The legendary Booker T.Jones played to a packed out audience at The Sugar Club last night, with none other than Sinead O’Connor in the audience who joined him for a rendition of Nothing Compares 2 U. Photos by Colm Moore.
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First Fortnight returned this year with live performances from I Have a Tribe, Booka Brass Band, State Lights and We Cut Corners in Dublin’s Button Factory. Photos by Abraham Tarrush.
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With previous incarnations of the the tour featuring acts including The Altered Hours, O Emperor, We Cut Corners, The Lost Brothers, Alessi’s Ark and more, the sixth outing of The Certain Three Tour will see Joan Shelley, John Blek and Vikesh Kapoor take the road together together from February 22 until March 1. Presented by Word of Mouth Agency, the annual tour has grown to be a staple of the Irish music scene over the past few years, acclaimed for combining up-and-coming international and Irish acts and sending them out on the road, from West Cork to Northern Ireland and most places…
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Canadian dream pop act Stars played Dublin’s Opium Rooms with support from Vann Music on Friday and Belfast’s Limelight 2 with support from Travis is a Tourist last Saturday. Check out our two galleries below featuring photos by Mark Earley and Sara Marsden.
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With their track ‘Molly’ (below) coming in at #1 in our Top 100 Irish Tracks of 2014, Dublin duo Princess are our next featured act in our 15 For ’15 feature. Their frankly irresistible brand of dream/noise-pop has had us hooked over the last couple of years, and we are absolutely convinced they’re going to concoct even bigger and better things in 2015 and far beyond. Words by Stevie Lennox. Photo by Isabel Thomas. The duo of Liam Mesbur and Aoife McCarthy – accompanied by various friends – are the core of Dublin experimental indie rock act Princess, who dropped their…
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With their recently-completed new album, Charles II, set for released in March, Dublin quartet Skelocrats have released a self-proclaimed “yearning folk-rock ballad.” Having listened to it a handful of times already, that about perfectly sums it up in our ears. Driven forth by Bronwyn Murphy-White’s lamenting vocals, the track is a short and sweet 50s-echoing tale, all swooning and jangly and positively delightful. The last twenty seconds are particularly satisfying. Stream the track by the Popical Island band below.
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In the first of a new regular feature (weekly, in fact, would you believe?) And So I Watch You From Afar axeman and A Bad Cavalier main man Niall Kennedy delivers his wonderfully eclectic Monday Mixtape. Serious tunes ahoy – Niall, take the reigns… “This is the sort of playlist I’d make for a big drive. It includes a lot of my favourite tunes and is nice and varied. It’s good to keep things interesting so you don’t fall asleep when you’re driving – never good! It’s got some of my new favourite bands like PUP and Grouplove, some epic rock…
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Having had a great first year in 2014, Dublin club Seven Quarters returns to Whelan’s, Dublin, for its fifth outing on February, 27 with Dublin instrumental quartet Alarmist (picturedd) and Neil O’Connor AKA Somadrone. Very much setting itself apart from other Irish club nights, Seven Quarters gives away two exclusive tracks on limited edition 7″ vinyl (hence the idea of the word “seven” referring to the vinyl – the “Quarters” part is based on the fact the club will happen four times a year. . Limited advance tickets are on sale now and the first 150 tickets come with a limited edition vinyl. Dig the poster for…
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Having spent the autumn and winter months carving out the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed debut, Everything Fall, Dublin five-piece Come On Live Long have returned with ‘Trough’, a four-minute spectral gem that hints at some extraordinary things in the making. Initially intended to be an ambient interlude on the album, the song began to grow organically as the band invited guest musicians and friends to lend their talents to the piece. Featuring Tadhg Byrne on violin, Matt Rafter on cello, Bill Blackmore on flugelhorn and trombone, and Michael Maguire on accordion, it combines a mini-orchestra of instrumentation, including a pedal organ…
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December 26 saw the opening of Ridley Scott’s $140-million Moses epic Exodus: Gods and Kings. As cumbersome as its video game-friendly title, the film is occasionally spectacular but mostly stodgy, not to mention camp in the way that only a very, very serious endeavour can be. Closer in spirit to Scott’s own Gladiator (2000) and Kingdom of Heaven (2005) than to Cecil B. De Mille’s two treatments of the same material (1923 and 1956), Exodus capped an unusually busy year for the Old Testament on screen. While the first and likely most profitable Biblical film of 2014 was a New…