WELCOME TO... FOR 2009

*THERE HAS BEEN AN EXTENSION ADDED TO THE 'TIGERS CAN BITE YOU' COMPETITION DEADLINE DATE...MAKE THE MOST OF IT NOW HERE...*

How about the parallel national swell seasonof Canada that shocked the world with its own very different acoustic arm of the nations favourite cult rock band...ALEXISONFIRE's and CITY AND COLOUR's own DALLAS GREEN.Or even more of Ontario's top rockers in the form of THE COMPOUND, STONE RIVER and EPYLLION....

Bored of Beatlemania?...How about the 'Lennon and McCartney' of superchilled Electronica? ...MACKINTOSH BRAUN (just to cool the blood of those stirred up by THE SILVERSUN PICKUPS and COUNTING CROWS!) Or how about some inspired Indie rock, New Wave and Metal with a musical range from the Beatlesque to the Metallicanated!! check out MEG & REBEL HEART, ONCE AND FUTURE KINGS, FLIGHT TO ATHENA and ATOMIC BLONDE... with even more immenent arrivals soon!

More debuts, albums, singles, amazing sessions and tours on the go now from the mighty JOE ECHO, CODES, THE DIRTY EPICS and THE DIRTY NINES...

  Plus some more massive international brilliance from SERPENTI, MIRAGE TOWN plus SIMPHIWE DANA and ANDRA (two femme fatales to watch out for when going to the world cup finals in South Africa...

Fancy a jaunt from LA to Detroit and back again on the new Supergroup Stateside 4 page? Tuck in with SAINT MOTEL, THE TRANSFER, TIGERS CAN BITE YOU and THE SHOALIN TEMPLE OF BOOM...Four big sounds that will eat you alive!!!

Also... new Canadian Supergroup's page with some IN-FLIGHT SAFETY plus NEVERENDING WHITE LIGHTS, JORDAN COOK, EMM GRYNER, WIDE MOUTH MASON... VIOLENT KIN, DEE Or SEE WHY top rockers

THE FORES aren't on a 'Supajam' with the Killers or Oasis? Plus VIVID SKY the teenage rockband with the worlds best rock coversand their own catalogue now recording with Stuart Epps...

  And... by buying any of the featured products directly from any of the links on our site you will also be helping us to fund, support and nurture new artistic talent worldwide.

 A QUICK WOTS WOT...

On The Ryan O'Riain 22....

  OH To Be An Author...

  stop dreaming about it!

 Courses encouragement and software programs to help you do it with tips for presenting your works to publishers

  Already A Bloomin' Author...

  The new page on the boil with some classic new outstanding releases...such as The Origami Crow by Rock Cornerstone Sir Eamon Carr

shortcut in the star....

  With a Parental

  Advisory on the 'liguistics' of the video content.

  Big Hairy Animals...

And Some More...

  Animal training, courses, ebooks and programs for horses, dogs and their pet people.

  And Now A Musical Interlude...

  Probably the best online music tuition and related programs in the world- for wannabe's, fans and bands.

  Bits For Bands....

   Essential tips and blog for anyone in music or arts in the onset of the digital age.

Rock Cornerstones

  The hidden International Cornerstones of modern music

Swimming Against The Tide...

  Our award for a couple of musicians who are beating the odds, surviving and frightening the music industry.

Swimming Accross The Tide

  A classic and respected band from the birth of the brittish Mushroom festivals and roots of the 'rave' scene.Plus two fantastic videos.

Potential Supergroup

  Our 2006/7 tips for the international supergroups of tomorrow?

Supergroup and Supergroup Stateside.

  The best bands, singers and songwriters stirring up a storm of talent now !! (direct links to artists above right)

A Tale Of....

  Two Amys from opposite ends of the Brittish Isles and also of Two Films that 'undid' and then sealed the success of one of the worlds best pioneering Indie Bands

Jaw Dropping Talent...

  Outstanding creative talents in arts and unique crafts.

if you think your good enough for this page tell us !!

Gamewatch 22...

  The worlds biggest online massive multiplayer,worlds best role play game writers. Original game programmers, programmes and the best gaming sites.

Fantastic Photograph...

  Tips and bits for upgrading your digital photography skills...sort of!

The Cutting Edge Of Digital Arts...

  Cutting edge 3D software

for pro's and newcomers

- a jawdropper of a program

 DOSH.....

  How you can make sure that your money is realy going where your mouth is.

  NEWS AND URGENT UPDATES...

