It wasnt a great review really at all. He just kinda rambled on. Humanzi were top notch that night in fairness. In my humble opinion.

aye i know it wasnt a full review of the bands, but there were 12 n you only get so many words... thought that since it was a pretty original idea for a festival that aspect deserved more attention than a skimmed over review of each and every band.

Was surprised to read that there was a feeling that €15 was a bit steep....for 12 bands I think €15 is a bargain.

I depends what you make of it ... I was there from the start, last til about 11o'c I think, so a pretty good innings & I liked most of the bands I saw, & got a new favourite band. I never understand the people who go to a festival, & only leave the their tents at 7pm "to see the good bands", i.e. bands they know ... 170quid to see 3bands a night.

who's your new favourite band mully?

Awh, you guys, I'm scarlet now ...

ah come on, dont be shy!

I'm the organiser of this event and i really think its a terrible review on the writers behalf. The whole day was about the bands, not the name, the posters or the organisation of the event. Its a rock'n'roll event, its meant to be shabby and thrown together. Rock'n'Roll is something that comes by this city every now and again and seems to fly right over everyones head. I'm not like MCD or any of these big time promoters, we rely on people like you to come along and see what good we are trying to do for the underground music scene in Dublin and maybe your review might make it a bigger and better event next time. So at the least you could have done was mention the music? I put the event on each time so the underground Dublin bands that i like can get some recognition that they deserve. So cluas "lending an ear to the Irish music scene" sends someone, who obviously had earplugs in, to review the BANDS. How you can go and see 12 bands and not manage to hear more than 2, seems a bit silly. Oh and €15 is steep?, i'd hate to be your kid at Christmas! Psychotic Reaction @Crawdaddy Sat 5th Aug Live: The Urges & The Revellion Dj's: The Things Doors 11pm till 3am Ad: €10 www.psychoticreaction.moonfruit.com

keep up the good work Repo Man. I take my hat off to all independent promoters in this town. Rock.

Yeh fair play. Psychotic Reaction is by far the best night in the city aswell.

Originally posted by Repo man
I'm the organiser of this event and i really think its a terrible review on the writers behalf. The whole day was about the bands, not the name, the posters or the organisation of the event. Its a rock'n'roll event, its meant to be shabby and thrown together. Rock'n'Roll is something that comes by this city every now and again and seems to fly right over everyones head. I'm not like MCD or any of these big time promoters, we rely on people like you to come along and see what good we are trying to do for the underground music scene in Dublin and maybe your review might make it a bigger and better event next time. So at the least you could have done was mention the music?" Seconded...would have liked to have read more about the bands. Also felt that it was quite unfair to say that all the bands sounded the same - I don't think you could say Aleko sound like the Things or that Sickboy sound like the Motorsounds? It's a rock'n'roll event so yeah, there's some things that will make for common ground among the bands, but if you're listening you'll find they are quite different. But bring on Psychofest #3 i say!!!!! Oh yeah, and Motorsounds are legend!!!!

repo man, absolutely no offense intended to you. I think you did do a great job, not enough people are willing to do it, and definitely fair play for that. as i said in the review, i thinkPsycho Fest is a great idea, but i felt it could be alot better, i know organising gigs is s**t hard work, often with very little payback, but what youre doing is such a great idea, and could be absolutely brilliant, that i dont think more should be made of it than what it was on the night, especially when so much more is possible. Maybe i held out to much hope for what something like you dreamt up could offer, but all i was trying to say, was that while what youre doing is great, the potential for such a concept is absolutely huge. In terms of not reviewing the bands as such, there just wasnt room, and i felt (though you obviously disagree) that the festival was an umbrella for the acts, and being as unique as it is, deserved the focus of attention. After all, surely one of the selling points of having a name, is that people will trust you to showcase good music whether they know all the bands or not. I definitely did not intend it to be a bad review as such, i did enjoy the gig, but i was just frustrated that something as well, without sending pretentious "visionary" didnt really pay off. And whether someone likes the same music as you or not doesnt necessarily mean that they had earplugs in, but maybe had some different taste. if everyone did like the music it wouldnt exactly be undergound would it? I dont mean to knock what youre doing at all, its a pity more people dont feel the same way as you, and yeah im defintely looking forward to psycho fest #3 and hope it builds on the #2 as it built on #1

Very interesting thread. Good points all 'round. Yes, Daragh could have written more about bands but he didn't because there is a (necessary) limit on the length of album and gig reviews. Instead he chose to write about the idea of the event and its potential, etc. And I admit that there was an earlier iteration of this article with more emphasis on bands but it was way too long for a web article, so I advised Daragh to chop it down a bit and the shorter article has the different emphaisis (so I carry blame here). Anyway the conclusion I am drawing from this is that this sort of 'gig review' written by Daragh (less discussion on bands than on the event idea...) would actually be better as a feature article or Opinion piece. If soemthing like that comes up again I'll be advising writers to go about it that way. eoghan

Cool Darragh I agree with what you are saying, I would love it to be alot bigger than it is and so would those who helped me out in organising it. But we are limited in what we can do because we have no funding, help, experience or sponcership. All the funding for Psycho Fest comes from whatever money The Things make, which isn't alot as i'm sure any band in our situation will tell you. I'm not saying that its only money that gets these things off the ground but it does help... Events like this are held on a regular basis all across the UK but the one thing they always have is spocership from beer company's or arts councils. Thats why they work so well. But we feel in the long run this will pay off for all the bands, as it's starting to show with write ups in NME etc. It may not be some peoples favourite mag but it does make and break bands which is something that doesn't happen enough in this country. So cool, i see where you are coming from but now you can see where we are coming from aswell....