So went to Ennis in Clare for the weekend for house-warming bonanza fun. It was so much fun, practically a college reunion. Me and Meadzer drove down (it took us nearly 5 hours, seriously, we got lost twice, oopsie.) But we didn't mind the accidental detours because we had proper road trip music - Madonna, Bowie, Queen, Talking Heads and Joy Division. Then had a BBQ and then everyone drank probably everything in the universe. I was on the Stella + pear cider + jaeger + raspberry and grapefruit cosmos (a new invention by me that arrived in my brain at 2am) so that was fun. And the next day we just all chilled and hung out and cracked dumb jokes until heading home that evening. Tragically, I forgot my camera, although I'm sure other people will have photees which I will post soon.
Una
Monday, July 31, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Secret gig - not so secret
Republic of Loose are playing on the River Liffey beside Millenium Bridge boardwalk tomorrow @ 1pm
Una
Una
I am busy? Why!
For some reason I am really busy early in the week. I usually am busy late in the week. Like, from now on. My sistas Dee and Aoife and niece Amelia are in town, which is fun. But work is busy all the time this week :( Last night we had a fantastic Indian takeaway and tonight, I am heading to Fun Laoghaire with Lili to take photos of Amelia. Yay! Don't think I'll have time to see Tomorrow Belongs To Me which is a bummer. I'm also preparing for a party weekend in Ennis of all places. It's a bit of a reunion with carloads of mates going down for Tracey and Mags' housewarming. Funtastic etc. Hopefully I'll be able to sneak off to the Loose gig at lunchtime tomorrow, but workload will dictate such a venture.
No other news to report, apart from the fact that I hate the new Rapture single and am sick of Lilly Allen interviews. Oh, and am busy planning a night in London next month to catch Coheed and Cambria at Shepards Bush.
Buy The Loon by Tapes n Tapes, it's awesome.
Una
No other news to report, apart from the fact that I hate the new Rapture single and am sick of Lilly Allen interviews. Oh, and am busy planning a night in London next month to catch Coheed and Cambria at Shepards Bush.
Buy The Loon by Tapes n Tapes, it's awesome.
Una
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
My New Favourite Band
The on-the-ball heads over at Cluas introduced me to CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy - last week, and I've been listening to them non-stop.
http://www.canseidesersexy.com
http://www.myspace.com/canseidesersexy
http://www.csshurt.com
CSS Suxxx
This Month Day 10
Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
Art Bitch
Meeting Paris Hilton
They are AWESOME - five (I think) Brazilian girls and one Brazilian guy. [LOVEFOXXX-VOCAL , ANA-GUITAR, CAROLINA-GUITARRA/DRUMS, LUIZA SA-GUITAR/DRUMS, IRA-BASS, ADRIANO-DRUMS/GUITAR/VOCAL/PRODUCER]They toured with Diplo and are in the middle of some US dates at the moment.
Upcoming Shows
Jul 26 2006 11:00PM Warehouse Live Houston , TX
Jul 27 2006 8:00PM The Parish Austin, TX
Jul 28 2006 8:00PM Haileys Denton, TX
Jul 29 2006 11:00PM The Granada Theatre Lawrence, KS
Jul 30 2006 8:00PM Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago, IL
Jul 31 2006 8:00PM Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
Aug 2 2006 11:00PM Hi-Fi Calgary
Aug 4 2006 11:00PM Celebrities Night club Vancouver
Aug 5 2006 11:00PM Neumos Seatle, WA
Aug 6 2006 8:00PM The Nightlight Lounge Bellingham, WA
Aug 7 2006 8:00PM Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR
Aug 10 2006 11:00PM Mezzanine San Francisco, CA
Aug 11 2006 11:00PM The ECHO Los Angeles, CA
Aug 12 2006 11:00PM Casbah San Diego, CA
Sep 20 2006 8:00PM Studio A Miami, FL
Una
http://www.canseidesersexy.com
http://www.myspace.com/canseidesersexy
http://www.csshurt.com
CSS Suxxx
This Month Day 10
Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
Art Bitch
Meeting Paris Hilton
They are AWESOME - five (I think) Brazilian girls and one Brazilian guy. [LOVEFOXXX-VOCAL , ANA-GUITAR, CAROLINA-GUITARRA/DRUMS, LUIZA SA-GUITAR/DRUMS, IRA-BASS, ADRIANO-DRUMS/GUITAR/VOCAL/PRODUCER]They toured with Diplo and are in the middle of some US dates at the moment.
Upcoming Shows
Jul 26 2006 11:00PM Warehouse Live Houston , TX
Jul 27 2006 8:00PM The Parish Austin, TX
Jul 28 2006 8:00PM Haileys Denton, TX
Jul 29 2006 11:00PM The Granada Theatre Lawrence, KS
Jul 30 2006 8:00PM Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago, IL
Jul 31 2006 8:00PM Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
Aug 2 2006 11:00PM Hi-Fi Calgary
Aug 4 2006 11:00PM Celebrities Night club Vancouver
Aug 5 2006 11:00PM Neumos Seatle, WA
Aug 6 2006 8:00PM The Nightlight Lounge Bellingham, WA
Aug 7 2006 8:00PM Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR
Aug 10 2006 11:00PM Mezzanine San Francisco, CA
Aug 11 2006 11:00PM The ECHO Los Angeles, CA
Aug 12 2006 11:00PM Casbah San Diego, CA
Sep 20 2006 8:00PM Studio A Miami, FL
Una
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Gavin Friday
GAVIN Friday saunters up his steep driveway on Vico Road to the green metal sheets covering the entrance to his Dalkey home. "Bloody Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown planning permission . . . I've been waiting a year for new gates, " he mutters from the other side. He turns a key in a padlock and pulls through a chain before poking his head around. "Heeeeeyyyyyyyy, " he drawls. His dark hair is pulled back into a messy pony tail.
There's a few days worth of stubble on his chin and his eyes hide behind purple-tinted glasses. He is dressed in back . . . jeans and a hoodie . . . a couple of earrings in each ear, a silver crucifix on a chain around his neck. As we walk back into his house we discuss his new show in Liberty Hall and how he is "mad busy" at the moment in pre-production. He explains the many levels of the upcoming performance . . .music, theatre, visuals . . . and how he feels that people are getting cheated at gigs when it's just a bloke with a guitar standing there.
Inside, a "computer man" is showing Friday how to use a printer. "And what if I want copies?" "And does it turn off?" "And how do you put the paper in?" he questions, Ozzy-like. There's a bit of concern in Friday's voice over what would happen were he to plug the printer cable out of his laptop. "I can't even turn on the kettle, " he despairs. "I've noticed, " deadpans 'computer man'. Herb . . . a musician, working on parts of Friday's new show Tomorrow Belongs To Me in the next room . . . and Friday then debate whether they have cigarettes upstairs "in the room", or whether Herb will walk to Killiney to get some. "Do you smoke rollies?" Herb asks hopefully. I shake my head and he disappears into the hall. Friday asks what I want to drink: "Tea, or water or something?" I settle for the latter. "This is still water, " he mutters absentmindedly, placing two glasses on top of coasters at the small circular marble table we sit at in a little lounge at the end of the kitchen. "Alright there Herb?" he hollers, a question repeated five or six times within the hour. On a shelf above his laptop, there are books by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Banville, Brendan Behan and an illustrated copy of the bible. Above the shelf there's a poster of Oscar Wilde, and underneath, a limited edition red and black U2branded iPod resting in its speaker dock. On the window sill next to our table a Jesus clock and a crystal ball sit next to a vase of orchids and some cactii.
Friday is nothing if not avant garde . . . and his house shows it, with its various shades of purple walls and a kitchen with shiny blue presses. It is through his music that we know him best; first with post-punks The Virgin Prunes, then with a series of solo albums, along with various other projects including film scores and soundtracks (Romeo & Juliet, Disco Pigs, In America, Get Rich Or Die Trying), a part in the acclaimed Breakfast On Pluto and finally his own theatrical extravaganzas.
The previous Ich Liebe Dich, which focused on Kurt Weill, has given way to a new show that will run for two nights at Liberty Hall in Dublin on 27 and 28 July. Tomorrow Belongs To Me is Friday's tribute to 20th-century German culture. "It just became an obsession, " he explains of his love of German art.
As a child, he was "in love with" Bowie, TRex, glam rock and Iggy Pop. When he was 13, the police were called when Friday, who was staying at his aunt's house in upstate New York, had gone missing. He had actually hopped on a train into Manhattan for a day because the local record store didn't have the new Bowie album in stock.
When The Virgin Prunes began touring in 1978, Berlin was the centre of innovative music. "I'd never heard anything like it. It was synthesized, electronic, avant garde and pointing references again to German expressionists. Suddenly, I started buying these books and buying other records." Enthusiasm flows from Friday. Often, his sentences are 10 minutes long, caught up in explanations and tangents. The Virgin Prunes lived in Germany for a while, where they were extremely popular. This, coupled with his love of the literature of Weil, Brecht, Isherwood, the films of Fritz Lang and the music of Kraftwerk, explains why Germany has become "this love of mine and this touchstone of mine".
He was in Berlin last in February promoting Breakfast On Pluto. "It was part of the Golden Bear thing. It was being premiered there, and I had a mad weekend with Cillian Murphy and Liamo . . . Liam Cunningham, " he giggles to himself in secret remembrance. "And it is a f**king great city. And wow is it cheap. Like, six of yiz can go out for a meal. You have a panini here and you're broke."
He moved to this house last year from Phibsboro and is "doing the place up bit by bit".
There are planning permission notices up and the bathroom recently flooded, water cascading down the walls. "It was like a scene from The Shining, " he says, before adding in a serious tone, "but not blood. Water." Friday is a reluctant southsider. In Phibsboro, he voted for Tony Gregory, "a man of the people". He doesn't know who he'll vote for now. Friday describes Dublin now as a "a European, cosmopolitan, hip city" much different to the environment he grew up in. "Jesus Christ, it was f**king woeful in the '70s and '80s and we are very lucky now. . . There was like a grey cloud over the country for 40 f**king years. So that's lifted. I always think, like, something optimistic is happening. Maybe it's the silver of the spire and the Luas sparkling through the city when it's a nice day in July, " he laughs sarcastically. "There's a little lard on the arse of the Paddy at the moment that needs a good smack. I'm also very frightened of the 'Oh. My. God' thing that's kicking in, especially the young girls. And that's basically too many episodes of Friends and WKD vodka. And 'Momma I want a Chanel handbag for my holidays'. There's too much of that going on. There's people on the northside of Dublin going 'Oh. My. Gawd'. I mean, come on!"
When Friday was growing up, he and his two best friends, Bono and Guggi, who all grew up on the same street, had "mad dreams to do this that and the other . . . form bands, make music, paint". "It's sad isn't it?" he states uncertainly when I ask if he still hangs around with the same people. "I've lots of other friends, but there is a little bit of a Sopranos mafioso holy trinity. It's just like old times." He whistles and gestures to nextdoor where Bono lives. "'Gav, djwanna come over for a bottle of wine.' 'Hey, I got the new Roxy Music album.' As any woman knows, men never grow up. Isn't it great to keep the child in you. I love old people. I saw Ulick O'Connor in Lilies Bordello a few months ago. I went over and sat with him and started talking about old Dublin . . . it's the same because I'm good friends with Louis Le Brocquy, surrogate grandad buddah. And I go 'What was Francis Bacon like, and tell us this, did you ever meet Brendan Behan, and was Kavanagh a bollox?'" We chat about Bono's view of the world. I make the mistake of using the phrase 'World Order'. "World Order? It sounds like a neoNazi thing, " he cracks up and goes into the kitchen, screaming his manifesto in a German accent and returning with a bottle of sparkling San Pellegrino water. "Ven Bono iz leader ov ze vorld he vill give Ireland to Herr Friday, and Herr Friday vill put Ireland in ze proper order. He vill ban football, ban radio, all you vill listen to is classical and jazz. The New World Order, " he booms, before taking a seat.
"Sorry, that was a joke. If Ireland ran out of energy and you put a plug up Bono's arse, we'd have no problems. I do not understand the drive in that man, it's phenomenal. He's the hardest-working person I've ever met in my life. I love him. He's my brother. Me, him and Guggi are inseparable. Somebody said, 'Do you know what your f**king problem is?' . . . it was one of the wives actually . . . 'Youse love each other too much'. What he's doing for Africa is phenomenal. When history books are written in 50 years time they are just going to say, 'Look, millions, millions of people were dying'. And this is a man that can go out and tour with the passion that he does and put on a show in his mid-40s that f**kin' blows all of the 20-year-olds off the planet. You're not going to get any bad Bono quotes out of me."
Friday admits he has chilled out since hitting the big four-oh. "I was a very angry young man. Since I hit my 40s I am more relaxed in myself. I quite like the last few years, and now. You wouldn't want to meet me 20 years ago. I was a pretty psycho guy and I frightened most people. I'm a late developer. I'm beginning to like myself, but I still have a bee in my bonnet and that's why I'm doing these shows.
