On 15 January 2018, the public were shocked to learn of the passing of Dolores O’Riordan at the untimely age of 46. The Limerick-born singer shot to fame in the 1990s with her Limerick rock quartet, The Cranberries, who sold … Continue reading Music For… Celebrating Dolores O’Riordan
Arguably the epitome of the bubblegum-pop days of the mid-to-late noughties sound is the fun, happy-go-lucky English pop-rock band Scouting for Girls. Remarkably, their self-titled debut is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. To celebrate, the trio has come out … Continue reading Ten Add Ten: The Very Best of Scouting for Girls A vault of pop nostalgia worth investigating?
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” W.B Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’ In late 2015, one of the cornerstones of teenybop culture collapsed, scattering its debris across the global pop stratosphere. This, my … Continue reading Five Directions the boys are… not back in town