LARKS has a voice from heaven. LARKS is the brain-child of singer-songwriter Fiona O’Kane. Fans of Bat For Lashes and Lykke Li will be alerted to her alt-pop soundings. Boasting a luscious voice and an ear for melody this is a project which feels like it’s here to stay. She has taken her personal diary and tied […]

8 years ago

Get out and enjoy the sunshine. There is no better place in the world when the sun is shining than Ireland. We won’t hear anything else. The weather this weekend and for the next week or so is set to be brilliant, so get up and get out and see what this beautiful country has to […]

8 years ago

June is World Pride Month, and Dublin will be celebrating the LGBTQ community from 21-30 June. There is a hell of a lot being packed into the nine-day festival, all of which you can find here. From today until the last day of the month, Dublin will be awash with events celebrating the LGBTQ community. Some […]

8 years ago

St. Bishop is from the stony grey soil of Monaghan. Hailing from the northern county of Monaghan, St. Bishop is a 23-year-old electro-pop artist. This is his brand new single and it’s taken from his forthcoming debut EP. Shining a light on his own personal experiences with social anxiety and growing up gay in rural […]

8 years ago

A potential classic this evening. The World Cup juggernaut continues unabated with another three fixtures to be decided. Kicking off proceedings today are the Danes, who can seal their passage to the last 16 with a win over the Aussies. That’s followed by France, who can also qualify for the last 16 with victory over […]

8 years ago

The Elation are pure pop. A few seconds into listening to the new single from The Elation, you very quickly realise these lads are fine purveyors of pop. Yes, ‘Catch’ is catchy and unashamedly so. The track, produced and recorded with multi-platinum selling London producer Andy Whitmore, reflects the bands classic pop sensibilities. With […]

8 years ago

The last quartet of teams make their bow today. Tuesday sees the teams in Group H make their tournament bow as the hosts play their second game of the tournament. First up we have Colombia against Japan, followed by Poland’s clash with Senegal. The evening match is a huge match for Mo Salah (if fit) […]

8 years ago

It’s uncanny. Comedian, radio presenter, actor and all-round legend PJ Gallagher has just discovered he has a very famous doppelganger. The star of Young Offenders and Naked Camera tweeted his surprise at the revelation and when you see the image, you’ll be questioning the bloodline immediately. It turns out that PJ is the absolute spit of […]

8 years ago

One Horse Pony are no one-trick pony. One Horse Pony are a band from Cork. They are an alt-roots outfit whose DNA can be traced to the swamplands of Louisiana, smouldering with earthy Cajun tones and raucous intent. A seriously talented bunch of individuals who have earned plaudits from esteemed acts such as The Blind […]

8 years ago

Three matches, three venues, three lions. Mondays are always better when they are World Cup Mondays and today is no different. The festival of football in Russia continues today with three more matches. We get our first glimpse of England as they take on Tunisia tonight and it’ll be interesting to see if Gareth Southgate […]

8 years ago

A very tasty Sunday in store. The first Sunday of the World Cup sees tournament experts Brazil and Germany enter the fray. Germany, the holders, kick off against perennial qualifiers Mexico and Brazil will be hoping their talisman, Neymar, can help them justify their tournament favourites tag when they take on Switzerland. Serbia qualified from […]

8 years ago

It’s a four-game extravaganza today lads. Saturday gives us our first glimpse of Lionel Messi at the World Cup, while a star-studded French side take on Australia. We get to see what might have been had we not been demolished by the Danes last November and Luka Modric leads his Croatian side into battle against Nigeria. […]

8 years ago

It’s not ALL about the World Cup. Well, okay, let’s not get carried away. Of course it’s ALL about the World Cup, but not to everyone. Here are some things you can do which do not involve roaring at a television at countries you’ve never been to over the coming days. Irish Maritime Festival 2018 […]

8 years ago

Time to start planning your Sea Sessions weekend. Sea Sessions, which returns to the unique setting of Bundoran later this month, have just announced their hotly anticipated stage times for the festival weekend. The full line up this year includes headliners Dizzee Rascal on Friday 22 June, Walking On Cars on 23 June and Rudimental […]

8 years ago

The Eskies don’t give a folk. Hailing from Dublin, The Eskies bring their unique brand of folk noir/gypsy jazz/sea shanty and swaggering stage spectacle to ballrooms and booze houses far and wide. On the live music circuit, they are a fiercely sought after act. Last year saw them play over 40 festivals in 5 countries, tour […]

8 years ago

The day that launched Jack Charlton and the Irish football team through the stratosphere. It’s 30 years ago to the day when Ireland recorded one of their most famous victories. In their very first match at a major finals tournament, they went on to beat England 1-0 in Stuttgart at Euro’88. It was a result […]

8 years ago

Super Extra Bonus Party are back with a serious bang. Back in 2007, Super Extra Bonus Party seemingly had the world at their feet. They had just released their self-titled debut album and lo and behold, it was not only critically acclaimed, but it also went on to win the much coveted Choice Music Prize for […]

