
The Sewing Room From: Dublin, Ireland I'm back from my brief encounter with the real world and glad to be able to relaunch my quest to bring you the best in music you've probably never heard of with some great news from my pals at MP3Hugger. In their never ceasing mission to bring lost classics to an indifferent world the irrepressible Kevin Hugger will be resurrecting Dublin's The Sewing Room sometime [...]

A Night In Memory Of Derrick Dalton On September 29th 2010 Thread Pulls, Dinah Brand, Richer Than Astronauts, and Little Beauties play live in Whelans at a tribute night for Derrick Dalton. The night marks the second anniversary of Derrick's death, and the posthumous release of two records, an LP by his solo project Aeromodeller and a 7" single by his band Crumb. Derrick played in Hey Paulette and Mexican Pets before forming Crumb, who released the LP Evenings and Weekends in 2005. Get the full EP from [...]
I sort of wrote about Felt yesterday. I came across a band that was making Felt-like sounds (also reminiscent of Jazz Butcher) around the same time in Dublin. Hey Paulette were "jingly jangly" (their words) and got clumped in with a lot of c86 bands, partly because they appeared early on with John Peel. Members have gone on to form Crumb and other bands but this may have been the height of their music making. After 20 years this legendary but lost band is releasing it's debut record on the [...]