With just over a week to go, the day-to-day breakdowns of this year’s Body & Soul festival have been revealed. Full times to be announced soon. Whereas the likes of Dan Deacon, Lamb and Savages will perform on the Friday, Super Furry Animals and are amongst the acts set for Saturday and Leftfield, , SOAK and Matthew E. White Go here to buy tickets for Body & Soul 2015. Check out our B&S Festival Mixtape here.
With a show together set for Belfast’s McHughs on Wednesday, June 24, Old Fang’s Travis Is A Tourist and Rosie Carney have teamed up to plaintive yet wonderfully lulling ‘Needed It’. Recorded to mark Old Fang’s imminent first birthday celebration tour, the video was filmed by Ross McConaghy. Watch it below.
Taken from their exceptional collaborative album, Sea Legs, ‘The Sea at Night’ by Ciaran Lavery and Ryan Vail is right up with our favourite Irish tracks of the year so far. Two months on from performing it at a decidedly intimate show at Derry’s Smalltown America records, the Northern Irish musicians pair have unveiled a wonderfully-shot video of the track by Paul Martin Brown, one that goes some distance in capturing the evocative, subtle and perfectle pensive light and shade of the song. Watch it below and buy the live version here.
Having played two sold-out show at Dublin’s Odessa last month, David Kitt has announced a nationwide, nine-date Summer tour. Culminating on a show at Dublin’s Whelan’s on Friday, October 24, see the full list of shows below. Thursday, August 6: The Red Door, Co. Kilkenny. Tickets €10 + booking. Doors: 8.30pm Friday, August 7: Unitarian Church, St. Annes, Wexford. Tickets: €12.50. Doors: 8pm Sunday, August 9: The Spirit Store, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Tickets: €12.50. Doors: 8.30pm Thursday, August 13: Roisin Dubh, Galway. Tickets: €15 plus booking. Doors: 8.30pm Friday, August 14: Debarra’s, Clonakilty, Cork. Tickets €10. Doors: 8.30pm Saturday, August 15: –…
Hands down one of our favourite songs of the year, ‘Here In The Wild’ by the Ken Griffin-fronted August Wells has been brought to life with a superb, rather touching video courtesy of Sean Nagin. Summoning the pensive, reflective chamber pop of Richard Hawley and the gloriously elongated vocals of early Ian McCullough, the song was recently released via Cork’s FIFA Records. Speaking to our writer Eoin Murray last month, Griffin – previously of Dublin indie rock band Rollerskate Skinny – said, “I chatted with Eddie (Kiely) from the label and I found his attitude very refreshing, and he seemed to genuinely love the…
Set to see more than 100 events happening in 26 different locations through Bangor, the expectedly diverse and extremely inviting programme for this year’s Open House Festival has been announced. Taking place from August 1-31, a whole range of concerts, performances, film screenings, talks, exhibitions and food events will take place. Amongst the many musical highlights this year include Sun Kil Moon (pictured) at the Marine Court Hotel, Joan Armatrading at Bangor Abbey and King Creosote at Queen’s Parade Methodist Church. Go here to check out the full listings for the festival.
With the turn of summer rather precariously around the corner, Dublin band Tomorrows have offered up a sun-kissed, melancholy-tinged one-track soundtrack in the form of ‘The Circle’. Conjuring the likes of the Spinto Band and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, the track follows on very nicely from the equally impressive ‘Another Life’ and ‘Free’, going that bit further and hitting home with its simple, warped pop wanderlust. We’re big fans.
Due for release tomorrow, just over 6 months since his last record, Mark Kozelek’s seventh album under the Sun Kil Moon pseudonym – Universal Themes – is now up for streaming on his official site just one day before its official release date. Continuing on where last year’s career-defining Benji left off, all the hallmarks of his raw, sardonic musings are instantly evident in the tracklisting: 1. ‘The Possum’ 2. ‘Birds of Flims’ 3. ‘With a Sort of Grace I Walked to the Bathroom to Cry’ 4. ‘Cry Me a River Williamsburg Sleeve Tattoo Blues’ 5. ‘Little Rascals’ 6. ‘Garden of Lavender’ 7. ‘Ali/Spinks 2’ 8. ‘This Is My…
Three months on from the release of eleven-minute post-punk odyssey ‘Zero Triptych’, Girls Names have re-emerged with one of the their strongest tracks to date, ‘Reticence’. With guitars returning to centre-stage from the off, the track unravels from a scourging intro to reveal a band exuding an air of confidence in the latest manifestation of their constantly evolving yet always instantly recognisable sound. Stream the track – taken from the band’s forthcoming album Arms Around a Vision – below.
The b-side to his earworming ‘Austria’ single, ‘Camaraderie‘ by Dublin singer-songwriter Padda Hanna is a decidedly more reflective, inward-looking affair, touching upon Hanna’s struggles with intense depression. A swooning, Americana-tinged jangle-pop evoking the likes of Pedro The Lion and self-titled-era Elliott Smith, the track is accompanied by a touching, equally static and stoic video by Luke Byrne. Speaking of the track, Hanna said, “Last summer I was crippled with depression, to the point where I was physically and mentally too sick to stand. I spent many weeks alone in my cottage growing ever more paranoid of the outside world and the joyful cheers…