The inaugural Irish Song of the Year Category for this year’s Meteor Choice Music Prize was launched in style last Thursday night with acoustic performances from four of the nominees - The Kanyu Tree, This Club, Cashier No. 9 and Lisa Hannigan - in the cosy surrounds of the upstairs bar in Doheny & Nesbitt on Baggot Street. 10 songs in all have been shortlisted and are listed after the jump:
Face facts, folks. You’re probably going to end up with a lot of vouchers for Christmas this year, because modern technology means your friends are all too busy playing Minecraft to put any effort into something as occasionally outdoorsy as present shopping. But not to worry. Culch.ie’s here to tell you exactly what to exchange your damp and dogeared vouchers for. Here follows our albums of 2011, all of which we’re pleased to bet our bunions you’ll love. Of course we are! Who wants bunions?! Foster The People - Torches ”You’ve got to hear this one” said my mate Noel. I hadn’t a clue who they were but vaguely seemed to recognise ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ from the radio. In the intervening months, Foster the People have gone big. Their performance at Electric Picnic was jammed and their proposed gig in The Academy was upgraded to the Olympia after selling out … There’s more
One for our Nordie readers (or anyone residing in Bandit Country around Louth and the like) is the 11th annual Glasgowbury Festival. Tickets went on sale last week (£30 or £40 with camping - and I don’t know about you but I get right nostalgic whenever I see a pound sign) and Cashier No 9 has been confirmed as this year’s headliner. Based in Draperstown, Co Derry (It’s called Glasgowbury after the founder, Paddy Glasgowbury.) it’s billed as the festival ‘for musicians, by musicians’ and calls itself small but massive. It’s previously been headlined by the likes of Ash and acts as a showcase for Irish musical talent. Also on the bill for 2011 are Axis Of, Boxcutter, Furlo, Mojo Fury, More Than Conquerors, Phil Kieran. Rainy Boy Sleep, The Wonder Villains, LaFaro, The Answer, Foy Vance, Deep Fried Funk DJs, Rams’ Pocket Radio, Swanee River, Silhouette and The Rupture Dogs. All … There’s more
GIGS Cork legends (sometimes for their music) Republic of Loose continue their four month live residency at the Academy, Dublin - one Friday each month from September through to December on Friday November 19th. These shows will be the band’s only Dublin gigs of 2010. After returning from the States to open for U2 in Croke Park on their 360 tour in 2009, they spent the latter half of the year writing new material for their fourth album. In May 2010 Republic of Loose flew to Baltimore in the US to begin work on their forthcoming album. Recorded in Wrightway Studios with Steve Wright who had just finished working on the new UNKLE album, the fourth Republic of Loose album is scheduled for an early October release with the lead single pencilled in for September 17th. The album marks a new direction for the Loose with Mik Pyro describing the … There’s more
