Post math rock or indie but always good rhythms and melodies from across the Scotish and Dutch border
Great Gig Memories
Latest book from Hope Collective is a collection of great gig memories from Punks and friends
Why NHS Charities together
Hope Publications publish new book in aid of NHS Charities together. Great gig memories out end of November
Book of the Week – the making of Ryans Daughter
The book reads like a film in itself with hotel parties, house parties and pubs overflowing with actors, extras and movie workers spending their money with great ease.
In Concert
A selection of favourite gig memories from Irelands music community in aid of Irish Red Cross. When we first saw the heartbreaking pictures from Aleppo we reached out to those people we know best, our friends in the music community. Six months ago Hope *2 came out. This featured contributions from those in the punk community in an effort to raise money for pikpa lesvos centre. We held back on many contributions from the Irish music scene as we felt it would be nice for this group to extend their support. The results are In Concert. Whilst there are many more who could and deserve to be included we feel this can help form part of a ‘secret history’ of the irish music scene.
Kalandra are drawing the Line
Kalandra The Line NorseMusic Kalandra is an alternative Nordic pop band spearheaded by three Norwegian musicians weaving ethereal melodies into raw and eerie musical landscapes. Alternativel they are know as alternative pop. Or so says their promo. I've always wondered what that term means. Alternative to pop maybe? Does that mean rock? Kalandra may rock … Continue reading Kalandra are drawing the Line
Fake Names get real
Transatlantic punk rock supergroup Fake Names bring their hardcore and emo roots into power pop
Book of the week (and probably year) Leonard and Hungry Paul
Through the pages we get to know the characters, ordinary people living ordinary lives. These are the people in my world, the people in my job, the people I went to school with.
Cork Metallers The Grief Continue their “Descent” into your ears
Following on from their "Ascent" ep earlier this year Cork Doomsters The grief are ready to inject more noise into your ears. This time it is with the release of their Descent ep. 5 tracks of doom influenced metal, sounding sharp and powerful. It's available electronically in all the following formats Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/4lnH42S4uNvwBAYoKzn6LN?si=JbiIZkmZQv6YLtfBQazkJA Bandcamp - https://thegrief1.bandcamp.com/releases iTunes - https://music.apple.com/ie/artist/the-grief/1496996964 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/griefdoommetal/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_oU9fvolEB52i6IBskopTw … Continue reading Cork Metallers The Grief Continue their “Descent” into your ears
Book of the week – Capital Is Dead
Punk rock, critiques of capital, Karl Marx and cultural theory as we have run out of world to cannibalize and commodify