"A lot of people don't live. They don't follow what they're interested in, they get frightened and stop at a certain age, " I say that's easy for him to say, being an artist. "Yeah, and I don't have kids. I don't mean to sound ignorant. I'm not a snob, I'm not out of touch, I do shop in Tescos." (He's not lying . . . the air freshener in the bathroom is Tesco-brand 'Serenity'. ) "I don't mean to be condescending. I'm blessed to be happy to do things I love, but I've worked for that. I've worked my arse off. I've been on the dole, been called the biggest arsehole in the world . . . still am called that. I fall on my face. You give up a lot to get what you want. But that's my choice, I want to do that." And then, deciding that his perfect vision of the afterlife would be a glorious, never-ending dinner party with friends and loved ones, he has to get back to work.
"I'll walk you up, " he says. Outside, I comment on the beautiful location of his house, which looks out on to a panoramic view of Killiney Bay, with Dalkey Island to the left. He grins, almost disbelieving of his luck: "I know. I've got the best view in Killiney!" As we venture up the steep, winding hill, Friday again expresses his distaste at unenthusiastic live bands, although he hears Republic of Loose are good. "You know, people should be given more. There needs to be some energy, " he sighs, before extending an invitation to his Liberty Hall gig and locking the chained entrance behind me
Una
www.tribune.ie
There's a few days worth of stubble on his chin and his eyes hide behind purple-tinted glasses. He is dressed in back . . . jeans and a hoodie . . . a couple of earrings in each ear, a silver crucifix on a chain around his neck. As we walk back into his house we discuss his new show in Liberty Hall and how he is "mad busy" at the moment in pre-production. He explains the many levels of the upcoming performance . . .music, theatre, visuals . . . and how he feels that people are getting cheated at gigs when it's just a bloke with a guitar standing there.
Inside, a "computer man" is showing Friday how to use a printer. "And what if I want copies?" "And does it turn off?" "And how do you put the paper in?" he questions, Ozzy-like. There's a bit of concern in Friday's voice over what would happen were he to plug the printer cable out of his laptop. "I can't even turn on the kettle, " he despairs. "I've noticed, " deadpans 'computer man'. Herb . . . a musician, working on parts of Friday's new show Tomorrow Belongs To Me in the next room . . . and Friday then debate whether they have cigarettes upstairs "in the room", or whether Herb will walk to Killiney to get some. "Do you smoke rollies?" Herb asks hopefully. I shake my head and he disappears into the hall. Friday asks what I want to drink: "Tea, or water or something?" I settle for the latter. "This is still water, " he mutters absentmindedly, placing two glasses on top of coasters at the small circular marble table we sit at in a little lounge at the end of the kitchen. "Alright there Herb?" he hollers, a question repeated five or six times within the hour. On a shelf above his laptop, there are books by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Banville, Brendan Behan and an illustrated copy of the bible. Above the shelf there's a poster of Oscar Wilde, and underneath, a limited edition red and black U2branded iPod resting in its speaker dock. On the window sill next to our table a Jesus clock and a crystal ball sit next to a vase of orchids and some cactii.
Friday is nothing if not avant garde . . . and his house shows it, with its various shades of purple walls and a kitchen with shiny blue presses. It is through his music that we know him best; first with post-punks The Virgin Prunes, then with a series of solo albums, along with various other projects including film scores and soundtracks (Romeo & Juliet, Disco Pigs, In America, Get Rich Or Die Trying), a part in the acclaimed Breakfast On Pluto and finally his own theatrical extravaganzas.
The previous Ich Liebe Dich, which focused on Kurt Weill, has given way to a new show that will run for two nights at Liberty Hall in Dublin on 27 and 28 July. Tomorrow Belongs To Me is Friday's tribute to 20th-century German culture. "It just became an obsession, " he explains of his love of German art.
As a child, he was "in love with" Bowie, TRex, glam rock and Iggy Pop. When he was 13, the police were called when Friday, who was staying at his aunt's house in upstate New York, had gone missing. He had actually hopped on a train into Manhattan for a day because the local record store didn't have the new Bowie album in stock.
When The Virgin Prunes began touring in 1978, Berlin was the centre of innovative music. "I'd never heard anything like it. It was synthesized, electronic, avant garde and pointing references again to German expressionists. Suddenly, I started buying these books and buying other records." Enthusiasm flows from Friday. Often, his sentences are 10 minutes long, caught up in explanations and tangents. The Virgin Prunes lived in Germany for a while, where they were extremely popular. This, coupled with his love of the literature of Weil, Brecht, Isherwood, the films of Fritz Lang and the music of Kraftwerk, explains why Germany has become "this love of mine and this touchstone of mine".
He was in Berlin last in February promoting Breakfast On Pluto. "It was part of the Golden Bear thing. It was being premiered there, and I had a mad weekend with Cillian Murphy and Liamo . . . Liam Cunningham, " he giggles to himself in secret remembrance. "And it is a f**king great city. And wow is it cheap. Like, six of yiz can go out for a meal. You have a panini here and you're broke."
He moved to this house last year from Phibsboro and is "doing the place up bit by bit".
There are planning permission notices up and the bathroom recently flooded, water cascading down the walls. "It was like a scene from The Shining, " he says, before adding in a serious tone, "but not blood. Water." Friday is a reluctant southsider. In Phibsboro, he voted for Tony Gregory, "a man of the people". He doesn't know who he'll vote for now. Friday describes Dublin now as a "a European, cosmopolitan, hip city" much different to the environment he grew up in. "Jesus Christ, it was f**king woeful in the '70s and '80s and we are very lucky now. . . There was like a grey cloud over the country for 40 f**king years. So that's lifted. I always think, like, something optimistic is happening. Maybe it's the silver of the spire and the Luas sparkling through the city when it's a nice day in July, " he laughs sarcastically. "There's a little lard on the arse of the Paddy at the moment that needs a good smack. I'm also very frightened of the 'Oh. My. God' thing that's kicking in, especially the young girls. And that's basically too many episodes of Friends and WKD vodka. And 'Momma I want a Chanel handbag for my holidays'. There's too much of that going on. There's people on the northside of Dublin going 'Oh. My. Gawd'. I mean, come on!"
When Friday was growing up, he and his two best friends, Bono and Guggi, who all grew up on the same street, had "mad dreams to do this that and the other . . . form bands, make music, paint". "It's sad isn't it?" he states uncertainly when I ask if he still hangs around with the same people. "I've lots of other friends, but there is a little bit of a Sopranos mafioso holy trinity. It's just like old times." He whistles and gestures to nextdoor where Bono lives. "'Gav, djwanna come over for a bottle of wine.' 'Hey, I got the new Roxy Music album.' As any woman knows, men never grow up. Isn't it great to keep the child in you. I love old people. I saw Ulick O'Connor in Lilies Bordello a few months ago. I went over and sat with him and started talking about old Dublin . . . it's the same because I'm good friends with Louis Le Brocquy, surrogate grandad buddah. And I go 'What was Francis Bacon like, and tell us this, did you ever meet Brendan Behan, and was Kavanagh a bollox?'" We chat about Bono's view of the world. I make the mistake of using the phrase 'World Order'. "World Order? It sounds like a neoNazi thing, " he cracks up and goes into the kitchen, screaming his manifesto in a German accent and returning with a bottle of sparkling San Pellegrino water. "Ven Bono iz leader ov ze vorld he vill give Ireland to Herr Friday, and Herr Friday vill put Ireland in ze proper order. He vill ban football, ban radio, all you vill listen to is classical and jazz. The New World Order, " he booms, before taking a seat.
"Sorry, that was a joke. If Ireland ran out of energy and you put a plug up Bono's arse, we'd have no problems. I do not understand the drive in that man, it's phenomenal. He's the hardest-working person I've ever met in my life. I love him. He's my brother. Me, him and Guggi are inseparable. Somebody said, 'Do you know what your f**king problem is?' . . . it was one of the wives actually . . . 'Youse love each other too much'. What he's doing for Africa is phenomenal. When history books are written in 50 years time they are just going to say, 'Look, millions, millions of people were dying'. And this is a man that can go out and tour with the passion that he does and put on a show in his mid-40s that f**kin' blows all of the 20-year-olds off the planet. You're not going to get any bad Bono quotes out of me."
Friday admits he has chilled out since hitting the big four-oh. "I was a very angry young man. Since I hit my 40s I am more relaxed in myself. I quite like the last few years, and now. You wouldn't want to meet me 20 years ago. I was a pretty psycho guy and I frightened most people. I'm a late developer. I'm beginning to like myself, but I still have a bee in my bonnet and that's why I'm doing these shows.
"A lot of people don't live. They don't follow what they're interested in, they get frightened and stop at a certain age, " I say that's easy for him to say, being an artist. "Yeah, and I don't have kids. I don't mean to sound ignorant. I'm not a snob, I'm not out of touch, I do shop in Tescos." (He's not lying . . . the air freshener in the bathroom is Tesco-brand 'Serenity'. ) "I don't mean to be condescending. I'm blessed to be happy to do things I love, but I've worked for that. I've worked my arse off. I've been on the dole, been called the biggest arsehole in the world . . . still am called that. I fall on my face. You give up a lot to get what you want. But that's my choice, I want to do that." And then, deciding that his perfect vision of the afterlife would be a glorious, never-ending dinner party with friends and loved ones, he has to get back to work.
"I'll walk you up, " he says. Outside, I comment on the beautiful location of his house, which looks out on to a panoramic view of Killiney Bay, with Dalkey Island to the left. He grins, almost disbelieving of his luck: "I know. I've got the best view in Killiney!" As we venture up the steep, winding hill, Friday again expresses his distaste at unenthusiastic live bands, although he hears Republic of Loose are good. "You know, people should be given more. There needs to be some energy, " he sighs, before extending an invitation to his Liberty Hall gig and locking the chained entrance behind me
Una
www.tribune.ie
Friday, July 21, 2006
Art Dublin - launching soon
ArtDublin - an exhibition featuring Lili launches at the end of the month. Drop into BT2 to check it out.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Bandwagon.ie competition
www.Bandwagon.ie presents
RUN TO THE SUN
THINK YOU'VE GOT LOADS OF MATES? WELL NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO PROVE IT!
Bandwagon.ie, the brand new music community presents ‘Run To The Sun’, the chance for Bandwagon.ie members to win some incredible prizes including a trip to New York, a holiday in Ibiza, tickets to the V Festival in the UK, phones, guitars, drumkits and much much more, plus the chance to win tickets to the very first exclusive Irish Bandwagon live event, details of which will be announced very soon.
All you have to do is this:
Join up to Bandwagon.ie – it doesn’t cost a cent and gives you access to the very best of new, emerging and unsigned music from Ireland and the UK.
Invite all your mates to join Bandwagon. DO IT NOW! (click ‘invite friends’ on your Bandwagon dashboard!)
Get 10 or more friends to sign up as Bandwagon users before August 15th and you could win tickets to the very first exclusive Irish Bandwagon live event, details of which will be announced very soon, as well as being in with a chance to win one of our fantastic prizes.**
And the prizes!
Trip to New York to experience gig scene
Pair of V Festival Weekend & Camping tickets
Holiday to the legendary white isle, Ibiza
2x Nokia N91 music phones
Gibson Epiphone SG guitar
Slingerlander drum kit
Seinheiser headphones
Tickets to an exclusive Bandwagon gig night!**
**applies to the first 250 participants to get 10 or more friends to sign up to Bandwagon.ie
And remember, if you a band or a musician, you can create a page on Bandwagon.ie, load up your music and promote yourself across the Bandwagon community for free. Bandwagon is fast becoming one of the music communities’ biggest recommendation sites. Bandwagon allows artists and musicians the chance to sell their music on line, with sales split 60: 40 in favour of the artist. Bandwagon.ie will launch a massive bandsearch competition next week, strictly for Irish acts. The winners will play at an invited industry showcase in the UK, followed by a slot at the legendary Reading Festival and the opportunity to record a 3 track single on the Bandwagon imprint. Details to be announced next week. So go on, get on the Bandwagon now!
Check out www.bandwagon.ie for full details
RUN TO THE SUN
THINK YOU'VE GOT LOADS OF MATES? WELL NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO PROVE IT!
Bandwagon.ie, the brand new music community presents ‘Run To The Sun’, the chance for Bandwagon.ie members to win some incredible prizes including a trip to New York, a holiday in Ibiza, tickets to the V Festival in the UK, phones, guitars, drumkits and much much more, plus the chance to win tickets to the very first exclusive Irish Bandwagon live event, details of which will be announced very soon.
All you have to do is this:
Join up to Bandwagon.ie – it doesn’t cost a cent and gives you access to the very best of new, emerging and unsigned music from Ireland and the UK.
