Posted on 28th May 08 by Contributor | 
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Artist: THIS WILL DESTROY YOUAuthor: Jason Golden THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Sunday 12 October Whelans Tickets "14.50 inclusive of booking fee Following on from their awesome debut gig here a few months back Post Rock Texan quartet This Will Destroy You have announced a date at Whelans for Sunday 12 October. Tickets priced "14.50 incl. [...]
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Posted on 28th May 08 by Brendan Morgan | 0
Artist: Le Galaxie Author: Brendan Morgan Meshing pounding techno rhythms” shimmering cyber”synths and cascading streams of sonic guitar”wizardry” sci”fi sampledelics Le Galaxie have wasted no time stamping their ‘grid vs guitars’ ethos on 2008. After their blistering set in Whelan’s last weekend” Drop”d chats to guitarist and self”confessed science fiction buff Michael Le Galaxie on [...]
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Posted on 28th May 08 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Bonnie Prince BillyAuthor: Adam Lacey For me" a new Bonnie "Prince" Billy album has long been comparable to one of those nights when all the close friends you don"t see so often anymore happen to come together in the same place and the posse gets merrily intoxicated for hours" the bar"s air thickening with [...]
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Posted on 28th May 08 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Gemma HayesAuthor: Paul Murphy Live Review: Gemma Hayes" Upstairs at Whelan"s" Sunday 25th May Gemma Hayes played the first of two acoustic shows upstairs at Whelan"s to a sell"out crowd on Sunday night. Joe Chester" Binzer Brennan and Seamus Kennedy accompanied her onstage for the evening"s intimate performance. Unlike your average preachy singer"songwriter Hayes [...]
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Posted on 27th May 08 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Built to SpillAuthor: Jason Golden Built to Spill Live at The Academy Monday 10th November Tickets "20 including booking fee Plus special guest Curt Kirkwood "The Meat Puppets"" Solo Built to Spill are taking their seminal LP "Perfect from Now On" to the stage at The Academy this November 10th. Joining the band as [...]
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Posted on 27th May 08 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Ham SandwichAuthor: Robert O Connor I"m sure interviews in a backstage toilet are common place in the world of Rock n" Roll journalism and because I"ve just discovered sinks have a thousand uses. They hold your pint" you recorder" and your notes as well as making great supports when the 5th Guinness starts to [...]
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Posted on 27th May 08 by Contributor | 0
Artist: Noise ControlAuthor: Paddy Murphy Live Review: Noise Control Crawdaddy Friday 23rd May Noise Control take a break from the studio tonight to celebrate lead singer Mark "Kid's" birthday" doors open at eight but the party doesn't get started until well after half ten so most of the assembled crowd are fairly well oiled and [...]
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Posted on 26th May 08 by Contributor | 0
Artist: XAVIER RUDDAuthor: Jason Golden Xavier Rudd The soulful Australian surf / roots multi" instrumentalist phenomenon With Special Guests August 17th at The Academy ""Tickets "30 inc bk fee are on sale from today"" "…Xavier Rudd plays jazzy" syncopated guitar as he broods" something like Dave Matthews with an occassional toot of a didjeridu." NEW [...]
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Posted on 26th May 08 by Contributor | 0
Artist: David KittAuthor: Jason Golden David Kitt emerges from studio hibernation where is working on his 6th studio album "if you count them thus " Small Moments" The Big Romance" Square One" The Black " Red Notebook" Not Fade Away" to co"headline a special Dublin show with Buffalo Tom" that great Boston three piece who [...]
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Posted on 26th May 08 by Contributor | 0
Artist: HangingboxAuthor: Jonathan HANGINGBOX " NEW E.P. 'Goodbye Privacy'" the second EP by Hangingbox was released on the 26th of April to a full house at an event called HB3D. This was not only an EP launch" it also came with the announcement that the band will relocate to London in the summer. The foursome's [...]
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