8 years ago

Orchid Collective are back with another earworm. Orchid Collective consist of four musicians from each corner of Ireland, David O‘Shea (lead vocals, guitar), Shea Tohill (lead guitar, vocals), Hugh O’Neill (bass, vocals) and Darra Doyle (drums, vocals). They’ve been together for just under two years and have been gigging relentlessly throughout Ireland and the UK. […]

8 years ago

Michael Myers is back. There have been eleven instalments in the Halloween franchise, but nothing has come close to the sheer terror and brilliance of the original way back in 1978. This could be the time. The brand new Halloween movie picks up forty years after the events of the original film while disregarding the continuity […]

8 years ago

Billy Corgan and the Pumpkins have rarely sounded so good. Yes, we know The Smashing Pumpkins have released material since then, but this is the first time the original line-up have got together to release something new. The founding members of the band, Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin got together in the Shangri La […]

8 years ago

SIIGHTS are back and as always, they have ‘Got It’. SIIGHTS are Dublin-based Mia Fitz and Toni Etherson who only met a couple of years ago. Mia had toured the world with Hozier and decided she wanted to do something herself so along came Toni and SIIGHTS were born. In that time they have built up […]

8 years ago

Paul McCann is a voice of experience. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paul McCann from Cavan, has been playing in various bands since 1996, including Aine Cahill’s band along with the power pop band The Plan and also the Johnny Cash tribute Get Rhythm. Keep The Devil Within’ is the first single to be taken from […]

8 years ago

Tenderhook joins forces with Aisling Kearns for a potential massive summer hit. Tenderhook, otherwise known as Will Minnock, has released his debut single, ‘See You Go’, in collaboration with musician Aisling Kearns. It’s a tune which merges pop music in the style of Calvin Harris and Avicii with future house elements inspired by artists such as […]

8 years ago

Joe Canning is bringing two of his All-Ireland winning mates too. Colm ‘Wooly’ Parkinson is the presenter of the award-winning SportsJOE GAA Hour podcast and he is bringing it out to Galway for what promises to be a hugely entertaining night. It’s for a good cause too, as proceeds from the night go to Scoil […]

8 years ago

Arvo Party wants us all to have a party. Belfast-based musician and producer Herb Magee releases banging tunes via the moniker Arvo Party.  Seven months on from the release of his Northern Ireland Music Prize-nominated eponymous self-titled debut album, he’s back with another delicious slice of electronica. The track is called ‘Liberté’, a masterfully propulsive six […]

8 years ago

Underworld and Iggy Pop are not young, but this is so fresh. Iconic is a word loosely bandied about to describe artists of a vintage persuasion, but there is no denying that both Iggy Pop and Underworld are worthy of the description. Iggy, the former frontman of The Stooges, has been going since time began […]

8 years ago

Glass Wings is Belfast-based singer-songwriter Stephen Jones. Glass Wings is a listening experience that is strangely familiar, but with an edge: a modern ‘multi-genre’ approach to production. In an era of experimental, process-heavy or increasingly homogenised pop music, could originality exist in a return to the simplicity of classic songwriting? That’s the theory presented by Glass Wings, […]

8 years ago

Badhands wants you to let him in. Badhands is the project of Dublin songwriter and musician Dan Fitzpatrick. Dan would be known for his previous work with The Mighty Stef and The Last Tycoons. His recently completed debut album, ‘Predictable Boy’, began as a collaboration with producer and bass player Tom Cosgrave (The Minutes), then quickly […]

8 years ago

Make the most of your weekend. Believe us, there are weekends when we want to do nothing at all. Zero, zilch, nada. It’s good to lounge around and recharge the batteries, but it always leaves us with a tiny feeling of regret. A regret that we didn’t use our time more productively and have a […]

8 years ago

Pursued By Dogs are the real deal. Dublin band Pursued By Dogs have been floating around the Irish music scene since 2010. At their own admission, they didn’t really have a goal or destination. “We started in 2010,” explains Andrew Brennan, “not really knowing what we were doing, but trying the best we could to bridge […]

8 years ago

Mik Pyro is a national treasure. Mik Pyro was songwriter, producer and lead singer of the one of Ireland most innovative, influential and hit making groups Republic of Loose. The man exudes funk and groove-laden music. It’s in his DNA. Republic Of Loose, turning out four top ten albums with hits like ‘The Steady Song’, ‘You Know It’, ‘I Like Music’ […]

8 years ago

Brass Phantoms continue their ascent. Formed in secondary school, Brass Phantoms consists of Ryan Cashell, Greg Whelan, Adam McCabe, James Geraghty and Colleen Heavey. No strangers to their work here in JOE, we’ve featured their work before and with good reason. The release of this striking new single is a stadium-sized effort with a sweeping, anthemic […]

8 years ago

Skyfever are back and in your face. On the back of releasing their latest EP, Skyfever present to us the first track from it and it’s Skyfever rocking and rolling as ever. ‘Signs’ is the first track from the EP titled ‘Rear View Mirror’ and it’s a good old fist-pumping, head-banging rock anthem. Last year saw the Irish […]

