Found 165 matches.
Music Review | Album
12 Nov 2009
3 Words
Patrick Freyne
The People’s Princess pleases with Her catchy generic pop
Music | Interview
11 Nov 2009
The Life and Times of Tim
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne interviews chief Charlatan tim burgess, about 20 years of music, a new collaborative album and his role as a mentor for this year’s JD Set band competition.
Music Review | Live
9 Nov 2009
Richard Hawley
Patrick Freyne
When Richard Hawley first emerges as a be-quiffed silhouette against a white light and emits a swooping tenor-to-bass glissando to a double bass, piano and bouzouki backing (on ‘A Songbird’s Melody’) the entire audience gasps and swoons.
Music Review | Album
4 Nov 2009
Pre:Seed
Patrick Freyne
Thank you for showing me your record collection DJ Tu-Ki
Music Review | Album
3 Nov 2009
Size 2 Shoes
Patrick Freyne
Emotionally healthy pop
Music Review | Album
3 Nov 2009
The BQE
Patrick Freyne
Pop go the classics with Sufjan Stevens
Music Review | Album
3 Nov 2009
Band On An Island
Patrick Freyne
Heart-on-sleeve musical ore in need of more smelting
Music | Interview
2 Nov 2009
Fume at the top
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne talks to Mikel Jollett of Airborne Toxic Event about posturing indie rockers, his abortive career as a novelist and the worst week of his life.
Music Review | Album
30 Oct 2009
The Sleepers
Patrick Freyne
Brits take the folk-rock back
Music Review | Album
29 Oct 2009
Thomas Dybdahl
Patrick Freyne
Such rootless folk loveliness!
Hot Features | Interview
19 Oct 2009
I Can See Clary Now
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne interviews Julian Clary about his new autobiographical show, his status as a camp icon and his roots in the anti-Thatcher British comedy of the ‘80s.
Music Review | Live
28 Sep 2009
Dirty Projectors
Patrick Freyne
Whelan’s, Dublin
Music Review | Album
23 Sep 2009
The Same But Happier
Patrick Freyne
Hot Features | Reports
21 Sep 2009
Sunday
Patrick Freyne
Sunday morning coming down to Stradbally. I skip from my car to be accosted by a raddled festival veteran lying face down in the mud. Weeping.
Music Review | Album
16 Sep 2009
BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE
Patrick Freyne
(Shush... you’ll scare it away. These pure grunge beasts are very rare now).
Music | Interview
31 Aug 2009
There's Something in the Basement
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne talks to Simon Ratcliffe from Basement Jaxx in advance of their Electric Picnic gig and the release of their fifth studio album, Scars.
Music Review | Album
31 Aug 2009
No More Stories (Etc)
Patrick Freyne
Great pretentious art rock
Music Review | Album
24 Aug 2009
Jewellery Quarter
Patrick Freyne
Pleasant young fellows cause record reviewer to suffer acute fit of niceness
Music Review | Album
22 Jul 2009
Jet Project, a late night musical kebab
Patrick Freyne
Music Review | Album
10 Jul 2009
NV3
Patrick Freyne
The same formula is still working for the lovely Nouvelle Vague
Music Review | Album
10 Jul 2009
Everything Is New
Patrick Freyne
A surprising afro-beat, trance-pop return from Penate
Music Review | Album
8 Jul 2009
LP
Patrick Freyne
Synth pop with a safe-word
Hot Features | Reports
6 Jul 2009
Shock of the new
Patrick Freyne
For connoisseurs of indie music, the Hot Press New Band Stage will provide a weekend-long bonanza. Here, Patrick Freyne selects 10 acts who will grace the stage that are essential viewing.
Music Review | Album
1 Jul 2009
Wave If You're Really There
Patrick Freyne
Groovy, funky, new romantic pop muzak
Music Review | Album
1 Jul 2009
These Four Walls
Patrick Freyne
Perfectly natural indie music from Scottish band
Music Review | Album
30 Jun 2009
Feel The Steel
Patrick Freyne
Soft metal album that challenges Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Van Halen. Funny...I think
Music Review | Album
29 Jun 2009
Joker's Daughter
Patrick Freyne
Food-obsessed lyrics tinged with medieval mischief
Music | Interview
26 Jun 2009
This mogul coil
Patrick Freyne
We chat to rootsy pioneers The Last Tycoons about name changes, living in the past, and going on the wagon.
