This is a case of “great bands” eating itself here, as the Sewing Room was comprised of members of two bands already covered by the series, Hey Paulette, and The Stars of Heaven - while Sean already talked about the Sewing Room in another post. Oh well. No matter. I picked up their album […]
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I’m hoping to have a retrospective of Barry McCormack’s work soon for Dublin Opinion. In the meantime I just want to highlight his gig tonight in Crawdaddy, on the occasion of the launch of his new album, Night Visiting.
Songs from the new album are available for listening on his myspace profile.
Barry’s older work is […]
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Below are the three songs from the Subterraneans´1987 release on Mother Records, SLUM, which I picked up on Amazon last week. The brief biog of the band comes from the wonderful Irish Punk and New Wave Discography.
Enjoy.
Formed circa1982. Carling/Hot Press Band of 1986 which should have led to a single on WEA but the label […]
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Last year I went looking for something to put up by the Great Western Squares but couldn’t find anything. Sean’s post about The Sewing Room got me looking again, and sure enough, something’s popped up. It’s their cover of “Ace Of Spades” and damn fine it is too. Their second album, Ammost Sober, is going […]
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A couple of years ago I gave my friend Colm all of my vinyl records as I was moving house (again) and didn’t have a record player and didn’t have any room for them. He kindly took them off me, and tonight he kindly offered them back. A couple of months ago I bought a […]
I'm Hardly Ever Wrong [2:56m]:
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Great Expectations [2:11m]:
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I Want To Say What Goes Without Saying [3:51m]:
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There Is There Are That's All [2:17m]:
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Just came across this excellent little video of Jinx Lennon’s song ´My Guitar is a Magic Wand´.
Enjoy.
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Another purchase from St. Vincent de Paul. This one ties into my own little history of this city. I used to play drums in a couple of bands, one of which was the Wrycatchers. I would easily rank us as one of the worst bands ever to grace the stage at the Underground on Dame […]
Trainwalkers - Girl I Used To Know [3:44m]:
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I came across this single in the St. Vincent de Paul shop on Sean McDermott Street. First of all, some stuff about the single from the Irish Times, 25 February 1985.
Irish music stars, major and minor, filled the Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin on Saturday last to produce a record along the lines of what […]
Show Some Concern - The Concerned [3:38m]:
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You have to blame trust me I’m a thief for these two back-to-back posts. The link to Jape brought me to Si Schroeder, who I have never heard of before. The following is from his record label page:
Si Schroeder is a six-foot hairy male who makes ‘music’. This ‘music’ generally sounds like classic songs in […]
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Taken from Jape’s label website, trustmeiamathief.com, (home to the Redneck Manifesto as well.)
The music of Jape is a breath of fresh air to the smoggy atmosphere of Dublin. The first album “Cosmosphere” which was released last year on the Volta Sounds label showed his experimental side and sense of humor with stoner folk and 8 […]
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