In today’s Irish Times The Ticket section, Jim Carroll highlights some of the best Irish Music Blogs around including this one, UnaRocks, House is a Feeling, The Torture Garden, Sinéad, Magoo, No Clarity, Weareie, Test, Cheebah, Killkenny Music and more. For such a small country we’ve got a wildy diverse selection of music bloggers covering all aspects and genres. If you haven’t visited any of the above, hop to it, you’ll find something you like guaranteed..
Here’s what Ledgebag Jim had to say about me…
NIALLER9
WHAT IS IT? We thought it was the best Irish music blog on the interweb, and now the Irish Blog Awards have endorsed that view. Enthusiastic and on-the-money recommendations and MP3s of new and overlooked music from web designer Niall Byrne.
CONTENT: Nialler9 has a predilection for alt hip-hop so there’s lots of Edan, RJD2, Def Jux and Aesop Rock, but he’s also a fan of Au Revoir Simone and Modeselektor. He’s also linking to the exellent free download-only Decal album and advises readers to have another look at Bloc Party’s overlooked Silent Alarm remix album.
A TASTE: “Another day, another excuse to mention Battles, the only math-rock band worth mentioning these days”.
I prefer music enthusiast Jim but whatevah.. Anybody need a website? 😉
Oh and credit goes to Mike for the Bloc Party remix album post. Next week I’m starting a monthly podcast full of recommended tunes that I can’t get enough of and haven’t got time to blog about! You won’t be hearing this beautiful voice however as I’ve got a professional young lady (read: has her own Radio Show) to present the podcast. All will be revealed. Should be up Tuesday or Wednesday depending on the amount of debauchery the weekend has planned for us all… 🙂
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Fair play to Jim, no one else seems to take note of the amount of people who source their music from music bloggers.
Also “ledgebag” = genius. 🙂
we are all amazing
Yes. I especially. big pat on my back please now thanks everyone ok.
(i mean, i did, ha, do a post about, ah, ha, bloc party)
all the awards and shameless self flattery is fine. but the time has come for all irish bloggers to enter the arena of pain and battle to the death, only then will the true champion emerge… hundreds of dead nerds, one ultimate blogger.
well done niall, i have you in mind for an impending design job involving the alpha males, i think this may have been discussed on some drunken interlude, but i have a sive between mi ears so maybe not.
look how far the bear has come since he left the woods….mama bear would be proud:D