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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Pivot, Ireland, October

The excellent Pivot play Dublin’s Whelan’s on October 22 and Galway’s Roisin Dubh on October 23. Tickets for the Dublin show will be €12.50 and will go on sale next Thursday. (Gugai, throw the Galway prices in the comment field …

A night out with Crazy Ol’ Tom

(1) I used to think that the easiest big venue in the country to get in and out of was the Odyssey in Belfast, but the Rat Cellar was even better. Drive up the main road into the park (no …

On The Record on The Wire is now in session

You asked for it. This is where you, fans and freaks of the finest TV show ever made, can talk turkey with fellow devotees. From here on in, there are certain assumptions. Anything which occured in seasons one through four …

Crazy Ol’ Tom says: be on fecking time

As if you didn’t already know, Crazy Ol’ Tom will be playing in a big tent in the Phoenix Park on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights. If you’re going, you’re going to have a whale of a time if reviews …

Kings Of Leon to play Dublin’s 02 in December

Our (usually reliable) sources tell us that the sons of a travelling preacherman and their cousin are coming back to the capital for more of our euros in December. This will make it three visits in all in less than …

Crystal Castles, Ireland, October

Crystal Castles play Dublin’s Academy on October 1 and Belfast’s Spring & Airbrake on October 2. Does this mean we’re in for a repeat of this the morning after?

This week on your favourite waste of time….

The blog will be quiet-ish on Monday and Tuesday due to, uhm, “forseen circumstances”. This means that we’ll start the On The Record on The Wire thread on Wednesday morning. Here’s how it will work. Comments will be allowed from …

Phantom FM playlist, Saturday July 26

As played on Phantom FM, Saturday July 26, 10pm-midnight This was actually my second appearance on Phantom on Saturday as I also took part in The Kiosk’s first ever pop culture quiz. It was great fun, made even better by …

On the Road – Josh Ritter in Denver and Targhee

We’re back on the road with Josh Ritter and he’s still hanging around the mountains. This time around, he’s on the festival trail with stories and pictures from the Mile High Festival and the Grand Targhee Festival involving beer, Tom …

Analogue moves out of Dublin and into the country
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After publishing three successful issues in Dublin, Analogue is set to go nationwide from August.

Rory goes solo

The Revs went their separate ways in 2006 after a lengthy innings which saw them unable to build on their Irish popularity. Lead singer Rory Gallagher is about to get back in the game with the release of his debut …

The jazzman cometh

Acclaimed jazz guitarist John Abercrombie has announced an Irish tour for September. The ECM artist has played and recorded with a glittering roll-call of musicians down through the years, including Gil Evans, Jan Garbarek, Chico Hamilton, Billy Cobham, Joe Lovano …

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Dublin local indie station Phantom FM has a new morning and lunchtime line-up from next Monday. Richie McCormack and Charlotte Flood take over the breakfast show, Channel 6’s Michelle Doherty is in the mid-morning slot and Sinéad Ní Mhórdha takes …

Are Eircom, NTL, Vodafone and Perlico getting the letters ready?

There’s a lot of coverage across the water today (including pieces in The Guardian and on the Beeb) about plans by UK internet service providers to send letters to customers they believe are illegally uploading or downloading music. It does …

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There are times when graphic designers and commissioning editors think alike. It happens and, as a result, you get the same folks interviewed and featured in different magazines and publications on the same day or in the same week. You …

Jerry Dammers, Dublin, September 12

The Jerry Dammers Spatial A.K.A. Orchestra will be playing “a tribute to the mystic music mavericks” at Dublin’s Vicar Street on September 12. It’s Dammers and his orchestra of top-notch UK jazzers playing the music of Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, …

On the Road – Josh Ritter in Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Telluride

Time for a confession: the latest On The Road diary comes from the man whose tour blog for The Huffington Post and Paste gave On The Record the notion to do these diaries in the first place. Josh Ritter is …

Mercury Music Prize nominees

The runners and riders for the latest Mercury Music Prize (which is, of course, the UK version of the Choice Music Prize) are as follows: Adele “19″ British Sea Power “Do You Like Rock Music?” Burial “Untrue” Elbow “The Seldom …

El randomiser

Are you in need of a Wire re-up this morning? And we’re not talking about Lauren Laverne’s woeful, cringeworthy, shoddy, pointless and amateur-hour interview with David Simon on the Beeb’s Culture Show last week. If you didn’t pick up the …

Fleet Foxes, Dublin, November 7

On The Record has learned that Fleet Foxes, who have quickly become everyone’s favourite band on the back of that amazing album, play Dublin’s Vicar Street on November 7. I reckon everyone who was at their Whelan’s show in June …

The (latest) great U2 debate

There’s a very good piece in today’s Ticket featuring Hugh Linehan (Irish Times features boss and the founding editor of The Ticket) and Stuart Bailie (BBC Radio Ulster DJ, Oh Yeah music centre dude and former NME album reviews editor) …

Oxegen feels the love as promoters finally “get it”

The people have spoken – and they feel that Oxegen 2008 has been the festival’s most successful outing to date.

