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Category: Music

“Ready for the House turned out to be prophetic:” Junk Drawer,  interviewed  

By Contributor   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on March 31, 2021

By Elle Kelleher, Contributor  University Express sat down with three-quarters of Belfast-based psych-tinged Krautrockers Junk  Drawer to talk about new releases, the state of the live music scene and accidentally prophesying the  pandemic.   University Express: So, can you talk me through how guys know each other? How did all this start?  Brian Coney [bass]: Well,…

Bandcamp Friday, one year on: Fixity  

By Cathal Donovan O Neill   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on March 17, 2021

By Cathal Donovan O’Neill, Music Editor  Welcome back to our look at Bandcamp Friday! This piece continues last issue’s column, where  I talk to Colm Cahallane of HAUSU Records.  This issue we’re talking to Dan Walsh of Fixity, the Tan Jackets, Cork Improvised Music Club, and much more. The Cork multi-instrumentalist is a big proponent…

Could Kate Bush Crash your Car?  

By Cathal Donovan O Neill   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

By Cathal Donovan O’Neill, Music Editor The fence at the end of my lane’s looking shaky, and I blame Kate Bush. I was taking a drive  with her last week, performing a three-point turn that quickly acquired several more points,  when she took control of the wheel, pulled the clutch up a little too far…

Bandcamp Friday, one year on: HAUSU Records  

By Cathal Donovan O Neill   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on March 4, 2021

By Cathal Donovan O’Neill, Music Editor Back in March 2020, online music retail platform Bandcamp announced that on the first Friday of every month they would cut their cut on items sold from about 30% to nothing, leaving all funds to the artist. It was a great move on a marketing and moral basis, but…

The High Cost of Music  

By Julie Landers   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on March 4, 2021

By Julie Landers, Staff Writer I didn’t enjoy writing this article, and you’re probably not going to enjoy reading it.   Before deciding to write about the environmental impacts of music consumption, it was far easier to say ‘streaming good, vinyl bad’, and even then that wasn’t easy at all. I love the acts of collecting…

The Kino: 1996 – 2021

By Contributor   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on February 18, 2021

By Elle Kelleher The new year, meant to be full of hope and promise, has instead brought with it yet another blow to Cork’s creative and cultural scene: the closure of legendary arts and music hub, The Kino. As the city fought to maintain a soul amongst a slew of hotels and glass office eyesores,…

RTÉ’s Choice Prize returns for 2021

By Cathal Donovan O Neill   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on February 18, 2021

By Cathal Donovan O’Neill – Music Editor This year’s RTÉ Choice Prize is coming up soon, with both the album and single shortlists having recently been released. Here’s the lowdown on who’s up for the prize, what they can win, and how you can help your favourite. The RTÉ Choice Prize has been going since…

2020: What music was like  

By Express Staff   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on December 9, 2020

By Cathal Donovan O’Neill, Julie Landers, Elle Kelleher, Fionn Kelleher  I was only dancing By Elle Kelleher  I rang in 2020 at a gig in the Kino. Surrounded, not just by my social bubble, but by strangers  who would be my best friends by the end of the night, I danced until my clothes were…

UCC Singer/Songwriter Competition moves online

By Contributor   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on November 26, 2020November 26, 2020

Writes Elle Kelleher With live music events essentially cancelled, I checked in with Rebecca Dineen and Robin Daly, Chairperson and PRO of UCC MusicSoc, to see how they’ve been adjusting to Level 5 restrictions.   University Express: Was there a degree of apprehension in how you were going to get the ball rolling this year?…

“TULLE is a fabric made up of tiny connections”: Constance Keane, interviewed

By Julie Landers   Posted in Byline Music
Posted on November 26, 2020

Constance Keane is a force to be reckoned with. Alongside being drummer for punk band M(h)aol, making her own music under Fears and managing Laura Groves, Keane is also about to launch the collective and management label TULLE. TULLE is specifically for women and non-binary musicians which, in a heavily male-dominated industry, has the potential…

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