Django Django live at Vicar street in Dublin with support from Stealing Sheep. Photos by Mark Earley.
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The Prodigy and Public Enemy brought their globetrotting arena tour to Dublin’s 3Arena and Belfast’s SSE Arena this week. Photos by Brian Mulligan and Alan Maguire respectively. 3Arena, Dublin SSE Arena, Belfast
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Marina Lambrini Diamandis AKA Marina and the Diamonds with support from Bray trio Wyvern Lingo at Belfast’s Limelight last night. Photos by Sara Marsden.
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Simple Minds live at the 3arena in Dublin. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
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Icelandic indie-folk five-piece Of Monsters and Men live at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
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Having made their long-awaited return via The Light In You in October, US alt-rock legends Mercury Rev played Dublin’s Button Factory at the weekend, supported by Nicole Atkins. Photos by Mark Earley.
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Maryland riffmasters general Clutch played a packed-out Limelight 1 in Belfast at the weekend, with support from Greek band Planet of Zeus. Photos by Alan Maguire.
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Our photographers Alan Maguire and Brian Mulligan capture a brace of Irish dates from Paul Weller at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre respectively. Waterfront Hall, Belfast Olympia Theatre, Dublin
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Sara Marsden captures the inaugural Outloud @ Outburst at Belfast’s Black Box, a day long event of stalls, talks, workshops and music all with a feminist/trans/queer slant.
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As a preface-turned-thinkpiece, it’s probably important to note that I suffer from epilepsy and although I have my suspicions that this correlates with my connection to music, that hypothesis is probably, at best, pseudo-science. But then again, Neil Young – fellow epileptic – has, before even the diagnosis, been this writer’s favourite musician of all time, connecting in a way no other has before or since. Apart from, perhaps, the first time my teenage self heard Appetite For Destruction. That may seem a roundabout way of introducing a Kurt Vile review, but there’s an inescapable influence on those who channel…