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,…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
Writes Elle Kelleher In light of recent discourse around women’s place in the Irish music scene, I sat down with two of my favourite artists, Elaine Malone and Abbey Blake of Pretty Happy, to chat about women and music in Cork. University Express: Do you feel as though being a woman in the scene is…
Writes Fionn Kelleher If you’re interested in producing electronic music but don’t know where to start, here’s the lowdown. I’m going to focus on setting up an environment for you to start experimenting, as well as providing some essential resources and pointers. The only prerequisites are a laptop, a pair of headphones, and a bedroom….
Cork DJ Stevie G’s dropped his Soul Ireland 2020 mixtape, and it’s well worth listening to. A longtime advocate for Ireland’s rap, hip-hop, R&B and soul musicians, Stevie’s led club nights and primetime radio shows, but is best known for Black on Red on RedFM, where he mixes classics with new cuts. Collaborating with MC…
By Fionn Kelleher We live in an age where almost any sound imaginable can be synthesised on our computers: On workstations or laptops, but also on our mobile devices. Generations of producers have been inspired by accessible digital audio workstations [DAWs] such as Ableton, FL Studio and third-party audio plugins, and it’s easy to see…
On the 13th of February, Matt Corrigan played his first headliner upstairs at the Roundy, which he sold out. Wearing a white shirt, dark jeans and a look of intense solemnity, he lilted out the ‘dah, da-da dah’ bridge of ‘Tokyo’. A room dimly lit by stage lights, crammed full of friends, and their friends…