New Music Review: Tod Doyle and The Troubled - These Days

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It was in my review of the Spirit of Folk Festival that I noted: my find [?] of the gig, if not the year was, the now very highly recommended Tod Doyle and The Troubled. I fell so in love with their song Kirbman, that I forgot to record it. I’ll make sure to rectify that Tod, I promise. I was walking through the woods, not towards the stage, when not for the first time I was drawn towards a sound. And as I sat down to see what they were like, as one does at a festival and a new sound, this song started playing…. First formed in Budapest in 2012, in the same year released their debut album “These days” and since have been hard at work touring and promoting the album across the water in Ireland and the UK. How good do others think they are ? … There’s more

Irish Blog Awards 2013 - Winners

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Who said blogging was dead ? So very far from it seems, if you take a look at the nominations list. Anyhow and for the now, these are the best that are Irish blogs for 2013. Go forth. Pick one. Read one. Leave a comment on one. Wish ‘em well done. Well done all. Best Great Outdoors - Greenside Up Best Music Blog - Dublin Concerts Best Popculture Blog - Brand New Retro Best Food / Drink Blog - One Man’s Meat Best Health and Wellbeing Blog - Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer Best Technology Blog - The Sociable Best Photography Blog - Foxglove Lane Studio Best Eco/Green Blog - Greenside Up Best Sport/Recreation Blog - Sports News Ireland Best Blog of a SME business - One Fab Day Best Arts and Culture Blog - The Irish Aesthete Best Designed Blog - Molly Moo Best Mobile Compatible Blog - Squidgy Moments … There’s more

New Music EP - Carriages

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I first heard Harry Bookless and Aaron Page of Carriages play The Spirit of Folk Festival 2013. They were on the main stage and this was a folk festival. And in my head that conjures up images of bearded men with pipes and a sheep under one arm and a woman doing crochet quietly in the corner. And though the festival was very far from that, a little further afield was the music that emminated from the PA system.   And in my head there’s a wee little man with a telephone directory and a rolodex flicking through at a pace of knots searching for category to file them under, or in between some sound that I’ve heard before. And all he and I could come up with was a quasied version of the intro to U2′s Numb meets The Who’s Teenage Wasteland, played backwards at a slower beat. In context … There’s more