Disclaimer: Jape are one of my favourite bands, so unless singer Richie does something absolutely shocking and terrible onstage, I’m probably going to love the gig. Jape are responsible for kicking off the Dirty Weekender at the Pavilion in Cork. As it’s a late gig things could have been messy, [Read more]
Prior to arriving at the Pavilion for the sold-out second gig of a 20-date European tour for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah I had been reading this article about what it apparently takes to be a rock star: $100,000 in your first year as a band could see you achieve [Read more]
It’s been a long time since Friendly Fires played an indoors gig in Ireland. May 2009, to be precise, when they played the Forum in Waterford. It’s been even longer since they played indoors in Dublin. So to say their show in the Olympia was hotly anticipated would be an [Read more]
I had the distinct pleasure of finally seeing Halves play in Cork on Friday night. Debut album It Goes, It Goes (Forever & Ever) was released last year following a number of EPs and led to some support slots in the city; but I never got to see them. This [Read more]
Last Friday in Cyprus Avenue, Antlers played a sold-out show, which saw all tickets gone before I got my act together. Afterwards saw the first in a series of late-night gigs in the Cork venue and you would have thought there’d have been a good-sized crowd for it. But there [Read more]
Last Friday, Rocketjuice and the Moon took to the Savoy stage to open the annual Cork Jazz Festival. More commonly known as Honest Jon’s Chop Up Shop, Rocketjuice and the Moon is the moniker that Damon Albarn and Flea have given to this group of musicians who are only playing [Read more]
“Not another Brooklyn band?!”, I hear you shout as you read the band biography concurrently with this review. But readers, wait! This band is different. They are beloved of the blogs! They take a few listens before you realise their genius! They will be at the top of the best [Read more]
Ah Hot Chip how we love thee. Yes, the nerdiest band in the world are back and staring down the barrel of worldwide domination.
There is something irritatingly brilliant about Vampire Weekend and the success that has followed them around from the second they appeared on the Stereogum and Pitchfork blogs. How can the ‘Whitest Band on the Planet’ also be one of the more successful stories of the internet? In the current era [Read more]
