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 →
FANNING’S FAB FIFTY
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 →
THE WEDDING PRESENT LIVE IN LIMERICK, NOVEMBER 28TH, 2016
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 →
TRASHCAN SINATRAS LIVE IN DUBLIN, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2016
Trashcan Sinatras have long operated at their own pace and under their own steam and are clearly reaping the benefits: the band members don’t appear to age and neither, clearly, do their songs. Unlike, on both counts, most of the almost exclusively male crowd that’s loyally and noisily assembled here to see their first Dublin... Continue Reading →
THE MIRRORS AND THE CORNERS
On the not insignificant matter of We Cut Corners and their formidable brand of alchemy, They Do It With Mirrors, a long-lost Limerick band and bit players in the parable of Setanta Records, have had far more influence than you’d imagine. Myself and The Mirrors’ go back through the decades and I remember well when... Continue Reading →
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