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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Devendra Banhart – Live in the Village
Devendra Banhart rocked the socks off a sold out Village on the 8th of November. It’s taken me a while to get around to posting these. Not having heard any of Banharts work since 2004’s ‘naturalismo’ outing Rejoicing in the Hands, I was pleasantly surprised to find his newer material (mosly songs from the just… Read more
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Halfset at the Suger Club
We headed out to Dublin’s kitch Suger Club venue last night to catch downtempo electronica act Halfset. Halfset boast guitar and vocals from singer songwriter Jeff Martin , furious drumming from former Jubilee Allstar Cillian Mc Donnell, bass and backing music from electronic composer Stephen Shannon, and alternating harp and keyboards from Sinead Nic Gearailt. … Read more
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Andrew Bird, Live in Tripod
We had the privilege of interviewing the multifariously talented Mr Andrew Bird last week. On Saturday we got the even greater pleasure of seeing the man perform live. I managed to capture his performance of Armchairs, which sadly lacks any display of Bird’s violin virtuosity, but does showcase his incredible voice. As Bren said, ‘This… Read more
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9/11 – The World Trade Centre Disaster
9/11, by JRR Tolkien, are just another band from New York, with all the posing and brilliance this implies. A walking invitation of scorn: their music apparently is a grower – as in it sounds terrible on first listen, then as the inner hipster gradually begins to automatically screen out the negative bits, you know,… Read more
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Deezer
Ignoring for the moment that the idea of a conceptual entity like ‘music’ having an enemy is a category error of such bizarre proportions it makes the War On Terror™ look like the Western front, the website Deezer.com is most probably well on its way to becoming labelled music’s enemy no 1 by the recording… Read more
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Dr Stringz
We now present everyone’s favourite multi-instrumentalist troubadour Andrew Bird, in a wondrous cameo as Dr Stringz; from Jack’s Big Music Show on Noggin, yankie Nickelodeon’s early learning channel. <table border=”0″ Read more
Gareth Stack 