02/11/09 NEW SINGLE RELEASE FROM BILL COLEMAN

  Bill Coleman's new single on the perils of the perishing 'Celtic Tiger' has been released on Download ie today (also available via Bill's MySpace and .com sites) along with Bills very own self directed 'flash video' debut. As a special bonus, anyone who buys the new track will be sent two bonus tracks by Bill personaly, once they email their reciept number over to Bill  

31/10/09 Halloween playlist..PARENTAL ADVISORY

We've added a little 'halloween playlist' to the front page for the coming week only. PARENTAL ADVISORY IS ISSUED as some videos will prove quite disturbing for younger children and some may well scare the pants off older children too. Avoid the final video like the plague if you have a heart condition or a nervous disposition (but it does shed some light on why the MySpace location for the Official MySpace Ryan O'Riain 22 is listed as Uzbekistaan..it is actualy a pun on the old anglo saxon phrase 'uz beck ist aan?' meaning 'who's ditch is that?'..the slightly green and dishevled appearance of our editor was due to excess amounts of green guiness on St Patricks night the previous evening and the grumpy demeanor was added to somewhat when the cameraman trod on him in his ditch).

20/10/09 CMJ MUSIC MARATHON IN NEW YORK!!

Yup, it's New Yorks turn this week!! over a thousand bands from all over the globe are invading the cities venues for a week long marathon of some of the best new independants of the planet (the festival also includes film makers,directors, writers, poets etc etc).Over the following week New York will be turned into a melting pot of creative talents as CMJ works to bring every segment of the arts and music industry up to the boil in one enormous pot. CMJ also still have various media related internship posts available for any New Yoikers or Statesiders eligable to enroll here

THREE BANDS ATTENDING THE FESTIVAL THAT WE WOULD URGENTLY RECOMEND ANYONE IN NEW YORK TO SEARCH OUT AND SEE ARE.... Canada's Violent Kin

LA'S Saint Motel

and Irelands Subplots

More on the above can be found on our artist list (with a few more from our pages more than likely to be spotted in the City this week too...So now that our 3 favourites have all turned up we can announce that it all kicks off tonight citywide!!

16/10/09 HARD WORKING CLASS HEROES KICKS OFF TONIGHT!!

The cream of Irelands Independants kicks off tonight at various Dublin venues for a host of fantastic sets from the nations very best bands including...Miracle Bell, Ham Sandwhich, O Emporer,The Dirty 9's,The Deaf Animal Orchestra, Identity Parade, Planet Parade,Armoured Bear, The Ambience Affair et etc (basicaly all the favourite bands from our Supergroups Ireland pages along with a few new ones soon to be added !!!) To find out who, where, when and why heres an external link to the Hard Working Class Heroes . One ticket allows you access to pick and choose between over a hundred bands on a non stop three day musical feast!

8/10/09 SINGLES AND LAUNCHES - ANN SCOTT, ODI AND O EMPORER...

Yup!! two excellent single releases ready to blow yer iPods apart with..

First off is PO from O Emporer available from Download ie and iTunes. The single is released on Friday along with an extra special launch concert with extra visuals and even brassto fully test out the acoustics of St Patricks Church in Ballybricken (Waterford, Ireland) all kicking off 9/10/09 at 8pm with an extra launch party at Electric Avenue following the show. Expect the release of their debut album 'Hither Thither' to follow soon.

Also out now is Ann Scotts new single 'Allways' and 'blind Love' released on October 2nd on iTunes too

  But hang on, there's more Irish music news from Claire Odlum, aka 'Odi' here's a note from her MySpace to all her international fans...

One In A Million - RTE Radio1 Playlist - Request Details!!!

ONE IN A MILLION - one of the tracks taken from the ODi Debut album "Maslow's Songbook" has been added to the RTE Radio 1 Playlist in Ireland :-)

It would be great if those in the Emerald Isle could text RTE 1 over the next few days to request "ONE IN A MILLION" to be played!

Text: 51551 from the Republic of Ireland

e.g. Please play ‘One in A Million’ By ODi

Then text your message to 51551

(texts will be charged at standard rate)

If you are outside of IRELAND you can email the various DJ's at the station to request aswell!

Go to the RTE Radio 1 Website for a list of the shows and email addresses! OR choose from the following!

Ronan Collins (Brendan Balfe) Email ronan.collins@rte.ie

The Tubridy Show Email tts@rte.ie

The John Creedon Show Email creedon@rte.ie

Risin’ Time (MAXI) Email maxicompetitions@rte.ie

Today with Pat Kenny Email todaypk@rte.ie

Balfe B @ RTÉ (Brendan Balfe) Email balfeb@rte.ie

The Late Date : mccarta@rte.ie

Thanks so much - you are "One in A Million" ha ha! (Couldn't resist!)

ODi x

PS...Maslows Songbook will be released throughout Ireland on October 23rd 09 (but you can always pre order it for import/ export etc from Claires web and MySpace site now).

