Jim Carroll

The age of niche

• Art Irish music Jazz Pointyheaded stuff Society
• February 25, 2013, 09:36

Why the most exciting and innovative music and art can be found in the magins – and why the mainstream is content to ignore it

• Electric Picnic Pointyheaded stuff
• September 4, 2012, 09:23

We begin where we left off last September. A year ago, looking back at another late summer weekend in Co Laois I ended the piece with the line “2012 will be interesting”. The Electric Picnic has had a starry history, …

• Pointyheaded stuff Unforeseen circumstances
• March 28, 2012, 08:58

Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? It’s five years to the day since the On the Record blog came into being. Five years since OTR arrived to entertain, annoy, pester, badger, opine, frustrate, infuriate, inform, enthuse, fume, amuse, bemuse, …

• Ireland Irish music Media Pointyheaded stuff
• February 14, 2012, 09:45

We must be due a bout of fuming really soon about Irish bands and radio play. There’s a grand stretch in the evenings – yes, there really is – so that must mean that we’ll soon get an assortment of …

• Media Music business Pointyheaded stuff Society
• August 15, 2011, 09:34

We have reached the promised land when it comes to music. If you have the time to devote to listening, you will most certainly find enough music to occupy every scintilla of that time. Whether it’s new or old stock …