Posted on 26th Feb 07 by Contributor | 
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Artist: Oh Yeah"Author: Scott Edgar Oh Yeah In 1977 Northern Ireland was ablaze with raw un"nurtured talent like Stiff Little Fingers and The Undertones. Young men were wielding guitars and hurling out memorable rock anthems while many of their contemporaries were on the streets where missiles and gunshots took the place of the music. Thirty [...]
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Posted on 26th Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: The great lost tracks….Author: Kipto The great lost tracks…. Last month Q magazine ran an article detailing 500 of the "best songs you never heard". The list contained tracks by Robbie Williams" Beyonce" Madonna and Britney Spears" so obviously wasn"t worth the paper it was printed on. It did however give me the idea [...]
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Posted on 26th Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Rock SkoolAuthor: Nicola Marie O Riordan Rock Skool Part One: What"s In a Name" What is the single most important thing in getting a band off the ground" Talent" Songs" A fierce image" None of the above I"m afraid. You will not be able to showcase your talents" advertise or record a demo without [...]
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Posted on 26th Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: BarrytronAuthor: Barrytron STAIRWELL TO HELL Do you have a night that you can call "the worst night of my life"" Maybe you got dumped by your boyfriend and subsequently attacked by a bear. Maybe you lost your shoes" then had your arms torn off by a Russian bodybuilder. Perhaps you got stabbed with a [...]
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Posted on 26th Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Charlotte Hatherley" CutawaysAuthor: Scott Edgar Charlotte Hatherley" Cutaways The Limelight" Belfast 25 February 2007 Another quiet Sunday night in Belfast and this time Drop"D is enjoying a pint of lukewarm Tennents while be educated in the ways of Rock and Roll by local indie"pop upstarts Cutaways and ex"Ash and Nightnurse guitar fox Charlotte Hatherley. [...]
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Posted on 23rd Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Giveamanakick" Warlords of Pez " Live at Roisin DubhAuthor: Hubert McIntyre Raving insanity" chaos" and actual" real bloodshed descended on Galway"s Roisin Dubh at the weekend for the Valentine"s Massacre" the unholy matrimony of Limerick"s notorious noise peddlers" giveamanakick" and the twisted intergalactic genius of the Warlords Of Pez. But before the audio holocaust [...]
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Posted on 21st Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Beangrowers" Fight Like Apes" CodaAuthor: Anna Murray Review: Beangrowers" Fight Like Apes" Coda. Live at Crawdaddy" Jan 26th In case my name in the by"line hadn't already alerted you to the fact" I am a female. I am also in a band. In my musical career "which" I admit cannot yet be deemed expansive"" [...]
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Posted on 21st Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Tahitis Dream " EP LaunchAuthor: Donal Walsh Tahiti's Dream are a young and ambitious 4 piece rock 'n' roll group from Galway. After appearing on the 2FM 2morrow 2our a few months back" they've gained the support of 2FM DJ's Jenny Huston and Dan Hegarty and are starting to cause some interest on the [...]
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Posted on 20th Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Shays StudioAuthor: Paul Mc Connell The studio of Shay Leon inhabits that rare space amongst venues that artists visit to turn their musical and lyrical ideas into hard copy. Nestled in the countryside just beyond Loughrea" Co. Galway" the first thing that becomes apparent upon arrival at the picturesque rural cottage is that this [...]
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Posted on 13th Feb 07 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Messiah J " The ExpertAuthor: Hubert McIntyre Despite importing it from overseas by the tonne" us Irish have yet to spawn our own contribution to the global hip"hop gene pool. French" Polish and Dutch rappers have all achieved huge mainstream success in their own countries and the English have chewed it up and spat [...]
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