Having supported Arcade Fire at Dublin’s Marlay Park the night before, the Pixies played Cork’s Live at the Marquee last night, Monday, June 30. Check out Rory Coomey’s photos from the night below.
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Meath indie rock five-piece Ham Sandwich had the privilege of supporting leviathans Arcade Fire and Pixies at Dublin’s Marlay Park on Sunday, June 29. Photographer Aaron Corr was there early to shoot their set.
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As we enter the height of summer, with suspiciously good weather, there are, as always, numerous gigs to check out all over the country, whether they be outdoors blessing their good fortune, or safely indoors away from the sweltering heat. Here are just a few worth looking at. No Tomorrow: The Bonnevilles, Rhinos – Voodoo, Belfast; Saturday, July 5 The next installment of our new gig/club night No Tomorrow takes place at Belfast’s Voodoo on Saturday July 5. A garage rock duo double-header of sorts, much talked about twosome Rhinos will support one of the greatest double acts in all of the land, garage-blues…
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Featuring a cast of homegrown and international talent including The Cast of Cheers, The Hot Sprockets, Enemies, The Divine Comedy, David Gray and more, Owen Humphreys shoots Day One of this year’s Westport Festival at the weekend.
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The first of the Marlay Park summer shows kick off with the rather unusual pairing of Arcade Fire and Pixies. The chamber-pop grandness of Arcade Fire is a world away from the alt-rock rawness of Pixies, and so there seems to be two divisions of fans among the crowd; those for Pixies and those for Arcade Fire. Not that this led to any trouble or violence of course; it merely creates an atmosphere where some fans appear somewhat uninterested in half the show. Pixies bring their manic alt-rock to the stage with plenty of gusto and hit home from the off…
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Despite cutting their set short by fifteen minutes (“technical problems”, you understand) boundlessly influential Boston band the Pixies triumphantly returned to Dublin on Sunday, June 29, to support the ever-masterful Arcade Fire at Marlay Park. Our photographer Aaron Corr was there to shoot their set.
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Arcade Fire delivered an unforgettable twenty-one track set at Dublin’s Marlay Park on Sunday, June 29. Our photographer Aaron Corr was there to capture their performance.
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Three albums and almost ten years into their career, English alt/pop-rock band Deaf Havana stopped off at Belfast’s Mandela Hall on Saturday, June 28. Our photographer Sara Marsden was there to capture the band in action.
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June saw the release of a plethora of hard hitting hip-hop and rainy day jazz music, and perhaps more suitably, a wealth of breezy summer jams to dig your teeth into. Below are ten of the month’s best (sifted from a great many more,) culminating in the top three. J Mascis – Every Morning (Sub Pop) No one can deny the impact J Mascis had on rock and punk music in the 80s and 90s, and its nice to see the Dinosaur Jr veteran continuing to release great music. His new track ‘Every Morning’ is a fairly stripped down acoustic…