I'm really excited about this week's Ruby Tuesday artist Kiernan McMullan. Hong Kong born Kiernan who grew up in Limerick is now making friends all over America plugging the debut album Perfect People Are Boring. In 2007 he released his first official single in Ireland called "Borderline" which went to number 3 on the Irish download charts and earned him spots on major radio stations all over the country as well as supports with the likes of Cathy Davey, The Blizzards, David Geraghty, The Coronas, and Delorentos. In late 2007 Kiernan stepped into the studio with his [...]
Today I can tell you about not one outstanding charity gig, not two charity gigs but three gigs. Vicar St. is the venue on February 6 and 7 for two gigs that will benefit injured Palestinian children in Gaza, of which the United Nations say there are tens of thousands. Performing over the two nights are Lisa Hannigan, Neil Hannon, Mary Black, Liam O Maonlai, Eleanor McEvoy, Frances Black, Kíla and more still to be confirmed. www.tuesdayschild.ie/ Lisa Hannigan - Free Until They Cut Me Down [...]
Barretstown House presents: Inspirations fundraiser Barretstown House was founded by the late actor Paul Newman as part of his Hole in the Wall Camps. Barretstown run a programme of adventure and activities for children with Cancer and other life-threatening illnesses from Ireland and rest of Europe. There is horse riding and archery, painting and creative writing, singing, acting, film making and a lot more. After taking part in the programme children go home with more confidence, self-esteem and most importantly the reassurance that happiness is not just for healthy children. Every year [...]
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 [...]
Voor me ligt de double disc, special edition van Cradle Of Filth's nieuwe werk Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder (The Life And Crimes Of Gilles De Rais). Het is een conceptalbum dat een zeer donker en sinister sprookje vertelt over...
The Blizzards will celebrate another great year with a Christmas date at The Academy in Dublin on Saturday, 27th December. Tickets priced €23 inclusing booking fee are on sale now from Ticketmaster . The Domino Effect Tour in September and October saw the band play to some 15,000 fans playing at one point 24 shows in 18 days straight including their biggest crowd in Cork, a sold out show in Dublin and ending with two sold out nights at the Roisin Dubh. Following the tour the band flew straight to New York for the [...]
Laat je niet misleiden door de surrealistische cover van Deadlocks nieuwe album Manifesto. Die heeft namelijk een geheel andere uitstraling dan je voor je kiezen geworpen krijgt bij het beluisteren van Manifesto. De hoes van het album met zachte en...
Julien Clancy's second half report from CMJ , New York concerns the Irish bands at the festival. First up is a quick chat with Bressie from The Blizzards who talks about low expectations and having a a drummer with food poisoning who is trying not to get sick on stage during performance. Hooray for Humans get harrassed by an excited fan while Giveamanakick thought they were gonna die during the first song and they made a friend with a Vietnam vet. Giveamanakick also had high praise for the [...]
Cronian is een samenwerkingsverband tussen Mr. V a.k.a. Vintersorg a.k.a. Andreas Hedlund (Vintersorg, Borknagar, Otyg, Fission, Havayoth, Waterclime) en Øystein G. Brun (Borknagar, Molested). Nadat ze er in 2000 achterkwamen dat ze beiden een enorme passie en een overeenkomstig grote...
Maar eens twee oudjes van de stapel gepakt om te recenseren. Beiden met vrij duidelijke redenen waarom ze waren blijven liggen. Ze zijn namelijk van magere kwaliteit en genieten weinig originaliteit. Zeker het eerste schijfje, Soulcatcher van The Mystery is...
De band iO mag dan bij het grote publiek nog vrij onbekend zijn, de muzikanten hebben zeker al hun sporen achtergelaten in de rockmuziek. Voorheen zaten de muzikanten namelijk in The Guano Apes. Na het in 2003 uiteenvallen van die...
Domino Effect has already gone to number two in the Irish charts since last week. The Mullingar band's second album and followup to 2006's A Public Display of Affection was kept off the top spot only by Metallica's Death Magnetic . By those standards, this band are the most popular band in Ireland right now. So how does the album stack up? It's certainly an ambitious, more considered record which takes their sound into more global territory than the debut which lacked distinction at times and dipped into standard pop-rock [...]
This week your oh-so-sore heads will be musically cured by Mullingar's finest, The Blizzards . The band's sophomore effort The Domino Effect is going down a storm, and they'll be hitting... well, pretty much everywhere in Ireland over the next couple of weeks to promote it. Somewhere in the midst of all this madness the lads have taken the time out to compile our weekly ten songs for your ailing livers. Find out what they've prescribed after the jump. Click to download mix [...]
De verloren zoon is terug. Zanger Matt Barlow behoort weer tot Iced Earth. Na zijn uitstapje bij de politie van Georgetown, Delaware en de terugkeer in de muziekwereld via Pyramaze is hij weer helemaal terug op de plek waar hij,...
Mullingar's The Blizzards have come a long way in the last few years- working their way up the stages at Oxegen and picking up a few awards while they were at it. The lads are about to release album number two (pictured above), and have now debuted it's lead single online. As one can see from the video they've really tightened up their sound and are obviously still enjoying themselves (note the gratuitious 'Let's fucking SMASH this fucking piano!!'). Can they topple the mighty onslaught of the incoming Fight Like [...]
Begin 2007 kwam Katra (Solopuro) in het nieuws, omdat haar nummer "Tietäjä" teveel zou lijken op het nummer "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)" van Within Temptation. Het nummer, dat inmiddels de Finse finale had gehaald om als nationale inzending voor...
Voor mij is Moonspell de enige Portugese band die ik ken. Maar daar kan ik nu mooi een tweede naam aan toevoegen, ThanatoSchizO. Deze zevenkoppige band maakt (progressive death)metal muziek met de bekende basisverdeling, drums, bas, gitaren, keyboard en de...
Zes albums uitbrengen binnen zeven jaar. Niet veel bands zullen dat Fear My Thoughts nadoen. Fans van deze Duitse metalgasten hoeven (tot nu toe) dus nooit lang op een opvolger te wachten. Zelfs het aantrekken van een nieuwe zanger heeft...
I just found out that Blizzard decided to take a step back from WOW and send some people over to the Diablo side of the building, and, consequently, Diablo III has finally come to fruition. I'm a little concerned that Blizzard may have sent too many people from the WOW team to help make the new Diablo, as it looks a little more campy than I'd care to hope for. Here, you decide which one looks more dark: Diablo II opening sequence: Diablo III Trailer:
Tijdstip: zaterdag 5 juli jl. Plaats: een weiland in Burgum, Friesland. Kortom, het was weer tijd voor het jaarlijkse metalfestival Wâldrock. Een relatief kleinschalig festival dat elk jaar toch weer een mooi programma in elkaar weet te zetten. Dit jaar...
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