It’s a good week for metal fans with another big metal act dropping into Dublin during the summer. Australian metal act Parkway Drive will play a Dublin show as part of their European summer tour. They will headline The Academy, Dublin on Wednesday 19th June 2013. Tickets for the show are €25 inclusive of booking fee and are on sale [...]

Leeds singer songwriter Jon Gomm as announced his first ever Irish tour. Best known for his virtuoso guitar skills, he uses his guitar not only as an instrument of melody creation, but also as a bass, and a drumkit. His own creative and unusual playing style has left audiences throughout many of his tours in awe of the sound the can coax [...]

Our favourite hell raisers, Fight Like Apes are back on the live scene with a selection of dates around Ireland before hitting the UK. We already know they will play The Camden Crawl in Dublin, and that will be the only Dublin date, but Galway, Limerick, Belfast and Cork all get dates. So May 3rd it will be Dolans Warehouse [...]

Limerick rockers Protobaby have today announced a series of gigs and the launch date of their first double A-side single ‘Microchip’ / ‘Nobody Knows’. First things first, The double A-side single will be released on FIFA record on Friday March 1st 2013 and swiftly following will be an accompanying video for each track. To follow that up they will be [...]

The annual FMC tour is back in November with Squarehead, The Lost Brothers and We Cut Corners all co-headlining the tour. Admission to any of the gigs around Ireland is €10 and each venue has a local act opening the show. Tickets for all shows go on sale now on www.entertainment.ie www.fmctour.com and venue websites. Now we have a pair of tickets to the [...]

O Emperor will be embarking on a series of dates around Ireland to support the release of their double A side single. You can listen to the two singles HERE and it is the first new music from the group in over two years. The new sound is to be a departure from their previous efforts. They will be all [...]

DELORENTOS are to be busy gentlemen in December this year. Having already announced a date in Vicar Street on Friday 21st December, the lads will now be taking in dates throughout the month in Limerick, Cork, Galway, Derry, Belfast, Dundalk, Waterford, Killarney and Castlebar. Their current album ‘Little Sparks’ has sent them flying to new levels of popularity, and rightly [...]

Being music fans here at Goldenplec, sometimes we spend our free time going to see bands with absolutely no intention of reviewing but on leaving feel compelled to share our thoughts. This is exactly what happened this weekend when I ventured west to check out Franz Ferdinand in Galway’s famous Róisín Dubh, before heading down to Limerick and Dolan’s Warehouse. [...]

Dublin based six piece The Dying Seconds are on the home stretch to the launch of their album ’Glimmerers‘ which our own reviewer described as ‘ It is a treasure in a pile of obvious successes, an album as fragile as porcelain.‘. The album is available digitally in Ireland on iTunes from Friday 27th January and to mark the event they will be making ‘All In [...]

Indie website Indie Limerick and label Xeric Record have worked for the last few months on a brand new project, a twenty-two track CD for charity. The album consists of pure Limerick based talent, some of the more well known cohorts and a good dollop of young and upcoming bands. The project hopes to raise some much needed cash for [...]