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Festivals: Tennent’s Vital 2012

  By Laura | March 21, 2012 - 10:11 am | Festivals, Music
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Have you ever wanted to get pissed outside a B&Q without anyone judging you? WELL NOW IS YOUR CHANCE. Nordieland’s Tennent’s Vital returns in 2012 with one of its strongest line ups yet. Relocating from Bangor to the Boucher Playing Fields in Belfast, the festival seems to get bigger and better each year. On the 21st of August, Foo Fighters make their long over-due NI debut accompanied by The Black Keys. On 22nd August, The Stone effin Roses bring their reunion tour to Belfast with she-of-the-big-lungs Florence & the Machine as support. We don’t know about you but that’s a damn good start to a line up. Tennent’s Vital 2012 looks set to the most fun you can have in a field this summer that doesn’t involve being arrested. Presale Tickets, if you are quick off the mark, are available by the book of the Face here: www.facebook.com/tennentsvital. For everyone … There’s more →

Culch.ie’s Albums Of 2011

  By Culch.ie | December 21, 2011 - 2:30 pm | Music
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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 →

Culch.ie’s Albums of 2010

  By Éilish Burke | December 15, 2010 - 12:30 pm | Featured Post, Music, The Culch
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Every newspaper, magazine and website worth its weight in salt is currently counting down their top picks of 2010. And the music writers here at Culch.ie have decided to hop on this list-making bandwagon; sure if it’s good enough for Santy, it’s good enough for us. Forthwith, each writer gives us their top three choices of the year: Sweary’s Picks 1 – Been Listening – Johnny Flynn Yeah, like you’re surprised. Mr. Flynn’s second album, Been Listening is a triumph from start (the breezily addictive Kentucky Pill) to gentle crescendo (touching yarn The Prizefighter And The Heiress). Reconquering ground covered by debut A Larum, there’s nothing pretentiously risky in Been Listening; it’s the sound of an artist who’s confident about where he is, and good God, is this ever “nu-folk” at its best. Mournful without being mawkish, charming without being twee, it’s earthy and evocative and rousing, all melodies your … There’s more →

Music News: Itteh Bitteh Hipster Kitteh’s Weekly Roundup

  By johnmfinn | May 24, 2010 - 11:30 am | Featured Post, Music, The Culch
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New Releases M.I.A will release her new album ‘/\/\/\Y/\’ in Ireland on the 9th of July, and no that’s not some weird glitch on Culch.ie the album is actually titled ‘/\/\/\Y/\’. In another seemingly random amalgamation of letters and symbols XXXO will be the first single. http://www.miauk.com/ Thought you had heard the last of Oasis? Not by a long shot. They are releasing a new singles collection on the 11th of June. ‘Time Flies… 1994-2009’ features all of the band’s singles. Unfortunately Oasis “will not be available for interviews” as they split up last year. http://www.oasisinet.com/ I consider Neil Hannon to be the anti-Bono, in that he is witty and a good songwriter and he doesn’t have his head shoved up his own arse and I don’t hate him. If you also don’t hate him you may be happy to know that The Divine Comedy will release new album ‘Bang … There’s more →