• Track Record: Bantum

    December 15, 2014 - By 

    Dublin-based Corkman Ruairi Lynch AKA Bantum has a fine taste in music. “But where’s your proof?!” we hear you cry. And cry you shall. Our response is the following piece. Read and delve in unison. Photos by Tara Thomas. Metallica – Master Of Puppets I keep going back to this album. I don’t listen to as much metal as I used to but this will always stick with me. As relentlessly fast and heavy as this album was, it made space for melody here and there, and some of the arrangements were just insane. Playing along to that album really helped…

  • Track Record: Chris Couzens (Slomatics)

    December 12, 2014 - By 

    In the latest installment of Track Record, Chris Couzens from Belfast-based doom overlords Slomatics gives us an insight in his wonderfully wide-ranging record collection. Photos by May Chan. Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast My grandmother bought me Powerslave by Iron Maiden for Christmas in 1984. It made a big impression on me as an eight year old and I’ve been hooked on music since. I could have easily picked any or all of the first eight Maiden records in this list. I went with Number Of The Beast because of the iconic Derek Riggs cover. It’d be impossible…

  • Track Record: Oh Boland

    December 19, 2014 - By 

    We head back to Galway for Track Record, this time to hang out with Oh Boland, where Niall Murphy (vocals) mostly discusses his favourite albums and Eanna (MacDonnacha, bass/vocals) sneaks in with a few words about Weezer’s Blue Album. Photos by Sean McCormack. The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics One of the first garage bands they say. It’s hard to disagree, and what a band. That super primitive sound, mad rackety rock n’ roll played by pimples on a one day studio bender. That guitar sound is just to die for! Total belligerence. The beat is total energy and Gerry Roslie…

  • Peter Gabriel @ 3Arena, Dublin

    December 12, 2014 - By 

    Let’s face it: Peter Gabriel still has it. For a man who was in his prime both musically and physically thirty years ago, he seriously puts this (almost) thirty-year old to shame, leaping and bounding across the 3Arena stage and exercising vocals that sound as fresh as they did back then. Unassumingly strolling onto the stage, with the full house lights still, Gabriel announces that the show will be divided into three parts: a “supper” if you will, and he as our waiter. The first course will be the acoustic appetiser, the second, the ‘savoury’ course of a full electric set complete…

  • Track Record: Neal Keating & Kayleigh Forsythe

    December 12, 2014 - By 

    In this special edition of Track Record, we head over to the apartment of Neal Keating, who is the frontman with hardcore band Frustration, and Kayleigh Forsythe, a very talented jewellery designer to have a look through some of their favourite records. Special guest appearances from their two Persian cats Wilbur and Frankie, who do everything in their power to steal the limelight from the couple! Photos by Isabel Thomas. Have Heart – The Things We Carry There’s very few records that you can legitimately say changed your life. This record did that for me. When I first heard it, I was working a really bad…