(or, you know, facts about Ireland. The actual title just seems a bit more dramatic XD) Since it’s the most Irish day of the year and we know everyone wants to be Irish today, I’ve decided to give you some facts about our beautiful… Continue Reading “The Truth About Ireland”
Category: Our Muchness, Random MuchnessTags: Belfast, CMAT, Cork, Croke Park, Dermot Kennedy, Dublin, Eire, Eurovision, Fontaines D.C., Gaeilge, Galway, Halloween, Harp, Hibernia, Hozier, Irish, Irish Artist, Irish Music, Irishness, Lambay Island, Limerick, Luck of the Irish, Mary Black, Music, MusicBox PR, Newgrange, Niall Horan, Northern Ireland, Paddys Day, Population, Republic of Ireland, Roisin O, Samhain, Snow Patrol, St. Patricks Day, The British Isles, The Coronas, The Cranberries, The Emerald Isle, The Frames, The River Shannon, Thin Lizzy, U2, United States of America, Van Morrison, Vikings
I’M BAAAAAACK! It’s been a while since new songs were added to the My Year in Music playlist simply because, on the last day of last month, I was living my best life in Amsterdam soaking up the wonderfulness that is The Netherlands. It felt… Continue Reading “My Year in Music August/September 2022”
Category: Music Muchness, My Year in MusicTags: 33 Max Verstappen, 5 Seconds of Summer, 5sos, Afrojack, Aitch, Alice Dee Jay, Amsterdam, Anne-Marie, Arctic Monkeys, August, Baby Can I Hold You, Bebe Rexha, Bell X1, Better in Stereo, Better Off Alone, Big Yellow Taxi, Billie Eilish, Bloodpop, Bohnes, Boyzone, Britney Spears, BygTwo3, Capital Letters, Cardi B, Carte Blanq, Cloudy June, Cool Kids, Counting Crows, Cynthia Catania, DADONI, Dancing on the Ceiling, David Bowie, David Guetta, Daya, Denzel Curry, DJ Snake, Doja Cat, Dove Cameron, Down Under, Dream, Dream a Little Dream of Me, dreams, Dubvision, Dutch GP, Dutch Grand Prix, Easy For You To Say, Echosmith, Ella Fitzgerald, Emma Louise, Endor, Everybody Loves an Outlaw, Fall Out Boy, Feels Like Home, Flo Rida, Florescent Adolescent, for the girls, FU In My Head, GAMPER, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Gina G, Gives You Hell, Glass Animals, Greenlight, Hailee Steinfeld, Hayley Kiyoko, Heartbeat, I Got You, I See Red, I Think We're Alone Now, Ill Be There, Jess Glynne, Jordan G, Kim Petras, League of Legends, Lil Nas X, Lionel Richie, Louis Armstrong, Love is a Bitch, Love Tonight, Lunchmoney Lewis, Macklemore, Mama, Martin Garrix, Marvel, Maxx Power, Men At Work, Middle Finger, Miley Cyrus, Moncrieff, Music, My Chemical Romance, My Head Is A Jungle, My Name Is..., My Year in Music, MYIM, MYIM Playlist, Naive, Natasha Bedingfield, No Woman No Cry, Ooo Ah...Just a Little Bit, Oranje Army, Oxygen, Phats & Smalls, Pitbull, Playlist, Psycho, Pump It Up, Queen, Red Lips, Rocky Took a Lover, Romeo, Ruin, Sage the Gemini, Sam Smith, Scouting For Girls, Scream and Shout, Selena Gomez, September, Shouse, Sit Still Look Pretty, Sky Ferreira, SLANEY, Something Better, Spice Girls, Spice Up Your Life, Spoon, Spotify, Spotify Playlist, STAR WALKIN, Summer Days, Sun Heat, Taki Taki, Tear in My Heart, Tems, Thats Not My Name, The All American Rejects, The Cranberries, The Kooks, The Netherlands, The Ting Tings, The Underdog, These Words, Tick Tick Boom, Tiffany, TikTok, Tokyo Drifting, Turn Around, Twenty One Pilots, Two Feet, Under Pressure, Unholy, Vegas, Wanklemut, watch, Welcome to the Good Life, Westlife, When Youre Looking Like That, Will.I.Am, YouTube, YouTube Playlist
Hello again. A big part of what we do at OMG revolves around music. So I decided to try and explain why music makes you feel happy, why you get songs stuck in your head, why songs seem to follow you everywhere and why… Continue Reading “People, Music and… Psychology?”
