Monthly Archives: May 2010

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Blondie due to play Belfast, June 23rd

Posted on 19th May 10 by | comments 0

Music legends Blondie are set to return to Belfast this summer with a gig in Belfast’s Nugent Hall, part of the King’s Hall complex on Wednesday 23rd June 2010. Since they formed in 1974 Blondie have sold over 40 million records worldwide. They became famous with songs like Heart of Glass, One Way or Another, [...]

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Foals, The Academy

Posted on 18th May 10 by | comments 0

Despite the fact that I arrived one hour and half earlier because all the world knew that the doors were open from 9pm, and not 7,30 as I supposed, it has been a great night, with a brilliant performance of Irish band LaFaro (but with a bit of bad luck for the bassists, he fell [...]

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Cancer Bats, Bear, Mayors, Scraps & Bones

Posted on 17th May 10 by | comments 0

Call it being blind or rather deaf, hell call it ignorance. But when Cancer Bats popped up in 2006 with Birthing The Giant, the potential was there but it didn’t seem to have anything particularly attention grabbing about it. But two years on and with Hail Destroyer they grabbed your balls with an iron tight [...]

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Classic Album, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads

Posted on 14th May 10 by | comments 1

‘Sick, psychotic, horrifying, beautiful, magnificent, breath-taking.’  Seems a strange combination to put in the same sentence, but those are just a few words used over the years to describe Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads album. It is their 9th release in a career thats spanned over 3 decades and features collaborations with the [...]

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Aether, Aether

Posted on 12th May 10 by | comments 0

These days, a blind monkey with only one finger and half a brain could find several instrumental metal bands online. And it would take him/her approximately a minute, thereabouts. But this saturation is not necessarily a bad thing. The only bad thing is that the supposed outsider foolishly categorises all instrumental into the one filing [...]

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Idlewild, The Academy

Posted on 11th May 10 by | comments 0

I have to say that this concert had a bittersweet taste. It was sweet because they are a great band on the stage. It was bitter because this is gonna end, and the Dublin’s gig was one of the last ever gigs for Idlewild. So, I hope you will enjoy my pictures, even if they might [...]

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