Adoring the Artifice of Paul Quin
Paul Francis Quin has proven himself an approachable enigma. The myriad glamour shots gracing the…
Paul Francis Quin has proven himself an approachable enigma. The myriad glamour shots gracing the…
I have been passionate about music from a very young age. I felt an urge…
Martin Mackie is a singer and music producer from Belfast who has been living in…
Basque rapper Zekan Askalari’s latest track ‘Erantzun’ is directed by Yaser Akbari, an Afghan asylum-seeker from…
Music is a language and languages are musical. My life has always been about that:…
Do you know the feeling of wanting to discover secrets that aren’t being spoken aloud?…
Foreword Sometime in early 2022, in the middle of the fourth or fortieth wave of…
The process of discovering sounds has always been an aspect of music I’ve been connected…
Of New Lands and Turning Points… “You can play! Just take it easy, play slow.…
I felt myself still reliving a past that was no longer anything more than the…
Promoter, venue and band manager, Conal Lee reflects on the experience of musicians over the…
I still don’t know musically where I belong. Being classically trained as a pianist, but…
I sit at the piano and a melody flows smoothly from my mind. I think…
Two months ago, after releasing my new album, Songs & Stories,Vol 1, I asked Irish…
For a number of years now, I’ve been convinced (too fervently, in the opinion of…
I realised that I really like writing through doing this, and that there’s plenty more…
When a respected and much-loved member of the Irish jazz scene suffered a major illness,…
In Blood, Sex and Death, I Found Her Janet is pregnant and alone. Her boyfriend…
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. And that is poetry. As…
I’ve never needed a reason to write a song. There have never been any conscious…