Invite all your mates to join Bandwagon. DO IT NOW! (click ‘invite friends’ on your Bandwagon dashboard!)
Get 10 or more friends to sign up as Bandwagon users before August 15th and you could win tickets to the very first exclusive Irish Bandwagon live event, details of which will be announced very soon, as well as being in with a chance to win one of our fantastic prizes.**
And the prizes!
Trip to New York to experience gig scene
Pair of V Festival Weekend & Camping tickets
Holiday to the legendary white isle, Ibiza
2x Nokia N91 music phones
Gibson Epiphone SG guitar
Slingerlander drum kit
Seinheiser headphones
Tickets to an exclusive Bandwagon gig night!**
**applies to the first 250 participants to get 10 or more friends to sign up to Bandwagon.ie
And remember, if you a band or a musician, you can create a page on Bandwagon.ie, load up your music and promote yourself across the Bandwagon community for free. Bandwagon is fast becoming one of the music communities’ biggest recommendation sites. Bandwagon allows artists and musicians the chance to sell their music on line, with sales split 60: 40 in favour of the artist. Bandwagon.ie will launch a massive bandsearch competition next week, strictly for Irish acts. The winners will play at an invited industry showcase in the UK, followed by a slot at the legendary Reading Festival and the opportunity to record a 3 track single on the Bandwagon imprint. Details to be announced next week. So go on, get on the Bandwagon now!
Check out www.bandwagon.ie for full details
Wine and Cheese
last night, I drank and ate wine and cheese with Sarah and Adrian. Adrian has a track (Girl From The Estuary) on the new Rough Trade singer songwriter compilation, which you can buy here . The CD also features Elliott Smith, Tom Waits, Cat Power, Bright Eyes, Mountain Goats and Charlie Parr. Go Adrian!
Then we went back to Sarah's and had a bottle of rose and decided Muse should win the Mercury Prize and listened to Amy Milan, and Stars and Guillemots and Lluther. So I went home happy.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Dirty Dozen: Vol 44
1. Dirty Pretty Things - 'Bang Bang You're Dead'
2. The Charlatans - 'When The Lights Go Out In London'
3. The Kooks - 'Naive'
4. Wolfmother - 'Woman'
5. The Rapture - 'Get Myself Into It'
half a dozen. The Bronx - 'Heart Attack American'
7. Electrelane - 'I Want To Be The President'
8. The Jam - 'Going Underground'
9. Cansei de Ser Sexy - 'Lets Make Love And Listen to Death From Above'
10. Cansei de Ser Sexy - 'This Month Day 10'
11. Cansei de Ser Sexy - 'Art Bitch'
dozen. The Knife -'Bird'
Thanks to Miss Lili for her contribution to this Dirty Dozen. If you have a link to a track you think UnaRocks readers should hear, just post it on the comment section of this post.
Una
2. The Charlatans - 'When The Lights Go Out In London'
3. The Kooks - 'Naive'
4. Wolfmother - 'Woman'
5. The Rapture - 'Get Myself Into It'
half a dozen. The Bronx - 'Heart Attack American'
7. Electrelane - 'I Want To Be The President'
8. The Jam - 'Going Underground'
9. Cansei de Ser Sexy - 'Lets Make Love And Listen to Death From Above'
10. Cansei de Ser Sexy - 'This Month Day 10'
11. Cansei de Ser Sexy - 'Art Bitch'
dozen. The Knife -'Bird'
Thanks to Miss Lili for her contribution to this Dirty Dozen. If you have a link to a track you think UnaRocks readers should hear, just post it on the comment section of this post.
Una
Zootastic!
went to the zoo this morning with Mark, snapper from the Tribune for an article. Managed to take a few photees myself...
Mercury Prize Shortlist
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Editors - The Back Room
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Hot Chip - The Warning
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
Sway - This Is My Demo
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Editors - The Back Room
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Hot Chip - The Warning
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
Sway - This Is My Demo
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Una
Monday, July 17, 2006
Sufjan Stevens presale
Tickets (€27.50) for Sufjan's gig at the Olympia on November 1st go on sale on Wednesday 19 July at 9am. Obviously, this will sell out fast, but you can get presale tickets TOMORROW (that's Tuesday 18 July) by signing up to www.mcd.ie
An exclusive pre-sale will be available to all Mcd.ie members. Sign up today to buy your tickets before they go on sale for real.
Una
An exclusive pre-sale will be available to all Mcd.ie members. Sign up today to buy your tickets before they go on sale for real.
Una
Secret (and free) Republic of Loose gig
wanna see Republic of Loose (one of the best live acts around, people!) at a secret location in Dublin at the end of July?
Text 'Live' to 50100 for an invite.
The gig is on Friday, 28th July @ 1pm in a secret venue in Dublin.
I will reveal the venue on Thursday, 27th July.
www.republicofloose.com
Una
Text 'Live' to 50100 for an invite.
The gig is on Friday, 28th July @ 1pm in a secret venue in Dublin.
I will reveal the venue on Thursday, 27th July.
www.republicofloose.com
Una
Today, I will mostly be eating:
Heart of Africa dried tropical pineapple
Tesco blackberry boost water
Cafe Sol tuna (can't spell tuna without una) pasta salad
Jaffa cakes
As you may guess, it's Monday, and I'm in work :(
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Tesco blackberry boost water
Cafe Sol tuna (can't spell tuna without una) pasta salad
Jaffa cakes
As you may guess, it's Monday, and I'm in work :(
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Papa Wilson
my good friend Conor and his beautiful girlfriend Maire welcomed their first child into the world just after midnight last night. Aoibheann Mary was 5 days ahead of schedule.
CONGRATULATIONS GUYS!
Una
CONGRATULATIONS GUYS!
Una
Nationwide Mercury Prize
aka The Mercury Music Prize. The shortlist is out tomorrow, here's the 'longlist'
Abigail Hopkins
Adem
Akala
Alex Smoke
Amusement Parks on Fire
And did those feet
Andrew McCormack
Angie Palmer
Archie Bronson Outfit
Arctic Monkeys*
Barbar Luck
Barry Adamson
Belle and Sebastian
Beth Orton
Blackbud
Bliss
Boards of Canada
Boo Hewerdine
Boy Kill Boy
Caged Baby
Camera Obscura
Cara Dillon
Charlie Beresford
Chicken Legs Weaver
Chris Wood
Claire Sproule
Clayhill
Clearlake
C-Mone
Coldcut
Corrine Bailey Ray*
Cosmic Rough Riders
David Ford
David Gilmour
David Gray
Dawn of the Replicants
Declan O’Rourke
Decoration
Depeche Mode
Dirty Pretty Things
duw a wyr
Ed Harcourt
Editors*
eighteen18
Elbow
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
Endrick Bothers
Field Music
Fink
Flook
Forward Russia
Four Day Hombre
Franc O’Shea
Franz Ferdinand
Future Funk Squad
Genesis Elijah
Girls Aloud
Gledhill
Goldfrapp*
Gomez
Graham Coxon
Gravenhurst
Guillemots*
Helene
Heligoland
Hey Negrita
Hope of the States
Hot Chip*
Humanzi
Infadels
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
James Hunter
James Roberts
Jamie Cullum
Jane Taylor
Janis Haves
Jim Moray
Jim Noir
Jo Mango
Joanna Macgregor & Andy Sheppard
Jody Wildgoose
John Tamms
Johnny Dickinson
Jon Boden
Julia Biel
Julie Feeney*
Karine Polwart
Kate Bush
Kate Westbrook
Kathryn Tickell & Corina Hewat
Keane
Keisha White
Killa Kela
King Creosote
Kristy McGee
Ladyfuzz
Lee Rogers
Lethal Bizzle
Leya
Liane Carroll
Lily Allen*
Lost Prophets
Lou Rhodes
Marc Carroll
Marsha Swanson
Martyn Joseph
Matthew Herbert
Medicine Hat
Merz
Miracle Mile
Mogwai
Mohair
Morning Runner
Morrissey
Muse*
My Awesome Compilation
My Latest Novel
Mystery Jets
Nate James
Nerina Pallot*
Netsayi
Nine Horses
Niraj Chag
Omar
Oriole
Paolo Nutini
Paparazzi Whore
Paul McCartney
Paul Weller
Pet Shop Boys
Placebo
Plan B*
Primal Scream
Psapp
Public Symphony
Quinn
R.O.C.
Ralfe Band
Ray Davies
Razorlight
Reem Kelani
Richard Ashcroft
Richard Hawley
Richard Thompson
Rick Oliver
Robbie Williams
Roddy Frame
Rolling Stones
Rory McLeod
Saint Jude's infirmary
Sandi Thom
Scott Matthews
Scritti Politti
Shack
Shelley Poole
Shibuya Crossings
Show of Hands
Shri
Snow Patrol
Softhearted Scientists
Sol Seppy
Sophie Solomon
Spiers & Boden
Stephanie Kirkham
Steve Tilson
Stig
Stoney
Supergrass
Susy Thomas
Swap
Sway
Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Tarik O’Regan
Ted Barnes
Teddy Thompson
Tennant & Lowe
Terri Walker
The Automatic*
The Basement
The Beauty Room
The Charlatans
The Crimea
The Delays
The Divine Comedy
The Eighteenth Day of May The Feeling
The Futureheads
The Hazey Janes
The Kooks
The Longcut
The Loose Cannons
The Mitchell Brothers
The Neil Cowley trio
The Pipettes
The R.G. Morrison
The Rakes
The Research
The Rifles
The Storys
The Streets
The Upper Room
The Webb sisters
The Zutons
Thom Yorke
Tim van Eyken
Tony Kofi
Towers of London
Trio Gitano
Tunng*
Two Giraffes
Urban Myth Club
Van Morrison
Various*
Vashti Bunyan
White Rose Movement
Wills and the Willing
Zero 7
Zoë Rahman
* UnaRocks tips for nomination
Personally, I want Various to win it. Their album 'The World Is Gone' on XL Recordings is definately one of the records of the year. I do, however think Arctic Monkeys will probably walk away with it, although, the Mercury Prize is SO unpredictable and maybe the exposure the Monkeys have got in the past year will count against them.
Some of these acts I've * are not neccesarily ones I want to see nominated, just predictions - so don't scream at me for the Corrinne Bailey Rae thing.
Una
Abigail Hopkins
Adem
Akala
Alex Smoke
Amusement Parks on Fire
And did those feet
Andrew McCormack
Angie Palmer
Archie Bronson Outfit
Arctic Monkeys*
Barbar Luck
Barry Adamson
Belle and Sebastian
Beth Orton
Blackbud
Bliss
Boards of Canada
Boo Hewerdine
Boy Kill Boy
Caged Baby
Camera Obscura
Cara Dillon
Charlie Beresford
Chicken Legs Weaver
Chris Wood
Claire Sproule
Clayhill
Clearlake
C-Mone
Coldcut
Corrine Bailey Ray*
Cosmic Rough Riders
David Ford
David Gilmour
David Gray
Dawn of the Replicants
Declan O’Rourke
Decoration
Depeche Mode
Dirty Pretty Things
duw a wyr
Ed Harcourt
Editors*
eighteen18
Elbow
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
Endrick Bothers
Field Music
Fink
Flook
Forward Russia
Four Day Hombre
Franc O’Shea
Franz Ferdinand
Future Funk Squad
Genesis Elijah
Girls Aloud
Gledhill
Goldfrapp*
Gomez
Graham Coxon
Gravenhurst
Guillemots*
Helene
Heligoland
Hey Negrita
Hope of the States
Hot Chip*
Humanzi
Infadels
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
James Hunter
James Roberts
Jamie Cullum
Jane Taylor
Janis Haves
Jim Moray
Jim Noir
Jo Mango
Joanna Macgregor & Andy Sheppard
Jody Wildgoose
John Tamms
Johnny Dickinson
Jon Boden
Julia Biel
Julie Feeney*
Karine Polwart
Kate Bush
Kate Westbrook
Kathryn Tickell & Corina Hewat
Keane
Keisha White
Killa Kela
King Creosote
Kristy McGee
Ladyfuzz
Lee Rogers
Lethal Bizzle
Leya
Liane Carroll
Lily Allen*
Lost Prophets
Lou Rhodes
Marc Carroll
Marsha Swanson
Martyn Joseph
Matthew Herbert
Medicine Hat
Merz
Miracle Mile
Mogwai
Mohair
Morning Runner
Morrissey
Muse*
My Awesome Compilation
My Latest Novel
Mystery Jets
Nate James
Nerina Pallot*
Netsayi
Nine Horses
Niraj Chag
Omar
Oriole
Paolo Nutini
Paparazzi Whore
Paul McCartney
Paul Weller
Pet Shop Boys
Placebo
Plan B*
Primal Scream
Psapp
Public Symphony
Quinn
R.O.C.
