Posted:Monday 30th March 09

Trinity Rooms Limerick this March

It's an action packed month of March at Trinity Rooms with everything form the sublime deep house of Fishgodeep to the Grammy nominated electro of Hot Chip and smooth rhyming of Rob Kelly. Here is a just a brief outline of some of their special guests in addition to their 7 night a week Club Action and press on the first 2 shows.

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Posted:Saturday 28th March 09

Fresh Film Festival | Storm Cinema & Belltabl...

A breath of Fresh air… It’s been twelve years since the first Fresh Film Festival quietly escaped into a late Limerick spring. Then, it was an analogue world, films were crash edited and featured oh so simple special effects. In 1997, there were only twenty entries sent to the Festival’s crown jewel, the then titled ‘The Irish Sch [...]

Posted:Friday 27th March 09

The Release Party live presents Jurassic 5’s Aki...

Friday March 27, Belltable Arts Centre Jurassic 5 were one of the most important and, more importantly, best hip-hop acts of the nineties through to last year when they went their separate ways. One of the founding members is hard on the road though, belting out both solo work and J5 classics. Step up Akil the MC….. Although only [...]

Posted:Friday 27th March 09

WFMU live broadcast from Limerick with Billy Jam |...

On Friday 27th of March, the critically acclaimed New York-based radio station WFMU will hold a live remote broadcast from Limerick city. The hiphop show Put The Needle On The Record, hosted by the legendary Billy Jam, will transmit live from Viva Music Studios at 46 O'Connell St between 8pm and 11pm.

Following the success o [...]

Posted:Saturday 21st March 09

Halfset with Adrian Crowley | Belltable, 36 Cecil ...

(half)set - up Sarah talks to Steve Shannon about the gentle rise and rise of Halfset before they bring their original sound to Limerick Halfset. Not exactly a household name. You won’t find them at the top of the charts but this Dublin based electro – acoustic quartet are making subtle but signficant waves with their second album, ‘ [...]

Posted:Friday 20th March 09

Johnny Duhan | Belltable, 36 Cecil Street | Thursd...

To the Light Johnny Duhan returns to his hometown this month and I caught up with him to talk about the art of songwriting and this show, ‘To the Light’ which is an extension of his autobiography of the same name published last year. “ I wrote another book called, ‘There is a Time’ but I realised compared to song writing, writing a [...]

Posted:Wednesday 18th March 09

Belltable Sessions with Tadhg Cooke, Odi, Ms Paula...

In Session The final Belltable Sessions of the current season is a fantastic finale to   a great series | LEG tunes up A line up of  four Irish artists who are well worth checking out individually and collectively make up an unmissable night of acoustic and unplugged performances. If you like your music, with guitars and voices in soul, [...]

Posted:Monday 16th March 09

Funkshun present Keb Darge | The Underground | Mon...

Northern Soul PC talks to legendary funk and soul dj Keb Darge before his slot at Funkshun this month Keb Darge has just farted, not the most pleasant way to begin an interview but the conversation that follows is far from uncouth. Darge, originally from Scotland is a pioneer dj’s in the genres of Northern Soul and Deep Funk music. Darge [...]

Posted:Friday 13th March 09

Dj Adam Whittaker | Wicked Chicken | Thursday Marc...

Unusual and Electric   DJ Adam Whittaker discusses his creative take on vinyl digging and   djing before his return to Limerick | Words & Image Paul Tarpey If you found yourself studying Graphic design in St Martin’s College London in the 90’s there was a good chance you would give the city a good lash of the weekend, filling y [...]

Posted:Friday 13th March 09

DJ Andy Votel | Shannon Rowing Club | Friday March...

What record? / which record ? / when? John Lillis challenges Andy Votel to pick the perfect tune for a rake of random scenarios | Read on Originally, this was supposed to be a straight-up interview.  I'd ask vintage vinyl aficiando Andy Votel all about his upcoming DJ set in Limerick, what it’s like to run three record labels simultaneo [...]