Pictures: The Space Lady @ the Triskel, 12/04/14
Susan Dietrich Schneider – the Space Lady – was in Cork on Saturday night, April 12, to put on an utterly unique show at the TDC in the Triskel. If you haven’t heard of her, the Quietus has an...
View ArticlePictures: RSD/We Play Here weekender @ The Triskel
There were a plethora of good bands and acts playing around the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork City over the weekend, APril 19 and 20, in a joint celebration of Record Store Day and our launch of We Play...
View ArticleIntroducing: Hags, a pop-punk band from Cork
The first line I could comprehend on the three minutes and 20 seconds of the storming ‘Leave’ was “out of bed again”. Combined with the press photos , it’s hard not to think of new Cork four-piece Hags...
View ArticleIntroducing: Slackers Symphony, Shins-style pop music from Dublin
A five piece from Dublin, Slackers Symphony, despite the name, provide the perfect antidote to the mid-afternoon slump. Their two-track debut EP is a shot to the system, with the romp-a-stomp ‘Episode...
View ArticleReid –‘Singapore’
We got our first taster of Reid‘s forthcoming EP Fractures earlier this month, and now we have another track. Over a lilting piano line, the Cork producer provides a late-night tale on ‘Singapore’,...
View ArticlePictures: The Hard Ground and Marc O’Reilly @ the Oliver Plunkett, 9/10/14
Pictures by Bríd O’Donovan I’d heard good things about Marc O’Reilly‘s live show and he didn’t disappoint upstairs at the Oliver Plunkett last Thursday, October 9. Presented by Coughlan’s Live, a venue...
View ArticleMKAI –‘Waiting’ (video)
Cork-based two-piece MKAI are named after their family’s special word for music, and release their debut EP Waiting early next month. But to tide you over until then they’ve just unveiled the title...
View ArticleDamsel –‘A Signal Sent’
Fans of Cork band the Careers will be in familiar territory with ‘A Signal Sent’, the first track from Damsel. It’s the work of erstwhile Careers frontman Luke O’Neill (ably assisted in the live show...
View ArticleListen to TPOE 15: Creativity, Smashing Pumpkins and Bob Dylan
On the latest The Point of Everything podcast, I chat with Cork-based filmmaker, playwright, creative person and We Play Here collaborator Emmet O’Brien about the creative process, having read this...
View ArticleTPOE 16: Cuttin’ Heads Collective
On the latest episode of The Point Of Everything podcast, I sat down with three members of the newly formed Cuttin’ Heads Collective – Justin O’Donnel, Caimin Walsh, and Ross Herlihy – to talk about...
View ArticleListen to TPOE 25: Altered Hours
Altered Hours‘ debut album, In Heat Not Sorry, is out now on Penske/Art for Blind. Ahead of its release I got to chat to three-fifths of the Cork-based band, co-vocalists Cathal and Elaine, and...
View ArticleFreezer Room –‘I’m Not Waiting’ (Feat Joe O’Leary)
Well this is just the nicest song and a great surprise. It’s so good to hear former Fred frontman Joe O’Leary singing again – it takes me back, man! He’s leant his vocal tones to ‘I’m Not Waiting’,...
View ArticleTr One –‘Lights In Your Rear View Mirror’
Dean Feeney and Eddie Reynolds aka Tr One are back with a massive new tune. ‘Lights in your Rear View Mirror’ starts off like it’s 3am and you’re never coming down. Seven and a half minutes long, it...
View ArticleListen to the debut single from new Cork act The Grey Merchant –‘Spotless...
The Grey Merchant is a new project from Neon Atlas bassist Enda O’Flaherty and a collection of friends and fellow musicians. He says: “Recorded with friends in kitchens and abandoned buildings, mixing...
View ArticlePictures: Rusangano Family @ The Kino, 9/12/16
Rusangano Family ripped it up at the Kino on Friday night, opening Southern Hospitality Board‘s Sudden Club Weekender. Anybody in doubt that they’re the most exciting live band in the country is surely...
View ArticlePictures: Altered Hours @ The Kino, 10/12/16
Well that was pretty good, wasn’t it!? Altered Hours launched their debut album In Heat Not Sorry at the Kino in January, promoted by Southern Hospitality Board, and returned to the venue at the end of...
View ArticleTPOE’s 17 Irish acts to watch in 2017
In no particular order, here are some of the acts I’m looking forward to hearing a lot more from in the next 12 months. Some are already established artists while some are just starting out and haven’t...
View ArticleMilky Teeth –‘Sleepiness and Weary Wit’
Milky Teeth sees Robbie Barron, guitarist in the Cork-based bands Shaker Hymn and John Blek and the Rats, take centre stage for the first time. ‘Sleepiness and Weary Wit’, his debut single, sees him...
View ArticleShookrah –‘Gerascophobia’
Cork band Shookrah have been around for a couple of years now, releasing a fine debut EP in 2014. They also possess, in Senita Appiakorang, one of the finest vocalists in the country (check out her...
View ArticleMarlene Enright: ‘Songwriting is like a therapy session with yourself’
Marlene Enright released her debut solo album, Placemats and Second Cuts, at the end of March and I chatted to her about it for The Point of Everything podcast. You can listen to the interview below,...
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