COMET RECORDS, CORK

This is our first guest post - courtesy of Jim O Mahony - a wonderful reminder of a real Cork city institution... I hope you all enjoy reading it and remembering as as much as we did... Thanks Jim... Hard to know where to begin really. In an era where people now cherish the memory of... Continue Reading →

THE SMITHS AND MY MOTHER

I was born, luckily, to a mother who adored music. I remember many occasions during my childhood when she’d power up her old record player – and it was very definitely her record player - and stack it with a variety of old 7 inch singles and all manner of albums. It was my mother... Continue Reading →

REVELINO: BROADCASTER

  This review first appeared in The Sunday Tribune October 1996     Revelino  ‘Broadcaster’ (Dirt Records) *** Revelino’s ‘Broadcaster’, their second album, is typically stuffed with guitar pout and circular harmonies which, given the obvious confines of time and space and budget is to their credit. So too their laid-back grasp of pop’s key... Continue Reading →

THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH :- ‘BLUE IS THE COLOUR’ [Sunday Tribune review, October, 1996]

This review first appeared in The Sunday Tribune October 1996 The Beautiful South - Blue is the Colour (Go Discs) **** With their fifth studio album, The Beautiful South will win no new converts but will hardly over-offend sceptics either with a familiar pot of dead good pop songs fuelled by too much beer and... Continue Reading →

TRASHCAN SINATRAS: SONGS FOR SWINGING LOVERS

Trashcan Sinatras have long been one of my favourite bands and I’ve spent years giving them the shift of death in print, on television and on radio. We got behind them royally during my time on No Disco, where tracks like ‘Hayfever’, ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ and especially ‘The Genius I Was’ appeared as regularly as... Continue Reading →

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