Castlepalooza is the last music festival to reveal its lineup I think. It’s held in Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co Offaly, on the August bank holiday weekend, August 2-4. That’s the same weekend as Oxegen and Cork’s Indiependence so it’ll be a battle between the three for punters. This is the [Read more]
Northern Ireland’s And So I Watch You From Afar are gearing up to release their third album All Hail Bright Futures next month, March 15. We’ve heard two songs from it to date, ‘Big Thinks Do Remarkable’ and ‘Like A Mouse’. We finally have an Irish tour date though: The [Read more]
And So I Watch You From Afar release their third album All Hail Bright Futures in Ireland on Sargent House on Friday, March 15. We heard the first cut from it, ‘Like A Mouse‘, just before Christmas and now we have ‘Big Thinks Do Remarkable’, “The sun is in our [Read more]
Christmas is 10 days away and so And So I Watch You From Afar have wrapped up the first track from their forthcoming third album and handed it to all fans of music. Oh man it’s good. ‘Like A Mouse’ is typically frenetic, with the rolling drums making me think [Read more]
Was it another classic year in music in 2011? Does it matter? We still got to hear so much great music. Irish bands are coming on in leaps and bounds, and are mostly exceedingly generous with their music, with much of it available for free. Further afield, 2011 saw the [Read more]
It’s widely accepted that 2010 was a classic year for Irish bands, one that was always going to be difficult to reciprocate. Last year, the Point of Everything did a Best Songs of 2010 list that featured a measly six Irish bands. Looking back, so many more Irish bands deserved [Read more]
I think it’s safe to say that the One Fine Day EP is quite a departure from Tony Wright’s work with former band And So I Watch You From Afar. I hadn’t heard anything by Versechorusverse until Tony tweeted over the weekend that the EP was available. It’s all acoustic [Read more]
You will have heard ’7 Billion People All Alive at Once’ by now if you had bought And So I Watch You From Afar’s latest album Gangs. Jape has since gotten his hands and ears on it and come with with a remix that is longer than the original and [Read more]
I don’t know how they became everyone in Ireland’s favourite band, but the hardest-working group in the country (which almost definitely explains it) are back with their second album. And So I Watch You From Afar – let’s call them ASIWYFA from here on out, okay? – have grown in [Read more]
In spite of the fact that Ireland is broke, its music scene has never been healthier. Or generous. Seemingly every day, there is something new on offer from Irish bands that stops me in my (browsing) tracks. Obviously Bandcamp and Soundcloud have made things easier for bands to put whatever [Read more]
