Clare People Interactive

Fight Like Apes
The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner
9/10
I was worried about this album. I mean, what happens to the unwashed children of the revolution when the revolution has been won? How does a band like Fight Like Apes start to mature and grow when they have built their entire sound (well [...]

Kate Walsh
Peppermint Radio
7/10
It’s very hard to know how to approach a covers album. The key, I think, is to see can the artist bring something new to the familiar; something that is better or at least different from the original.
Kate Walsh’s fourth trip to the studio, Peppermint Radio, released in early September features 11 songs [...]

NoLand Folk
Ghosts Light The Scene
8/10
Released quietly in the dying embers of 2009, Ghosts Light The Scene is the second studio album from north Clare folk rock collective NoLand Folk. Although sign-posted as a good representative of the bands more rocky recent leanings, this record remains rooted heavily in folk – with only the occasional nod [...]

Keith Mullins
The Great Atlantic
7/10
The latest in the recently cranked-up Galway musical production line, The Great Atlantic is the debut solo album from singer songwriter Keith Mullins.
If Mullins’ voice sounds that bit familiar, it’s because you’ve probably heard it before. As a former member of the much heralded Pier 19, this isn’t his first time being [...]

The Rags
A National Light (Sampler)
9/10
As accustomed as I am to getting completely carried away with a new record (and regretting it later when all that early excitement and shiny dies down), The Rags are well on the way to become the Irish mainstream band of 2010.
With their debut record, A National Light, due for release [...]

John Shelly and the Creatures
Long May You Reign
6/10

It’ll be right on the tip of your tongue, you’ll know it but you just wont be able to place how and why you know it. Well, to avoid needless hours of stress and strain, and nasty injuries sustained from bashing your head off the stereo, allow me [...]

The Plea
Nothing but Trouble
R&S
7/10
That’s just what Ireland needs, another slue of indie pop-rockers. No wait, I’m serious. While it might seem that the record stores are jammed with Irish bands answering that exact description, more then a few of them have been misfiring just recently.
So there could be a gap there for some catchy guitar [...]

Eels
End Times
7/10
Okay, so you’ve just come out of a screening of The Road, having unsuccessfully demanded a refund for the popcorn that you, or anyone else in the cinema, couldn’t bring themselves to eat, and you’re desperately, oh so desperately searching for something to cheer yourself up.
What that you say? Ells have a new albums [...]

Garrett Wall Band
Hands of Imperfection
7/10
It’s been ten years since Garrett Wall gave up the hard cobbled streets of his native Dublin in favour of the warmer and more welcoming piazza’s of Madrid – and that’s a long time, in anyone’s book.
The travelling Dub returns next month with the latest offering from his Spanish odyssey in [...]

Surfer Blood
Astro Coast
7/10
Rarely can you tell so much about a band from their name alone. Surfer Blood is exactly what it sound like – soft American indie pop/rock, set to a background of guitar led songs about the summertime and, well, surfing.
Less lyrically clever than someone like Weezer and not quite up to the likes [...]