WELCOME TO... FOR 2009

STEPHEN BACON

PLAYTONE

THE MAJORITY

LIFEHOUSE

BRITTANY SHANE

JOSHUA JAMES

COUNTING CROWS

CYCLEFLY//MAKO

BLACK DAISY

CAROL DECKER/TPAU

LAURA WARICK

STEVE COONEY //LIAM O'MOANLAI

TARA COMPILATION 

OZRIC TENTACLES.

 AMY MACDONALD.

AMY MAY.

CHRIS WICKLAND and

  Metamorphic.

 SINEAD O'CONNOR.

 HORSLIPS and

  CHARLES O'CONNOR.

THE FRAMES with Glen

  Hansard and Marketa Irglova's SWELL SEASON.

BILL COLEMAN

CATHY DAVEY

KILL CITY DEFECTORS

THE FLAWS

GARY DUNNE

HOPE IS NOISE

ARMOURED BEAR

BILLY THORPE AND THE AZTECS

  JO AND THE FLOOD

aka...Jo Greenwood and.... GED FLOOD

  ROBYN

  ALAN O'ROURKE DEAF ANIMAL ORCHESTRA

 THE SILVERSUN PICKUPS

PRIMROSE

  LERNER

  KOPEK

  CHARLIE DON'T SURF

  STUBB

  RUS TURNER

 DEE

  DELSON DRIVE

  THE DRAYMIN

  THE ALMOST

AMIR BADAMCHI and Mirage Town

  THE GENIE

  IGOR FALEK

CHEQUERBOARD

PHOENIX WILLIAMS

METISSE/SKULLY

AUTAMATA

PART TIME HEROES

THE CASSINI DIVIDE

 JOHN KEENAN

JULIE FOWLIS

LISA HANNIGAN

AORTAL

ESTEL

THE UPGRADES

PAT MCMANUS/ HIGH VOLTAGE

LITTLE NIGHTMARE

GORBACHOV

THE BEAUTIFULL BODIES

YEAR ZERO

QUIET PILOT/JEZERY/ELK

CHANNEL ONE

JILTED

MOSES MALONE

MEGASOUL CONNECTOR

KILL THE DRAMA

 dRIVE

NEEV

THE ANSWER

WOKAJO

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN

HAM SANDWICH

THE FORES

DICKEN , BURNT OAK AND THE ORIGINAL MR BIG

THE SCENERY

GARY O'BRIEN

MIRACLE BELL

SWELL SEASON HIP HOP

LiR LIVE

ODi

LE GALLAXIE

GOLDFISH SYNDROME

AND SO I WATCH YOU

  FROM AFAR....

O EMPORER

THE JUNIOR PANTHERZ

VIOLENT KIN

ANN SCOTT

SUBPLOTS

PANDA KOPANDA

IDENTITY PARADE

COWBOY X

TOY SOLDIER/ CIAN

JORDAN COOK

WIDE MOUTH MASON

IN-FLIGHT SAFETY

EMM GRYNER

DANIEL VICTOR aka

  THE NEVERENDING WHITE LIGHTS

VIVID SKY

SAINT MOTEL

THE TRANSFER

TIGERS CAN BITE YOU

SHOALIN TEMPLE OF

BOOM

 For a tiny taster of some of the top class singers, songwriters, musicians and bands featured on The' 22 ' ...How about a moral lesson on dictatorships by Clearlight Productions new video for SAINT MOTELS 'Dear Dictator' (...pacemakers and Trotsky should look away)...

Sadly, the creative genius and Pink Floyd Keyboard/ organist Richard Wright passed away on Monday 15th September.It will be no surprise that Pink Floyd were due their own 'Rock Cornerstone' page for UK Cornerstones but instead we will for now suggest that people support Richards family and friends by buying his last recordings with David Gilmour due for release on September 22nd. One of the best has gone from us, but while he's gigging in the sky we can still remember,listen, watch and enjoy him playing alongside his lifelong friend and collegue...here...

...For Debuts and new albums from PANDA KOPANDA and SUBPLOTS.. Plus more debuts from Identity Parade, Toy Soldier/Cian and the special dance rock of Cowboy X , the amazing ANNE SCOTTanne scott..check this little star...

