January 2012
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Jan 16th
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Folie à Deux (with Sarah): First Fortnight... →
First Fortnight “Therapy Sessions” The Workman’s Club January 6th The “Therapy Sessions”. Apt name, given the propensity of the Irish psyche that insists that no person is to move more than halfway up the room during a gig. Its a weird one, and a trait that was alive and well in the…
Jan 10th
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Spies Seasonal Soirée - In Review
~Spies Seasonal Soiree~ Spies / Squarehead / Girl Band Walking into the Grand Social last wednesday night for the “Spies Seasonal Soiree” felt something more like walking into that scene from “Total Recall”, you know, the bit on Mars where they turn off the oxygen and everyone looks like they’re melting? It was ROASTING in the packed out upper room of the venue...
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Folie à Deux - *15 (Christmas Special)
Folie à Deux (with Sarah) … as heard on Rascalradio.net (95fm Galway) Featuring Irish and International Indie acts including We Cut Corners, Sleep Thieves, Ghost Estates, Jon Dots, Kid Karate, The Looks, KaraKara, Funeral Suits, SUUNS, StarFucker, Fenech Soler, Los Campesinos, Childish Gambino & Austra.
Dec 27th
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Folie à Deux - *14
Folie à Deux (with Sarah) … as heard on Rascalradio.net (95fm Galway) Featuring Irish and International Indie acts including The Ambience Affair, Why?, Dntel, The Postal Service, Friendly Fires, SUUNS, The Black Keys, Tokyo Police Club, The Horrors, Clint Mansell, The Violet Roadkills, Bloc Party , M83 & Childish Gambino. (click image for link to this weeks podcast on Official FM)
Dec 17th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
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Nov 26th
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Folie à Deux - *12 (MOVEMBER Special)
Folie à Deux (with Sarah) … as heard on Rascalradio.net (95fm Galway) Featuring Irish and International Indie acts includingThe XX, Go Panda Go/Lost Chord feat. Laurie Leech, Tokyo Police Club, designer Drugs, Young Kodiaks, Gauntlet Hair, Two Door Cinema Club, Kara Kara, Jon Dots Mojo Gogo, Le Galaxie, The Minutes and Kid Karate. (click image for link to Podcast of the show)
Nov 24th
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Nov 20th
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Folie à Deux - *11
Folie à Deux (with Sarah) … as heard on Rascalradio.net (95fm Galway) Featuring Irish and International Indie acts including Strange Talk, Stars, The Naked and Famous, Little X’s for Eyes, Muscles, Deadmau5, Sound Remedy, Wolfgang Gartner, Sleep Thieves, SUUNS and Not Squares. (click link to podcast of the show on Official FM)
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Nov 14th
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Yet - We Cut Corners
you turned my pages like a children’s book knocked me over with your dashing looks whispered nothings to make me laugh you had me reaching beyond my grasp but what the use in crying honey ? all you get is wet -  whats the use in crying honey ? it hasnt helped us yet - i wrote a novel to get us through but every paragraph referred to you  i thought the epilouge would never...
Nov 11th
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Folie à Deux - *10
Folie à Deux (with Sarah) … as heard on Rascalradio.net (95fm Galway) Featuring Irish and International Indie acts including The Minutes, Bright Eyes, Blink 182, Crystal Castles, We Cut Corners, The Curtain Thieves, KaraKara, Ladytron, Le Galaxie, Go Panda Go/Lost Chord/Laurie Leech, MaybeSheWill, Dead School, Zombie Computer and Not Squares.
Nov 10th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 8th
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Nov 5th
Folie à Deux - *9
Click image for a link to a  podcast of tonights Folie à Deux (with Sarah) … as heard on Rascalradio.net (95fm Galway) Featuring Irish and International Indie acts including Crystal Castles, Austra, Designer Drugs, Young Kodiaks, Escape Act, Phantogram, The Redneck Manifesto, The Black Keys, MuteMath, MaybeSheWill, NIN, Sleep Thieves and Kid Karate.
Nov 3rd
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in another life, when we are cats
what does that mean, know me? know me? nobody knows anyone else, ever. ( click image for link to *in another life when we are cats* by maybeshewill) stunning.
Nov 3rd
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Nov 2nd
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Nov 2nd
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Nov 1st
Nov 1st
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October 2011
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Oct 31st
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Folie à Deux - *8
(click image for link to a podcast from last nights Folie à Deux Show on Official.Fm) Featuring Irish and International Indie acts including Gold Panda, The Holy Roman Army, Is Tropical, M83, The Ambience Affair, We Cut Corners, The Silversun Pickups, Zombie Computer, KaraKara, The Stone Roses, Austra, The Funeral Suits and Micheal Jackson. BOOM.
Oct 28th
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**sphallolalia** Flirtatious talk that leads...
charientism An artfully veiled insult filipendulous Suspended by a single thread hamartithia Being likely to make a mistake lalochezia The use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain mumpsimus One who sticks obstinately and wrongly to their old ways qualtagh The first person you see after leaving your house quidnunc One who always wants to know what is going on ...
Oct 23rd
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Oct 22nd
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Hard Working Class Heroics - Saturday 8Tracks
hard Working Class Heros - Saturday line up featuring The Danger Is, Last Days of 1984, Ghost Estates, The Gorgeous Colours, Luasa, Datadrip, The Violet Roadkills, Bantum, Kid karate, The Holy Roman Army, The Looks and Civil Civic … (click image for link to 8Tracks) 
Oct 17th
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folie à deux
Folie à deux : (English pronunciation: /fɒˈli ə ˈduː/, from the French for “a madness shared by two” or shared psychosis (click image for podcast of last nights show Featuring Le Galaxie, Kid Karate, The Naked and Famous, The Polyphonic Spree, The Ambience Affair, Starfuckers and The Minutes )
Oct 14th
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Oct 12th
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Hard Working Class Heroics - Saturday
saturday HWCH 2011 in review *ghost estates* another of my festival highlights, ghost estates is a band that put on a DAMN good showing, every time, without fail. thumping bass lines and melodic guitar riffs fuse powerfully alongside electronic synth interludes, and all pervasive drums, building songs into seriously intense scenarios. the fivesome (sometime sixsome on the night, with the...
Oct 11th
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Hard Working Class Heroics - Friday
friday of HWCH 2011 in review *toby kaar* an atmospheric and energetic one man show, toby kaar fills the stage in a way that one man truly should not be able to do. his songs are filled with a sort of summer laden, quirky noise infused quality that gives new vigor to his remixes and a unique quality to his own stylings. whilst the crowd was slightly slow to requite (the night after the night...
Oct 11th
Hard Working Class Heroics
thursday of HWCH 2011 in review. *sounds of system breakdown* a rollicking show that, aesthetically, had a somewhat 90’s grunge feel, despite the band’s dance music billing. high energy gesticulations and head-banging to the electro-feuled beats made for a fantastically entertaining experience, save for their early billing which meant that the crowd was possibly not quite ready to...
Oct 10th
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Oct 9th
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GYMNOPHORIA : The sensation that someone is...
aeolist : A pompous windy bore who pretends to have inspiration apodyopsis : The act of mentally undressing someone autolatry : The worship of one’s self bletcherous : Pertaining to something poorly or disgustingly designed cacoethes : A bad habit or insatiable urge cagamosis : An unhappy marriage concilliabule : A secret meeting of people who are...
Oct 5th
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September 2011
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Sep 29th
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Sep 28th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 26th
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Sep 26th