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I started gathering these links with great intentions of keeping the list updated and fresh, but it turns out that I don't have the patience for that. So here's a list of some new links and some old links. We can't take responsibility for the content of the sites... but hopefully you'll find something here of interest.

... We finally managed to update these links a bit. If there are any broken or dead links please let us know (it´s tough to keep track of everything). Do feel free to submit ideas for links on the messageboard.
Thanks! TC

ME STUFF & FRIENDS

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The Living Room Project - a hub for Irish talent, enabling the artists to represent themselves and to encourage promoters and agents from home and abroad to work with Irish artists.
Entertainment Architects My wonderful PR people.
Tadhg Cooke on Myspace
Tadhg Cooke on Bebo
Cookie Monsters Facebook Group
Annika Johansson : Dublin-based photographer. Took the latest promo-photographs that you'll see on the forthcoming Live At St Kevin's CD and the photos that are on the brand new series of bookmarks and postcards that we've just got our mitts on.
Angry : A very angry bunch of designers, cartoonists and all-round creative people. They're renowned for their work with BellX1 and other darlings of the Dublin scene. They also lent their distinctive artwork to the cover of our Know You Hate Me single and the Live At Saint Kevin's album.
Ivy Court Records - My humble independent home-grown record label. Also on myspace.
Vivo Discs (Japan) - The fabulous label I'm signed to in Japan.
Coolin Studios Recording studio in Blanchardstown, Dublin. Shane Brady, producer of Wax & Seal is the producer/engineer in residence.
Mark N Simon - A wonderfully madcap duo, and great friends to boot.

MUSIC MAGAZINES etc.

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Irish Music Central Probably the biggest resource for all Irish music. Lives up to its name. Great MP3s and exhaustive resources for the bands they´ve included so far...
Foggy Notions Irish Magazine
UNCUT Uncut UK Mag
Mojo Mojo
Q Q Mag
NME New Musical Express
Music Plasma Interesting site that shows links between various bands. Type in a band and see what other bands they´re linked to. It´s all debateable of course, but it´s interesting nonetheless.

IRISH BANDS

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BELLX1 - They used to be the most under-rated Irish band in the world ...ever... They're good guys.
Colm Quearney a.k.a Q - Singer, songwriter, sometime Mundy & Lir guitarist supremo & all 'round nice bloke. 'Reckless' is one of the catchiest tunes ever written. Also a great links page....
Maria Doyle Kennedy - Every one of Maria's gigs is like a 'happening'. You really come away feeling you've witnessed something special. I'm quoting someone else there, but I think they put it well.
Lir - One of the best known underground bands from Ireland. This is an unofficial site. - You can buy Lir stuff from their american label apparantly - WAR Records . Lir's former members are now scattered throughout the music scene in bands like Bigwig, Colm Quearney, Earthquake Hair, David Gray's band,... David Hopkins has launched a solo assault from San Fran, Paul 'Binzer' Brennan also drummed with them. I think you can link Binzer in some way to every Irish band of the last decade. He's played with everyone.
Damien Dempsey - No negative vibes nor comments here.
Gemma Hayes - Apparantly handed in her college ID one day, and went off to become the well regarded singer/songwriter she is today. Obviously has more guts than I do... I'd just stop going...
Turn - "Forward" is a stunning album.
Nina Hynes - Dublin singer/songwriter
Tychonaut - formerly The Tycho Brahe. There's very complicated links between Automata, The Plague Monkeys and The Tycho Brahe... among others... the Irish music scene being what it is...
The Frames - At this stage they're Irish legends.
David McWilliams - From Ballymena, wrote "The days of Pearly Spencer" and some other gems.
Van Morrison - A colossal Ivan resource. There´s a picture there somewhere of the two Morrisons (Jim of The Doors & Van) playing together.
The Chalets - Dublin band... the little graphics on this site are magical. Related to the bizarre "Warlords Of Pez" in two ways. Go on. Guess.
Mic Christopher - Mic's Heyday has moved from underground anthem to mainstream hit thanks to a Guinness ad. The Heyday album is well worth a listen.
The Walls - Formed by the brothers Wall of The Stunning fame. Currently brewing up a storm around the country.
Paddy Casey - His first promotional film is a must-see. Glen Hansard stars.
Jerry Fish - Everyone knows the recent single "True Friends". Fewer realise this was the guy who sang "Celebrate" with An Emotional Fish
Mundy - Mundy Enright, 24 star musician
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Instrumental music like nothing you´ve heard before. Two classical guitarists from Mexico. Living in Dublin. Former heavy metal fans. Incredabubble.
David Hopkins , now based in NYC. Ex-Lir piano genius.
Rory Gallagher - Official site
jenny lindfors - Songwriter & sometime touring partner.
gavin moore - Songwriter based in Clonakilty, Co Cork. Runs a great night in the legendary DeBarra's.
jessie and layla - Slick rock and roll sisters and sometime touring partners.
bronagh gallagher - Official site
declan de barra- Official site
Annette Buckley - Official site
brendan o'shea - Official site
Mark Geary - Official site
john spillane - Official site
Duke Special - Official site
pete courtney- Official site
mark n simon- Great (Irish & Welsh) friends from Germany. Bizarre musicomedy and fantastic über-supporters of us here at TC. You couldn't hope for more.
tokunbo akinro - Friends from Germany.
delorentos- Official site
The Guggenheim Grotto- Fellow Starbucks Top 20 Irish musicians. Currently doing great things in the States. Lovely lads!
paul carrack- Official site
neosupervital- Official site

