Posted in Dave Murphy, Singer-songwriters, dublin, music on Feb 1st, 2010 No Comments »
[ Photo from Dave Murphy & Friends MySpace ]
Dave Murphy is one of those Dublin institutions who has never really been on the media’s radar - and most likely prefers it that way. I was reminded of him during January when Kevin Courtney paid a nice tribute to him in the Irish […]
Posted in music on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Here’s a streamed version of the soon to be released Four Tet album There Is Love In You
According to the Domino site “There Is Love In You is Kieran Hebden’s first full length album in over four years and is his fifth LP to date”.
That would explain why I haven’t heard much of […]
Posted in 1990s, Stoned bassplayers, Whitewashed tombs, Pharisees, music on Jan 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
FOOTNOTE FOR THE FREE PRESBYTERIAN DOOR TO DOOR SQUADS : No particular gloating comment on the Robinson household… but word of the whole mess has even gotten down to the French media… I just happened to come across this gem from amid the detritus of 90s latenight telly up on YouTube :
Posted in music on Jan 8th, 2010 8 Comments »
Those preppy East Coast college kids are up to speed with this technology thing and are providing an embedded player which allows you to listen to a streamed version of their new album Contrawhich is being released around now in your own blog or whatever.
So, as we have a blog here, I’m embedding it […]
Posted in music on Jan 7th, 2010 2 Comments »
And for anyone else reading.
Fortet doing a remix of Caribou’s Melody Day.
Posted in music on Nov 3rd, 2009 8 Comments »
Sinéad Gleeson, through twitter, said the following yesterday:
Grizzly Bear + St. Vincent = Gig of the year.
Great, my tastes have coincided with Sinéad’s enough times for me to be fairly sure I have indeed missed the gig of the year. Now, I’m not too gutted that I didn’t catch Grizzly Bear. Much as […]
Posted in Doire, Derry, Northern Ireland, music on Oct 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
I’ve been away from these parts a while - can’t quite remember where I’ve been - but the hangover is a monster one. For my comeback post I’ll continue in the same vein of triviality I was in before I disappeared.
My dearest and nearest often buys the quite decent French rock/culture mag Les Inrockuptibles […]
Posted in music on Oct 27th, 2009 4 Comments »
While listening to this track from the excellent Dirty Projectors’ 2009 album Bitte Orca today….
I was reminded of this ‘77 stunna…
And while listening to this recently released piece of Andy Weatherall produced electro-drizzle
Posted in Nick Cave, music on Oct 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
I don’t know if Sean Baite will be able to see this down there in the back end of France, but Handj*b films, with the compressing skills of Colm Talbot, have a shockingly large number of vids (okay 9) of Nick Cave’s recent visit to Vicar Street to promote his novel The Death of Bunny […]
Posted in Pixies, Lisbon Treaty, music on Oct 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
It was as I suspected, there was me planning to write a detailed review of the Pixies gig in the Olympia last Wednesday night, and to go on about how it was the best the gig evar, which it was, and I knew that someone would have either video or audio of it which would […]
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