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Electric Picnic 2012 – Line-Up Announced

Posted in Gig Listing, Music with tags Alabama Shakes, Azealia Banks, Bands, Baxter Dury, Bell X1, Christy Moore, Cranes, Ed Sheeran, Elbow, Electric Picnic, Electric Picnic 2012, Fatoumata Diawara, Glen hansard, Grizzly Bear, Hot Chip, Jonathan Wilson, Land Lovers, Lanterns on the Lake, line-up, Lineup, Little Roy, Metronomy, Milagers, Orbital, Roots Manuva, Sigur Rós, Solar Bears, Staff Benda Bilili, The Cure, The Horrors, The Roots, The xx, Willis Earl Beal on March 1, 2012 by Tickets There

This year’s much anticipated Electric Picnic Line-up has been announced and there’s a few gems in there to keep all happy. With the cancelation of this year’s Oxegen Festival, music heads around the country have been hoping for a saving grace from the eclectic lads, but have POD delivered?

The Cure, Sigur Rós, Elbow, Grizzly Bear, Orbital, Christy Moore, The Roots, Hot Chip, Glen Hansard, The xx, Metronomy, The Horrors, Azealia Banks, Roots Manuva, Bell X1, Staff Benda Bilili, Milagers, Ed Sheeran, Alabama Shakes, Cranes, Little Roy, Land Lovers, Baxter Dury, Jonathan Wilson, Solar Bears, Fatoumata Diawara, Willis Earl Beal, Lanterns on the Lake plus many many more to be announced.

The Cure have been a front runner for this festival, but add in Christy Moore, Orbital, Bell X1, Glen Hansard and you’ve got yourself a cosy little festival! Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning. We’ll be back with price details shortly.

MySpace Review – Land Lovers

Posted in IRISH NOISE!, Music, MySpace Review with tags Dublin band, Immovable Feast, Land Lovers, MySpace, No. 1 Communiqué, Paddy Works The Maglev, The Cinema Bell on January 31, 2011 by Tickets There

Ye can all thank / blame Land Lovers for our 400^th sudden stop in updates last week. We found the Dublin band while we were pile driving through some home-grown talent MySpace’s and were brought to a grinding halt after one go of their player. At first ‘Children / Pop / Showtunes’ seemed like something we were going to really regret giving the time to but after several million spins over the last week, we’re ready to share them with ye all.

We’ve never seen them or heard their album…yet!

The Cinema Bell sounds exactly like we were expecting. Clappy, silly keyboards and poppy noises but we stayed and ‘struggled on’ because the vocals are strong and the song is nice and catchy. Multiple spins has brought it closer to us but we’re still standing there with a wee stick between us so that style never becomes too comfortable. Immovable Feast is the one that really threw is. Total change in styles and a feeling of instant maturity to the writing, very strong with an excellent flow.

Paddy Works The Maglev follows the same style Immovable Feet but includes a more Irish traditional style of structure meaning any of ye out there that enjoy the start / stop style of the verse may like trad one day. A nice song that discusses present day Ireland but manages to avoid the clichés and awful comedy pitfalls that many others are throwing out at the moment. Possibly our favourite of the bunch.

No. 1 Communiqué changes the style again and gives the band a much darker tone. Not a whole pile to writer here. Lyrics are darker, music is darker and there’s a great mix of styles but the overall delivery is pretty unique to Land Lovers. Is that amateur-music speech jargon? We think so. Don’t really want to write this review while listening so just go and visit their MySpace and enjoy. You won’t regret it, honest!