Christmas

Villagers and Lisa Hannigan share cover of ‘The Little Drummer Boy’

The festive season has begun. Villagers and Lisa Hannigan have released a cover of the…

45 gigs & clubs to see in Cork over the holidays

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20TH Connolly’s Songbook @ Connolly’s of Leap (8pm, donations) The third in the…

12 last-minute Christmas gifts for music lovers

1. Nialler9’s albums of the year on vinyl Tower Records have two stores in Dublin…

Listen to a charity Christmas album for Pieta House featuring Villagers, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ailbhe Reddy & more

A Co-Present Christmas is a compilation of Christmas songs put together by Dwayne Woods who…

LCD Soundsystem just released a new Christmas song

Well it appears some form of LCD Soundsystem reunion is true. James Murphy got the…

Listen to charity Christmas songs by Lisa Hannigan and The Lost Brothers

Lisa Hannigan has teamed up with An Post to raise funds for the Dublin Simon…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide // Christmas and New Year’s Eve edition

If you’re looking for tickets to sold out gigs try #ticketfairy on Twitter. Ticket freebies…

The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide // Christmas edition

 Highlights:  Le Galaxie,  Action Bronson, State’s Midnight Mass with Skelocrats and more, Hidden Agenda’s Xmas…

Listen to Owensie’s Christmas song for St. Gabriel’s School

Owensie’s second album Citizens (listen here) is definitely in my top five Irish albums of…

The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide (Christmas 2011 edition)

Highlights:  State’s Midnight Mass with Toby Kaar, Kool Thing, Little Xs For Eyes, Bitches With…

Nina Hynes – ‘Christmas Time Is Here’ – A Charlie Brown cover

Sent out to funders of her upcoming Goldmine project, Nina Hynes (with Fabien Leseure) covers…

The Nialler9 weekly gig guide – Christmas and NYE special

A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin.…

Video from Other Voices: Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker & Lisa Hannigan – ‘Silent Night’

From the end of their Other Voices gig (my full review here) a couple of…

“We asked them not to do that but they did it anyway, so buy Joe’s records”

Amazing. Rage against the Machine appeared on BBC Radio 5 live this 9am morning to…

It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop

Merry Christmas blog readers! Thanks for checking in over the course of 2008. Here’s a…

The Vinny Club Christmas Cake

Lord Vinford has graced us with a pretty obnoxious mix of Christmas tunes from himself…

Jape for Christmas number one?

There’s a facebook campaign just set up to help Jape’s superb next single ‘Phil Lynott’…