Good news folks, some top notch live acts coming your way next month as Jape, And So I Watch You From Afar and Fionn Regan travel the country on tour together. The shows are being organized by First Music Contact (FMC) who are heavily involved with the Hard Working Class Heroes Festival and offer budding […]
One of the independent scenes leading lights, And So I Watch You From Afar are landing in Dublin tomorrow night to begin the Apocalypse…be warned! Andres Lane Theatre’s the venue and hectic, chaotic noise will be the dish of the day. With the steadily growing Bats and Jogging! as support, it’s a gig that shouldn’t […]
To help break the Monday blues, the latest EP from northern instrumental metal giants ASIWYFA is out today. Although the ‘Add to Basket’ Button hasnt been activated yet, it should be up and running shortly so pop over to Small Town America Records to order yours when it’s all go. The Letters EP features four […]
On Wednesday, Tickets There took one of our almost daily constitutionals to our local. We’d been listening to I’ll Eat Your Face for almost the whole day and decided to check what the buzz was amongst some other metal loving folks. Surprise, Surprise no one had ever heard of them and one lad is completely […]
Trent Reznor is back, as are his greatest creation. Movie soundtracks? Bollocks! Trent knows his rightful place is at the helm of industrial music’s answer to ABBA (does that make sense? It’s late, you’re probably not reading this too closely anyway. Look at the pretty picture. I took that in 2007). Nine Inch Nails are […]
Cork’s Indiependence Music Festival is shaping up to be quite the event of the summer. The line-up has exploded with White Lies, Alabama 3, The Coronas and Reverend & The Makers taking headlining duties. Currently the list of bands scheduled to appear includes several ones T.T. highly recommends. The lineup can be viewed below with […]
(Deserves no Picture….doesn’t even deserve the post) Ya know jokes? Ya know ‘being out of touch’? Well anyways, Adrian Crowley won the choice award. In other, interesting, not tired old hack news (old folks, boring folks, Choice judge folks…..get taste), And So I Watch You From Afar’s new EP is brutally savage. Get it. If […]
Hi There, Tickets There has decided to create a list of the Safe (Good) Irish bands. This list will only be based on our collective (my) personal tastes and will be updated as often as possible (Also, the Top Ten only includes bands that are still together and fairly underground / local. Thats why Ash […]
Glasgowbury is now entering its thirteenth year as a festival and it just keeps getting better. Yesterday they announced the first list of names who’ll be appearing this year and there’s tasty choices for all music heads out there. The festival aims to support local Northern Irish bands and The Answer, The Japanese Popstars and […]
Tickets There extends a hearty congratulations to Richie Egan and the guys in Jape for winning the Choice Award for the second time. In 2008 the band scooped the prize for their incredible ‘Ritual’ album and now they’ve gotten it for the follow up, ‘Ocean of Frequency’. Jape are one of Ireland’s most exciting bands […]
The lovely Niamh Farrell and The Danger Is have announced a headlining show at Dublin’s Crawdaddy on the 5th of March. Tickets are on-sale now from Ticketmaster.ie priced €10 & Booking fee. Support will be provided by VERSECHORUSVERSE, the side project of And So I Watch You From Afar guitarist Tony Wright. …yes, Tickets There […]
Bit late with this one. Originally we were going to stick these lads in for a MySpace Review but after a few spins of their record thanks to Harmless Noise), we felt that wouldn’t do them justice and a full Album review is in order. Made up of various members from Crayonsmith, Cap Pas Cap […]
The folks at EMI are really putting some weight behind Irelands underground talent these days and people ought to be taking notice. Found this story on Hotpress (where you’ll have to read it in full, we’re not stealing everything :)) Click Here to Visit n Read @ Hotpress.com ‘EMI Ireland have put together a 2CD, […]
Tickets There want’s to wish best of luck to And So I Watch You From Afar tomorrow night when they go up against the likes of Bell X1, Adrian Crowley, Codes and Laura Izibor for the Choice Music Prize 2009. Expect a review of the bands debut album (yes debut album, tower was sold out […]
Welcome to Tickets There ‘Top Eight Mates‘ page. Here is a list of our top 8 underground/non-major Irish bands. Check out our MySpace and see our current Top 40 Irish Bands. Top 8 in order, 32 in A – Z. 1. Humanzi Darlings of the sleazy Irish punk/rock/pop scene. Tickets There is banking on Humanzi […]
Well, it’s been a year already. Today at 15:00, the shortlist for the Choice Music Award 09 will be announced on Today FM and the Choice Music Awards official site, http://www.choicemusicprize.com Last year’s award was picked up by Jape for his third album, Ritual, one of the finest albums released in this country for many […]
That’s right, Ireland has its own MTV baby and it’s called…I-MTV (Irish Music Television). Like MTV, they’ve decided to start up an annual awards show, giving prizes for the best Irish music videos of the year…I think. This year’s (the first ever) award ceremony will take place at the Sugar Club, Leeson Street (I can […]
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