Pearl Jam star helps Wicklow band Florence Road after equipment was stolen
Eddie Vedder offered to lend them his guitars. Wicklow band Florence Road have thanked Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder after he stepped in to help them following the theft of their musical equipment in Los Angeles. The Bray group had been due to perform at California’s Ohana Festival but announced on Saturday that they would […]
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Amble have their first Irish No 1 single with The Swell
The Swell has taken Amble to the top of the charts Amble have reached another major milestone, with the Irish folk trio landing their first-ever No. 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart with The Swell. The achievement brings Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In’s lengthy chart reign to an end. The track […]
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U2 cover The Pogues as Shane MacGowan tribute album takes shape
What is on the Shane MacGowan tribute album U2 have released their cover of The Pogues’ Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, the first taste of Shane MacGowan tribute album 20th Century Paddy. The Songs Of Shane MacGowan lands on 13 November. It is a fairly loaded choice of song. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah appeared […]
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World Cafe Dublin: NPR hands two weeks of US airtime to Irish music
Why World Cafe Dublin matters for Irish acts Somewhere in Philadelphia, a public radio producer had to sit down and decide which Irish musicians would not make the cut. That is the sort of problem Dublin creates. From Monday, World Cafe Dublin becomes a fortnight-long fixture on National Public Radio in the United States. The […]
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Legendary Irish musician Eithne Vallely dies after being struck by lorry
Tributes are pouring in for the ‘pioneering musician, collector and champion of traditional Irish music’. Eithne Vallely, the acclaimed traditional Irish musician, has died at the age of 81 after being struck by a lorry. In a statement, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said that it received a report at around 8.20am on […]
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Fontaines D.C. announce fifth album Dopamine Chamber — and they’ve left the guitars at home
The next chapter of Fontaines D.C. has arrived Grian Chatten went looking for these songs in Venice, Vienna and Sicily. What the Irish band came back with is a record with the guitars taken out of large parts of it, marching drums and synthesisers in their place, and the strings of 1960s Italian pop bleeding […]
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