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Duffington Post – 29/11/2011
This fortnight, our resident music nerd Cormac Duffy looks back on a week that shook the music industry Stuck in a drought of new music, combined with the depressing combination…
The Duffington Post
With the MTV European Music Awards having packed up and left Belfast, Cormac Duffy looks back on the annual feast of cringe and confusion…
CD Review: Camp
Album: Camp Artist: Childish Gambino Grade: B-…
Head to Head: Should we have to pay for our education?
NO: Cormac Duffy Another year, another impending student march and the reprise of the fees debate. When all of us are living a constant state of insecurity and uncertainty about…
We Are Amused
Throwing Muses front woman Kirstin Hersh speaks with Cormac Duffy about the “cringe” of nostalgia, writing her memoir and art for art’s sake.…
Otwo Attempts: Occupying the SU Corridor
While ‘Occupy’ protests have taken place across the globe, Belfield has been anything but void of revolutionary action. Our resident insurgent Cormac Duffy gives an insight into UCD’s own rebellion…
The Full Irish #2
The old curse of the Irish is that we can never make it in life until we pack up for foreign shores. Whether it’s Wilde on the West End, Beckett…
The Hot 8 Brass Band
The Hot 8 Brass Band speak to Cormac Duffy about personal tragedy, community activism and appearing on Tremé…
The Duffington Post
In this installment, Cormac Duffy ponders how record stores hold such appeal despite having numerous flaws…
CD Review: Biophilia
Album: Biophilia Artist: Björk Grade: A-…
The Full Irish #1
Welcome to the first instalment of Otwo’s new online feature, The Full Irish. Over the next year, we will be bringing the best in new Irish music from reviews, to…
Modern day musical heroes
The upcoming Hard Working Class Heroes festival is a hotbed of unsigned talent, as Cormac Duffy finds out…
Interactive music
In the build up to Bjork’s Biophilia, Cormac Duffy takes a look at the phenomenon that is interactive music…
The Duffington Post
How to make fans and alienate purists: in the first of a new series, Cormac Duffy explains why going hipster is the new selling out…
CD Review: Neighborhoods
Artist: Blink 182 Album: Neighborhoods Grade: C-…
Alkaline Energy
Long time Alkaline Trio bassist and keystone of this year’s Revival Tour, Dan Andriano looks back on his career with Cormac Duffy…
The last band standing
Elbow guitarist Mark Potter talks to Cormac Duffy about life on the road, growing up and making your band a democracy…
Septic Bank
With the first batch of the controversial Anglo-Irish Bonds now matured and paid, Cormac Duffy argues that it was not so much a necessary evil as a coerced one.…
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