Music : Cian’s Blog

Semi-Proficient Guitarist Seeks Semi-Proficient Bandmates

Posted on July 16, 2010 - Filed Under Music | 2 Comments

Title says it all. Influences include Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil, and Alkaline Trio. Plenty of other stuff too, but that’s the general idea. … Reading this back, that band sounds pretty terrible. So let’s expand the range of influences to include the industrial-lite stomp of Nine Inch Nails, the alt-rock stylings [...]

New Alkaline Trio Song

Posted on January 9, 2010 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

‘This Addiction’. I love this band so much (Yes, that’s right, Alkaline Trio get a smiley from me for being so goddamn awesome.)

Top Five Records

Posted on January 4, 2010 - Filed Under Music | 1 Comment

Om Nom Nom Nom

Posted on October 10, 2009 - Filed Under Food, Music | Leave a Comment

“Braineaters” OI! OI! OI! Brains for dinner Brains for lunch Brains for breakfast Brains for brunch Brains at every single meal, Why can’t we have some guts? OI! OI! OI! Brains are all we ever get at this rotten fucking place, brains are all we ever get, why can’t we have a change of pace! [...]

Raditude Cover Variations

Posted on September 23, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

This made me smile.

Last Ever NIN Show

Posted on September 11, 2009 - Filed Under Music | 2 Comments

I joked about this in the pub earlier, but it’s not so funny now. NIN shall never perform live again after tonight, and I find that quite upsetting. Like, almost crying onto my keyboard upsetting. I wish I was there, in The Wiltern in LA, but more than that I wish that this wasn’t the [...]

New Weezer Song

Posted on August 25, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

Prepare to grin like an idiot.

Eircom Set To Block Access To Pirate Bay

Posted on August 20, 2009 - Filed Under Internets, Music | 1 Comment

Thanks to Damien Mulley I’ve learned that Eircom plans to block its subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay from September 1st 2009. However, other Irish ISPs have indicated that they have no intention of caving into pressure from the large music publishers, with Chorus even bullishly claiming that they’ll take the matter to court if [...]

New Brand New Song

Posted on August 12, 2009 - Filed Under Music | 4 Comments

There’s a new Brand New song on the band’s MySpace page. It’s called ‘At The Bottom’ and it’s really quite something.

Night Reconnaissance

Posted on July 28, 2009 - Filed Under Music | 3 Comments

Dresden Dolls- Night Reconnaissance- UNCENSORED I’ve posted this before and I’ll no doubt post it again because it’s a great song and I love the video.

Correction

Posted on July 11, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

Ahem. I may have previously given the indication that I do not think very much of the Oxegen festival, and I may even have rattled out a few angry paragraphs before about how Trent’s decision to play at it is a slap in the face to all Irish NIN fans. However, I now fully recognise [...]

Nine Inch Nails Live In Amsterdam On 9/7/09

Posted on July 11, 2009 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment

It is going to take something very special for me to ever feel happier than I did on Wednesday night. Nine Inch Nails played for a full two hours, and they ran through some excellent old material that I wasn’t expecting. I only wish that I drank a bit less as my memory is a [...]

Jokes About Dead People

Posted on June 27, 2009 - Filed Under Music | 8 Comments

I was going to post an old YouTube video of Chris Rock making fun of Michael Jackson, and I’d written a few paragraphs justifying the idea that it’s okay to make jokes about well-known people who’ve recently died, but in the course of writing it I changed my mind about the matter. My shift in [...]