'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcNnIV6FV8 A friend of my father’s blagged me in through a side door to see Depeche Mode at The City Hall in Cork in October, 1982 but, on the drive home afterwards, all I could really remember was the aggressive support set from a shambling local band called Microdisney, who were jeered and baited throughout.... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWKWD9jDZNU The announcements in early January that U2 were parking the release of an intended album and were instead loading their bases to tour ‘The Joshua Tree’ on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of it’s issue, won’t have taken regular watchers of the veteran band by surprise. ‘Songs Of Experience’ had initially been touted... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgKC3dAJueU While The Blades pre-date the wild record company feeding frenzies on Dublin’s trading floors from the mid-1980s onwards, they too came pre-packed with the familiar, set-piece blessings from the usual sources, in this instance RTÉ television and radio and Hot Press magazine, both of which had pushed them on from early. And while its... Continue Reading →
Whenever I hear Dave Fanning on the radio these days, he’s either live on the weightier end of the RTÉ Radio One schedule paying respects on the nation’s behalf to the latest dead rock and roll superstar or else he’s presenting his own programme on 2FM and making like he’s always done: a fish out... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/otZ8Bq7lXag Almost thirty years after the release of their first album, ‘George Best’, and The Wedding Present are still perpetually on the verge of a tuning crisis. And while there have been several iterations of the group since, that point where noisy guitars, snarled vocals and electronic tuners collide has seldom sounded as unstable... Continue Reading →
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