The Sigla Blog

Further to my earlier finger-crossing, it’s true! Tickets are €49.50 and go on sale on Friday 14th July.
Here’s hoping the “special guests” are four dudes with laptops who look like robots.

Seeing as this musical behomoth is still a couple of months away (and that’s if it’s even true - anyone winding me up on this is just plain cruel), I’ll be contenting myself with tomorrow night’s Luke Vibert gig at Maximum Joy in Kennedy’s.
One of Ninja Tunes’ first darlings, Vibert has consistently experimented with all […]

I don’t know if it’s true, but I just heard the juiciest two-part gig rumour.
Part one: that Daft Punk are playing Marley Park in August.
Part two: that Kraftwerk are the support.
If it’s true, I’ll have to go and have a lie down.

Ok, I’m not a music equipment geek like himself (except for my avaricious hankering for a xylophone) but Kraftwerk fans and music nerds alike will no doubt be getting their robot moves in a muddle over something Music Thing spotted on ebay.
Yes, it’s a vocoder formerly owned by Kraftwerk. Not just any ol’ vocoder […]

Technically speaking The Eraser is a solo album, but Thom Yorke vigorously refuses to utter the word ’solo’ to describe this nine track collection. In a post on their website earlier this year, the Radiohead singer casually mentioned that he’d been working on some of his own material, insisting, “I don’t wanna hear that word […]

Via the brother, this is addictive: find your Brazilian football name.
Mine is the less than spectacular ‘Gleesa’.
The other half’s is Shannaldo!

It seems that seems that no one, not even the Ann Summers sex shops, are averse to jumping on the World Cup advertising bandwagon. They’re currently using a version of the famous shot of Bobby Moore holding the World Cup aloft in their Irish shop windows. Except it’s advertising their Rampant Rappit vibrators. And it’s […]

Thus begins a profoundly moving and honest essay from Sarah Byam over on the Tuppenceworth blog about her battle with depression. It particularly struck a chord with me because last week a friend went to a funeral of one of her friends who had taken his own life. In the same week, I read […]

The light blogging around these parts is due largely to a debilitating bout of RSI type stuff in my arm. Depending on its mood, it moves from my knuckles to my wrist to my tendons to the muscle in my forearm. Even 10 minutes of typing sets it off again so I’ve had to pass […]

The whole concept of listening to an audio book has passed me by. I don’t have anything against them per se, but it just never occurs to me to buy one/borrow one from the library. Perhaps it’s the same reason why I could never see myself wanting to read a book online. Books […]

Various people have been asking me if there is some way to air their views or vent spleen about the cancellation of Rattlebag. News reaches me via Stellanova that Kilkenny Labour Councillor Seán O hArgáin has started on online petition against the show being scrapped.

I know there’s lots to look forward
to at this year’s Electric Picnic (Devendra Banhart, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nathan Fake, Coldcut, Hot Chip, New Order) but it still doesn’t top last year’s line-up. Ok, I know I have a bit of Kraftwerk obsession (so what if I want one of their songs played at my […]