Dublin native Leanne Harte has been on the go since 15 when she made her first live appearance at Vicar Street. Talk about a debut! Since then she’s had nationwide tours, television appearances, radioplay and of course, a heap of critical acclaim. Not one to rest on her laurels Leanne Harte has a new 5-track EP in the works with [...]

On Good Friday as the GoldenPlec Road Team drove from Dublin to Galway, we had another team with an access all areas pass (almost) to the prestigious National Concert Hall. The incredibly accommodating staff gave us the freedom to film in every conceivable location while they were running their own concert in the main auditorium. We took full advantage of [...]

After  a late night editing, the Dublin team dug in deep, took their weary bones out of bed, questioned the logic of for some building a helmet out of Johnston Mooney and O’Brien bread. The strains of all the hard work was setting in, but a few hours sleep and the guys were back at it. With a full gig [...]

Patrick Wolf Photo Gallery Photos: Aisling Finn

  Villagers at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin – 21/03/13 Two albums into their critically (and somewhat commercially) acclaimed career, Conor O’Brien and his band of Villagers make a welcome return to Dublin for the first of two sold-out shows in the Olympia Theatre. The last time this reviewer witnessed Villagers live, they were supporting Elbow in Belfast. That was two [...]

The Script are clearly a band with lofty aspirations. For a start there’s the fact that tonight is the second of their three night stint in Dublin’s largest indoor venue; selling a staggering 42,000 tickets in total. Also let’s not forget the fact that they have also topped the Irish album chart with each of their three albums; so a [...]

  Local Natives at Whelan’s, Dublin on 11th February, 2013 It’s on a wet, dreary Monday evening that Silver Lake’s finest, Local Natives, play to a sold out Whelans. To say tickets to this show were scarce would be an understatement . Cries for it to be moved to a larger venue were ignored, and with good reason as the band would [...]

Northern Ireland singer songwriter Chris Keys has just released a video for his latest single Broken World. The single will be officially launched at the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival on February 21st. Shortly after he’ll be supporting none other than the Grammy winning Nanci Griffith at a second Belfast Nashville concert on February 24th. Looking a little further into the [...]

Hot off the release of their excellent second album ‘Arc’ (full review here), we sent David Dooley to have a chat with Alex from Everything Everything about everything from hating guitar chords, to the recent demise of HMV. First of all, congratulations on the new album. It’s a concise piece of work that builds on everything ‘Man Alive’ was, which [...]

Ahead of his solo show in the Academy this Sunday (20th January 2013), Interpol’s Paul Banks gave David Dooley a whistle-stop interview to chat about how he approaches his solo gigs, why he loves sampling and even some handy advice for new bands. The last time you played in Ireland you were headlining the first night of the Electric Picnic [...]