This is a book about a band that inspired a legion of people to live life and listen to music. MacDonald has written part memoir and part diary in his effort to explain what Leatherface continue to mean to people
Play of the day – Back Teeth are the Ultimate Worriers
While you're listening to the melodies and soaring vocals you are taken to a place that involves bodies having on the dance floor, everyone picking each other up, fists in the air at defiance of where our worlds are heading and taking us to where we really want to be.
Bratakus: Political Punk Rock Sisters You Need to Know
Scotish punks Bratakus are two sisters who play politically charged punk rock 'n' roll. They are fast, furious and full of righteous rage. New album is available now to pre order.
The Ex live on
This is no ordinary gig, it is a recital of righteousness and The Ex are still leading the field in intelligent noise for the 21st Century.
Weddoes Live
The Wedding Present back in Dublin at Whelans and still incredible live after four decades
Play of the day is such a good signal
starts in that crescendo of guitar that iron chic do so well and then all hell breaks lose. Tight and fast all the way through
Dublin Gallery Weekend – Nov 6 – 9
Dublin Gallery weekend between Nov 6 - 9 sees the art galleries of Dublin open their doors and welcome the public inside
Book of the week – Too old to Die Young
Guitarist for Paranoid Visions and a multitude of others has just reprinted his TooOl To Die Young memoir. An autobiography and history lesson of sorts spanning 4 decades of punk rock.
document 8 – we go again
There will be chats about the underground gigs and how people are still creating things along with some music being played. It’s not a re-union but more of a rekindling
The sentiment of the tourists
2 Dublin musicians with a strong pedigree rooted in the Dublin Underground scene of the late 1980's have come to this feels like open a door back to those times and let them come into the 21st Century