Planet Parade Announce Debut Album!

by James Fleming Planet parade are all set to release their debut album Mercury on February 24. But, they’ve graciously shared their new single Zodiac with us which will be available digitally next week. Zodiac features Oisin Murtagh, Paul Kiernan and James Doherty (Booka Brass), Graham Hopkins (The Frames, Glen Hansard), Joe Furlong (James Vincent …

IMRO Live Music Venue Awards!

by James Fleming The ninth IMRO Live Music Venue of the Year Awards will take place in IMRO HQ in Dublin on February 21. The shortlist was announced this morning via the IMRO Building by Victor Finn (IMRO Chief Executive). More than 11,500 IMRO members considered hundreds of venues for the shortlist. Victor Finn said: …

James McArthur New Album and Surprise Shows!

by James Fleming In celebration of the release of James McArthur and The Head Gardeners new album Burnt Moth, Illuminate Productions will be hosting showcases of songs from the album in the UK’s smallest and most intimate music venue! The ‘In Safari, Table For Two’ tours is a series of musical happenings where two fans …

I Have A Tribe New Single and Dublin Show!

by James Fleming I Have A Tribe will play a show in Whelan’s, Dublin on Friday, 3 March, in support of their new single ‘After We Meet’. ‘After we Meet’ is taken from I Have A Tribe’s debut album Beneath A Yellow Moon, released last year. Dubliner Patrick O’Laoghaire composed the music and words but …

Richie Ramone At Monroe’s Live!

by James Fleming Hey Ho Let’s Go! So declared the Ramones on the opening track of their debut album back in 1976. And cretins all across our emerald isle are getting ready for the gig of a lifetime. This Friday, 15 December, Richie Ramone, former sticks-man for the Ramones and author of the classic Somebody …

EP Review: Albis’ ‘Animals’

by James Fleming They called them “dinosaurs.” Roughly that translated to bloated, self-important and detached. It was the mid seventies and things were musically dire. Until then, rock was Yes, ELP and Genesis. Pop was the faux hippie hangover from the sixties that had, in actual fact, died with those poor souls at Altamont, 1969. …

Album Review: New Model Army’s ‘Winter’

by James Fleming 1980 New Model Army take to the stage for the first time. The dregs of punk are still on the airwaves and screens of a Britain betwixt and between. Punk is a fashion statement, a commercialised “alternative.” What Rotten once stood for has vanished in a fast burn of safety pins, mohawks …

RIP Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016

by James Fleming “Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began  to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.” It was 2014, November. Having just gone 18, I entered the psychiatric ward of Roscommon Hospital. Petrified and neurosis addled, I whiled away the days scribbling, smoking and strumming on a …

Pixie Geldof: I’m Yours

by Danielle Holian Pixie Geldof has released her debut album I’m Yours. Geldof debuted her video for her brand new song 'Woman Go Wild' via Stranger Records. The video was directed by Balthazar Klarwein and produced by Semaine. Her brand new single follows previous releases of Sweet Thing, So Strong and Escape Route. “…it’s a country …

Taylor Swift Wrote Little Big Town’s: ‘Better Man’

by Danielle Holian Taylor Swift hasn’t forgotten her roots with her newest song as she wrote bitter break-up track ‘Better Man’ for country group Little Big Town on their latest record The Breaker. The song opens: “I know I’m probably better off on my own / Than loving a man who didn’t know what he had …