A few months back we embraced the weird and wonderful world of Mercurius Forebrain and we can safely say Finbar Hoban Presents has never being the same since! Well guess what, the band have returned with another take on the weird and wonderful world of Mayo music.  Somehow we feel we maybe hearing some form Read More

1,2,3,4 Gabba Gabba Hey!! If you listen carefully to any Ramones song you will hear those first four numbers from drummer Tommy Ramone on the band’s debut record and for most part of any Ramones song. Its  pretty much not a Ramones song if you don’t!! All of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with Read More

Grainne Fahy from Westport over the past few months releasing her previous 1 in 10 and playing various gigs in the Mayo area. The popular singer songwriter is set to release her brand new single Enslaved next Friday July 5th. Having recently supported Paul Greenan at Bridge Street for the launch of his new single Read More

Tonight will be a very busy night for Local songwriter Paul Greenan as he  will take to the stage tonight at Bridge Street in Castlebar to launch his brand new single. The song is co-written with my friend Pat Staunton and is produced by Eamonn Mulderrig (CCFE music teacher and member of Folk/Americana band Vickers Vimy) and Read More

With a little under two months away before Dublin band THE MURDER CAPITAL release their debut album “When I have Fears” the band will have just announced a number of in store performances across Ireland. 

Today is a very big day for Balla’s Train Room as  they are set to release his brand new single titled “This Time”. With what has being a very eventful few months for TRAIN ROOM and a new album on the way, we are very excited to announce that Train Room have just released their Read More

Dennis McCalmont has released a number of albums down through the years, but the scene is set and it looks like Dennis’s most recent release “From Now to Then” is really going to shake up the original scene in Mayo. If you are in the area, make sure to get yourself to The Gallery Cafe Read More

What a year it has being so far for Fontaines D.C.  so far, With the release of Dogrel, the band’s debut album and having an extremely important appearance on the Jimmy Fallon show in the states, there seems that this band are not in any hurry to slow down. Not only that, the band have Read More

Last week we were discussing how movie soundtracks can be hit or miss. Today i wanted to briefly discuss the very underated CROW soundtrack starring the late Brandon Lee. As one as the many record store releases this year THE CROW soundtrack finally issued the soundtrack for vinyl release. After all these years i think Read More

Where have all The Pixies fans gone?, Pixies fans were almost on every street corner in Castlebar in the nineties. Frank Black and his merrymen were almost some sort of enigma. The band disbanded acrimoniously in 1993, but reunited in 2004. After Deal left in 2013, the Pixies hired Kim Shattuck  as a touring bassist; Read More