May 23, 2013

News: Sorcha Richardson Announces Workman’s Club Show

Picture courtesy of Aisling Finn (AislingFinn.com)

Picture courtesy of Aisling Finn (AislingFinn.com)

The wonderful  Sorcha Richardson has announced a return to Dublin for only the second time this year. The New York based Irish singer-songwriter will play The Workman’s Club in Dublin on Saturday June 15th.

Her debut EP Sleep Will Set Me Free was well received in all corners of the media here in Ireland and the 22 year old has been making serious inroads in New York and also in Germany thanks in part to the use of her song ‘I Heart NYC’ in a campaign to raise funds for those affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Fans of the Dalkey native will be pleased to here that Sorcha has spent the last six months writing and will be debuting some new tracks in June which will form a brand new EP that will be available around the same time as the show.

Tickets for the show are an incredibly low €8. Talk about value for money! Get them from ticketmaster.ie and Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.

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April 18, 2013

Video: Bipolar Empire – Why So Sad?

Bipolar Empire are back with a new single and a new video. The single ‘Why So Sad?’ is taken from their debut album Feel That You Own It.

The video was filmed in El Salvador but was nearly never made. They had scheduled in a 5 day trip but upon arriving they were met with a hurricane and it wasn’t until day 5 that they managed to do any recording. Despite the time constraints they seem to have done a very good job. See for yourself above.

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April 10, 2013

Premier League Weekend Review: 6th-8th April 2013

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With the title race all but wrapped up, this weekend offered Manchester City a chance for some bitter-sweet revenge over their neighbours, in the race for fourth place Chelsea and Arsenal were in action while Spurs had a chance to put Everton’s top four bid to bed in their game at White Hart Lane. Meanwhile at the bottom the race to avoid relegation also hotted up as QPR hosted Wigan, Villa visited the Britannia while Reading entertained Southampton.

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March 29, 2013

Last Gasp Austrian Goal Breaks Irish Hearts

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Had David Alaba’s 92th minute strike not gone in I fear I would be writing a very different article right now, one that tells the tale of the heroic Irish with their backs against the wall, with determination and passion, against all odds coming off with the win. Alas that was not the case and the brief illusion that the Irish football team had turned a new corner is shattered.

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March 27, 2013

Gig Of The Week: Coast To Coast – Tea And Toast At Whelan’s

559742_580098625335238_698856876_nSaturday night sees the conclusion of  Goldenplec.com’s second annual charity event in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland, Coast to Coast – Tea And Toast. After the incredible success of the event in its debut year, the crazy campaign returns on a much grander scale. For those not aware of what the event involves, I’ll explain. Essentially, several members of the Goldenplec team will be driving from the east coast of Ireland to the west coast and back again. Along the way they’ll be stopping for a one song gig and some tea and toast with a different band in each county they pass through.

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March 27, 2013

Gig Review: Conor Linnie @ Whelans

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Picture courtesy of Darren Farrell

On a typically grim night in Dublin, Conor Linnie played to a packed-out in Whelans to celebrate the release of his debut album, Astray. Accompanied by an ever-increasing band that is clearly quite adept at fitting on very small stages, the set demonstrated his rapid maturation into a confident, charming performer, and a musician with understated, but very real, talent.

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March 24, 2013

Encouraging Irish Performance Leaves Reason for Optimism

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Prior to Friday’s clash with Sweden you’d have be hard pressed to find an optimistic Irish fan especially given the rumored line up, however after the 0-0 draw in Stockholm a wave of optimism has swept football fans on the island.

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March 23, 2013

Video: Blind Yakety – Foundations

Check out the brilliant video for “Foundations” by Blind Yakety. They make some strange, beautiful music. Like their Facebook page here.

 

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March 15, 2013

Snow Patrol to release Greatest Hits

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Northern Irish indie rockers, Snow Patrol are set to release their first Greatest Hits package on May 14th of this year. It will be a single disc 14 track album featuring songs from four of their six studio albums to date.  The claim that this is their first greatest hits compilation, however, is not exactly true. 2009′s compilation album ‘Up To Now’ was essentially a greatest songs compilation, as opposed to a greatest ‘hits.’

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February 18, 2013

News: Bell X1 Announce New Album & Dublin Show

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Huge news reaching Headphone Jacks headquarters today. Bell X1 have just announced details of their new album. The record, their 6th, will be called Chop Chop and is set for release on the 28th of June. The album was recorded in January of this year at Tarquin Studios, Bridgeport, Connecticut andwas produced by Peter Katis and Thomas Bartlett.

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