Details of this year's Indie Week showcase went online: http://www.indieweek.com/about -ireland/ Apart from the always wonderful Preachers Son the one band which I think are amazing are Belfast's The Beat Poets . They play Dublin on Wednesday May 11th and in Belfast the following night. Schedule Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Sweeney's Mongrel (32 Dame St., Dublin 2) Launch Party + Artist Showcases Doors at 7pm | Free In Stage [...]
Lark In The Park returns to Moira, Northern Ireland next weekend. The Saw Doctors and General Fiasco will headline either night of the 2 day festival on the weekend of April 30th to May 1st. Others acts on the bill are Fiddler Adam, Black Thorn, Rattle and Hum, The Beat Poets, The Varonis, The Dead Presidents, Doghouse, Microlip and Raised on Rock. Tickets for each day cost £20 and can be bought from Ticketmaster , under 12's are free (must be accompanied by an adult). [...]

SomaCow Media is proud to present ComaSow brought to you by Sounds Of The City-Belfast . This is a CD that I've had for a few weeks and really wanted to review. Geoff is out again this week so I took this opportunity! Plus Gavin, from Belfast, was in our live chatroom ! The first song we reviewed was "Rebel Get By" by General Fiasco . Wow, we loved it! I don't think there was one negative or even iffy comment in the [...]
We continue to explore bands appearing next month at the SXSW Music Festival in the Capitol City. Previous SXSW posts for this and a couple of previous years can be found here. Clicking band names will take you to their SXSW page. Clicking song title will play song. We've got a little dog & butterfly thing going here. We'll let you decide which set is which.CHOO CHOO - A Little Wiser Now mp3 -

It`s been an interesting week around this part of the woods, not at all productive on the blog front but strangely medicinal with plenty of time to expand our ageing Celeron hardrive. With all this self made free time comes the rare compulsion to study useless information, what countries do our visitors come from ? and what on earth were they looking for ? I`m certain most regular bloggers have these counters and cleverly analyse what their readers are searching for, ironically this week is the first time i`ve taken that much interest. To sum things up as a [...]