events/gigs
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Sweet Oblivion – listen to the latest show
Thanks Soundcloud! Sweet Oblivion 9 September Teen Girl Fantasy – Cheaters – 7am (Forthcoming album) Matthew Dear – Soil to Seed (new track) Tiga – You Gonna Want Me – Sexor PVT (formerly Pivot) – Window – Church-With-No-Magic Don’t have the album? Sign up to the mailing list here http://warp.net/records/pvt/ to get a free download,…
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Evil Uncle plots secret guerilla campaign
Want to get your music out to the masses? Well, why not take a leaf out of Evil Uncle‘s book and stick 5,000 copies under the windscreen wipers of cars at Electric Picnic? When Evil Uncle released a new EP Songs for the Road on September 6th, he decided to take an unusual route in…
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Adventures of a Music Nerd (Not Snob)
Those of us who happily use the words ‘musical nerd’ to describe ourselves – and aren’t ashamed of the connotations – share a secret language. It’s the language of those who speak of inlays and mixtapes, cds versus vinyl, first tapes, first gigs, re-edits and mixes, collaborations and concept albums, line-ups and side projects; it’s…
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Thank you…
A huge thanks to the person or persons who submitted this site as one of their favourite Irish sites for this year’s Irish Web Awards in the music blog category. As Sweet Oblivion is not in the same league as the amazingly comprehensive music sites also on the list – Harmless Noise, Nialler9, Swear I’m…
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Moon Duo Q&A interview
Moon Duo are the mystical side-project of Erik Johnson from bearded space-rockers Wooden Shjips. With bandmate Sanae Yamada on keyboards, Erik gets to delve further into the hazy world of fuzzy electronic-tinged psychedelia and the results are pretty damn lovely. There’s a real blissed-out feel to their music….like Silver Apples, Moon Duo carry you into…
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Make a Pledge for Laura Sheeran
Irish musician Laura Sheeran – one of my favourite musicians at the moment and a woman whose live shows are simply mesmerising – has become the first person in the Republic of Ireland to start a Pledge Music account. This is a way of helping Laura to release her debut full-length album proper as well…
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Land a Lovely Free Album
Any band worth their salt these days has a Bandcamp site, and Dublin band Land Lovers are no stranger to this resource. And being the generous types they are, they’re now offering people the chance to download both of their releases from their site for free. Just click here and let the musical journey commence.…
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Sweet Oblivion on 2XM
I’m really excited to announce that Sweet Oblivion will be back on the airwaves very soon! Thanks to RTE 2XM, the digital radio station, Sweet Oblivion will be on air on Wednesdays at 8pm, repeated on Sundays at 10am. I’m so excited to be doing the show again (it previously was on Cork Campus Radio…
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ana gog pre-EP launch gig
ana gog are holding a pre-EP launch party this Saturday, 3rd October, in a small warehouse called The Joy Gallery/ Redspace, just off Parnell Square and O’Connell St (Rutledge Place). Doors are at 9pm. Admission is FREE and ana gog will perform a hour long audio/visual set for you to feast your eyes and ears…
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