Irish Music

Super Extra Bonus Party – Night Horses

SEBP’s second album Night Horses will be released in May (the 1st I think) and…

MASH – This Sunday

On behalf of State, i’m curating a part of MASH on Sunday in the Twisted…

Video: Valerie Francis – Punches

Another gorgeous production from director Eoghan Kidney who has to be the best Irish music…

My 50 best Irish music acts right now

I took my cue from the list published in The Irish Times today. While that…

Video: SEBP feat. Captain Moonlight – Tea With Lord Haw Haw (on The Cafe)

While I was away, Super Extra Bonus Party performed ‘Tea with Lord Haw Haw’, a…

New Nialler9 podcast… from Aoife Mc

Hello folks. This is Aoife here, voice of the Nialler9 podcasts. I’m writing to announce…

Video: Cashier no. 9 – When Jackie Shone

I went down to Whelan’s a couple of weekends ago to catch the Nordie double…

Dark Room Notes – Let’s Light Fires

Having been impressed with the quality of the first two releases from Dark Room Notes…

OMG! Jape wins Choice Music Prize

Jape with his Choice music Prize trophy by Loreana Rushe. A deserved winner in Jape…

Freedom of Choice

So tonight I’ll on the panel for the Choice Music Prize – Irish album of…

Dry County return as Alias Empire

You probably know by now that Dry County have changed their name to Alias Empire…

Pluggy McPluggerson

This week’s Day and Night section examines The Pirate Bay case in Sweden, Videos from…

Flight of the (rubber)bandits

If you’ve been watching the (frankly going downhill rapid) second series of Flight of the…

Giveaway: Bats, Jenny & The Deadites, Wounds, Squarehead – this Sat

More Richter Collective tickets to giveaway this week, this time for Bats last show before…

Bonus Party to return with Night Horses

So the followup to the Super Extra Bonus Party debut album looks imminent for May,…

Unknown Pleasures #6

In an effort to shine a light on the unknown artists and songs that pass…

Unconvention Belfast

Everyone in Belfast says Wee. Fact. I spent the weekend up there for Unconvention talking…

Video: The Ambience Affair – Vacant Hearts

Isn’t weird now that there are practically no outlets for Irish music videos, 2009 has…

Video: Villagers – The Meaning of the Ritual

Conor O’ Brien made this video himself. Plenty of more Villagers love on this blog.…

Lines Drawing Circles – Thebes

Video for the song I featured a while back. Lines Drawing Circles are playing Crawdaddy…