February 2012
1 post
DIYSCO
DIYSCO: Tieranniesaur instructions for Friday week’s gig in Whelan’s.
1. MAKE PERCUSSION
2. BRING IT TO THE GIG
3. PARTY
Watch here
Tieranniesaur play Whelan’s in Dublin on the 9th March 2012.
January 2012
2 posts
Listen to 'Dawn' by Walpurgis Family
Here’s something really special. The first Popical Island release of the year is a work of real depth and clarity by the ever-melodic Walpurgis Family, entitled “Dawn”.
The second full-length by this Belgian/Irish three piece, the Walpurgis guys tell us that this album circulates around the theme of emerging light after prolonged darkness. Wow, heavy stuff, Walpurgis Family, you seem like such...
December 2011
3 posts
Fundus! A Very Popical Review of 2011
That’s that. 2011. What was the point? Another step closer to the grave. You know the skull on Popical Island? That’ll be all of us soon. At least we have the Popical Island Christmas Party to help us forget. But today we want to remember.
There’s been a lot of talk during ‘11 about funding future projects by musicians in exchange for receiving something from a graded menu...
October 2011
2 posts
Save Our Shebeen
From Shebeen Chic: “Our landlords are trying to evict us. We are fighting to save our jobs and our bar. We have the support of Mr John Halligan TD, Joe Higgins TD & Richard Boyd Barret TD [not pictured above, that’s Annie YD & Padraig YD] who have petitioned directly to our landlords on our behalf. We intend to continue with the usual Shebeen Chicness. We are going...
Squarehead & Patrick Kelleher 7" // 28th October
Popical Island will release a double A-side 7” single by Patrick Kelleher and Squarehead on 28th October. Featuring one song “Just A Tragedy” written and sung by Patrick Kelleher and another song, “Attention To Detail”, written and sung by Roy Duffy from Squarehead, both tracks were performed, collaboratively, by Squarehead and Mr. Kelleher. One of Popical Island’s star producers, Fiachra...
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
3 posts
Popicalia #12
Popical Island presents Popicalia #12 Crayonsmith We Are Losers Lie Ins Shebeen Chic, Friday 9th September
Doors: 9pm, €5
Get out your v-neck jumpers and old stripey school ties, dust off your dancing shoes and get a haircut. September’s here, and after a summer sojourn in Galway, Popical Island returns to Dublin, and to Shebeen Chic, for Popicalia #12, with a sparkly lineup to ease you into the...
Let you paint me a picture.
Ladies and Gentlemen We’re looking for artists and designers who would like to contribute poster art for our soon-returning club night POPICALIA (the one from the song). The original idea was to have every poster designed by a different person and so far we’ve seen some truly amazing work from lovely folks like Fuchsia Macaree, Loreana Rushe, Laura De Burca, Aidan Wall, Meertoh and...
Popicalia #11
We had such fun at the Dublin launch party for Popical Island #2, a compilation featuring 18 of Ireland’s best indie pop bands, that we’re taking the party to GALWAY. Roisin Dubh, Thursday, August 4th, 8:30 pm Admission: FREE CDs will be on sale for €10 each and, like last year, this is a limited, hand-made release. Or if downloads are what you fancy, buy a badge pack plus...
July 2011
1 post
TIERANNIESAUR!
''BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. TIM Did you feel that? (or) Can you feel that? She don't answer. Tim leans over to the front passenger seat and looks at the two plastic cups of water that sit in the recessed holes on the dashboard. As he watches, the water in the glasses vibrates, making concentric circles - - - - then it stops - - - - and then it vibrates again. Rhythmically. Like from footsteps....
June 2011
3 posts
I think this is it.
Ok so first thing’s first here’s the (ROUGH) stage times for tomorrow:
15:00-15:30 Sea Pinks 15:45-1615 Rhino Magic 16:30-17:00 Land Lovers 17:15-17:45 Jonny Fun and the…Hesitations 18:00-18:30 Pantone 247 18:30-19:00 Yeh Deadlies 19:15-19:45 Walpurgis Family 20:00-20:30 Goodly Thousands 20:45-21:15 Hello Moon 21:30-22:00 Groom 22:15-22:45 We Are Losers 23:00-23:30 Squarehead...
