MCD’s yearly Platform V competition which has in previous years provided winners such as Miracle Bell , Kill City Defectors and Seven Days has concluded this year with Awake Young Soldiers and Funzo who with both play the 2FM / Hotpress Academy Stage at Oxegen 2010. Platform V is an initiative to get top bands in Kildare to play the festival and showcase [...]

Harmonic takes place in Cork on Friday June 25th. It features some of the best bands around at the minute including Grizzly Bear, Midlake, Camera Obscura and Villagers. We have the stage times so you can plan your trip and not miss your favourite ones. They are as follows RUNNING TIMES: GRIZZLY BEAR: 10.45 -12.00am MIDLAKE: 9.00 – 10.15pm CAMERA [...]

Temple Bar Cultural Trust present a night of top music with some top Irish music including Jimmy Cake, Patrick Kelleher and Skinny Wolves (DJ’s) in the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios. The gig will be held on the 10th of July as part of Temple Bar Cultural trusts Summer Sensational events. Tickets will be €15, Call 01 6710073 to pre [...]

This Friday 25th June marks the first anniversary of Michael Jackson’s passing (yeah its been 1 year since that. holy crap) and Propaganda are filled with cheesey one liners like  ”so we WANNA BE STARTING SOMETHING for him” So Saturday in Propaganda will be a general celebration of the King of Pop’s life, his music and his dance moves. They [...]

Easy Star All Stars have announced a Dublin show near the end of October in The Academy. They will be playing here on Saturday October 23rd and Tickets will be priced at 22 including booking fee, on sale Friday at 9am. Easy All Stars are a mix of Reggaie, Dubstep, Classic Rock and Indie Rock all into one and they [...]

Oxegen have teams up with 2Wheels.ie to offer a way to travel to Oxegen in the greenest possible manner, help out a charity and get festival fit. Obviously earlier in the week we heard about the Electric Picnic one, which is raise 500, cycle to Stradbally and get a free ticket. This one is a little less intensive fund raising [...]

We always love when anything Irish comes first in anything, so no harm in being quite delighted that The Plea have topped the Myspace Indie top 100 for the second week in a row. Their track “Nothin’ But Trouble has been quite popular and is featured on the current 2FM TV, Tradio and Cinema advertising campaign. The Plea will release [...]

Review By : Joey Kavanagh Photo’s By : Alessio Michelini Six years ago, unashamedly camp New York pop outfit Scissor Sisters rocketed to the upper reaches of the charts with their singular cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Comfortably Numb’. The track certainly had novelty appeal but Scissor Sisters were no one-hit-wonder and, a clutch of radio-friendly pop hits later, their eponymous [...]

Romeo is the new single by The Looks who are a Four piece Dublin band mixing electro beats with driving indie punk and this track is actually a pretty good tune having given it a few spins. This is the video they have done for the single. It’s a pretty cool video to go with the single. Definitely take a look. [...]

As the yearly pilgrimage to Pilton begins in earnest today we thought it might be a handy little guide for those heading over the Glastonbury 2010 to do up a little guide on the Irish acts playing at Glastonbury this year and where you can find them. It’s just a quick rundown so if you want to support the Irish [...]