It was announced this week that An Réalt Dearg, located on Barrack Street in Cork city, was closing its doors for the final time. I asked Jack Collins, the manager of An Réalt Dearg to write about what Cork is losing with the pub’s closure. What he sent me is, [Read more]
Jamie from the Ambience Affair wrote an interesting blog post yesterday. You can read it on the band’s website here or below.
We’re not two weeks into 2012 yet but there has already been an enormous amount of sniping going on as regards Irish music. I realise Ireland couldn’t exist without a healthy dose of cynicism but it seems that we’ve reached a crescendo already.
The video above did inspire me to want to do something. It was made a few years back by Dylan Haskins who, at the time of writing, had just announced his intention to stand in Ireland’s upcoming election, as an independent in Dublin. He definitely deserves your attention with this [Read more]
Welcome to the second Point Of View post, a weekly Monday opinion column on some music things that have been keeping The Point Of Everything up at night. There was an interesting discussion across the waters in America on the future of music blogging as aggregate sites such as Hype [Read more]
This is the first in a weekly series of posts which will be more opinionated than other stuff that I post on the blog. Think of it as a music-centred editorial, or a not-as-good/informed On The Record. This week, what would success mean for 2011′s Next Big Thing? As we [Read more]
