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…
Why Drake Is Our Only Hope
Longing — wrote Don DeLilo in his opus Underworld — on a large scale, makes history. The football championship returns…
Album Review – Ye Vegabonds, The Hares Lament
Hot Press Magazine, 01 May, 2019 oing your own thing can be a dangerous idea in the music business, but…
Mayo Fairytale in New York
Mayo News, 30 April, 2019. The text came, and was immediately confusing; “are you going to garlic park?” Christ, I…
Album Review – Catfish & the Bunnymen, The Balance
Welsh quartet Catfish And The Bottlemen return with their third record The Balance. Curiously, there is very little to separate this…
Album Review – All Tvvins, Just to Exist
Sophomore syndrome – or ‘the difficult second album’ in music-speak – is a cliché that exists for a reason: bands…
He Built It & They Came
Long before the ethos of the GAA club became a marketing stick to gently beat us over the head with,…
A Day to Remember
Somewhere between Maynooth and Lucan, hanging from a nondescript overpass along the N4 hangs a flag so flithered by wind,…
Mayo the Gift That Keeps on Giving
When the time comes for the movie to be made about Mayo football, the first words you will see with…