Irish indie

I really like Funeral Suits, I’ve seen them live a few times now and they just seem to get better and better. This week’s Tune of the Week is their new single ‘All My Friendly People’ and is released on March 19th. The video was directed by Shaun Ryan and a shout out must go [...]

Yesterday, a promo clip for ‘Good Cake, Bad Cake – The Story of Lir’ went on YouTube. This documentary is directed by Shimmy Marcus (Headrush, Aidan Walsh, Master of the Universe) and looks at Dublin band Lir and their ambitions in the early nineties. Even if you can’t remember Lir, you’ll know some of its [...]

Northern Irish band General Fiasco are going from strength to strength and this track is due for release on March 5th on Dirty Hit which is also home to Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Little Comets, both of whom are no strangers to these pages. The band are doing five dates in the UK in February. [...]

Window Seats are a Belfast band who have got themselves playlisted on MTV Rocks with the video for their track Local Superhero. The track is taken from their EP Frozen Bones which was released just before Christmas. They are a complete DIY band and the video for Local Superhero took ten months to complete. Listen [...]

Ferrari is the follow up to Wonder Villain’s debut Zola. Instead of tackling the world of soccer, this time WVs go for fast cars and this track has rapidly won me over, perhaps even more than Zola did. The sickenly talented foursome from Derry have adapted a pop indie sound that is destined to win [...]

Last year Simon Fagan upped and left Ireland and headed off to Berlin, along the way though he started writing about some of his adventures. In a nice little note included in this ‘Unplugged’ download, Simon tells us that he is currently working on a new album which is due out sometime this year. He’s [...]

I spoke to Fiona O’Kane from runaway Go for Culture Cafe about two weeks ago and really enjoyed the chat. Delicate Man is their second single and is the follow up to Alligator. Really liking these guys. Delicate Man has also been remixed by break-beat pioneer Paul Grogan of Rampant Records. [...]