Category: young ireland

March 17, 2008 / hugger / indie

Good As Drink Is, It Always Ends In Thirst

Given its status and its undoubted potential to lift a band’s profile far beyond their…

September 28, 2007 / hugger / young ireland

An occasional series that attempts to apply the auld el kabong to the Irish man…

January 23, 2007 / hugger / indie rock

It all started in Galway so it seems sorta appropriate that SuperJimenez should find their…

January 21, 2007 / hugger / indie rock

I’m not one for blathering on about the same band. Perhaps it’s just my ADD-like…

January 19, 2007 / hugger / indie pop

This is the same Cathy Davey mentioned in the Autamata post of a couple of…

January 18, 2007 / hugger / electronica

If ever a tune deserved to back some trendy advertising campaigns it’s Autamata’s ‘Jive County’.…

January 1, 2007 / hugger / indie pop

How about this for confusion. Belfast artist Duke Special presents ‘Freewheel’ as his contribution to…

December 17, 2006 / hugger / indie pop

You’d have thought it might have been Broken Social Scene, Peter Bjorn & John or…

December 16, 2006 / hugger / post rock

Do you need a degree in maths to ascertain how good post-rock is these days?…

December 14, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

It must be fun being in a band with Ruaidhri Owens, Damian Smith and Patrick…

December 5, 2006 / hugger / indie rock

Making Campbell’s condensed a seriously hot prospect is one thing but to do so while…

November 24, 2006 / hugger / indie pop

My Brother Woody is the work of a one man band called Michael Cleare and…