The Sigla Blog

Another highly anticipated Irish album to watch out for this year is Crayonsmith’s White Wonder. The good folk at Out on a Limb Records are currently streaming the first single, ‘Lost in the Forest’ over on their myspace page. It’s an epic slice of multi-instrumental magic, veering between breakneck beats and melancholic strings, with a […]

Oh my god, Naughty by Nature are coming to Ireland! They play Tripod on March 6th. I wore this record out at parties over the years. Classic hip hop. Enjoy.

Woolworth’s have had to ditch a new bed range called Lolita, which is aimed at six-year old girls. Parents kicked up about it, unsurprisingly. Who’d want to tuck their little girl up in a bed named after a precocious pre-teen who is taken advantage of by an older man?
According to Reuters:

“In Lolita, a 1955 novel […]

Today is the birthday of poet

“My rehearsal room for the last 10 or so years was an an unused dance studio in a 16th century mansion house on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I guess at one point it had been a youth club or the like, as it’s walls were covered in pages of Smash Hits! […]

Fústar has come up with a fantastic idea that might interest bloggers, writers and anyone with even a passing interest in horror. His new project, ‘Dreadful Thoughts’ is a double-pronged affair. Part one is the ‘Dreadful Thoughts Story Club’, where the man himself and/or readers suggest an online horror/ghost/spooky story for interested parties to […]