• Gone Girl

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    Who knew extreme marital dysfunction could be such a riot? Adapted by Gillian Flynn from her best-selling novel, Gone Girl is a lurid and sickly funny evisceration of modern marriage. Flynn efficiently translates the book’s twisted psychologies and David Fincher, with his regular photography team and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ downbeat score, anchors the violent camp in his cold suburban surfaces. The film has the studied dread of Patricia Highsmith and the page-turning brio of a schlocky airport novel, and is a wicked satire on the ‘missing girl’ media phenomenon. It is also the first must-see studio film of the autumn. On…

  • Watch: Ciaran Lavery – Orphan

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    Having played a triumphant set at Dublin’s Grand Social as part of Hard Working Class Heroes festival at the weekend, Aghagallon singer-songwriter Ciaran Lavery has unveiled the decidedly cathartic video for his new single, ‘Orphan’. Created by ROC, the minimalist visual accompaniment features a few anonymous individuals baring themselves to the camera, a theme introduced in Lavery’s video for ‘Left For America’. Propelled by the Northern Irish songsmith’s instantly-recognisable husky vocals and progressively experimental alt-folk approach, ‘Orphan’ is the closing song on Kosher, Lavery’s latest EP. Stream/buy that here. Watch the video for ‘Orphan’ below.

  • Hard Working Class Heroes – Saturday

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    In the final installment of our three part photo feature on Hard Working Class Heroes in Dublin, our photographers Carlos Daly, Isabel Thomas and Joe Laverty cover Day Three featuring Fight Like Apes, The Vincent(s), Princess, Spies and Acrobat. Gallery below by Carlos Daly Gallery below by Isabel Thomas Gallery below by Joe Laverty

  • In Photos: Hard Working Class Heroes – Friday

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    In the second installment of our three-part photo feature, Carlos Daly and Isabel Thomas shoot Day Two of this year’s Hard Working Class Heroes in Dublin, featuring the likes of Ham Sandwich, I have a Tribe, Arborist, A Lazarus Soul and Contour. Gallery below by Isabel Thomas Gallery below by Carlos Daly

  • Where to find The Thin Air magazine: an Illustrative Guide

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    It’s finally here! Our first ever print issue of The Thin Air magazine. “Where can I find it?” we hear you cry. Well, fear not, as we asked Aoife Dooley to kindly illustrate two handy maps on where you can pick up your very own copy. It was very important to us at TTA towers (ahem) that U2 and Van Morrison – our biggest supporters – were included on these maps. Belfast: Sick Records, Voodoo, Oh Yeah Centre, QUBSU, Boojum, Black Box Derry: Abbazappa Records Dublin: Tower Records, Twisted Pepper, Boojum, Kaph, Bernard Shaw, Fumbally, Roasted Brown, 3FE Cork: Triskel Arts Centre All…

  • Inbound: Jess Kav

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    In the latest installment of Inbound, Brian Coney talks to multi-talented Dublin singer Jessica Kavanagh AKA Jess Kav about everything from her early influences, studying jazz in college, performing as part of Hozier’s band and her hugely eclectic musical journey to date. Hi Jess. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background in music? I’m Jess Kav and I am a professional singer in Dublin. I started off in a stage school when I was younger, then got into the live scene from about eighteen. Since then I have been working with an array of different bands. They…

  • In Photos: The Thin Air Magazine Launch @ Bar Sub

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    On Saturday night we (rather excitably) launched our physical magazine at Belfast’s Bar Sub. We could have had a group of spazzed-out, talentless street urchins banging a couple of bin lids in the corner all night and worried not, so to have Belfast party-starters par excellence Not Squares, fast-rising indie rock trio Hot Cops and DJ David Baxter AKA Kab Driver soundtrack the magazine’s birth was nothing short of amazeballs*. Our photographers Colm Laverty and Sara Marsden popped down to capture all the action – as you can see below! * first and last night we will ever use that word to describe anything… promise.…

  • Talking Tatts @ The Mac

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    On Monday, October 6, Belfast’s the MAC will host a unique exhibition looking at the story behind the tattoos of some of Northern Ireland’s best-known musical artists and industry professionals. An intriguing project by artist and musician Paul Kane and one of the country’s leading music photographers, Carrie Davenport, the first installment of Talking Tatts “concentrate on how musicians and members of music industry, choose to be permanently creative with their own bodies, the designs they choose, the sentimental or memory based reasons behind ‘inked’ and ultimately, why they are such an addictive art form.” The exhibition will combine portraits and a video installation “where intimate…