Support for Will Oldham at Sundays gig was provided by the enigmatic and unexpectedly wonderful Baby Dee. Antony Hegarty with a sense of humour, Baby Dee begins with the delicately beautiful ‘Look at Me’, on piano with Cello accompaniment. As the set progresses, it opens into a rich and full bodied four-piece cabaret, as Dee flits from piano to harp.
As a transsexual Baby Dee is ludicrous; cracking with oafish masculinity, like John Lithgow in the World According to Garp. As an artist she excels, weaving burlesque fairy tales that leave …

After this years radically disappointing Trinity Ball line-up, it’s time to re-evaluate the bands we get to play the event. Lets imagine, with a new Ents officer, arguably less in the pocket of philistine event management companies, the best ball we could possibly have next year. What do you suggest?
Here’s one idea for a line up, this isn’t a ‘My Favourite Bands’ list, it’s a group of folk, all excellent, mostly upbeat, many of whom have a large student following. Most importantly none of the acts listed are too big …

Andy’s the expert on Japanese electro, but I’m captivated by one new chiptune artist in particular, the enigmatic Omodaka. The great graphic novelist and comic writer Warren Ellis recently posted the video below, which is a beautifully pure attempt to express music through imagery. I’m convinced there are only two ways to make a truly great music video, a piece that enhances rather than merely embellishes the music it illustrates. The method used in this video, is to create a pictorial analogue to the music, a constructed synesthesia, articulating the …

At the risk of turning Analogue into a clip sharing site, I simply have to share this. Ian Svenonius, a sort of down tempo American Russell Brand, and former lead singer of parody politics punk outfit Nation of Ulysses, now hosts uberhip lounge interview show Soft Focus. The show (and the Vice channel on which it airs) represents at once the epitome of hipsterism and an utter send up of its too cool for school premise. When Svenonius met alt country darling Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, genius had to ensue.
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One more …

Shades of Man Bites Dog as Justice address the fear consuming France. Condemnation or celebration, you decide.
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Last Wednesday I had the very great pleasure of heading to see a band a couple of friends of mine have put together. ‘Oh Child’ fuse folk pop lyricism, calypso melodies and the instrumentation and complex drum lines of a jazz act. That’s my best effort at explaining their sound, which is fluid, fresh and warmly musical. The video, filmed on my camera turned out dark as shit, but the sound’s OK. Oh Child should be recording their debut single in the near future.

Heads up hipsters. Eyes out lovers of the distorted underground. Jandek is to Sonic Youth as Daniel Johnston is to the Beach Boys, and Jandek’s playing Dublin. The legendary rock recluse will be appearing at Trinity’s Douglas Hyde Gallery Gallery on the 13th of June. Tickets go on sale May 1st, priced €20. More info available from the gallery.
Jandeks music is mediative, tuned down, ‘difficult‘. But it generously rewards the dedicated listener. Expect this..
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Happened to happen upon magnificently hip Stockholm sixpiece Monde Yeux, in Grafton St the other day. The lads were making such a fine racket I had to grab a mini-interview. Like a more coherent Making Dens, Monde Yeux’s debut album, Naked Girls, written over a summer in Dublin, is a hodge podge of Frames like post Folk, Adam Greenesque Chanteuse, and melodic ColdWar Kids style indie. Definitely worth a listen. Considering the Depp like face beauty of the bands lead singer, Jack, merely the prettiest of a band rivalling a …

Thanks a million to everyone who voted, and congratulations to the Record and Trinity News both took home a boatload of awards.
Ailbhesaurus promises a photo blog soon. For now, here’s the team, high on victory juice.

Pitchfork.tv (previously mentioned on Anablog) Pitchfork’s first foray into online video, has launched.
The good news is that the site works. Unlike recent video efforts from a variety of providers from the BBC to Comedy Central, Pitchfork.tv isn’t region locked and does not require a specific browser, or insist that viewers are not behind a firewall. Video’s are freely navigable, and right now don’t suffer from textual or interstitial advertising, and while (for the most part) they can’t be embedded, they can be linked to directly.
The bad news is that right …