The Foo Fighters play Marlay Park this August 22nd - don’t go to them! Instead, why not go to Cannibal! The Musical’s Irish premiere with The Devious Theatre Company which opens on the same night. From the creators of South Park! You have to love it!
But, if you do go - the tickets are on […]

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A bit of proper news for you here, away from the usual gigs/bands/music stuff… If you’re in Kilkenny, or anywhere in the world for that matter, and you’re a guitar enthusiast - be it a collector, player, admirer, tutor or other - then dbTwang could be right up your street. The following article was originally […]

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This video is so hot off the press it hasn’t even hit the band’s own website. Kilkenny indie-rockers Saving J are readying the release of their debut single, ‘Bus Stop’ for April 20th. We’ve been given a sneak preview of the single, along with the b-side ‘Mixed Up World’ here at KKM and its good […]

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We’re at that time of year again, Lord Of The Drums, the fourth annual drumfest hits Kilkenny on April 29th in the Zoo Club for the day. Organisers as always are great friends of KilkennyMusic.com, Essaness Music, and they’re looking for entries and suggestions. Last year was a serious day - feckin best weather Kilkenny […]

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A musical treat for lovers of the fine art, Nearly Dead Jim are rolling back to their hometown this weekend (yeah lads, its still your hometown despite living and working and gigging in Dublin). Actually, thats something that gets to me - why are Kerbdog and Wilt often referred to as a Dublin band?
Anyway… Nearly […]

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Another podcast milestone for us here at KKM - as well as just releasing show #10, we’ve also managed to break the 2,000 podcasts barrier (downloads across the shows). Small figures to some maybe but massive figures to us. Maybe in a year’s time we can all sit back, have a few cobras and laugh […]

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Myself (Ken) and Daw on the mic for the latest Sound System Podcast which includes highlights of last week’s One Take Sessions along with an unusual amount of banter between the two of us.
Regular listeners to the One Take specials will know that Daw hasn’t featured and is instead busy engineering away in the corner, […]

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Its the end of the road for the 2006 Battle Of The Bands winners Scuba Dice in their quest to win RTE’s You’re A Star, the lads having been voted off last night by the public, leaving Maeve O’Donovan, the Wexford guy that did the Abba song and Dublin’s 21 Demands as the final three […]

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Back in the land of Kilkenny after the weekend and getting set for another Sound System Podcast tonight (numero ten). Might see about throwing some of the clips from the Irish Blog Awards in there but we’ll be looking at the One Take Sessions from last Thursday night. If there’s anything you want to ask […]

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The One Take Sessions are over and done with for March 8th. We had our first night with real technical difficulties (you’ve got to come across it at some stage) that lead to a 15 minute delay to the start and one of the acts re-starting a song twice as they couldn’t hear the monitor […]

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