Album Review – Lisa Hannigan & s t a r g a z e, Live in Dublin

or many artists, the live album has become something of a conciliatory gesture to fans, labels and critics; a consolidation…

Memories of the Hyde

When I think of Mayo versus Roscommon, I think of 1989 and I think of this: I think of being…

Longing — wrote Don DeLilo in his opus Underworld — on a large scale, makes history. The football championship returns…

Hot Press Magazine, 01 May, 2019 oing your own thing can be a dangerous idea in the music business, but…

Mayo News, 30 April, 2019. The text came, and was immediately confusing; “are you going to garlic park?” Christ, I…

Welsh quartet Catfish And The Bottlemen return with their third record The Balance. Curiously, there is very little to separate this…

Sophomore syndrome – or ‘the difficult second album’ in music-speak – is a cliché that exists for a reason: bands…

Long before the ethos of the GAA club became a marketing stick to gently beat us over the head with,…

Somewhere between Maynooth and Lucan, hanging from a nondescript overpass along the N4 hangs a flag so flithered by wind,…

When the time comes for the movie to be made about Mayo football, the first words you will see with…