Sweet Jane - Heartbreak - live at The Academy.

PSSST! Sweet Jane have loooads of free songs to download from their MySpace Player!

Derry’s new rave faves Japanese Popstars really let rip at Punchestown:

Apparently they hit 6000 capacity for the Dance Stage at Oxegen, massive numbers for half two on Saturday!
BBC Radio 1’s Rory McConnell hosts over an hour of the JapStars’ Oxegen set over on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/rorymcconnell/. Just hit the ‘Listen Again’ link.

Emergency Position - Headgear
Directed by Dominic Kosicki


Headgear - The Emergency Position from Dominik Kosicki on Vimeo.

How deadly is Vimeo? Tantalising, clean interface and the easiest sign-up in the world. Let me know if you find nifty Irish vids

Dead, buried, gone, cleared out, packed-up, a trail of dust on life’s lonely highway, Stagger Lee - aptly named after the murdered billyboy of New Orleans - are dead. But haud yer whist! Don’t cry just yet, leave your soggy hankies in your pocket for the fe/male four-piece are not quite finished. They erupt from the ghostly chysalis of that Staggering incarnation into a new world of light…as the Dagger Lees!

Remember this? I couldn’t tell you then but the band chose to abandon the old moniker waaay back and the call for artists was a search for new identity in the form of a logo, artwork and creative vision for the new handle.
Big plans are afoot in the Lee camp.  This summer is spent writing and preparing new material, including a download-only single available from MySpace next month. Their song Scarlet Fever appears on a forthcoming American film release by punk rock film company Vivid Alt, while September sees the band make a return to the Spiegeltent celebrations.

However big daddy of all this news is the early 2009 trip to the US to record their debut album with the legendary Jim Diamond of White Stripes, Von Bondies and Electric Six fame. With so much activity and a strengthening reputation, it was time to dump the old skin of success and move into new threads. The Stagger Lee name is well-known in America - just try searching MySpace -  continuance under the same name would have invited a helluva headache. So instead, Stagger Lee is dead…long live the Dagger Lees!

BATS ft. DISCOnnect4 @ Pogo

Humanzi - Upstairs @ Whelans

In a remarkably good-natured move, Waterford’s You’re Only Massive have announced they no longer plan a future for their group. Megan revealed the news a few hours ago through the trusty MySpace blog channels, promising to honour scheduled Irish dates before a final gig with Queen Kong at Trickster in Berlin on 26 July - which gives my heart a little wobble - genuine shock factor surrounds You’re Only Massive’s decision to call it a day as a new record with Queen Kong, Dot Dash, is due for release in less than a month. Interesting details here on the QK blog.

We are at a crossroads, just like the seminal Britney Spears movie Crossroads.
I am more interested in trying to develop my writing and dedicate a chunk of my life to that, while Maebh is eager as a beaver to develop musically. I will continue to contribute to Y.O.M., beginning with a Y.O.M. zine, which will be out around the time Dot-Dash comes out.

For once the OHR black lace mantilla will stay in its case. I’m not sad to say goodbye Maebh and Megan, they’re bright, creative and attuned, a simple hybrid of text/melody blossoming to maturity. You know it’s not the last we’ll hear of them…but wasn’t it nice to know this incarnation?

You’re Only Massive MySpace blog