After the excitment of punk festivals and bars being open for business on Good Friday we are back to a normal week of gigs in Dublin. An interesting affair is the night of promised hypnotic noiserock and zeitgeisty punkrock taking place in Dropdead twice on Tuesday Both bands are on the Norwegian undergroundlabel Tonehjulet Kraftpest. … Continue reading This Weeks Gigs April 2 – 8
Play Of The Day: Joe Solo – Not on our watch
Joe Solo Not on our watch [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=3531147136 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small] Prolific up troubador joe Solo is back again. A new year means a new album and joe has no intention of resting. Along as one man is still in chains the fight will continue. Joe has a manifesto, a soundtrack … Continue reading Play Of The Day: Joe Solo – Not on our watch
Play of the Day – First base: Not that bad
First base Not that bad Drunken sailor This is A perfect example of giving everything a Second chance. I don’t remember what I was doing the first time I put this on the turntable, probably searching for a book or through a dictionary for some other review I don’t remember where I was the first … Continue reading Play of the Day – First base: Not that bad
Play of the Day – The Cowboys
The Cowboys S/t Drunken sailor records [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=3566708164 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small] Julian from Drunken sailor must have some garage. He seems to be able to pick out bands from it at ease. The cowboys are from Indiana and have a mix of sounds but most seem straight from the garage. There … Continue reading Play of the Day – The Cowboys
Play of the day: FUAL – Veganic Wind
FUAL Veganic Wind Boss tuneage One really important part of history is to make sure it’s documented before its forgotten. Maybe that’s how the Bible came about. I’m sure there’s some manuscripts that purport to tell the stories it is telling. In 2,000 years there will be a whole chunk of history forgotten prior to … Continue reading Play of the day: FUAL – Veganic Wind
Book of the week – Conversations with friends
Conversations with friends Sally Rooney Faber and faber Irish author Sally Rooney is still in her twenties. She was born a year after I played my last gig (1990 for me). Conversations with a friends is a story of four people who are close to each other. Four ordinary Irish people living in the 21st … Continue reading Book of the week – Conversations with friends
This weeks gigs March 26 – April 1
This weeks gigs in Dublin March 26 - April 1 For years Good Friday was one of two days bars closed in Dublin. It was illegal to sell acohol on that day and the link between live music and alcohol really shone through as no gigs would happen on that day. This year the bars … Continue reading This weeks gigs March 26 – April 1
Book Of The Week – Christy Ring by Val Dorgan
Christy ring Val Dorgan Ward River press Unlike autobiographies this goes straight in for the kill. The opening pages are spent lamenting about the loss of ground hurling to the game. It’s more a story about the autobiography but provides excellent insights into the introverted excellence that was christy ring. His hurling came at a … Continue reading Book Of The Week – Christy Ring by Val Dorgan
This weeks gigs – March 19 – 25
Punks going acoustic is all the rage these days for those of us with grey hair and a penchant to sit at a gig every now and then. Aoife Destruction is a singer from Paranoid Visions and is doing a stripped back set on Thursday. 2 nights later United Bottles will have us up dancing … Continue reading This weeks gigs – March 19 – 25
We Shall Overcome 2018 teams up with Mayfest
******STOP PRESS****** Dunstan Bruce has cancelled but all systems go for this night. Joe Solo, Cassandra Fox, Sarah from Pillow Queens, Leigh from Sissy, Bitzy from Lee Harveys/Stougers, Filmmaker Chiera Vialle, Actor Cilléin McEvoy all lined up Update - May 8 Line Up is as follows 7.30-8.15. Kitty Kav From the Boy Scouts and Berniie … Continue reading We Shall Overcome 2018 teams up with Mayfest