With all this talk of reviewing around at the moment, it’s pretty timely that I have a review on State today – for the new A-Trak Fabric live mix. He’s not an Irish artist though, so he probably won’t be approaching me in a pub to lambast me for my thoughts any time soon! http://www.state.ie/a-trak-fabric-live-45/
Month: July 2009
Arman Bohn interview on State
Some readers may remember that I mentioned an American musician called Arman Bohn on my old blog a few months ago. I had spotted a link to the video for his unreleased song ‘Combat’ (below) on a friend’s facebook page and checked it out – and being the harmonies-obsessed synth-pop fan that I am, I…
Ha!
Saw this link this morning on my WordPress dashboard and it made me titter: http://putt3r.com/topics/john-daly/ People looking up the golfer John Daly are ending up on my site probably slightly confused about his career as a house producer….
Fleet Foxes video
On to something a little less heavy – a video of Fleet Foxes playing ‘Drops in the River’ in Café Zapata in Berlin. I took this on my pretty basic digital camera (hence the bad sound, sorry!) and as you’ll see I was really bloody lucky and literally right in front of the band. It…
Review You
There’s a really interesting discussion going on over at Jim Carroll’s Irish Times blog, On the Record. Titled ‘Why writing about Irish bands can be bad for your health’, it started with Jim questioning why Irish bands, in his opinion, are a ‘thin-skinned lot’ who take reviewers’/critics’ opinions far too personally. As you’d expect, this…
A new home for Sweet Oblivion….
The move is finally complete! Welcome to The Sweet Oblivion Blog v 2.0, where you’ll find more interviews, reviews, new and music discussions for your perusal… To launch the blog I have a brand new interview with Cork-born but Galway-based producer John Daly. He’s a man of few words but his amazing music does half…
NEW: John Daly Interview
About a year ago, I was down in Cork city for a weekend and looking for something to do on the night of my birthday. My friends and I were told that a local DJ called John Daly was playing in the Roundy that night, so after stuffing ourselves silly at a local restaurant we…
Archive: David O’Doherty interview
Everyone Laughs at the Same Things By Aoife Barry SHAGGY-haired, award-winning comedian; lover of technological gadgetry; the proud owner of very mild superpowers; globe-trotting music-lover with a penchant for vintage keyboards; quick-witted children’s book author: David O’Doherty is all of these things, and more. As one of Ireland’s best-loved comedians, David has forged a career…
Archive: Low (Alan Sparhawk) interview
Low are one of my favourite bands, and have been since I was in college – but I’ve only ever gotten to see them live once. And that was last year, at Andrew’s Lane Theatre in Dublin. When I first got into them, they had just played Nancy Spain’s in Cork, but as I hadn’t…
Archive: Groom interview
I Only Want to Write Songs By Aoife Barry “We were calling it ‘the album they couldn’t kill’…” It’s a wet Wednesday evening in May and Dublin-based band Groom (guitarist/vocalist Mike Stevens, bassist Wil McDermott, drummer/percussionist Ruan van Vliet and guitarist/keyboardist Jeroen Saegeman – drummer Brian O’Higgins is absent) are huddled in a booth in…
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