Gigs & Festivals

Mantua: Binocular Soccer

What we all woke up to on Sunday morning…

Hard Working Class Heroes line-up

The line-up for HWCH every year allows me to quickly take stock on the Irish…

Oxegen & Rage Against the Machine

A couple of years ago, I promised myself I wouldn’t return to Oxegen after a…

Two things to do today

Image from Shellshock Rock designed to blind you for the weekend. Darklight is on right…

Look. At. The. Fucking. Moon.

As the Future Days draws to a close, I wonder how successful it was for…

Primavera Roundup

Just to recap on it all. Photo gallery above. Updates for State [plug] Issue 04…

Primavera Twitter Digest 31st May

Times New Viking just woke me up with their scuzzy shout rock. In the auditori…

Primavera Twitter Digest 30th May

In the massive auditori waiting for glen and marketa to start. This place is huge.…

Primavera Twitter Digest 29th May

I decided to twitter primavera updates to my blog cos I can. Keep an eye…

Mantua Additions: Múm, Daedelus, Poet of Rhythm & more

The Mantua Festival has announced some more headline additions to the three day event taking…

Mantua Festival initial line-up announced

The first line-up for Mantua Festival in Roscommon is out of the bag, and it’s…

Likely Electric Picnic Line-up

2017’s lineup is here. Update: Deleted rumoured line-up to save confusion. Deep breath… Sex Pistols,…

Feeling depressed about South by South West…

But it’s OK because we’ve got daily updates from the State team! Day One –…

SXSW – I wish I was there…

But alas not to be. Maybe next year? No, definitely next year. I was looking…

Benga at the Shibeen Bass Festival

The Shibeen Bass Festival is taking place in Rush, North Co. Dublin on the Saturday…

Boxcutter Dublin Gig and Live Sessions

I’ve been getting excited about this as it will be the first time I catch…

Sugarlips festival

Just a heads up on a festival happening in Bray this Friday and Saturday. There…

HWCH in photos

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Hard Working Class Heroes review

nialler9 contributor and SEBP member Mike giving it air-tennis socks at HWCH on Friday night.…

Take me back to the Picnic maaan..

(To be sung to the tune of “North American Scum”) I think that was the…