Monthly Archives: July 2011

I’m going with an oldie but a goodie this week. There’s really about 6 weeks of ‘Summer’ left and to be honest the weather is pretty sh1t. One day it’s very sunny and warm, the next raining.. like someone stole the sunshine. Radio Voice: Here’s Len. [...]

London based Dublin band, The Chakras, release their new single ‘Drifting (Take A Walk Inside)’ on July 29. I caught up with the band before they played their first Irish gig in 18 months. Sitting down at a table surrounded by The Chakras, there are a couple of things that are immediately noticeable. Richie, Brian, [...]

Icelandic duo Feldberg are releasing their single ‘Dreamin’ on July 29th through Irish label, Smalltown America and are taking in an Irish tour at the same time. Trying to get through to Rosa’s phone has me laughing, Toto’s Africa is playing but this isn’t a voicemail message. You get it when her phone rings, this [...]

One way of telling you you’re getting old is realizing that Nirvana‘s Nevermind is twenty years old! Hard to believe. To celebrate this Nevermind will be reissued on September 23rd. There will be a couple of different formats for a standard CD to  a 4cd/1DVD Super deluxe edition, which will feature unreleased tracks, obsure b [...]

For the past two years on DCUfm, I have been doing a music, arts and culture show called Culture Cafe, alittle idea I had to chat to people in the arts field and have a bit of music in there too. Culture Cafe ran for an amazing 53 episodes on DCUfm. Today I am delighted [...]

This landed in my inbox about two weeks ago and I’ve had it on in the background when I was doing other stuff! But now I must repent, I’ve been selfish and it’s time to share it with you. Cork electronica mastermind Reid, has released his ‘Genesis’ E.P. through Bandcamp and Soundcloud. You’ve got everything [...]

It was a sparsely populated Whelan’s that greeted ‘The Man Whom’ on July 14th. Accompanied by violin, cello, keys, bass and drums, Ian Doyle treated the audience to tracks from his debut album ‘The Greatest Event’. The band started the set with ‘Autopilot’ which showed beautiful blends of vocal and instrumentation. Slowly the track builds [...]