Ralfe Band
Ray Davies
Razorlight
Reem Kelani
Richard Ashcroft
Richard Hawley
Richard Thompson
Rick Oliver
Robbie Williams
Roddy Frame
Rolling Stones
Rory McLeod
Saint Jude's infirmary
Sandi Thom
Scott Matthews
Scritti Politti
Shack
Shelley Poole
Shibuya Crossings
Show of Hands
Shri
Snow Patrol
Softhearted Scientists
Sol Seppy
Sophie Solomon
Spiers & Boden
Stephanie Kirkham
Steve Tilson
Stig
Stoney
Supergrass
Susy Thomas
Swap
Sway
Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Tarik O’Regan
Ted Barnes
Teddy Thompson
Tennant & Lowe
Terri Walker
The Automatic*
The Basement
The Beauty Room
The Charlatans
The Crimea
The Delays
The Divine Comedy
The Eighteenth Day of May The Feeling
The Futureheads
The Hazey Janes
The Kooks
The Longcut
The Loose Cannons
The Mitchell Brothers
The Neil Cowley trio
The Pipettes
The R.G. Morrison
The Rakes
The Research
The Rifles
The Storys
The Streets
The Upper Room
The Webb sisters
The Zutons
Thom Yorke
Tim van Eyken
Tony Kofi
Towers of London
Trio Gitano
Tunng*
Two Giraffes
Urban Myth Club
Van Morrison
Various*
Vashti Bunyan
White Rose Movement
Wills and the Willing
Zero 7
Zoë Rahman
* UnaRocks tips for nomination
Personally, I want Various to win it. Their album 'The World Is Gone' on XL Recordings is definately one of the records of the year. I do, however think Arctic Monkeys will probably walk away with it, although, the Mercury Prize is SO unpredictable and maybe the exposure the Monkeys have got in the past year will count against them.
Some of these acts I've * are not neccesarily ones I want to see nominated, just predictions - so don't scream at me for the Corrinne Bailey Rae thing.
Una
Saturday, July 15, 2006
T In The Park podcast
check out NME's T In The Park (pretty much the exact lineup as Oxegen) podcast featuring Lily Allen, Maximo Park, Giant Drag and The View and hosted by Pennie from The Automatic.
clicky
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Gig Highlights this week
Tonight
Yam Who? @ Kennedys on Westland Row
Kennedys is sure raking in some good acts these days, what with their indie Bottletop club and this popular Saturday night fixture. This evening, Yam Who? who have worked with Pharell and Amp Fiddler play the tunes.
Tuesday
Kila & Oki @ Bewleys on Grafton Street
Kila are possibly the only modern trad fusion act worth a look. At this gig, they launch their new album with Ainu musician Oki.
Wednesday
Cowboy X @ Crawdaddy
Electro pop rock with killer vocals in support of their new record 'Who Are These People'
Thursday
Mattew Chicoine @ Bia Bar
Soul Food, the weekly club run by Remedy nets another quality freebie with Recloose's techno flavoured house.
Friday
KISS @ Temple Bar Music Centre
The monthly riotous club night for gay girls and their male friends
Sunday
Lost @ Crawdaddy
Think Muse crossed with the Mars Volta. Extremely energetic up and coming Dublin young uns. Support comes from Lotus Lullaby
Yam Who? @ Kennedys on Westland Row
Kennedys is sure raking in some good acts these days, what with their indie Bottletop club and this popular Saturday night fixture. This evening, Yam Who? who have worked with Pharell and Amp Fiddler play the tunes.
Tuesday
Kila & Oki @ Bewleys on Grafton Street
Kila are possibly the only modern trad fusion act worth a look. At this gig, they launch their new album with Ainu musician Oki.
Wednesday
Cowboy X @ Crawdaddy
Electro pop rock with killer vocals in support of their new record 'Who Are These People'
Thursday
Mattew Chicoine @ Bia Bar
Soul Food, the weekly club run by Remedy nets another quality freebie with Recloose's techno flavoured house.
Friday
KISS @ Temple Bar Music Centre
The monthly riotous club night for gay girls and their male friends
Sunday
Lost @ Crawdaddy
Think Muse crossed with the Mars Volta. Extremely energetic up and coming Dublin young uns. Support comes from Lotus Lullaby
Friday night
Last night I: ate a steak I had stabbed with two cloves of chopped garlic. I watched the news. I drank a bottle of Chateau Lagarere Bordeaux (2004). I started reading 'The Possibility of and Island' by Michel Houellbecq. I listened to Serena Maneesh and Various - 'The World Is Gone' and the fountain in the courtyard of my apartment building. Roisin was asleep. Elaine was out. And from the Tribune magazine I cut a headline that stated 'Coffee: The New Health Drink'.
Una
Una
Friday, July 14, 2006
Dirty Dozen: Vol 43
1. Grizzly Bear - 'On A Neck On A Spit'
2. Jeff Mueller - 'Formed In Atoms'
3. Oxes - 'Panda Strong'
4. Wives - 'Babies'
5. Sufjan Stevens - 'Holland'
half a dozen. Golden Smog - '5-22-02'
7. They Shoot Horses Don't They - 'Empty Head'
8. The Decemberists - 'The Engine Driver'
9. Elliott Smith - 'Between The Bars'
10. Peaches - 'Diddle My Skittle' (ep version)
11. Ray Charles - 'I Gotta Woman' (Diplo remix)
dozen. Arcade Fire - 'Maps'
Una
2. Jeff Mueller - 'Formed In Atoms'
3. Oxes - 'Panda Strong'
4. Wives - 'Babies'
5. Sufjan Stevens - 'Holland'
half a dozen. Golden Smog - '5-22-02'
7. They Shoot Horses Don't They - 'Empty Head'
8. The Decemberists - 'The Engine Driver'
9. Elliott Smith - 'Between The Bars'
10. Peaches - 'Diddle My Skittle' (ep version)
11. Ray Charles - 'I Gotta Woman' (Diplo remix)
dozen. Arcade Fire - 'Maps'
Una
The New Killers Album
Brandon Flowers, currently looking like Jack White's 70s porno twin has revealed that their second album will be titled 'Sam's Town'.
The album is out October 2nd.
The record includes 'Why Do I Keep Counting?', 'Bones', 'Uncle Johnny Did Cocaine', 'Read My Mind' and 'Bling' and will be preceded by the single 'When You Were Young' on September 18. You can hear the full version now by going to the band's official website Islandrecords.com/thekillers/
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Went to see this play/rock show/musical thang in the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar last night with Laney and her mates Kathy-Ann and Vinny and his mates. It's about an East-Berlin boy who has a botched sex change operation and goes on to inspire a world famous rock star called Tommy Gnosis. Sounds crazy, but it's cool. Check it out.
FCPs
If anyone out there hasn't already picked up 'Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture' by Ariel Levy do it now! It's a must!
Here's the piece I wrote for the Tribune magazine last Sunday on the subject:
RISE OF RAUNCH
This year, over the St Patrick’s Day festival, I had the dubious pleasure of covering nightlife in the capital city, from the on-street vomitting in Temple Bar to a rave in the Point Depot, from early houses to teenage discos to gay bars. The only element of all of this that saw me tut tut with pursed lips and a shaking head was, naturally, the under-18 disco at Wesley rugby club in Donnybrook. The much patronted and much scrutinised disco is of course, not the only one of its ilk in the country, but it is perhaps the most visible. Crowds of young teens line the D4 street and await entrance, hopping off the 46A bus, naggins of vodka in hand, and heading to the adjacent petrol station to stock up on red bull, chewing gum, condoms and cigarettes. It would not be quite so desperate a scenario if the young female patrons, most of whom are just skimming puberty, were not dressed like - and there is no other way of saying this - whores. They wear garters, suspenders, skirts that barely cover what they're meant to, push up bras, see-through tops, bunny ears, ironic angel wings, stilletto heals and endless lipgloss. Watching them strut drunkenly into a night of sloppy kisses and oral sex, sneaky drinks and badly rolled joints, I tried to put a word on how I felt. Then I got it - sad. Recently, Ariel Levy has managed to better articulate this personal feeling of discomfort, and a further universal one in her book ‘Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women And The Rise Of Raunch Culture.’
Now might be a good time to raise my hand and say I wasn't ever cool enough to frequent Wesley. Thankfully, my school time ended half a decade ago, and I wasn’t mercilessly bullied for non-participation. A friend of mine who recently returned to her Dublin secondary school for a serious of articles discovered an alternative universe; 14-year-olds who listed Sex & The City as their favourite TV programme, endless bullying directed at those who weren’t the right size or didn’t go to the right discos or wear the right make-up, girls who had countless experiences with oral sex maintaining they were ‘virgins’, girls practically forced into kissing each other under the guise of OC-inspired ‘experimentation’ and with all of these things, abortion, depression and and almost a complete absense of parental involvement. The prevailing sentiment amongst these kids is that they wanted to look and act like anything other than themselves, namely the ‘celebrities’ of our time who are either porn stars (Paris Hilton, Jordan, Jodie Marsh, Abi Titmuss), or channel a completely inappropriate TV fantasy for kids of their age (Mischa Barton's pseudo-lesbianism, Lindsey Lohan and Nicole Richie aka the Skeletwins, the ‘sex without responsibility’ attitude of the cast of well everything). Even Pink, who is now proposed as a best-of-a-bad-lot-feminist-role-model dressed up like a stripper for the Moulin Rouge ‘Lady Marmalade’ video. And eventually, there is no self, just a collage of tabloid magazine steal-her-style wardrobes, and a vocabulary like a running script from E4’s programming.
I tested this view on some friends - in their early to mid twenties - who concured. It was something that they knew was happening but hadn’t put their finger on. “Actually why do we go and get Brazilian waxes? No man ever asked me to do that, it’s just because everyone else does, and then, well, you have to too,” said one. Once the discussion was opened, the sudden realisations and subsequent criticims flowed. “Threesomes! Like, it's something you're meant to be seriously considering if not already doing.” “When you go out, you have to flash the cash. It’s just expected that you dress raunchy.” “Imagine believing in no sex before marriage? People would think you were some kind of freak.”
The Playboy bunny is no longer a symbol of objectification, but something school girls have printed on their pencil cases and t-shirts. Nikki, a contestant on this years Big Brother (hardly a barometer of normality, I know) said her life ambition was to be a footballer’s wife. She entered the house dressed in a bunny suit. Leah, a surgically-enhanced contestant and mother of one weeped in the diary room that not getting evicted would mean that she would feel the public accepted her for ‘who she is’, as if someone put a gun to her head to implant her breasts. For her upset, she, like many women who endorse the single version of image and sexuality as a straight, slutty, white, blonde, big-breasted party girl, only has herself to blame.
Somewhere along the line, we skipped a major beat, and began to take literal cues from a pop culture that has descended into the denegration and obscene objectification of women. Maybe it began with Sisqo's ‘Thong Song’ - an ode to stripper attire that subsequently (an uncomfortably) clad a generation. But personally, I believe the pop culture landmark was Christina Aguilera’s ‘Dirrrty’ video. David La Chapelle, a 21st Century bling Helmut Newton directed the award winning promo, which began with the battlecry “If you aint dirty, you aint here to party”, now a threatening motto for a generation. Xtina descended into an underground fightclub wearing a bra, knickers and leather chaps and spent the next three-and-a-half minutes overlooking naked mud fights, simulating masterbation, acting out a lesbian shower scene. It’s fun, we're told, it’s raunchy, it’s, ahem empowering. Of course, Ms Aguilera is just acting, but her behaviour and dress is imitated millions of times over by those who are exposed to it.
The overwhelming aspect of raunch culture is that it is stifling in its options. Make that option. If you’re made up like the sillhouette on the Bada Bing sign, and don’t act like the girls inside the establishment, you’re going nowhere. And if you aint here to party (now the sole raison d'etre, apparantely) you might as well retreat into your unmanicured binkini line, frigid, podgy-stomached, plain universe with the rest of those who still think for themselves but aren't allowed articulate it, less they poop the post-feminist ‘orgy.’
Women seem to have become completely delerious. No one can tell it like it is anymore, because it’s made out as slamming the sisterhood. Jordon is not a feminist icon. She is a calculating consumerist who has made her money by demeaning her feminity and stripping. Jodie Marsh is a sad piece of work who thinks it’s cruel to eat meat, yet perfectly fine to rate her conquests sexual prowess out of ten on a t-shirt. Eva Longoria is celebrated for her part in sexxing up the suburbs in ‘Desperate Housewives’ (says it all really) and then encourages us all to remove our pubic hair, “every woman should try a Brazilian wax once. And then the sex they have afterward will make them keep coming back,” she trilled to Cosmopolitian magazine. Paris Hilton became famous on the back of a video tape of her having sex and then writes a book for tweens (‘Confessions of an Heiress’) giving out the contradictory message to dress like a prostitute but don’t be “easy”.
