#ireland music

[blackmarket-playlists]

NEW INDIE ROCK FROM IRELAND - brand new playlist on Spotify! Songs from 2024 only!

🔥Playlistcover: QUEEN BITCH (Dublin)

Feat. incredibly great songs by, a.o. • WIFESWAP (Dublin)  • GREEN GURL (Dublin)  • MARTINA & THE MOONS (Dublin)  • STOP THROWING LEMONS (Galway)  • CHERYM (Derry)  • TEN HAIL MARYS (Dublin) 

and many more! 68 great songs/ bands to discover (as of today) - an absolutely stunning indie scene.

Give it a spin and like it!

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Saying this as an Irish person since the new Hozier album just came out and there are lyrics in Irish; it’s Irish or Gaeilge (pronounced “gwhale-ga” or “gale-ga” depending on region), not Gaelic or Celtic or any other name people come up with.

It’s just a normal language that people speak in their everyday life. We learn it in school in the republic. People like myself are bilingual in Irish and English. It’s not a “fairy aesthetic cottage core leprechaun” language.

Please respect it. Our language is a touchy subject seen as how England tried to erase it by forcing English on us and severely punishing those who spoke Irish.

At the same time that does NOT mean it is a dead language. Our (in the republic) road and safety signs are in both Irish and English, same with legal documents. Our politicians speak it, and we are trying to preserve the language!

Anyways enjoy the album!

[mysharona1987]

[semioticapocalypse]

Anonymous. A young woman playing a harp to a large crowd. Rock of Cashel, Ireland. C. 1910

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[mikkeneko]

If we're all pretty much on board by now with "media consumption is not activism," are we ready to move on yet to the necessary corollary of "failure to consume media is not failure of activism?"

[aeolianblues]

Home is a pin rusting through a map...

FONTAINES D.C. - Big Shot (Glastonbury festival, 2024)

One of my favourite lines from Big Shot. Here's Grian singing it during Fontaines' headline set on the Park Stage at Glasto 2024. Figured it was also a decent shot, the pensive mood, Grian's tricolour band he sets up on his mic at every show the band play now, the beauty of all that in context of the line he's singing. And of course, for Grian in the eyeliner; I am a people pleaser at heart. I've been meaning to gif that moment since June.

[Note: Tumblr killed the quality so click it n be a bit patient if you want to see the proper gif :/]

[irishthings]

Yeah babe I'm OK just reading the lineup for oxegen 2010

LOOK WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

Chewing my arm off over Dónal Finn getting to keep his irish accent in Hadestown because I never heard an Irish accent in a musical before. He sounds like my grandad!! Like my friends!! He gets to be onstage and sound beautiful and keep his fucking accent!!!!!

[circuitmouse]

Fiachra Ó Corragáin

[fangomusic]

Postal Stamps

ABBA, The Tragically Hip, The Beatles, Buddy Holly, Marvin Gaye, U2, Leonard Cohen, k.d. Lang, and Leadbelly.

[bulboat]

Dude, I've been listening to Doomsday Blue, Europapa, The Code, and Rim Tim Tagi Dim on loop. Also, more of their songs as well. I think I really love the Fryslân Bop, that's a jam.

[haveyouheardthisband]

[mysharona1987]

[somnas-writes]

If Shanks was a musician, he would be the type of musician who drops the most earth shattering song once every five years then goes back to doing random side quests

[whore-zier]

i was going to make this my new user but it was TAKEN by a DEAD BLOG kms

edit: God bless the commenter who suggested whore-zier. username origin created.

[aeolianblues]

Not an easy feat to be in a band with five people, for each to have a distinct personality that adds to the sound and that isn't in the background.

Fontaines comfortably go and do interviews with one member on behalf of the band, and they actually all come across as thoughtful, motivated individuals with musical ideas and direction, you get the sense that every member of this band contributes thematically to the music on the album and it isn't simply about writing guitar riffs and leaving the meaning of the album to Grian to sort out. And that's why any of them can go onto a serious podcast or Radio 1, and talk all about what lies at the heart of a particular piece of work Fontaines have done.

Some songs will come from other members of the band fully. Carlos can talk about Big Shot because he wrote it. Grian can talk about it because he interpreted Carlos' writing, and because he's a good friend of his and has an inkling of what he's thinking about (Rolling Stone interview, Skinty Fia track by track, just before the album dropped). Carlos talking about Horseness and his baby daughter. Curley talking about Sundowner and the shoegazy inspirations, and the guide vocals he laid down for Grian. Carlos and Curley talking about how they jokingly challenged each other to write 'the ballad one' they'd been threatening to do for years and ended up with You Said (most beautiful song on the planet, I do not take opinions on this). Deego being able to talk about basically any song on the album enough to hold down an hour long songwriting podcast interview. Grian talking about Deego's bass work on In ár gCroíthe go Deo, praising Deego's writing as a bassist and the emotion he drew out of the song by deliberately choosing to play just one note. Carlos' 'vacuum cleaner' guitar sounds. The reason why there are no drums on the bridge of I Love You. Tom giving Skinty Fia the album it's very name, Grian using in the title track to talk about warping/mutated family ties and expectations, and on Roman Holiday to talk about Dublin and Ireland. Damnation of the deer. Corruption of the traditional. Everything is deliberate. There is no dead weight in this band; every part of them is so crucial to them sounding, being and making what they do in this band.

It's in the way we know the others in the band as well, it's not just Grian and 'the other guys' as vague background characters you wouldn't recognise. I do admit there will be casual fans who don't know anyone but Grian, but the minute you want to delve a little deeper, the minute you hear or read even a single interview with this band, you get all these different personalities that shine through.

Perhaps it would've broken another band to have such strong personalities in it. Usually when people talk about 'creative differences', they talk about strong and opinionated personalities clashing. But this band's love and dedication to art as the higher cause than personal ideas and petty squabbles is so evident. Their own friendship too, looking out for each other, having known each other since about 18 or 19 presumably, making sure you're in sync with your friends but also allowing them each the space to contribute something of their own that's not just background accompaniment. I think that makes Fontaines special, and long may it continue.