• 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…