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Caught Live: ATP Concerts Presents... Nightmare Before Christmas @ Butlins, Minehead (09.12.11 - 11.12.11)

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Caught Live: ATP Concerts Presents... Nightmare Before Christmas @ Butlins, Minehead (09.12.11 - 11.12.11)

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Interview: Luke Haines - "I'm A Cottage Industry Nowadays..."

Interview

Interview: Luke Haines - "I'm A Cottage Industry Nowadays..."

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Caught Live: The North Sea Scrolls - An Evening of Revelations with Luke Haines & Friends @ The Sugar Club, Dublin (03.12.11)

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Caught Live: The North Sea Scrolls - An Evening of Revelations with Luke Haines & Friends @ The Sugar Club, Dublin (03.12.11)

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In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin

In Photos

In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin

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Interview: Errors - "We've Never Really Worked to A Concrete Game Plan..."

Interview

Interview: Errors - "We've Never Really Worked to A Concrete Game Plan..."

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In Photos: Heineken Green Spheres Presents... The Drums + Cloud Control @ The Village, Dublin (01.12.11)

In Photos

In Photos: Heineken Green Spheres Presents... The Drums + Cloud Control @ The Village, Dublin (01.12.11)

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In Photos: The Leisure Society (feat. The Heritage Orchestra) + Loney, Dear @ The Barbican, London (08.12.11)

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In Photos: The Leisure Society (feat. The Heritage Orchestra) + Loney, Dear @ The Barbican, London (08.12.11)

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In Photos: Lau + Left With Pictures @ The Tabernacle, London (07.12.11)

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In Photos: Lau + Left With Pictures @ The Tabernacle, London (07.12.11)

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In Photos: Clock Opera + Electric Penguins @ The Academy 2, Dublin (02.12.11)

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In Photos: Clock Opera + Electric Penguins @ The Academy 2, Dublin (02.12.11)

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Caught Live: The North Sea Scrolls - An Evening of Revelations with Luke Haines, Cathal Coughlan, Andrew Mueller & Audrey Riley @ The Sugar Club, Dublin

As the tagline of Guy Maddin's 2007 'docu-fantasia' masterpiece, My Winnepeg, proclaims: "The truth is relative". This is...

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In Photos: David Kitt Performs The Big Romance + Sunken Foal @ Vicar Street, Dublin (09.12.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

It just about snuck into our Top 100 Albums of The 2000s list a couple of years back, and last month...

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Caught Live: ATP Concerts Presents... Nightmare Before Christmas, Day Three (Curated by Caribou) @ Butlins, Minehead

Sunday brings me (in no particular order) bowling, a roast, an emo-ta-tha-bone beach, basketball,...

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Caught Live: ATP Concerts Presents... Nightmare Before Christmas, Day Two (Curated by Battles) @ Butlins, Minehead

Saturday at ATP tells me this: Minehead does not possess a single mobile phone shop, or anywhere that might repair your car after midday at weekends. It does, however, have a lot of charity shops...

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In Photos: Ragged Words @ Elastic Witch, Dublin photogallery on Ragged Words

As many of you will already know, there's a brand new fixture on Dublin's sadly...

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Caught Live: All Tomorrow's Parties Presents... I'll Be Your Mirror USA, Curated by Portishead & ATP (Day One) @ Asbury Park, NJ

So, ATP America scoots away from The Catskills to the infinitely more Rock'n'Roll (TM) surroundings of Asbury Park, New Jersey...

Artist page: Portishead
In Photos: Sons & Daughters + Peggy Sue + Bonfire Nights @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester (23.10.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Glaswegian blues punks Sons & Daughters brought their eminently danceable live show to Manchester's Ruby Lounge the other week, showcasing...

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Caught Live: All Tomorrow's Parties Presents... I'll Be Your Mirror USA, Curated by Portishead & ATP (Day Two) @ Asbury Park, NJ

On Saturday afternoon Geoff Barrow’s 'other' band BEAK> are, frankly, tremendous back at The Convention Hall. The...

Artist page: Portishead
Caught Live: Little Dragon @ The Button Factory, Dublin

Just over a year ago, Little Dragon performed at Dublin's Crawdaddy to an audience of not much more than a dozen punters. This evening, by contrast,...

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In Photos: Lucky Thirteen (13 Years of Memphis Industries) - The Go! Team + Field Music + Dutch Uncles + Colourmusic @ KOKO, London (30.11.11) photogallery on Ragged Words

Stellar indie imprint Memphis Industries officially became an awkward teenager this year, and celebrated this fact recently with a midweek blowout...

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Video: The Cast of Cheers - 'Family'

 

"My head, my heart, my heart, the flooor / My Eyes keep movin' ever closer to the door..."

 

Having endured the dubious rite of passage of hearing hyperbole's Zane Lowe practically wet himself (twice) live on air in response to their new song, The Cast of Cheers have now...

 

25 Jan 2012
Win Halves Tickets & A Limited-Edition Screen Print Hand-Numbered by The Band!

Even the grinchiest of grinches would have to admit that, with Christmas now fast approaching, there's an unmistakeably festive buzz in the air. And while we're not sure whether Dublin multi-instrumentalists...

 

7 Dec 2011
Win Tickets to Tonight's Clock Opera Show in Dublin!

Having tipped them for success back at the start of the year, we'd be lying if we said we weren't a tad disappointed that 2011 has failed to yield a debut album from Clock Opera. That hotly-anticipated LP is now due for release "some time early in the new year", we're told - fingers crossed it'll prove worth the wait when it...

2 Dec 2011
Listen: The Gorgeous Colours - 'Chopped Heart' (Exclusive), Plus Win Tickets to The Single Launch Gig This Friday

Symphonic pop five-piece The Gorgeous Colours will be launching their new single 'Chopped Heart' with a gig at Dublin's Grand Social tomorrow night (November 11), and we've got the exclusive first play of the track for your listening pleasure below. What's more, we've also got a pair of tickets to the launch show up for grabs, so listen up if you want to get your name in the hat.

As...

10 Nov 2011