Covers!
Here’s six of the two hundred covers we made for Compilation #2. They were painted and stamped by Anna, Annie, Bronwyn, Cormac, Jonny, Mide, Mike, Nora, Pádraig C, Padraig O’R, Ruan, Saileóg and Valerie. Mike made the spinning contraption that gave them that lovely effect, we were all really impressed but we hid it and were all like “Pfft! Check out Doc Brown and his dumb...
Popicalia #10
The launch party for Popical Island #2, a compilation featuring 18 of Ireland’s best indie pop bands. Upstairs@Whelan’s, 25 Wexford St, Dublin 2 Saturday, June 25th, 2:30 pm … Admission: FREE We had such a good time last year at the launch of our first compilation that we’re doing another all-dayer this year featuring bands from our NEW compilation, POPICAL ISLAND #2, on Saturday,...
May 2011
3 posts
(UK, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) A narrow...
Great Fall by ginnels
Here’s a brand new non-album track from Ginnels! We’re really excited and honoured to be hosting the first ever live performance from Mark Chester’s (Grand Pocket Orchestra, No Monster Club) solo project. He’ll be joined tonight by the other dudes from GPO & NMC as well as two Squareheads. Now all we need is you and yr dancing feet!
Listen...
April 2011
3 posts
Popicalia #9
Settle down. Now let’s be serious for a moment. Popicalia #9 is imminent. I’m talking Friday, 6th May imminent. So close you can start ironing your best cardigan and slacks while you read about the bands on your enormous wide-screen megavision that you installed specifically to pass the time while ironing.
Tieranniesaur: A second appearance at the Popical monthly for the grooviest kids on the...
Rock It From The Crypt
Land Lovers - Gravedigger (K9 Session) by i-con
This Wednesday night (13th), Phantom FM’s I-CON show (10pm) will host a live session from those lads Land Lovers. They’ll play two songs from their forthcoming album ‘Confidants’ and a cover of ______ ______ by ______ _____! Somehow they’ve managed to send one of these recordings back in time to today (probably via...
March 2011
3 posts
Popicalia #8
April Fools’ Day sees Popicalia #8 take place in the usual spot, Shebeen Chic on George’s St.
It’s no ordinary Popicalia, though: it doubles as the launch night for Yeh Deadlies’ unspeakably brilliant new album The First Book of Lessons. You might think that we exist in a permanent state of excitement, and if that’s the case, then this record’s unveiling could potentially kill off some of our...
I Won't Conquer (Chill Version)
This month’s Popicalia sees us team up with our long lost brothers, Long Lost records. Here’s an exclusive .mp3 file from the captain of the LL ship, Aidan Wall. This track will appear on a CDR of rarites that comes free with the copies of the new Porn On Vinyl album ‘Old Folks Home”, which will be on sale on the night.
Porn On Vinyl - I Won’t Conquer (Chill...
February 2011
4 posts
Popicalia #7
Popical Island & Lost Lost present: POPICALIA #7 feat: Porn On Vinyl School Tour Desperadow Butterface
Friday 4th March, Shebeen Chic, 9.00pm, €5.
As the old Sinatra song goes ‘Spring! Spring! what a totes rad thing.’ The sun is out, i’m planning on only wearing one pair of socks out today and all around me everything is buzzing with newness.
Buzzing with newness like...
Glasgow / Newcastle Mini-Tour
Hey! We’re traveling to the esteemed pop island of Britain for gigs and a radio session, spreading our indie gospel of D.I.Y-lyrical-tunefulness further afield. We’ll pack as many Islanders as we can into as few cars as possible and head north-east. The gig details are as follows: Friday, 25th February, 13th Note, Glasgow
Popical Island (Dublin) / Bubblegum Records (Glasgow) presents...
groomtheband:
What life’s like in the evening...
January 2011
8 posts
Popicalia #6
Popical Island Presents Popicalia #6 BIG MONSTER LOVE (‘Game Over’ Album Launch) Moutpiece Brian Kelly plus Popical Island DJs Shebeen Chic, Friday 4th February 9.00pm til LATE // €5
January, doo-dee doodle-doo, sick and tired you been hangi…What’s that? Oh! Ahem. Hello there, POP fans! Celebrating the imminent arrival of February, are we? Excited that the dry, dry month of...
