Category Archives: Music

Every kind of sound imaginable.

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Tom Williams writes:

My mate Phil is doing a 12 hour Busk-athon this Sunday on Grafton Street for Pieta House. Plan is to sing over 180 songs straight with no repeats. If anyone would like to join in and sing or play a song with him or just support everyone is encouraged to come along!

His planned set list is here and his charity page is here.

Listen to Philip discuss his buskathon on Today FM (scroll to 47:30)

Pieta House

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Catherine O’Mahony writes:

Back in 2012 you were kind enough to feature my little sister Ellen and her friend Carla, who were just starting to compose their own songs and put them on YouTube. These days, the girls are 17 and, along with having their EP ‘Floods’ on iTunes, they have composed the theme song for the ‘It’s your Right’ campaign. This is a campaign celebrating children’s rights and commemorating 10 years of the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman in Ireland. The girls recorded the video in their local school with backing vocals from primary school kids and a teenage string section accompanying them.it’s a really gorgeous song with a beautiful meaning behind it. It would be fantastic to share this video around and raise awareness of children’s rights and how important they are.

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Rude boys especially.

Interskalactic at this Summer’s Body & Soul festival.

Rónán O’Neill writes:

“Interskalactic are a 10-piece band performing first wave, old-school, big band Jamaican Ska. We opened up the Main Stage on the Saturday of this year’s Body & Soul, managed to have great craic, get people up and dancing and also get the whole thing recorded in the process! Hope some people get a buzz out of the video. We’ve a pretty busy schedule for the rest of the year too, so if anyone’s digging the tunes they can check out some tracks and our upcoming schedule on Facebook / Twitter / Soundcloud, Cheers!”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsWo8apgLys

The mighty Weird Al Yankovic (and celebrity pals) redo Pharrell’s ‘Happy’ as a skit on poor taste and Robert Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ as a typographic diatribe against bad grammar.

It’s all part of his  #8videosin8days project (a promo for his new album Mandatory Fun) which started on Monday.

For he is Weird Al. And this is what he does.

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