Neill Dougan reviews Grooms 'careworn but pretty much perfect' Brothers & Sisters EP.
Popical Island release their Christmas EP "A Hard Old Station: Christmas With the Popical Island Showband" next Monday.
Popical Island heads to the UK this weekend for a dirty weekend with Bubblegum Records & fakeindielabel.
"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.
Groom's 4th LP Bread And Jam will be released on August 9th on vinyl (with a download code) and CD
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.
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.