 Or..More amazing debut albums for 2009 all due for imminent release by ODi, LE GALAXIE, AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR , O EMPORER and GOLDFISH SYNDROME !...

 Or how about the secret heroes of the music? - sound engineers and producers mixing the best in the world such as the UK's STUART EPPS or Canada's DAVE THOMPSON ...

Plus Trouble With A Capitol T for members of 10CC,REPUBLIC OF LOOSE, KILLA, THE BLIZZARDS and Irelands ORIGINAL ROCK CORNERSTONE...

For even more 'Trouble' and 'Dearg Dooms' with an Irish makeover by the musical arm of METTISSE aka Cork's SKULLY click the image for the his musical empire and an all year round Valentines Day Fudge Mix...Or a QUIET PILOT on the star

  Lets face it, if you've listened to the classic guitar solo on Rus Turners 'Breaking The Silence' then you are probably in the grip of an overwhelming urge to buy a Fender Stratocaster ! Search our Shop for the best places to order Bass guitars, Drums, Keyboards, music, art or childrens books, games, playstations, iPods, mobile phones, cameras, er....almost anything...all from established high street stores.

 

Or even ... Rock Cornerstone of Eighties hard rock, light rock and Metal..? Still creating great new music after over 35 years of tearing through frett boards....

...or try a lucky dip with the stars below..OR further down for NEWS...

  NEWS AND URGENT UPDATES...

 9/6/09 Special Double A sided single release by The Deaf Animal Orchestra and Shane Barry And The Distractions.....

TUT TUT! Our editors been at it again! This time he's been spreading the word on our 2006/07 Originality Award Winners new shared single release by writing the following to various 'other' music sites and magazines first..tut tut tut!

  Shane Barry and The Distractions/ Deaf Animal Orchestra AA single release

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Two of Waterfords best Indie bands have come together to release a double A sided single release worth it's weight in Gold. The Deaf Animal Orchestra and Shane Barry And The Distractions may seem very different in musical style and image ...but the new double A release has found a perfect pairing in the songs called 'No Wit Can Save Me Now' and 'A Man Called Gerald'.

  The Deaf Animals 'No Wit Can Save Me Now' is yet another in a long line of lyrical classics that weave through a miriad of softly sung and almost spoken words - like a Shakespearean soliliquay of love for the 21st century ..and with all their other previous ep and single releases being heavily laced with intense drama, thrills and the occaisional deadly dose of venom, songs by these 'animals' often play out with more drama than Macbeth,Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet combined.

  Musicaly, they are a band that critics would find hard to pin a genre to and as 'No Wit' proves ,they can expertly glide in and out of any genre they so choose at the drop of a hat. Stormy and classic indie,metal, pop and rock is sailed through at ease by these expert musical mariners and 'No Wit' ticks off yet another genre by easing it's way through an almost 50's Everly Brothers style and yet somehow utterly surpasses it completely . Now I hate most slushy 50's styled music with a passion and personaly, always found the 50's pop scene to be fake and contrived - but the combination of searching lyrics to expose the desires and weaknesses of a certain four letter word that most struggle over with a beautifull and surprisingly gentle melody must surely ammount to a 'must have' classic worthy of a number one anywhere in it's own right.

 So add Shane Barry and The Distractions 'A Man Called Gerald' into the equasion and you're now looking at a 'double number one'.

  The Distractions and Shane are another band of very highly skilled musicians and deliver an incredibly tight sound which could almost be compared to Dexy's Midnight Runners amid a head on collision with Ian Dury's 'Blockheads', The Commitments (-without the in-fighting and the girls-)and The Blues Brother's tailor and band. An already upbeat tune spliced through with an 'East-end style on the ole Joanna', is punched up even higher through the roof by some excellent,intricate, rythum and lead guitar, only to be sent even further on into orbit above the Diese with some rocket powered bursts of what must be the nations tightest brass section.

