Gig Reviews and Album Reviews

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It’s nearly twenty years since Eleanor McEvoy was launched into our consciousness with ‘A Woman’s Heart’. McEvoy though, even then, always seemed more relevant than many [...]

Yes Cadets in Crawdaddy – August 28th 2010 Review by Kevin Donnellan Photos by Alessio Michelini Yes Cadets played a straightforward set in Crawdaddy on Saturday [...]

I hate Cork. I hate the way Cork people say ‘boy’. I hate the way they refer to Cork City (surely the worst of Ireland’s cities) [...]

Review by Vanessa Monaghan Photos by Alessio Michelini When you think of Irish bands who played Glastonbury this year, Shouting At Planes may not be at [...]

Duncan Maitland’s sophomore album ”Lullabies for the 21st Century” is a classy collection of modern psychedelia an antidote for the modern bombast of life echoing simpler innocent times. Beatles [...]

Review by Vanessa Monaghan Photos by Abraham Tarrush The last all ages event I was at was my secondary school disco and I only got to [...]

Mark Lanegan at The Academy – August 25th Review by : Aidan McCooey Photos by Alessio Michelini This was the second time in 4 months that [...]

To say writing this review was possibly as hard as writing that difficult second album for the band, I guess I can relate to the process [...]

Limp Bizkit – Olympia, Dublin Review by: James Hendicott If music’s a popularity contest (and sometimes, when we turn on the television, we feel like it [...]

Beirut at Tripod, Dublin August 24th 2010 Review by: Tadgh O’Connor Starting off in a bedroom, as the modest solo project of front man Zach, Beirut [...]