Lisa Hannigan live at Connolly’s of Leap in Cork with support from Ye Vagabonds. Photos by Jason Lee.
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Lisa Hannigan live at De Barras in Clonakilty, Cork with support from Ye Vagabonds. Photos by Jason Lee.
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Mudhoney and Bog Log III live at Whelans in Dublin. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.
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Going to see the greats in the twilight of their career can be a tricky business. Often you find the artist behind some of your records to be a shadow of their former selves, churning out the hits one last time or looking for one final payday to straighten out their accounts. Neil Young and the Promise of the Real’s Rebel Content tour is the antithesis of these concerts. Somehow managing to occupy both the roles of career retrospective and showcase for newer songs, this is a show that will have even the most casual Young fan going home a believer. Excitement has…
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It truly is silly season on the live circuit, and circumstance would have it that the same night grunge godfathers Mudhoney returned to Belfast would be when the granddaddy of them all, Neil Young, decided to play his first ever date in the city. Mudhoney have never been about huge arenas though: the demise of Mark Arm and Steve Turner’s previous act Green River came when he didn’t match the ambitions of the stadium hungry band mates Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, and while the later dominated the 90s as the founders of Pearl Jam, Arm and co.’s Mudhoney provided…
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Day Three of Forbidden Fruit festival at Imma featuring Underworld, Flume, Maya Jane Coles, Klingande, Jackmaster and many more. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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Day two of Forbidden Fruit festival at IMMA featuring Tame Impala, Battles, Jungle, Skepta and many more. Photos by Lucy Foster.
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It’s a cracker of an afternoon as I make my way through Kilmainham – a day ripped straight from the pages of old Junior Cert Irish essays, all erratic excitement and rock-splitting sun. I’m heading to Forbidden Fruit for the evening, and should mention that I’ve foolishly disregarded the tips on the festival’s website to dress appropriately for the weather. I’m wearing jeans and carrying a jacket, so I mostly feel like a rotisserie chicken for the majority of the afternoon & evening. Forbidden Fruit, with its faintly edenic name and location on the grounds of the Irish Museum of…
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Wilko Johnson live at the Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal with support from Mike Brookfield and Dave McHugh. Photos by Mickey Rooney.
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Vantastival festival took place over two days at Beaulieu House in Drogheda, featuring Badly Drawn Boy, Saint Sister, Fangclub, Naoise Roo, King Kong Company and many more. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon.