Jim Carroll

• Live music
• October 31, 2007, 10:13

Last week in Seattle, I found out that Neil Young was playing in town. I’m not a huge fan of old Shakey, but I still wouldn’t mind a look. I went online to buy a ticket. The cheapest I could …

• Randomiser
• October 30, 2007, 15:29

Those Halifax ads. Dudes, you are bankers. Just because you don’t mention the fact that you’re a bank in your ad doesn’t mean we, the plain current account-seeking people of Ireland, think “cool, Halifax, they’re not a bank, lets give …

• Politics
• October 29, 2007, 16:47

Twenty Major! Naomi Klein! David McWilliams! A Sinn Fein councillor who used to be indie rock’s answer to Louis Walsh but he’s OK now! Clint Velour! IN THE SAME ROOM! I mean, what more do you want on a Friday …

• The Far Side
• October 29, 2007, 16:20

As played on Phantom 105.2, Saturday October 27, 10pm-midnight Cathy Davey “Moving” (EMI) The Whip “Sister Siam” (Southern Fried) Black Affair “Tak! Attack” (V2) Holy Fuck “Royal Gregory” (Young Turks) Jakobinarina “Monday I’m In Vain” (Regal) Ted Leo & The …

• Music business
• October 27, 2007, 15:09

It seems that our speculation the other week about Live Nation making a move on MCD Concerts has turned out to have legs, per the business pages from today’s paper. This is a move which has serious repercussions for the …

• Media
• October 26, 2007, 14:22

The Kurt Cobain industry continues to hum with activity.

• Jazz
• October 26, 2007, 14:22

There should be no withdrawal pangs for jazz fans after this weekend’s traditional blowout in Cork with a full dancecard of shows scheduled for the coming weeks. Made On Mondays is a series of Irish talent showcases at Dublin jazz …

• Clubs
• October 26, 2007, 14:21

It’s all change on Dublin’s Middle Abbey Street with the Spirit nightclub about to adopt a new moniker and, by the sound of things, a new direction too. The Dublin venue will be known as Spirit 57 from November 1 …

• Live music
• October 26, 2007, 14:21

Four decades on from its release, Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” continues to gain new fans and attract increased acclaim with every passing year. Plans are now afoot to mark the album’s 40th anniversary with Astral Weeks Revisited in Morrison’s native …

• Live music
• October 25, 2007, 15:14

I speak of course of Ian Brown. His fans keep on coming to On The Record and having a pop at all and sundry. Boy, Sunday’s gig is going to be SO exciting, if Mary is anything to go by. …

• Tune of the Week
• October 25, 2007, 07:16

I just couldn’t get this song out of my head this week.

• Football
• October 24, 2007, 07:49

While you were sleeping, Stan got the bullet. Guess they’ll be updating this sometime today.

• Randomiser
• October 24, 2007, 07:43

(1) Cadence Weapon has the power. It’s a hard task to face down a room full of twee indie kids waiting to ooh and aah over Final Fantasy’s one-man-and-his-fiddle orchestrations and symphonies, but our man Rollie did this and more …

• Media
• October 23, 2007, 17:26

Seasoned rte.ie readers will have already seen this headline and added it to an ever growing list of tactful headlines from that news department. I suppose it’s one way of dealing with those people who like to talk to Joe.

• TV
• October 23, 2007, 02:00

Excellent lengthy piece from The New Yorker on the best TV show on the box – what else? – The Wire. (For those still in the middle of watching the show for the first time, the article does contain some …

• Media
• October 22, 2007, 17:17

Just read this very sad news about the death of Brendan McWilliams, the paper’s fantastic weather writer. The Weather Eye column was one of those daily must-read pieces for me because of his writing style and knowledge. The fact that …

• Photos
• October 22, 2007, 16:47

• Live music
• October 21, 2007, 19:13

There were two possible opening lines for this post and I just couldn’t decide between the two of them. (1) Went to sleep somewhere outside Boise. Woke up somewhere south of Seattle and north of Portland and there’s snow on …

• The Far Side
• October 21, 2007, 00:08

As played on the award-winning music station of year, Saturday October 20, 10pm-midnight Born Ruffians “Hummingbird” (Warp) The Teenagers “Scarlett Johansson” (XL) Phoenix “Everything Is Everything” (Source) Double Dee & Steinkski “Lesson Three” (Tommy Boy) The Go Team “Doin’ It …

• Music business
• October 19, 2007, 05:59

It has been a busy week for live music giants Live Nation in Ireland and abroad.

