Articles

A selection of articles written for RTÉ Culture, The Irish Times, the Sunday Independent, the Irish Examiner, The Journal and The Goo.

Sean O’Hagan, the High Llamas, and looking to the future

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 03 April 2024

Bring Your Own Hammer: Musicians and historians unite for unique project

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 25 March 2024

Ireland in 50 Albums, No 27: Hawaii


by The High Llamas

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 14 February 2024

Get That Monster Off the Stage: The Movie

by Paul McDermott
The Blackpool Sentinel - 31 January 2024

Ireland in 50 Albums, No 25: Paradise in the Picturehouse


by The Stunning

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 25 January 2024

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
This Is
by The Tycho Brahe

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 20 (Jan-Feb 2024)

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
Mute
by Catchers

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 19 (Dec- Jan 2024)

A Year in Review - 2023

by Paul McDermott (and Goo columnists)
The Goo - Issue 19 (Dec-Jan 2023)

These Things Happen:
The Sarah Records Story
by Jane Duffus
(Tangent Books)

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 18 (Nov-Dec 2023)

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
Twist
by The Fat lady Sings

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 17 (Oct-Nov 2023)

Ireland in 50 Albums, No 19: Sacred Heart Hotel


by The Stars of Heaven

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 28 September 2023

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
Chicks Dig Scars
by Wormhole

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 16 (Sept-Oct 2023)

Sonic Life - A Memoir
by Thurston Moore
(Faber & Faber)

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 16 (Sept-Oct 2023)

Album Review:
Parijuana Take 1
by The Wormholes

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 15 (Aug-Sept 2023)

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
Revelino
by Revelino

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 14 (July-Aug 2023)

Ireland in 50 Albums, No 17: Lights of the City by
Jubilee Allstars

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 15 June 2023

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
1
by Simple Kid

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 13 (June-July 2023)

Ireland in 50 Albums, No 16: Brang by The Shanks

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 17 May 2023

Shot From All Sides
by Cormac Figgis
(Rotator)

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 12 (May-June 2023)

The Goo - Issues 00 (May-June 2022) - 11 (Apr-May 2023).

Gig review: Simple Kid makes triumphant return for first gig in 15 years

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 10 April 2023

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
Staros
by Nina Hynes

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 10 (Mar-Apr 2023)

Searching for the the music of Sliabh Luachra - The Lyric Feature

by Paul McDermott
RTÉ Culture - 11 March 2023

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
Churchtown
by Into Paradise

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 09 (Feb-Mar 2023)

Dancing in the Disco - the story of The Sultans of Ping

by Paul McDermott
RTÉ Culture - 24 January, 2023

A Year in Review - 2022

by Paul McDermott (and Goo columnists)
The Goo - Issue 07 (Dec-Jan 2022)

Punks Listen
complied by Niall McGuirk & Michael Murphy
(Hope Publications)

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 6 (Nov-Dec 2022)

Adventures in Modern Recording
by Trevor Horn
(Nine Eight Books)

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 05 (Oct-Nov 2022)

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
Nurse
by Therapy?

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 04 (Sept-Oct 2022)

Album Review:
Slí na Fírinne
by Michael Lightborne

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 03 (Aug-Sept 2022)

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
I Want Too Much
by A House

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 02 (July-Aug 2022)

To Here Knows When -
Great Irish Albums Revisited:
Ghostown
by The Radiators

by Paul McDermott
The Goo - Issue 00 (May-June 2022)

B-Side the Leeside:
Cathal Coughlan - Black River Falls 

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 09 March 2022

B-Side the Leeside:
Trevor Herion - Beauty Life

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 03 November 2021

B-Side the Leeside:
Cousteau - Cousteau

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 02 September 2021

B-Side the Leeside:
Stump - A Fierce Pancake

by Paul McDermott
Irish Examiner - 04 August 2021

The sounds of Finbarr Donnelly - Cork's cult hero remembered

by Paul McDermott
RTÉ Culture - 25 April, 2020

Cult musician Michael O'Shea's journey

by Paul McDermott
RTÉ Culture - 26 August 2019

Sound job: the oral history of Microdisney

by Paul McDermott
The Irish Times - 19 May, 2018

Lights! Camel! Action! Stump's bright spark bows out

by Paul McDermott
Sunday Independent - 15 December, 2015