As I’m sure you’re well aware, my phone is set on impressionist, which means that you just get dappled colours without any definition. It is a unique setting to my phone, but […]
ATP – Images of impossibly beauty taken with my crappy phone!
Oneida with White Magic
One of the cooler things at Godspeed ATP was the 10 hour jam session from Oneida. Yes, that’s not a mistake, the band came on stage at 2 pm and finished at […]
Awesome show, Great Job!
ATP TV is always an interesting blend of nonsense and art house junk. At Godspeed’s ATP, the best thing on it was ‘Eric and Tim’s Awesome Show, Great Job!’ which linked all […]
The New Beasties
MCA is releasing a short movie in Sundance next month, entitled ‘Fight for your right, revisited’. As the name suggests, it’s a short movie about the Beastie Boys in earlier days, in […]
Free music for Christmas!
There’s lots of free junk around the place for chrismtas. Richie Egan gave away a previous ep, as we featured here. Now he’s at it again, with a second ep here. Anything […]
Halves
I was going to entitle this piece as ‘What’s Irish for Mogwai’ but that would be a little cruel, and to be honest, its not like Mogwai created the wonderful genre of […]
Alan Moore knows the Score
Always first with the news, Alan Moore seems to have released an album somewhere in August of this year. I only stumbled upon this now in one of the end of the […]
Old Cinema News
Ok, so I’m a week behind, better late than never right? Hmm. I’ll keep it short so, seems last week was a good week at the cinema, I guess most people wanted […]
Gorillaz Advent Calender
Gorillaz have come over all Christmassy, with an advent calender on their web site! A nice idea, and by the sounds of things, there’s a new album for free on Christmas day. […]
Sleigh Bells in February?
A band very appropriate for this time of year, Sleigh Bells are finally coming to Dublin. They play Whelans on the 18th of Feb. You’ll probably have to move fast to get […]
All Totally Po-faced
Right, this is no more than a started – I’m tired and about to go to bed, but thought I’d start the ball rolling. Basically the Godspeed ATP was fun, as ATP […]
Gold Panda
I’ve been listening to the Gold Panda LP, Lucky Shiner, recently. The nearest reference point would be (to these ears anyway) Manitoba’s LP, Start Breaking My Heart (for me, Dan Snaith’s best […]
Are you a Neutral Milk Hotel fan?
So much has been said already about Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and it seems that the fascination with Jeff Mangum will continue forever. This is […]
Music for Snow #1
For me, the snow calls for a certain type of music on the headphones for walking. At the moment it’s Ulf Lohmann so I thought I’d pop up a link to one […]
I hate Snow
Let me be clear about this, and not to put too fine a point on it, I hate snow. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! Well, it’s fine as […]
ATP Times
Just noticed the times have been posted on the ATP website here. The big surprise is that Godspeed play EVERY NIGHT! Weird. I guess they miss playing or something. I’ll list the […]
New Track by PJ
Miss Harvey returns, with another album on the way which will be her 8th. Where do the years go. See what you think. The album is released in February, so not that […]
ATP Preview – Scout Niblett
Looking out at the flurry of snow and the variety of weather warnings, I’m quite worried that all this ATP Previewing might be for nothing. My flight is on Friday morning, if […]
The National and Sufjan
Sufjan was on stage with the National last night in London. I wonder will he make it as far as Dublin? Probably not. He doesn’t get hugely involved to be honest, he […]
Comic Piracy
Something I never really realised was a problem is downloading of comic books. After a quick look on all downloaders main tool, google, I realised just how easy it is! Here’s some […]
ATP Preview – Mike Watt and the Missing Men
Mike Watt is another one of those legends I’ve never heard of! I guess there are a lot of old rock bands and therefore a lot of old rockers, who almost really […]
Anyone interested in a night on the tiles?
Just got this mail. Anyone interested in coming along? Nice venue and Should be a good night. Let me know if you are. “You’ve won a pair of tickets to The Jagermeister […]
ATP Preview – Bardo Pond
Bardo Pond are a six piece American band with lots of heavy layered guitar sounds and softly lilting vocals, not a world away from someone like My Bloody Valentine, although without the […]
ATP Preview – Neurosis
These were always one of the names that scared me a little in the ATP line up! They’re a four piece experimental metal or Doom metal band from Oakland, California. I have […]
Perry Bible Fellowship
In case any of you don’t know about this guy or his web site already, he’s well worth checking out. Nicholas Gurewitch is from New York with his comic strip starting life in his […]
The Cultural Nadir at Christmas
Ignoring the religious aspects (which most people will), Christmas is not about high culture. Indeed, for many of us, our formative years are spent whith Christmas encmpassing dreadful songs (I suspect that […]
Only muck at the movies
The title says it all. Nothing decent released this week, so i won’t dwell on it particularly long. ‘Unstoppable’ is a Tony Scott movie about a bomb on a train or some […]
I could watch these for hours…
Don Hertzfeldt’s Rejects, you’ve probably all see them a 100 times. See what you think. they make me giggle anyway. Wonderfully simple style of animation, and a nice idea of rejected shorts […]
ATP – I’ll be your mirror – Portishead
A new venture for the ATP people, is a two day festival will take place in Alexandria Palace on the 23rd and 24th of July 2011. It will be curated by Portishead, […]
No More Workhorse 