Original Article: thequietus.com Exuberant, outlandish and wry archival release from the Irish post punk experimental underground Dublin’s All City has been doing a fine job of late in recovering and reissuing widely forgotten treasures from the Irish undergrowth, reinstating their significance to the country’s musical canon in the process….

Original Article: Scatalogik Review To get an idea how much of an anomaly Stano’s 1983 debut album Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft really was, simply compare it to pretty much any other Irish entity lurking around at the time of its release – Tokyo Olympics, for example, (spawned from the very capable…

Original Article Boomkat.com One of the year’s most crucial wave reissues, Stano’s debut LP ‘Content to write in I dine Weathercraft’ is a seminal and sought-after Irish post-punk album starring two rare appearances by the near-mythical Michael O’Shea. Nothing less than an essential recommendation to anyone familiar with the Michael…

an oral history by Paul McDermott Introduction Stano’s 1983 debut album Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft is reissued this month by AllChival (All City Records’ reissue label). The original album has been exchanging hands for lots of money in recent years so this is a very timely…

DJ Mag Review PREMIERE: STANO ‘EMMA WILD’   Ever groundbreaking Dublin label All City are set to reissue the 1983 debut solo album from Irish post-punk pioneer Stano, ‘Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft’. Less a composer, more a puppet master or mad scientist, Stano’s lack of strict…

ALTERNATIVE+PRESS of October ’94 By Dave Segal The Western world is lousy with bands meshing industrial guitar damage with dance beats. Maybe five percent are worth the aluminium on which they’re pressed. In this genre, lreland has produced Therapy? but by their third album they’ve drastically blanded out and…

The revolutionary Threats’ synths-player was always challenging in the creatively-loaded, dangerous early 1980s by Michael Mary Murphy   Stano, punk, polyglot   Brief Background Stano’s first musical expressions exploded in the embryonic mayhem of Dublin’s punk movement. No other musician from that era has produced the range, quality and…