Gold Panda at The Workmans Club on June 11th 2011 Review: Conor Skinnader Photos: Alan Moore Few artists can say they have a back catalogue as huge as Gold Panda’s while still being relatively unknown. With supposedly one hundred plus unreleased tracks to pick and choose from, not to mention his many remixes, he released Lucky Shiner last year, quickly [...]

Some last minute festival additions to add some spice to the lineup at Strawberry Festival which takes place next weekend, June 24th to 26th in Enniscorthy. Already on the lineup are Ali Campbell, The Coronas, The Saw Doctors, The Rubberbandits, Jedward, Ryan Sheridan and the awesome Smash Hits. Joining them on the linuep will be The Oddsocks Revival, The Fallen [...]

We told you about this a week or two ago at our admiration for the attempt in itself, hell he could have said he was going to just stay awake for 100 hours and I would have been damn impressed. However Dave Browne today all kinds of destroyed the Guinness World Record for the longest guitar playing session in the [...]

Delighted to be able to offer tickets to this one, going to absolutely be a cracking gig down at Vicar Street on Sunday 19th June Nick Cave and his alternative rock act Grinderman will be putting on a show grinding out primeval blues rock. Tickets have been much sought after and we want to send some lucky winners along on [...]

Another great Irish act for you this week in the form of the Digital Socket Award winning and Choice nominated (twice) Cathy Davey. She will be playing at the Bulmers Live on June 30th and admission is normally €15 however we have three pairs of tickets to catch this great show alongside the racing. CRACKING night out. So who wants [...]

I wasn’t a cool teenager. I took my A-levels at one of those intensely conservative UK ‘grammar schools’, a place where late teens are forced to wear a suited uniform that prepares them for their anticipated future as the nation’s politicians, insurance salesman and – heaven forbid – bankers. We lived in a fiercely white, ferociously middle-class corner of rural [...]

Yes massively popular Ellie Goulding who recently playing The Olympia [reviewed here] and scouser indie pop merchants The Wombats will be joining the lineup for Tennents Vital. They will join the event which takes place on August 23rd at Ward Park, Bangor which already had announced Two Door Cinema Club and The Script as it’s headliners for that day. The [...]

Sony’s new man Eoin Glackin is set to follow up his sold out show Upstairs in Whelans by moving the show downstairs for a main room headline show. The debut album ‘Not Lost’ is out now on CD and download from Sony Records and was produced by Ian Grimble. Eoin attribute his move to singer songwriter to fellow songwriter Damien [...]

Aiken Promotions & Gilded ALM are working together to bring over Paul Kelly who will be bringing his A to Z recordings live in Dublin over four nights. The content is presented alphabetically over the course of four nights in Dublin and he’ll be doing the same in London too. The shows will be on Wednesday 7th September,Thursday 8th September, [...]

Ladytron at Tripod on June 11th 2011 Review by Saranne Murray Photos: Alessio Michelini Ladytron returned to Dublin last Saturday to play yet another gig in Tripod. The venue seems to be the bands favourite destination on their Irish visits as every time they come over it’s the only venue they play. While the nights show didn’t sell out, there was still [...]