Posted in The Fall, gigs, music on Sep 16th, 2008 9 Comments »
“So, out of ten, what would you give it?” I asked Alan while nursing an expensive Czech beer outside the Spiegeltent in the Iveagh Gardens last week. We had just seen the Fall play and I wanted to know what he thought. Although we started listening to the Fall around the same time, he has […]
Posted in Electric Picnic, gigs on Sep 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
As Jim mentioned, not one of the Dublin Opinion breed made it to Electric Picnic last weekend. However plenty of other people did, so there’s a pretty good chance that you’d hear about it from someone. Even if you do cover your ears and say ‘lalalala’ when someone in work was going on about it, […]
Posted in Electric Picnic, gigs on Sep 2nd, 2008 8 Comments »
It doesn’t look like there was a Dublin Opinion presence at the Electric Picnic this year, so some secondhand news will have to suffice. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I wasn’t blown away by the line-up and decided to give it a skip this year. My only lingering doubt was that My Bloody […]
Posted in comix, gigs, music on Aug 6th, 2008 5 Comments »
I’m just back in from Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters at Crawdaddy. While I was there I picked up a couple of his comics, one of which he autographed for me. Well, not for me, exactly. My friend Joanne had to go up to him after the gig and ask him to sign it, as […]
Posted in Tom Waits, gigs, music on Jul 17th, 2008 12 Comments »
On this first concert of the European leg of the tour, Tom was the flavour of the day in the local Basque newspaper. I mean, ‘Txatar soinuen biltzailea’ is probably fair comment, but does anyone read Euskadi?
About four years ago I was standing on a beach at the end of the world (no really, I […]
Posted in Will Oldham, gigs, music on Jun 17th, 2008 5 Comments »
It is typical of most singers or bands that play here that the majority of the set list is going to be songs off their latest album, despite the fact that if they’ve a few under their belt most fans are really there to hear the earlier ‘classics’.
Being aware of this I presumed that […]
Posted in gigs, music on May 22nd, 2008 8 Comments »
I haven’t had time to complete the music post that I wanted to write this week, so here’s the plan of what I intended it to be about.
Point 1: Mention the cancelling of the Animal Collective gig in the Tripod on Monday night because the band missed the ferry.
Point 2: Moan on […]
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Will Oldham is playing in Vicar Street on the 15th of June. I’m going because Sean Baith can’t and someone has to shout ‘Sean Nós’ at him.
I’ve put this up before but its worth showing again: the great Jeffrey Lewis singing a song about thinking he’s seen Will Oldham on the L-train in New […]
Posted in The Fall, gigs, music on Mar 26th, 2008 12 Comments »
The Fall played in the Tripod in Dublin back on the 16th of March, but I haven’t had a chance to give my impressions of it until now. Perhaps the reason for delaying is because I knew that plenty of Irish Fall fans would get there first, but they’d probably be able to post pictures, […]
Posted in Radio, French, great irish bands, Irish music, gigs on Mar 17th, 2008 No Comments »
[ Hangover friendly broadcasting - Photo from Radio Nova Website]
On a balmy night last summer, I had somewhat of a radio epiphany while trying to tune the car radio somewhere near my home. I came across a station I’d never before noticed that was playing a track from that Stuart Staples solo LP from a […]