Steve Cummins
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Steve Cummins

Ruminations – Arts & Culture blog

  • Review: Damon Albarn at the National Concert Hall, Dublin

    February 25, 2022

    Live review of Damon Albarn at the National Concert Hall in Dublin where the Blur and Gorillaz frontman played his first solo show in Ireland.

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  • Review: Soda Blonde – Small Talk

    August 2, 2021

    Soda Blonde’s debut album sees the former members of Little Green Cars veer towards pop.

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  • Review: Inhaler – It Won’t Always Be Like This

    August 2, 2021

    Read a review of the excellent debut album from Inhaler

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  • ‘Music has saved my life many times over’ – Ken Griffin talks August Wells, creativity and Rollerskate Skinny’s Horsedrawn Wishes

    November 3, 2020

    Perhaps it’s because he’s been based in the US for the best part of 30 years, but Ken Griffin remains one of the Irish rock scenes more under-appreciated songwriters. ‘Under-rated’…

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  • Whipping Boy: 25 years on the band remember ‘Heartworm’

    October 26, 2020

    Heartworm – the debut album by Whipping Boy – was released 25 years ago. Steve Cummins sits down with all 4 band remembers to reflect on the making of a classic and what might have been

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  • MuRli to A Smyth – 12 tracks on the Music in Mind playlist

    October 11, 2020

     1. Broken Social Scene, Remember Me Young Compact mostly-instrumental track from their 2019 EP Let’s Try the After Vol. 1. 2. Denise Chaila, Murli, God Knows, Sorcha Richardson, Out…

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  • Now is the time to play more Irish music on Irish radio

    October 1, 2020

    Radio is a sound salvation. So sang Elvis Costello back in 1978. Forty-two years on from then, the medium that Costello sung about so reverentially still plays a meaningful role…

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  • 12 tracks I’ve been listening to this week

    September 27, 2020

    Ludwig Gorannsson, Rainy Night In TallinnFrom the thrilling opening sequence to Tenet, a scene that is arguably the highlight of the movie. The Walls, Bone DeepYou can hear the influence…

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  • How a tornado unearthed some Gillian Welch lost treasures

    September 23, 2020

    Gillian Welch sat on 48 fine recordings for nearly 20 years before a near-disaster prompted her to release them.

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  • The Walls – taking the Hi with the Lo

    September 22, 2020

    Back in 2006, The Walls – the band formed by Joe and Steve Wall out of the ashes of The Stunning – were beginning to get some traction on Nic…

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  • Tenet, Bruce and if you only read one more interview with that band…

    September 20, 2020

    Ruminations on bits of culture – inspired by Greil Marcus Real Life Top Ten 1. Christopher Nolan, Tenet, (Warner Bros) When you’re in a room full of people agreeing the…

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  • Watch Damon Albarn perform The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

    May 22, 2020

    Damon Albarn was due to come to Dublin next week to perform his new work, The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows. We all know why that is…

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Recent Posts

  • Review: Damon Albarn at the National Concert Hall, Dublin

  • Review: Soda Blonde – Small Talk

  • Review: Inhaler – It Won’t Always Be Like This

  • ‘Music has saved my life many times over’ – Ken Griffin talks August Wells, creativity and Rollerskate Skinny’s Horsedrawn Wishes

  • Whipping Boy: 25 years on the band remember ‘Heartworm’

About Me

About Me

Hi, I'm Steve

I am an arts journalist specialising in writing about music. You may have read my work in The Sunday Times, NME, Nylon or The Irish Times. I also love content design.

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