Cork is an anagram of rock, part 1,377

Oxegen and the Electric Picnic may command all the music news headlines, but there’s a ton of other festivals which deserve your time and recession euros (™ Thrill Pier). Like Cork X Southwest, a one-day bash at The Showgrounds, Skibereen, …

MTV 2.0

Muzu TV was first mentioned here back in March 2007, but the Dublin-headquartered music video site is now, finally, ready for your clicks. Muzu TV is an ad-supported streaming music video site which allows anyone from artists and labels to …

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Polish trumpet maestro Tomasz Stanko and his Nordic Quintet are the latest additions to this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival, playing Hotel Kilkenny on August 10th. Oxegen acts on the rebound with Dublin dates this autumn include MGMT (Ambassador, November 3), …

Tune of the Week – “On My Own”

The more you hear it, the more you dig it.

Kraftwerk – the full bill

I may have to do a Mulley and run master-classes in how to write press releases and get info about live music events to people. While the press release for the Kraftwerk show on September 13 goes on about 6,000 …

The Oxegen attitude

There are two letters published in today’s paper regarding Brenda Fitzsimon’s photo in yesterday’s paper of security staff and cleaners putting out small fires on the Oxegen campsite and starting the mammoth task of cleaning up Punchestown Racecourse. From Gary …

On The Record’s muxtape

Nearly every single week after I post the playlist for the Phantom FM Saturday night show, I get asked if the show is available to download as a podcast or if there is a listen-again facility. Unfortunately, for now, the …

Body & Soul arena at Electric Picnic

More, more, more names for the Picnic. This time, it’s for the festival’s Body & Soul arena. And the list is as follows: Martina Topley-Bird Nitin Sawhney Laura Marling The Deviant Crew (with The Hideous Penguin) Ultan Conlan Johnny Hoban …

Grace Jones to play the Electric Picnic

Oh yes, remember where you read this first. Following her awesome performance at last month’s Meltdown festival in London (rave reviews here, here and here), the peerless Grace Jones will play the sold-out Electric Picnic in Stradbally, Co Laois at …

Kraftwerk, Co Wicklow, September 13

On The Record has learned that Kraftwerk are to play at Luggala Estate in Co Wicklow on Saturday September 13 as part of a festival called A Day In the Life. UPDATE Per press release, 4,999 tickets go on sale …

Bring out the Oxegen tanks!

Seeing as On The Record spent the weekend raving in Serbia, we were as far removed from what was going on at Oxegen 2008 as it was possible to get. We’ve had a heads-up about some of the fun and …

EXIT festival – bits and pieces from nights three and four

(1) Ian was fuming about Gogol Bordello wanting 30 of his recession euros for their forthcoming show in Dublin’s Ambassador on December 20. Well dude, if Eugene Hütz and friends are anything like they were when they strormed the main …

EXIT festival – the stuff from night two

(1) The tune of the night? Art Ensemble of Chicago’s “Theme de YoYo” as played over the PA after Primal Scream left the stage. I could not believe my ears. Way, way, way more exciting than what Bobby and friends …

Oxegen – a thought

I hope that busted radar at Dublin airport doesn’t mean a spate of cancellations this weekend. A lot of bands will probably be on ferries but there are some, we assume, who will be using Dublin airport. Anyone know if …

EXIT festival – 7 things I learned from night one

(1) Is there a point to The Streets? I know there are about 10,000 Brits at EXIT but that still doesn’t mean you go out and book Mike Skinner. Geezer-rap never went off so quickly. His attempts to get the …

The mud hits the fan over Zoo8 festival ‘shambles’

Whatever happens at Punchestown Racecourse this weekend, Oxegen fans can rest easy in one regard the title of worst festival for 2008 has already been claimed.

Another go for An Taobh Tuathail

Time for round two. Last summer, Raidió na Gaeltachta’s An Taobh Tuathail show released its first compilation to a round of applause for all quarters. Now comes volume two with longstanding presenter Cian O’Ciobhain selecting tracks from Susanna & The …

Number 8 for Nitin

Last seen in Ireland when he was artist in residence at the Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures in 2004, Nitin Sawhney releases his eighth studio album in October. London Undersound features Sawhney collaborating with Natty, Reena Bhardwaj, Ojos de …

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Steve Albini’s Shellac (see video below) play Galway’s Roisin Dubh on October 27 and Dublin’s Button Factory on October 28. Dublin City Council’s Arts Office is behind the Northside Music Festival running in various northside Dublin city venues throughout August, …

On The Record at the EXIT festival in Serbia

Yes, there’s more than one “greatest rock’n’roll weekend of the year” happening in July. I’m at the EXIT festival in the Petrovaradin fortress in Novi Sad. The sun in shining, they’re expecting 60,000 people (including a couple of hundred Irish …

Spiritualized, Ireland, October

Spiritualized play two dates in Ireland in October. Jason Pierce and assorted space cadets play Cork’s Cyprus Avenue on October 18 and Dublin’s Vicar Street on October 19.