Last year, taking the bus into Dublin for a Saturday night out, I was seated upstairs amongst a group of girls who, as we passed a suburban night club, began to lament the various threesomes they had been involved in. Then they started talking about what a drag the Junior Cert was. A few months later, on the same bus in the other direction, I couldn't help but overhear a girlie conversation about who had ‘blown’ who the previous evening at a party. When I stood up to disembark, I saw they were clad in the tracksuit colours of my old primary school. This isn’t free love, it’s cheap love. Women have earned the right to have sex with whomever they choose, and have adopted a lifestyle of unadulterated slutism. Sex, as Levy points out, is no longer about passion or intimacy, but about performance. We have begun to model ourselves on pornstars, ridiculous really when their job is to act out sex.
Cosmopolitian teaches us how to “please our man”, not how to have meaningful relationships. Women have become sex actors. The trend of lesbianism as exhibitionsism is directly transported from pornography where heterosexual women act out lesbian acts. Women all of a sudden think poll-dancing classes are a great way to get fit, while subconsciously seeking male approval. Exhibitionism is the norm, and a competing norm. In Germany this month, we saw ‘Posh’ Beckham lead the way with the WAGS, each woman competing for approval with the sauciest Engerland outfit and the biggest bar bill. Men are not pushing this ideal, women are. The male (probably very happily) is passive, with no need for action as they sit back and enjoy the ride, as it were.
And the latest manifestation of this is The Pussycat Dolls, a troupe of ex-strippers (sorry, ‘burlesque dancers’) who prance around purring “dontcha wish your girlfriend was hot like me.” The plug was recently pulled on a venture to imortalise them as dolls aimed at the 6+ age group following complaints from parents groups in the States. “We like to encourage young girls to look to the Dolls for inspiration in how to be feminine,” ‘Doll member Melody Thornton said in an Irish Times interview. I’m sure parents will thank her for that one next time they’re shopping for raunchily logoed t-shirts for their daughters. There is, of course, nothing progressive nor political about this culture of faux empowerment. All it is is achingly consumerist. Sex sells, so now everything that can be bought must be sex.
Raunch, ladies, is everywhere. And, as Ariel Levy concludes, is a culture propogated by women. “If Male Chauvinist Pigs were men who regarded women as pieces of meat, we would outdo them and be Female Chauvinist Pigs; women who make sex objects of other women and of ourselves,” she writes. “Just because we are post doesn’t automatically mean we are feminists... “Raunchy” and “liberated” are not synonyms. It is worth asking ourselves if this bawdy world of boobs and gams we have resurrected reflects how far we’ve come, or how far we have left to go.” And I confess that I too have bought into it, the invisible hand of raunch culture has guided me into establishments to get all manner of painful (and completely unnessecary) 'maintanence' treatments, hell, I bought a pink diamante Playboy bunny belly button ring once (actually, that one was a gift), I’ve taken a frivalrous attidude to relationships, visited the strip clubs, hollered the mysongynist lyrics of chart songs in clubs. But it’s over. Now, it's about damage control. We have to save ourselves, because no one else will. I aint dirty, and if this is the party, I’d rather make my excuses and leave.
Una
Here's the piece I wrote for the Tribune magazine last Sunday on the subject:
RISE OF RAUNCH
This year, over the St Patrick’s Day festival, I had the dubious pleasure of covering nightlife in the capital city, from the on-street vomitting in Temple Bar to a rave in the Point Depot, from early houses to teenage discos to gay bars. The only element of all of this that saw me tut tut with pursed lips and a shaking head was, naturally, the under-18 disco at Wesley rugby club in Donnybrook. The much patronted and much scrutinised disco is of course, not the only one of its ilk in the country, but it is perhaps the most visible. Crowds of young teens line the D4 street and await entrance, hopping off the 46A bus, naggins of vodka in hand, and heading to the adjacent petrol station to stock up on red bull, chewing gum, condoms and cigarettes. It would not be quite so desperate a scenario if the young female patrons, most of whom are just skimming puberty, were not dressed like - and there is no other way of saying this - whores. They wear garters, suspenders, skirts that barely cover what they're meant to, push up bras, see-through tops, bunny ears, ironic angel wings, stilletto heals and endless lipgloss. Watching them strut drunkenly into a night of sloppy kisses and oral sex, sneaky drinks and badly rolled joints, I tried to put a word on how I felt. Then I got it - sad. Recently, Ariel Levy has managed to better articulate this personal feeling of discomfort, and a further universal one in her book ‘Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women And The Rise Of Raunch Culture.’
Now might be a good time to raise my hand and say I wasn't ever cool enough to frequent Wesley. Thankfully, my school time ended half a decade ago, and I wasn’t mercilessly bullied for non-participation. A friend of mine who recently returned to her Dublin secondary school for a serious of articles discovered an alternative universe; 14-year-olds who listed Sex & The City as their favourite TV programme, endless bullying directed at those who weren’t the right size or didn’t go to the right discos or wear the right make-up, girls who had countless experiences with oral sex maintaining they were ‘virgins’, girls practically forced into kissing each other under the guise of OC-inspired ‘experimentation’ and with all of these things, abortion, depression and and almost a complete absense of parental involvement. The prevailing sentiment amongst these kids is that they wanted to look and act like anything other than themselves, namely the ‘celebrities’ of our time who are either porn stars (Paris Hilton, Jordan, Jodie Marsh, Abi Titmuss), or channel a completely inappropriate TV fantasy for kids of their age (Mischa Barton's pseudo-lesbianism, Lindsey Lohan and Nicole Richie aka the Skeletwins, the ‘sex without responsibility’ attitude of the cast of well everything). Even Pink, who is now proposed as a best-of-a-bad-lot-feminist-role-model dressed up like a stripper for the Moulin Rouge ‘Lady Marmalade’ video. And eventually, there is no self, just a collage of tabloid magazine steal-her-style wardrobes, and a vocabulary like a running script from E4’s programming.
I tested this view on some friends - in their early to mid twenties - who concured. It was something that they knew was happening but hadn’t put their finger on. “Actually why do we go and get Brazilian waxes? No man ever asked me to do that, it’s just because everyone else does, and then, well, you have to too,” said one. Once the discussion was opened, the sudden realisations and subsequent criticims flowed. “Threesomes! Like, it's something you're meant to be seriously considering if not already doing.” “When you go out, you have to flash the cash. It’s just expected that you dress raunchy.” “Imagine believing in no sex before marriage? People would think you were some kind of freak.”
The Playboy bunny is no longer a symbol of objectification, but something school girls have printed on their pencil cases and t-shirts. Nikki, a contestant on this years Big Brother (hardly a barometer of normality, I know) said her life ambition was to be a footballer’s wife. She entered the house dressed in a bunny suit. Leah, a surgically-enhanced contestant and mother of one weeped in the diary room that not getting evicted would mean that she would feel the public accepted her for ‘who she is’, as if someone put a gun to her head to implant her breasts. For her upset, she, like many women who endorse the single version of image and sexuality as a straight, slutty, white, blonde, big-breasted party girl, only has herself to blame.
Somewhere along the line, we skipped a major beat, and began to take literal cues from a pop culture that has descended into the denegration and obscene objectification of women. Maybe it began with Sisqo's ‘Thong Song’ - an ode to stripper attire that subsequently (an uncomfortably) clad a generation. But personally, I believe the pop culture landmark was Christina Aguilera’s ‘Dirrrty’ video. David La Chapelle, a 21st Century bling Helmut Newton directed the award winning promo, which began with the battlecry “If you aint dirty, you aint here to party”, now a threatening motto for a generation. Xtina descended into an underground fightclub wearing a bra, knickers and leather chaps and spent the next three-and-a-half minutes overlooking naked mud fights, simulating masterbation, acting out a lesbian shower scene. It’s fun, we're told, it’s raunchy, it’s, ahem empowering. Of course, Ms Aguilera is just acting, but her behaviour and dress is imitated millions of times over by those who are exposed to it.
The overwhelming aspect of raunch culture is that it is stifling in its options. Make that option. If you’re made up like the sillhouette on the Bada Bing sign, and don’t act like the girls inside the establishment, you’re going nowhere. And if you aint here to party (now the sole raison d'etre, apparantely) you might as well retreat into your unmanicured binkini line, frigid, podgy-stomached, plain universe with the rest of those who still think for themselves but aren't allowed articulate it, less they poop the post-feminist ‘orgy.’
Women seem to have become completely delerious. No one can tell it like it is anymore, because it’s made out as slamming the sisterhood. Jordon is not a feminist icon. She is a calculating consumerist who has made her money by demeaning her feminity and stripping. Jodie Marsh is a sad piece of work who thinks it’s cruel to eat meat, yet perfectly fine to rate her conquests sexual prowess out of ten on a t-shirt. Eva Longoria is celebrated for her part in sexxing up the suburbs in ‘Desperate Housewives’ (says it all really) and then encourages us all to remove our pubic hair, “every woman should try a Brazilian wax once. And then the sex they have afterward will make them keep coming back,” she trilled to Cosmopolitian magazine. Paris Hilton became famous on the back of a video tape of her having sex and then writes a book for tweens (‘Confessions of an Heiress’) giving out the contradictory message to dress like a prostitute but don’t be “easy”.
Last year, taking the bus into Dublin for a Saturday night out, I was seated upstairs amongst a group of girls who, as we passed a suburban night club, began to lament the various threesomes they had been involved in. Then they started talking about what a drag the Junior Cert was. A few months later, on the same bus in the other direction, I couldn't help but overhear a girlie conversation about who had ‘blown’ who the previous evening at a party. When I stood up to disembark, I saw they were clad in the tracksuit colours of my old primary school. This isn’t free love, it’s cheap love. Women have earned the right to have sex with whomever they choose, and have adopted a lifestyle of unadulterated slutism. Sex, as Levy points out, is no longer about passion or intimacy, but about performance. We have begun to model ourselves on pornstars, ridiculous really when their job is to act out sex.
Cosmopolitian teaches us how to “please our man”, not how to have meaningful relationships. Women have become sex actors. The trend of lesbianism as exhibitionsism is directly transported from pornography where heterosexual women act out lesbian acts. Women all of a sudden think poll-dancing classes are a great way to get fit, while subconsciously seeking male approval. Exhibitionism is the norm, and a competing norm. In Germany this month, we saw ‘Posh’ Beckham lead the way with the WAGS, each woman competing for approval with the sauciest Engerland outfit and the biggest bar bill. Men are not pushing this ideal, women are. The male (probably very happily) is passive, with no need for action as they sit back and enjoy the ride, as it were.
And the latest manifestation of this is The Pussycat Dolls, a troupe of ex-strippers (sorry, ‘burlesque dancers’) who prance around purring “dontcha wish your girlfriend was hot like me.” The plug was recently pulled on a venture to imortalise them as dolls aimed at the 6+ age group following complaints from parents groups in the States. “We like to encourage young girls to look to the Dolls for inspiration in how to be feminine,” ‘Doll member Melody Thornton said in an Irish Times interview. I’m sure parents will thank her for that one next time they’re shopping for raunchily logoed t-shirts for their daughters. There is, of course, nothing progressive nor political about this culture of faux empowerment. All it is is achingly consumerist. Sex sells, so now everything that can be bought must be sex.
Raunch, ladies, is everywhere. And, as Ariel Levy concludes, is a culture propogated by women. “If Male Chauvinist Pigs were men who regarded women as pieces of meat, we would outdo them and be Female Chauvinist Pigs; women who make sex objects of other women and of ourselves,” she writes. “Just because we are post doesn’t automatically mean we are feminists... “Raunchy” and “liberated” are not synonyms. It is worth asking ourselves if this bawdy world of boobs and gams we have resurrected reflects how far we’ve come, or how far we have left to go.” And I confess that I too have bought into it, the invisible hand of raunch culture has guided me into establishments to get all manner of painful (and completely unnessecary) 'maintanence' treatments, hell, I bought a pink diamante Playboy bunny belly button ring once (actually, that one was a gift), I’ve taken a frivalrous attidude to relationships, visited the strip clubs, hollered the mysongynist lyrics of chart songs in clubs. But it’s over. Now, it's about damage control. We have to save ourselves, because no one else will. I aint dirty, and if this is the party, I’d rather make my excuses and leave.
Una
New Mix From Arveene
Mr Ozio - Half an Edit - F com
Pornophonics - The Push San City High
Shit Disco - I know kung Fu - Nightmoves mix
Bobby Peru - The Truth
Sergej Auto - Chasing White Line Junkies
Peaches -Downtown - Simian Mobile Disco mix
King Unique - To The Left
Aardvark - Just Washed The Pig
Little Death - We are back
Titsworth - Sardines - White
Mustapha 3000 - Kongo Thong
Arveene - ???????
