Having never visited Eurosonic before, I assumed it was your usual music industry festival type-deal. Hundreds of bands and loads of industry looking for the next big thing. While the festival can fill that remit, the important part for me … Read More…
Welcome to the spiritual rhinestone home of American country music – Nashville, Tennessee. Largely responsible for the renaissance of country music in the the late 1950s and its transformation into the popular commodity it is today through the assimilation of … Read More…
All photos by Killian Broderick. It might have been the week after Electric Picnic but what self-respecting music fan doesn’t want to spend the weekend in a disused German airport watching bands? Given the opportunity to revisit Berlin Festival a … Read More…
It’s St. Patrick’s Day (or Patty’s Day as they say here) and the silly hats and green Guinness beads are out in drink-soaked force. No different from back home then, apart from the sweltering Thursday heat around Austin, that made … Read More…
Austin’s annual musical challenge to the brave and eager has rolled around. While film, interactive and games are becoming more important to the South By South West (SXSW) brand, music is at the heart of this Texas festival and once … Read More…
As part of a gang of 11 bloggers, I spent 10 days last November in Thailand and India courtesy of Smirnoff’s Nightlife Exchange Project (see all posts from the trip) checking out the nightlife, music and culture of the cities … Read More…
As part of a gang of 11 bloggers last month, I spent 10 days in Thailand and India courtesy of Smirnoff’s Nightlife Exchange Project checking out the nightlife, music and culture of the cities of Mumbai, Bangkok and Bangalore. The … Read More…
As part of a gang of 11 bloggers, I spent 10 days last month in Thailand and India courtesy of Smirnoff’s Nightlife Exchange Project checking out the nightlife, music and culture of the cities of Mumbai, Bangkok and Bangalore. Smirnoff … Read More…
The final gig of the regular nights of Other Voices in the church and there was certainly a feeling amongst the 55 crew that the end was within sight. They still had to take stage, lighting and sound rig out … Read More…
Monday night, Day 3 of Other Voices and Dingle has lost a lot of weekend out of town visitors to weekday commitments. Those people have left before halftime as there’s still lots of music to be devoured. With artists travelling … Read More…
Since arriving in Dingle for the recording of TV show and cosy gigfest Other Voices, the only band that was on everybody’s lips was The National. Their three day pre-Christmas residency in Olympia Theatre in Dublin leading up to this … Read More…