Category: Music Muchness, Random MuchnessTags: Dopamine, Earworm, Empathy, Feel Good Music, Jonas Brothers, Men, Music, Music Is My Drug, Music Psychology, People, People and Music, Playlist, Playlists, Psychology, Radio, Stuck Song Syndrome, The Cranberries, What A Man Gotta Do, Women, Wundt Curve, Zombie
So rather than giving you with just a month’s worth of random songs for My Year in Music (which I will do on the 1st as always), Niamh and I decided that because it’s Spooktober to give you a playlist filled with the best… Continue Reading “The Monster Halloween Playlist”
Category: Music MuchnessTags: ACDC, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Annie Lennox, Backstreet Boys, Backstreets Back, Bad Moon Rising, Billie Eilish, Black Magic, Blogtober, Bobby Pickett, Bring Me To Life, bury a friend, Calling All The Monsters, China Anne McClain, Crazy Train, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Creep, Deadmau5, Descendants, Disturbia, Dorothy, Eminem, Enter Sandman, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Fifth Harmony, Ghostbusters, Ghosts n Stuff, Godzilla, Gorillaz, Halloween, Halloweeny, Halsey, Haunted, Heads Will Roll, Helena, Hells Bells, I Put A Spell On You, Im In Love With A Monster, In The Shadows, Juice WRLD, Kanye West, Little Mix, Marilyn Manson, Marshmello, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Monster, Monster Mash, Music, My Chemical Romance, My Immortal, My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nightmare, Ozzy Ozbourne, Paramore, Pet Semetary, Playlist, Radiohead, Red Right Hand, Rihanna, Rockwell, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, Selena Gomez, Shakira, She Wolf, Skrillex, Somebodys Watching Me, Spooktober, Spooky Season, Spotify, Tainted Love, Taylor Swift, The Automatic, The Cranberries, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Phantom of the Opera, The Ramones, The Rasmus, This is Halloween, Thriller, Time Warp, We Own The Night, Wicked Ones, Wolves, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zombie, Zombies 2
August has come and gone and school is in session, ladies and gents, which means that I am officially on my holidays after finishing my contract in the local Post Office for another year. You know those holidays that I can’t go on because… Continue Reading “My Year In Music – August”
Category: Music Muchness, My Year in MusicTags: 7 Things, Adagio For Strings, Adele, Anna Kendrick, Anuel AA, August, Billy Idol, Budapest, Build Me Up Buttercup, Cant Stop The Feeling, Chasing Abbey, Deep End, Ed Drewett, Electric Feel, Familia, Fifteen, Foo Fighters, Gavin James, George Ezra, Got To Be Real, Hello, Home, Human, I Need You Tonight, I Remember, into the woods, Jason Derulo, John Summit, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Killer Queen, Love Lockdown, Mama Do, Maroon 5, Martin Garrix, Mary J Blige, Men Without Hats, MGMT, Miley Cyrus, Mothers Daughter, Music, My Year in Music, Never Ending, Never Really Over, Nicki Minaj, Ocean to Ocean, On The Steps of the Palace, Paddy Casey, Pixie Lott, Playlist, Professor Green, Queen, Rag n Bone Man, Rhea, Safety Dance, Saints and Sinners, Savage Love, Spotify, Sugar, Taylor Swift, The Book of Love, The Coronas, The Cranberries, The Foundations, Tiesto, Times Like These, White Wedding, Will Smith, YouTube, Zombie
Every song has a cover. Some covers are more famous than the original (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun anyone?). This post is all about showing that, though Ireland has plenty of stunning original songs and amazing vocal performances, our gifted musicians and songwriters can… Continue Reading “Ireland’s Got You Covered”
Category: Music MuchnessTags: Aimee, BBC Radio 1, Cheers, Circles, Cover, Cover Artist, Covers, Dancing in the Moonlight, Dermot Kennedy, dreams, East 17, Flashing Lights, Foy Vance, Gary Portnoy, Gavin James, I Will Always Love You, Irish Act, Irish Artist, Irish Covers, irish musician, Irish Women in Harmony, Judy Hart Angelo, Kanye West, Live Lounge, Loah, Lose You To Love Me, Lover, Music, Niall Horan, Peter Gabriel, Post Malone, Roisin O, Ruthanne, Ruthanne Cunningham, Selena Gomez, Stay Another Day, Taylor Swift, The Book of Love, The Cranberries, Thin Lizzy, TLC, Today FM, Waterfalls, Whitney Houston, Wild Youth
Heeeello everybody! It’s the end of June and we are here to share the best bits of the month with you. As you all know this month was Pride month and you may have noticed we changed our colours a little. Just a smidge.… Continue Reading “June Monthly Round Up”
Category: Monthly Round-UpTags: Aladdin, Album of the Month, All American Girl, Book of the Month, Cheesy Movie Recommendation, colours, Dermot Kennedy, Disney Classics, dreams, EP of the Month, Eurovision, Event of the Month, Favourite Item of the Month, Gaming Picks, Gerry Cinnamon, Giants, Good Movie Recommendation, Here We Go Again, Imagine Dragons, Ireland, Irish Women in Harmony, Iron Man, Item of the Month, June, Kodaline, Les Brown, Lock Up Live, Lock Up Live Show, Madagascar, Mamma Mia, Mario Kart 8, Marvel, Marvel Movie Binge, Meg Cabot, Modern Family, Moment of the Month, Monthly Round-Up, Movie Picks, Movie Recommendation, Mulan, Music, Netflix, Night Visions, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, One Day at a Time, Percy Jackson, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Pride, Queer Eye, Quote of the Month, RDJ, Ready or Not, Rick Riordan, Robert Downey Jr, Sheldon Cooper, Single of The Month, Switch, The Bonny, The Cranberries, The Eurovision Song Contest, The Lion King, The Song of Fire Saga, Tony Stark, TV Show Picks, Vinyl