Fancy - What's your name again - Busy P remix
Teenage Bad Girl - Hands of a Stranger
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows - White
download it here
Arveene on myspace
Una
Pornophonics - The Push San City High
Shit Disco - I know kung Fu - Nightmoves mix
Bobby Peru - The Truth
Sergej Auto - Chasing White Line Junkies
Peaches -Downtown - Simian Mobile Disco mix
King Unique - To The Left
Aardvark - Just Washed The Pig
Little Death - We are back
Titsworth - Sardines - White
Mustapha 3000 - Kongo Thong
Arveene - ???????
Fancy - What's your name again - Busy P remix
Teenage Bad Girl - Hands of a Stranger
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows - White
download it here
Arveene on myspace
Una
DAFT PUNK TICKETS ON SALE... NOW!
BUDRISING SUMMER PRESENTS
Daft Punk
Marlay Park, 25 August 2006 (subject to licence)
Tickets for the outdoor event of the year, BudRising Summer’s Daft Punk in Marlay Park went on sale this morning at 9.00am and are selling fast! The French Supergroup haven’t performed in Ireland in over 12 years and this exclusive concert is only one of 8 that they are performing on their very special world tour. The amazing line up of special guests are yet to be announced!
Tickets for the Daft Punk BudRising Summer concert in Marlay Park are €49.50 including booking fee are on sale now and can be purchased via the following options: Online www.ticketmaster.ie, telephone 0818 719 300 for Northern Ireland 0870 243 4455 or in person at Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.
Further details on BudRising Summer please visit:
www.budrising.ie
www.mcd.ie
www.daftpunk.com
www.ticketmaster.ie
Una
Daft Punk
Marlay Park, 25 August 2006 (subject to licence)
Tickets for the outdoor event of the year, BudRising Summer’s Daft Punk in Marlay Park went on sale this morning at 9.00am and are selling fast! The French Supergroup haven’t performed in Ireland in over 12 years and this exclusive concert is only one of 8 that they are performing on their very special world tour. The amazing line up of special guests are yet to be announced!
Tickets for the Daft Punk BudRising Summer concert in Marlay Park are €49.50 including booking fee are on sale now and can be purchased via the following options: Online www.ticketmaster.ie, telephone 0818 719 300 for Northern Ireland 0870 243 4455 or in person at Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.
Further details on BudRising Summer please visit:
www.budrising.ie
www.mcd.ie
www.daftpunk.com
www.ticketmaster.ie
Una
Thursday, July 13, 2006
all by my-se-eh-eh-elf
EVERYONE IS GONE AWAY!
Met Hannah-Eve for lunch yesterday, she's off to the Philippines on Friday - surfing for a month fhsdjkalgufilgiuv. Sorry, my fingers just slipped on the keyboard there from the jealousy juice seeping out from my finger tips.
Met Eabha today and she's going interrailing around Europe for a month on Saturday.
Burco and Niamh are in Barcelona.
Lili is in Germany.
:(
Una
Met Hannah-Eve for lunch yesterday, she's off to the Philippines on Friday - surfing for a month fhsdjkalgufilgiuv. Sorry, my fingers just slipped on the keyboard there from the jealousy juice seeping out from my finger tips.
Met Eabha today and she's going interrailing around Europe for a month on Saturday.
Burco and Niamh are in Barcelona.
Lili is in Germany.
:(
Una
Delorentos festival em, fest
The mud in Punchestown is not even dry and Delorentos have announced that they are to play Electric Picnic, becoming the first unsigned band to play both Electric Picnic and Oxegen in the same year. The band will also be second from headliners Republic of Loose at Castle Palooza (August 6th), are supporting Bell X1 at the Galway Arts Festival (July 22), and will also grace the stage at the Dalkey Arts Festival (July 29). And then there's the matter of the Le Cheile Festival in Meath (August 5) and Feile Beo in Dingle, Co Kerry (August 17). Finally, following Electric Picnic, they'll be at the Surfrock Festival in Bundoran (September 29)
Check out their website and their myspace
Una
Dirty Dozen: Vol 42
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP (track listing: Bang, Mystery Girl, Art Star, Miles Away, Out Time)
2. Delorentos - 'Any Other Way'
3. Guillemots - 'Made Up Love Song #43'
4. Postal Service - 'Such Great Heights'
5. Editors - 'You Are Fading'
half a dozen. Shearwater - 'Seventy Four, Seventy Five'
7. Band Of Horses - 'The Funeral'
8. Spoon - 'I Turn My Camera On'
9. Dizzee Rascal - 'Fix Up Look Sharp'
10. The National - 'Wasp Nest'
11. Regina Spektor - 'Fidelity'
dozen. Thom Yorke - 'Harrowdown Hill'
Una
2. Delorentos - 'Any Other Way'
3. Guillemots - 'Made Up Love Song #43'
4. Postal Service - 'Such Great Heights'
5. Editors - 'You Are Fading'
half a dozen. Shearwater - 'Seventy Four, Seventy Five'
7. Band Of Horses - 'The Funeral'
8. Spoon - 'I Turn My Camera On'
9. Dizzee Rascal - 'Fix Up Look Sharp'
10. The National - 'Wasp Nest'
11. Regina Spektor - 'Fidelity'
dozen. Thom Yorke - 'Harrowdown Hill'
Una
Oxegen Photos
the wonderful Miss Lili has begun to upload some of the photos she took at Oxegen on her blog, including The Who, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother etc.
If you have cool Oxegen photos, post a link in the 'comments' on this post.
Una
If you have cool Oxegen photos, post a link in the 'comments' on this post.
Una
NEWS!
Sufjan Stevens plays the Olympia in Dublin on November 1st
Syd Barrett has died RIP
Weezer have broken up
Broken Social Scene have split
Electric Picnic is sold out
Una
Syd Barrett has died RIP
Weezer have broken up
Broken Social Scene have split
Electric Picnic is sold out
Una
Hammer Time
Me and Laney are switching rooms this week in our apartment. Laney is putting up some new pictures, which presented me, her and Jim Jim with the perfect opportunity for some sexy tool poses.
The Virgin Prune
Went to Gavin Friday's house in Killiney yesterday for a chat. He's working on the pre-production for his new show Tomorrow Belongs To Me He lives in this weird enclave between Bono and Enya on Vico Road with the best view of the bay ever.
Anyway, such a nice, smart bloke. Check out his old band
Una
Anyway, such a nice, smart bloke. Check out his old band
Una
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
What's On The UnaRocks Stereo
Various
The World Is Gone
XL Recordings
out July 21
Max Sedgley
From The Roots To The Shoots
Sunday Best Recordings
out July 21
Folk Off!
New Folk and Psychedelia from The British Isles and North America compiled by Rob da Bank
Sunday Best Recordings
out July 14
The Beauty Room
Beyond an Infinate
Peacefrog Records
out August 11
Grandadbob
Garden Of Happiness
Southern Fried Records
out August 25
Kila
Kila & Oki
Kila Records
out July 21
Black Grass
A Hundred Days In One
Cat Skills Records
out August 18
what are you guys listening to?
Una
The World Is Gone
XL Recordings
out July 21
Max Sedgley
From The Roots To The Shoots
Sunday Best Recordings
out July 21
Folk Off!
New Folk and Psychedelia from The British Isles and North America compiled by Rob da Bank
Sunday Best Recordings
out July 14
The Beauty Room
Beyond an Infinate
Peacefrog Records
out August 11
Grandadbob
Garden Of Happiness
Southern Fried Records
out August 25
Kila
Kila & Oki
Kila Records
out July 21
Black Grass
A Hundred Days In One
Cat Skills Records
out August 18
what are you guys listening to?
Una
The Mercury Music Prize
The shortlist will be announced next Tuesday.
Let me be the first person to predict the winners in 2007 (because the release date for their record misses the Mercury deadline this year) - Various - 'The World Is Gone' on XL Recordings. It's fucking awesome.
Anyway, I guess Arctic Monkeys will walk away with it this year. Any other suggestions? I'd say Guillemots, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lily Allen and Plan B will get a nod.
Una
Let me be the first person to predict the winners in 2007 (because the release date for their record misses the Mercury deadline this year) - Various - 'The World Is Gone' on XL Recordings. It's fucking awesome.
Anyway, I guess Arctic Monkeys will walk away with it this year. Any other suggestions? I'd say Guillemots, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lily Allen and Plan B will get a nod.
Una
wet @ Oxegen
Lili, me and Gav backstage at Oxegen in the Remedy crew DJ tent sheltering from the storm
Monday, July 10, 2006
Oxegen: The UnaRocks Verdict
So, were you there?
Oxegen 2006 was a festival of two halves really - an apt phrase given that I missed a million bands thanks to the World Cup final going on forever.
I was working a good bit on Saturday morning up until before 3, so the first act I got to see was Regina Spektor who was excellent - must get her new album now. Then me and Ian caught a bit of The Magic Numbers before heading back into the VIP area to dry off. Lucky for us Anthony had a roomy fully enclosed tent thingy for the DJ area backstage, so we got to hang out there. I swear to god, I've never seen such torrential rain in July, it was ridiculous, but we braved the storm for Arctic Monkeys who put on a good set.
There weren't many heads backstage really. Met Glenda Gilson who was down there doing her Bubble Hits thing. The boys from Hard Fi came into the press room for a bit and Magic Numbers were wandering around too. Met Deco from Republic of Loose (who put on an awesome set by all accounts) and chatted to Brian from The Marshals for a bit too. Humanzi were wandering around in black all day too.
We hid inside then again until The Who came on, which was awesome. The lovely Karen from The Star gave me and Lili and Ian a lift back into civilisation.
The next day was way better. I thought I'd be completely wrecked after the rain nightmare of Saturday, but I felt ok. Me and Lili headed down together and caught some awesome bands in the morning. Aoife from MCD whizzed us around to see Wolfmother in her little golf cart thing and I got to watch them right at the stage which was really cool. Man the RAAAAWWWWWKKKKED! You should see this band. So good.
Then me and Lili caught Maximo Park on the mainstage. Such a great set, they played two new tracks - one of which ('Nosebleed') I had heard at their Limerick gig and it sounds even better now. The other one - 'Rain' - has hit written all over it. Wonder when the album is coming out?
Went over to see a bit of Guillemots set in the Green Room after that. Pretty good too. Their record got an awesome review in the Observer on Sunday so I must pick it up. Went backstage again after that and Anthony and me and Razor went up to artist catering to get some nosh. Got a nod of adknowledgement from Archis from Maximo Park (I presume he recalled our night of all night drinking in Limerick upon seeing my face). Divine Comedy, Guillemots, Maximo Park and a few other heads were alll hanging out eating bean curry. On the way back out I spotted Alison Goldfrapp in her dressing room in shades looking a bit moody. Found out later that she had to perform against doctor's orders, so that's probably why.
Corina was hanging around for a bit, so I went to meet her and then went with Tracey and Mags to check out the Kooks, but we couldn't get anywhere near the stage, so we headed to Hope Of The States instead which was ok. Met Sharon outside to give her a blag and then back in to watch the World Cup final - what a match! People were going mental - wee bit of tension between me and Anthony (me supporting Italy, him, France) but obviously my team won because I rock. After that, because I missed so many bands watching the match, I just watched a bit of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and headed home.
All in all, a fine weekend, but nothing mind blowing. I thought there were some good additions to Oxegen though - free line-up timetables for everyone, better food, silent disco. But still, the location is a bit crap and it seemed to be completely overcrowded on Sunday. Also, the sound was overlapping between tents which was really annoying. The fact that the MTV2 tent was missing from the backstage area was shit as well, because it was so awesome last year.
Met a bunch of UnaRocks readers which was nice (special props :) to John from Warner Music and Kier from Delorentos - thanks for your kind words!)
Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me as my wonderful flatmate Laney borrowed it as she was reporting from Sudan and Ethiopia all week (a little more important than me taking crap pictures of Flea), but Lili and Anthony will fulfil your photographic needs on their blogs I'm sure.
Now, roll on Electric Picnic - sold out by the way!
Una
PS forgot to post that I went to the New Music Tour in Whelans last week. Just caught Blizzards and Director who were both pretty good - the latter was better though. Check out these bands!
Oxegen 2006 was a festival of two halves really - an apt phrase given that I missed a million bands thanks to the World Cup final going on forever.
I was working a good bit on Saturday morning up until before 3, so the first act I got to see was Regina Spektor who was excellent - must get her new album now. Then me and Ian caught a bit of The Magic Numbers before heading back into the VIP area to dry off. Lucky for us Anthony had a roomy fully enclosed tent thingy for the DJ area backstage, so we got to hang out there. I swear to god, I've never seen such torrential rain in July, it was ridiculous, but we braved the storm for Arctic Monkeys who put on a good set.
There weren't many heads backstage really. Met Glenda Gilson who was down there doing her Bubble Hits thing. The boys from Hard Fi came into the press room for a bit and Magic Numbers were wandering around too. Met Deco from Republic of Loose (who put on an awesome set by all accounts) and chatted to Brian from The Marshals for a bit too. Humanzi were wandering around in black all day too.