8 years ago

Scally is ready, but are you? Scally is the moniker attached to self-confessed ‘best frontman in the country’,  Ethan Scally. He’s yet another product from the conveyor belt of musical talent hailing from Mullingar. He writes and co-produces his own songs and has forged a bit of a reputation for his live performances. He has been […]

8 years ago

The solo career of A. Smyth is starting to take off. A. Smyth has been writing and performing music under different guises for more than a decade. His last band, Vann Music, achieved notable success, appearing at Ireland’s biggest music festivals (Electric Picnic, Longitude), scoring a commercial radio hit (Tina) and the criminally undervalued ‘Boy‘. […]

8 years ago

whenyoung are a trio from Limerick and they’re on the up. whenyoung are Aoife Power (Vocals/ Bass), Niall Burns (Guitar), Andrew Flood (Drums). Their story started in Limerick where three underage teenagers met for the first time after sneaking into Costello’s Tavern: the only bar in town that floated their musical tastes. After bonding over […]

8 years ago

Cado is back with another slice of traditional rock ‘n’ roll. Cado is a throwback to a bygone era. An era once inhabited by the likes of the King, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and such ilk. His sound is unashamedly similar to those legends of music and in a world of cynicism and self-indulgence, […]

8 years ago

TOUCAN play at that game. See what I did there? No? No matter. TOUCAN is the irresistible funk-pop brainchild of singer-songwriter Conor Clancy and Martin Atkinson. Clancy is a songwriter from Waterford, Ireland, who takes his influences from rock, disco, and soul. Atkinson is not that Premier League referee, but is a renowned musical director, arranger, […]

8 years ago

The longest five minutes of my life. “Look ‘em in the eye and embrace your fears.” No, not the advice that was given to a young conscripted soldier before he’s sent to the frontline, but the advice I received before I did my very first stand-up comedy gig. Some would argue the premise is the […]

8 years ago

BARQ are back with a bang, a double bang. We are big fans of BARQ here in JOE. We’ve featured some of their stuff before and make no apologies about that. They are the creators of their self-proclaimed genre ‘Agrosoul’. A four-piece band who are shoving groove into the belly of the rock-beast and creating […]

8 years ago

Ferals release their debut single and it’s great. Four friends making rock music in their attic sounds like the premise for a pretty good indie film, but in Belfast, it is where Shane, Danzilla, Jack and Sam formed rock band Ferals. Finding space in a tiny attic to play together every week, they soon realised they […]

8 years ago

Creative Crime invites you to ‘Create Yourself’… Creative Crime are a hip-hop/electronic project consisting of lyricist God Creative (Teddy Darling) and producer/vocalist Crimes Against (Dan Doherty). The two lads met while working on the huge Irish box-office smash, Cardboard Gangsters, with the pair composing the original score for the film and God Creative himself appearing […]

8 years ago

Fangclub are back with a ridiculously good tune. 2017 was a hell of a year for Irish rock band Fangclub. They released their critically-acclaimed debut album simply called ‘Fangclub’. It was so good that it was nominated for the RTE Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year. Not bad for a debut album. They went on […]

8 years ago

The sun is shining, people are smiling and you hear that one song that signifies once and for all that summer is here.

8 years ago

Pete Higgins writes music because he has to. A native of Boyle, Roscommon, but now living in Galway city, Pete Higgins is consumed with writing music. Once a melody enters his head, he has to capture it, mould it or it will consume his thoughts for the rest of the day. The results of this […]

8 years ago

If you know your movies, this will be a breeze. We’ve given you 21 quotes from some big films and all you have to do is name the films in question before the clock runs out. Show off your cinematic knowledge prowess and taunt your pals with your score. Or maybe, just enjoy the quiz, […]

8 years ago

How well do you know your American city skylines? There are a lot of iconic American cities which we are all familiar with. Through watching television, films and following American sports, we all have a city that’s probably our favourite. This is by no means an easy quiz and if you do get all ten […]

8 years ago

Bayonets is back and sounding as good as ever. Bayonets is a solo project created by Kerry musician and songwriter Vinnie Flynn. He’s been featured before on our Song of the Day section. It’s quite the task trying to pigeonhole this guy as his distinctive style is a mix of alternative rock, indie, blues and […]

8 years ago

Deep Sky Objects are back with a banger. Deep Sky Objects include brothers Kevin O’Brien (lead vocals and guitar), Thomas O’Brien (drums and backing vocal) and DD Foley (bass guitar and backing vocals). They released their debut EP back in 2015 and have gone on to forge themselves a reputation as a band to keep an eye […]

8 years ago

So you think you know your soaps? Love them or loathe them, there is a reason there are so many soaps on our television screens. People watch them. In their droves. Whether you are a superfan or view them simply as a guilty pleasure, we think you’ll enjoy this quiz. If you’re a soap addict, […]

8 years ago