Swansea Recreation Centre - First Time European (Video) I tried to get to the bottom of why I love Swansea Recreation Centre in my post on the band last month . I also promised to bring you their new video for 'First Time European' when I found it. Here I proclaim, is the best song and video you'll find in a long time; a desolate blend of grainy video footage cut and pasted from independent films 'F For Fake' by Orson Welles and Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch. Watching the video leaves me even [...]
Autumn nears and so do my qualms about winter. Needless to say, it always seems like the best music and film arrives during the last one-third of the year. Award considerations aside, one gets the hunch artists want to end the year on a positive note rather than one of nothingness. A looming uncertainty can [...]

Oh Ruin is a play on the surname of singer/songwriter Eoin O'Ruainigh. Eoin spent his time playing with a slew of bands in his native Ireland before starting over in London. A guitar Luthier by trade, Eoin plays his own style of gruff Irish influenced folk on the guitars that he makes. To date O'Ruainigh has two EP's to his name although all 2-tracks on his first EP also appear on his second, self-titled, 6-track album which you can listen to in full on his Bandcamp site. The stand out track is most definitely "The [...]

Oh Ruin is a play on the surname of singer/songwriter Eoin O'Ruainigh. Eoin spent his time playing with a slew of bands in his native Ireland before starting over in London. A guitar Luthier by trade, Eoin plays his own style of gruff Irish influenced folk on the guitars that he makes. To date O'Ruainigh has two EP's to his name although all 2-tracks on his first EP also appear on his second, self-titled, 6-track album which you can listen to in full on his Bandcamp site. The stand out track is most definitely "The [...]
I don't know about you, but I love a nice poetic story about the creation of an equally poetic band. Something that makes the music they present sound all the more home-grown and full of bold character. Oh Ruin, which is taken from the surname of the band's creator Eoin O'Ruainigh, are a pleasure to [...]
These days, it's increasingly hard to go to a gig without knowing something about the bands playing. When was the last time you were surprised by someone popping up on a bill who you've never heard, and never even heard of before? It seems like years since that happened to ...