This weekend is an immense weekend for Irish music in terms of the future. As we all know we can only have good independent music festivals if they have the ability to make money. Here's hoping all four festivals this weekend breaks even and continues into the future! Le Cheile - Oldcastle, Meath July 31st - Aug 2nd. There's a free gig on the Sunday featuring Funeral Suits and Neosupervital amongst many others that I'm looking forward to. I also got tickets to Heritage Centre and Ian Whitty for [...]
PSYCHO FEST this Sat 13 June / 2pm - late! The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey St. Full line up: New Amusement / Humanzi / the Brothers Movement / Cheap Freaks / 202s / Boom Jackson / House of Dolls / The Hot Sprockets / Wounds / Sickboy / Hassle Merchants / Howlin' Dowlin / Percolator / The Mighty Stef / Funeral Suits. with DJ's Dandelion / Gib U:MACK and more I think Percolator is going to become massive [...]
This Saturday (23rd May) sees the triple bill of The River Valley Band, The Hot Sprockets, Floyd Soul and the Wolf hit Andrew's Lane Theatre, Dublin and we've got two pairs of passes to giveaway. All you have to do is send a mail to giveaway@state.ie before Friday noon (May 22nd). More info on the bands playing: The River Valley Band Kilkenny's The River Valley Band were built on the sound of deep American folk music and the materials used to finish it were the wild earth and [...]
This Tuesday finds Irish Singer-songwriter Fiach in Doyles for The Ruby Sessions. In April he is gigging in Italy before being part of this decent line-up of artists performing in Tullamore! Fiach has massive potential to make it in the difficult vast genre of the Irish Singer-songwriter! Check out his MySpace for some excellent demos from his forthcoming album. Taken from his website are a few downloads for your pleasure. Too Many Years You Dear (Live) [...]
Another mix of Irish Musicians and Bands for the blog today. The mix begins with Declan O'Rourke's exceptional Last Night In A Dream recorded live for songs from a parlour. Next is a singer getting massive amounts of interest Wallis Bird. Recently reformed Lir and mega stars The Cranberries are also included. New artists are represented by Ian Whitty and The Hot Sprockets. To finish is the recently disbanded Leya with a rocking Frames like tune. Declan O'Rourke - Last Night In A Dream MySpace Wallis Bird - Counting To [...]
Now playing on the MUZU stereo - The Hot Sprockets brand spanking new EP - Country Dirt . Check out 'Solid Gold' from the band's recent MUZU session. The Hot Sprockets - HWCH - Solid Gold Live in the MUZU Studio on MUZU . Check out Tony Ireton's photos from the launch gig in the Button Factory last Friday complete with stage invasion!
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