had made an album for kids, but had no idea of the scale of their interest in the baby scene! They’ve taken this […]
Workman’s Revolution
No doubt of the new cool venue in Dublin, with the amount of good gigs on there over the next few months! I think I’ll be going there quite a bit over […]
Football Shocker
Is there really anything shocking about a footballer sleeping around anymore? Do they honestly think whoever they’re with won’t just go straight to the Sun or the News of the World and sell their […]
Parenthetical Girl
There have been many discussions on how to stop people just downloading your music. People just have Trent Reznor have suggested that people need to give their customer something they feel is […]
Music for Babies #3
This post should really be entitled Music for Babies (and Adults) #3. I have long been a big fan of the husband & wife team of minimalist composers, Shawn James Seymour and […]
PVT remixes
PVT (formerly Pivot) are a band that changed their name to something that people can’t pronounce, so they’ll just call them by the same name they called them previously. Why did they […]
Music for Babies #2
Its hard not to include this one in any line up of music for little things. Feist is a one time member of Broken Social Scene, and according to wikipedia has dated […]
Dirty Slapper
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver is nothing more than a dirty slapper, I hear that he’s been giving that stuff out to all them graffiti guys. First it was Volcano Choir, with […]
Music for Babies #1
At the request of Candepop, I’m doing a few songs/ artist that are suitable for the less mature members of our society. Almost all of my friends are doing the baby thing […]
The Working Man
The Workman’s club is the new spot in Dublin, located just beside the Clarence hotel, and the home of a very small bar also! Whoever is booking gigs for it is doing […]
Cheers for Beer
Well, maybe not beer, but stout anyway. Guiness’s big marketing day is back, with Arthur’s day returning on September 23rd. There’s lots of gigs on around the city, but I don’t think there’s […]
Walkmen Return
Last time the Walkmen were in town, Roughan Sheedy very rudely organised his wedding for the same day. I’m well aware that he did this on purpose and that it was clearly […]
Arcade Fire quandry
The stupidly expensive tickets for Arcade Fire go on sale from ticketmaster tomorrow. Last time they played the Olympia and I ended up in a similar situation, where I wasn’t prepared to spend […]
Frightened Rabbit among others…
Got around to finally updating the Gig list. Nothing too amazing added to the list, other than Frightened Rabbits, down the end there, which I’m quite looking forward to (even though its […]
Lost Genius V – Radial Spangle
Radial Spangle is an awful name for a band, why anyone would choose it I really don’t know. Closely linked to Mercury Rev (before Fridmann left ad they went rubbish), Radial Spangle […]
Sam Amidon
Sam Amidon is a folk singer from Vermont, and is playing whelans tomorrow night. From all i’ve heard, it will be worth a visit. Here’s a piece from his visit to Dublin […]
Lost Genius II – Chavez
Unlike The Boo Radleys, Chavez never really grazed the popular conscious, despite having some indie credibility through being signed to Matador records. The late 1990s saw them release two albums in two […]
Marine Parade – Mark Eitzel
‘This is a collaboration that I have working been working on with the writer Simon Stephens. After 3 years it will be finally on the stage.’ says Eitzel in his blog. Mark […]
Pavement ATP
Stage times for the now annual trip to ATP have been listed here! First and most obvious tough choices, night one… Calexico and the Walkmen (only one winner really, seen Calexico a 100 […]
No More Workhorse 