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This years South by Southwest Festival begins on March 17th in Austin Texas. The festival will see over 1,400 acts play 80 venues over 4 days and as ever there will be Irish representatives among them.
The Irish showcase night is fittingly on March 17th featuring Autumn Owls, The Coronas, Dark Room Notes, Villagers, And So [...]

Villagers — Becoming a Jackal

There is a couple of gigs this week that really ticket our fancy, but to be fair one gig really stood out and i wish i had the money to be at it but unfortunately life is cruel sometimes.
Lynyrd Skynyrd are hitting Dublin for a gig in The O2 for €54.80 / €49.20 and amazing [...]

Only recently we were detailing how www.ru7up4it.ie were giving away tickets to see Ash and Republic of Loose in a Secret Venue in Dublin to be disclosed closer to the time.
Well courtesy of our friends at www.ru7up4it.ie we can now offer the same thing, as we now can send 3 Lucky winners along to the gig with [...]

Gig of the Week this week is kind of a split one, We have one quality up and coming band we like playing Phantom First Friday offering free gigs in Galway, Belfast and Cork and another good cause gig being the Barrestown Inspiration event with David Gray and a host of Irish Talent.
Phantom First Friday [...]

Range of top gigs happening over the coming week.
For us however there is only one gig of the week, 2 top Irish bands playing The Academy this coming Saturday is too good a proposition to see two top Irish acts in one place. Tickets are €20 and if you didnt enter the competition we ran [...]

Dublin band Reader’s Wives will be releasing their second EP internationally on March 15th
Here is the video for the lead track, Victor’s Mother Juliet

There are a hell of alot of lists floating about the moment about what are the best albums of the last decade. We at GP discussed the possibility doing one, but where to start? Base it on album sales, technical merit or what it did for the genre? To truly know what is the best [...]

Hi folks, we here at GP have one eye on next years musical adventures and have been speculating wildly on festival line-ups and tour dates, so we thought we would put together a little preview package for the next year.
Gigs
A quick look at the confirmed gigs for next year, we already have the makings of [...]