Liam Finn

Liam Finn has announced a headline Dublin show at The Sugar Club on Friday 15th July. Tickets are on sale this Friday at 9am.



The song that made me fall in love with Liam Finn:

Little Red - Recommended by Darren

Little Red formed in Melbourne five years ago, when five friends—Adrian Beltrame (guitar/vocals), Dominic Byrne (vocals/guitar), Quang Dinh (vocals/bass), Taka Honda (drums) and Tom Hartney (vocals/keys)—came together to jam in Adrian's basement, united by a love of infectious hooks and good times.


Rather than stealing inspiration from the ‘book of cool’ this 5-piece cut to the chase in a pure style they jokingly refer to as ‘doo-wop punk’. They maintain almost exclusively iconic influences, from a palette of Springsteen, Radiohead, early Elvis, Dylan, Sam Cooke, Nick Cave, The Beatles, and Lou Reed, as well as the more obscure gospel and doo-wop references that become apparent from listening to their fierce vocal passion, delivering the beauty and tension of musical emotion in a ragged and raw expression.


Rock It - Little Red from Little Red on Vimeo.

Cavan at Electric Picnic #1

For Lisa O'Neill, from Ballyhaise, it'll be the third time performing at the Stradbally festival, but this time she's been upped to the main stage in the Body And Soul area..

The band will include Swedish Stina Sanstrom, Pixie Delamere from Dublin, Japanese harpist Junshi Murakami, Mossy Nolan from Galway on banjo and mandolin and Stephen Morgerley on double bass.

"I always liked listening to music, but it wasn't like it was a hugely prominent thing in our house," she says. "I got guitar lessons when I was about 15 and started singing then too... It was very enjoyable."

Lisa writes her own songs throwing in the occasional cover, naming Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Joni Mitchell, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, the Everly Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel and The Dubliners as influences, she describes her music as folk, pointing out that this means writing songs about the people. "Whether I'm writing about my own life or what I see around me, it is folk music, though some people would have different ideas about what folk is," says Lisa, adding that her influences are "storytellers".

Last August, she brought out her first album, Lisa O'Neill Has An Album.

Asked how it's going, she puts it simply: "We released it independently and we don't have many copies left, so I think that's good. It's selling and getting a nice reaction," she says modestly. Critics, however, are more lavish with praise."She's an exceptional talent who writes beautiful, funny and unusual folk songs which she delivers in her unique and awe-inspiring voice," was what the News Of The World said.

Lisa's busy writing new music at the moment, as well as doing gigs and working in Bewley's on Dublin's Grafton Street.

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Lissie's new video, flying around the interweb:

New Lissie...

Lissie & Ellie Goulding

Indie/Folk

Sooooo Joshua Radin plays the Academy on April 26th.

I dunno when I first discovered Joshua Radin but I remember it was the song Closer.

But this post isn't about Joshua it's about Lissie....who will be supporting him on tour.

Lissie Maurus,born in Rock Island, Illinois, on the banks of the Mississippi River, has the voice, the songs and the image to be huge in 2010. Her first release, Why You Runnin’, pitches her midway between the ethereal spookiness of Jesca Hoop or Neko Case and the commercially copper-bottomed country-rock lilt of Sheryl Crow and solo Stevie Nicks. The EP captures what makes Maurus so compelling: a clear-as-a-bell singing voice, a knack for melody that sounds effortless, a direct line to a song’s emotional core, and a talent way too big for just one canyon.” - Sunday Times Culture

Click the play icon to listen to, right click title and click "Save Link As" to save as mp3 file.

Lissie - Little Lovin'

Lissie - Bad Romance (Lady Gaga Cover)


An Introduction to Lissie (iTunes)

In Sleep (released April 5th) is the first track off her debut album