2019-08-30 Strangers With Guns

2019-08-30 Strangers With Guns - The Grand Social

So a while back, I stumbled across a video by Strangers With Guns for their latest track 'Monkey King'.

Anyway, I tweeted it out and the band got in contact with me. They mentioned that they were having an album launch in the Grand Social in Dublin and they wondered if I'd like to head along. Well... I think we know what the answer was, and so last Friday, off I went in to Dublin!

I got to the Grand Social and headed upstairs to the venue. I always feel like a bit of a tool saying "Hi, I'm on the guest list." and tonight was no different. If I ever get used to it, you've permission to slap me. Only once though! Turns out I was indeed on the guest list, so yeah, no embarrassing moments there...

Anyway, on the night, the support acts were Brand New Dead Things and Easy Tide and they got the night off to a brilliant start. By the time Strangers With Guns hit the stage, the crowd were nicely warmed up and ready to rock, and for the next hour or so, we did!

Anyway, look, this is not a review site really, I just go to gigs of bands I like and take photos of them. Will I go see these guys again? Yes. Should you go and see them? Yes. That's all I have to say!

Check out the photos below:

Brand New Dead Things

Easy Tide

Strangers With Guns

2022-03-26 Buskers on Grafton Street, Dublin

I took a walk around Dublin today, thought I'd check out the buskers on Grafton Street. There's a fine history of busking in Dublin, acts like Hothouse Flowers , The Frames , Rodrigo y Gabriela , Damien Rice , Paddy Casey , Kodaline and a host of others all cut their teeth on and around Grafton Street. It stands to reason that some of those busking today will be successful in the future! So, who did I get to see today? Well, check out the photos below: Zoe Clarke Allie Sherlock Paul Jenkinson

Bye Bye Spotify...

I ditched Spotify Premium this weekend. Why? Well, I read an interview with Daniel Ek , the CEO of Spotify, and I profoundly disagreed with what he said and his attitude towards musicians in the interview. So I said 'F*ck it', and closed my premium account. I still do have a free account* as many bands choose Spotify to release their music, so I'll keep it for that reason. What now though? Well, I'd created a large library of music on my home server over the last 20 years or so. Every time I bought a CD, it got ripped to the server. Every time I bought digital music from Bandcamp , Google or 7 Digital , they too got stored on the server, and that was fine for home use, it worked well. But now I'd dumped Spotify, what could I do, how could I access my music outside the house? I'd played around with software called Plex a few years back, but had no use for it. I ended up doing nothing with Plex, but for this project, I decided to revisit it. I knew that i

Interview with King Kong Company

Originally published 10/09/2013 on Chunk.ie So, there I was, wandering around the Electric Picnic wondering who I was going to watch next. One of the lads said he had heard good things about King Kong Company and that we should check them out, so off we headed to the Body and Soul Arena to do just that. As I mentioned in my review of the Electric Picnic, the gig was epic. I figured we just had to interview them here on CHUNK.ie, and here it is! First things first, congratulations on a storming gig at the Electric Picnic. It completely blew me away. Was this your first Picnic experience? We’ve been to many Electric Picnics over the years but just as punters, and it’s always been a great festival, so it was a fantastic experience to play at its 10 year anniversary. King Kong Company is a rather interesting name for a band, where or how did you come up with it? The name is taken from the film Taxi Driver. If you look closely, Travis Bickle is wearing a badge which says King

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