Alan Maguire shoots the third and final day of Electric Picnic 2014, featuring Outkast, Kelis, Beck, Asgeir, Lily Allen, St Vincent, The 1975, Ham Sandwich, Jenny Lewis and Vancouver Sleep Clinic.
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Hogwarts expatriate Daniel Radcliffe is the headliner here, but you might also recognise Zoe Kazan, one half of the meet-cute not-couple in Canadian-Irish production What If (retitled from The F-Word). She wrote Ruby Sparks (2009), a fun and acerbic satire of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope (an increasingly problematic term) in which she was the dreamt-up effervescent love interest for Paul Dano’s brooding, needy novelist. It is something of a pity, then, to see her taking on much more unchallenging genre material here. Adapted from T. J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi’s Canadian play Toothpaste and Cigars, and directed by Michael Dowse (who did the winning The…
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Fresh from their debut performance at Electric Picnic, Silences return to our laptop screens with their fantasy-esque video for their new track ‘Sister Snow’ from their forthcoming EP. Sublimely shot by Dublin’s Alec Moore, the video echoes the woodland innocence of Where The Wild Things Are and aptly suits the song, which we previewed in our most recent podcast. Formed in 2012 and fronted by Conchúr White, the band have found themselves in the company of Bell X1, Lisa O’Neill and Foy Vance amongst others on RTE’s Other Voices and have played many festivals including Stendhal Festival and Vantastival. Watch the video…
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With Electric Picnic been and gone in a flash, the habitual final chapter of the (occasionally) great Irish summer begins. Things are still a bit quiet on the gig front but, as ever, here’s our pick of shows well worth checking out over the next days. No Tomorrow: SlowPlaceLikeHome, Somadrone, Documenta DJs – Voodoo, Belfast; Saturday, September 6 The next installment of our monthly gig/club night at Belfast’s Voodoo, No Tomorrow returns on Saturday night with a tremendous triad of cosmically-inclined acts from across the country. Just back from playing the Body & Soul stage at Electric Picnic at the…
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Alan Maguire shoots Day Two (Saturday) of this year’s Electric Picnic, featuring Chic, Portishead, Metronomy, Cathy Davey, Phox, London Grammar, Paolo Nutini, We Cut Corners, Bombay Bicycle Club, Omar Souleyman, James Vincent McMorrow and Wild Beasts.
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Belfast-based garage rock duo Rhinos have stormed the live scene recently with their blistering brand of urgent, straight-up riffdom. Our photographer Sara Marsden captures them here at Belfast’s Voodoo, where they recently performed to fund their Kickstarter campaign to record with none other than Steve Albini. Why settle for anything less than the best, eh?
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With a sickeningly diverse lineup of local and international acts, both old and new, spanning more or less every genre under the glistening sun, Electric Picnic 2014 is the hottest ticket of the Irish summer, and upon exploration of the festival site (it would be unjust to ignore Electric Picnic’s attention to detail) there’s the essential Body & Soul zone, functioning as the hippie commune area of the site – the music and arts festival is, after all, the bedrock of the hippie dream – and the Trailer Park, which offers corn dogs, some cover bands and an assortment of…
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Prince has released a third track from his forthcoming solo album Art Official Age. ‘U Know’ follows a similar formula to the last two singles from the new album, with diverse instrumentation including some pretty synth chords, an R&B rhythm section and Prince’s trademark sensual vocal delivery. The new album is released on the same day as Plectrum Electrum, released by Prince’s band 3rd Eye Girl. Listen to ‘U Know’ via Vibe, and hear both Art Official Age and Plectrum Electrum from August 29th via Warner Bros.