Video Games Live Launches Kickstarter For Fourth Album

October 20, 2014 Anthony McGlynn

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r Video Games Live, the longest-running and most successful video game music tour, is launching its second kickstarter to help fund their fourth album ahead of their upcoming tour which includes an Irish stop! The last Kickstarter was the third highest funded album on the site, and came out last February, and now they hope […]

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Music Monday – 13/10/14

October 13, 2014 Jack Dempsey

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Monday is the start of the weekly grind is a phenomenon to which I have had to acclimatize in the last few months. The term is accurate, the relentlessness of the five day week is such that it can only be called attrition. So for this Music Monday I let’s embrace that. A certain tune […]

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Music Monday 22/09/2014

September 22, 2014 Declan Doody

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Edith Piaf – Padam Padam I’m not really sure where I’m pulling this track from, I fell in love with Edith Piaf’s voice in college, a Canadian guy I met and was trying to hit on introduced me to her songs. While the love interest went nowhere with him I dipped in and out of […]

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Otaku Digest: Top 6 Anime Opening Themes

September 21, 2014 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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Anime is known for many things, crazy characters and imagery, epic mind messing story-lines and gravity defying hair but if the opening theme does not kick some serious beats then it does give the viewer a first impression that perhaps this anime is not worth watching at all. A bit “Don’t judge a book by […]

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Review: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Pikapika Fantajin

September 11, 2014 Andy Kavanagh

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What’s the difference between pop and J-pop? What makes Japanese pop music distinct enough to earn that mysterious prefix that so many insist on giving it? Do those distinctions still matter in an increasingly globalized music industry? Can anyone actually answer these rhetorical questions? Well, yes actually; J-pop superstar Kyary Pamyu Pamyu can, and on […]

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YouTuber of the Week: ViolinTay

September 11, 2014 Declan Doody

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How have I not heard of Taylor Davis before now?! The violinist found on YouTube, iTunes, Patreon, Facebook and Instagram and I sill don’t hear about her until now?! If you’re thinking, ‘Geez Declan, it’s just another violinist on YouTube covering geeky music calm down‘ then you are way off the mark – my YouTube […]

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Banjo Guy Ollie – Double Dragon Level 1

September 9, 2014 Declan Doody

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80’s hair, a kick-ass soundtrack and a plot more convoluted than Dallas and The Young and the Restless (okay it’s not that bad), it means I could only be talking about Double Dragons and if I’m talking about an Arcade/Sega classic then you can bet that Banjo Guy Ollie is involved! Yup this week’s cover is […]

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MCR Singer Pens Spider-Man as Teenage Girl With Mech

September 8, 2014 Seán Ó Cinnéide

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Peni? Get in the goddam robot! Prepare yourselves Arcadians, for Peni Parker, a teenage girl of Japanese heritage who co-pilots a mech called “SP//dr,” in the latest “Spider-Verse” tie-in that will be written by Gerard Way, author of the well received Umbrella Academy and lead vocalist for the band My Chemical Romance. Marvel Comics have […]

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Banjo Guy Ollie: Kokiri Forest – Ocarina of Time

September 1, 2014 Declan Doody

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It’s autumn! Okay it’s been Autumn since August but no one really counts that month as part of the season – the leaves are turning brown, the air is crisp and fresh and did I mention that it gets dark earlier oh and it’s cold?! So very cold! I love this time of year and […]

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What is the Village Carnival?

August 28, 2014 Alan Horgan

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The Village Carnival was up until recently completely unknown to me, now having attended it was without a doubt one of the best experiences I had this year. So what is the Village Carnival? I sat down with one of the lovely co-ordinators Orla to answer just that. What is the Village Carnival? The Village Carnival […]

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