Deadlamb Records seems to have been lurking in the background for some time, with a steady output of Irish and international punk product including Nomatrix, Jobseekers, Disturbance, Greenland Whalefishers, Plan …
VARIOUS – LAMPAIGN – IRELAND – Irish Punk Compilation LP (Deadlamb Records 2019) Read More
About 4 years ago, a certain rabid and dedicated blogger compiled 7 volumes of a very excellent bootleg series called Synthesizers Rules 1978-1983 ( cough! ) collating a diaspora of proto …
STRANGE PASSION – Explorations in Irish post punk, DIY and electronic music 1980-83 (CacheCache / Finders Keepers Records 2012) Read More
Dublin based Zeropunkt continues its probing of cosmic noise and progressive spontaneity with a new album, the group’s second under the current name, and squillionth if you include the material …
ZEROPUNKT – Clap Your Hands And Say No (2020) Read More
At this point, there have been very few Irish punk books – the fragmented written history of it all is represented in print by the Hope Collective’s IN CONCERT book, …
PETER JONES – TO OLD TO DIE YOUNG – PARANOID VISIONS, PUNK ROCK AND ME (Rotator 2020) Read More
Although few and far between at this point, local compilations are always an education of sorts. From the band you’re sick of seeing to that band name you’ve seen on …
VARIOUS ARTISTS – KARATE KLUB Dublin HC/Punk Compilation (Distroy Records 2018) Read More
Nomatrix are one of those bands that, through the relative isolation of Athlone, don’t quite have the profile of a feckless, horrible, city-based entity – Which is a damn shame …
NOMATRIX / FUTURE HATE – Split EP (2021 Dead Lamb Records/Jackhammer Music) Read More
It’s feels strange to be reassessing archive material from the 1990s Dublin punk underground. These recordings are a quarter of a century old and at the time they were made, …
STRIKNIËN DC – Dead in the Live Room CD (2019 FOAD RECORDS) Read More
Albums embodying, expressing or otherwise loosely interpreting fluctuations in mental health are certainly not unusual – Channeling brain turbulence through any form of art is a timeworn tradition, no doubt …
PETE JOHNSON – Screwball – CD (self released/not on label 2019) Read More
I’m not sure if this is a recording project or something set up as an operational band in the sense that any of us think we know what that is …
VIOLENT MOOD SWING – In Regards To Your Previous Email LP (self-released/not on label 2022) Read More
If one good thing has come of underground music in the year of prevailing lurgies, it is that forced inactivity has given some bands the time to take stock of …
PARANOID VISIONS – Re-Pressed Emotions 2XLP (FOAD/Urinal Vinyl 2020) Read More
VOX has always been considered the great “lost” Irish magazine. Founded by editor Dave Clifford in a hugely fertile period of underground culture, it ran for 3 years and has …
VOX 80-83 – No.1-No.15 complete (Hi Tone Books 2019) Read More
To get an idea how much of an anomaly Stano’s 1983 debut album Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft really was, simply compare it to pretty much any other …
STANO – Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018) Read More
In what can be construed as fitting move to represent equality in disfunction, the ubiquitous shot of Richard Ramirez that adorned 2016’s THE NILZ MADE ME DO IT is now …
THE NILZ – Kiss me, My Executioner (self released CD 2018) Read More
Sporadic comes in many forms and The Number Ones, amongst other things, have sporadic down to a fine art with a gap of 3 ½ years since the release of …
THE NUMBER ONES – ANOTHER SIDE OF THE NUMBER ONES 7” EP (Static Shock Records 2018) Read More
In 2016, OUTCASTS BY CHOICE garnered much praise and adulation as it bounced around various film festivals globally. Film Ireland described it as “a labour of love, produced on a …
OUTCASTS BY CHOICE – DVD (2017 LOUDfastLOUD.com) Read More
This is the second EP by GRIT in 6 months – a prolific miracle by Irish standards, but one that displays resolve and ambition. Again, the vinyl release is handled …
GRIT – DIAMOND 7” EP (Distr-Oi Records 2017) Read More
TV TUBE HEART remains one of the great unique first generation punk albums. With a very assured sense of itself, the record stands up to reappraisal and scrutiny 40 years …
THE RADIATORS FROM SPACE – TV TUBE HEART 40th anniversary Edition (2017) Read More
Scattered throughout the minefield of modern music, albums of covers have been recorded by musicians and non musicians for infinite reasons – influence (Ramones), homage (Bowie), lack of ideas (Metallica), …
The RADIATORS From Space – SOUND CITY BEAT ( Chiswick Records 2012 ) Read More
The prevailing habit of documenting Dublin’s youth has always been to roll out tales of stale bread, carbolic soap, ten to a bed and death by TB before the age …
WHERE WERE YOU? – DUBLIN YOUTH CULTURE & STREET STYLE 1950-2000 ( Garry O’Neill / Hi Tone Books 2011 ) Read More
It seems that since the 40 SHADES OF GANGRENE album, some manner of circular pattern has been completed and the scab ends of Irishness have morphed into a sitting duck …
PARANOID VISIONS – BEWARE OF THE GOD (2009) (from the archives) Read More