Music review archives
The Art of Stagecraft: Improve Live Performance and Deal With Stage Nerves
The Art of Stagecraft: Improve Live Performance and Deal With Stage Nerves Over the past 4 years I’ve performed over 600 shows with The Dublin City Rounders; festivals, big venues, restaurants, weddings, presidents and ambassadors’ houses, live radio, TV, on top of trams, on the street, house parties, airports, pubs, clubs and society meetings. Before […]
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How to make a living playing your own music live
How To Make a Living Playing You Own Music Live – Part 1: Getting all up in Their Faces In the first of a series of posts, Rohan Healy gives some pointers on how to make a living playing your own music live. Hi there, my name is Rohan Healy. Over the past 3 years […]
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Lofty Reviews: Slow Riot and Fonda Live
Slow Riot and Fonda Live at the Kasbah Social Club Limerick Saturday night in Dolan’s Kasbah Social Club and it’s time for some deep, dark, moody music courtesy of a couple of local bands on the rise – Fonda and Slow Riot. Up first it’s Fonda, who since I saw them last have changed their bass […]
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Lofty Reports: Bleeding Heart Pigeons live in Dolan’s, Limerick
Lofty Reviews Bleeding Heart Pigeons live in Dolan’s, Limerick Friday March 11th was a watershed moment for a band whose development I have been closely following for over four years. It marked the very first headline performance of Bleeding Heart Pigeons; or as front man Mícheál Keating wryly put it on the night it was the […]
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Music, depression and reaching the top
This is a bit more of a personal post than what would usually go on this blog, but today I feel like I need to speak from the heart. Last night I ran my first ever gig. Named “The Top Floor Presents”, it took place in The Loft in Foley’s Bar and was an accumulation […]
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The Top Floor Presents an intimate night of top music
An acoustic unplugged night of music in Dublin City Centre Launching tonight, Monday 07 December, The Top Floor Presents is an initiative by Ceol Caint and pals Synchro Promotions as a way to bring together top Irish talent in an intimate setting. It is the ideal opportunity for artists and fans to connect in an […]
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Lofty Reports: The Waterboys – Live at The Big Top, Limerick
The Waterboys live in Limerick Last year The Waterboys came to the the City of Culture to celebrate the 20th birthday of a Limerick entertainment institution – Dolan’s. The wonderful people behind that mecca of music had such a good time they decided to have The Waterboys back to The Big Top at the Milk […]
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Review: Little Green Cars in Dolan’s Limerick
Lofty Sounds Reports on Little Green Cars Live in Dolan’s Limerick Last Saturday I had the pleasure of getting to see two bands that I have been playing on the radio since their early demo releases; Virgin Records label mates Little Green Cars & Bleeding Heart Pigeons. As it happens I also saw both bands […]
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