Music Review | Album
26 Jun 2009
You Look Cold
Patrick Freyne
Indie n'electro that won't make you writher about uncomfortably
Music Review | Album
25 Jun 2009
Ghosts
Patrick Freyne
Country n'soul rock with a vulnerable side
Music Review | Album
25 Jun 2009
How The Light Gets In
Patrick Freyne
A shoegazing record with a pop album trying to get out
Music Review | Album
24 Jun 2009
Travels With Myself And Another
Patrick Freyne
Yeah! then Yawn... then Yeah! with shouty, punky indie and silly, poppy metal
Hot Features | Interview
23 Jun 2009
Pit Happens
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne asks Michael Angelakos what a nice indie boy like him is doing in a banging 1980s club night of a band like Passion Pit.
Music Review | Album
23 Jun 2009
Dust Of Rumour
Patrick Freyne
Well-crafted but dull release from the young music veteran
Music Review | Album
23 Jun 2009
Out Of Sight
Patrick Freyne
Roots and culture, sotto voce
Hot Features | Interview
11 Jun 2009
Sound of the underground
Patrick Freyne
Jeremy Hickey, aka Rarely Seen Above Ground, has become one of the most acclaimed artists in the Irish indie scene. He talks about the intriguing origins of his unique musical style.
Music | Interview
6 May 2009
Alone he Stands
Patrick Freyne
He’s just knocked Lady GaGa off the top of the UK charts with his banging new single ‘I’m Not Alone’. So why is CALVIN HARRIS so worried about sounding like an oldie chasing after his fading youth?
Music Review | Album
27 Apr 2009
Metamorphosis
Patrick Freyne
There’s nowt nu about this nu metal
Music Review | Album
27 Apr 2009
Independent Soul
Patrick Freyne
Nice but unoriginal MOR folk
Music Review | Album
24 Apr 2009
Nonsense in the Dark
Patrick Freyne
Electro-indie roughage to give you that ‘80s Readybreak glow.
Music | Interview
22 Apr 2009
DIY Another Day
Patrick Freyne
Brian Mooney of Beautiful unit explains how to build a music scene and record your own album at the same time.
Music Review | Album
22 Apr 2009
Just go
Patrick Freyne
So forgettable you forget it when you’re listening to it
Music Review | Album
22 Apr 2009
Seasons of the sparks
Patrick Freyne
Makes me want to develop a new grading system for record reviews
Music | Interview
15 Apr 2009
Kitt happens
Patrick Freyne
David Kitt talks to Patrick Freyne about the joy and financial insecurity of complete and utter independence.
Music Review | Live
8 Mar 2009
Villagers live at Crawdaddy
Patrick Freyne
Villagers are a such a fully-formed, unaffected and epic proposition and they don’t so much hint at genius as come with all the verified documentation from the Department of Genius.
Music Review | Album
5 Mar 2009
The light of which I speak
Patrick Freyne
Traditional music that didn’t happen for some reason
Music Review | Album
5 Mar 2009
Chunk of change
Patrick Freyne
Michael Angelakos, aka Passion Pit, brings us a temporary electro pop classic.
Music Review | Album
5 Mar 2009
Greyworld
Patrick Freyne
Talented singer must choose between good and evil.
Music Review | Album
5 Mar 2009
Earthquakes start with little cracks
Patrick Freyne
We just about buy this pop n’soul concoction
Music Review | Album
3 Mar 2009
Roots & wings
Patrick Freyne
Inoffensive music prompts dubious nationalism in reviewer
Music Review | Album
3 Mar 2009
The City, The Tree And The Fox
Patrick Freyne
Likeable but unoriginal indie schmindie.
Music Review | Album
3 Mar 2009
Silence Is Wild
Patrick Freyne
Piano playing songwriter straight out of a ‘70s dinner party.
