2021-09-22 JyellowL - St. Davids Church, Naas

So there I was, way back in April, sitting outside with my folks, talking, having a bite to eat, when my phone buzzes to tell me there's someone at the my front door.

I check the feed and I think to myself 'he looks bloody familiar...' A few moments later and my phone buzzes again, this time it's the same guy, but with a package in his hands. That's when it clicked, it was JyellowL hand delivering his album 2020 DIvision and I wasn't there! It is, by the way, a great album and you should definitely check it out!

Due to COVID Restrictions, I thought the chance of seeing him perform this year would be slim to none, but, as luck would have it, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media funded a series of gigs around Kildare and JyellowL was lined up to play Saint Davids Church in Naas. The only issue was that tickets were done by lottery and I wasn't assured of one!

Roll on Monday and I got an email to say 'congratulations, you won a ticket'. Happy days! I fired off my RSVP, and I asked if I could shoot the gig, to which I got a positive reply.

So, on to the gig. How good was it? It was great. The guy is a natural performer, the crowd loved him and he had the material to back it up! The crowd was limited unfortunately, but as we all know, that's down to COVID Restrictions. I think he'd have no problem selling the place out if tickets were on general release. There's so much great hip hop coming out of Ireland at the moment and JyellowL is definitely worth keeping an eye on!

As always, the sound in Saint Davids was excellent and, honestly, it's really getting a nice Other Voices feel to it. Hopefully, once everything reopens to capacity, we'll see plenty more quality gigs in St. Davids. Oh and thanks to Davis Virtual Events Agency for the ticket!!

Anyway, on to the photos!

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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