More changes to gigs and a few added: April 30th: Thingcheck in Spy (10pm) April 30th: Pablo Discobar in Crawdaddy (late) May 8th: Calvin Harris in The Academy [Just Added] May 9th: Saturdays at Wax (4 Hour Set) May 15th: Synth Eastwood Band May 29th: Saturdays at Wax with Mark Alton June 12th: Nightflight [Cancelled] …
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More Philth Gig Updates
0 CommentsI’m speechless, which isn’t a good way to start a blog post, but what a game! The 61 year wait for a Grand Slam is over. It’ll be a long time before I forget that drop goal from O’Gara going between the posts. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. [Update …
Ireland Grand Slam 2009 Winners
0 CommentsI thought it’d be fun to take bad photos at the Choice Music Prize a couple of weeks ago and post them up. Or more correctly, I completely forgot to bring a camera so I had to make do with my iPhone + tipsy hands. Check out the bands above here: Jape: http://www.myspace.com/richiejape Messiah J …
Choice Music Prize 2009 Photos
0 CommentsIt’s a long held belief of mine that the party poliical system as it exists now doesn’t serve the people. It serves the parties themselves first, the politicians second, their cronies third, and the rest of us if we’re lucky. I understand how hard it would be to get a majority on difficult decisions if …
Time To End Party Politics
2 Comments… or this could be hell. The Irish blogosphere jumps out of the screen and gets all 3D for one night only when a fury of bloggers gets together to play music at Soundcheck in Spy on Thursday (i.e. tomorrow or tonight depending on when you read this). Here’s the line-up: Nialler9 Jim Carroll Rick …
This Could Be Heaven…
2 CommentsNot that she wasn’t before, but Panti got politcal on her blog over the weekend, and as a result is stirring up a bit of a debate over the upcoming civil partnership legislation, or more specifically over the lack of marriage rights for LGBT couples. Hopefully there will be some additional coverage of the issues …
Panti Gets Politcal
0 CommentsHere’s my favourite track, “A Safe Place”, from the new Simon Says EP on Stereotonic Recordings, their first release as it turns out. There’s also a launch party on in the Twisted Pepper this weekend, details here. The EP is available to buy from next week from all the usual online shops. [Update 26/02/09] You …
Simon Resoul – Simon Says EP
0 CommentsIcon Party – GCN 21st Birthday
0 CommentsNow more than ever it’s time to support the businesses and people you think are remarkable. Vote with your feet and and your wallets where you can or some of them won’t be here in a week, let alone a month. I think a lot of music folk here in Dublin have been shocked into …
Time To Do, Not Say
0 CommentsI’m finally back on the Internet in my own time so I can spend a bit of time writing, posting pictures, videos and music again. There is much to write about at the moment, but proper journalists are doing a pretty good job of covering the Big Issues of our day so I’m going to …