Music

Lego Indiana Jones

Lego Indiana Jones is the ongoing collaboration between me, Tom dePaor, and Alex Moore. You can listen to our debut album Hope All Well on Bandcamp and Spotify, as well as every other streaming service, but we recommend Bandcamp because we love money.

Tvashtar Paterae

Tvashtar Paterae is a metal/surf rock project mostly directed by Thomas Geraghty but with pretty major input from myself and Chloe Holmes. Our debut EP Love Songs to the Moon is also everywhere you’d want to find it, including Bandcamp.

Ballsac

ballsac.ie is an upcoming ticket sales website. Eventbrite and its ilk charge unnecessary and often ridiculous added charges that have to be fronted by either the band or the paying audience. I realised a little while ago that running a Pretix instance makes way more sense, and can be funded from ticket sales for much less than the percentage fee that Eventbrite takes. Myself and Daniel Penrose are set to have this up and running within the next few months.

I gave ballsac.ie that name because it’s supposed to be unmarketable. It needs to be community-run and deliberately contra- centralization or corporatization. I want people to know, when they’re using ballsac, that they’re using a stupid thing that just works, made by a load of basically normal eejits. There’s a general perception today that running a website is something that only a Big Company can do - that to be in a rock band in the information age you have to give greedy Silicon Valley twits a slice of the pie. That doesn’t have to be the case. Plus, pitching ballsac to such twits has always elicited a frustrated “what? why the hell would you name it that?” which amuses me greatly.