• Ty Segall Announces Dublin Show

    December 12, 2023 - By 

    Ty Segall is coming back to Dublin. Five years on from a show at Tivoli Theatre, the genre-mangling psych rock master will make his highly-anticipated return to the city at the Button Factory on Tuesday, 25th June. The announcement comes ahead of the release of the Long Beach trailblazer’s upcoming fifteenth album, Three Bells, which is out via Drag City on 26th January 2024. Check out the video for lead single ‘My Room’ below. Tickets for Segall’s Button Factory show go on sale on Thursday, 14th December at 10am, priced €32.65.

  • L’esprit de l’escalier: An interview with Perlee

    December 12, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of playing Dublin and Belfast this weekend, Berlin-via-Navan duo Perlee discuss the magic of taking chances, putting their stamp on dream-pop and releasing one of the Irish LPs of the year, Speaking From Other Rooms Speaking From Other Rooms is one of the most accomplished Irish albums of the year. It spans soundworlds and explores some really strong themes like self-actualisation, destiny and long-distance love. It feels like you invested a lot of your soul into the release. Looking back, does it feel that way to you? Thanks for saying so. There were so many beautiful Irish releases this…

  • Open Ear Festival to Return in 2024

    December 12, 2023 - By 

    Open Ear Festival is set to return next year. Almost certainly the island’s finest small music festival – and without a doubt our favourite – it will return to Sherkin Island off Cork for its sixth edition on the June bank holiday weekend, 31st May to 2nd June 2024. As with previous years, the festival is set to host a perfectly pitched celebration of the fringes of Ireland’s experimental and electronic music communities. Following a back-to-basics outing in 2022, the 2024 edition will see the festival return to exploring a range of wonderful spaces and environs across Sherkin Island. In…

  • In A Different Space: An Interview With Alicia Raye

    December 6, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of the release of Love Letters, her collaborative EP with Becky McNeice, Belfast-via-Drogheda powerhouse Alicia Raye chats to Andrew Moore about representation and spearheading change for female empowerment through her own artistry and management Photos by Kate Lawlor The rise of the female powerhouse has been a breath of fresh air within what is, typically, a male-dominated music industry. Artists like Doja Cat, Cardi B, Tinashe and Summer Walker are picking up where the pre-gen started; reshaping the hip-hop, R&B and Afro landscape through a strong, independent female and gender minority gaze. While this is great news for those…

  • Track Record: Alpha Chrome Yayo

    December 6, 2023 - By 

    One of the island’s finest genre-spanning savants, Alpha Chrome Yayo takes us on a guided tour of his all-time favourite records, featuring Enya, Mort Garson, Mariya Takeuchi, Sigh, Tom Waits, Minako Yoshida and more Photo by Aislinn Mcginn Singles are great and all, but for me nothing compares to the experience of listening to an honest-to-goodness album, especially if it involves physical media. The ephemeral quality of music made somehow tangible, cloaked in artwork to luxuriate in, liner notes to pore over. Beyond that, listening to an album is like fulfilling an unknowable contract. One between the artists who made…

  • Lankum, Mogwai and More For New Irish Event, In The Meadows

    December 6, 2023 - By 

    Lankum, Mogwai and more have been announced for the inaugural In The Meadows. Set to take over Royal Hospital, Kilmainham in Dublin on Saturday, 8th June 2024, the brand new, one-day event – which is also co-curated by Lankum – will also feature sets by Black Country, New Road, John Francis Flynn, This Is The Kit and many more to be announced. The brainchild of the people behind All Together Now & Forbidden Fruit Festival, tickets for the event go on sale at 9am on Wednesday, 13th December priced €59.35. Photo by Sorcha Frances Ryder

  • Limp Bizkit Announce Belfast Show

    December 4, 2023 - By 

    Limp Bizkit are coming to Belfast next year. The nu-metal legends – who have also just revealed that they are headlining next year’s Download Festival – will play Ormeau Park in Belfast on Wednesday, 12th June 2024. Specials are to be announced. It’s the latest big name announced for Belsonic 2024, with the likes of Sting and Blondie, and Scooter (two separate shows but imagine) announced for next June. Tickets for Limp Bizkit go on sale this Friday, 8th December at 9am.

  • LCD Soundsystem, Idles, Young Fathers & More Set For Dublin Show

    November 29, 2023 - By 

    LCD Soundsystem will headline a stacked bill at Malahide Castle next summer. The James Murphy-fronted six-piece return to the open air venue on 26th June 2024 for their first show since 2018, when they played their “second longest ever show”. Sealing the deal is a bill featuring Idles, Young Fathers and Shit Robot. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am, priced €69.90.

  • PJ Harvey Announces Belfast Show

    November 27, 2023 - By 

    PJ Harvey has announced she will play Belfast next year. Two months from an extraordinary set at 3Olympia in Dublin, Harvey’s show at Custom House Square on Thursday, 22nd August doubles up as her only Irish show of 2024. It’s the English artist’s first show in city since playing Waterfront Hall back in 2004. Pre-sale for tickets on sale tomorrow, 28th November at 10am. General sale for tickets is this Friday, 1st October at 10am.

  • Mclusky Set For Dublin and Belfast

    November 27, 2023 - By 

    Five years on from hosting their debut, sold-out Irish shows at the same venues, we’re delighted to announce the return of Welsh noise rock legends Mclusky to Ireland next year. With a new full-length album – their first in 20 years no less – in the works for release next year, the Falco-fronted three-piece will play Voodoo in Belfast on Friday, 24th May and Workman’s Club on Saturday, 25th May. Support for both shows comes from Dublin’s finest Hands Up Who Wants To Die. Tickets are on sale now: Belfast – Voodoo. 24th May, 2024 Dublin – The Workmans Club.…