EP10: Friday’s highlights
Jim Carroll

I cast a spell on you: Janelle Monae wows the masses (Pic by Brenda Fitzsimons from The Daily Ticket)
We heart Janelle: she took our breath away. They’ll be talking about this for quite some time to come.
Foals: beefy and muscular with lots of time and space for the new tunes which they go at with considerable gusto
Cloud Castle Lake: the first Irish band of the weekend to make us smile. Lovely high-end vocals married to fascinating 1+1=7 psych dramatics.
Jolly Boys: it took me about two minutes to realise these mento veterans were actually doing “Blue Monday” and that I wasn’t imagining things
PiL: the bass is king as Lydon snarls and raves his way through a cut-and-paste selection from the back-catalogue. Dude was spotted on Saturday morning in Dublin airport jousting with an eightsomething warrior from out Blessington way called Paddy for a buggy. Paddy won.
The food: the matador pie from Pieminister duking it out with the poached salmon from Rathmullan House for the tastebuds of the Daily Ticket team.
Play Roxy for me: we heart the deluded lad who gatecrashed his way backstage not once, not twice, but three times looking for Bryan Ferry’s autograph for his ma. Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em.

Iv seen Cloud Castle Lake three or four times in the last couple of months as they are just getting better and better.
Bren – covered them last year in New Music on the back of a demo track but had never seen them live and was hugely impressed
They opened for Bear In Heaven (along with Halves) in Crawdaddy last week Jim and were excellent.