Posted on 17th Jul 09 by Nay | 
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Shoved literally backstage by the celebrity of bands they work alongside, roadies aren’t usually heroes. And that’s the point exactly, says Tommie Kelly, 32 year-old creator of the Road Crew Comic.
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Posted on 26th Jun 09 by Nay | 25
The world’s Most Successful Entertainer of All Time Michael Jackson died yesterday afternoon according to celebrity website TMZ. Aged 50, Michael was apparently found without a pulse or breath rate at home on his Neverland Ranch in the early afternoon of 25 June. He was taken to hospital where medical staff failed to revive the [...]
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Posted on 24th Jun 09 by Nay | 0
Drop-d‘s weekly musical interview Soundtrack is back! We hear your joy… Disconnect 4 are a Galway outfit making synthy rock tunes. They formed in 2007, quickly set to work on their local scene and soon advanced to the National Student Music Awards finals. With a new EP called Modern Love, Leon Butler filled Drop-d in [...]
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Posted on 19th Jun 09 by Nay | 12
From early shoots in Temple Bar, Estel celebrate a career spanning a decade in 2009. Not quite a Kurt vs Courtney, Sid & Nancy or Peter and Jordan courtship, the union of musicians under the Estel canopy boasts its own tale laced with euphoria, arguments and sinister tattooed visions, as rife with birth and divorce [...]
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Posted on 16th Jun 09 by Nay | 1
Adebisi Shank at Twisted Pepper, Thursday 12 June. Support from Not Squares. Adebisi Shank All photos by Naomi McArdle Adebisi Shank on MySpace
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Posted on 15th Jun 09 by Nay | 1
Warlords of Pez in Twisted Pepper on 13 June. Support from Rubberbandits. Read the full review here. Warlords of Pez All photos by Naomi McArdle Warlords of Pez on MySpace Back To Main Index
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Posted on 15th Jun 09 by Nay | 14
Trying to be good, I didn’t really want to like Friday night’s Twisted Pepper support act Rubberbandits, who take the piss out of the IRA and prance around with plastic bags on their heads. As someone who’s had years of “What?” thrown back like the crack of the century, naturally I’m not gonna think slagging [...]
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Posted on 11th Jun 09 by Nay | 0
“ If you, like us, like bands, like us, then you, like us, will be @ Twisted Pepper this weekend. Those ole rogues Humanzi, The Mighty Stef, The Brothers Movement, 202s, Funeral Suits, Sickboy, Wounds, Cheap Freaks, Percolator and and and (not And And And)…this is one helluva line-up. €15 seems steep but a real [...]
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Posted on 9th Jun 09 by Nay | 6
With songs like Deas * 3 and A Blind Cocktail veering effortlessly from crunching punk tones to high fragility, in recent months Enemies have shown themselves as a force to be reckoned with. Part of the developing rock movement based in Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow, the band have caused a stir on the post-rock scene with [...]
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Posted on 8th Jun 09 by Nay | 3
Hot on the Not-To-Be-Missed list this week is the double headliner of Adebisi Shank and Not Squares at the Twisted Pepper on Thursday 11 June. If that line-up wasn’t already enough to strike hearts with a tropical fever, a man called Sting presents the Adebisi Shank Medieval Summer Mixtape for your listening joy over on [...]
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