Ok, definitely back at the blog this time, despite last month’s broken promise…..
Anyway, important matters have spurred me into action. As most metal fans are only too aware, abuse of the horns is becoming all too common in Ireland today. The Onion did an excellent job of bringing similar problems in America to light five years ago and now it seems the virus has well and truly spread to our own back yard. Rather than stand for it Paddy Metal is going to name and shame all offenders it comes across. This time, it’s the popular Irish women’s magazine ‘U Magazine’ with Irish actress (actor…) Saoirse Ronan, somewhat unenthusiastically it has to be said, showing the horns on its latest cover. All Paddy Metal can say is, put them away Mrs, they don’t suit you….
Cork’s Altar of Plagues and Belfast’s Hexxed (now well and truly back in business – but more about that later) will play Dublin’s Twisted Pepper on Saturday June 12th 2010. That should be a pretty impressive show.
Dead Man’s Headphones has a review of Neifenbach’s ‘Reason Will Falter’ cd.
Via Blabbermouth: Primordial’s Alan Averill will hit the festival circuit this summer with the Bathory tribute Twilight of the Gods. Check out this interview conducted by Norway’s Imhotep.
I thought this was pretty cool. Via Metalsucks, its a limited edition screenprint called ‘Corpsepaint Creatures’ by UK artist and illustrator Bunny Bissoux.
Irish online metal radio station MetalHertz FM is back up and running. Go listen to it people!
Dublin’s Criminal Jammage plan on changing their name. So says their Myspace anyway. Not sure why…
Glyder rocking The Village, Dublin last night - during the second half of their show...
After completely forgetting about Gama Bomb’s gig in Dublin on Friday night (still kicking myself) I made sure I got to The Village for Glyder’s album launch show last night. For a band that’s got such a lot right recently I won’t kick them too much over a few things they got wrong in staging last night’s gig.
I’ll keep it to one sentence and simply say that the venue was too big, start too early and playing the entire new album, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow from start to finish without even a support act to warm the crowd up, just didn’t work. Thankfully the second half of the show was excellent with the band playing tracks from their first two albums to a very enthusiastic audience before being very loudly beckoned back for a number of encores.
This band are made for the big stage (and big audiences) and its only a matter of time before that comes. At just two listens so far the jury is still out on how the new album stacks up to the other two, but if you are a hard rock fan and don’t have at least one of them then you are missing out. Check out what the band’s guitarist Bat Kinane had to say in an interview in The Ticket on the new album, recognition in Ireland and how the band is faring abroad.
After dazzling a sold-out Academy in Dublin on Wednesday night with the kind of aerial acrobatics that would make a kangaroo sick, Airbourne were kept well and truly on the ground in Dublin for the rest of the week. The volcanic ash clouds that closed airports and airspace across Europe meant that the aussies had to reschedule the remaining two dates of their European tour, which had been due to finish tonight in Barcelona.
Stranded in Dublin (and reportedly still here) the four lads were spotted getting tattoos and walking around the Temple Bar area. I heard this from several people (ok so some of them were intoxicated at the time).
To see more excellent photos from the Academy show please visit Damien James O’Farrell’s photostream on Flickr here and here.
Not Irish but he sure seemed to like the colour green. To my knowledge his last visit here was in May 1997 when Type O Negative played the SFX. While I came to them slightly later than most, Bloody Kisses and October Rust became two of my favourite albums. I saw the band live at Graspop in Belgium and Wacken, Germany in 2007, getting pretty close to the front at the latter on what was a very memorable evening. Today is a very sad day.
For the record; I refer of course to today’s confirmation that Type O Negative frontman Pete Steele passed away yesterday aged 48. While the man may now be gone, his fantastic music will live forever. R.I.P
And finally, not since Jani Lane was interviewed in a Dublin GAA jersey has something this important happened. Yes folks, the official ‘Republic of Ireland Football Jersey’ makes a small cameo in Megadeth’s new video – The Right To Go Insane. Go 2:05 mins in to see it.
On Easter Sunday last, myself and about 20 others made the journey from Dublin to Limerick for the Siege of Limerick All Dayer. What a great day it was; metal, craic and chips from Donkey Fords… Here are some photos:
The unholy pack Baker Place, Limerick on Easter Sunday
Not Irish but he sure seemed to like the colour green. To my knowledge his last visit here was in May 1997 when 
