Tomorrow night kicks off a season of Charity Gigs in the Capital. In light of the recession this may well be the best way to see your favourite bands in the future. Lets face it, going to a great gig is much better than signing up to a direct debit for life! Fair play to the bands taking part! Thursday 5th Feb: The Swell Season, Paul Noonan, Carly Sings, Liam Ó Maonlaí and Mark Dignam! Jack L, Munday and The Waterboys have been added to the following gigs for Gaza! [...]
Muzu.tv is another fine example of the Irish adding to the Global musical landscape. Muzu.tv is a music video site similar to YouTube with a massive difference. The bands get paid for having their video viewed. This difference will see Muzu.tv becoming a massive part of the future for the record labels and bands. You should be able to view these clips no matter where in the world you are! http://www.muzu.tv/ The Coronas - Decision Time THE CORONAS - The Coronas - Decision Time [...]
As usual there's an awful lot of musical fare on offer this New Year's Eve but fear not, we here at State are on hand to provide you with a handy guide to how to spend the final moments of 2008. So, deep breath and away we go... Super Extra Bonus Party / Adebesi Shank - Whelans, Dublin Quite possibly the double bill of the night, bringing together two of the most innovative and downright thrilling live bands in the country right now. There, we said [...]
This is a Mixtape4melfi repost written about the Saturday I had at the Hot Press Music Show in the RDS. Yesterday I had the pleasure to spend the day at the Hot Press Music Show in the RDS. Over this weekend it was a convention to showcase the best of Irish music, the best music stockists, record companies, seminars, galleries etc etc! This weeks themed mix celebrates the best of the weekend's music. First up and [...]
So you get the whole idea of a Top Ten of the year right? You don't need me to explain it to you do I? Click on the read more and see how my list differs from Ste and Robs 10. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid Mercury Music prize winning and all that malarkey this was the year that Elbow finally took over and while doing so brought out one of the best rock songs of the last year, [...]
I have just done the now traditional best of the year mixtape (cd) for my neice and our good friend in the UK. It wasn't an easy task this year trying to fit everything into 70 minutes. I think 2008 was a great year for Irish music. You can argue that there wasn't a 'Joshua Tree' or 'Live and Dangerous' to be seen but the sheer volume of really good albums was encouraging. Remember to support the artists by visiting their MySpace, catching them live and buying their albums. Best of 2008 Mixtape 1. The Coronas [...]
Ham Sandwich are an amazing Irish rock band from Kells, Co. Meath with wonderful female and male vocal harmonies. They have a brilliant debut album out called Carry The Meek and just released a new single from it called Sad Songs. MySpace Keepsake Live from Whelans Saturday 11th November Click Click Boom Do You Think I'm Sexy
Its indicative of how few venues there are really in this country that a band like Ham Sandwich have to play two gigs in a day in one place in order to just get out there and play. Its indicative of how indifferent the country is to its own music scene that fuck all people turn up to the afternoon show. This could be down to a couple of reasons not least of which is the fact that most people are probably hungover to fuck still or more likely they might as well wait until the evening show because then [...]
Irish band Ham Sandwich excel in the artistic video stakes with this superbly animated clip for their seventh single. ham sandwich - BrokenGlass on MUZU .
Astonishingly, Ham Sandwich are on their seventh single release already, suggesting a dedication to the medium not seen since the days of Motown. Happily 'Broken Glass' is more of the same high quality catchy yet dark pop that we've come to expect from one of State's bands of the year. There's a great video too, showing exclusively on MUZU TV right this minute. The band are out on tour too…. 01 Nov PORTLAOISE - Breakers 08 Nov DUBLIN - Whelans - 1:30pm (all ages) 08 Nov DUBLIN - [...]
The second of our three bands in last Thursday to record a session, representing the Kells massive, were Ham Sandwich who performed 'Keepsake' and 'Broken Glass' and hung outside on our roof afterwards. [...]
The Leccie Piccie line-up grows and grows with the following bands been added to it today: The Gutter Twins (Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan), Stephen Malkmus with The Jicks, Florence and the Machine, Leila, Late of the Pier Black Acid, Laura Izibor, Ham Sandwich, Wallis Bird, Kissy Sellout, A-Trak, La Rocca, New York Fund, These New Puritans, The Flaws, The Dodos, Pivot, Johnny Flynn, Cowboy X, Oppenheimer, The Urges, The Radio, Arno Carstens, Pinky, Liam O'Maonlai and Wolfgang Haffner. Ireland's best festival gets better and better and makes me start to get worried that I may not get [...]
1. The Breeders - 'Here No More' 2. Ben Mono feat. Yo Majesty - 'Hit The Bit' (Lorenz Rhode remix) 3. Hadouken! - 'Get Smashed Gate Crash' (Station X remix) 4. The Presets - 'Are You The One' (Simian Mobile Disco remix) 5. Goldfrapp - 'Happiness' (Metronomy remix feat. The Teenagers) half a dozen. Talking Heads V Trick Daddy, Ludacris - 'Sugar On My Tongue' 7. The Octopus Project [...]
Things you should know about Ham Sandwich: 1. It is a delicious, tasty snack, which I can happily snarfle down most days of the week; 2. It is a delicious, tasty band from Kells whose album Carry the Meek is just out, and whose singles I've been happily snarfling down most days this week. Things you should also know about Ham Sandwich: 1. They recorded part of their album where Jonathan Swift got the idea for Gulliver's Travels. 2. They [...]
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