David Shrigley is an interesting character. It’s hard to argue otherwise, as he gets up to a lot! He’s an artist, song writer and video director among other things. Many of his […]
David Shrigley
Mercury Music Prize points to lazy Irish bands!
It is conclusive evidence, and cannot be argued with in any way shape or form, Irish bands are lazy! When they should be off selling their wares in foreign countries, they all […]
Movies – 27-01-12
First up, the Descendants, which I was lucky enough to get to see as part of the le cool preview. This is the new movie by Alexandre Payne (Sideways and About Schmidt) […]
A Plastic Rose
Full disclosure, my brother-in-law, Ian, is in the band A Plastic Rose but I want to congratulate the guys on their incredible performance supporting Snow Patrol in the Belfast Odyssey last night. […]
Dunlaoghaire Pavilion Theatre Events
The same venue that also gives you ‘An evening of nostalgia with Johnny McEvoy’ also has some events that are aimed at a younger audience! In their Spring Catalogue, there’s a few […]
Factory Floor play the Tripod?
Well, maybe. Who knows. On Banquet’s facebook page they have: “Delighted to inform you that on February 4th we’ve got the amazing FACTORY FLOOR playing live @ Banquet! These guys are incredible […]
Jamie XX and Caribou mixtape
I’m only listening to this now, so no idea what it’s like, but it’s free and it’s by people who you’d normally respect! I’m still recovering from Caribou’s headline set at ATP, […]
New music: Natural Traits – Ernest Gonzales
Listen to the entire record below. Lovely new electronic album from Ernest Gonzales
New music: Oneohtrix Point Never – Rubio
There was a lot of hype about Oneohtrix Point Never’s album Replica in 2011. Oddly enough, I would normally be looking forward to hearing an album that is ambient/electronic etc but the first […]
Movies – 20-01-12 – Lighthouse Cinema Reopens!
It’s old news at this stage, as it was announced on Tuesday, but it’s only happening today, so I thought it was worth a mention. That and the fact that there’s not […]
The National curate ATP
This is something I’ve hoped for, for a while anyway, and I thought they had nearly gone too big to do it, but thankfully it’s not the case. The National are picking […]
Daniel Rossen – Saint Nothing
If it sounds like Grizzly Bear or Department of Eagles, it’s because Daniel is part of both bands! He has a lovely voice and this song builds from a very simple piano […]
New music: Nicolas Jaar – With Just One Glance (feat. Scout LaRue)
Nicolas Jaar has put out a new track featuring Scout LaRue on vocals (the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore). And damn fine vocals they are too. It’s a smoldering beauty and very hard to […]
Asterios Polyp – David Mazzuchelli
David Mazzuchelli has had an interesting career, from his early days as an artist in Marvel and DC, he worked on some of the best comics of the time in Year One […]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is an American race car driver. He’s won Nascar’s ‘Most Popular Driver’ award from 2003-2011. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is an indie two piece from Detroit, who released their […]
Music to work to: Lucky Dragons – Shape Tape
I know we only mentioned these guys last night, but on further digging I found this piece and it’s a work lifesaver. Released last year it is a “90 minute tonal workout […]
Movies – 13-01-11 – Shame
Shame is the second movie by Steve McQueen. He’s a video artist turned movie maker, and I’m sure he’s getting much more notoriety from making movies than the other. He actually won […]
New Music: Lucky Dragons – EXISTERS
This caught my ear today. To be released on 14 February 2012, a new album from Lucky Dragons called EXISTERS. They are giving away the first track here. It’s a hazy mix […]
Magnetic Fields – Andrew in Drag
The first single from the Magnetic Field’s new album has hit the net and as ever, it’s lots of fun. “I’ve always been a ladies man and I don’t have to brag, […]
No More Workhorse selected for Hype Machine 2011 Zeitgeist series!
In Hype Machine’s 2011 version of their Zeitgeist series they have selected No More Workhorse as one of the blogs to determine the top 50 albums of the year! As the Hype […]
Remember early Flaming Lips?
We did a post last year that still gets a bit of interest about when Mercury Rev were a really exciting rock band and I heard an old Flaming Lips track today […]
BBC’s Sounds of 2012
As much as December is filled with lists of what was good in the year just gone, January has now become filled with predictions of what will rock our collective worlds, in […]
The record labels of my youth – Sub Pop, 4AD, Creation Records
I spent the weekend in my family home and at one point I had a random shuffle through a pile of CDs in a box – I pulled out the following three […]
Movies – 06-01-12 – The Artist
I first heard about this movie while I was checking the ‘best of 2011’ movies for critics stateside, and it featured on almost all of them. I’m sure it will be added […]
Videodrome: Dustin O’Halloran – We move lightly
Directed by Marco Morandi for Dustin O’Halloran’s “We move lightly” this is a lovely video using digital animation to perfectly compliment O’Halloran’s haunting yet beautiful music (Robert Lippok-Pataphysical Remix). We mentioned A Winged Victory […]
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other – IMMA
“I wish I had a turtle and that there were no wars” I think we’ve all wished for something similar at some point. This is just one of the many wishes on […]
Top Ten Gigs of 2011
Ok, one last list, and then that’s it, I promise! Well, this blog did start life as a gig guide, so it would be poor form to ignore them! Did I go […]
Movies – 30-12-11
The last movie post of the year, and a couple of good ones for you to check out. For those of you keeping note of these sort of things, yes, I did […]
Top 10 Movies of 2011
Working my way back through the releases from this year, it wasn’t a vintage year, and there were very few that would excite me greatly. Still, we did see Tomas Alfredson prove that ‘Let […]
No More Workhorse 