The Futureheads drop into Whelans at the start of September for a show supporting their a capella album, ‘Rant’. They play here on September 7th 2012 and tickets are €15 available from Ticketmaster.ie As always we have managed to procure a pair of tickets to this show and we want to give them to you. To enter all you have [...]

Young Montana? is in town this weekend for a headline show at Twisted Pepper. There will be support on the night that hasn’t been confirmed just yet but the gig is Saturday 4th August, doors at 8pm and admission is €10 / €8 We have a pair of tickets to the show kept aside for just one of our readers, and [...]

MaskedMan (or Dermot Barrett, formerly of Ten Speed Racer) has a brand new video to share with you. The video is a half comic, half cartoon tale of two heroes from an alien race seeking universal harmony. Earth of course is the last place to be harmonised. They arrive only to find their agent has gone rogue and the story [...]

The next incarnation of Jogging is almost upon us and their new album ‘Take Courage’ has a release date and a show to launch it. The album and gig will be on Saturday 25th August 2012. Support on the night will come from Elk and Guilty Optics and doors will be at 8pm. Tickets for the show are priced at €10 for [...]

Citizens! are an indie pop acts from London, produced by Alex Kapranos. Their mission is to reclaim pop music and add soul and integrity to it, which might be a job for more than one band. However they will be over in Dublin to play The Academy on November 12th 2012. Tickets for the show are priced at €12.25 inclusive [...]

This weekend see’s two of Ireland’s best small festivals, Castlepalooza and Indiependence, go head to head for the title of Gig of the Week.  It’s being a tough decision, almost decided by a coin toss! However Feeder finally swung it for camp Mitchelstown, giving Indiependence the illustrious title of this weeks Gig of the Week. Joining Feeder on the bill [...]

The yearly Bacardi pilgrimage to Stradbally continues with the announcement toward of the Casa Bacardí arena lineup. As always with the Bacardí arena you will get an big mix of DJ’s over the course of three days and of course Bacardí cocktails to keep the fun buzz rolling as BACARDÍ looks to mark its 150 year celebrations in true Latin [...]

Sunflowerfest 2012 will be upon us very soon and event organisers are seeking volunteers to work at this year’s event. The concept is to volunteer and you get experience of working at a festival for your CV and a free weekend ticket. You also get food vouchers and can check out the rest of the festival when your shift finishes. [...]

We love Two Door Cinema Club, god bless their indie-pop hearts. We have high hopes for the new album ‘Beacon’, and as a website who loves music we would ask you to follow Alex Trimbles recent blog post and wait till the album is out, and buy it. It recently leaked and the band have been doing damage limitation for [...]

Fresh from Knockanstockan, The Amazing Few, grand masters of Psycho-POP are playing Kilkenny’s newest music venue, Billy Byrnes this weekend. Notorious for their high-energy shows, mixing peppy pop with punkish quirk, the 12 piece band are bringing their first ever ‘SUPER SHOW’ to the marble city this Friday (Aug 3rd) for some bank holiday madness! The band’s wildly different, excitable [...]