O Emperor Interview
Ronan Coveney caught up with Paul from O Emperor before they start their national tour and got talking about the music industry, seek the X Factor and music piracy… O…
A Drifter of Modern Times: Frank Fairfield
Geneva Pattison asks whether Frank Fairfield’s indulgence in the past makes for a relevant contemporary musician… Frank Fairfield’s dynamic musical dexterity paired with lilting Americana blue-grass sound, transports the listener…
Music Biopics: Compulsory Watching
Have you walked the line? Do you know what love’s got to do with it? More to the point, are you a twenty-four hour party person? If you’re confused, read…
Slanes Former Glory
Last week it was announced that Slane Castle won’t be going ahead this year, troche the second time in four years that this has occurred. While there’s nothing uncommon about…
UCD Alumnus fails in bid for Mercury Music Prize
There was disappointment for Irish band Villagers last Wednesday as their second album {Awayland} lost out to James Blake’s Overgrown for the 2013 Mercury Music Prize. The Malahide based indie-folk…
Body and Dole
A broke Ciaran Breslin reviews the experience of volunteering at Ireland’s fastest growing music festival. The week before I left to go to camping for four days in Westmeath, cialis…
Forbidden Fruit Reviewed
This summer marks the first time I am spending any considerable length of time in Dublin (or really anywhere in Ireland) as anything but a student. After three years of…
Happy My Bloody Valentines Day
Ciaran Breslin and Peter Sweeney celebrate the end of a twenty year wait for My Bloody Valentine’s new album Music, discount as we know it now, here is a uniquely…
The Siren’s definitive guide to…ERASMUS!
You may be one of those second years who have handed in the last of the Erasmus applications, or merely an elder statesperson of UCD, longing for the heady days…
Review: Foals
Foals like to keep it old school. They haven’t released an album since 2010, drugstore so their third album has been greatly anticipated to say the least. If you’re feeling…
Changing Coat: Patrick Wolf
With an upcoming intimate gig in the Sugar Club and the release of his album Sundark and Riverlight, nurse The Siren catches up with musician and hipster fashion icon Patrick…