Music Review | Album
27 Jan 2009
It's Not You It's Me
Patrick Freyne
Lovely pop with silly subject matter
Music Review | Album
27 Jan 2009
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Patrick Freyne
Four middle-aged men discover a dance element to their music... and it’s good!
Music Review | Album
15 Dec 2008
The Circus
Patrick Freyne
The Circus isn’t terrible. In fact it’s very listenable; genre-wise it falls somewhere between Beatlesy ballads and Billy Joel’s ‘The Piano Man’ .
Music | Interview
11 Dec 2008
A live man who plays the bass from Crumlin
Patrick Freyne
He's not a Christmassy guy, he says, but perhaps the season has made Jape's Richie Egan reflective. Patrick Freyne talks to him about the past, present and future.
Music | Interview
11 Dec 2008
Clinic at the Disco
Patrick Freyne
They dress as surgeons on stage and punctuate their records with spoken-word monologues. You could say indie electro oddballs Clinic are determined to do things their own way.
Music Review | Album
10 Dec 2008
Circus
Patrick Freyne
Cynical vocodered mediocrity
Music Review | Album
2 Dec 2008
Night Visiting
Patrick Freyne
McCormack reminds us of what a ballad truly is- this time in a more seasoned voice- through his songs of raw poetry.
Hot Features | Interview
25 Nov 2008
Cut to Measure
Patrick Freyne
An interview with the sartorially-monikered, reluctant DIY popsters, Saville.
Music Review | Album
19 Nov 2008
Not 4 Sale
Patrick Freyne
A mediocre album with predictable and boring vocals that just might put listeners to sleep.
Music Review | Album
18 Nov 2008
4.13 Dream
Patrick Freyne
If it ain’t broke you may smear it with red lipstick and back-comb its hair. But do NOT fix it.
Music Review | Album
18 Nov 2008
Ninja Tuna
Patrick Freyne
Between the sounds of the jazz funk piano and a little bit of soul, plain and simple- Mr Scruff make a good album.
Music Review | Album
17 Nov 2008
Little Joy
Patrick Freyne
Despite initial misgivings, our reviewer found that Little Joy's album delivers an old fashioned pop feel with a little DIY indie sound.
Music Review | Album
17 Nov 2008
Faction 2
Patrick Freyne
Making more out of less, the fundamentals of the Irish music scene are still sound.
Music Review | Album
17 Nov 2008
XOXO Panda and the New Kid Revival
Patrick Freyne
A rackety, sing-along sound from a band on a largely undefined mission.
Music Review | Album
13 Nov 2008
Put Your Money On
Patrick Freyne
A well made album that isn't on everyone's radar, but may be the one that the world is waiting for.
Music Review | Album
12 Nov 2008
Just a Souvenir
Patrick Freyne
Not up to par with his other albums, Tom Jenkinson's latest work is saved only by his name and not his art.
Music Review | Album
11 Nov 2008
Memory and Humanity
Patrick Freyne
Our reviewer paints a lovely picture to describe just how much he didn't like this album.
Music | Interview
6 Nov 2008
Bring on the Weekend
Patrick Freyne
Vampire Weekend, the preppy Ivy Leaguers whose Afro-beat references indie pop, talk about instant fame, their fondness for nice trousers and class politics in America.
Music Review | Album
5 Nov 2008
On Your Sleeve
Patrick Freyne
Classic songs from everyone from Elton John to the Hold Steady, done in Jessee Malin's inimitable style; that is, turgid, bluesy, country pub rock.
Music | Interview
5 Nov 2008
Profile: Back to the Future Cut
Patrick Freyne
They've masterminded recordings by Lily Allen, Estelle and Kate Nash, to name a few. In this exclusive interview, Future Cut lift the veil on their whizz-bang production techniques.
Music Review | Album
4 Nov 2008
We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed
Patrick Freyne
there’s too much music like this – i just don’t know any more
Music Review | Album
4 Nov 2008
Raw Footage
Patrick Freyne
Blistering return to form from first generation rap star
Music Review | Album
7 Oct 2008
Dear Science,
Patrick Freyne
Dear Science, has all the euphoria and cosmic soul searching hinted at but not delivered on by lesser chancers such as MGMT.
