With more than five decades of wear and tear and grit coating his voice, soul veteran Lee Fields has a greater story than most young chancers — or many of the oldies for that matter. […]
Category: Gig previews
Face To Face with Dublin Bowie Festival 2020
In the four years since David Bowie’s death, tributes have stopped feeling like a wake, and rather a celebration of maybe the greatest pop music icon of them all. As we’re hoovering up pine needles, […]
And So I Watch You From Afar put a lid on their debut album
And So I Watch You From Afar opened their 2009 debut album with a track called Set Guitars To Kill, and then set about doing that over the next 10 years. The Northern act are […]
Dave Clarke: Still kicking the doors in
The Baron of Techno returns to Dublin tonight to knock some shape into your Advent calendar with some DM boot kickdrums. Get all your shopping done before tonight — it’ll be a late one, and […]
Scary Eire: ‘The return of the Celtic Funk Warriors’
With Irish hip-hop going through a commercial and critical golden era, here’s a chance to catch the original OGs for a Christmas party tomorrow night. Scary Eire laid the groundwork 25 years ago, as the […]
The Pharcyde re-upping their Bizarre Ride
The Sugar Club has been hosting hip-hop hall of famers for years, and tomorrow it’s The Pharcyde’s turn. The Compton crew are the latest act to take classic albums on the road, with 1992’s Bizarre […]
Ronnie Spector: ‘The Original Bad Girl of Rock’n’Roll’
The ‘Original Bad Girl of Rock’n’Roll’, Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes are behind some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. The 1963 hit Be My Baby was voted by Billboard as No1 […]