NON-IRISH BANDS

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Alexander Paeffgen - Alexander is the piano/keyboard/unusual-sound-creator on "Wax & Seal".
Mitch Schillinger - Mitch drummed on "Wax & Seal".
SheGoesBang - Niels was the guitarist on "Wax & Seal".
Reamonn - Philipp, Reamonn´s bassist, performed a few gigs with us in 2004 and 2005. Philipp likes sports jackets. There's also a fanpage at REATEAM. He plays bass on one or two tracks on "Wax & Seal".
Amy Rigby - I caught her at the last Siren´s gig in The Village. Wrote a fantastic song that I can´t name... all about ex-boyfriend´s and hired killers.
Supergrass - Interestingly, they dedicated their Life On Other Planets album (which as usual is stunning) to the late lamented Douglas Adams. As zany as the man himself.
The White Stripes - Still not sure what I make of these. Seven Nation Army is cool though... and a little bit unsettling given the current state of play in the world of war.
Joni Mitchell - this site contains the most exhaustive Joni Mitchell guitar tab resource I have ever come across. Amazingly detailed. Go here for the official Joni site.
Bob Dylan - Official site
Paul Simon - Official site
The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi battles the pink robots" is a cool song... Live shows are a must-see.
Jeff Buckley - Official site
Nick Drake - Site dedicated to the late English singer/songwriter who went from being almost unrecognised ten years ago to having BBC documentaries on his life narrated by Brad Pitt. Strange days indeed.
James Taylor - Said to be the subject of Joni's "Carey" from Blue (as well as "Blue" itself).
Elliott Smith - Official website of the late great Elliott. I think my favourite would be Waltz #2 but I´m easily persuaded otherwise as many will no doubt tell you.
Rufus Wainright - The official website. Bought Poses recently. Cigarettes & chocolate milk. Incredible stuff.
Rilo Kiley - Great song : "portions for foxes". Check it out.
the cardigans - Official site
brendan benson - Official site
Fiona Apple - Official site

POLITICS, NEWSPAPERS & OTHER STUFF [for the Bono & Geldof in you]