Music Review | Album
17 Sep 2008
The Day After Tomorrow
Patrick Freyne
Baez’s voice has aged well. Her clear church-choir alto has mellowed into a softer, grittier, tougher and more life-soaked thing.
Music | Interview
26 Aug 2008
Ave Maria
Patrick Freyne
We chat to Norwegian indie rocker Ida Maria about seeing colours in music, the anarchy of gigging and why Sweden is squarer than Norway.
Music Review | Album
12 Aug 2008
Chemical Chords
Patrick Freyne
Stereolab learn to stop being boring and love the pop
Music Review | Album
7 Aug 2008
Bring Ya To The Brinks
Patrick Freyne
Cyndi’s lost touch with the zeitgeist a bit, and parts of this sound like she’s trying to keep up but this is generally a really good record.
Music Review | Album
30 Jul 2008
Morning Tide
Patrick Freyne
The Little Ones are, for the most part, pretty melodious producing indie pop fun with touches of Afro-beat, maybe, possibly!
Music Review | Album
30 Jul 2008
Strength In Numbers
Patrick Freyne
Would have been ground breaking on November 18, 1991, Unfortunately that sound had dated badly by November 20, 1991.
Music Review | Album
28 Jul 2008
Sweeter Than Bourbon
Patrick Freyne
Sweeter than Bourbon by Seneca presents a soulful but less than engaging effort from epic-rock newcomers
Music Review | Album
25 Jul 2008
Harps and Angels
Patrick Freyne
Sharp, incisive, funny and at times even heart-rending in the context of some beautifully-judged rag/country/Dixie-land songs.
Music Review | Album
25 Jul 2008
All we could do was sing
Patrick Freyne
This Cosmic music with defined limits skirts a line between folk and indie rock, but as it progresses, a strange tone emerges.
Music Review | Album
24 Jul 2008
Little Feet
Patrick Freyne
Yuppified honky-tonk music with a ‘legacy’, and yes, they have invited a number of celebrities to “join the band”.
Music Review | Album
22 Jul 2008
I, Flathead: The Songs Of Kash Buk and The Flowns
Patrick Freyne
It’s all sung from the croaky and jaundiced perspective of a good-ole-boy bar-band singer.
Music Review | Album
16 Jul 2008
Cat Malojian
Patrick Freyne
This is a beautiful album to listen to; the kind of thing that if it was made by Alison Krauss would win Grammys, and even though it’s made by two Northern Irish boys it still should!
Music Review | Album
14 Jul 2008
Songs in the key of 666
Patrick Freyne
Simply put: Metal in drag
Music Review | Album
14 Jul 2008
A Little Bit Longer
Patrick Freyne
This is wrong. So very, very wrong.
Music Review | Album
14 Jul 2008
Blood Looms & Blooms
Patrick Freyne
Tetris bizarro pop music with too many vocalists
Music Review | Album
14 Jul 2008
GNV FLA
Patrick Freyne
Vaguely political, vaguely not terrible
Music Review | Album
14 Jul 2008
Apocalypso
Patrick Freyne
It’s the ‘80s! I’m off to the dole office... See you in Americay
Music Review | Album
14 Jul 2008
O Soundtrack My Heart
Patrick Freyne
Woodly prog rock for weird beards
Music Review | Album
14 Jul 2008
Lp3
Patrick Freyne
Lovely promiscuous electronica
Music Review | Live
7 Jul 2008
Morrissey live at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham
Patrick Freyne
Moz shows he's still got it with reliably dynamic performance at Kilmainham
Music Review | Live
19 Jun 2008
Radiohead Live At Malahide Castle
Patrick Freyne
Radiohead fans rock. Here are some of the things they do...
Music | Interview
18 Jun 2008
Doing Things By Halves
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne talks to Dave Scanlon from Halves about how to make beautiful music, draft a manifesto and indulge in a bit of arts and crafts.
