I‘m getting into the zone preparing to interview Don Letts – cult and cultural icon, DJ, film director, writer, Big Audio Dynamitee and the UK’s most eminent reggae and dub historian of the last 40 […]
Stick this in your fuse box! Bon Scott interviewed in Covent Garden in a pair of denim hotpants (1976)
Imagine being the parents of a teenage Angus Young – then imagine he started hanging out with Bon Scott. By the time Angus was 15, he’d already dropped out of school in Sydney, started working […]
Moon Diagrams’ Lifetime of Love is thrift store gold
If you tried to make an album from samples nicked off Dublin charity records, you’d end up with some mouldy purgatory soundtracked by James Last, Leo Sayer, Harry Secombe and the RTE broadcast of the […]
It’s just all a game, I hope: Karel Fialka – Hey Matthew (1987)
In 1987, my Ma bought me the double cassette of Now That’s What I call Music Vol 10 as a Christmas present. I had my favourites – M/A/A/R/S, Billy Idol, ABC, Pet Shop Boys, Jan […]
Body & Soul mightn’t be ready for Sleaford Mods just yet
After a week full of sunshine and a hysterical reaction to the heat, it looks like the luck could be running out on Body & Soul, with rain forecast for this weekend. Pitching a music […]
Irish gigs of the week: June 23-29
SHOW ME THE BODY, Whelan’s, Dublin, tomorrow, €14 New York trio Show Me the Body are barely out of school but they’re already trading in some of the nastiest punk and noise-rock, with some primal hardcore […]
Irish gigs of the week: June 16-22
Ho99o9, The Workmans Club, Dublin, Monday Pronounced ‘Horror’, rap duo Ho99o9 are one of the most confrontational hip-hop acts in years, while still being relatively easy to digest. Equal parts horrorcore rap, hardcore punk and industrial, New […]
