We were so excited to open our inbox this morning to hear the brand track from Galway band SLYRYDES, we have been sworn to secrecy by the band not to say too much about the track but all we can say is you guys are in for a real treat come August 22nd when “Out Read More

Local lad Niall Moran and The Urban Mitts will perform a very special gig upstairs at Bridge Street in Castlebar this August. These days Niall finds himself based in London and he has recently just released his brand new album titled “All city birds hate the noise” What should a sell out show for Niall Read More

Its really weird for us, because up until very recently we have been receiving lots of emails from Mayo artists that find themselves now studying music in Dublin who contact me and tell me that they write and record their own original material and that they are originally from Mayo!!. Its astonishing the amount of Read More

We are very happy for Irish folks artist Lisa O’Neill as she has just been nominated for best folk album for her recent album Heard a Long Gone Song and best folk singer of 2019 at the BBC Folk Awards 2019. We got to see Lisa O’Neill perform only recently at the Linenhall Arts Centre Read More

With only a few weeks to go until the release of the brand new TOOL, fans of the band were delighted to hear today that all of their back catalog is now available on all streaming services here.   We are so excited that this has finally happened!!  

Tomas Concannon has being a very busy man over the past few years, launching his own record label under the title of UMBREALLA RECORDS and  involved as coordinator and organiser of the recent successful Claremorris Folk Festival which took place only a few weeks ago in Mayo. His passion is music, his day job is Read More

Friday once again and we thought we look at soundtrack for Once Opon a Time in Hollywood. The words Quentin Tarantino and movie soundtrack always brings delight to our ears. With the release of Tarantino’s new movie just around the corner and rumours amongst the movie that it is one of his best movies in Read More

Foy Vance has a wonderful voice, actually Foy Vance has a pretty soulful voice. And he has just released a new single titled I wont let  you Fall . The track was recorded at the very famous Sun Studios!!  We have been grooving to this tune all day today! And you can check out the Read More

We are so excited about this movie here at Finbar Hoban Presents we basically can not contain our excitement so we decided to write a short feature on the recent images that have been released for THE IRISHMAN,    This is, of course, classic Netflix behaviour, but still: we’ve been dying for a good night  We are Read More

We are so excited about this movie here at Finbar Hoban Presents we basically can not contain our excitement so we decided to write a short feature on the recent images that have been released for THE IRISHMAN Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman  (the director’s long-gestating and enormously expensive adaptation of Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book I Read More