Last year’s Ones to Watch mini-fest in Whelan’s threw up some previously unheard bands that went on to do great things last year. Cashier No 9 are the band who spring to mind. Soon after playing the January 2011 bash, their album came out and became one of my favourites [Read more]
James Blake Here is something that I wrote for a much longer post earlier this year, which featured James Blake: “Does James Blake really need any introduction? The blogosphere has collectively gone into overdrive over the 23-year-old dubstepper. He has three EPs under his belt, which made it into Pitchfork’s [Read more]
Have you heard about Quarter Inch Collective’s Quompilation #1? Thirteen Irish artists, including Squarehead, Spies, Kid Karate, Patrick Kelleher and many more, covered their favourite song of 2010. We get two versions of Squarehead’s ‘Fake Blood’ (Nialler9 readers’ favourite song of the year too), a Rihanna cover and a Kanye [Read more]
Starting today, Wednesday, and running for the next four days is Whelan’s Ones To Watch Festival. More than 30 Irish bands will take to various Whelan’s stages to show everyone just how strong 2011 is going to be. Some bands you may be familiar with, and more you will never [Read more]
British Sea Power are one of those underground acts that are always on the cusp of breaking out and playing to massive audiences. Their fifth album, Valhalla Dancehall is out in Ireland this Friday, January 7, so consider this a crash course in one of the best guitar bands around. [Read more]
Welcome to the first in a new series of posts on The Point Of Everything. This site will be a year old on January 6 so I will be trying out a few things to spice things up. Below is the first in the ‘A crash course in…’ series where [Read more]