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David McWilliams - Not to be confused with the Northern Irish sixties musician. One of the best analysts of current affairs in Ireland today.
David Boyle - author of "Authenticity" and "The Tyranny of Numbers". Good reading.
George Monbiot - some very interesting and controversial journalism here...
MoveOn.Org
OutFoxed , all about the Fox network in the US and their dubious modus operandi.
Malcolm Gladwell author of The Tipping Point. Fascinating book if you can get your hands on it...
Adbusters - all the info you need on their campaigns...
Authentics Business - website devoted to authenticity in business.
National Association of Farmers' Markets - keeping it local.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
New Economics Foundation
Paecon - Post-Autistic Economics
Slow Food Movement - The slow food movement's website.
Shane Ross - Independent Irish senator in the Seanad (the Irish upper house of representatives) who's been active in a number of areas of late... trying to get some action on the M3 through Tara & M50 Toll Bridge controversies etc etc. Send complaints to An Taoiseach and the relevant authorities quickly and very easily from the site!
Medical News Today - A good site for news of a medical nature. UK based.
The Guardian - UK based paper.
The Onion - New York's satirical paper that got out of hand and went global...
Z-Mag - Leftie Journalism. You're in interesting company here... Noam Chomsky writes for these people (the 'father of modern linguistics' and the scourge of american foreign policy makers)
NO LOGO - Naomi Klein - Official site of the by now legendary book. Interesting story on Iraq she wrote recently.
Anna Livia - Loads of links to world newspapers, etc. pretty good but badly presented resource
How Stuff Works - self explanatory really... amazingly detailed sites on everything from tying shoelaces to developing nuclear weapons. Thank goodness the bad guys don't have the internet... wait a minute!
Michael Moore - Thought-provoking activist. You may not agree with all of his convictions ... but it´s entertaining.
Pentagon Mystery Remember the plane that crashed into the Pentagon? For the conspiracy theorists.
Corporation Watch - See what those nasty people in eighties suits, with eighties habits and more money than the debt of a small african nation get up to... They have an extensive links page too.
Ariel Sharon and more stuff here
Indymedia - An independent media source with worldwide branches ... Recently closed down by the FBI in the US and had their equipment taken. No reasons were given.
MI5 from their official website... this is the best page... myths and misunderstandings.
DISINFO.
IRAQ.

HUMOUR...

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Douglas Adams - Resisted reading his "Hitchhiker's guide..." for years until I heard an excerpt from the original radio play... Then the significance of Radiohead's Paranoid Android became clear.
hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy The original radio episodes. The latest installment is now playing on BBC Radio 7 if you´re interested. Also keep your eyes peeled for the film which is being made at the moment.
BBC Comedy If you like TV comedy clips. They have everything here.
I love Eggs! My sister loves this. I'm frightened by it.
A VERY BIG AD - Exactly that. Hilarious.
David O'Doherty - Some recordings from David's syndicated musical strangeness radio show syndicated across the land.

ENVIRONMENT / FAIR TRADE THINGS

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Sustainable Energy Ireland - SEI
Enfo - Environmental information for Ireland. Also check out their links for other environment related resources ENFO Links.
airtricity - wind energy. switch over! same bat prices.
REHAB Recycling - list of Rehab´s recycling centres in ireland and what they recycle.
tenthousandvillages Fair Trade from around the world
fairtradefederation Fair Trade america
Fair Trade Fair Trade UK
MAKE TRADE FAIR Campaign to make trade fair
Climate Change ... and a demo too.
Warchild
Drop the Debt
World Aids Day
Make Trade Fair

MUSIC RESOURCES for Songwriters, Musicians (tab, instruments, shops, ....)

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J Chord - Great site for figuring out tunings, chords, fingerings, etc. Guitarists only!
Museweb Acoustic guitar links & resources... everything you need...
Songs from the Parlour Upstairs in the Stag's Head. One of the city's gems. Gigs on a wednesday at the end of every month. Sadly now defunct.
Guitar Pro If anyone´s interested in learning guitar but wants to go at their own pace, while listening to the songs that they really want to learn, try this. You do have to buy it. No, I haven´t tried it, but it looks very very cool.
Audiothief Rare audio archive - really rare stuff. cool stuff too. low quality though and really only accessible from high bandwidth connections. REAL audio format.
Song School Irish site. Good interviews with songwriters and a decent resource.
TAXI An interesting alternative to shopping your demo to the jillions of record companies around the planet.
IMRO Irish Musical Rights Organisation... lots of information on royalties and the whole rigmarole of collecting/distributing etc... interesting only to those depending on royalties to buy new shoes.
Hora Instruments - Romanian manufacturer of really cheap stuff. not bad either. shite strings though.
Folkcraft usa site for dulcimers... expensive but beautiful.
Dulcimers ... same as above
McSpadden Dulcimers... reputedly the best you can get.
THOMANN German site. Like Amazon but for musical instruments and equipment. Fairly cheap too.
Nick Drake Tablature
Tyrone Guthrie Centre for musical retreats!

