Artist: Author: Duane Shinn

I wish you could have seen me play the piano when I was just learning. I was the nearest thing to "hopeless" that you could imagine. I was into baseball" not music " and my heroes were Joe DiMaggio" Mickey Mantle" and Ted Williams. "And by the way" I still have a [...]

Artist: Rufus WainwrightAuthor: Gary

This July" the people of Cork have been given the opportunity to laugh at Tommy" get their groove on with Al" boogie with Diana and probably vomit at Brian. But if there is one performer that Drop"d would have to single out as the most intriguing visitor to the Leeside" it would [...]

Artist: Josh RouseAuthor: Gary

If you've still got some energy left over from the U2 gigs" and you don't exactly fancy a trip down Centre Park Road to listen to Ronan Keating in a tent" then may drop"d recommend that you take a stroll down to Douglas St. one of our favourite singer"songwriters of 2005. The [...]

Artist: The DevlinsAuthor: Mark

A Saturday night in Cyprus Avenue and I"ve only seen the venue so busy since it opened. Tonight an array of Dublin and midland accents can be heard among the buzzing crowd as The Devlins come to town. First up Duke Special provides an interesting warm up act with his sweet and [...]

Artist: Ten Past SevenAuthor: Mark

A fresh new sound. A different approach. A bloody good band. 7.10 are a trio " Rory on guitar" Ger on drums and Matt on bass" from Kerry with an intense instrumental sound that is guaranteed to impress. Formed in the kingdom over two years ago this band have gone from [...]

Artist: Drop”D
Author: Houli

State your full name and position please for the Dropped” Team”
Robin John James Theodore Sebastian Deegan
Boss” Head Honcho” MD” Lord” Main Man” Godfather” Big DON “for other
reasons also”” Big Kahuna”

How did drop”d and Dropped” Come about”
Drop”D is a veryyyyyyyyyy long story” I asked Adam to come on board to the
rehearsal space [...]

Artist: PlaytohAuthor: Mark

A band that have attracted a sizeable fan base PlaytOh debuted at an open mike session in the Douglas Hyde" Cork in early 2002 with a mix of covers and original material. Primarily seen as acoustic based with a small band sound" PlaytOh quickly found their feet" and began a journey from acoustic [...]

Artist: Jon LeahyAuthor: Houli

How would ya describe yourself in 3 words"
Crazy" Lazy and regularly Hazy.

What got you into singing and playing guitar"
I think the very first time I thought of becoming a musician was when I
heard Bryan Adam"s Summer Of 69 in Spain but I was too young at the time to know [...]

Artist: Author: Ezine Articles

I've never gotten so much free publicity before"

Two years ago" I came up with a crazy idea for a new CD"""Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers". Say what you will about the idea: maybe I am "psycho" or "drink too much". Maybe the lyrics suck" or this is "the dumbest idea" you've [...]