No Spill Blood, Windings, Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, Iceland's Dead Skeletons and a whole lot more play the three day Noise Weekender in Cork, starting September 28th.
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"At times the kind of urgent freedom they’re playing with is a contrivance, but clearly they’re actually enjoying the playing again..." - Dara Higgins on Bloc Party's new LP, Four.
A roundup of new releases from Alaskan, Loch Ness Mouse & His Sweet Surprise (aka former Green Party TD / pottymouth Paul Gogarty).
"His dramas are conveyed in his words, and the band’s barely perceptible changes in intensity, rather than crowd pleasing theatrics." - Dara Higgins on James Yorkston's new album I Was A Cat From A Book.
"It’s time to throw punk rock out the door and embrace middle age. The balcony it is, vertiginously positioned above the seething, balding mass below, pogoing and crowd surfing and acting as if tomorrow wasn’t a work day." Dara Higgins reviews last Sunday's PiL gig at The Button Factory.
"Of course, if Mister Mr Lewis didn’t want a review becoming a breakfast club full of references to the nineteen eighties then he wouldn’t have gone right ahead and made an entire album out of them."
"Here the raw rubs shoulders with the gleefully inept, the deliberately tangential, the loftily idealistic. It’s a frankly terrific collection, containing some marvellous music worthy of a wider audience." - Dara Higgins on Irish post-punk & new wave compilation Strange Passion.
"It was gash. It was horrible. It was a grimpocalypse. The wind, which cut across the field, played havoc with the sound. At least, I think it was the wind. It may just have been the sound." - Dara Higgins gets his weekend ruined at Forbidden Fruit.
"There’s enough here to suggest that their career might yet be an interesting one. Or a successful one. Or even, god forbid, both." - Dara Higgins on Funeral Suits' debut album Lily Of The Valley.
Some recent singles from Fred, The Aluskas, The Mandolas & The Urges get the once over.