Music Review | Album
17 Jun 2008
Pleasant Square
Patrick Freyne
Irish production wizard masterfully blends electronica and acoustica on stunning debut
Music | Interview
13 Jun 2008
Golden Browne
Patrick Freyne
Ex-Picturehouse front man Dave Browne talks about differentiating his USB, pushing the envelope, and disambiguating his product with a blue-sky opportunity.
Music Review | Album
11 Jun 2008
The Glove Thief
Patrick Freyne
Hard-edged easy listening classic
Music Review | Album
4 Jun 2008
Ms. Kelly
Patrick Freyne
Not as good as Beyoncé, god love her
Music Review | Album
4 Jun 2008
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Patrick Freyne
Erudite, Whiskey-Soaked, alt countryish maverick just keeps getting better
Music Review | Album
3 Jun 2008
Shades Of Night
Patrick Freyne
Yuppie soul-lite from an amazing singer in a middle of the road record for fans of M-People, Dodo, or David Grey
Music Review | Album
3 Jun 2008
Ships In The Forest
Patrick Freyne
Strangely cold traditional balladry
Music Review | Album
3 Jun 2008
Bittersweet World
Patrick Freyne
Ashlee takes the Gwen Stefani route to the middle-ground with mixed results - fuzzy synth sounds, shouty vocals and simple 80s beats.
Music Review | Album
3 Jun 2008
Songs I Grew Up To
Patrick Freyne
O’Brien masterfully tackles some classic tunes - beautiful singing, understated production, and expert performances
Music Review | Album
3 Jun 2008
The Week The Clocks Changed
Patrick Freyne
A lot of great artists were involved in making this disappointing record
Music Review | Album
27 May 2008
Narrow Stairs
Patrick Freyne
Inoffensively bland offering from us indie pop outfit
Music Review | Album
22 May 2008
22 Dreams
Patrick Freyne
22 Dreams is the sound of a Paul Weller who’s no longer hemmed in by his ‘craft’.
Music Review | Album
14 May 2008
White Wonder
Patrick Freyne
White Wonder is the sound of shoegazing music being bet to death by Phil Spector after a bout of lovemaking in a backstreet sauna.
Music | Interview
12 May 2008
Friday, I'm in love
Patrick Freyne
Gavin Friday talks about Disney songs, Shakespeare sonnets, Ferrara films, liking art and reading books.
Music Review | Album
12 May 2008
Penny Black
Patrick Freyne
Blissed-out electronica walks the line between Steve Reich and Jean Michel Jarre - a beautiful album
Music Review | Album
9 May 2008
Saturdays Equals Youth
Patrick Freyne
Twenty-something obsessed with teenagers writes ‘80s pop music
Music Review | Album
9 May 2008
Colin Meloy Sings Live
Patrick Freyne
Heartfelt solo record from Decembrists frontman
Music Review | Album
9 May 2008
The Last Tycoon
Patrick Freyne
Peter bjorn and John Frontman strips it down but stays mellow too
Music Review | Album
9 May 2008
Any Port In A Storm
Patrick Freyne
Pop-tastic fare from local newcomers
Music | Interview
8 May 2008
Swear it all over again
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne meets synth-rock extroverts Holy Fuck who explain why DIY is the future of music and hold forth on their love for 'stubborn prick' Neil Young.
Music Review | Album
8 May 2008
Time Sleeps For No-one
Patrick Freyne
Modest Offering from Irish singer-songwriter, pristine production, catchy melodies, but a tad bland.
Music Review | Album
8 May 2008
Elliot Minor
Patrick Freyne
English outfit fuse rock and classical, with less than impressive results - think McFly meets Phil Coulter
Music Review | Album
7 May 2008
Warpaint
Patrick Freyne
Never in 24 years have The Black Crowes either changed their tune or sounded contrived, and they’re getting better all the time in their dependably unfashionable way.
Music Review | Album
6 May 2008
Funplex
Patrick Freyne
On the new B52s album, the group famous for ‘Love Shack’ party like it’s 1992.
