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  • Daire O’Reilly: The Promised Land Sampler Review

    Daire O'Reilly

    The Promised Land by Daire O’Reilly is the debut album due for release in Autumn 2010. The Cavan born artist is currently based in NYC so I was happy to land a pre-release sampler.

    The sampler starts with ‘Sleeping in’ a mid tempo rock track with a laid back vibe reminiscent of the Stereophonics ‘Have a nice day’. Oh Darlin is an Americana/Country tinged track and proves that O’Reilly has a knack for writing singalong melodies. There’s a nice use of mandolin during a breakdown before the track builds up nicely before the climax .

    ‘To Believe’ shows this writer why O’Reilly is currently residing in the U.S., it’s a AOR radio friendly track, well produced with a slight flavour of Dawson’s Creek in there.

    ‘Star Gazing’, the final track of the sampler, is an acoustic based Cowboy-esque track, the lone ranger meeting his love match. The chorus of voices singing “Star Gazing’ bring an extra depth to the track. It’s quite a sit around the campfire singing song. My favourite on the sampler.

    All in all, its a good start, we’ll have to wait for the rest of the album

    5 out of 6

    reverbnation.com/daireoreilly
    daireoreilly.muxtape.com

    This was written for MusicReviewUnsigned

  • Tune of The Week 22/06/2010

    I first met Carosel about 9 months ago I think, they were guests on the Culture Cafe. I really loved meeting Michelle and Peter and had a great laugh while they were in the studio. I like subtleness of their music, it always seems slightly understated. So I’ve made the French based pair’s new single my Tune of the Week.

  • Mugger Dave: What’s She Doing Here Album Review

    Three piece Mugger Dave kick off their debut album with an brilliant intro that suggests this is an actual event. Keys, acoustic guitar and immaculate harmonies build up to a full rock explosion.

    It’s a good old guitar driven rock n roll album, mixed throughout with harmonies and decent melodies, add a little dash of punk and perhaps even a trickle of ELO in a modern setting and you’re sorted.

    Along with previous singles “Crawl Up’ and ‘Got a lot on my mind’, the band mix up tempo and slower tempo-ed tracks throughout the album. ‘End Meat’ deserves a mention, catchy hooks, memorable refrain.. contender for a next single perhaps.

    It’s a definite grower, sit down with headphones on for 48 minutes, its practically the same length as one half of a game in this boring World Cup… you’ll be entertained.

    5 out of 6

    http://www.myspace.com/muggerdave

    This was written for MusicReviewUnsigned

  • A Tweet Too Far ?

    I love Twitter, I do. I love the informal nature of it. I enjoy the bit of banter and chat with people who normally I wouldn’t get to know.It’s probably the place I get all my news now aswell. If there’s something I’m interested in, then I’ll investigate further.

    There are also some things that I won’t put on twitter, I try never to disclose my exact location, along with FourSquare (which is just a tad too much for me) some evil geniuses came up with Please Rob Me,  so er, no thanks.

    Twitter is quite a useful social media tool but last week in Utah convicted murder Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad. I don’t believe in the death penalty and this post has nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of it. But death penalty or not I do believe that everyone, no matter who they are should have the right to die with dignity. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtlef actually tweeted that he has given the order for the execution to be carried out.

    I feel that this was wrong, Shurleff tried to defend himself by saying he used Twitter to ‘communicated directly with people’. Convicted murder or not, Gardner’s last moments were made public by Shurleff.

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