This week’s new blog from The Irish Times

Yes, we have another new blog on the block. The Irish Times politics blog will feature contributions from some of the paper’s political staff including Deaglán de Breadun, Mark Hennessy and long-time blogger Harry McGee. It’s now open for business.

On the Road – Delorentos in Cork and Galway

Taking a break from writing and recording album number two, Delorentos have been playing a couple of shows around the country ahead of their appearance at Oxegen next weekend (they play on Sunday at 5.15pm on the Pet Sounds stage …

Competition – win a weekend in Dublin’s docklands!

Ahoy, me hearties! It is time for another infamous On The Record competition. Walk the plank this way please… Thanks to the nice folks at Analog Concerts, we have a pair of main stage weekend tickets to give away to …

The Monday morning re-up

New blogs on the block, people, so step on up and don’t be shy. There’s some smashing stuff from Dublin indie promoters Skinny Wolves at their new joint and we also welcome Hot Press writer (and dude with his “John …

Phantom FM playlist, Saturday July 5

As played on Phantom FM, Saturday July 5, 10pm-midnight Rage Against the Machine “Killing in the Name Of (Mr Oizo remix)” (White) Ting Tings “That’s Not My Name (Kasper Bjorke remix)” (Columbia) Simian Mobile Disco “It’s the Beat (Shit Disco …

Dockland makeover Points to busy future indoors for live music

A prediction for 2009? Expect to see less and less single-artist outdoor shows on the summer gigging schedule.

A free-for-all at Farmleigh

When Taoiseach Brian Cowen is looking for a bed for the night in the capital, he lodges at the Farmleigh estate in the Phoenix Park. The rest of us get a chance to enjoy Lord Iveagh’s stately pile when the …

Two to download

We’ve two recommendations today for those seeking some fresh new music for the weekend. Music blogger MP3Hugger has put together Indiecater, a 10-track compilation from a bunch of artists he thinks deserve more exposure. They include Burning Codes, Beaten Awake, …

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Musos seeking a dig-out for recording or performance projects should check out Music Network’s funding schemes, details of which were announced this week. Closing date for applications is October 6. New York punk-funk pioneers Liquid Liquid play Dublin’s Tripod on …

Tune of the Week – “Windu & Defrina”

The sound of the summer? That may well be White Shoes & The Couples Company

Another festival bites the dust

This time, it’s the Transmission festival in Kufstein, Austria which is putting up the shutters and handing back the cash. The festival, which would have featured Mogwai, Spiritualized, Talvin Singh, Efterklang, Cornelius, Why?, Milosh and a couple of Irish acts …

New blog from The Irish Times

Say hello to Bryan Mukandi whose Outside In blog is now live on our all-new, all-free, all-singing, all-dancing site.

Meet the new venue on the block – The O2

Yep, the Point is going to be called The 02 when it re-opens its doors as a 13,000 capacity venue in December. Loads of guff in the press release about 02 bars and special access for 02 customers, but nowt …

Liquid Liquid, Dublin, October 5

The magnificent Liquid Liquid play Dublin’s Tripod on October 5. Domino have just released “Slip In & Out Of Phenomenon” (review here), an excellent retrospective of their work and much, much cheaper and easier to get your hands on than …

The best new releases of 2008 (so far) in easy-to-digest lists

We’ve reached the half-way point in the year so here are some Best Of lists drawn from the last six months of new releases. Doing this now also means (a) I’ll save myself some work at the end of the …

Pre-match shrinkage at Cois Fharraige 2008

Interesting to see some changes already to the Cois Fharraige bill. Initial press releases and ads back at the start of June for the Sony Ericsson-sponsored seaside jolly listed the fabulous Cathy Davey amongst the participants. Most of the write-ups …

Jay-Z at Glastonbury – Ian Paisley gets in on the act

Here’s the video shown before Jigga went onstage at Glastonbury on Saturday night

On the Road – Adrian Crowley in the UK and Northern Ireland, part 3

The final installment of Adrian Crowley’s diary from his recent adventures on tour these past few weeks. This time out, we’re in London, Cardiff, Belfast and Birmingham via trains, taxis and flight 666. Adrian will be playing dates during July …