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Rakim @ The Button Factory
Rakim @ The Button Factory Fri 6th May 2011 I was quite miffed at my current predicament; having a spare FREE ticket to see one of the pioneers of Hip-Hop and being completely unable to shift it. Eventually I relented and arrived a lonely figure for Rakim at the Button Factory. Once of the hip-hop [...]
Review: Funeral Suits @ Academy 2
Funeral Suits @ Academy 2 Fri 29th April The sun had disappeared for the first time in four days which ironically was also the first time I had stepped outside to enjoy it based on a stupidly busy week. And to top it all off, I had a bandaged ankle from a sporting injury which [...]
Top Five Opening Tracks
The crew here at GP Towers held a heated discussion on what the best opening track to an album is in preparation for our 2XM show, going out this Tuesday. To give you a taste of what is to come we present our top 5 opening tracks for your enjoyment. We toss up a few [...]
Review: Josh Ritter and The Royal City band at Vicar St.
With two more beautifully written songs in ‘Monster Ballads’ and ‘Another New World’, Josh shows once again his ability to captivate a crowd with the rich imagery he creates. A cover of ‘Pale Blue Eyes’ by The Velvet Underground, but you could mistake it for yet another song from Ritter’s back catalog, wonderfully delivered with the rest of the band providing a vocal accompaniment.
Review: Taylor Swift @ The O2
Review: Taylor Swift @ The O2 – March 27th 2011 Review: Ros Madigan (twitter.com/rosmad) Fan Photos: Abraham Tarrush Tonight was to be another step outside my comfort zone as I attended a concert I would generally not go to. While Miss.Swift ticks a lot of boxes for the adolescent girls of this small nation, she [...]
TGIF (Rebecca Black top 5 covers)
Well it’s been the storming topic on Twitter and Facebook and it has inspired literally hundreds of covers. Rebecca Black and ARK music productions have gotten themselves viral whether they like it or not for all the wrong reasons but the amazing thing about the internet is that things like the below happen. There are [...]
Review: KT Tunstall at The Olympia
Review of KT Tunstall at The Olympia Theatre on 7th February 2011 Review by Ros Madigan Photos by Abraham Tarrush KT Tunstall was back to grace our shores to kick-start her tour for her new album ‘Tiger Soul’. Her show on this occasion saw her end her short stint in Ireland after playing Galway and [...]
Breaking up is hard to do: Top 5 Band Breakups
It being Valentines/Hate day and with the news of The White Stripes going their separate ways still fresh in our minds, we have decided to pick our top five band break ups for all the rejected singletons out there to rejoice in, and hey you were too good for them anyway, am I right? This may [...]
2011: Most Anticipated Albums
Over 240 Irish album releases in 2010, we were spoilt for choice, will there be as many this year, we can only hope so but even if there’s not as many there still should be a vast amount of quality to look forward to in 2011. There are a couple of Irish only releases that [...]
REVIEW: Heathers @ Whelans
Review: Joey Kavangh Photos: Abraham Tarrush For many, 2010 is a year that they will remember for freak weather conditions, economic hardship and the havoc wreaked by Eyjafjallajokull. For young Blackrock sisters Ellie and Louise MacNamara, 2010 will likely be a year they, ahem, remember when their career took a quantum leap. Although their 2008 [...]
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