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…
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Often compared to the likes of Brian Wilson, The Velvet Underground, Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen, American singer-songwriter Kelley Stoltz play Dublin’s Whelan’s recently. Photos by Ste Murray.
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A highlight of this year’s Sound of Belfast programme, VerseChorusVerse & David Lyttle, Donal Scullion, Jess Edlin and Colum McIntyre played the Empire on Thursday night. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Lonely the Brave at the Limelight in Belfast with support from R51. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Supported by SPINES and The Clockworks, Dublin “grunge-pop” quartet Otherkin headlined Galway’s Roisin Dubh on Saturday night. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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Featuring Trinity Orchestra performing LCD Soundsystem, Giorgio Moroder, CHIC and much more, Brian Mulligan captures the second and final day of the inaugural Metropolis Festival at the RDS in Dublin at the weekend.