All this week, there will be guest posts from various people involved in different strands of Irish music – record shop owners, writers, bloggers, promoters, radio presenters, bands and more, telling us what Irish bands or artists they are really into right now.
Ellie and Louise McNamara are Heathers . Recently, the placement of ‘Remember When?’ on a Bord Failte ad has seen them appear on the Late Late and secure a marketing and distribution deal with Warners Ireland. They have just re-released their brilliant debut album Here Not There which you can buy here.
1. Adebisi Shank
Words can’t describe these guys. Just pure brilliance! They never ever fail to amaze.
MP3: Adebisi Shank – ‘Oyasumi’
2. Enemies
Enemies have such a wonderful sound, you won’t stop smiling.
3. The Cast of Cheers
We saw these guys play their first gig and were blown away! They were incredible. So tight and so talented.
MP3: The Cast of Cheers – ‘Auricom’
4. We Cut Corners
Very catchy tunes with great harmonies. Lovely.
MP3: We Cut Corners – ‘Toll Free’
5. Little Green Cars
Very talented bunch. Interesting tunes with great harmonies and instrumentation.
we cut corners are deadly, must catch these cast of cheers guys soon
Loving We Cut Corners. Want more now !
heathers are possibly the worst band i have ever heard in my life. utterly devoid of any lyrical originality and swamped with cliches. there are thousands of bands just like them before now and there will be again in the future.
only in ireland would they get away with it. the incestuous little irish media scene, including this blog – which is a farcical excuse for a music ‘industry’ (industry) love in, are as responsible for providing a platform for bands like this to gain notoriety.
nialler, you should spend more time listening to the tunes and understanding what constitutes a good one rather than focussing on standing in whelan’s filming some disposable indie slurpings in order to increase your pecking order with sychophantic scenesters like gugai and jim carroll.
please note: they’re not your real friends and you’re probably not going to get a paid job in the irish times. the likelyhood is that jim carroll is using you to push his own profile to secure his own job.
This is funny. Nice comment 🙂
Wow-ee.
I think it would be really helpful for the Irish music scene if we all knew just exactly who Niall’s REAL friends are.
STOP TAKING PHOTOS AT WHELANS EVERY NIGHT AND GET BACK TO THE MUSIC!!!
Nialler, this is no joke. We can’t waste any time, I’ve developed a quick plan:
1. Heathers need to split. This evening if possible.
2. An outright ban on all promotion and networking to be imposed in Ireland as of zero hundred hours tonight.
3. Disband the entire Irish Music Media.
4. Close Whelans and convert the premises to apartments.
5. All music listeners to en-role in a music listening course a.s.a.p
Now why can’t this high level of comedic talent reach our TV screens?
Given this was number 2 in the Irish indy charts for the 17th week running competition was hardly that stiff”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tI0bQ-A-H0
Mmmm, disposable indie slurpings…. droooool.
YOU ARE NOT MY REAL FRIEND!
Stop using me Jim!
‘gobsite’ – What the fuck? This is exactly the type of backward looking idiocy that music blogs / twitter / facebook etc. will hopefully eventually stamp out. You aren’t being forced to read this – you are allowed to disagree – but at least back it up with a meaningful argument!
Good list by heathers – need to check them out soon – have a lot of time for the stuff Adebisi Shank, and Cast of Cheers are doing.
Mick
It’s the “Please Note:” that makes it a winner.
I quite like ” ‘industry’ (industry)”. what does that mean?
hey guyz dis just pad postin
every1 needs 2 leave dem heathers motts alone deyr 1 of d few gud irish bands at d moment serisly
Gobs(h)ite – I love the way you’ve made such a stab at the Irish music media, along with this blog, when you are clearly a follower of both. If you don’t like what either are offering then look elsewhere. Alternatively, you could get off your arse and see if you can do a better job, your obviously full of ideas, of some sort.
I kind of agree with what the Gobshite has said – but i don’t think It’s Nialler’s fault. He does have a quite a lecherous following of muso-socialite name-dropping sycophants. Twitter is swarming with them – self-serving nice guys/gals who bombard his page with compliments and lame jokes until they get a response. These people really do think they are going to get a job out of this.It’s all networking. I think that’s pretty unhealthy to say the least.
I’m finding most of these music fans have little or no opinion themselves, and are more than happy to be spoon fed whatever X says they should listen to. Same with readers of Pitchfork and Jim’s blog. Everything is too homogenized.
Go gobshite go! Ireland the size of greater Manchester, big fish small pond syndrome, clueless smarmy parochial hacks pushing safe, tame predictable nonce-ense!
Would be very curious to hear from Mary mo chroi, PJ and Gobsite (if they really are three seperate people) as to who they regard as the Best or their Favourite Irish bands right now
And fairfucks Niall, a great week’s reading with this series.