Stardom beckons for IMELDA MAY. The Dublin rockabilly queen has packed The O2 and dazzled on the BBC’s Later...With Jools Holland. Now she’s about to release her major label debut, a record that looks set to confirm her as one of the outstanding new talents in Irish music. With the countdown underway she weighs in on such diverse subjects as Jedward, the suspected suicide of a concert goer at a Swell Season show and tells us about snuggling in between Quentin Tarantino and Alice Cooper at the Grammys.
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They’re the dyed-in-the-heather folk troupe who aren’t all that they seem. Though named after a remote Scottish isle, neo-folkies Stornaway actually hail from the windswept reaches of England’s Home Counties. They talk about catching the trad bug and explain that, though Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling would have you think otherwise, there’s nothing zeitgeisty about English folk at the moment.
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They’ve been hailed heirs to REM’s alternative crown and are particularly deeply loved in Ireland. With a first ever Electric Picnic slot on the way, The National talk about their extraordinary rise from obscurity and how they’ve managed to keep sibling rivalries in check to become the band of the moment.
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ahead of his appearance at electric picnic radiohead drummer Phil Selway tells us about his fantastic solo album.
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“Haunting”, “spectral” and “ethereal” were all placed on the Prohibited Journalistic Words List in 1991 after being attached to the point of parody to every shoegaze outfit that floppy-fringed their way into the lower reaches of the indie chart.
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