Well Arthurs Day has come and gone, GP had guys down at The Village and Vicar Street reviewing proceedings so expect those reviews to appear up soon.
I personally was down in Sinnots taking in the joys of Pilotlight, Fight Like Apes and a surprise guest who turned out to be the Manic Street Preachers playing a cutback acoustic type set featuring some new songs from the new album and some classics like ‘A Design For Life’, ‘You Stole The Sun From My Heart’, ‘If you Tolerate This’, ‘Faster’, ‘It’s not war, just the end of love’ and more which elude me at the moment.
Brilliant craic, I’m going to try get a partial video of ‘If You Tolerate This’ up to YouTube but if you have an video’s from around Arthurs Day of huge artists in an intimate venue, link us up and we’ll add them to the article.
Here is where bands made surprise appearances
Imelda May performed a secret lunchtime set in The Old Oak (Cork)
Paolo Nutini performed at Crane Lane (Cork)
David Gray performed at The Róisín Dubh (Galway)
Snow Patrol performed in The Odeon (Dublin)
Brandon Flowers performed in Whelans (Dublin)
The Script performed in Bruxelles (Dublin)
Manic Street Preachers performed in Sinnotts (Dublin)
Cathy Davey performed at The Stags Head (Dublin)
Guinness Webisode with small clips of bands in their Big and Small venues
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np2LuTV67Ow
Tinie Tempah in Fitzsimons
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvWmJeJWZac
Manic Street Preachers at Sinnotts
Faster
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614ANeQi0r4
Design For Life
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o0HrQXbZCA
Westlife – Guinness Store House (Pub Channel Broadcast)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pluX8IMFLA
Brandon Flowers – The Academy (i think)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uphCNGGrreI
Fortune at The Savoy Theatre
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7GHjed2dsg
O Emperor at The Savoy Theatre
Paulo Nutini at Crane Lane, Cork