Public Image Limited is an entity that has been with me since that beautifully skewed performance of FLOWERS OF ROMANCE on Top Of The Pops several centuries ago. The unlikelihood …
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED – One Drop EP (PiL Official Ltd label 2012) 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
Amebix is one of a small number of noisy bands from the punk realms that seem to have this strange chokehold on those who have felt inspired by them. Undoubtedly …
AMEBIX – Sonic Mass (Easy Action Records 2011) 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
Crazy Glue – An exploding bauble of luck once cast its shrapnel about the ranks of a certain generation of loud west coast American bands… shards of it struck those …
FISHBONE – CRAZY GLUE ( DC-Jam Records ) Read More
Dublin is by no means exclusive in it’s ability to be a harsh environment to that which sticks around for longer than the ever decreasing attention span of it’s troglodyte …
ESTEL – A Massive, Glorious, Uphill, Shit-Fight ( Little Plastic Tapes/Headwrecker 2011) Read More
When I first saw the promo for Mother a couple of weeks back I was impressed at how Blondie had managed to pull something fresh and contemporary out of the …
BLONDIE – Panic of Girls ( ElevenSeven 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
We’re all competing for elbow room…. I tend to grab my reading material and stand near the Bunty comix – There are a number of reasons for this, but the …
ULTIMATE BILGE PUMPING (originally appeared in RIOT 77 issue 6) Read More
At the beginning of 2004 it looked like the Fishbone monster had ground to a halt…. the blow-ins had been jettisoned and the core of Angelo Moore, John Norwood Fisher …
FISHBONE – STILL STUCK IN YOUR THROAT (from the archives) Read More
The Radiators are sort of treated in the same way as the Tara Broach or one of many other high profile Irish antiquities…. They’re a well publicised entity, but walking …
The RADIATORS – TROUBLE PILGRIM (review originally published in RIOT 77 magazine Feb 2007) Read More