Review: Bribry 'Swings' Skyhigh - new solo project by Brian O'Reilly

Bribry is Sky High is the new solo pseudonym taken on by former Star Crossed Enemies front man Brian O’Reilly. O’Reilly has just finished recording debut EP Swings with former Guillotines and Star Crossed Enemies band mate Gary White. While White took part in the recording of Swings he will not form part of the live line-up of Bribry is Sky High full-time, with Redreck vocalist and guitarist Ian Campbell set to partner O’Reilly onstage.

Review: Apollos Thebe seize the music, and so should you

Prendo: definition - after an extensive look through the ‘Wiktionary’ (a wiki can answer anything these days), I finally discovered ‘prendo’ to mean something along the lines of ‘to seize’, ‘to take’, ‘to hold’, ‘to charm’, and ‘to keep’ in Galician, Spanish and/or French. If I’m wrong, correct me now and I shall forever hold my silence.

Review: Star Crossed Enemies - no longer Star Crossed, but it's with a Happy Ending

It is with enormous sadness that I write about the break up of Star Crossed Enemies. After the highs of being loved by the unlikely folk of Limerick; reaching second place in the download.ie charts; recording an EP; and making many a person smile with their onstage chemistry, Brian O’Reilly and Gary White decided to part ways with their final show together taking place in the Spirit Store in Dundalk supporting Michelle Anne Kelly.

Review: Apollos Thebe - The Voice of God that hopefully won't Stawp

“You can take the time to find out what has really kept you here.”

I’ll come back to this.

For the College View, album review: Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky

Imagine a slightly less polished Editors. Imagine Snow Patrol’s first two albums, before Final Straw, the one’s nobody cared about. And, as HMV so aptly described it, imagine a Coldplay influenced by R.E.M., Neil Young and lumberjack shirts instead of Radiohead. Imagine these things and you can imagine Wintersleep.

Review: Star Crossed Enemies - a new direction

Since the split of Guillotines, Brian O’Reilly and Gary White have created a new sound for themselves with Star Crossed Enemies. However, this new sound is one that may not be deemed ‘exciting’ enough for gig promoters in Dublin to consider as headline material. The example being used here is the band Green Lights’ final gig on the 27th of February, 2009. The bill for this gig was, in playing order (first to last): Star Crossed Enemies/The Funeral Suits/ and Green Lights.

Review: Swimming in a Red Sea

Following the split of Guillotines back in June of 2008, guitarist and vocalist Gavin White spent a lot of time recording solo pieces on his MacBook under two different aliases: Herodotus’ Dream and Insomnia.