• Track-by-Track: Kerry’s Messyng FC on Lisselton John Street Football 2K12™

    North Kerry’s finest Messyng FC talk us through Lisselton John Street Football 2K12™, their new EP-fictitious football themed tactical RPG video game funded by the Arts Council of Ireland in a parallel timeline to our own. The EP Lisselton John Street Football 2K12 is our reworkings and reimaginings of found music from the beta of the never completed PS1 game of the same name. The soundtrack was in varying levels of completeness when the project was abandoned, and only part of the soundtrack was recovered from the USB stick where it was rediscovered – so we decided to collaborate with…

  • Spilt Milk Festival Announce 2021 Line-Up

    Spilt Milk makes its return to Sligo for its third edition from 18th – 21st November, 2021. Coming a year on from its online event Transmission last November, organisers are delighted to announce the festival will return as an in-person series of live shows, installations, film screenings and workshops across four days and nights. As with previous installments, Spilt Milk have once again delivered an eclectic, carefully-curated bill that reflects the scope of forward-pushing music and art in Ireland today. On Thursday, 18th November, the festival launches with a zine workshop and an audio-visual trail. On Friday 19th November the…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – November 27th

    You know how, traditionally, the music industry starts to grind to a halt around this time of year? Irish music is having none of it in 2020. Here’s the very best tracks of the week. Tandem Felix – The Assassination The Assassination by Tandem Felix Ra Gerra – Terrified LAOISE – Movies Ten Past Seven – County Council (Live) NewDad – I Don’t Recognise You Messyng x Post Punk Podge – Still At The Music Proper Micro NV – You Knew Longer Than Me Any Joy – Sun EP Sun by Any Joy Eoin Dolan – Superior Fiction The Love…

  • Video Premiere: Messying x Post Punk Podge – Still At The Music

    “Are you still at the music? Are you making a few bob? Are you happy in yourself?”  Taken from the wonderful Litany of Failures Vol. III compilation, released last month, Kerry producer Messyng and underground Limerick mouthpiece par excellence Post Punk Podge have teamed up to deliver a spicy video – directed by Steve Savage – for their collaborative single, ‘Still At The Music’, featuring Podge’s Great Giveaway of a Antique Shitshow™. Its timing an act of serendipity, today has seen equal shares of elation and deflation with regards to the results of potentially career-changing musical project support grants for artists across the Irish music industry. As is Podge’s M.O.,…