Dublin

We Will Rock You : Live at The O2 Dublin – Thursday April 4th 2013 We all know the extensive appeal of the music of Queen but delivered in a musical format could it still pack a punch? We Will Rock You came for a visit to Dublin’s O2 and despite a ten year West [...]

March 17 2013. Bombay Bicycle Club, Jape and The Cast of Cheers – Live at The Academy I’ll be honest, for the past number of years, I’ve avoided the Dublin city centre on St Patrick’s Day. So when I got an invitation to Jameson Live, I was curious to see what was going on but [...]

Originally published on Goldenplec. Thursday 21st February 2013, Whelan’s Dublin. The CMA Songwriter Series is an interesting concept, some of Country music’s biggest hit-makers share a stage, playing songs acoustically that they’ve written and telling stories about how these songs came to fruition. Sitting on a row of stools across the Whelan’s stage, the evening [...]

Check out the video for Two Door Cinema Club‘s new single, Next Year, it was filmed in January during their sold out show in the 02 in Dublin. Have you spotted yourself in the video? Let me know! [...]

Yes, it’s early but it’s Friday and that smell drifting across the Liffey is the weekend! Are you a Frightened Rabbits fan? Do you own / can you get your hands on some silly bunny ears in mega quick time? Read on! Frightened Rabbit release their new album, ‘Pedestrian Verse’, tomorrow. The first fans to [...]

This morning, I was pottering around and I heard these yelps outside, which sounded like a small animal or a bird. After pulling back the curtains, I saw three of our friendly foxes had returned, months after we last saw them. It may be quite a while since we’ve seen them but since Winter kicked [...]

Last week, I popped down to Whelan’s to see the much talked about Lucy Rose. It was a cracker of a show, you can read all about it on Goldenplec. Here’s Lucy’s new single: Middle of the Bed [...]

FINAL UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST. Lots of explaining to do with this. I applied for tickets for Robbie Williams‘ Charity Gig in The 02 in Dublin on September 14th and received this from tickets@robbiewilliams.com about twenty minutes ago. Mess, fiasco and lots of other relevant words come to mind. I’ll be honest, before this [...]

This afternoon I went for a quick walk along the north quays and took in just a snippet of The Tall Ship Race Festivities. Lots of things to see and some awesome ships to have a good at also. There’s some great street food also, if you get a chance do check out the paella [...]

I don’t usually just post about gigs but this isn’t just about music. There’s lots going on alongside music! This is more of a four day event and what’s more, it’s all free! Here’s the all the deets! Tonight sees Totally Wired comedy duo take to the stage to make you LOL your face off! [...]