Kitty and the Can Openers: Whelans, Dublin, 23rd Feb

February 18th, 2009

You will be tired after the weekend, those who are going to Cork will be more so. Solution: Kitty and the Can Openers at Whelans on Monday night.
A mix of folk-pop, acoustic guitar-driven songs with beautiful female vocals, Kitty and the Can Openers will chill you out and indeed help with those Monday blues. [...]


summer experiment

August 26th, 2008

The Summer Experiment play Auntie Annies on Wednesday 27th August. Then disappear into the night. Never to be seen again.

They said it better than I could
What happens when a band is faced with its own end before it even gets off its feet? Would this knowledge change their plan of action? Could it change the [...]


radiohead, malahide castle

June 9th, 2008

Niceness isn’t found very often, as we all know but just last week I was offered, and subsequently given a ticket to the Radiohead concert at Malahide Castle, Dublin, by a friend who wasn’t able to go. That’s what I call niceness :)
The concert was great, definitely better than I expected. Unfortunately the security guy [...]


boathouse ep launch

May 28th, 2008

Still racing of adrenaline from her solo performance at the 20/20 photographic exhibition, Amy McGarrigle will join her band-mates at the Empire Music Hall, Belfast, for the launch of their E.P. ‘What I Remember’.
The band, Boathouse, were formed in 2006 and through progressively gigging, their music as gotten better and fanbase, bigger. The EP contains [...]


kitty and the can openers! ep relaunch gig

May 1st, 2008

Tonight Kitty and the Can Openers subtly relaunch their self-titled EP at the Empire Music Hall, Belfast.
Recorded in Dec 07/Jan 08, the finely produced CD contains five superb tracks, which often find themselves slipped into the the set list whenever they grace the stage.
When the EP was first printed the band were unhappy with the [...]


i ordered my mac

March 16th, 2008

This week went quite quickly, coming to an end that was well worth the wait.
After work on Friday I purchased a 15-inch Macbook Pro from the Apple Store. This I am very excited about. It will be an interesting transition period from XP to Mac though hopefully it will go smoothly. I have lots of questions, [...]


nebraska revisited

February 22nd, 2008

I first listened to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album a few weeks ago. I tried hard to like it, but I just couldn’t. Each track has a story, more often than not quite a sad story, but the style of the album isn’t for me.
However, that doesn’t really matter. What is important is that each of [...]


happy ‘feck-off-i’m-single’ day

February 14th, 2008

That time of year once more. Lets ignore it.
Thankfully there is plenty going on in Belfast this evening to keep me occupied.
The Knights of the Round Table are holding their usual jam packed night of fun with music from Kitty and the Can Openers, Serpentine Smile and Autorun plus plenty of extras including light electronica, [...]


sardine-packt two step

January 19th, 2008

I haven’t seen the limelight as packed for a local band as it was on Thursday night. 360 325 paying punters. Although I did hear the turnout was similar at Kowalski/And So I watch You From Afar/Cutaways gig in December. The lineup this time around was A Plastic Rose, Panama Kings and Fighting With Wire. [...]


merry christmas

December 25th, 2007

So. It’s here. Christmas. You may be reading this on Christmas day. What are you doing on the Internet on Christmas day? Family sucks? Guess its the problem a lot of people have. Understandable. Boxing day? Again, why aren’t you opening all those boxes? Not believe in Christmas? Again, Family suck? It’s okay, I [...]