Held in association with yours truly, Derry’s Smalltown America Records will host and stream live its sixth All Dayer on Friday, July 31. Three years on from the label’s last All Dayer – featuring the likes of More Than Conquerors, General Fiasco and Fighting With Wire – this year’s outing will feature Northern Irish acts Rosseau, Freak’s, Small Hawk Orchestral, PigsAsPeople, Humanshield, Clanns, Lost Avenue and Paisley rock three-piece Carnivores. Capacity for the streamed/filmed, all-ages event – which takes place at STA’s HQ at 6 Bay Road, Industrial Estate from 5pm on the day – is limited. Tickets – which cost £1o – can be purchased here.…
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Of a cosmically-inclined disposition? Ireland’s self-proclaimed “first festival foray into the mind warp pavilion of psych”, Reverberation takes place at Dublin’s Grand Social on August 14 and 15. Featuring some of the very best psych acts including Documenta, Cian Nugent & the Cosmos and Elastic Sleep, the festival will also include UK acts including Dead Rabbits, The Watchmakers and Berlin’s TAU. A “weekend that expands the parameters of psychedelic and experimental noise info a festival atmosphere”, the inaugural outing with also include guest DJ sets, visuals, classic cult movies, record and memorabilia stalls, a vintage flea market, food and more.…
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Returning to Derry across the weekend of Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21, Music City is, according to its organisers, “the festival where everyone can play”. This year’s theme is Occupy Derry With Music, and organisers are encouraging individuals, groups, businesses, workplaces and anyone else to put on gigs and performances in their workplace, homes, streets and elsewhere. Hosted by Celtronic, the festival will also welcome some first-rate talent to the city across the weekend, including David Holmes, Christy Moore, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Jape, Best Boy Grip and countless other acts. Keep up to date over at the…
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The world’s self-proclaimed largest heavy metal festival, Wacken Open Air returns to Wacken, Germany from July 29 to August 1 with yet another exceptionally strong, monstrously heavy bill. With the likes of Judas Priest, Biohazard, In Flames, Opeth, Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse, Rob Zombie, Within Temptation and Savatage amongst the acts set to play, the festival will attract 75,000 visitors over its four days. Buy tickets for the festival here and check out the full line-up here.
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The likes of Beck, Van Morrison, Chic and Damien Rice will grace the Docklands at Cork’s Live at the Marquee this June and July for yet another string of unmissable, high-profile shows courtesy of Aiken. Check out the full line-up below and go here to buy tickets. Tuesday, June 16: Beck, O Emperor Wednesday, June 17: Billy Idol Thursday, June 18: The Vamps, Hometown Friday, June 19: The Coronas Saturday, June 20: The Coronas, Hudson Taylor, Little Hours Sunday, June 21: Nathan Carter Monday, June 22: ZZ Top Tuesday, June 23: John Legend Wednesday, June 24: Ellie Goulding Thursday, June…
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Dublin creative arts organisation BLOCK T are throwing one heck of a 5th birthday party/fundraiser at the Tivoli Grounds on Saturday, July 4. Curated by BLOCK T, Ensemble Music and Nialler9, the party will feature I Am The Cosmos, Lasertom, Donal Dineen, Attention Bébé, Rusangano Family (pictured), Trinity Orchestra, RiZa, BANTUM, Haüer and SignA across two stages. There will also be DJ sets from Adultrock, Benny Smiles, Djackulate, Nialler9, Rob Le-Nan and Somadrone, as well as art installations, visuals, a live show from Slipdraft, gourmet food stalls and more. Ranging from €17.50 (early bird) to €28.00, go here to buy tickets. &nsbp;
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Rightly calling itself Ireland’s leading electronic festival, Derry’s Celtronic has built up an extremely strong reputation over the last couple of years, having put the likes of Jon Hopkins, Ulrich Schnauss, Erol Alkan, John Talabot and Nina Kraviz. Set to take place across in various venues across the city from Wednesday, June 24 to Sunday, June 28, this year’s outing will include shows from Fort Romeau, Mano Le Tough, Clark, Derrick May, local acts The Cyclist and Space Dimension Controller. Check out the full line-up as it stands here and go here to buy tickets.
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Running from July 19-22, Cork’s Triskel Christchurch will play host to Punk on Film, a season celebrating the legacy of the seminal punk movement that epitomises late 70’s Britain. Amongst the screenings, The Damned: Don’t You Wish We Were Dead is a programme highlight with director Wes Orshoski at Triskel on Tuesday, July 21 to introduce the screening. The Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and The Fury, the 1977 film Punk In London and Rude Boy, the part fiction – part rockumentary film about The Clash, are also part of the season. Speaking of the screening of his Damned doc,…
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On Thursday, June 25, The Bernard Shaw will host the launch of 5 Years In The Trunk, an exhibition by the Blind Elephant Illustration Collective. Held to celebrate the collective’s five years together in the Dublin venue (or as they call it, their “spiritual home”), on the night you can meet the Elephants new and old, have a drink or two, and check out some of their very best illustrations to date. The exhibition will run from June 25 to July 25. The launch night kicks off at 8pm. Go here to visit the Blind Elephant Illustration Collective.
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It’s only a few weeks left until With Full Force festival will celebrate its 22nd year at Flugplatz Roitzschjora Germany. After a massive twentieth birthday bash in 2013 and yet another stellar line-up last year, one of the loudest and hardest music festivals in Germany brings the very best of metal, punk and hardcore to your ears once more from July 3 to July 5. With the likes of Agnostic Front, Kreator, In Flames, Sick of it All, Carcass, Fear Factory, In Flames and Heaven Shall Burn set to perform at the festival, you can check out the full line-up below. Go here…