Articles by Hilary A. White
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Hilary A White is a freelance writer for The Sunday Independent and Heineken Music. His writings have also appeared in The Irish Examiner, The Irish Independent, The Irish Times' The Ticket supplement and Adventure Travel Magazine. He has been a published music journalist since 2006, when he began writing for the then-monthly music magazine Connected under 'Adam White'. He went on to become Assistant Editor there until 2008, and also worked as a sub-editor for Associated Newspapers. He has appeared numerous times on the Phantom FM show Cinerama, as well as State of Play and Icon, and Newstalk's Culture Shock show.
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It’s good to see Manic Street Preachers being cut a bit of slack these days. It was getting a bit too popular to sneer back at the once-sneery Welsh trio. That was probably down to radio overplay and the release of one or two misfiring records, namely 2001′s Know Your Enemy and Lifeblood… in 2004.
Listening to Unknown Pleasures, Pink Flag… or other post-punk staples, a fan of that genre would be forgiven for wishing they were back in that seminal era. Late 70s north-west England, downtrodden but full of visceral doggedness and a music scene that throbbed defiantly. Awaydays, a new indie film based on Kevin Sampson’s 1988
Like Paul O’Connell with a blonde surfer’s mop, Steve Robinson is not the kind of guy whose pint you’d nick. Six-foot stupid tall, he makes a telecaster look like a ukulele, and dwarfs half-Swedish, half-Iraqi bassist Denise Roxenhamn (real name Denise Roxenhamn).
I should also mention he writes very good hard-rock pop songs of the…
It was a vampire weekend of a different sort down at the Irish Film Institute. All things fanged and blood-sucking are being celebrated in Dublin at the moment under the banner of the One City, One Book… festival. The book in question is, of course, Bram Stoker’s evergreen epic of literature’s great enduring gothic icon
It’s probably easier for David Kitt to just get on with things these days without having to constantly check over his shoulder for expectations of him. No longer is he the Kitt of Small Moments and The Big Romance… – the reclusive stoner, hunched over an 8-track through the wee hours, trying not to wake
With only a handful of live outings under their belt, the band simply known as Villagers are already being looked to as a new hope. The release of a four-song EP entitled Hollow Kind… has shifted the heat up a notch. It’s now Saturday night, and there’s something subtly quaking throughout Crawdaddy tonight.
Once openers
If you’ve seen Mercury Rev live, you’d be forgiven for finding their records underwhelming. Their shows are powerful, streamlined and thunderingly loud, with frontman Jonathan Donahue leering like a pixie with a dirty secret. This is not to say they can’t do the business in the studio – 1998′s Deserter’s Songs… was nominated for the
‘I’m good at mixing vegetables with fruits and cereal. Many different separate flavours, but then you put them together and you choose. I’m not very much into this over-elaborated cuisine.’
Juana Molina is discussing her culinary skills, but she might as well be telling State her artistic manifesto. La dama from Buenos Aires is gradually…
