There’s a hell of a lot of good music around at the moment. Clare Maguire is one of those artists and was quite rightly placed on the BBC Sound of 2011 list. This is her new single which will be released on May 9th and is taken from her album ‘Light After Dark’. Great song, brilliant voice and she’s Irish. This week’s Tune of the Week is Clare Maguire and ‘The Shield and The Sword’.
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Mickey Harte: Not Wasting Another Day Review
Mickey Harte has been round the block a bit, its nine years since he won You’re A Star and went to Eurovision. And being honest that’s probably what he’s still best known for. He’s got a new album coming out though, ‘Man’s Aloud To Dream’ (nice pun eh?), ‘Not Wasting Another Day’ is the new single.‘Not Wasting Another Day’ is a mid-tempo inoffensive track with a summery slightly country blues feel. It’s acoustic guitar led and there are some really nice guitar lines on it but for me there’s not enough ‘umpf’ when you get to the chorus, just not enough build up. I think Mickey Harte’s (when did he drop the Joe?) target audience may have got slightly older. But, saying that you can expect to hear this on every local radio station in the country and he’ll be selling out venues across the country. (more…)
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Storyfold: Trick of Light video
Storyfold have just premiered the new video for their single ‘Trick of Light’. They are one of those bands that I’ve managed to be acquainted with since their first recordings so it’s lovely to see that their debut album, ‘Rocket Science’ will be out on May 20th.
The video was directed by Conall O’Meara, Director of Photography was Mark Boland. I love the grading on the whole thing, kudos to Stephen O’Connell.
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The Amazing World of Gumball to Premier on Cartoon Network
This is pretty cool and brilliant for Irish film and animation. Dublin based Boulder Media have produced a show about a 12 year old called Gumball and his family and friends who live in Elmore.
There are some pretty cool things happening here combining 3D animation with 2D and live action. It took eighteen months and a team of fifty three people working in a studio in Dublin to get the finished project. ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ will premier its first two episodes on The Cartoon Network UK on May 2nd at 10am..The full series will run at a later date to be confirmed. (Information updated 29/4)
A second season has already been commissioned and it will air in 166 countries. Amazeballs!
Have a peek here: