Festivals are all about having fun and enjoying yourself but they aren’t always the most sanitary environments. With everything from rain, mud, hot sun and days without a proper shower, you need all the help you can get to keep up your personal hygiene. When a double layer of deodorant no longer cuts it you’ll […]
6 Things Your Band Should Be Doing on Facebook
Creating your online presence and growing your fan base is not as easy as some make it out to be. If you were creating your Facebook page for your music five years ago, this would have been a different story. Few artists had band pages, and it was less difficult to get lost in the […]
The Three P’s of Recording
Last week, I went into White Room Studios in Austin, Texas to begin work on Of The Sun’s new EP, Before A Human Path. This marks possibly the 17th anniversary of the first time I’ve ever “laid down tracks”, as they say. While most of my experience in recording has been in either makeshift or […]
7 Inescapable Things You’ll Find at Every Typical Music Festival
Heading to a music festival this year? Be prepared to encounter some weird, wacky and wonderful spectacles. Certain trends seem to pop up year after year – by now, music festivals wouldn’t feel complete without them. While many could be seen as examples of how strange we’ve all become, not all are crazy premeditated stunts. […]
Legacy, lies and loss, and why we’re all Martians now: thank you Mr Bowie
“Ashes to ashes, funk to funky” On Monday last week artist, musician and legendary spaceboy David Bowie was announced dead. My ceiling collapsed. A fortnight later I’m still processing what it all meant. They were just pop songs and I never met the man, but a world without Bowie just feels entirely alien. I’m not […]
How to Totally Suck at Touring
Don’t bring merch. Alison Shaw summed it up perfectly in August for youbloomTV: if a person (likely in a state of inebriation) who has never seen you before decides they like what they hear, they’re going to want to take something home with them that they can listen to again, or a T-shirt they can […]
A Consumer’s Guide to Song-snatching (Part Two)
We know you’ve been anxious for part two of Clinton Heylin’s article on the art of song-snatching, so here it is! If you missed part one, you can find it here! 6. James Bond Theme In 2001 fabled film composer John Barry was finally forced to defend a libel suit brought by Monty Norman after […]
A Consumer’s Guide To Song-snatching (Part One)
Perhaps best known for his extensive writing on Bob Dylan, Clinton Heylin has been called “a formidable rock historian” (The Australian), “Arguable the world’s greatest rock biographer” (The Irish Independent), and “One of music writing’s foremost practitioners” (Irish Examiner). His work also includes biographies on Van Morrison and Sandy Denny in addition to numerous other […]
4 Incredible Music Organizations You Should Know About
The world can be a challenging place. From disease to poverty; from war to climate threats to the fight for equality across all interpersonal lines, we humans have got a hard row to hoe. When the going gets tough, the tough usually get something amazing going, and as much as we can hurt, we can […]
youbloom HEADROOM VIP : Stephen Kennedy from the Dublin Beatles Festival
It may be nothing but a car park now, but the nondescript white building on Middle Abbey Street on Dublin’s north side was once Ireland’s premier art deco movie and live music palace. It was a place abuzz with glamour and entertainment – and, on one particular night, the scene of riots, mania, and a […]
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