Criticism
CD Reviews: Patrick Street
On the FlyLoftus Music LM002‘On the fly’ usually denotes hurriedness, a quick-fix in a situation where time is limited. However, this On the Fly does not betray anything of moves made in-flight or constrained by time. On this, the eighth studio...
CD Review: Zoid vs. the Jazz Musicians of Ireland
Zoid vs. the Jazz Musicians of Ireland / Diatribe Recordings DIACD001 
Live Reviews: Marie Keyrouz and her Vocal Ensemble of Peace
St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick
15 November 2007.
Live Reviews: Eliza Carthy
Spiegeltent, Queen’s University, Belfast21 October 2007The woman who was going to drag English folk music into the twenty-first century was at the Belfast Festival at Queen’s in Autumn, but watching the middle-aged and middle-class – that...
Live Reviews: Cork Jazz Festival
Various venues, Cork / 26-29 October 2007
Live Reviews: DEAF
Various venues, Dublin25-29 October 2007Confucius said: ‘Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.’ After last year’s focus on Ireland, this year’s Dublin Electronic Arts Festival turned its gaze eastwards, its theme being...
Live Reviews: Remembering Ligeti Festival
Liberty Hall Theatre/NCH, Dublin9-11 November 2007György Ligeti was still alive when Benjamin Dwyer had the idea of dedicating a festival to his work; Ligeti had been dead for over a year when the idea eventually came to fruition. It was, however, very...
Live Reviews: The Necks / Paul G. Smyth
Daghdha Space, Limerick3 November 2007Chris Abrahams’ hands rest silently on the piano keys, hesitate, reconsider, retreat. A second attempt to begin reveals a single tone, repeated with a silver care, racing ahead and pulling back. Drummer Tony...