• Festivals
• October 19, 2007, 05:56

The October Bank Holiday Weekend has traditionally seen music fans scattering to the four corners of the island for one last bout of festival high jinks before Christmas. With the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival and the Cork Jazz Festival attracting …

• Reissues U2
• October 19, 2007, 05:56

Yes, it really is 20 years since U2 went into the desert with Anton Cobijn and came back with those iconic photos for their landmark album. November will see “The Joshua Tree” in bloom again with previously unreleased versions, limited …

• New releases
• October 19, 2007, 05:55

One of the most intriguing Irish releases of 2007 is to get a US release. Giraffe Running’s ambitious self-titled double-album saw Dublin bass and drums duo Greg Barrett and Hag enlist the help of Ian Williams (Battles), Max Tundra, Eoin …

• Media
• October 18, 2007, 21:18

The Arts Show is what RTE Radio One have decided to call the latest incarnation of their daily yakathon about the arts which goes live on Monday November 5. If that name was good enough for Mike Murphy, it’s good …

• Randomiser
• October 18, 2007, 20:05

Do you numpties think I’m that stupid? When I get a flurry of comments raving about some Irish singer-songwriter I’ve never heard of before, I get suspicious and check the IP addresses. When ALL the comments about that act come …

• Media
• October 18, 2007, 20:04

As predicted, oh, weeks ago, Nadine has decided to get in the blogging game. Expect loads of smart and on-the-money stuff about the arts from the Sunday Business Post writer and the host of The Kiosk. The infamous Pedro has …

• Live music
• October 17, 2007, 17:51

The Some Days Never End show with Groove Armada and Dizzee Rascal has been moved from a tent in the grounds of IMMA to Tripod instead. The reason? “Unforeseen circumstances”. What the hell are “unforseen circumstances” anyway? Did someone forget …

• Tune of the Week
• October 17, 2007, 14:46

I’ve been a little amiss in recent times with the Tune of the Week updates so here’s five audio thrillers currently making me go wow to make up for the oversight. These New Puritans “Colours” They’re from Southend, their debut …

• New releases
• October 16, 2007, 14:18

Usually, I don’t post album reviews here because they are, after all, published in The Ticket every Friday and that’s just a click away. But last week’s rock/pop reviews didn’t make the jump from the paper to the website so …

• Randomiser
• October 16, 2007, 08:58

I meant to plug the brand new Analogue magazine last week but didn’t get around to it. I’d reckon all the print magazines have been grabbed by now but issue two can only be a few weeks away so keep …

• Live music
• October 15, 2007, 07:54

The lady behind one of the albums of the year is the latest addition to the Dublin autumn/winter tent love-in. M.I.A. plays Live at the Marquee in the Phoenix Park on Friday December 7. Tickets go on sale at the …

• The Far Side
• October 15, 2007, 07:48

As played on Phantom 105.2, Saturday October 13, 10pm-midnight The return to the airwaves after a three week break meant a chance to spin a ton of new music. Naturally enough, there was plenty from the recent Canadian adventures – …

• Live music
• October 12, 2007, 10:37

News that Madonna has decided to take the Live Nation millions (a story which has had legs for quite some time and which will inevitably feed into the current end-of-the-world feeling about the record industry) comes on the same day …

• Digital music Music business
• October 12, 2007, 09:10

Record labels are sure to applaud the jury that dished out a $222,000 fine to Minnesota woman Jammie Thomas for copyright infringements as a result of making music available to share on the Kazaa online network.

