Articles by Patrick Conboy
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Patrick has been writing for State since 2008. He is also a regular contributor to AU, a music and culture magazine based in Belfast. When he's not writing he works on his own music project, dreams of owning a collection of vintage synthesizers, thinks he can play football and embarrasses his friends with his general nerdiness. www.twitter.com/patrickconboy
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At the end of the 1980s Dublin found itself at the centre of a miniature musical revolution. Well, perhaps that’s stretching it a bit but there certainly were some excellent bands knocking around at the time. Bands like A House, The Pale, Something Happens, Fatima Mansions, An Emotional Fish and Whipping Boy. Power of Dreams…
Meteor is currently putting the finishing touches to its new TV and Radio commercial and is now looking for recommendations as to what song should feature on the ad.
If you’re in a band and would like to have your song considered – or even if you just want to nominate your favourite tune –…
Adrian Crowley is the winner of this year’s Choice Music Prize. A panel of 12 music media professionals chose Crowley’s Season of the Sparks… as 2009′s Irish album of the year ahead of last night’s presentation at Vicar St., which also saw performances from eight of the 10 nominees.
As his reward, Crowley receives €10,000
The first acts confirmed for this year’s Europavox festival have been named. Peter Doherty, Gaëtan Roussel, Arno, Rachid Taha (featuring Mick Jones) and Hocus Pocus will all be making the trip to the French town of Clermont-Ferrand in May.
The full line-up will be released at the end of the month.…
With a new album due in May and a slot booked at this Year’s South by Southwest festival, Scott Weiland & Co. are also embarking on a European tour, which includes a stop-off at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on June 14th.
Tickets go on sale from Ticketmaster and usual outlets this Friday, priced at €49.20 including…
Northern boys And So I Watch You From Afar are gearing-up for tomorrow night’s Choice Music Prize ceremony with an in-store performance this evening at Tower Records on Dublin’s Wicklow Street. The show starts at 7pm.…
Estelle has released a stream for her new song, ‘Freak’, which will feature on the forthcoming album, All of Me…. The track features Kardinal Offishall and was produced by David Guetta.
Last week saw London’s Brixton Academy play host to the annual Shockwaves NME Awards. The show was presented by the perpetually dapper Jarvis Cocker and featured performances from Kasabian, The Specials, The Maccabees, Biffy Clyro and Marina & The Diamonds, The Big Pink and Lily Allen, Hole, and Paul Weller.
Here’s the full list of…
The 2010 Shockwaves NME Awards were broadcast on Channel 4 over the weekend. Amongst the highlights was a performance from Scottish alt-rockers Biffy Clyro, which saw them team up with Marina & the Diamonds for a rendition of -Many of Horror’.
Biffy Clyro also picked up a ‘Best Video’ gong on the night for ‘The…
Let’s hope Two Door Cinema Club have broad shoulders because there’s a hell of a lot of expectation weighing down on them. Insiders have been murmuring for months about the band and their music and how they were picked up by ultra cool French label Kitsuné Music. And how they remixed a track for Phoenix…
The State Social returns this Wednesday, February 24th, for its second outing and once again we’re taking over the basement of Shebeen Chic from 9pm onwards. As always, entry is free!
This month we’ve got DJ sets from Dublin indie-pop hipsters Talulah Does the Hula, along with our own Phil Udell and Loreana Rushe.
As…
Indie-pop girl group the Pipettes are getting set to release the follow up to their debut album We Are the Pipettes. The LP, entitled Earth vs Pipettes…, will be released on April 16th via Fortuna POP! Records.
There have been numerous personal changes in the band over the past while, with Rose Elinor
Further to the line-ups announced recently by Bestival and Primavera Sound, both festivals have added more acts to their respective bills.
Bestival will now also play host to The XX and Fever Ray, with a late night show from Plastikman also on the cards. Tickets are on sale now from Red Funnel.
Meanwhile, the line-up…
After last year’s performance at the Academy, Deadmau5 returns to Dublin for a date at the Olympia on May 7th. The Canadian electro maestro is famous for his storming sets and his track ‘Ghosts N Stuff’ – taken from last year’s For Lack of a Better Name… LP – remains a favourite with club DJs
