Posted on 31st Oct 06 by Contributor | 
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Artist: The Hitchcock Blondes" Computers That Breed and The Ultra MontanesAuthor: David Phillips DROP"D Dublin Showcase After an afternoon of dirty skies and incessant rain" Wednesday was coming to an end as I waited on the Guinness at the bar of Radio City. The people were still trickling into the venue as I sat down" [...]
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Posted on 31st Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Fionn Regan"""InterviewAuthor: Jason Golden Just one listen to Fionn Regans debut album The End of History and its clear you have just experienced something special. An album of magical beauty" gorgeous vocals and stunning guitar playing" this album is one of the most exciting debuts I have heard in a long long time. The [...]
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Posted on 31st Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Duke SpecialAuthor: Scott Edgar DUKE SPECIAL SONGS FROM THE DEEP FOREST V2 RECORDS Already one of the most talked about albums of the year" Duke Special's 'Songs From The Deep Forest' has finally been released to the public on CD and download. The selection of songs will not be surprising to the thousands of [...]
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Posted on 31st Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Beveren"s toy"""InterviewAuthor: Maaike Mijland Beveren"s toy reveal their explosive recipe How to introduce a band like Beveren"s Toy without doing them injustice" Let"s take the easy way out and just copy/paste their own brilliant description" found on their myspace site: " "The Toy"" as the band is sometimes known" is a five"piece anarcho"rock post"funk [...]
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Posted on 31st Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: The Blizzards"""InterviewAuthor: Nicola Marie O Riordan Who"s the ride"" Well Cork girls certainly have no shame/class. Ah they do". sometimes" just not when they catch their first glimpse of The Blizzards" lead singer Niall "Bressie" Breslin" It"s not everyday a 6"+ ex pro rugby player comes to town fronting a band with 4 more [...]
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Posted on 31st Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Blast gig at Radio CityAuthor: Susan Keally In 1998 a new monthly event was going to change every rock loving teen"s gig calendar. Blast was somewhere you could finally start spending your Saturday "first of every month back then" afternoons without getting in a lick of trouble. It was an event that was organised [...]
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Posted on 31st Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Iain ArcherAuthor: Scott Edgar IAIN ARCHER MAGNETIC NORTH PIAS RECORDINGS I have no reservations in calling Iain Archer one of the most under"rated songwriters of our time. His work with Snow Patrol and The Reindeer Section has been highly commended over the last number of years with an Ivor Novello award being added to [...]
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Posted on 31st Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: GuillemotsAuthor: Scott Edgar THE GUILLEMOTS MANDELA HALL" QUB" BELFAST SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER The Guillemots are named after a relatively unknown type of seabird and rightly so" for they soar effortlessly on some elevated plain through a mystical scenery we could only ever imagine" occasionally swooping down into the mainstream to pick apart the best [...]
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Posted on 22nd Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: SwitchesAuthor: Jason Golden THE SWITCHES "Lay Down The Law" is the debut single from UK indie starlets Switches. Get ready for this one because pretty soon it will be dominating the airwaves and bombarding our ears with a stomping slice of funked up indie gold. Not since Franz Ferdinand"s Take Me Out have we [...]
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Posted on 17th Oct 06 by Contributor | 0
Artist: ASH talk to Drop"dAuthor: Nicola Marie O Riordan Ash talk to Drop"d. I don"t really think these guys need much introduction"especially if you were a teenager in the 90"s. They inspired many of us to take up guitar. Their debut album Trailer was exactly what it says on the tin" a taste of what [...]
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