No doubt you’ve heard the good news: Cathy Davey, Iain Archer, Paddy Casey, Oppenheimer, Fight Like Apes, Channel One, Delorentos, Distractors, Driving by Night, Laura Izibor and The Bleedin Bleedins are the 11 Irish bands chosen to play the prestigious SXSW (South by South-West) musical expo in Austin, Texas from March 12-16.
Dolly Parton vs Channel One? I would indeed…(pay to see)….

Cork/London-based Margaret O’Sullivan aka Femmepop recently posted a track from her forthcoming debut EP ‘Kick‘ on MySpace. Similarly-titled, the song features Chris Geddes of Belle and Sebastian on piano and will slowlysweetly kick your eardrums out.
Don’t leg it just yet: there’s also this deaaadly Phantom fm podcast from her recent visit to the studio.

Have I mentioned that Floyd Soul and the Wolf have three songs on MySpace for free download? They’re all juice and cookies age and throw terrific tantrums through guitar…

So far this morning my iPod’s hosted Gruff Rhys, Hybrasil, Electric President, Massive Attack and now Subplots. If you haven’t already heard their fabulous EP State and Nature I recommend you get your skates on because their album debut won’t be long now.
If you knew how many dead album-in-the-making blog-bookmarks I dumped last week, you’d agree that Subplots have made a grand start on charting the process of recording in this extensive blog complete with larky photos and revealing weaknesses for equipment and ginger nuts:

Subplots and Seeping Into Cinemas will support Le Galaxie at Crawdaddy on February 29th, if the headliners are still alive, that is. The video for their new single We Bleed The Blood of Androids has left them so:

I’m a very happy blogger now we have our video embeds working. Massive coding operations lasting long into the tea-break brought many baited breaths and blank screens but it’s now been a week and the links are solid, Glory Be!

Just added to Youtube, last night’s live performance of Weeknight Lovers from The Dirty 9s on TG4’s Deis Roc. Has anyone been watching the show? In this clip judge and Kila frontman Ronan O’Snodaigh gives the young 9s a bit of flak while guitarist Cian gives judge Karen a bit of glad-eye when she says “I could hear them on the radio….”

Further into video-realm we go, this time to In Light by Aortal, band of Dublin’s most affable busker James O’Toole, though you’d never think so watching him slink menancingly through gloomy social welfare corridors. Is that an ironic fire extinguisher?

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