The Sigla Blog

Ok, we get that one half of Daft Punk might be going deaf and is considering giving up live gigs. Maybe he already has, as today’s Popbitch alleges: see today’s mailout:

So, you’re a reclusive but legendary dance act. You decide to do a few gigs. Your agent contacts the big European festivals and tells them […]

Q: What do Bloc Party, Belle & Sebastian, DJ Shadow, Sparks, Gang of Four, Radio Soulwax, Yo La Tengo, Lou Rhodes from Lamb and the Unabombers have in common?

A: They all clash with the Ireland v Germany European Championship qualifier which kicks off at 7.45pm. Oh the inhumanity.
Does anyone know if there will be a […]

Anyone lamenting the loss of the Mystery Train will be pleased to hear that details of John Kelly’s new show on Lyric have been announced.

“From Monday, 2 October John Kelly will present a new afternoon show, The JK Ensemble, every weekday from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. On The JK Ensemble listeners will hear the […]

These stage times are updated from yesterday and look pretty comprehensive (and include the Big Tree, Bacardi B-Bar and Lost Vagueness). There are also quite a few bands playing the Chill Stage in the Body and Soul area, but there’s no mention of the line-up on the Electric Picnic site. I think it’s organised by […]

The wellies have been bought, rain macks have been sourced and the house has been combed for last year’s spine-saving inflatable mattress. Oh yes, the Electric Picnic is so near you can almost smell the burger vans and spilt beer. If you live under rock, or outside of Ireland, you might not be aware that […]

Well Daft Punk didn’t disappoint, save for the fact that they only played for about an hour an 10 minutes. The stage set-up and lighting were amazing and apart from two brief interludes, they played tracks like ‘One More Time’, ‘Aerodynamic’, ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’, ‘Da Funk’, ‘Around the World’, ‘Robot Rock’ and ‘Technologic’ non-stop, […]

Just wanted to mention two of three recent/new films that are definitely worth seeing: Volver and Little Miss Sunshine. Volver is Pedro Almodovar’s luminous inter-generational look at a family and its ghostly matriarch, and clocks a five star review from The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. Little Miss Sunshine is a funny, quirky, well-scripted look at a […]

Less than a week in to our Fantasy Football league and already I’m thwarted by injuries (3) and a suspension (1), and was forced to offload Jamie Carragher. Fingers crossed Cech is back for Chelsea at the weekend, and for poor Sunderland as Roy Keane comes to the rescue as their new manager. Is […]

It’s Friday and there’s lots of stuff worth mentioning, so a series of random, pithy posts (not dissimilar to this one) are to follow. This one’s mostly about music seeing as I’m so very excited about Daft Punk tonight. (No support from Kraftwerk or LCD Soundsystem sadly).
*Radiohead at Marley Park last night were damn […]

Damien gets tough with a PR company who are sending him unsolicited mails.
Cue music from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Praise be, Richard Delevan’s back with an excellent article originally published in last weekend’s Tribune. He reveals IBEC’s luddism about the future and today’s youth and Richard posits:

“Ask yourself the following questions.
Which podcasts do you sink? What did you think of geriatric1927 on YouTube this week or the Un-pimp My Ride III video? […]

I just heard Tom Dunne say that several listeners had texted his show from The Raconteurs gig at the Olympia to say that the band were doing a cover of Jape’s ‘Floating’. Go on Richie!
Was so disappointed not to make the gig in Crawdaddy last Friday, I heard it was amazing.
Love the sample of […]