![Gigs 2 Go 2: May 9th - 15th [ft Frank Turner, Lucy Rose, John Murry, Luka Bloom]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4939314_lg.jpg)
There is a serious amount of great gigs this coming week. In particular I'm really impressed in the amount of International acts arriving to Ireland to perform gigs for us Irish. Here's the best of what's out there this week: Thursday 9th May MCD Presents John Murry May 9th The Workman.s Club €15 John Murry’s headline show at The Workman’s Club on Thursday 9th May will coincide with the [...]
I seen this poster in Whelans on the weekend for Luka Bloom's gig there on May 14th with support from Galway's Sabrina Dineen. Going to be some gig. http://www.lukabloom.com/ Tweet
For Radiohead , as with so many bands formed in high school, it is the team that matters first and foremost, in no small part because of the tight and adept skills each band member has developed throughout their co-evolution and ongoing collaboration. Guitarist and composer Ed O'Brien is celebrated for his distinctive use of effects pedals, and for the harmonies he brings to help create and sustain Radiohead's rich, layered sound; the versatility of drummer Phil Selway has been a key component of their evolution as a modern band, especially as they have moved on to adopt [...]
Een vriendin liet me laatst "Sorry" van Kyteman horen, om een voorbeeld te geven van een stuk muziek dat haar ontroerde. Vroeger zat die ontroering veel meer in teksten, tegenwoordig vrijwel uitsluitend in de muziek zelf. Ik heb nog lang...
I'm of an age where Tim Hardin 's Reason To Believe is heard first and foremost in the voice of a late-career Rod Stewart - an inauspicious echo for a song so powerful, and so well-covered. But a good coverwatcher learns to spot trends among the liner notes as he gathers in the sheaves. And so, with today's culminating feature, we come to honor a gradual and growing awareness of the work of the sixties and seventies singer-songwriter among a generation of artists and fans born after his rise and fall from grace [...]
Luka Bloom : An Irishman in Chinatown [ purchase ] This week, we are going to go a little barmy over St Patrick’s Day here on Star Maker Machine, and celebrate for the entire week. They say everyone is Irish on St Pat’s, so all over our songs will be Irish in some sense as well. The fun will be in seeing what that means from song to song. I’m going to start us off pretty close to home. Luka Bloom is an Irish singer-songwriter, and this song has a very [...]
Patty Griffin: Forgiveness { purchase ] Luka Bloom: Forgiveness [ purchase ] The Lonesome Sisters: Forgiveness [ purchase ] Single-word song titles are often homonymic, especially those that describe an emotional state; after all, there's a LOT of songs out there, and far fewer emotional states to channel through song. These three favorite interpretations of forgiveness were [...]
In all the posts so far about the amazing Kilkenny Arts line-up I forgot to mention the 'Golden Ticket' competition. Basically if you buy a ticket for any show on or before Sunday 17th July [i.e. tomorrow] you're automatically in with a chance of free bed, free breakfast and a free ticket for you and your lover/bff! Check out the official details here: http://www.kilkennyarts.ie/blo g/article/kilkenny-arts-festiv al-2011-golden-ticket-competit ion/ You could do worse than using your ticket to see Luka Bloom live and a whole bunch of amazing musicians on August 13th in the Set [...]
![Amhrán Gach Lá - Somadrone [Kilkenny Arts Special]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3557226_lg.jpg)
I'm delighted to be part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival Bloggers Team of really nice people with a passion for the Arts. The scale of what's on offer in the historic town of Kilkenny is simply amazing. All the arts are covered and there's massive variety on offer. This Arts festival along with Cat Laughs and the Rhythm and Roots Festival must make Kilkenny the cultural capitol of Ireland? Check out the vast programme of events here: http://www.kilkennyarts.ie/ The music line-up [...]
Luka Bloom: I Need Love [ purchase ] Boyhowdy posted a track from this various-artists live CD, In Their Own Words, Vol. 1 , last year, but it's one of those albums that always seems to pop up when I'm searching for songs for the weekly themes here. So I hope you don't mind me revisiting it, because just about the whole album is perfect for this week's theme. For those of you who have never heard of this album before, it is a collection [...]
Today The Kings of Leon will perform in Slane Castle today to 80,000 people. The concert has gained a worldwide reputation over the 30 years. The line-ups below contain some of the best live bands in the world along with Bryan Adams. Check out some of the Irish artists to have been given the pleasure of performing in Slane. 16th August 1981 THIN LIZZY U2/HazelO’Connor/Rose Tattoo Sweet Savage/The Bureau/Megahype [...]
Valentine Black is the alter ego of Kildare musician Peco Mc Loughlin whose latest politically charged single ‘Take me to your leader’ was released this month and is a cracking good tune. Over the years Peco has shared the stage with a number of major artists, supporting acts like The Waterboys, Mundy, Bell X-1, Damien Dempsey, Duke Special, The Blizzards, The Coronas, Luka Bloom, Jerry Fish, Dirty Epics, Aslan and Something Happens. http://www.reverbnation.com/va lentineblack [...]
Early this week, my trusty, relatively rusty laptop went kaput, leaving me stranded with but an iPad to access the universe. With 50,000 songs and their library locked in limbo, and the iPad unable to load the full WordPress interface, I was in no position to let folks know what was happening behind the scenes; the resulting radio silence through what is usually a midweek blog feature deadline was frustrating, and I apologize for leaving regular visitors hanging on the line. Today is a recovered day in more ways than one, then: [...]
Before - LL Cool J: LL Cool J on Amazon After - Luka Bloom: Luka Bloom on Amazon
![Whelans 20th Anniversary [Concert Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2180478_lg.jpg)
On 7th December 1989 Whelans opened it's doors as a music venue on the southern outskirts of Dublin. Check out this site for a detailed history of Whelans; http://homepage.eircom.net/~lh anlon/History.html "One feature of the bar is the Stone man, a life size statue of a lone Dublin drinker propped against the Stone Bar. The statue is made with fired wood chips, a sort of complex paper mache." ... taken from the link above! Fast forward to 2009 and alot has changed in Dublin and Ireland since the post Commitment and Joshua Tree days! [...]
I was never a real fan of goth-rock, though as I've written about before, pretty much anything that made the Top 40 in the 80s seems to linger in the minds and hearts of both my own generation and the artists it has since spawned. And The Cure was undeniably the most prevalent band of its type in mainstream mall culture when I was growing up: in my early adolescence, I dated several girls with somber black-and-white Robert Smith posters on their bedroom walls, and - looking back - can only suppose that the band's [...]
Luka Bloom: The Hungry Ghost [ purchase ] Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom is generally found among the folk crowd, but then, they define folk differently on the far side of the pond. To these American ears, there's something perfectly 80s new wave about this track, like a B-side Midge Ure ballad: slack, jangly string accents driving the production, the haunting ebb and flow lyrics, the driving drumbeat and the wailed, echoing chorus fading away into the majestic haze of sound from which it first emerged. [...]
Typically, in our regularly recurring Covered in Folk feature, we enumerate the impact a particular artist has had on culture, and follow that with a carefully compiled list of folk covers from that artists' songbook. Tonight, we break the mold, turning to the songs made famous by Elvis in order to tout a few artists whose new and recent releases or rediscovered gems have been at the top of my playlist for the last few weeks for one reason or another. One day, perhaps, we'll feature a more traditional look at [...]
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