Music Review | Album
30 Apr 2008
The Hollow Of The Morning
Patrick Freyne
Tipperary Songbird blossoms on long-awaited comeback – eventually
Music Review | Album
23 Apr 2008
The Midnight Organ Fight
Patrick Freyne
Overwrought second album from Glaswegian indie quartet
Music Review | Album
21 Apr 2008
We Leave At Dawn
Patrick Freyne
Essentially this is uninspired glam-indie with synths and clangy guitars and a singer with Robert Smith’s voice (after it broke).
Music Review | Album
18 Apr 2008
Chameleon Blues
Patrick Freyne
Chameleon Blues is a breathy, moody, and innovative offering from new Irish singer Rebecca Collins.
Music Review | Album
17 Apr 2008
We Leave at Dawn
Patrick Freyne
Indie nice boys deliver polite but underwhelming debut
Music Review | Album
17 Apr 2008
Konk
Patrick Freyne
Suddenly sullen Kooks produce a limp effort
Music Review | Album
16 Apr 2008
The Age of Understatement
Patrick Freyne
In a surprise move, Alex Turner goes back to 1966
Music Review | Album
15 Apr 2008
Shine a Light
Patrick Freyne
A joyous wake for big budget corporate rock
Music Review | Album
8 Apr 2008
11
Patrick Freyne
A tribute to our favourite gaseous element. Oh it isn’t. Bored now.
Music Review | Album
7 Apr 2008
A Book Like This
Patrick Freyne
A likable effort by not-quite acoustic popsters who wander the genres...
Music Review | Album
7 Apr 2008
Moi Et Mon Camion
Patrick Freyne
Classy songwriting coming atcha from every angle on Merz's Moi Et Mon Camion .
Music Review | Album
7 Apr 2008
On Your Sleeve
Patrick Freyne
A cover album that may make you question why you liked the original songs in the first place...
Music Review | Album
7 Apr 2008
Onasis I & II
Patrick Freyne
Being charmingly lo-fi is just the aural equivalent of bed-hair, and doesn’t really save this from being the cabaret nerdfest that it really is.
Music Review | Album
7 Apr 2008
Reality Check
Patrick Freyne
Throw away your fashion magazines and join the army, teenagers...
Music Review | Album
7 Apr 2008
Nine Lives
Patrick Freyne
One great track and then lots of vague, rootless soul lite
Music Review | Album
2 Apr 2008
Trouble in Dreams
Patrick Freyne
Great ambitious, hyper-real psychedelia.
Music Review | Album
2 Apr 2008
Dwell
Patrick Freyne
Possible ploy by Thom Yorke to make himself look good in comparison...
Music | Interview
1 Apr 2008
Crib notes
Patrick Freyne
Gary and Ryan Jarman explain why they're on a one band mission to bring political indie rock back.
Music | Interview
31 Mar 2008
Giving a truck
Patrick Freyne
Jason Isbell was once one of a triumvirate of singer-songwriters with socially aware country rockers Drive By Truckers.
Music Review | Album
26 Mar 2008
Eleven Modern Antiquities
Patrick Freyne
Thomas Walsh forges chamber pop beauty. Journalist runs out of superlatives.
Music | Interview
25 Mar 2008
Rustic Development
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne talks to Ken McHugh of Autamata about his double life as artist and producer, his new album, Colours of Sound - and about moving to the country.
Music Review | Album
25 Mar 2008
Sirens of the Ditch
Patrick Freyne
Jason Isbell, formerly of the Drive By Truckers, releases a solid, sad, gritty new album as a solo artist.
Music Review | Album
11 Mar 2008
Discipline
Patrick Freyne
"Seriously, Ms Jackson, I invite you around for high tea and you turn up leather clad, groaning, and hollering about touching yourself. Mrs Wilberforce didn’t know where to look and the vicar was most upset."
Music | Interview
10 Mar 2008
Loreto Convent Blues
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne watches Luan Parle take country to the country, school by school.
Music Review | Live
29 Feb 2008
The Von Bondies + Fight Like Apes at the Village, Dublin
Patrick Freyne
"...it has to be said, the Von Bondies were put in the shadows by their support bands."
