Fresh from headlining “You Are The Scene” in Belfast’s Mandela Hall, A Plastic Rose is seen as one of the most exciting prospects to emerge from the Northern Irish music scene. “Oceans” is the first single to be taken from their much-anticipated mini-album, The Promise Notes, released on Monday, March 28th on the local record label, [...]
So, Oxegen’s own website might make no mention of the dates this event is taking place, but we’ve dug deep and discovered it’s all happening between Friday July 8th and Sunday July 10th 2011. More details available at our Oxegen 2011 page on the Dublin Rocks site. Foo Fighters, Black Eyed Peas, Arctic Monkeys and [...]
For thirteen months we have diligently taken photos of the superb street art to be found in Barcelona. Tonight, we decided to export these beauties off our iPhones and create a blog post worthy of them. Ladies and gentlemen, the artwork found on the walls, vehicles, and environs of Barcelona…
We have two pairs of tickets to give away to see the fabulous ‘The Coronas’ live at The Nerve Centre in Derry on Friday April 1st 2011. With very special guests: Colenso Parade & Microlip To enter simply e-mail the answer to the following question to tj@derryrocks.com. What is the name of the Coronas’ lead [...]
We highly recommend the Body and Soul festival taking place in Ballinlough Castle, Clonmellon in Meath on the weekend of June 18th. We had the good fortune to be there last year for the inaugural weekend and it was tremendous. It helped of course that it was probably the finest weekend of the summer – the lake [...]
I woke up on Monday morning to the angering news that the City of Culture office in Derry had been bombed by dissident republicans. I had a sick feeling in my gut as I tried to understand why the mindless people behind the attack would threaten the opportunities, the jobs, tourism, investment and the major [...]
Yeah, we’re just naughty, but this is a nice experiment. We think if we create this blog post now (January 2011) that maybe we’ll do rather well in the old internet results by around January 2012 when people are looking to find out information about Electric Picnic 2012, where of course we’ll be hoping to [...]
Bound For Boston – Waterloo Street Thursday Jam Session with Shadowland Friday Jukebox Night Saturday Suspect Device Sunday Karaoke Monday Jukebox Night Tuesday Jukebox Night Wednesday Brainy Brian’s Quiz Rocking Chair Bar – Waterloo Street Thursday The Bizz and Gerry Friday Venice Saturday Upbeat with Mickey Doherty Sunday Hard to Handle Monday Sing along with [...]
Gweedore Bar, Waterloo Street Tuesday 18th Jan Salsa Dance Class 7-8pm Upstairs Bound For Boston, Waterloo Street Saturday 15th Jan Jamie Nonnan Band Sunday 16th Jan Big Billy’s Karaoke Mon 17th Jan Jukebox Night Tue 18th Jan Jukebox Night Wednesday 19th Jan Brainy Brian’s Quiz The Bentley Bar, Market Street Downstairs Saturday 15th Jan Disco [...]
Tommy Fleming plays the Millennium Forum on Friday 28 January 2011. “Going Back” was recently released and after only one week of sale, the CD entered the album charts at Number 4 along with achieving the Number 1 position in the Indie Charts. The DVD is placed at Number 2. This achievement is no surprise [...]