When you are driving from Cork city heading for West Cork, there is a road sign that says simply ‘The West’. It doesn’t give any clues to towns or villages on the way; that is on a need to know […]
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Ah Voodoo. It’s one of those Belfast venues where, if a lady pushes past, it has the effect that your upper body knocks sharply sideways into your neighbour’s pint, while your boots remain stuck hard to the floor, pointing front. […]
“I know a boy who/Stays in his bed/Says he’d much rather/The life in his head” were the first lines of “Come Away From The Silence”, off the upcoming album by August Wells. It was breaking through the chat in a […]
“Well-l-l-l …” Patty Griffin commenced proceedings, followed tightly by the signature rockabilly downward curve guitar rumble of “Move Up” from her 2010 album Downtown Church. “I’m going to go on home to Jesus over in glory land” she belted out, as […]
As a very small girl, Kimmie Rhodes was taught to sing by her dad, which sounds like a normal, sweet interaction between a father and a daughter doesn’t it? For Kimmie, it was different. Her father had been orphaned during […]
‘The Songwriting Circle tour’ consisted of songwriters James Yorkston, Withered Hand (aka Dan Willson) and Pictish Trail (aka Johnny Lynch). All veterans of the Fife based Fence Collective, founded by Kenny Anderson (King creosote), they carry a noble pedigree of […]
… Well, if the truth be told it was the man in front of me who stood on my toe (for which he apologised). But, it could have been Sturgill. The Real Music Club had brought him to the Limelight […]
It was a cold Belfast Sunday afternoon at Cathedral Quarter’s Out to Lunch Festival. The fare was two-course. There was Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer Emily Barker, who’s now based in London. Barker has written award-winning music for TV and […]
Au Pair is the friendship-based, and well fitted musical pairing of the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris, and Django Haskins of the Old Ceremony. The duo met in 2013 at a Big Star tribute concert – Big Star’s Third –celebrating Big Star’s […]
Have you ever breathed in cold air and it has hurt? It’s a surprise how much it hurts, but you carry on anyway, because hey, life happens. Cardboard Boat, the latest album by David Berkeley, struck me like that. It wasn’t […]
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