Music Review | Album
27 Feb 2008
Greatest Hits
Patrick Freyne
Have a little respect. This is Morrissey. He’s a musical institution and I’m damned if I’m going to give him less than ten out of ten.
Music | Interview
26 Feb 2008
Twin sister is watching you
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne interviews Tegan from Tegan and Sara about their brilliant new album The Con , her twin sister and obsessively recording the minutiae of her life.
Music Review | Album
19 Feb 2008
Rockferry
Patrick Freyne
It’s always the same story. You’re sitting there waiting for one whiskey-voiced diva and then a load of them come along at the same time.
Music Review | Album
11 Feb 2008
Carry The Meek
Patrick Freyne
"Generally the tracks have a real heart tugging quality to them, with rising melodies and great musical diversions as middle eighths – the band really know how to build a song to an epic climax."
Music | Interview
7 Feb 2008
Lean On Me
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne interviews new Britpop sensation Joe Lean and gets paranoid about situationist pranks.
Music Review | Album
5 Feb 2008
Forget Romance Let’s Dance
Patrick Freyne
Ah yes. A band that knows what it’s at. We Should Be Dead are working off a carefully chosen stylistic basis – the bubble-gum pop, girl-band template.
Music Review | Live
18 Jan 2008
PJ Harvey at the Olympia, Dublin
Patrick Freyne
"She performs naturally. She’s lost the rock ‘n’ roll poses she’d been toying with on previous tours."
Music | Interview
18 Jan 2008
Swim when you're winning
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne interviews Adrian Crowley, whose new album Long Distance Swimmer is shaping up to be one of the Irish success stories of 2008.
Music Review | Live
17 Jan 2008
Kings Of Leon at the RDS Main Hall, Dublin
Patrick Freyne
"...despite above average songs, good looks, and hip clothes, Kings of Leon don’t feel like a headline act."
Hot Features | Interview
20 Dec 2007
Once upon a time in the Republic
Patrick Freyne
John Carney's Once has conquered Hollywood, captivated Sundance and drawn praise from Steven Spielberg.
Music Review | Album
7 Dec 2007
Live Earth: The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis
Patrick Freyne
The line-up here is practically an argument for the extinction of mankind. I mean, Keane? Even on their own they’re worse than global warming.
Music | Interview
29 Nov 2007
DIY with Hard Fi
Patrick Freyne
Hard Fi’s Richard Archer talks to Patrick Freyne about building a studio, indie snobbery and having your foot run over by an angry American.
Music Review | Live
29 Nov 2007
The Rumble Strips at Whelan's, Dublin
Patrick Freyne
The Rumble Strips’ music is a pleasantly bewildering potpourri of influences. Or perhaps a smorgasbord... or a melange.
Music | Interview
20 Nov 2007
Juno and the car crash
Patrick Freyne
Patrick Freyne talks to Myles O’Reilly from Juno Falls about near death experiences and making universal music.
Music Review | Album
7 Nov 2007
$87 And A Guilty Conscience
Patrick Freyne
By the end of the album you’re ready to get into the car with Vlautin to go and raise ill-advised hell. Lovely gritty stuff.
Music Review | Live
1 Nov 2007
People In Need charity gig at The Village, Dublin
Patrick Freyne
The Coronas bring the biggest fanbase and perform against it, but at the moment they aren’t doing anything that Razorlight and the Kooks don’t do.
Music Review | Album
30 Oct 2007
Psych Ward
Patrick Freyne
It’s sad that rock ‘n’ roll is such a fickle and cyclical business, because otherwise The Urges would be everyone’s new favourite band.
Music | Interview
24 Oct 2007
Holding on for 2moro
Patrick Freyne
RTÉ is doing its bit for Irish music with the 2FM 2moro 2our. Patrick Freyne went along to the live launch to catch a glimpse of the hit bands of the future.
Music Review | Album
8 Oct 2007
The World Is Yours
Patrick Freyne
Ian Brown’s fifth solo album is about the big issues. And while he's picked all the right targets, lyrically and musically it’s still a bit disappointing.
