Previous Ruby Tuesday artist Asha has been asked to join Gina Moore,Candice Gordon, Hugh Dean and the Republic of Loose's Mick Pyro for an acoustic night in Anseo on Camden Street this Monday. It's events like this that make me pine for city centre living rather than life in the sticks! Go to Asha's myspace and listen to 4 minutes of near perfect pop in the form of her song Stupid! http://www.myspace.com/ashadoe s
The Irish arrive in force to the SXSW festival during St Patrick's week in March. It shows massive ambition to get yourself out there at the frontline of the music business. Fingers crossed great things will happen for the bands playing. At present the following Irish bands are scheduled to appear: Wallis Bird The Urges Sickboy The Brothers Movement Kiernan McMullan Lisa Hannigan The Mighty Stef The Guggenheim Grotto Fight Like Apes Republic of Loose Dirty Epics One Day International Beat Poets Skibunny Fighting With Wire General Fiasco In Case of Fire We Should Be Dead [...]
This amazing gig in The Acadamy could quite possibly be the most advertised gig in Ireland ever! The line-up is wonderful and to be honest almost all acts appearing could easily fill the venue by themselves. However this is a covers night for charity where we can expect songs by David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan sung by our best Irish artists and Fun Loving Criminals. In celebration of this gig I have a cover by the headliner Sinéad O'Connor. Sinéad has sung songs by Kurt Cobain, Cole Porter, Lee Perry and of course Prince who penned the [...]
The Irish arrive in force to the SXSW festival during St Patrick's week in March. At present the following Irish bands are scheduled to appear: Wallis Bird The Urges Sickboy The Brothers Movement Kiernan McMullan Lisa Hannigan The Mighty Stef The Guggenheim Grotto Fight Like Apes Republic of Loose Dirty Epics One Day International Beat Poets Skibunny Fighting With Wire General Fiasco In Case of Fire
Tomorrow night kicks off a season of Charity Gigs in the Capital. In light of the recession this may well be the best way to see your favourite bands in the future. Lets face it, going to a great gig is much better than signing up to a direct debit for life! Fair play to the bands taking part! Thursday 5th Feb: The Swell Season, Paul Noonan, Carly Sings, Liam Ó Maonlaí and Mark Dignam! Jack L, Munday and The Waterboys have been added to the following gigs for Gaza! [...]
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 [...]
Irish Music Central is the mecca of databases for anyone interested in Irish Music. The site has a huge amount of information about the cream of Irish artists with approximately 50 featured artists having an individual mini-site consisting of pictures, bios, videos, mp3s and links. http://www.irishmusiccentral.c om/ A Small Selection of MP3's from the site: The Radio - Remember Me The Plague Monkeys - Short-Cut Bell X1 - Slowset [Live] Republic of Loose - [...]
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 [...]
Republic of Loose will play a special Xmas show in the Academy, Dublin on the 23rd of December. There will be special guests though none have been confirmed yet. The band already enjoyed a residency in the Academy earlier in the year which saw them collaborate with Jape and Sinead O' Connor. Doors 8pm til late. Tickets €25 including booking fee on sale now The Steady Song http://www.myspace.com/republi cofloose Related Republic of Loose for the Ambassador [...]
It is getting to that time of year were everyone and anyone lists their top 10 albums and writes some drivel about how and why these albums deserved to be in their top 10. You'll be pleased to know that's not what this post is about. We're saving that for next month. Instead I wanted to bring the blog out of hibernation to talk about one of my favourite finds of 2008 . As always I am about two years behind other people but it really was worth the wait. TV on the Radio [...]
Organiser's of Ireland's newest music festival have just announced that there will be Comedy and Dance tents at the Dysart Festival . The festival at Dysart Castle, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, is nestled between woodland hillsides and the river Nore and boasts an impressive line up for its first year. Acts already confirmed include Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Katherine Jenkins , John Martyn , Blind Boys of Alabama and some recognisable faces from the Irish music scene like The Republic of Loose , Juliet [...]
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This is the third entry in our series on Adolescence. You may relive the first two parts below. If you enjoy, consider making a small donation. It's a completely tax-deductible contribution, and you will also be entitled to our blogging-on-demand feature, in which Molly will call your house and tell you about how she ran into Michael Douglas on the street and he loves the blog, just loves it. Part One (Rebecca Wiener) [...]
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