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Do You Remember The First Time?

Do You Remember The First Time?

Part 3 Catatonia Venue: Olympia, Dublin 03/05/98 Catatonia went from indie-also rans to chart-topping band with the release of their X Files-inspired song, Mulder, and Scully. Being a big fan of the show, I naturally bought into the cult pop reference and it’s a great song too. The band had just released International Velvet to … Continue reading Do You Remember The First Time? →

April Gigs

April Gigs

With no gigs in nearly over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic started, I started looking back on my gig tickets and created a new almost daily post on Twitter, #gigoftheday. This is a snapshot of all gigs that I have been to over the years in month of April. #gigoftheday - looking back at … Continue reading April Gigs →

Music life in lockdown week 31

The contenders for #3albums03 Twitter poll.

#3albums03 Twitter poll

#3albums03 Twitter poll

Looking back at the best albums from 2003.

2003 – January to May

Keeping in the same format at the 2002 blog, I have split this again half yearly due to the amount of gigs I had been too.  There will be a separate blog for the one festival that was attended that year as well. 2003 kicked off with the annual NME tour show which was headlined … Continue reading 2003 – January to May →

2002 – festivals

That year was a busy one festival wise.  As well as doing the normal weekend festivals like Witnness in Ireland and back to the Reading Festival in England, 2002 saw the first arrival of Ozzfest in Ireland and for the first time Belfast getting it's own festival with Tennent's Vital. So onto my first metal … Continue reading 2002 – festivals →