Whelanslive.com have just announced what must be an early contender for bargain of the year: 30 bands playing 3 venues over 4 nights plus (a) free booze for an insanely reasonable €10.
No Monster Club's 'Young Guts Champion' was released earlier this month on Australian label Masses//Masses.
Retarded Cop, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Tieranniesaur, Land Lovers & Groom take the Popical Island show on the road to Galway on Thursday for a free gig in The Roisin Dubh.
Choice Music prize favourites (round here anyway) Tieranniesaur play their first headline gig of 2012 in Whelan's this Friday - want to win some tickets?
Indiecater Records have released Sing Up For The Boys In Green, a compilation of Irish football-related songs dedicated to the Ireland squad heading over to Euro 2012.
"It’s an idiot savant record, lovely, well balanced pop bristling under the surface of what seems to be something that was put together in a shed over the weekend and recorded onto a Dictaphone wielded by a sugared-up toddler." - Dara Higgins on Skelocrats' Whip Crack Away.
19 bands from the Popical Island crew take over Whelan's on Saturday 7th July for the launch of the third - and final - Popical Island compilation CD.