LINGUISTICS

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Learn Elvish - for the more avid Tolkien fans.
Omniglot - linguistics stuff. tolkien´s elvish. a site on lots of languages deciphered and undeciphered. pretty cool. a bit nerdy too.

COMPUTER STUFF

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Google Ultimate Search - allows you to add more parameters to your google search... very useful...
Google - Best search engine available to us at the moment. They were moving to Dublin a while ago... not sure how that´s coming along.
Hate Pop Up Ads If you hate pop-up ads, read this. Great and simple solution that you can do yourself... Just put a little file on your computer and most of them will be blocked. Totally free and not commercial. Just created by a really pissed off guy. More power to him.
FTP Planet This is a sponsored site, so it´s biased in favour of a particular FTP program. Apart from that, it´s a very informative site on speedier file transfers than the WWW we all know and love.
DNSSTUFF Domain name tracers and stuff. Very cool site for the complete and utter nerds.
SLASHDOT Slashdot Org
BURKS CD for Computer Students Online ... great links page
VNC Free. The source code for VNC, a tool for remotely monitoring and controlling another machine's Windows desktop.
Some C Tools Various small applications written in C by the W3 organisation who kind of oversee the WWW... TOOLS
An Open Source links page
Template php engine For website developers.
Create a php gallery - webmonkey is a great site for programmers or non-programmers to learn how to...
BBCLONE - website stats program. cool. and simple. great links page as well with useful opensource links.. blogging etc works for php and funnily enough... even simpler code for html. it´s a hack but it works perfectly and they approve
Source Forge An open source source!!! Check out phpslash - for publishing php pages...
PHP BB Open source Php Bulletin Board. This is where we got the messageboard from.
Easter Eggs Probably not what you think. These are little specials hidden in programs and DVDs etc etc by bored programmers. More Easter eggs

RADIO STUFF

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Phantom FM Dublin and web based independent radio station... you can click here for a direct link to their band directory
radio-locator find radio stations around the world. web or terrestrial
radiodirectory UK radio directory.
tvradioworld Your Internet Broadcast Directory and Listing of Radio Television Stations on the Web
december guide to a few american cities and what lies within. Lists all radio stations in nyc
Irish Pirates - Radio
ComReg Irish Regulator for radio/communications etc.
Radiowaves Irish radio website. Lots of archives and history of radio broadcasting in Ireland.
Pandora Internet radio.
Last FM Internet radio.

RECORD & BOOK SHOPS

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Road Records Run by Dave n Julie... top shop. Supporting the local musicians. Apparantly they have a great mailing service too... although I don't live far enough away for it to make sense for me yet.
Amazon UK For the reasonably cheap online purchase of less mainstream stuff. Be sure to shop around. Also, prices in Pounds Sterling... get your calculators out.
Amazon UK For the reasonably cheap online purchase of less mainstream stuff. Be sure to shop around. Also, prices in Pounds Sterling... get your calculators out.
BPM Records
Cool Discs Music
CD Baby

RECORD LABELS, ASSOCIATIONS, ETC.

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AIM UK Association of Independent Music (AIM) UK based.
IMPALA Independent Music Companies Assoc (european) click here for their links to the individual countries´ organisations.
IFPI Representing the recording industry worldwide. Facts and figures. 2003 left the Indies with about 25% of the world market.

TRAVEL STUFF

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Aer Lingus Irish airline
Ryanair Cheap Irish airline
Hapag Lloyd Express Great deals if you wait for the sales. Otherwise it´s quite expensive.
easy jet Flights from Basel etc. Don´t fly to Ireland yet methinks. But useful if travelling through England to europe.
De Bahn German rail.

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