All at Nomoreworkhorse Towers, would like to welcome our newest blogger. Theo Michael was born today at 1.18 am, and son of crack reporter John (his work can be seen in Musuc for […]
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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 […]
Emmy Awards 2010
I’m not sure why it is, but I’m a fan of most of the nominations for best TV show in the Emmys this year. I doubt this was always the case, but […]
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 […]
Mountains to the Sea Festival
The Mountains to the Sea festival returns to Dun Laoghaire on the 7th to the 12th of Sept. While it lacks the star attractions of last year where Paul Auster and his […]
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 […]
Tower of Babel
I went to a few movies over the weekend, all pretty good, so brief review of each of them; The Leopard – very slow but good, The Maid – First half is […]
Joe Dante’s back!
Yes, that’s right, Joe’s back in town. The man that taught me the three rules, no bright lights, don’t get them wet and never, never let them eat after midnight! If you […]
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 […]
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 […]
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