There are some places where the festival season continues when the tents come down and the days turn dark. We may associate the festival circuit with the summer months, when bands and fans roam Europe’s fields in search of thrills …
There’s a superb piece by Steve Greenberg here about how “Thriller”, 30 years old this month, changed the world. He talks at great length about the huge sales tally, the singles, the videos turning on MTV audiences, how black pop …
It was Jeffrey Remedios who nailed it. Speaking on the managers’ panel at the Hard Working Class Heroes Convention on Friday afternoon, the founder of Canada’s Arts & Crafts group, who works with everyone from Broken Social Scene to Feist, …
There are a couple of things which come to mind while watching Elevator, the new play for this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival from Philip McMahon and Thisispopbaby, the crew who brought us Alice In Funderland earlier in the year (review …
It seems that we’re in the middle of a talking boom. Over the last couple of years, talking shops of one stripe or another have popped up around the country as people seek out venues to chew the fat, argue …
The best gigs-on-film are often nothing like the gigs you experience in real life. Real gigs are messy affairs. Even when the band are on fire up on that stage, kicking out the jams as if their lives depend on …
It’s a long way from Antone’s to the O2. Antone’s is the venerable downtown Austin, Texas club which has seen hundreds – nay, thousands – of would-bes, wanna-bes and gonna-bes hit the boards over the years. Back in 2003, The …
It has been a busy month for heritage acts visiting town to say hello, sing a couple of songs and go home with a bit of cash in their back-pockets. Of course, visits from the stars of yesterday who are …