• Live music
• October 12, 2007, 09:06

A couple of weeks ago The Ticket published a comprehensive rundown of autumn/winter gig highlights. However, with promoters reckoning that the Irish music fan has an insatiable hunger for live music, that list has grown by the day. Besides the …

• New releases
• October 12, 2007, 08:58

Vinyl freaks planning a trip to the LCD Soundsystem shows in Dublin next weekend should take in a visit to the merch stand. The band are currently flogging a highly collectible tour-only EP featuring their version of Joy Division’s No …

• New releases
• October 12, 2007, 08:55

It’s good to see that are still some brave souls keen to get involved in the record-releasing business. A new Dublin electronic music label gets its first release out in November. Mantrap is the brainchild of Sunil Sharpe, one of …

• Classical
• October 11, 2007, 14:29

Crash Ensemble fella Donnacha Dennehy had a very interesting piece in yesterday’s paper tracking the ongoing rise and rise of new Irish classical music. The piece was to plug this weekend’s Shindig, a hooley to mark 10 years of Crash …

• New releases Radiohead
• October 10, 2007, 08:49

The first review is in. Kilian was on at 7.56am with this: Listening to it now. It’s err… nice. Not groundbreaking. Not earth shattering. But free. As I write, the story is even getting traction on Morning Ireland (with “High …

• Bruce
• October 9, 2007, 22:47

I’ve steered clear of commenting on the new Bruce album until now, chiefly because I just haven’t had a chance to listen to it properly between the jigs and the reels of the last week or so. But after a …

• Randomiser
• October 8, 2007, 21:37

(1) Headline of the week. I mean, you just have to read a story which comes with a headline like that. (2) Watching The Police at Croke Park from one of the corporate hospitality suites around the stadium was bizarre. …

• Music business Radiohead
• October 5, 2007, 16:44

We told you so. Per Music Week and Billboard, our new favourite excuse for a blog post Radiohead are talking to a load of labels about a CD release of “In Rainbows” for 2008 and expect to make an announcement …

• Digital music Music business New releases
• October 5, 2007, 10:25

Radiohead’s decision to sell – or give away – their music directly to their fans via the web is the “music news story of the year”, according to one of many postings on the On The Record blog this week.

• Music business
• October 5, 2007, 10:22

The Music Ireland expo in Dublin’s RDS, which runs from today until Sunday, features a music equipment trade show, 10 live acts and workshops with such well-travelled pros as Doug Wimbish, the bassist who features on a number of seminal …

• New releases
• October 5, 2007, 10:15

It’s time for a Microdisney revival, and the release this week of the career-spanning Daunt Square to Elsewhere: Anthology 1982-1988 may be the catalyst for one. Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan’s band lit up 1980s Ireland for many with such …

• Media
• October 5, 2007, 10:12

Tomorrow night at 8pm, BBC Radio 2 will broadcast Dream Dylan Live, an hour of Bob Dylan’s greatest hits culled from four decades of live shows. Ignorning some of the ropier Dylan live shows of recent years (and boy, there …

• Randomiser
• October 3, 2007, 19:14

Everyone loves fairy tales involving knights in shining armour jostling with nasty monsters so relish what Headrambles has to make of the battle of the spam merchants making the Irish blogosphere huff and puff. No houses blown down yet, though. …

• Media Radiohead
• October 2, 2007, 13:40

Biggest music news story of the mo’ is the Radiohead yoke by a country mile. It broke on Sunday night and it has dominated proceedings since. It’s the story which will keep on giving. Yet if you look at the …

• Recommended music
• October 2, 2007, 04:53

I’ve spent the last 10 days or so tramping around Toronto and Montreal. The sun has been shining for the most part, the vibes have been pleasant and I’ve mooched around various ‘hoods, avoiding doing much of the work I …

• Randomiser
• October 1, 2007, 01:07

Lets start with what will probably be the news story of the week – the new Radiohead album is called “In Rainbows” and you can only get your hands on it via this website. It will be available as a …