This week’s podcast is live, and has been since Wednesday but then I forgot to advertise the fact or throw it into the player on the homepage. Don’t forget that you can also check the Sound System Podcast site every week for direct links.
Anyway, we’ve music this week from Karen Hegarty (Waterford), Stoned Developments (Carlow), […]

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Friday wouldn’t be Friday without a cheesy video… so here’s the original one for ‘Sit Down’ from James.
Enjoy the weekend…

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He did three sold-out shows in Dublin last November and next May looks like it’s going to be the same. I’m off to see him on the Friday night, anyone else going?
Here’s some Bruce Springsteen for your video of the day with a live recording of ‘Radio Nowhere’ filmed live at the ‘Today Show’

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Dolly Parton - believe it or not - looks like she’ll be headlining the 2008 Source festival.
The festival, which has seen the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Shania Twain hit Kilkenny over the past few years, was postponed for 2007 sparking fears that organisers would move the event to elsewhere in the country.
Whatever […]

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This Saturday, Dave Browne arrives in Cleere’s for his second Kilkenny performance of the year. This weekend’s gig coincides with the release of ‘Prelude’, a live EP preceding the release of ‘Windows To The Soul’ which hits shops in Ireland in February 2008.
One of Ireland’s most respected musicians, Dave Browne up to this point is […]

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We got a bit nostalgic, so to speak, on a discussion on film titles over the weekend with a lot of older movies popping up, all the Batman titles coming into play. On the back of that, here’s U2’s ‘Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me’ video for you.

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We’re recording (as usual) tomorrow night for Sound System #34. As always, if you’ve got music to play, gigs you want announced (wherever you are in the country) or announcements to make then leave a comment here or email podcast@kilkennymusic.com.
You can also fill out the contact form here.

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We’ve been in hiding the last few days - or at least from an online point of view.
Friday we tried catching up with a few gigs around Kilkenny (missed Acrojunk - sorry lads); Saturday saw us taking off to Wicklow where we caught up with a bunch of great people including some record label types, […]

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Don’t come back to me after the weekend saying there was no music on or you couldn’t find a gig. Tonight alone sees seven acts in three different venues with us trying to catch all seven (lets see how that goes!).
Up first we’ve got Acrojunk (Waterford) and Deaf Animal Orchestra who’ll be rocking out good […]

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Hip, hip, so hip to be… a video on cheesy Friday. The bould Huey Lewis with all his 80s goodness. Don’t be afraid to turn it up and freak out at your desk for all 3 minutes and 49 seconds of it’s fantasticness (is that even a word?).
Hell it even has a sax solo!!
Enjoy it…

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