The first time I saw The Undertones play live was in the now long gone Savoy Theatre on Bedford Row in Limerick on 3rd of February 1980. They were supported by fellow northern band The Moondogs. The Blueprints...
Nicky Woulffe
Richard Bodin
Ronan O'Brien
Category - Stories
The Art of McCartney And The Man Is Still On The Run
Paul McCartney is now 65 years threading the boards in the world we call Rock-and-Roll. First as a member of the Quarrymen which would eventually become The Beatles, and then Wings… The Post Beatles Era After The...
Horslips: the Original kings Of Celtic Rock and Folk Music.
The first time I saw Horslips was in the early 70s. They performed on a program on RTE television called “Fonn” and thereafter on the BBC on the “Old Grey Whistle Test” with the great Bob Harris...
The Hidden Awards 2025
This is our first time doing this. No long tradition, no rulebook — just a year of listening, writing, arguing, revisiting, and occasionally changing our minds. The Hidden Awards grew naturally out of what The Hidden...
Editorial Team
First band online: The Doo-Wop Queens of Particle Physics
Have you ever wondered what was the first photo ever uploaded on the web? Le Baiser by Robert Doisneau? Man on the Moon, maybe ? Nope… Nothing like that. Have you ever heard of Michele de Gennaro, Angela Higney...
Dig It: How Nuggets Mined the Sound of a Generation
In 1972, Nuggets compiled the raw, forgotten garage rock of the '60s—and accidentally mapped out the future. From Lenny Kaye’s crate-digging to its ripple effects on punk, mod revival, and beyond, this is the story of a...
Music: The Final Frontier (The Voyager Golden Record)
Since the early days of mankind, we would gaze up at the stars at night. For tens of thousands of years, we looked blindly, attributing the far distant points of light to the work of one god or another. The earliest...
Matt Lucey
Pink Floyd: The Odyssey
From the London underground scene, to Pompeii and the biggest stadiums on earth... From the warm psychedelic light shows to building a Wall on stage... What made Pink Floyd the legend it is today ? and by the way...
