It’s the kind of drunken idea that rarely gets past the wtf checking your texts hangover stage — but Elvana really are a band of Geordies who play Nirvana covers — with an Elvis impersonator […]
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Interview: Author Nick Soulsby on his oral history of Swans – Sacrifice and Transcendence
For a band that inspires so much devotion and cult hyperbole, a book about Swans was always set to be a colossal task. Since the early 80s, the name Swans has been used as a […]
Irish gigs round-up
EARS OPEN, A4 Sounds, Dublin (Day); Jigsaw, Dublin (Night), tomorrow, (€10 day ticket or €15 for day and night) “Performing, talking, workshopping and dancing, day into night across two venues in Dublin 1” is what it […]
Irish gigs round-up
King Krule, The Academy, Dublin, Wednesday. The title of King Krule’s latest album The Ooz could double as a one-word sum-up of the album as a whole — a slithering, nocturnal, nervy journey inside Londoner […]
Call me Ishmael: Interview with Palaceer Lazaro of Shabazz Palaces
THE last time Shabazz Palaces played Ireland they had to come on in the sunshine to 50-odd rollover Sunday heads in a free-for-all conga to Paul Simon’s You Can Call Me Al during the stage […]
