On Wednesday, February 25, we will host a celebration of iconic U.S. post-rock pioneers Slint at Belfast’s Pavilion. As well as screening Breadcrumb Trail, Lance Bangs’ wonderful, downright unmissable documentary on the band, we will also be playing the band’s landmark 1991 album Spiderland in full, as well as encouraging local musicians to talk about the impact of Slint on their lives and music. Admission is only £3, doors are at 8pm.
Ask any man and his dog, “What are Le Galaxie?” and they (ok, just the man) will invariably respond with a giddy spiel about a neon-soaked, party-starting machine, with the utmost collective ability to make even the most shy and retiring maladroit splay and flail like Techno Viking having a series of seizure-induced fits. And he would be right. Yes, with their profound, cosmically-inclined fondness for hip and happening one-off happenings, Le Galaxie are very much at it again, with the announcement that they’re bringing Le Club to Dublin’s Academy on April 24 and 25. Set to coincide with the…
Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre will host its first ever gaming festival, Playspace, over the weekend of Saturday, February 28 to Sunday, March 1. Set to feature a whole array of film screenings, creative sessions, demo stations and a big screen Halo tournament, the weekend will peak on two of the very best cinema and video game mash-up films ever: Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs the World (above) and the endlessly iconic Tron. Creative Sessions on game design and more will take place across the two days and nights. Check out the full schedule for and buy tickets to Playspace here.
Monthly Dublin pop culture event Culture Vultures celebrates its birthday at the Odessa Club on Wednesday, March 18 in the company of none other than the living, breathing manifestation of charming itself, the Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon. Over the last twelve months, Culture Vultures – which combines music, spoken word and public interview – has welcomed stellar line-ups to the intimate surrounds of the Dublin venue. The likes of Glenn Patterson, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Carolan, Lenny Abrahamson, and Panti have taken to sitting under the spotlight to chat with with Tony Clayton-Lea. Tickets for the birthday celebration – priced at €15…
Dwayne Woods, host of online alternative Irish radio show The Co-Present on Radiomade.ie – check their podcasts out here – has combined forces with show Niamh Farrell of Ham Sandwich to bring a monthly show at Dublin’s Workman’s Club, with the official launch taking place on Friday, February 27. Headlining the night are neo-psych quartet This Other Kingdom, who release their debut album Telescopic on April 11. Check their sonic concoction out on Bandcamp – they’re sure to be one of the acts to keep an eye on throughout 2015, with new material being teased for their set. Following their set, singer & multi-instrumentalist electronica artist Patrick Kelleher (above) will be spinning…
And So I Watch You From Afar guitarist Niall Kennedy’s A Bad Cavalier will play our first free live show as part of our weekly stint at Belfast’s Laverys Back Bar on Tuesday, February 24. Also featuring tunes from yours truly until late, the intimate performance will be followed be a draw for two tickets to Slane 2015. Just turn up on the night to be entered. Go here for the show’s Facebook event page and check out A Bad Cavalier in action below.
A weekly night in the Back Bar of Laverys Belfast, The Thin Air Tuesday Throwdown will feature guest DJs, live performances and the very best in new and old indie rock, psych, electronica, noise, post-punk and experimental. Expect the likes of: Dinosaur Jr, Yo La Tengo, Can, Built To Spill, Deerhoof, Mac Demarco, The Fall, Grandaddy, Trans Am, My Bloody Valentine, Ty Segall, Do Make Say Think, Sparklehorse, Mclusky, Swans, Thee Oh Sees, Quasi, Stereolab, Jesus and Mary Chain and Neu! Starts Tuesday, January 6. Free entry. Kicks off at 9.30pm.
On Friday January 9, Belfast’s Pavilion Bar hosts a screening of The Royal Tenenbaums as part of a night celebrating the unique universe and music of director Wes Anderson, one of the most distinctive figures in cinema of the past two decades, who has brought us the likes of Rushmore, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Fantastic Mr Fox. Anderson is as famous for his film soundtracks as he is for the films themselves, so after the screening, Joe Lindsay of the Super Fuzz Big Muff club night at McHugh’s will be playing music – we’re talking Latin-American Bowie covers, quirky French pop, the Stones, the…
Launching in printed form in 2015, No Parachute – a new photographic project by And So I Watch You From Afar guitarist Rory Friers and their manager Graham Smith – will take place at Belfast’s Established on Thursday, December 18. Comprising of photographs taken on and off the road over the past few years, the selected images were all taken on iPhone. Speaking of the project, the pair said it “documents the duelling lives of band people and the contrasting moments that we are presented with along the way. From sureness and bliss to the harsh and unpleasant, from the…
The Sugar Club hosts the Block T Christmas Party on December 13 which looks to be an attack on the senses. On the night, they combine visuals and audio, with a screening of Billy Bob Thornton black comedy Bad Santa, performances from Dublin lo-fi garage pop Squarehead, Irish DJ/producer Ruairi Lynch aka Bantum – accompanied by a live visual mapping show from Slipdraft – some Block T DJ’s and a night-closing DJ set from Donal Dineen of 2fm. The plethora of activities doesn’t stop there though, folks, as video intervals come from Darklight, there’s a Print Your Own Christmas T-shirt workshop by Damn Fine Pint. Tickets are available from the Sugar Club for €12, or €10…