Having last played the city in March last year, Detroit post-punk heroes Protomartyr will return to Dublin for a show at Whelan’s on Saturday, November 18. Support on the night will come from Sauna Youth and Tuam’s finest, Oh Boland. Tickets on sale now priced €16.50 excluding booking fee. Protomartyr released one of the albums of 2015 in The Agent Intellect. Revisit it below.
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We’re pleased to present a first listen to the new double-single from one of the country’s finest indie-folk pop propositions, Dublin three-piece and Popical Island bunch Lie Ins. The fourth in a series, ‘Loose Lips Are For Losers’ (backed with b-side ‘Sweet Galway’) is a digital-only release, recorded completely on four-track cassette by Mark Chester and Ruan van Vliet and written by Mike Stevens. In typical Lie Ins form, the A-side – which is a track that “bemoans the loss of youth and of youthful friends” – is a catching burst of first-rate lo-fi indie-punk that will, if you let it, burrow in the…
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Lahinch, Co. Clare based musician Síomha Brock has shared a striking visual accompaniment for ‘July Red Sky’. A fitting and really rather mesmeric pairing, the song’s neo-soul and jazz influenced flow brings the marvellous pinks, reds and oranges of the Burren’s coastal skyline to life. The performance, shot live at sunrise on what looks like quite a spectacular morning, is as natural and breezy as the landscape suggests, making for an intoxicating combination that puts you right there with Brock and her band, wind billowing through your very core. Irresistible.
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The self-proclaimed bastard child of North Coast musician Tony Wright AKA VerseChorusVerse and producer and multi-instrumentalist Mr Dean Stevens AKA Deany Darko, The Tragedy of Dr Hannigan is a project that has already won acclaim from the likes of BBC Radio 1’s Phil Taggart, Radio Ulster’s Ralph McLean and RTE’s Dan Hegarty ahead of schedule. And with good reason. Featuring guest vocals from Stephen Macartney of The Farriers, debut single ‘Hey Little Worried One’ is a ridiculously earworming, quintessentially feel-good effort that is, in its blithe tone and swaggering sway, is much more ditty than song. And – let’s face it –…
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With the music side of things shaping up very nicely indeed, it’s been announced that David O’Doherty will headline this year’s comedy line-up at Stendhal Festival in Limavady. The festival – which returns to the wonderfully scenic Ballymully Cottage Farm across August 11-12 – will host the award-winning Dublin comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright, amongst a string of other stand-ups and comics yet to be announced. Stendhal Director Ross Parkhill said: “This is a legitimate dream booking for us. David O’Doherty has been our number one target to headline our comedy stage ever since the inception of the festival and to actually…
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Although many of you won’t need told, Belfast-based musician and producer Herb Magee is a jack of all trades, master of many. A current or past bassist for several stellar Northern Irish acts including three-piece GOONS and riffmasters general LaFaro, Magee has also been drip-feeding us varyingly-shaded electronic and ambient sounds as Arvo Party since early last year. A handful of original efforts and various first-rate covers later, Magee will release his brilliantly inspired, self-titled debut album on Friday. Traversing ambient, drone, neo-classical and experimental electronic sounds – as well full-on, straight-up electronica – the release is an 11 track, 50-minute masterstroke from an…
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In March of this year, Dublin based musician John Lennon aka Blake’s Fortune quietly released Hello World, a modest collection of contemporary folk that is at once charming and nostalgic for summers long past. Aptly described by the man himself as a “road trip” album, there is more than a light dusting of the quintessentially “Dublin” early naughties folk trend in this album, a tone that soundtracked many’s the gravelly, bumpy drive in a packed Ford Fiesta along the Irish coast. Think drinking cheap tins while your mate scrambles to build a dodgy fire on a beach, all to the tune of David Kitt‘s The…
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One of many shining lights that make up Dublin’s Word Up Collective, Dublin-based rapper JyellowL has just unveiled the new video/short film for his new seven-minute single ‘Cold In The Summer’. Bolstered by its masterfully lax pace and slick production, the song – which is a socially-conscious and nicely earworming effort – tackles the issues that affected him as a young man of Nigerian/Jamaican heritage growing up in Ireland. Speaking of the release, the young artist said, “The title is a euphemism for racism, black oppression, police brutality and death. “It is an artistic reminder that racism still ever present and has been an…
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Let’s cut right to chase: Richard Dawson is one of the greatest living solo artists. A truly inimitable proposition, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne folk musician will play Dublin’s Whelan’s and Belfast’s Black Box on November 22 and November 23 respectively. With the former – which will also feature Katie Kim -presented by Enthusiastic Eunuch Promotions and the latter by Moving On Music – who have hosted Dawson on these shores below – tickets for shows, which will feature Dawson and full band, are priced €16.50 and £15 (£10 concession) via here and here.
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Chicago post-hardcore masters Shellac will return to Dublin to play a show at Tivoli Theatre on Saturday, September 30. Supported by special guests Il Sogno Marinaio (featuring the almighty Mike Watt), the trio of Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer last played the city back in 2013. Tickets for Tivoli go on sale this Friday here. Update: the band will also play Galway’s Roisin Dubh on Friday, September 29 and Belfast’s Black Box on October 1. Tickets €25/23 and £18.