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Re: Watch Visual Accompaniments To Four Mmoths Songs

ArMoDegrees — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:00:40 -0000

Increíble, que maravilla, me encanta, que delicadesa¡! Un placer escuchar música tan buena, gracias...

Re: Watch The New Video By Pop Etc (Formerly The Morning Benders) – ‘Live It Up’

Mikechy — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:47:37 -0000

Wow. Wtf happened to them? Big Echo was one of the best albums of the year and this is a steaming pile. Good luck booking the VFW next time around.

Re: 2.54 – ‘Scarlet’ (video)

Raggio DiCetra — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:48:33 -0000

FANTASTIK...... GIVES ME GREAT ALIVE FEELINGS..... VERY VERY COOL.... by raggiodicetra.

Re: Young Wonder – ‘Orange’ (Video)

Lifterlid — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:09:14 -0000

Vanity project, yawn.

Re: Wolf Gang – ‘The King And All Of His Men’ (video)

HowAreYouToday — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:45:10 -0000

I wonder who that girl is?

Re: Ambience Affair – ‘Fragile Things’ (video)

The G-Man — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:39:20 -0000

Seems to be a pretty great line-up in Cork too with Selebrities and Slow Magic also on the bill.

Competition to win tickets to The Ambience Affair in The Pav still running below.

http://www.thegmanworld.com/20...

Re: Arctic Monkeys – ‘R U Mine?’ (video)

stripeyjumper — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:49:04 -0000

Is that him in the TV at the end? Sharp eyes dude.

Re: Arctic Monkeys – ‘R U Mine?’ (video)

Ingridthespider — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:36:22 -0000

Jamie does make an appearance...look closer.

Re: Mmoths – ‘Thnx’ (video)

Finn Yowell — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:16:21 -0000

Really nice video !

Re: Miike Snow – ‘Paddling Out’ (video)

John Robertson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:10:10 -0000

Cant wait for new album from this amazing band!

Re: A Love Letter To An Réalt Dearg

Rebelrevolutions — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:35:35 -0000

so very sorry to hear this. i first saw Elly O Keefe here, and it was a gig that moved me to tears..thought only 80s music could do that to me..this piece has also moved me and thank you for sharing your experience and highlighting the big problem that just isn't going away... but we cannot give up..

Re: A Lazarus Soul – Dublin Gold Exchange

Dublingoldexchange — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:20:27 -0000

Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of this please.

Re: A Love Letter To An Réalt Dearg

Eoin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:08:44 -0000

I'm going to really miss the place!I get what you're saying about there being a disinterest in local music - I've often tried to get a gang of my friends to go to gigs and often the reply is ''I've never heard of them so no''. I think that's such a bad attitude to have - if you only listen/go to gigs of artists you know , how will you ever discover new music?!

I think a lot of it is about a comfort zone aswell - people know what they like musically and they're almost afraid to step outside of this zone.Take something like trying to explain an upcoming gig to someone - you explain its electronic music for example, and some people will say they don't like the genre, but even within the genre the music varies loads. I think some people have a really closed-mind when it comes to discovering new artists and going to gigs.

And obviously the recesion has an impact.

I know there's things like http://www.gigonometry.com/ where people arrange to meet up at gigs (but seems to be mostly Dublin) so hopefully people will be encouraged to go to more gigs!

Re: A Love Letter To An Réalt Dearg

Jack C — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:15:35 -0000

It's a tough one for sure. It's a collective social stigma I think, a bit like asking, 'how do we stop people drinking so much?' It's so easy to just think that promoting a great local act to a huge degree will get people to go to gigs. I can remember seeing event pages for the Réalt on Facebook that say that 85 people are attending and 12 show up. I have to think hard about how to launch a, as you say, "Get your ass to a gig movement", putting on gigs is what I want to do in life. It's out of my control, but the draconian licensing laws kill live music in this country, especially within the forum of electronic music, we close our pubs and clubs when people in mainland Europe go to them. That said, I have seen some live electronic acts and DJ sets from Irish performers in the Réalt over the years that would put any established international act to shame (tip of the cap to TR-One and Automatic Tasty). And fair play to people like the MonoTonik crew, John and Barry from Sunday Times, Boo and the Hobo convention chaps and Caleb/Graham from Modulation. Always advertised gigs well, always brought up a great crowd. Many thanks.

Re: A Love Letter To An Réalt Dearg

Ticklethebass — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:05:33 -0000

Great words. I think its time the "Get your ass to a gig movement" moved up a notch. Any ideas how to get people to attend shows?

