Win Westlife’s “Westlife” and “The Love Album”

To celebrate the launch of our new website, and to introduce our new feature, “Retro Review of the Week“, we’re giving away two Westlife…

Westlife: The Debut Album by Westlife

Our first Retro Review of the Week is the eponymous debut album of Irish boyband, Westlife.

Essentially Pop Checks Out The Dublin Scene

Think of Ireland and three things come to mind. Green, Guinness, and Great music. Often you get all three in the one place, especially…

Cheerios Childline Concert November 2014

Regular readers of EP will know we’re big Jedward fans here. John and Edward Grimes have worked hard to get where they are, and…

MiMi & the Mad Noise Factory

“Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn’t possibly be right for one another…or could they? When it…

Jedward Have No Time for Eurovision

It seems our favourite Irish Popstars, John and Edward Grimes, better known as Jedward have decided they will not be representing Ireland again in…

EP On Tour With Jedward

We at Essentially Pop had the pleasure of attending Jedward’s mini tour of Ireland last weekend. The packed and fun filled weekend began on…

Jedward Debut Ferocious Song

The dynamic duo from Dublin have certainly hit on a winner with self-penned song Ferocious, which they sang live for the first time on…

Jedward Get FEROCIOUS

John and Edward, in speaking to RTE1’s Derek Mooney today, announced their next single shall be “Ferocious”, with the release date of October 24 to coincide with their Dublin concert date. They also suggested they might have a CD signing on that day.

Anna Calvi to Support Morrissey

The beautiful Anna Calvi has been announced as the support act for Morrissey’s European tour, due to commence late November. She’s just been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for her second album, ‘One Breath’.

The New Jedward? What’s Wrong with the Old One?

No doubt you’ll have seen and heard all the XFactor hoo-ha about “Blonde Electric” being the new Jedward – with the girls going on…

Do Syngstreet Have The XFactor?

Have you heard of SyngStreet yet? Well if not, you might soon, if Linda Martin has any say in the matter!