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Rocstrong – Go 'Head
Niall: ‘Interesting...that is the first song ever that we’ve heard from Rocstrong…he’s from Congo and he’s based in Dublin…his band also features members from Angola and Poland. It’s really interesting stuff, it’s got a very different vibe from a lot of the stuff you’ll hear. Bit of doomy blues, bit of funk, bit of pop…’
Rigsy: ‘…it’s great, really, really awesome, loving that. It is, as you say, a little bit different and what a back story’
Kill Krinkle Club – By Choice
Rigsy: ‘They’ve played Sound City, Electric Picnic, CMJ in New York…’
Niall: ‘I think their last album (Oxen of the Sun) is a very good album…they did a really nice series of music videos as well…and that’s really one of the best songs they’ve done so far…’
New Jackson – Satisfaction
Niall: ‘New Jackson has just released a Made It Mine E.P and this song features on it. New Jackson is David Kitt and he’s been doing so well in the last while and I think it’s really nice when you play Irish Music and to see it get international recognition…and David has certainly done this with New Jackson’.
Foreign Affairs – Stay
Rigsy: ‘Matthew, Ethan, Ben and Martin from Armagh…a lot of potential for a young band on their first release’.
Planet Parade –
Niall: ‘Planet Parade were originally around in 2009, 2010 or so, they are a Kildare duo…the first E.P’s that they had out were a bit more straight-forward indie-rock, nice stuff all the same and very melodic. They had a couple of songs that sounded a bit like The Police and this is obviously very, very different to that’.
Rigsy: ‘It’s that kind of 100BPM that I absolutely love…’
Solar Bears – Interzone
Niall: ‘Solar Bears are one of my favourite Irish bands of the last few years. They make this kind of music, it’s very dreamy, cinema-scape, it’s very ambient, Boards of Canada style…they’re a really great band and really in the last year or two they’ve become a really good live band as well…this is a taster for their third album so it’ll be exciting to see how this translates’.
John Deery & The Heads – Let Go
Rigsy: ‘…Formed in 2010, recorded a debut album Smokes and Mirrors in France, second record Horizon came out two years later…they played Other Voices last month…and I saw them at Glasgowbury, but this is probably my favourite thing of theirs to date. The beauty for me is in the simplicity, less is often much more’.
Niall: ‘I like it, I think it’s quite nice, it has an early Villagers vibe to it…I’m disappointed I didn’t get to see them when I was in Derry’
