Tebi-Rex are, according to Tebi Rex, Kildare’s premier, interracial hip-hop and pop duo. To everyone else, they are a band whose popularity is growing week upon week and, following the release of their latest EP “Welcome To The Year of Our Darkest Adventure”, are the most talked about duo since Picture This. Matt O’Baoill and…
Fresh off of their victory at this year’s Battle of the Bands, brothers Alex and Jordan Gough of ‘Central Hall’ sat down with the UCC Express to discuss their music. The band is made up of four guys, with Alex on drums, Eamon on guitar, Ross on bass and Jordan singing. Winning the final by…
On April 11th and 12th (Wednesday and Thursday), UCC will host a series of talks run as part of the collaborative venture #CorkLovesMusic. #CorkLovesMusic is a co-operative venture between both music industry insiders and artists, a venture that aims to both educate people about the workings of the music industry, and to kick-start discussion around…
Wild Youth have been announced as the headliner for Ireland’s biggest student event, the Leopardstown Student Race Day, on Wednesday April 4th. With 12,000 students set to travel to Leopardstown for the event, the announcement of one of Ireland’s premier new bands as headliner is sure to lead to another sell-out crowd. The group, formed…
There isn’t exactly a more polarising character in the music industry than Kanye West – trying to convince someone who thinks he’s an arrogant douche that he’s actually the music equivalent of sliced bread, which is pretty great, is not the easiest of feats. With seven albums under his belt, Kanye has presented himself as…
In August 1942, Leningrad was a broken city; its occupants were besieged, starving and dying. Hitler had chosen to hold a ball on the 9th of the month to celebrate the fall of the city. As an act of defiance, the Russians decided to hold an orchestral concert. Extra musicians even had to be flown…
“I think music has gotten very girly,” stated 57 year old Dublin man Paul Hewson in a recent interview with The Guardian. Now, thankfully in 2018, I feel the majority of us treat quips like this as utter nonsense. Hewson, for those of you who are blissfully unaware, is more commonly known as Bono, the…
One of the brightest musical talents coming from Cork is an act known as Rushes. Currently based in Dublin, Rushes has just released his debut single as part of the creative hub known as Diffusion Lab, a song called ‘Wild High’. Rushes took a moment to sit down and talk about his start in music….
For the past number of years the dedicated folks over at the UCC Music Society have worked tirelessly to put on one of the most hotly anticipated college events of the entire term – the UCC Battle of the Bands. Slews of young, college-going bands once again answered the call for entries in the hopes…
This writer has been put on hold numerous times in his life, but has never before heard a more interesting choice of music on hold. Normally you’d be lucky to hear any music at all, and if you did you’d hear nothing more than the company’s advertisement music. Capitol records in Los Angeles however, has…