Gig Hard 2: Gig Harder

For a while it has seemed that gigs in the capital city had taken a break of sorts. There was a time a few months ago (I think it was around the time No Age played Whelans) when there was at least 56 gigs a week for 2 months straight. I tried to blag as [...]

I see a darkness. I also see an imminent kick in the face for those people who won’t shut the fuck up at gigs

Gigs like Bonnie Prince Billy don’t pop up that often. There are plenty of bands and musicians peddling their wares around the country week in/week out but someone with the resplendent back catalogue, cultish intrigue and that real ‘I will cut my arms off with a semi-blunt knife and force feed them to myself, washed [...]

Holy Roman Army w/Capt. Moonlight

New track up on their myspace – a collaboration with Kilkenny’s Captain Moonlight. Have a listen to it. They play Anseo on Sunday night with the excellent Storkboy tunes providing support.

Crayonsmith interview

Hey, here’s an interview I did recently with Crayonsmith (who supported Why? at ALT the other night and were excellent).His new album is cracking and he’s a really nice fellow. Read the interview here

Sebadohmynostalgiabuttonhasbeenpressed

It seems that most of the bands I go to see live these days are starting out and plugging a debut album while establishing a new army of fans – thanks to the ridiculously fast buzz-building that goes on on the interweb – as opposed to playing to a crowd familiar with a vast canon [...]

Brasilintime – Tivoli, May 2nd

This seems interesting with the current penchant for Afrobeat in the indie music scene. Samba music has never been my favourite but Madlib is playing and if he manages to not smoke his own bodyweight in weed before the gig – actually it doesn’t matter if he does or not, he will be just as [...]

Things that are wonderful indeed..

Charlie Brooker. Elbow at Vicar Street tonight. Guy Garvey is probably the most affable frontman of all time. Madvillain album. Should have gotten this for my ipod ages ago. Berocca. Hangover cure to rule them all. 3 days off work midweek. Really looking forward to it.

Foals: live review (for drop-d)

I went to this gig with my staunchest ‘impress me you angular art bastards’ attitude, as a music fan weary of NME hype, fringe-floppage and drainpipe-jeaned automatons clambering for the best spot in the smoking section of (insert hip bar name here). Not to mention the reciprocal contempt that front man Yannis Phillipakis has shown [...]

Another Drop-D review: Daedelus at Whelans

It’s not every day you go to an electronica gig where the gent behind the laptop and Monome (more on that later) is dressed in Edwardian coat, tails and ascot, sporting Creedence-friendly sideburns.Santa Monica’s Alfred Weisberg-Roberts chose the nom-de-musique of Daedelus after spending his childhood daydreaming of becoming an inventor and in the last 6 [...]

Live review: Holy fucking Fuck (gratuitous swearing alert)

While the Camden Street venue of Whelans was yet again packed with a melange of Dublin musos, this doesn’t really bother Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh, AKA Holy Fuck, as they hop onto the stage to take their positions behind a bewildering amount of electronic equipment and synthesisers.Hailing from Canada, Holy Fuck bear little similarity [...]