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 […]
Hamburger
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘Va te faire foutre sale fils de pute’
For ten marks, translate the above. Its supposedly what Anelka said to Raymond Domenech, which does seem very cruel. Not a world away from what our Roy said either! As the world cup […]
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 […]
State Intervention #5
From State twitter account: And State Intervention #5….Mountain Man, live at the waterfall in Iveagh Gardens, 5pm They’re playing later in Crawdaddy and are a lovely three pieces from the states, with […]
The curious tale of a Rocky
Just read a fascinating story in the irish times, about Rockefeller productions, the man who was bringing Grace Jones to the Wright venue, as mentioned here several weeks ago! Not sure what […]
Lost Genius IV – Spain
It genuinely saddens me that Spain never achieved any sort of lasting success, because although the second and third albums didn’t live up to the wonderful debut ‘The Blue Moods of Spain’, […]
King Creosote goes analog in the digital age.
King Creosote is taking a step back from the fast moving digital age, and going all old school on us. He is no longer going to release anything in digital format and […]
Street Art
Street art from around Dublin, and other spots. Does Banksy have a lot to answer for, or is it fun?
Lost Genius III – The Drop Nineteens
The Drop Nineteens almost made a splash in the early 1990s with a song called Winona, which helped their first album, Delaware, to chart in the UK (though not, as far as […]
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 […]
Lost Genius – The Boo Radleys
Through time, many bands worth finding more ears have failed to garner the attention that they deserved. Similarly, anyone with an interest in music inevitably knows of a band or two who’ve […]
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 […]
Cinema round up
i’m pretty much up to date with the movies at the moment, so will share my infinite wisdom with the masses. Ahem. Life during wartime – slow, slow, slow and still pretty […]
One minute to midnight!
The new National album is streaming on the new york times web site until midnight tonight! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/magazine/25national-t.html
LCD Soundsystem, Brixton Academy April 23rd
Having feared that the London dates would suffer the same volcanic fate as the tour openers in Dublin, it was a relief that LCD chose to fly to Spain and drive their […]
We’re number 1!
Ireland’s deficit is top of the pops in Europe! Yes! Take that Greece. Is that all? No sir, we’re number one at binge drinking also! A country of infinite complexity. So buy […]
Dublin Gig Guide.
A lot depends on iceland not exploding, but this is a list of vaguely interesting gigs that are on over the next while. Feel free to add your own in the comments […]
The Prisoner – mark 2.0
I watched the first episode of the new version of the prisoner, and was obviously shocked at how impossibly bad it is, on almost every level, and even more shocked that Ian […]
No More Workhorse 