Re: Sad Soul Circus – ‘Waves’ (video)

Sarah J — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:36:22 -0000

Love this video

Re: Kool Thing – ‘Light Games’ (video)

Lisa — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:09:58 -0000

Love these girls, just saw them in Melbourne, they were deadly!

Re: Introducing: Sad Soul Circus

Sarah — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:57:49 -0000

Really nice sounds

Re: The Point: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Ian Maleney — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:31:40 -0000

Ok, first off, some personal defence. I wasn't giving out about the Choice Prize at all and I was basically making the same point as you in the end. I was saying that the Choice fits a certain bill and will never go for the most experimental or underground work. It has no obligation to and it would make no real difference if it did. I was simply pointing out some of the reasons for the names on the shortlist and explaining that broad appeal is always going to win out over specific, risky, polarising pieces of work. As Karl pointed out on Facebook earlier, "there's no real difference between how popular Cashier No. 9 are and how popular Simon Bird is, relative to the Man/Woman On The Street. So it may as well be something acceptable to most." I thought my post was pretty much in favour of the Choice as it stands and I hope it continues in much the same vein. It's doing its job well.

To address the earlier point about blogs/journos/criticism/etc, I would point you to the video in the post of mine that you linked to. Towards the end, Weingarten outlines the main difference between bloggers and critics. Critics give reasons why. He also points out there is no real imperative for a reason why anymore; you've got Mediafire and broadband, figure it out for yourself. Now, I understand that many bloggers have no interest in criticism at any level (or see curation as criticism in itself) but as Karl says below, the lack of a "because" can lead to blogs being just as guilty of the kind of arrogance that established critics are often accused of.

Personally, I follow no music blogs in this post-and-share vein and have no interest in doing so. It works for other people though so fair play. What Lisa was getting at originally, as I see it, was that we need something more on top of (not replacing) this to really take ourselves (the audience) and the artists to another level. We can all get better at listening and appreciating and the only way to do that is to look hard at ourselves and ask the difficult questions about our art, however we experience it.

It should also be noted (for the 1000th time) that "Criticism" is not an exclusively negative concept. As much as we will be better able to pick faults in the work of our artists with more long-form writing, we will also be better able to celebrate it when it is deserved.

Again, glad to see more voices getting involved and I think Lisa's post has been a great stimulus for people to think about and it was just what was needed.

Re: The Point: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Karl McDonald — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:11 -0000

This kind of post (and Dave's and Jim's) is exactly the kind of critical discourse I think some of us were looking for, a bit of thinking about what's being written about and how. I've been saying this on every comments section since this little debate started, but it's not about tearing down bands or posting things you don't want to post. People like you and Ian and Lisa are going to do posts like this, and your opinions will differ. And that means that it's not just softcore PR.

Also it's probably worth a mention that posting music with bare descriptive commentary is at least as indicative of a "grandiose view of themselves" as writing lengthy tracts about why it's good or bad, because it implies that a blogger thinks their taste is worth following without explaining why. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't, you choose the feed that makes up what you end up reading yourself, but a lack of indignation doesn't necessarily mean a lack of arrogance.

You might be right that I'm in the minority in that I don't read these blogs just to listen to new music, but I'm loving all this stuff. Anyway, thanks for the post.

Re: The Point: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Nay — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:51:26 -0000

Having been around a few years I've seen and heard this argument quite a few times in various forms so I'm sort of tired and jaded once the immediate indignation has worn off. We are who we are, we wouldn't expect people to put an act on in person so why should they do it on a blog? If there are sites that just blog what everyone else likes, they're just trying to be popular. Likeable blogs are the ones that post music because they love it and that's not something that should be messed with too much imo.

Re: The Point: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Barry — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:11:13 -0000

Well said. I think the point of blogs is you are the boss, you decide what music to blog about. As most of us do this in our spare time why should we drive ourselves mad by listening to music we simply don't like and then having to waste our time posting all that negativity?

Shit music gets publicised all the time on radio, TV etc. Why give it any more? Personally speaking, I like what I like and I post accordingly. I feel my blog reflects my personal tastes and what I'm listening to etc. If people find they have a similar taste to me then thats fine, if not, it also fine. There is another blog out there for them.

Section 31 the shit music.

Re: The Cast Of Cheers – ‘Family’

Nicolas — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:12:03 -0000

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Re: About

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Re: Favourite Irish Songs of 2011

Wingnut — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:01:06 -0000

brilliant!