Due to popular demand The Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour has officially added a second date at Dublin’s Academy venue on Saturday the 4th of February 2011. This show will take place ahead of the already scheduled date on February 5th 2011. Hitting the stage as co-headliners on both nights will be New Found Glory and Sum 41 plus very special guests, Letlive and While She Sleeps. Tickets for both Irish tour dates are on sale now through Ticketmaster and usual outlets natiowide. Click here to buy tickets.
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Bombay Bicycle Club have officially confirmed that they will now be performing live for two nights at Vicar Street in Dublin this December 2011! As well as their already scheduled live concert date on December 6th (which is almost sold out!), Bombay Bicycle Club will also be performing live at Vicar Street in Dublin on the previous night, December 5th! Tickets for this newly announced live concert date are priced from €20 including booking fee and will be on sale from Thursday the 3rd of November through Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide. Click here to buy tickets.
With their critically acclaimed third album, ‘A Different Kind of Fix’ crashing into the top ten of the charts (at number six), Bombay Bicycle Club release one of the record’s stand out tracks, ‘Lights Out, Words Gone’, as a single on October 17th 2011.
The album captures the sound of a band effortlessly progressing and innovating at a startling rate and ‘Lights Out, Words Gone’ is a case in point, as it makes common cause with chillwave via looped vocal harmonies, rhythmic hooks and dewy-fresh Balearic guitars.
‘Lights Out, Words Gone’ follows in the groove-fuelled footsteps of previous single, ‘Shuffle’ that was A-listed at Radio 1 and with a series of knock-out festival performances this summer to an ever growing legion of fans – including Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading & Leeds - BBC have been making the summer of 2011 their own.
In a little over three years, the band have released three LP’s – an extraordinary and increasingly rare feat in the 21st century music industry. From the teenage indie kicks of their debut; to the sparse, timeless folk of last summer’s top ten album, ‘Flaws’ (nominated for an Ivor Novello Award); the quartet open a new and beguiling chapter with, ‘A Different Kind of Fix’, one that cements their place at the very forefront of British bands in 2011.
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Mylo Xyloto is the 5th studio album from Coldplay which was released in Ireland on October 21st 2011. Featuring the hit single ‘Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall’ and their latest single ‘Paradise’, this LP is a must have for your CD collection and here at Music Scene, we are giving away 5 copies of this fantastic album!
To be in with a chance of winning a copy, simply send your name, contact details and answer for the question below to competitions@musicscene.ie
Mylo Xyloto is the 5th studio album release from Coldplay, but what is the name of their first studio album release?
Independent.ie - Music RSS Feed On October - 31 - 2011Comments Off
Pete Townshend has laid into computer giant Apple blasting its music service iTunes as a "digital vampire", as the music legend called for greater support and financial rewards for artists from online firms.
BreakingNews.ie / TCM On October - 31 - 2011Comments Off
Product placement has come to Coronation Street after ITV signed a deal with Britain's Nationwide Building Society that will see one of its branded cash machines set up in the corner shop.
On Sunday October 30th 2011, 19 year old X Factor contestant Sophie Habibis was the seventh act to be eliminated from this year’s show after the judges chose to save Misha B, ending Sophie’s time in the competition.
The beautiful vocalist who was mentored by Kelly Rowland in the Girls category, sang the emotional hit ‘Shelter’ by The XX as her survival song, but unfortunately it just wasn’t enough to keep the teenager in the competition.
Sophie was extremely upset after receiving the news and told mentor Kelly Rowland, who called in live on air from Los Angeles: “Thank you for this amazing experience, I’m never going to forget it and I’m just going to keep working hard and will prove that I should have stayed in this competition.”
In a very tough Halloween special, all four judges voted to send Sophie home.
Here at Music Scene, we think everyone knew there was no hope of Sophie staying in the competition once she landed in a sing off with the amazing Misha B from her very own category. Realistically, Sophie should have been sent home in week one instead of the brilliant Amelia Lily who could have quite possibly gone on to win the show – foolish tactic from Kelly Rowland in our opinion.
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The Unitarian Church is one of Ireland’s oldest structures which was built in 1863, but now stands as one of Ireland’s newest live music venues. Located on St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin, this historic venue is a beautiful and vibrant structure that is proving to be a great success with some of Ireland’s best musicians. Tickets for live concert dates at The Unitarian Church in Dublin can usually be purchased through Ticketmaster.
Artists who have already performed here in 2011 include Delorentos, Julianna Barwick and Halves.
Interesting Fact: The pipe organ in The Unitarian Church on St. Stephen’s Green celebrated its 100th Birthday in 2011. The organ was built by J.W. Walker in 1911 and is agreed by experts and musicians to be a very fine musical instrument of its time. Through 100 years and 6 organists, its 3 manuals and pedals have accompanied hymns and choir anthems on various occasion throughout its lifetime.
Legendary band The Waterboys, return to The Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin for a very special live performance on Sunday the 1st of April 2012, promoting their latest studio album ‘An Appointment With Mr Yeats’. Tickets for this live concert date are priced from €45.50 and are on sale now through Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide. Click here to buy tickets.
An Appointment With Mr Yeats is not just the exhilarating new album by The Waterboys, one of our most consistently adventurous and truly unfettered bands. It is also the triumphant culmination of Mike Scott’s 20-year-old dream of recontextualising the work of Ireland’s most venerated poet, W.B. Yeats, by singing his words against a backdrop of gloriously full tilt rock’n’roll. The results constitute a high watermark in a career already generously studded with highlights. We should expect no less from Scott, who for almost three decades has led The Waterboys down a multitude of intriguing and consistently rewarding pathways. From early post-punk beginnings to the imperious “Big Music” of A Pagan Place and This Is The Sea; from the hugely influential blend of Celtic folk, gospel, country and rock heard on Fisherman’s Blues to the band’s most recent offering, Book Of Lightning, released in 2007 to a garland of critical acclaim, Scott has endeavoured to make The Waterboys a fluid conduit for his ceaselessly questing creative spirit.
Selling in excess of five million records worldwide, The Waterboys releases include the hit singles ‘The Whole Of The Moon’ (UK No. 3), ‘And A Bang On The Ear’ (an Irish No. 1), ‘Return of Pan’ and ‘Glastonbury Song’.
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Independent.ie - Music RSS Feed On October - 30 - 2011Comments Off
Brendan Behan said that when he came back to Dublin: "I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Independent.ie - Music RSS Feed On October - 30 - 2011Comments Off
AFTER recently pulling out of doing a long UK tour with Jools Holland and his big band, wildman Shane MacGowan has now cancelled a scheduled Pogues tour of Australia and Japan for early next year.
Independent.ie - Music RSS Feed On October - 30 - 2011Comments Off
Triskel Christchurch was the splendid setting for the first concert of the Cork Jazz Festival last Friday night. Hamilton (trumpet and flugelhorn), Johnny Taylor (piano), Dan Bodwell (double bass) and Dominic Mullan (drums) have the kind of intuitive understanding that comes from playing regularly together, with a constant interplay of ideas.
Independent.ie - Music RSS Feed On October - 30 - 2011Comments Off
Brendan Behan said that when he came back to Dublin: "I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