  MORE NEWS BELOW SO SCROLL DOWN WITH THE BUTTONS TO THE LEFT.....

28/09/09 PHOENIX WILLIAMS UP FOR BEST FEMALE VOCAL AT HOLLYWOOD MUSIC AWARDS....

   Phoenix will be at the televised marathon award event at the Highlands in The Kodak Theatre Complex in Hollywood on November 19th 2009...were hoping that she'll be yet another from among our list of friends and artists to shock the 'mainstream music and media world' by picking up a top award in front of the whole world (...remember Glen Hansard and Marketa IrglovasOscar award for the best song?). Find Phoenix in our artist list for just a teeny taster of her enormous catologue of prolific vocals and links to more! For more on the Hollywood Music Awards then get yer reading specs on for the list of talents here...http://www.hmmawards.com/ 

22/09/09 SITE OFFLINE TIME???

  EEK! Just to let everyone know that theryanoriain22.com will be going offline for a couple of hours while all the data files are put in for an early spring clean! The site should go offline from 6am to 9am GMT on September 25th .

15/09/09 JOE ECHO BAGS A BILLBOARD RECORD FOR MADONNA!

  Yup!! Madonna has bagged her record breaking 40th number 1 in the Billboard dance charts thanks to Ciaran Gibbins aka JOE ECHO. The song was co written with 'Joe' along with Paul Oakenfield and Ian Green.

So congratulations and a big thumbs up to Joe on his succesfull world domination...and he hasn't even released his own debut album yet!!

more on Joe on our Supergroups (Ireland) 1.10 page.

04/09/09 VOTE ZALINSKI IN THE MALDIVES BREAKOUT FESTIVAL (13/09/09) AND CATCH THEM AT THE UK SURFACE UNSIGNED FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY (6TH) TOO!!!

  YEP! IF YOU LIVE WITHIN REACH OF TUFNEL PARK UNDERGROUND STATION IN LONDON THEN MAKE SURE YOU MAKE A B LINE (or was that northern line?) FOR 'THE DOME' TO CATCH THE FINAL OF THIS YEARS 'UK SURFACE UNSIGNED' COMPETITION WHERE ZALINSKI -OUR OWN FAVOURITES TO TAKE THIS YEARS TITLE -WILL BE BLOWING THE JUDGES AWAY THIS SUNDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER!! IF YOU NEED A TICKET THEN EMAIL karl@zalinski.net WHILE THERE'S STILL TIME!!

BUT HANG ON A MINUTE...ONCE THEY SAIL THROUGH THE FINAL OF SURFACE UNSIGNED LIKE A HOT KNIFE THROUGH BUTTER, THERE IS STILL ONE MORE MAJOR FINAL FOR THE BOYS TO TAKE PART IN AND THEY STILL URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP!! ON THE 13TH SEPTEMBER 2009 THE BOYS WILL ALSO BE PLAYING THE FINAL OF THE 'MALDIVES BREAKOUT 'FESTIVAL AT THE O2 ACADEMY IN LONDON!! BUT THEY STILL NEED YOUR HELP TO SECURE THE TITLE BY ACTUALY VOTING FOR THEM WITH THE 'THUMBS UP' BUTTON AT THE FOLLOWING LINK...

http://maldivesbreakoutfestival.com/?attachment_id=423

ZALINSKI ARE UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE VERY BEST NEW UK BANDS IN EXISTANCE..SO PLEASE VOTE FOR THEM....NOW!!!!!

01/09/09 OOOOER! COULD THE DRAYMIN BE ABOUT TO RETURN??

  Scotlands former number one band and suddenly released some new footage of an excellent new song via their YouTube and MySpace pages with a warning to 'watch this space'...could the boys be about to end the musical drought and reform??? +

  There's plenty of album and ep releases this month from many of our featured bands including Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's new Swell Season album, ODi's debut album and the debut ep from Saint Motel .

23/08/09 SECURITY AND MAINTANENCE DOWNTIME...

  THE SITE WILL BE OFFLINE FOR APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR ON THE MORNINGS OF MONDAY 24TH AUGUST AND WEDNESDAY 26TH AUGUST STARTING FROM 8.30AM GMT (DUBLIN AND LONDON TIME).WE'RE OFFLINE FOR SOME VITAL MAINTENANCE CHECKS AND UPDATES BUT WILL BE BACK UP AND RUNNING WITHIN THE HOUR...WITH A NEW COMPETITION PAGE COMING UP LATER THIS WEEK - SO STAY TUNED!

 18/08/09 ACOUSTIC CORNERSTONE RECORDING LIVE SHOWS IN COBH THIS WEEKEND!!!

