Reviews
Wilco - (Wilco - The Album) (Nonesuch)
You've got to hand it to Jeff Tweedy, Wilco's frontman. When this, their
seventh album leaked online about two months ago, Tweedy didn't do what most
other musicians of his stature would and complain bitterly in the media
about how vile the internet is or bring forward the release date of the
album to maximise sales.
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Album Reviews 03/07/09
Friday, 3 July 2009
Patrick Kelleher - You Look Cold (Osaka)
The 24-year-old Wicklow singer has emerged without fanfare with an album bound
to earn a Choice nomination next year.
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Pop/Dance Music 03/07/09
Friday, 3 July 2009
To many, the words ‘mobile disco' conjure up an image of a perma-tanned man in
a Transit van, loaded up with a wood-effect twin-deck unit, flashing traffic
light-effects and a crate of dog-eared 7” singles, on his way to get the
party started with some Shalamar at a hotel wedding reception sometime in
the mid-1980s.
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Folk Music 03/07/09
Friday, 3 July 2009
Fresh from whipping up a frenzy at the Open House, Celtic Connections and
Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, the ‘Hillbilly Hurricane’ that is
rootin’-tootin’ Kansas City four-piece, The Wilders, blasts its way to
Belfast’s Black Box tonight.
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Classical Music 03/07/09
Friday, 3 July 2009
The connection between Ireland and the United States is one which needs little
reference but which deserves celebration — especially on the weekend of
Independence Day.
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No theatrics, just a spotlight and Susan Boyle’s soaring voice
Thursday, 2 July 2009
The lights in the Odyssey dimmed and a voiceover announced “over 19 million
people watched the grand final”, and although the Odyssey holds nowhere near
that capacity, the noise from the crowd would suggest otherwise.
Comments: 20
Magnificent U2 thrills Barcelona at Camp Nou
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
The waiting is over, the circus is rolling, and the verdict is: wow. After
years of planning and months of preparation and practice, U2 got their 360
tour under way in Barcelona last night and stunned a sell-out crowd at Camp Nou
with a spectacular show and a performance that perhaps only they could pull
off — intimate despite the vastness of its setting.
Comments: 12
Jack Penate - Everything is New (XL Recordings)
Friday, 26 June 2009
It is a phenomenon of sorts that has gone widely unnoticed this year, but a
score of British acts — roundly dismissed as landfill indie following
over-hyped and ultimately boring identikit music — have come good with their
second album.
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Album Reviews 26/06/09
Friday, 26 June 2009
God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl (Rough Trade)
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Pop/Dance Music 26/06/09
Friday, 26 June 2009
Newry is set to become the dance music capital of Northern Ireland this
weekend as two of the city's venues prepare to host some of the biggest
names in the beats business.
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Roots/Folk Music 26/06/09
Friday, 26 June 2009
Ahead of totally unmissable concerts by The Eagles at the Odyssey Arena on
Tuesday and Crosby Stills and Nash in Cork on Monday, there are a few other
gigs worth checking out.
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Classical Music 26/06/09
Friday, 26 June 2009
As an operatic June builds towards its finale, Opera Fringe Festival in
Downpatrick offers a unique opportunity to see two rarely performed short
operas in one evening.
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Organiser denies that Oasis Slane gig was marred by chaos
Monday, 22 June 2009
It was a tale of two Slanes. On the one hand, fans were complaining vehemently
yesterday about transport problems — buses in particular — as well as access
to the venue and to the bars.
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Some might say Oasis are still world beaters after Slane gig
Monday, 22 June 2009
Oasis, the one-time kings of Britpop, rolled back the years in front of 80,000
ecstatic fans on the banks of the Boyne.
Comments: 30
Placebo - Battle for the Sun (Pias)
Friday, 19 June 2009
Placebo have made a career out of sounding like intelligent, but listless
teenagers with an attitude problem.
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Album Reviews 19/06/09
Friday, 19 June 2009
Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D (Polydor)
will.i.am has been rethinking the concept of the album. Rather than them being
the final part of a long creative process, the Black Eyed Peas main man
reckons albums could mark the beginning of a new creative take.
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Roots/Folk Music 19/06/09
Friday, 19 June 2009
There will be more than a ‘taste’ of nostalgia at the Black Box this evening
and at Sandinos in Londonderry on Sunday when one of Ireland’s most fondly
remembered rock/blues bands, Taste — founded by the legendary guitar icon
Rory Gallagher — makes a comeback to mark the 40th anniversary of the
release of its first studio album.
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Classical Music 19/06/09
Friday, 19 June 2009
In an increasingly secular world, organised religion can no longer be taken
for granted, especially with the unwelcome schisms and revelations affecting
some Christian churches at the moment.
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Pop/Dance 19/06/09
Friday, 19 June 2009
The Smalltown America record label has certainly done its bit for bringing
quite a few Irish bands to the attention of a much wider audience, with the
likes of And So I Watch You From Afar, Lafaro and Fighting With Wire amongst
its recent signings.
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Little Boots - Hands (679/Atlantic)
Friday, 12 June 2009
Here it is, finally — the most hyped debut album of the year. Blackpool native
Victoria Hesketh topped the BBC's ‘Sound Of' poll for 2009, an increasingly
prophetic barometer of new music destined to make it to the big time.
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Album Reviews 12/06/09
Friday, 12 June 2009
Dirty Projectors - Bitte orca (Domino)
The boy-girl art-rock experimentalists from Brooklyn have delivered an album
that requires perseverance on the listener's part: there's nothing
accessible about these nine tracks, but with time their slow-burning
qualities should shine through.
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.U2 Album Poll
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
| No Line On The Horizon |
 2% |
| How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb |
 3% |
| All That You Can't Leave Behind |
5% |
| Pop |
1% |
| Zooropa |
2% |
| Achtung Baby |
19% |
| Rattle and Hum |
8% |
| The Joshua Tree |
49% |
| The Unforgettable Fire |
5% |
| Under a Blood Red Sky |
6% |