We hid inside then again until The Who came on, which was awesome. The lovely Karen from The Star gave me and Lili and Ian a lift back into civilisation.
The next day was way better. I thought I'd be completely wrecked after the rain nightmare of Saturday, but I felt ok. Me and Lili headed down together and caught some awesome bands in the morning. Aoife from MCD whizzed us around to see Wolfmother in her little golf cart thing and I got to watch them right at the stage which was really cool. Man the RAAAAWWWWWKKKKED! You should see this band. So good.
Then me and Lili caught Maximo Park on the mainstage. Such a great set, they played two new tracks - one of which ('Nosebleed') I had heard at their Limerick gig and it sounds even better now. The other one - 'Rain' - has hit written all over it. Wonder when the album is coming out?
Went over to see a bit of Guillemots set in the Green Room after that. Pretty good too. Their record got an awesome review in the Observer on Sunday so I must pick it up. Went backstage again after that and Anthony and me and Razor went up to artist catering to get some nosh. Got a nod of adknowledgement from Archis from Maximo Park (I presume he recalled our night of all night drinking in Limerick upon seeing my face). Divine Comedy, Guillemots, Maximo Park and a few other heads were alll hanging out eating bean curry. On the way back out I spotted Alison Goldfrapp in her dressing room in shades looking a bit moody. Found out later that she had to perform against doctor's orders, so that's probably why.
Corina was hanging around for a bit, so I went to meet her and then went with Tracey and Mags to check out the Kooks, but we couldn't get anywhere near the stage, so we headed to Hope Of The States instead which was ok. Met Sharon outside to give her a blag and then back in to watch the World Cup final - what a match! People were going mental - wee bit of tension between me and Anthony (me supporting Italy, him, France) but obviously my team won because I rock. After that, because I missed so many bands watching the match, I just watched a bit of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and headed home.
All in all, a fine weekend, but nothing mind blowing. I thought there were some good additions to Oxegen though - free line-up timetables for everyone, better food, silent disco. But still, the location is a bit crap and it seemed to be completely overcrowded on Sunday. Also, the sound was overlapping between tents which was really annoying. The fact that the MTV2 tent was missing from the backstage area was shit as well, because it was so awesome last year.
Met a bunch of UnaRocks readers which was nice (special props :) to John from Warner Music and Kier from Delorentos - thanks for your kind words!)
Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me as my wonderful flatmate Laney borrowed it as she was reporting from Sudan and Ethiopia all week (a little more important than me taking crap pictures of Flea), but Lili and Anthony will fulfil your photographic needs on their blogs I'm sure.
Now, roll on Electric Picnic - sold out by the way!
Una
PS forgot to post that I went to the New Music Tour in Whelans last week. Just caught Blizzards and Director who were both pretty good - the latter was better though. Check out these bands!
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Everything You Need To Know About Oxegen
OXEGEN NEWS
·- This year the OXEGEN campsite will be kitted out with 300 communal showers. Stay modest and make sure you’re kitted out with swimming gear!
- Just announced: Kasabian on Saturday 8 July on the Pet Sounds stage.
- There are roadworks on the N7 which may cause congestion. Reduce congestion and use public transport! Watch out for OXEGEN signs indicating the exit for Naas if you are driving. Please see full traffic details below and on site at oxegen.ie.
- Campsite Entertainment: The campsite opens at midday on Friday with the funfair and concessions opening later at 9pm until 1.30am. The full list of the concessions and their location can be found on OXEGEN.ie. From 4pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Cinema fields in Campsite A and B will be showing Hollywood blockbusters and classic cult favourites. And that’s not all the World Cup Final will be broadcast live on the big screens as well.
- A host of bands will be performing Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Mud Bug Club Tent in Campsite B. Kicking off from noon on Friday until 1.30pm and from 9pm on Saturday and Sunday. Brace yourself for a lots of surprise guests including Jerry Fish, Roesy, Sharon Shannon and her big band. Or check out the Silent disco in Campsite A from 9pm.
- Throughout the arena and campsites you will see 80 Information Stewards wearing clearly marked ‘Information Steward’ Jackets - they are here to help you! They will be ready to answer your questions on stage times, locations, welfare, lost and found, directions and anything else you need to know!
- NO fires – NO BBQ’s – NO Candles!! NO glass is allowed on the campsite, any glass will be confiscated on arrival (that means alcohol, ketchup bottles etc).
- Punchestown will have the best A&E coverage across Ireland this weekend and the best care you will get at any concert across Europe! The full Accident and Emergency Department will be running 24 hours from 12 midday on Friday until 4pm on Monday with in excess of 40 paramedics, 15 doctors, 18 nurses and 160 first aid personnel. There are 6 Emergency Ambulances, 8 Voluntary Ambulances and 10 clearly signposted Fist Aid posts throughout the arena and campsite. The first aid posts in the campsite will be in full operation from 12 midday on Friday until 4pm on Monday. First Aid posts in the arena will be open during show times. More safety information can be found on oxegen.ie
- For the first time at OXEGEN, Sheepees will be available to all women. They are new unique gadgets which allows women to use the toilet standing up! The sheepee is a cone shaped device that is fully leakproof, environmentally friendly and can be easily disposed of!
HOW TO GET TO OXEGEN……
Reduce congestion – use Public Transport
Buses get priority at OXEGEN. Use the bus and you’ll arrive 50 metres from the Main Entrance…….no long walks. Buses leave OXEGEN at the end of each day a full hour before any cars leave the site.
Dublin Bus will run a bus service from Parnell Square West and Bus Eireann will run a bus service from Custom House Quay in Dublin to Oxegen from 1pm to 9pm on Friday and 10am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Dublin Bus info 01 873 4222 and tickets can be bought from Ticketmaster. For Bus Eireann info log onto www.buseireann.ie
OXEGEN has drop off and parking facilities on site for cars, taxis and private coaches please follow signs and directions of event staff. Do not drop off or collect passengers from roads around the site.
There are drop off points for cars in all Car Parks for private cars please follow directions of the Gardai.
IF YOU’RE DRIVING TO OXEGEN AND CAMPING
Leave as early as you can, the Campsite opens at 12 noon sharp on Friday July 7.
There is loads of free parking on site for CAMPERS ONLY.
Make sure you have a free car park ticket, here’s what to do…
- Get four of your friends together to use one car
- Bring four camping tickets to any Ticketmaster outlet
- Claim you free camping car park ticket
- Get to OXEGEN early follow directions of Event Staff and Gardai...they are there to help you
IF YOU’RE DRIVING TO OXEGEN FOR THE DAY
Leave as early as you can, the Arena Campsite opens at 12 noon Saturday & Sunday July 8 & 9
Use our new free Park and Ride Site at Goffs on the N7.
- Parking at the Park and Ride site is free
- The shuttle bus to and from Park and Ride is free
- Buses get priority at OXEGEN so you can leave the show and be back to your car before
any cars leave the camping car parks.
MCD say Oxegen is SOLD OUT but there are still tickets for sale on www.ticketmaster.ie
For more information go to www.oxegen.ie
STAGE TIMES
Saturday 8 July 2006
Main Stage
00:10 - James Brown
22:10 - The Who
20:30 - The Strokes
19:05 - Arctic Monkeys
17:50 - Hard-fi
16:40 - The Magic Numbers
15:30 - Damien Dempsey
14:25 - Republic Of Loose
13:25 - Sandi Thom
12:30 - The Marshals
Nme Stage
23:40 - Richard Ashcroft
22:10 - Editors
20:55 - Feeder
19:45 - Dirty Pretty Things
19:20 - We Are Scientists
17:25 - Delays
16:10 - Morning Runner
15:00 - The Blizzards
13:55 - Captain
12:45 - Breaks Co-op
Green Room
00:00 - Primal Scream
22:30 - The Go! Team
21:05 - Whipping Boy
19:50 - The Futureheads
18:35 - Gomez
17:25 - Jenny Lewis
16:15 - Kubb
15:10 - Mobile
14:05 - Emm Gryner
13:00 - Foy Vance
Pet Sounds Stage
23:50 - Kasabian
22:30 - Death Cab For Cutie
21:15 - Zero 7
20:00 - Eels
18:45 - Jose Gonzalez
17:30 - Bic Runga
16:20 - Regina Spektor
15:10 - Dave Couse
14:00 - The Spinto Band
13:00 - The Weepies
New Band Stage
00:20 - Boy Kill Boy
23:15 - Animal Collective
22:25 - The Fratellis
21:30 - The Automatic
20:40 - Milburn
19:50 - Phoenix
19:00 - Lily Allen
18:05 - The Maccabees
17:15 - The Crimea
16:10 - Fear Of Music
15:15 - The Upper Room
14:20 - Paolo Nutini
13:25 - V Formation
12:35 - Rushmore
Mtv Dance Arena
23.30 - Felix Da Housecat
21.00 - Erick Morillo
19.30 - Dave Clarke
18.00 - Cosmic Fury
17.00 - Justin Robertson
16.00 - Jon Carter
15.00 - Headman
14.00 - Whomadewho
13.00 - Philth
Sunday 9 July
Main Stage
22:00 - Red Hot Chili Peppers
20:30 - Franz Ferdinand
19:00 - Kaiser Chiefs
17:30 - Placebo
16:10 - Bell X1
15:00 - Manu Chao
13:45 - Maximo Park
12:50 - Director
12:00 - Sharon Shannon
Nme Stage
21:40 - Paul Weller
20:10 - Goldfrapp
18:45 - Pharrell Williams
17:30 - The Zutons
16:20 - The Kooks
15:15 - The Feeling
14:10 - The Cribs
13:05 - Wolfmother
12:05 - Leya
Green Room
21:45 - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
20:15 - The Charlatans
19:00 - Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley
17:45 - Orson
16:35 - Hope Of The States
15:25 - The Twilight Singers
14:15 - Guillemots
13:05 - The Rifles
12:00 - Delorentos
Pet Sounds Stage
21:45 - Sigur Ros
20:15 - Ben Harper
18:55 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
17:45 - Corinne Bailey Rae
16:35 - Divine Comedy
15:25 - Gemma Hayes
14:15 - Xavier Rudd
13:05 - Donovan Frankenreiter
12:00 - Claire Sproule
New Band Stage
22:20 - Humanzi
21:25 - Bedouin Soundclash
20:45 - !Forward Russia!
19:50 - Pretty Girls Make Graves
18:55 - Giant Drag
18:00 - White Rose Movement
17:10 - Reamonn
16:15 - Tiny Dancers
15:25 - The Morning After Girls
14:30 - Cut Copy
13:35 - Mumm-ra
12:45 - Kharma 45
12:00 - My Alamo
Mtv Dance Arena
22.00 - Mylo
20.00 - David Morales
18.30 - Timo Maas
17.00 - Erol Alkan
16.00 - Vitalic
15.00 - Digitalism
14.00 - Switch
13.00 - Ivano Caffolo
12.00 - Jon Averill
Any questions?
Una
·- This year the OXEGEN campsite will be kitted out with 300 communal showers. Stay modest and make sure you’re kitted out with swimming gear!
- Just announced: Kasabian on Saturday 8 July on the Pet Sounds stage.
- There are roadworks on the N7 which may cause congestion. Reduce congestion and use public transport! Watch out for OXEGEN signs indicating the exit for Naas if you are driving. Please see full traffic details below and on site at oxegen.ie.
- Campsite Entertainment: The campsite opens at midday on Friday with the funfair and concessions opening later at 9pm until 1.30am. The full list of the concessions and their location can be found on OXEGEN.ie. From 4pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Cinema fields in Campsite A and B will be showing Hollywood blockbusters and classic cult favourites. And that’s not all the World Cup Final will be broadcast live on the big screens as well.
- A host of bands will be performing Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Mud Bug Club Tent in Campsite B. Kicking off from noon on Friday until 1.30pm and from 9pm on Saturday and Sunday. Brace yourself for a lots of surprise guests including Jerry Fish, Roesy, Sharon Shannon and her big band. Or check out the Silent disco in Campsite A from 9pm.
- Throughout the arena and campsites you will see 80 Information Stewards wearing clearly marked ‘Information Steward’ Jackets - they are here to help you! They will be ready to answer your questions on stage times, locations, welfare, lost and found, directions and anything else you need to know!
- NO fires – NO BBQ’s – NO Candles!! NO glass is allowed on the campsite, any glass will be confiscated on arrival (that means alcohol, ketchup bottles etc).
- Punchestown will have the best A&E coverage across Ireland this weekend and the best care you will get at any concert across Europe! The full Accident and Emergency Department will be running 24 hours from 12 midday on Friday until 4pm on Monday with in excess of 40 paramedics, 15 doctors, 18 nurses and 160 first aid personnel. There are 6 Emergency Ambulances, 8 Voluntary Ambulances and 10 clearly signposted Fist Aid posts throughout the arena and campsite. The first aid posts in the campsite will be in full operation from 12 midday on Friday until 4pm on Monday. First Aid posts in the arena will be open during show times. More safety information can be found on oxegen.ie
- For the first time at OXEGEN, Sheepees will be available to all women. They are new unique gadgets which allows women to use the toilet standing up! The sheepee is a cone shaped device that is fully leakproof, environmentally friendly and can be easily disposed of!
