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Cowboy boots point the way in Kilkenny

Despite the disappointing Bank Holiday weather and the fact that Alejandro Escovedo, one of the main attractions of the Carlsberg…

Mon May 05 2003 - 01:00

Reviews

Reviewed today are The Thrills at the Spirit Store, Dundalk

Thu Jan 16 2003 - 00:00

Reviews

Iggy Pop at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin

Wed Jul 17 2002 - 01:00

Review

Tony Clayton-Lea reviews a professional but somewhat uninvolving gig by Aimee Mann at the National Stadium, Dublin

Wed Jul 03 2002 - 01:00

Cynthia Plaster Caster

CULT HERO: Not so much the Queen of the Silver Dollar as the mistress of the hanging appendage, Cynthia Plaster Caster is a …

Sat May 11 2002 - 01:00

Billy Bob Thornton Vicar Street, Dublin

REVIEWS: Rugs on the stage, branch-thick candles, ornate curtain backdrop, tie-dyed coverings for the keyboards and lava lamps…

Wed Apr 03 2002 - 01:00

Vince Taylor

CULT HERO: Vince Taylor was the original Leper Messiah, recognised as being one of the first and most genuine of UK rock'n'rollers…

Sat Mar 30 2002 - 00:00

Anna Kavan

CULT HERO: Anna Kavan was born Helen Emily Woods in April, 1901, in France - the daughter of well-off expatriate British parents…

Sat Jan 05 2002 - 00:00

No shortbread please, we're Scottish

The way Colin Hynd tells it, Celtic Connections, Glasgow's persuasive 18-day Celtic music festival, wouldn't have been the success…

Wed Jan 02 2002 - 00:00

Cult Hero: Vivian Stanshall

How someone so charismatic and flamboyant could end up dying in a house fire, his home infiltrated by a gang of homeless alcoholics…

Sat Dec 08 2001 - 00:00

Throwback to the laid-back from a charming rock star

Many rock musicians engender respect, but few are also deeply charming

Mon Dec 03 2001 - 00:00

Gavin Friday & The Friday-Seezer Ensemble

There's a vicious rumour going around that Gavin Friday is a bit of a chancer - part poseur, part passion, part prune

Sat Dec 01 2001 - 00:00

Bob Geldof

"This is weird." Geldof speaks for the rest of us from the stage of one of Ireland's most adaptable major venues

Mon Nov 26 2001 - 00:00

Plastic Bertrand

He was the irritating pint-sized, wet-look Belgian who seized the reigns of punk rock and made a laughing stock out of the movement…

Sat Nov 17 2001 - 00:00

Stereophonics

Combining old and new guard, filtering out bombastic prog rock and adding a dynamic twist of fag-end Brit pop, Wales's Stereophonics…

Wed Nov 14 2001 - 00:00

Ryan Adams

He comes across like a cut-price Bruce Springsteen backed by a hybrid mixture of The Band and Big Star, but Ryan Adams - the …

Sat Oct 27 2001 - 01:00

The Old Grey Whistle Test

We were so much older then, but we're younger than that now - that's the only way to view a television warhorse music programme…

Sat Oct 13 2001 - 01:00

Tindersticks

Despite their best intentions of remaining a fringe act, Tindersticks have, over the course of almost 10 years, built up a sizeable…

Wed Oct 10 2001 - 01:00

The Paul Brady Songbook

For all his prestige and credibility as a songwriter, Paul Brady seems to need continually to prove himself - no bad thing for…

Thu Oct 04 2001 - 01:00

Brian Kennedy

There was a time when it seemed Brian Kennedy strived for a form of credibility that comes from peer pressure and certain irate…

Wed Oct 03 2001 - 01:00

Cult Hero - Hannes Bok

Born in Duluth, Minnesota on July 2nd, 1914, Hannes Bok was an outstandingly brilliant artist who was also an excellent writer…

Sat Sept 29 2001 - 01:00

Acoustic 4x4

It's hardly novel, but it works: showcasing four singer-songwriters is as good a way as any of pitching the work of disparate…

Wed Sept 19 2001 - 01:00

Gary Moore

As reinventions go, Gary Moore's swapping of leather jackets and hard rock for comfortable clothes and a Les Paul guitar has …

Wed Sept 12 2001 - 01:00

Cult Hero

In Rock music terms, he's the cult hero to beat all cult heroes, the man who had it all but who crumbled before our very eyes…

