What do you call it when post-rock is catchy and pop-savvy?
Post-pop doesn’t sound right.
Cinematic soundtrack? Getting there, but still not quite…
Techno!
Wait, that’s wrong…
Overhead, The Albatross?
Yes, that sounds about right.
They circle above you, enriched with a sound somewhere in the middle of Explosions In The Hope Of The States.
Keep watching as they ascend.
Overhead, The Albatross play [...]
This is more than pleasant news
Waterford band(its) Ghetto Amaretto have decided upon a launch date & venue for their EP, For Every Hiim, Her & They.
FEHH&T makes for very pleasant listening to my mind,
and methinks it might also do so to yours.
Cyprus Avenue
13/04
€TBC
support: (the alarmingly myspaceless) I.D.
They’ve won the UCC battle of the bands
Now they [...]
It’s been a nice holiday, boys and girls
But now it’s back to business.
Adrian Crowley won Wednesday’s Choice Music Award, bagging €10,000 in the process
That should buy him a few Wii games at the very least.
November’s Season Of The Sparks was a worthy winner and warrants further listenings, even if you convinced yourself that another act deserved [...]
OK, Geoff, TTS appreciates your hard work, epic gig-going ability and prolific nature on a Monday morning, but for your own health, you’re getting gagged until further notice right after this review. A cup of tea is being snail-mailed en-route to you now as a consolation.
Adequate Geoff wrote:
Well Codes, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? [...]
My, my, Adequate Geoff, you’re on a roll today, aren’t you? Here’s another review to digest in whatever is a brain’s equivalent of stomach acid.
Adequate Geoff wrote:
I see Crawdaddy has upgraded the €2 alcopops offer from Smirnoff Ice knockoffs to Smirnoff Ice. It’s about as welcome as a tiger in an aviary when a strawpedo [...]
TTS hasn’t quite gotten over the stage fright of staging a review for a band onstage, so once again, the onus is on Adequate Geoff to take us through it:
Adequate Geoff wrote:
The Libertines, eh? They’re responsible for as much music created in Ireland and England over the last decade as Nirvana have been in America [...]
TTS isn’t much good at reviews.
So we’re handing all future reviews to our friend, Adequate Geoff.
Adequate Geoff says:
Whelan’s is rammed like a biplane into a Texan IRS building. There is a buzz about John, Shelly & The Creatures, and rightly so, with knowledge of their excellent instrumentation, easy-going, catchy compositions and of course that song [...]