HOW TO GET TO OXEGEN……
Reduce congestion – use Public Transport
Buses get priority at OXEGEN. Use the bus and you’ll arrive 50 metres from the Main Entrance…….no long walks. Buses leave OXEGEN at the end of each day a full hour before any cars leave the site.
Dublin Bus will run a bus service from Parnell Square West and Bus Eireann will run a bus service from Custom House Quay in Dublin to Oxegen from 1pm to 9pm on Friday and 10am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Dublin Bus info 01 873 4222 and tickets can be bought from Ticketmaster. For Bus Eireann info log onto www.buseireann.ie
OXEGEN has drop off and parking facilities on site for cars, taxis and private coaches please follow signs and directions of event staff. Do not drop off or collect passengers from roads around the site.
There are drop off points for cars in all Car Parks for private cars please follow directions of the Gardai.
IF YOU’RE DRIVING TO OXEGEN AND CAMPING
Leave as early as you can, the Campsite opens at 12 noon sharp on Friday July 7.
There is loads of free parking on site for CAMPERS ONLY.
Make sure you have a free car park ticket, here’s what to do…
- Get four of your friends together to use one car
- Bring four camping tickets to any Ticketmaster outlet
- Claim you free camping car park ticket
- Get to OXEGEN early follow directions of Event Staff and Gardai...they are there to help you
IF YOU’RE DRIVING TO OXEGEN FOR THE DAY
Leave as early as you can, the Arena Campsite opens at 12 noon Saturday & Sunday July 8 & 9
Use our new free Park and Ride Site at Goffs on the N7.
- Parking at the Park and Ride site is free
- The shuttle bus to and from Park and Ride is free
- Buses get priority at OXEGEN so you can leave the show and be back to your car before
any cars leave the camping car parks.
MCD say Oxegen is SOLD OUT but there are still tickets for sale on www.ticketmaster.ie
For more information go to www.oxegen.ie
STAGE TIMES
Saturday 8 July 2006
Main Stage
00:10 - James Brown
22:10 - The Who
20:30 - The Strokes
19:05 - Arctic Monkeys
17:50 - Hard-fi
16:40 - The Magic Numbers
15:30 - Damien Dempsey
14:25 - Republic Of Loose
13:25 - Sandi Thom
12:30 - The Marshals
Nme Stage
23:40 - Richard Ashcroft
22:10 - Editors
20:55 - Feeder
19:45 - Dirty Pretty Things
19:20 - We Are Scientists
17:25 - Delays
16:10 - Morning Runner
15:00 - The Blizzards
13:55 - Captain
12:45 - Breaks Co-op
Green Room
00:00 - Primal Scream
22:30 - The Go! Team
21:05 - Whipping Boy
19:50 - The Futureheads
18:35 - Gomez
17:25 - Jenny Lewis
16:15 - Kubb
15:10 - Mobile
14:05 - Emm Gryner
13:00 - Foy Vance
Pet Sounds Stage
23:50 - Kasabian
22:30 - Death Cab For Cutie
21:15 - Zero 7
20:00 - Eels
18:45 - Jose Gonzalez
17:30 - Bic Runga
16:20 - Regina Spektor
15:10 - Dave Couse
14:00 - The Spinto Band
13:00 - The Weepies
New Band Stage
00:20 - Boy Kill Boy
23:15 - Animal Collective
22:25 - The Fratellis
21:30 - The Automatic
20:40 - Milburn
19:50 - Phoenix
19:00 - Lily Allen
18:05 - The Maccabees
17:15 - The Crimea
16:10 - Fear Of Music
15:15 - The Upper Room
14:20 - Paolo Nutini
13:25 - V Formation
12:35 - Rushmore
Mtv Dance Arena
23.30 - Felix Da Housecat
21.00 - Erick Morillo
19.30 - Dave Clarke
18.00 - Cosmic Fury
17.00 - Justin Robertson
16.00 - Jon Carter
15.00 - Headman
14.00 - Whomadewho
13.00 - Philth
Sunday 9 July
Main Stage
22:00 - Red Hot Chili Peppers
20:30 - Franz Ferdinand
19:00 - Kaiser Chiefs
17:30 - Placebo
16:10 - Bell X1
15:00 - Manu Chao
13:45 - Maximo Park
12:50 - Director
12:00 - Sharon Shannon
Nme Stage
21:40 - Paul Weller
20:10 - Goldfrapp
18:45 - Pharrell Williams
17:30 - The Zutons
16:20 - The Kooks
15:15 - The Feeling
14:10 - The Cribs
13:05 - Wolfmother
12:05 - Leya
Green Room
21:45 - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
20:15 - The Charlatans
19:00 - Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley
17:45 - Orson
16:35 - Hope Of The States
15:25 - The Twilight Singers
14:15 - Guillemots
13:05 - The Rifles
12:00 - Delorentos
Pet Sounds Stage
21:45 - Sigur Ros
20:15 - Ben Harper
18:55 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
17:45 - Corinne Bailey Rae
16:35 - Divine Comedy
15:25 - Gemma Hayes
14:15 - Xavier Rudd
13:05 - Donovan Frankenreiter
12:00 - Claire Sproule
New Band Stage
22:20 - Humanzi
21:25 - Bedouin Soundclash
20:45 - !Forward Russia!
19:50 - Pretty Girls Make Graves
18:55 - Giant Drag
18:00 - White Rose Movement
17:10 - Reamonn
16:15 - Tiny Dancers
15:25 - The Morning After Girls
14:30 - Cut Copy
13:35 - Mumm-ra
12:45 - Kharma 45
12:00 - My Alamo
Mtv Dance Arena
22.00 - Mylo
20.00 - David Morales
18.30 - Timo Maas
17.00 - Erol Alkan
16.00 - Vitalic
15.00 - Digitalism
14.00 - Switch
13.00 - Ivano Caffolo
12.00 - Jon Averill
Any questions?
Una
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
last night
"MySpace gets some serious musical competition with the July 7 launch here of Bandwagon.ie.
Billed as “a music social networking and download portal”, Bandwagon has already proved to be a big hit in the UK where it’s home to 4,300 unsigned acts and registers over 100,000 hits a month.
Bandwagon is free to use, and anybody can create a page. Artists can upload content, and Bandwagon offers to give artists 60% of the revenue for all music downloaded through the site.
A spokesperson said: "Launching Bandwagon in Ireland will be an exciting journey. We're hoping Bandwagon will give the next generation of artists the first opportunity to promote themselves and get noticed."
The site is also introducing a new series of online services for bands and independent labels, which will include video blogging, V.O.I.P. chatrooms for live performances and an IPTV channel, Bandwagon TV.
For its Irish operation, Bandwagon has formed a strategic partnership with the Dublin-based telecoms and broadband group, Imagine."
Had a few drinks with the wonderful Edel Coffey, Lise Hand and Huw Thomas who's the managing director of Bandwagon in Peter's Pub last night. I love Peter's Pub. If you're ever in Dublin go there and talk to Bernard the bar man with encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical. Then we went to watch the Italy V Germany match in Oil Can Harrys - kickin it old skool. Finally, I ended up in Corina's listening to Kelly Clarkson and En Vogue and talking shit until all hours.
Feel a bit meeeeehhhhh today though. Have v strange craving for beef stroganoff.
Listened to the new Thom Yorke record - The Eraser. It's pretty bad. No imagination or drama at all.
Una
Billed as “a music social networking and download portal”, Bandwagon has already proved to be a big hit in the UK where it’s home to 4,300 unsigned acts and registers over 100,000 hits a month.
Bandwagon is free to use, and anybody can create a page. Artists can upload content, and Bandwagon offers to give artists 60% of the revenue for all music downloaded through the site.
A spokesperson said: "Launching Bandwagon in Ireland will be an exciting journey. We're hoping Bandwagon will give the next generation of artists the first opportunity to promote themselves and get noticed."
The site is also introducing a new series of online services for bands and independent labels, which will include video blogging, V.O.I.P. chatrooms for live performances and an IPTV channel, Bandwagon TV.
For its Irish operation, Bandwagon has formed a strategic partnership with the Dublin-based telecoms and broadband group, Imagine."
Had a few drinks with the wonderful Edel Coffey, Lise Hand and Huw Thomas who's the managing director of Bandwagon in Peter's Pub last night. I love Peter's Pub. If you're ever in Dublin go there and talk to Bernard the bar man with encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical. Then we went to watch the Italy V Germany match in Oil Can Harrys - kickin it old skool. Finally, I ended up in Corina's listening to Kelly Clarkson and En Vogue and talking shit until all hours.
Feel a bit meeeeehhhhh today though. Have v strange craving for beef stroganoff.
Listened to the new Thom Yorke record - The Eraser. It's pretty bad. No imagination or drama at all.
Una
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Monday, July 03, 2006
What's on the UnaRocks stereo?
CHEM087CD+DVD
Chemikal Underground Records
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
LIttle Ruddiger Records
Peter Bjorn And John
Writer's Block
Wichita
Victor Davies
Hear The Sound
Afro Gigilo Records
Amy Millan
Honey From The Tomb
Arts and Crafts
Razorlight
Razorlight
Mercury Records
Cowboy X
Who Are These People?
Actual Size Records
Busta Rhymes
The Big Band
Aftermath
So, what's on your stereo?
Una
Chemikal Underground Records
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
LIttle Ruddiger Records
Peter Bjorn And John
Writer's Block
Wichita
Victor Davies
Hear The Sound
Afro Gigilo Records
Amy Millan
Honey From The Tomb
Arts and Crafts
Razorlight
Razorlight
Mercury Records
Cowboy X
Who Are These People?
Actual Size Records
Busta Rhymes
The Big Band
Aftermath
So, what's on your stereo?
Una
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Dirty Dozen: Vol 41
1. Bright Eyes - 'Touch'
2. The Faint - 'Birth'
3. Dresden Dolls - 'Missed Me'
4. Wolf Eyes - 'Stabbed In The Face'
5. Animal Collective - 'Flesh Canoe' (live)
half a dozen. Sufjan Stevens - 'Year Of The Dog'
7. Cut Chemist - 'The Garden'
8. Julian Casablancas, Eddie Vedder, and Josh Homme - 'Mercy, Mercy Me'
9. Youth Group -'Forever Youth'
10. Kanye West feat. GLC and Consequence - 'Spaceship'
11. Regina Spektor - 'Field Below'
dozen. Jamie T -'Back In The Game'
Una
2. The Faint - 'Birth'
3. Dresden Dolls - 'Missed Me'
4. Wolf Eyes - 'Stabbed In The Face'
5. Animal Collective - 'Flesh Canoe' (live)
half a dozen. Sufjan Stevens - 'Year Of The Dog'
7. Cut Chemist - 'The Garden'
8. Julian Casablancas, Eddie Vedder, and Josh Homme - 'Mercy, Mercy Me'
9. Youth Group -'Forever Youth'
10. Kanye West feat. GLC and Consequence - 'Spaceship'
11. Regina Spektor - 'Field Below'
dozen. Jamie T -'Back In The Game'
Una
I just joined the bandwagon
So go to www.bandwagon.co.uk if yo feel like adding me as a friend or checking out my page: http://bandwagon.co.uk/users/UnaRocks
And don't forget UnaRocks on myspace too!
www.myspace.com/unarocksok
Una
And don't forget UnaRocks on myspace too!
www.myspace.com/unarocksok
Una
Dirty Dozen: Vol 40 - Arctic Monkeys: live, rare and mixed up
1. 'No Buses'
2. Arctic Monkeys V The Killers - 'Scumbody Told Me'
3. 'View From The Afternoon', live on KCRW
4. 'Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts'
5. 'Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick'
half a dozen. 'Cigarette Smoke'
7. 'Curtains Close / Rockerfella Skank'
8. 'I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor' (live on BBC Bristol)
9. 'Despair In The Departure Lounge'
10. 'Love Machine' (Girls Aloud cover)
11. 'Scummy Man' demo
dozen. 'Settle For A Draw'
Una
2. Arctic Monkeys V The Killers - 'Scumbody Told Me'
3. 'View From The Afternoon', live on KCRW
4. 'Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts'
5. 'Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick'
half a dozen. 'Cigarette Smoke'
7. 'Curtains Close / Rockerfella Skank'
8. 'I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor' (live on BBC Bristol)
9. 'Despair In The Departure Lounge'
10. 'Love Machine' (Girls Aloud cover)
11. 'Scummy Man' demo
dozen. 'Settle For A Draw'
Una
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