Barry's dualisticly serious yet (on the video at least-)somehow almost comic delivery style gives the track that little tweak of curious mirth to seep into the pores and tickle the hearts 'curious for more strings' with ease...and even the slightest of searches throughout their MySpace will, just as with the Deaf Animals', reveal an enormous wealth of musical riches that defy traditional 'genre' and 'image' placement by transcending all the cliches through an incredibly gifted catologue of sound.

  The special Vinyl release only for this double A collaboration is June 12th 09...so if you don't have a record player with stereo compatable stylus heads anymore then this single will be a perfect excuse to go out and buy one and see the difference it makes. Classic cover photography by Al Higgins adorns the new single released through Irelands Primate Records with more reasons to buy it found through the sound and video samples of both bands MySpace pages....

www.myspace.com/deafanimalorchestra

  and

www.myspace.com/shanebarryofficial

 20/5/09 IMPORTANT 'FORES' UPDATE added to Supergroups2.2 page ...help send the NEW LINE UP on their way to Spain to share the stage with The Killers and Oasis via the new band competition at Supajam ..... click the Fores star above -or their triangle in the artist list for the full shocking picture reguarding their song entry to

http://www.supajam.com/story/title/don039t-try-and-fool-me (the song is no longer on Supajams website though it was a seemingly very apt title for their entry!!!!)

Fantastic new album alert!!! 31 March 2009,11:18

Quick hit the Panic Switch! Everyone's swooning at the imminent new album release by the Silversun Pickups due April 14th. Catch them in London UK while you can if you don't want to be an April Fool!

Irish Indie Music Update: 23 Feb 2009, 23:22

 Stop this very special 'road' from closing and instead please help to turn it into a motorway!!!!

  The Irish Indie and underground music scene is probably the most creative and vibrant in the entire world and for the last eleven years the main source of access that the rest of the world had to tap into that source 'physically' has been ROAD RECORDS in Dublin. It's a pricy buisness to run an independant music store in Ireland these days and there have even been times when Road's owners Julie and Dave have gone out of pocket just to support new releases by struggling artists. While the worlds banks are busy turning the ordinary man over in the street and helping to flush their futures away in a cess pit of monitary greed it seems that the resulting lack of cash to spend in the everyday pocket is also sucking Road Records down the pan with it...But Road is a vital link in Irelands musical chain and many of the nations fans and bands just dont think this particular chain should be flushed. They are now putting on a special concert to help save Dave and Julie's treasured link and put a little back into their pockets as a special thankyou for supporting Irelands finest Independants for so long - and so often out of their own pockets and without complaint!

Some treasures should just be saved...there is more on the special gig in Dublins Andrews Lane on 14th March featuring the likes of Jape, The Frames' Colm MacConIomaire and many more at Dave and Julies Myspace at....http://www.myspace.com/roadrecords (direct link now under the Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova Oscar award pic -below right)

  ROAD UPDATE 24/3/09

  Due to the amazing response from musicians and fans alike Road records has had a reprieve from the 'greed' reaper and will continue to trade. Hoooray!!! But please don't forget them and do make sure you check them out when searching for some of the best new indie Irish artists on cd and/or vynyl.

  ...And yes, we do know that Colm couldn't make the gig due to an eye injury that day.

  * That curious Hideout Records competition previously advertised at the Dublin music show has now ended..We had tipped Simon Delaney's entry as the most worthwhile entrant, though on closer examination of the studio and label concerned it seems that the Hideout competition may have been better suited to entries looking for a musical career on Craggy Island as opposed to up and coming bands of the future looking for a spotlight among the cutting edge of Irelands new wave of prolific gifted artists. Simon's band called THE COLD 100 is still one to look out for for new recordings in the coming months and can be found at the link button below and to the right. Live shows in the Dublin area have all been highly recomended too! Another Indie band with a big bright future we think....

 

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  Martin Ryan and Mairtin O'Riain

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He's at it again!!!...

  At a recent gig in Boston, Glen Hansard dragged a kindred spirit up onto the stage to fulfill every buskers dream. The busker recieved an even bigger standing ovation than Glen....Click the photo below or look up Stephen Bacon in the artist list.

 And to update to our Tale of Two Films page...

Guess who won the Oscar for 'Best Song' at the 2008 Award ceremony..?

  click the photo

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