Presented by Medium Presents and yours truly, the second installment of Psykick Dancehall at Dublin’s Bello Bar on Saturday night was a dark experimental affair courtesy of Laura Sheeran, BAD BONES and Katharine Philippa. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.
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Joe Laverty captures the launch of this year’s Cathedral Quarters Arts Festival at Belfast’s Sunflower, featuring performances from Jealous of the Birds and Hannah McPhillimy. Go here to check out the full programme for this year’s festival.
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The Button Factory plays host to the first night of Battles’ European Spring tour tonight, in support of their latest album La Di Da Di. Having sold out not too long after it was announced last year, the desire for the trio’s return to Dublin is immense. Tonight’s sole support, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith takes to the stage first with an impressive array of synths, sequencers, connective wires and blinking lights, evocative of a young Delia Derbyshire at the BBC radiophonic workshop. She begins with a series of robotic loops, which advances into Laurie Anderson territory as she distorts her vocals through…
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Amorphis live at the Button Factory in Dublin with support from Textures. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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MMOTHS album launch at District 8 in Dublin, with support from Toby Kaar. Photos by Melanie Mullan.
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Lost Avenue live at Sandino’s in Derry. Photos by Mickey Rooney.
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Supported by Other Creatures, Dublin five-piece Little Green Cars played two sublime shows at Whelan’s at the weekend. Our photographer Pedro Giaquinto captured Friday night. Check out our review of new Little Green Cars LP, Ephemera, here.
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Following on from its well received debut last August, the announcement that a second Reverberation Festival is scheduled to take place next month, was music to the ears of the ever growing Irish Psych loving fraternity. In anticipation of the festival, the inaugural appearance of Holy Wave to Dublin, is billed as the event’s official launch party. First up is This Other Kingdom, a four piece who play a mix of bombinate-esque shoegaze fused with psychedelia that can draw you in their world so effortlessly, it’s hard not to be converted there and then. Just picture The Black Angels fronted…
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Only Child, in the form of Alan O’Hare brings me a great deal of joy. There’s nothing in the world like a scouse lad getting angry about the state of the world, inept politicians and the deep divide between people and cultures. Alan brings all that and more with a healthy dose of sentimentality and love, the true talent of a poet brought to bear. The number 86 bus from Penny Lane is not a spectacular journey but one that sparked memories of countless trips into town for Alan, such a trip your reviewer took not half an hour…
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I sometimes wonder how often, if ever, bands think about how the sound they craft in a studio translates to a live stage. Some groups are simply ‘studio bands’ – they sound better when they can endlessly and obsessively tinker with the sonic possibilities of technology. Others see the live setting as a different set of circumstances altogether, something with the living potential for a more sensory collective experience, something that can become a genuine reason to senselessly roar at your friends in a smoking area. While this is all pretty vague stuff to be beginning with, I promise it…