In the early seventies a couple of Irish guys walked into Chrysalis Records in London, got out their guitars and played a few tunes in the reception that made the entire office stop in their tracks and listen intently while trying to put their eyeballs and lower jaws back into place.Tir Na N'Og means 'The Land Of Youth' and was the magical celtic heaven..Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condelleerily managed to recreate that heaven acousticly through hauntingly surreal folk songs and became the utterly unique European answer to Art and Garfunkel throughout that decade. They're still at it after all this time and (besides being owed a very long overdue article on their acoustic greatness by us) they have been busy touring and inspiring musical magazine writers all accross the globe scince uploading their classic song to MySpace and other sites...there MySpace url is www.myspace.com/tirnanogduo

  So if you live within travelling distance of Cork and want to get the sound of your jaw dropping onto their forthcoming live album here's the details as posted by the boys who are still jamming in the land of eternal youth.....

Tir na nOg Record Live album in Cobh, Cork Friday & Saturday

Tir na nOg play Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh on Friday 21 & Saturday 22 August. These shows will be recorded for a live album...Please tell your friends who might be interested in attending the shows. The duo play De Barra's, Clonakilty on Sunday 23 August

14/O8/09 SWELL SEASON MK II ??

  STRICT JOY Is the name of Glen Hansards and Marketa Irglova's secong 'Swell Season' album due to be released this September and the first dates for the new American tour are just starting to be revealed along with some live renditions of some of the songs from the new album just being released to view on npr in the last 48hours. We've added the links to their new desktop concert on our Gigs Of The Month page in The Rock Cornerstone section. There's also one hell of an encore to look forward to on the new set list too.

12/08/09 YOIKES!!! WELL DONE PEEPS! ZALINSKI ARE IN THE LONDON FINAL OF SURFACE UNSIGNED ON SEPTEMBER 6TH AND... THEY'RE ALSO IN THE FINAL OF THE BREAKOUT FESTIVAL COMPETITION ON SEPTEMBER 13TH TOO!! THANKS TO ALL WHO PUT THEM THROUGH AND CHECK THEIR MYSPACE PAGE FOR TICKETS TO BOTH FINALS

25/07/09 ZALINSKI..OUR TIP TO SAIL THROUGH THE UK'S 'SURFACE UNSIGNED' COMPETITION' LIKE A KNIFE THROUGH BUTTER! ...keep an eye out for our upcoming review on one of the few UK bands capable of competing on every level with the likes of The Flaws, Miracle Bell, Walter Mitty and The Realists, Kill City Defectors etc etc (in other words ...with the worlds best pioneering underground indie funk/jazz/metal/rock bands) and that includes the wild Irish indie hair look too! To help them slip the knife past the semi final mark then just..

Text Vote 'LONDON 6171' to 64343 or look them up on the surface unsigned UK website (surfaceunsigned.co.uk)

The groundbreaking UK act will also be featuring wihin our hallowed halls (with a sizeable snippet already avalable to blow your socks off on the new TheRyanO'Riain22 page on MySpace.

18/7/09 NEW OFFICIAL MYSPACE PAGE AND COMPETITION FROM 'THE RYAN O'RIAIN22' OPENS FOR ALL MYSPACERS.

  ...In the last twelve months over thirty thousand of you lot visited theryanoriain22.com and spent over a hundred thousand hours browsing our pages and listening to our featured bands songs and videos before following the many links to the online homes of the best independant bands in the world. Not a bad amount considering the fact that we've not ever fully advertised our site . To celebrate this apparent recent cult following, we decided that it was about time we actualy 'practised what we preached' with regards to social media advice for bands.

Most of the bands we feature with MySpace profiles have already joined us on our new MySpace page and we'll be running a number of special competitions and features 'exclusive' to the new page alone over the coming months..starting off with a MySpace 'whispers' comment competition designed to pit the wits of the bands against the fans..with forty quid going to the best overall fan comment entered. Anyone with a MySpace profile can enter without having to 'add or be added' with the very simple anti-spam rules set out in the 'about me' section of the new page at

http://www.myspace.com/theryanoriain22

With music, video and annnoucements both on and by many of our featured AND EVEN soon to be featured bands too!

So keep an eye on the new page for lots of special items over the summer.

 7/7/09 HORSLIPS RETURN FOR A SERIES OF SPECIAL CONCERT DATES IN DUBLIN AND BELFAST IN DECEMBER 2009!!!

  Tickets will go on sale this thursday so follow the links on our Rock Cornerstone page or click the Horslips triangle in the artist list.

 'The Boys' are jamming together in preperation now and Eamon Carr will be taking his usual seat at the drums - though not for the entire two hour set. Eamons stand in will be none other than the little brother of the worlds former number one guitarist Johnny Fean

  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

  The Ryan - O'Riain 22.