Sat Sept 08 2001 - 01:00

U2,

If Bono, U2's lead singer, is the driver of the machine, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen jnr and Edge are the wheels that make it …

Mon Aug 27 2001 - 01:00

Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson

Not the Thompson brothers and definitely not the Thompson Twins, Richard and Danny are two stalwarts of British contemporary …

Wed Aug 01 2001 - 01:00

The Fugs

Combine boho poetry, a certain level of musical gaucheness and a healthy dose of shock tactics and you have The Fugs, an avant…

Sat Jul 28 2001 - 01:00

Robbie Williams

A primary question: what exactly do we want from our pop stars? Information? Entertainment? A mixture of both, with side orders…

Wed Jul 11 2001 - 01:00

Gabrielle

Gabrielle's success in Ireland continues apace - the last time she played this venue it was to a seated crowd who simply refused…

Thu Jul 05 2001 - 01:00

Chris Mills

A Chicago resident via a circuitous route involving stints in other parts of the US and Germany; a short-haired, string-snapping…

Fri Jun 29 2001 - 01:00

Alanis Morissette

Hopefully starting a trend of major artists using smaller venues in which to road-test new material, Alanis Morissette played…

Sat Jun 16 2001 - 01:00

Neil Young

Less prosaic than Leonard Cohen, more simplistic than Joni Mitchell and more viscerally exciting than Bob Dylan could ever be…

Thu Jun 14 2001 - 01:00

Roxy Music

This could have been a travesty: an acclaimed British rock band re-forms after almost 20 years for a brief world tour that is…

Tue Jun 12 2001 - 01:00

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin

Having one excellent singer/songwriter on the bill is good enough; two is spoiling us

Tue Jun 05 2001 - 01:00

Joe Meek

Joe Meek was born in April 1929, in Newent, Gloucestershire, and died in February 1967, in London, when he shot himself

Sat May 19 2001 - 01:00

Grand Drive

It's a rare thing that a band from South London/Brighton way comes up with a record that sounds as if the members have been brainwashed…

Mon May 14 2001 - 01:00

Hamell On Trial

A late addition to the festival proved to be the highlight: a scarred, bullet-headed, 40-something New-York-Stater, whose scatter…

Thu May 10 2001 - 01:00

Paul Burch

While Ryan Adams was across the road in the Watergate Theatre being precious in front of a couple of hundred people, Lambchop…

Tue May 08 2001 - 01:00

Jason Ringenberg Kilkenny, Carlsberg Rhythm & Roots Festival

Ringenberg is the man with the most history here: the leader of ground-breaking cowpunk band Jason & The Scorchers, torch…

Tue May 08 2001 - 01:00

Roky Erickson

Born Roger Erkynard Erickson in 1947 in Dallas, Texas, Roky Erickson was founder member of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, a …

Sat Apr 21 2001 - 01:00

Who wants to fit in, anyway?

Standing alone - but not aloof - from most Irish rock bands, Cane 141 have crept up from the lower ranks of the ne'er-do-wells…

Sat Apr 21 2001 - 01:00

Television

Vicar Street

Wed Apr 18 2001 - 01:00

Television

So the band that unleashed one of the bona fide classic rock albums of the past 35 years finally arrived in Ireland and appeared…

Wed Apr 18 2001 - 01:00

Finding the elixir of life

Over the past 20-odd years, New York's Television have achieved the virtually impossible

Sat Apr 14 2001 - 01:00

Spell-binding development

Not many people have a fiddle-playing grandfather in a band called The Senile Delinquents

Fri Apr 13 2001 - 01:00

Who is Eva Cassidy?

Posthumous success in the pop and rock worlds often happens - you only have to look at the industry behind Presley, Hendrix, (…

Sat Mar 31 2001 - 01:00

Linda Lovelace

It's a name that is mentioned in either impolite company or in the context of exploitation of women

Sat Mar 31 2001 - 01:00

Michelle Shocked

Vicar Street

Wed Mar 21 2001 - 00:00

The Virgin Prunes

The word "challenging" springs to mind

Sat Mar 10 2001 - 00:00

Kim Richey, The Shelter

Out on her own with just a few bags, a guitar and a bunch of songs, former environmental education worker Kim Richey looks like…

Wed Mar 07 2001 - 00:00
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