The Hype Entertainment Battle of the Bands 2008 has finally begun, with the first heat kicking off on Sunday in the Zoo Club.
KilkennyMusic.com is officially sponsoring the competition again this year, with full on-line coverage, Daw behind the desk and myself and Ken behind the judging table with organiser Andrew McGuinness.
Like last year, Oss237.com is […]

I’ve added my shots from the recent Clive Barnes & Jeff Lang National Tour in association with MyMusicPR to the KilkennyMusic Galleries.
With the official launch of MyMusicPR coming up (more on that soon), more artists signed up and some more to be announced shortly, it means myself and The Chief will be on the road […]

Oss237@work (Photo by Sean Dempsey)
This past week has been nothing short of hectic, it has passed by so quickly, leaving little time for blogging.
Last Friday night saw Laminate return to Cleere’s Theatre for their farewell performance, with support from The Skins. It’s way too late to go into details about the gig but as […]

It’s been well over a month since my last post, but now that college is over I’m trying to catch up on a huge backlog of work and slowly but surely get myself back in the game.I’ve been flat out over the past few weeks working on a bunch of different projects, many of […]

Yet another week goes by in a blur and not a single blog post!? With my thesis due in less than two weeks now, chances are there won’t be too many posts for a while. But for now there’s plenty of news.
Check out the promo trailer (above) for Vultures episode 2: The Scarlet Lady Vanishes. […]

Do you want to know the track listing for the upcoming Chemical Addiction ‘Brian Jones E.P’?
Well then I guess you’ll have to swing by the Chemical Addiction myspace profile and have a read of their latest blog then won’t you!? The Kilkenny-based Grunge 3-piece have just announced the running order for their debut offering. I […]

I’ve had a completely hectic week with college work deadlines all colliding, meaning regular blogging once again took a back seat.
I have to say that I’m delighted this week is nearly over, having had to hand in assignments and speeches, an Ethnographic study of a social group (I chose boy-racers), make a portfolio, do a […]

For anybody who has missed the recent forum thread, 2007 Battle of the Bands winners, Atrax Mantis have just released the demo recordings for their upcoming E.P ‘Condemned to Hatred’.
‘For those who I oppose’, ‘Devoured’, ‘On no god’ and ‘The Ropes end’ demos are now available to download from the Atrax Mantis MySpace profile and […]

I’ve just listened to a sneak preview, of a brand new 20BullsEach track ‘Down’, from their upcoming album ‘Minimum Wage/Maximum Rage’. I love sneak previews and I love this song!
It’s exactly what I needed at the end of a completely shite day. It’s got chunky riffs, it’s fast paced, the vocals vary between great […]

I haven’t posted a blog over the last few days. Two reasons for this; I’ve been working away on another series of pics (which should be online by the weekend), and I’ve been up to my eyeballs with college work. Most of the time college doesn’t provide much inspiration for a blog post.
But with my […]

It was already mentioned on the KKM homepage earlier this week,but Kilkenny-based alternative pop-rockers SavingJ launch their brand new single ‘Valentine‘ in CrawDaddy tonight.
Last year, the four-piece received nationwide exposure for their debut offering ‘Bus Stop’, and it looks like 2008 is going to see their success continue. The new single is currently at number […]

As the Chief has already announced on the KKM forums; last year KilkennyMusic.com was nominated for the ‘Best Music Blog’ at the 2007 Irish Blog Awards. We never expected to win but it really was a great achievement for us to be shortlisted to the final five. And whilst I’m still under no delusion […]

There’s two reasons for the blog title; firstly I’ve hit 100 blog posts!!! (Which can only be further proof that I have no life!?) Yes, 100 posts and I’m not entirely sure what I’ve been blogging about so constantly but it appears some people are interested.
Since April there’s been 273 comments left on the blog; […]

Firstly, let me apologise for not yet replying to my comments and messages over the last couple of days. Once again I have been completely snowed under with college work. I want to clear up a couple of things, concerning my gig review of Cronus and 23 in the Zoo Club last Friday. I’ve had […]

As we’ve mentioned countless times on the SoundSystem Podcast show; myself, the Chief and Daw from KilkennyMusic joined by Itchy Trigger Finger frontman Jimmy Trigger would be speaking at the Artlinks seminar ‘Getting ahead in the music industry 07′ in Wicklow.
Yesterday morning the alarms went off at 6am, it was still dark outside. Myself and […]