HotPress’ master scribe eminent book-rocker Peter Murphy has his own blog! With the blogging equivalent of a champagne bottle, Interpol and Tom Waits baptised the latest addition to HP.com Blogs (the other being Anne Sexton on XXX). Expect the deliciously unexpected of relevations and an unparalleled peek at the man behind some of the magazine’s iconic features.
Check out today’s installment discussing his deep-rooted love for Eighties marvels The Triffids.

Peter Murphy on HotPress.com

Synth Eastwood are back with a fifth audiovisual treat and it’s lucky Friday 13 for Temple Bar. After a year’s graft, four shows and a voyage to Berlin, an advance on the home front with a theme of Flags & Anthems sees a schedule split between two shows, both packed with art and music.
Kicking off the night in Filmbase is a free SE starter featuring a print exhibition of work on the Flags & Anthems brief from dozens of international artists along with a performance from Somadrone and installations from Dublin artists Hugh Cooney and Digital Semifore.

Later the show moves next door to the Button Factory where new club NightFlight will be waiting for the baton and what a topping line-up in store! NightFlight’s highlight comes in the form of the eagerly-anticipated Synth Eastwood band: Simon Cullen of Le Bien, Philth, Jape Simon Hayes of Stasis Collective and DJ Tu-Ki will form a live interpretation of loops submitted to Synth Eastwood site. Preceded by Le Galaxie and John Donnelly, also on the night are DJ sets from Jon Averill & Matagouri.
Seri-o, that’s a whole range of art and music encapsulated in a single night’s festivities and I for one think it stands to be a corker. Tickets for the Button Factory gig are a measly €10 so really, that’s your Friday sorted, all you have to do now is look forward to it…

Read the NightFlight blog!

Well, tain’t May no more but pshaw, what’s a calendar to musicians?!

Aortal, Queen Kong and You’re Only Massive have returned their MeMe responses! Makes for some riveting reading: manifestos, assaults and rip-off merchants abound…check it out!

What think ye of this list compiled by Nicholas at MusicToDie for? His top 50 Irish songs are the latest in a long line of posts highlighting the Best Ofs. It’s a pretty comprehensive run-down of home-grown music spanning thirty years or so…do you agree with his choices? Who should be number one? Does it raise any concerns for you regarding cultural evolution? Let us discuss

Too Famous To Get Fully Dressed has the low-down on FLA’s new single and hotly-tipped debut album.

UnaRocks‘ post about silly foodie-bands is a giggle. I’m tryna think of a trump card to beat Nina Heinz. Toss your own names into the ring!

(Nina Hynes photo: David Cleary. Condiments: model’s own.)