Daniel Lynch

Daniel is a freelance journalist and writer based in Belfast. He plays guitar in several bands and releases their music through his label, Tin Man Heart. Favourite bands - Thin Lizzy, Gaslight Anthem, Tom Waits and Ryan Adams Favourite Album - Elsie - The Horrible Crowes
ALBUM REVIEW: Dave Hause – Drive It Like It’s Stolen

ALBUM REVIEW: Dave Hause – Drive It Like It’s Stolen

Now on his sixth solo album, Dave Hause has a catalogue that fans, new and old, can get properly sunk…

1 year ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Black Star Riders – Wrong Side Of Paradise

After a decade of releasing their own music, Black Star Riders have shown themselves to be much more than the…

1 year ago

ALBUM REVIEW: David Keenan – Crude

The quality of his first two albums more than earned David Keenan the right to be a little more experimental…

1 year ago

LIVE REVIEW: Gaslight Anthem / Chris Farren at Telegraph Building, Belfast

“Chris Farren will perform soon,” read the enormous letters projected on to the side wall of Belfast’s Telegraph Building. Soon…

2 years ago

INTERVIEW: Wynona Bleach on the “songwriting connection beyond words” that inspired debut album, Moonsoake

One day in the late summer of 2019 I pulled into the car park of an old mill building in…

2 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Wynona Bleach – Moonsoake

The term “long-awaited debut album” takes on a new significance when it comes to Wynona Bleach’s Moonsoake. It’s well over two years…

2 years ago

“Music is criminally undervalued” – How new platform Minm is changing streaming for musicians and fans

“Streaming is broken for 99% of artists.” So says the striking introduction on the landing page of Minm, a new streaming…

2 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Dave Hause – Blood Harmony

There’s something infinitely satisfying about following an artist as they develop and grow, bringing you along with them through huge…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: David Keenan – What Then?

David Keenan’s debut album, A Beginner’s Guide To Bravery landed in January of 2020. It is a phenomenal record (check our review…

3 years ago

INTERVIEW: How DAVE HAUSE found Blood Harmony on ‘Pencils Down Friday’

Blood Harmony is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Dave Hause - in case you’re wondering, that’s “pronounced like…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: The Ronnie Wood band – Mr Luck – A Tribute to Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

“Calling all guitarists…It’s the Jimmy Reed move,” proclaims the blurb on the rear sleeve. “It’s all about those visceral chords…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend

Wolf Alice suffered from a very rare form of second album syndrome… They won the Mercury Prize with 2017’s Visions…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Greta Van Fleet – The Battle at Garden’s Gate

Greta Van Fleet is a band that divides opinion. Loved and lambasted equally by critics and classic rock fans, picking…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Ricky Warwick – When Life Was Hard And Fast

When an artist who is best known as a member of a band releases a solo album, that album is…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: A. Smyth – Last Animals

There’s a familiarity in A. Smyth’s debut album Last Animals that would have you thinking you’re listening to an artist who has…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: The Struts – Strange Days

If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery The Struts must be trying to please a lot of people.…

4 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Pillow Queens – In Waiting

As far as debut albums go, Pillow Queens can stand over In Waiting with a huge sense of achievement. It’s…

4 years ago

LIVE REVIEW: Frank Turner – Show 2500 Live Stream

“What a weird time to be alive,” says Frank Turner, flanked by his bandmates but separated from them by huge…

4 years ago

“This was the music I always wanted to make” – Stephen Jones on drawing a line under Glass Wings

“It’s nice to know when enough is enough, especially when you have something in the pipeline,” says Stephen Jones of…

4 years ago

Northern Irish Musicians Collaborate for Covid-19 Fundraiser

More than fifty Northern Irish musicians have collaborated to create an album of acoustic tracks which will raise funds for…

4 years ago