Music Review

What better way is there than to spend the first official Bank Holiday of the year, listening to the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland? None. Being in The Helix for this made me realize two things, I don’t listen to enough classical music and these young musicians are the biz, they are quite literally staggeringly [...]

I headed out of my bed to see Elliot Gleave aka Example in The Olympia Theatre last Wednesday. I was thrilled to hear that Fenech-Soler were supporting. You can read my review on Goldenplec. [...]

Last Saturday night I headed along to The Village to Maverick Sabre, one of the year’s most talked about breaking acts. Opening up for Mav were Rob Kelly and Sons Phonetic. It was a little mad I knew a lot of Mav’s friends and collaborators who were at the gig but have never met the [...]

I can’t believe it’s a week since this gig! I had the honour of chatting to Patrick Wolf before the gig and to be honest, he’s such a lovely guy, I really enjoyed the gig and will always remember it for being the gig I went to in the middle of the rain apocalypse. (October [...]

Is Ireland turning a corner? Hazard from The Saw Doctors is one of two CDs that dropped in my inbox this week, documenting the current shit the country is in. Hazard is taken from ‘The Further Adventures of…’, cleverly the uptempo beat of the track counteracts the lyrics telling of a current Ireland. It’s all [...]

Just as the evenings are getting longer and darker, Wonder Villians have come along and brightened up our stereos. The Derry based band are an aural pleasure and Zola is a delightful introduction to the band. In the past, footballers and music haven’t really mixed very well, (I’m thinking Hoddle and Waddle here), but this [...]

Last Sunday night, I had the pleasure of heading to Whelan’s to see one Mr Frank Turner. I was totally surprised with how good he was. He puts on an amazing show. I wrote about it for Goldenplec, go have a look. As I said over there, ‘There’s not enough Frank Turner in the world’. [...]