Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
If you’ve read the latest contribution to the Musical Rooms series, you’ll know that Ungdomskulen play Whelan’s this Friday. If you’d like to win a pair of tickets to see these very fine noisemeisters, let me what European country they’re from.* Either leave a comment or drop me an email and I’ll pull one out […]
“The absolutely best place for Ungdomskulen to create music is in our organic rehearsal space. But just as important to that place is the discussions, the laughter and general awesomeness in our lives leading up to being there, in a physical form, experimenting and jamming out songs to come. This makes the song-writing process ripe […]
Damien has kicked off the nomination process for this year’s Irish Blog Awards. If you’d like to vote for The Sigla Blog in any relevant categories (nominations in non-relevant categories will treated as spam)*. All the details are here:
Best of luck to everyone, and fair play to Damien for all the time and effort he […]
Taking film as a fulcrum to pivot her argument around, Julie Burchill is spot on in many things she says in an article titled “Bring Back the red-blooded bitch”. She laments the loss of good bitching, something she believes is not about women criticising other women for their choices, because “envy isn’t what creates a […]
This morning on Nadine’s Kiosk show, a panel of us came over all Mystic Meg and tried to predict bands to watch in 2008, or at the very least ones we’d like to see outrun the hyped undeservers and do well. One of mine are Glasgow’s do-wop rockabilly types Glasvegas. I love this track, ‘Daddy’s […]
On this day five years ago, around about this time, I was propped up on a trolley in the casualty department of St. James hospital. My legs - still in fetching pyjamas, you don’t get to throw on clothes for the ambulance, you understand - were covered in black bruises. An oxegen mask was helping […]
“My basement is my favorite place to make music. It functions as a studio, percussion storage space and label warehouse, so I’m never short of things to hit. It’s where the most recent Cougar and Youngblood Brass Band records were recorded as well. It’s quite small, with a low ceiling and the limestone foundation of […]
One of the best Christmas presents I received was the DVD of Heima, a documentary of Sigur Ros’ epic free tour of Iceland. I haven’t watched it yet for two reasons: I’m working my way through a Hitchcock box set and because I’m saving it up. Why? Mainly because I want to watch and savour […]
Happy new year folks.
As predicted today, Catherine O’Flynn won The Costa Prize (I still think of it as the Whitbread - damn you, sponsorship changeovers). It was unlucky not to pick up other awards in the last year, as it was longlisted for both the The Booker and The Orange Prize and nominated for […]