Kele Okereke Has Mama’s Support

With our competition for tickets to Kele Okereke’s Dublin gig on the 16th of May now closed (and thanks to everyone who entered), perhaps a swift update on songs, support and all sorts of other things beginning with “s” that I doubt I’ll have time to get into after all. I’m such a tease, alliteration junkies. First off, here’s Kele’s first single, Tenderoni, due for release on 14th June. It’s … pretty dancey. Almost reminiscent of the electro-heavy summer of 2007. This might bother you if you’re expecting something a little more Bloc Party; let me know what you think.

65daysofstatic - Irish Dates

Well, now. It’s very difficult to describe the music of 65daysofstatic to the (as yet) uninitiated. Instrumental-post-rock-math-rock-noize-tronica that has your pulse leaping out of your throat and your brain buzzing with ideas and inspiration and the notion that the world is alive and throbbing and you’re an essential cog in the whole thing? Yeah. Something like that. The lads are touring on the back of their new album, We Were Exploding Anyway, which was released on April 26th. They play Mandela Hall, Belfast, on the 14th May, Crawdaddy in Dublin on the 15th, and Cyprus Avenue in Cork on the 16th. I’ll be at the Cork gig crying tears of pure fire up the front. I might even have a sambuca as well. If you’re bawling fire, you might as well be making a palatable drink while you’re at it. So, you can hear the new tracks on the lads’ … There’s more

Fame: The Musical, Week 4

Based on what I had seen and commented on last week, I expected a lot from the second of 8 live shows searching for the two leads in Fame: The Musical. Unfortunately, the show failed to deliver. Six fresh-faced, committed competitors took the stage in the Helix, battling out to go through to the next week. The show was opened by Derek Mooney who suggested that it was ‘gonna be very sad’ for one competitor by the end of the night – little did any of us know that it would be very sad for the viewers long before that.