Irish Acts at SXSW 2010
This years South by Southwest Festival begins on March 17th in Austin Texas. The festival will see over 1,400 acts play 80 venues over 4 days and as ever there will be Irish representatives among them.
The Irish showcase night is fittingly on March 17th featuring Autumn Owls, The Coronas, Dark Room Notes, Villagers, And So [...]
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #V
We are now on the home straight of our A-Z of songs about lovely ladies.
V is for Valerie. Probably the most recongnised song about a girl is modern times. The problem is a lot of people think Amy Winehouse wrote is when not only did the Zutons release it a good two years earlier, in [...]
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #U
We are now on the home straight of our A-Z of songs about lovely ladies
U is for Ursa. Yes, Ursa. Got a problem with that? well the song is by At the Drive In, does that help?
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #T
We are now on the home straight of our A-Z of songs about lovely ladies.
T is for Tina. Actually it is for Tina Toledo, Double score! this Ryan Adam’s track was head and shoulders above the other T’s we could find
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #S
We are over half way through our A-Z of songs with girls names in the title, we are putting together something special for the last post in the series so stay tuned to GP!
S is for Stella. Its nice to come to a letter that gives you options, and we’ve turned down Sarah, Samanatha and [...]
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #R
We are over half way through our A-Z of songs with girls names in the title, we are putting together something special for the last post in the series so stay tuned to GP!
R is for Rita. I have to say, we’ve managed to keep the number of Beatles tracks on this list down considering [...]
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #Q
We are over half way through our A-Z of songs with girls names in the title, we are putting together something special for the last post in the series so stay tuned to GP!
Q is for Q,Susie. There was some letter I was not looking forward to, this was one of them. I was going [...]
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #P
We are over half way through our A-Z of songs with girls names in the title, we are putting together something special for the last post in the series so stay tuned to GP!
P is for Polly. As you may have noticed at this stage, we havn’t quite kept to one genre through this list, [...]
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #O
We are over half way through our A-Z of songs with girls names in the title, we are putting together something special for the last post in the series so stay tuned to GP!
O is Ophelia. I won’t lie, O was a tough one, but thankfully The Band made it easy with this jazzy number.
Musical A-Z: I bet you think this song is about you #N
We are over half way through our A-Z of songs with girls names in the title, we are putting together something special for the last post in the series so stay tuned to GP!
N is for Natalie. It appears that The Killers are of the opinion this is Natalie’s last chance to bag her a [...]




There is a couple of gigs this week that really ticket our fancy, but to be fair one gig really stood out and i wish i had the money to be at it but unfortunately life is cruel sometimes.
Lynyrd Skynyrd are hitting Dublin for a gig in The O2 for €54.80 / €49.20 and amazing [...]