After a brief hiatus, we’re pleased to welcome you back to this week’s The Plec Picks! Incase you’ve never experienced The Plec Picks (listen to older playlists here) or are a little confused about what The Plec Picks are, the GP team jot down what their most listened to songs of the week are and we make a lovely playlist [...]

The strange scent in the air is the first thing you notice arriving in Whelan’s for The Hot Sprockets gig, and not just because it’s April 20th. Sticks of incense burn behind the bar, carnival lights and many instruments are sprawled across the stage and the venue’s tremendous ability to transform to suit whatever act is playing that night is put [...]

LIFE festival 2013 has today confirmed it’s lineup for the West Meath weekend. The festival will take place between May 24th and 26th 2013 in Belvedere House Gardens & Park, Mullingar, Co. WestMeath. Pre-sale tickets for the weekend are starting at €126 inclusive of booking fee and are on sale now in limited capacity. Campervan passes are available at €40 add-on. A [...]

County Wicklow’s own independent music festival, KnockanStockan, are set to release 7 live videos in an ‘unplugged’ series that catalogs some of the acts from last year’s festival. Performances from Twin Headed Wolf, Liz Lawrence, Myles Manley, Markas Carcas & The Hot Sprockets will all be released by KnockatStockan over the next 5 fortnights. Videos from the soloist Sarah Red [...]

The Minutes in Whelan’s on December 7th 2012 Unlikely southern cowboy-rock five-piece The Hot Sprockets might be playing to a modest crowd, but they’re amply flamboyant in opening up the latest in a series of face-melting Whelan’s shows from The Minutes. The five-piece are a band of comic contrast, speaking as they do in hefty Dublin accents before kicking into [...]

The Arthur’s Day 2012 lineup this year is a massive national event. It’s covering the length and breadth of the land with over 500 pubs signed up to participate. So with so much going on, how will you find out where your favourite acts are playing? Or what to expect in your local pub. Perhaps you have multiple locals and [...]

New names added to Arthurs Day today see Mumford and Sons, Primal Scream and Huey and his crew Fun Lovin’ Criminals all joining the headline artists who will be turning up for surprise performances in local pubs all over Ireland. As you know September 27th is Arthursd Day, no tickets are on sale, you have to just pick a pub [...]

The annually loved Dublin City Soul Festival returns for a sixth time this weekend with events taking place from the 24th to the 27th of May. Punters will get to see ten bands perform each day at a Soul Picnic in Merrion Square Park at the event which has attracted over twenty thousand attendees over the past five years. Also [...]

Way back in January (alright it’s only last month, but we want it to be summer already) The Hot Sprockets headed to Freshford for the day and shot a video for one of their singles. They recorded it in a church on the grounds of the Uppercourt Manor, a recently restored house that dates back to the 1200′s. The video [...]

One of our favourite Dublin venues The Grand Social has just released the information on its New Years eve entertainment to ring the year in with some great Irish music. Dubbed ‘A Rocked New Years Eve’ it will see The Hot Sprockets headline with special guests The Stoney Brokes. They will be followed by DJs upstairs in the loft. If [...]