For part two of my closer look at the Galway music scene, we turn to Citóg, a gig night that proudly proclaims itself the ‘home of Galway music’. One essential part of a local music scene is having a place for musicians to play gigs – somewhere that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg…
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Music interviews that I have done
Focus on Galway: Rusted Rail, Brigid Power Ryce, So Cow & Yawning Chasm
Ah, Galway. I’ve had visions of this little city running through my head for the past few weeks, all because of a series of interviews I did for the Irish Times‘ music supplement The Ticket a few weeks ago. The article came out yesterday – you can read it here – but due to word…
New Independent Record Store: Wingnut Records, Galway
If you’re in Galway and in the mood to buy some records, you now have a new independent record store to visit – following the closure of Redlight Records a few years back, and the recent liquidation of the Zhivago Records chain , Wingnut Records is the newest local record store on the block. (There…
Meljoann interview / Klaxons interview / Janelle Monáe review
Some recent articles of mine: An interview with the fantastic Irish electronic musician Meljoann on Thumped.com A Q&A with James from The Klaxons on Heineken Music. Review of the recent Janelle Monáe gig on State.ie I’ll have an interview with Jonathan from The Drums on Heineken Music soon.
Interview: Darwin Deez
Darwin Deez plays the Academy 2 in Dublin tonight, and played Cork last night. So in honour of his visit, here’s a recent interview I did with him for the Evening Echo. Nope, I didn’t ask about his hair… The Evolution of Darwin Deez By Aoife Barry WHAT would music be without Darwin Deez, the…
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…
The Second Coming of Black Sun
Some of you may remember that back in May of this year, I wrote a blog post on a new music night in Cork called Black Sun. I had high hopes for the success of the gig, which was organised by a dear friend of mine, Vicky Langan, a musician, mum, curator and artistic soul…
Future Islands/Nico Muhly/The Wave Pictures
Some updates on new articles I have on State: *Nico Muhly– Absolut Fringe, Spiegeltent, Sunday 6th September *Future Islands – Foggy Notions gig, Whelan’s Upstairs, 9th September and my Wave Pictures album review should be up soon. Enjoy!
Nico Muhly
Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing Nico Muhly for State (in advance of his performance at the Absolut Fringe festival – see below), and I have to say it was one of the most interesting interviews I’ve done in a long time. I’ve been doing so many email interviews lately, which require little to…
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…
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