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 […]
Arcade Fire quandry
The National
The National preformed on Minnesota Public Radio, the other day, and there’s a very nice session lurking here, with a new song also! The new song is a called ‘You are a […]
The Walking Dead
What happens when zombies stop being fun? For the first while, you could really get into all that neck snapping, hacking at them with axes, chopping with swords and the rest of […]
You know, for Kids!
I saw Tim Robbins play/ sing live with the Rouge’s Gallery about two years ago, in what was probably the last ‘Dockland’s Festival’. It was a nice idea, to hold a festival […]
Unofficially Offical
According to most of twitter, and also the Irish Times, Arcade Fire are returning to Dulbin to play the O2 on the 5th of Dec. The truly shocking thing is the price […]
Micah
Micah P Hinson returns to Dublin, to Crawdaddy. The video link below doesn’t really capture how odd he is, but it does capture how lovely his sound is! He has had two […]
Fionn and the Mice
There’s always a glut of new gigs announced once i do a gig guide! always the way. Anyway, here’s two more. Fionn Regan in that odd new venue the workman’s club, as […]
Atoms for Peace
Super groups are nearly always a bad idea. They rarely come to much, but I guess the travelling Wilbury’s were good in their day, right? Maybe I’m alone on that one. I […]
I was born for the stage
Dublin’s very own theatre festival takes place between Sept 30 and Oct 17, and looks to be another strong line up. Possibly the stand out shows this year include…John Gabriel Borkman with […]
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 […]
Live music on sound cloud.
The wonderful Nialler9 has a link to the sleigh bells concert from Primavera on his site here. The equally wonderful and in some ways more so, Cormac sent me this link, if you […]
The Walkmen – Lisbon
Their new album isn’t out till Oct 8th, but you can download a song from it for the mere cost of an email address, of which you probably have about four thousand. […]
One Summer’s Eve
A nice little oddity of an outdoor festival in Temple Bar is taking place next week, in Meeting House Square. It sounds fun, with a good line up of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, […]
Cheers to Arthur
I guess Guinness enjoyed Arthur’s day mark one, as they’re doing it again this year. Supposedly the 250 years is complete nonsense anyway (as it was a completely different drink back then), […]
Discreet Music #1
Navigating the “ambient” music landscape can be a perilous undertaking. The peaks reveal brilliant recordings whereas the valleys can often be home to “supermarket” or “new-age” music. It’s tricky. On reflection I […]
Kilkenny Arts Festival
First off, Kilkenny arts festival is only around the corner. It has a very strong visual arts section in it, with names such as Willie Doherty, Willian McKeown, Ethne Jordan among many […]
Hamburger
Neil Hamburger has just confirmed a gig at Dublin’s Sugar club. 2nd of September, for 22 euro. Here are some of his insights into the sad loss of Heath Ledger, taken from […]
Jova Joy
As can be found here, Liverpool’s new signing Milan Jovanovic was ‘delighted’ that the club changed his number after less than a month at the club! When Joe Cole arrived at the […]
Belle and Seb among others
Around the same time as their ATP Belle and Sebastian have just announced a date at the Grand Canal Theatre, on the 3rd of Dec, Tickets are on sale already and are […]
Imperial Bedrooms
Verisimilitude, with the meaning ˝of being true or real˝ is a likeness or resemblance of the truth, reality or a fact’s probability. It comes from Latin verum meaning truth and similismeaning similar Bret Easton […]
Festival of world festivals
You wait six months for a festival and then two come at once! The DLR Festival of World Cultures is on this weekend (23rd to 25th) in Dunlaoghaire. Its possibly the best […]
Calvin
Can you remember when Beck was cool? I know its a struggle to remember that far back. Well, i guess the mellow gold was pretty good, but the only album of his […]
The Free Economy
Another story about someone giving something away. Author Marta Ascota wrote a vampire book for teenagers, but sadly, she wasn’t alone, as that’s what half the world seem to be doing, after […]
Sleigh Bells
Spent a bit of time going through the ‘top 25 albums of the year to date’ on state magazine, and a lot of the names are the ones everyone is going on […]
Where everybody knows your name…
Why buy a cow when you can have the milk for free? Always good to promote Irish bands, and especially ones with as good a name as these guys do! The cast […]
Fables of the reconstruction
Fables is a Vertigo comic that started just as i stopped reading comics regularly, which according to wikipedia was 2002! It’s based in a world in which the characters from children’s stories […]
Gigs in odd venues!
Two gigs of interest, in odd venues (as mentioned above). The first one being Ann Scott playing the International bar on Sunday the 18th and 25th of July. I saw Ann play with […]
Owen Pallet brings cheer to the world!
Owen Pallet (as known as Final Fantasy) from his twitter account earlier today: Don’t be sad, the Lewis/Shirt remix EP is free for download this week: http://bit.ly/LewisEP If you want to make an […]
This human form, where i was born, i now repent!
Some good news for a sticky, friday morning. Caribou play Crawdaddy on the 09 Dec 19:30. Ok, it seems a stupid length of time away, but its something to look forward to, for […]
No More Workhorse 