News : MMIX
Hello, I’m Nay and yes, those mucky tracks all over your clean new year hallway belong to me 
So here’s the speeds, skids and car-crash statistics of the holiday aftermath but before I go forensic on the Irish nethers, if you’re loathe to see the last three weeks’ festivities blur into mist then get yourself over to Seeping Into Cinemas‘ MySpace player for the newly-uploaded There’s Always Next Year and hug/kick-yourself into revolution 2009.
Jape’s musical involvement The Seed gets Kanye’s props.
Music Under Fire, a Philadelphia-based blog, have been keeping tabs on Irish music. In their Top Twenty Artists To Look Forward To In 2009 they’ve tipped THREE Irish bands as hot contenders this year. I’m sure BellX1, Delorentos and Director are all thrilled to be earmarked for success as each band put in buckets of work last year and it’s great to know that word’s spreading.
Jerome’s Law flutter lace hankies and bid adieu to their drummer. Hang tight to your funky bassist lads!
The Minutes blog. Get ready for the moral panic.
Sweet Jane’s Lydia Des Dolles on the Irish music scene: “i think theyre a punch of pricks…ive never met them…but they seem like a bunch of pricks”.
General Fiasco wave their chequered Vans over the 2008 finish-line and look back on a cut-finger world of emo rock.
Two Door Cinema Club announce several UK dates including the *blah* NME Shockwaves Tour */blah* with *blah* The Wombats */blah*.
Branching out from their base in Cork, Livewire Presents take the show on the road to Limerick later this month with And So I Watch You From Afar providing the aural-crackle equivalent of a smashed champagne bottle at Baker Place. Then it’s back home to ready up for Elk’s debut album launch on 23 Jan.
Tipped by Jenny Huston in the Irish Times top picks of 2009, the Brad Pitt Light Orchestra bring more passion to the pit in Crawdaddy on 17 January.
Aortal have big plans for your year which unsuprisingly include Eamon Dorans and more surprisingly, their very good friends Gina Moore, Carla Brunell, Jamie MacDonald and excellent blues-buskerman Wascana on 16 January.
First came Dublin Duck Dispensary’s tribute Roald Dahl and now They Want Control pay homage to Allan Ahlberg…or not.
How’d ya like that appleseed?