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We are one year old...

Oh my god are we REALLY that old?

...And we can't quite believe it. We've managed to keep posting and kept all of you interested for a whole year. So here's to another year of celebrating the weird and wonderful and cool and not so cool and THANK YOU! from us, and keep reading!

Handsome Furs - tonight - Whelans

Canadian husband and wife duo Handsome Furs (Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry) return to Dublin tonight with a new album, Sound Kapital in tow. Months of touring has driven the pair to almost entirely abandon their guitar driven electro-rock for a more up-tempo, synthtastic sound. Their travels in Eastern Europe and the Far East have inspired a cacophany of sound that reflects the hot, bright, noisy metropolises of those regions. See them at Whelan’s tonight for a turbulent, beat driven, sweaty gig, like some sort of 21st century version of a riotous underground gig in 1980s East Berlin. Listen to Repatriated and Cheap Music to get into the album, but here’s hoping they play some of the excellent tunes from their first album Plague Park as well.

 

First published here.

A Dublin Saturday

(via we heart it)

I'm back! Well, I haven't exactly been away. Just lazy. I mean, seriously working hard on various variousnesses. So thank you to Sam for sort of holding the virtual fort in my absence. Tomorrow we Buzzcats get to spend a Saturday in Dublin, something we haven't done all summer and we're very excited. We plan to visit the inaugral record fair in Whelans - it starts at 2pm, has cheap booze and hopefully LOADS of classic tunes for not so much money. I'm in the market for some Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan and maybe even some Doc Watson if they have it, thanks very much. After that, or maybe before, we're going to venture to excellent sounding new vintage store Shotsy Vintage, on Temple Lane South, for their Norwegian cardigans and €5 men's plaid shirts. After that, who knows... though I hear worrying rumours among friends of a karaoke expedition.

Hi...

Dear Buzzcateers, we're very sorry for our lack of posting lately, we've been up to no good in other parts of the internet, and the real world. Among other things we've been getting our faces in The Irish Times music supplement, The Ticket, for our folk music endeavours under the moniker The Alpaca Jamboree...there we are:

We'll be making an effort to post more regularly from now on, upcoming posts include why Johnny Depp just isn't cool anymore, more of Rocco's Weird Stuff, and more places to go in Dublin.

Thank you to all of you who have been reading our blog so far and we hope you keep coming back!