On a balmy summer evening in 1959, John “Spider†Koerner first turned Bob Dylan onto folk. Ahead of his first gig in Ireland for almost 50 years, Andrew Hamilton chats to the legendary American about life as a musical maverick and being a blues man in a folk world. There were never fans inside the [...]
Band-member, producer, solo artist – Ian Broudie has done it all. Andrew Hamilton chats to the brains behind The Lightning Seeds about the different strands to his musical bow and conflicts that live in his musical machine. Over ten months, spanning 1978 and 1979, Liverpool punk band Big in Japan produced one EP and seven [...]
Before the Chemical Brother and Fat Boy Slim – there was Stereo MCs. Andrew Hamilton chats to Nick ‘The Head’ Hallam about birthing an entire genre and the battle with PolyGram Records which almost ended his career. 1992 was the year of Stereo MCs. After conquering the UK, and with their third album Connected selling [...]
This month Kilmaley music blogger MP3Hugger releases the 21st album in the two year history of Indiecater Records. To celebrate the milestone Andrew Hamilton chats to Utah folkster Adam Sanders, one half of Adam and Darcie. The city of Provo in the state of Utah, population 117,592. Home to Rock Canyon, the Osmonds and Brigham [...]
In the first installment in a two part series, Andrew Hamilton talk to Clare music legend Johnny Fean, about musical upbringing in Shannon and the second coming of Horslips. Johnny Fean was the first kid in Ireland to hear the Supremes. The year was 1961 – Kennedy was in the White House and a fledgling [...]
Though separated by hundreds of miles, Mail Order Messiahs (MOM), have been making music together for eight years. Ahead of the launch of their debut album later this month, Andrew Hamilton talks stamps to MOM front-man Mike Liffey. The back streets of Dublin move with their own inbred sense of tone and rhythm. From the [...]
In the end, the sea will take all of us. Andrew Hamilton chats to Clonlara singer songwriter Rory Grubb about the release of this second album and his unwitting musician collaborations with the Atlantic Ocean. Salt bitten and ceaselessly wind whipped – the surge of white horses flows ever ashore. The night is deep, with [...]
In a rare candid interview, Spiritualized front man Jason Pierce speaks to Andrew Hamilton about his brush with death, his search for illusive music perfection and his life as a selfish musician. In June 2005 Jason Pierce died. On stage at the Meltdown Festival alongside Patti Smith and Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine his [...]
David O’Doherty returns to the Galway Arts Festival as one of the hottest properties in world comedy. Andrew Hamilton chats to the IF Prize winner about his love hate relationship with the city of the tribe. Before they “got†David O’Doherty in the big comedy hall of Edinburgh, Melbourne and Montreal – the diminutive Dub [...]
Ahead of his intimate one-off gig at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Andrew Hamilton chats to Declan O’Rourke about birthing album three and slaying the beast that is writers block. From the age of 13 – when an Australian priest handed him his first guitar and said “play†– Declan O’Rourke has always [...]
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