Harmonic & Popical Island present...
Harmonic & Popical Island present…
THE MANTLES
NODZZZ
LAND LOVERS
YEH DEADLIES
POPICAL ISLAND DJS
The Workman’s Club
Friday March 18th, 2011
8pm til late
Tickets on sale now priced €12.50 (including booking fee) from www.tickets.ie & City Discs. €12 on door.
18th March is the feast of St. Pop at the Workman’s Club, as Harmonic teams up with Popical Island to bring you...
Big Monster Love - Game Over
Game Over, the debut album from Big Monster Love will be released through Popical Island and Abomination Records on *FRIDAY THE 4th FEBRUARY 2011*. The record - which features the Beatlesque melancholy of Arctic Circles, the Liffeyside Motown of Bad Poetry, and the punk-pop whimsy of Free Gaff Forever – will be available on CD and download. “Really cool lyrics and beautiful melodies that...
We Are Losers - We Vampires (Demo)
We Are Losers - We Vampires (Demo) by popical_island
Yay! It’s that jumpy one they do! Stick it on, have a lil’ boogie round your desk/couch/bed then maybe take a breather. Then come to Popicalia tonight in Shebeen Chic where you can hear this very song played very live (plus others).
Lady Pantone
Hey guys!
I was thinking the other day about how this coming Popicalia #5 is going to be pretty rocking. So rocking I felt sure Rolling Stone Magazine would like to talk about it. Well, I’ve emailed them three times now, and nada… so I just took this interview they did with Lady Ga Ga and answered all the questions myself. See you Friday! Peace!...
December 2010
5 posts
Popicalia #5
THAW!! Maybe this time the snow will leave us alone? Although we totally beat it last time so ehhh… bring it on? snow? We couldn’t have done it without the help of our buddy Ger, the staff in Shebeen and all the bands for making such a huge effort so thanks to them and thanks especially to all the people who came down. It meant a lot to us.
Anyway, new year, new night (Friday), new...
The High Line is the single from the upcoming...
Goodly Thousands - I Wish
Download this free .mp3...
November 2010
5 posts
¡Popicalia! #4
Ooh, you look cold. Take my coat. Doth December approach already?
Why yes, yes it doth!
And with a new month comes a new ¡Popicalia!, the regular club night hosted by the Popical Island collective in Shebeen Chic on South Great George’s Street, Dublin.
¡Popicalia! #4 takes place on December 2nd, 2010 and promises to deliver only the best in homegrown Irish pop, as always. And the best thing is...
Calci-yum!
Jeroen from the Walpurgis Family took this picture on a recent trip to India, he was in a temple ‘where rats are treated like Gods’. Gods love drinking milk from a large shared bowl.
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Official Land Lovers Winter Sausage & Bean Stew
Hello reader. I’m Pádraig, from Land Lovers. I have a recipe to impart, for those who seek hearty nutrition with freezable longevity in the harsh months ahead. Vegetarians are, unfortunately, unlikely to find anything to interest them in what follows. I’ve adapted my route to happiness from this near-perfect template: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/6152/chorizo+bean+stew Note the...
October 2010
2 posts
Popicalia #3
The ever-popular ¡Popicália! is back for a record-breaking third show in Dublin’s Shebeen Chic. On Thursday, 4th November, we at Popical Island present four acts full of melodious derring-do for you to discuss in your spare time: Land Lovers Walpurgis Family Jonny Fun & The …Hesitations Tom Wolf The last installment of ¡Popicália! whipped punters into a frenzy of dancing and, indeed,...
September 2010
7 posts
The Ice Cream Is The Shit
We’re super excited to have Grand Pocket Orchestra playing ¡POPICALIA! this Friday, their album The Ice Cream is one of the year’s best in our opinion(s). If you haven’t already gotten lost in it’s buzzing, glowing wonderland then do so below.
(¡POPICALIA #2! Also features Squarehead and Hipster Youth and takes place in Shebeen Chic from 9.00pm on Friday the 1st of...