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The Archives
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02.01.13New Irish Sounds: FacesThe name: Faces. The deal: a producer, hip hop lover and damn fine salesman (more on that later), 17-year-old beatmaker Faces operates as deep down as the Irish underground goes. There's no Soundcloud page, no hype-generating Facebook profile, no Twitter account to speak of, and he doesn't give his real name. For now, you can only find him at this nifty Bandcamp page, which promises a new EP every month in 2013. January's Name Your Price release Mountains was one of my most-played musical things of the month, a powerful relaxant, bearing five dreamy, groove-led instrumentals. After this, what we know about Faces boils down to ...
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01.04.1350 Irish Things I Liked In 2012You've probably had enough of End Of Year lists by now, so I'll spare you the ranking and measuring and categorising and commentating that usually comes with any form of musical reportage published at the end of a year. Instead, you'll find a simple collection of EPs, tracks, music videos, performances and remixes made partially, or completely by Irish hands that I doted on during 2012. My initial brainstorm yielded about 90 things, but after telling myself how ridiculous that list would be, I whittled it down to 50 based on how much I listened to said work over the past 12 months. ...
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05.13.12Camden Crawl Dublin: Day TwoI was delighted see some bigger crowds and happier faces on Day Two of Dublin's Camden Crawl, as gig-goers began to embrace the fine art of venue-hopping. A couple of late starts permitted me to see shows I didn't think I'd get to, (Northy rockers LaFaro, the ever-luminous Rubberbandits and, for the second time in as many days, the brilliant DELS, whose album Gob is next on my to-download list), which left me wondering why the schedule wasn't more scattered in the first place. That said, the gigs I got to see this weekend were well worth the trek, and reports ...
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05.12.12Camden Crawl Dublin: Day OneDay One of the inaugural Camden Crawl Dublin didn't pass without a few logistical hiccups, but a couple of late starts and some general bewilderment didn't stop patrons from going home with some wonderful tunes swimming around in their heads. Dubliners don't appear all that familiar with the original Camden Crawl; most seem to have heard more about individual performances (like this Florence + The Machine show from 2008, or this security-defying Odd Future gig from last year) than the festival itself. Punters who found themselves confused by the unusual scheduling (Ghostpoet performs at 7.50pm tonight, while relative unknowns occupy much later slots), ...