• Other Voices Live 2015

    Bona fine Irish music institution Other Voices returns to Dingle in Kerry across the weekend of December 4-6 for another stellar, genre-spanning showcase of international and homegrown music. Split between the main event in St. Jame’s Church and the iconic – free – Music Trail (full line-up below), the likes of Low, Gaz Coombes and Richard Hawley will grace the former, whilst some of the very best Irish acts take over the former. Go here to check out full information via the Other Voices website, here to stream our Other Voices Live 2015 Festival Mixtape and here for its Facebook…

  • Lingo Festival 2015

    Ireland’s first and only spoken world festival, Lingo returns to Dublin from Friday, October 16 to Sunday, October 18 to for another week of exceptional performances from fresh voices and spoken word masters from Ireland and much further afield. Organised by some of the Dublin’s most attuned independent promoters, arts curators and spoken word artists, this year’s outing boasts everyone from headliner extraordinaire Saul Williams and experimental poet and playwright Dylan Coburn Gray to UK poet and spoken word artist Hollie McNish and Derry-based performance poet Abby Oliveira. Go here to read our new interview with Saul Williams and here to check…

  • HWCH 2015 Line-Up Announced

    The country’s leading bastion and celebration of homegrown, independent music, Hard Working Class Heroes has announced the line-up for the October festival. Taking across several different venues in Dublin throughout the weekend of 1-3, it looks like one of the strongest, most diverse HWCH bills yet. Check out the full line-up below and buy tickets here. 13, Acrobat, AikJ, Ailbhe Reddy, Anderson, Arborist, Atlas Moon, Bad Sea, Bagels, Basciville, Benihana, Bitch Falcon, Buffalo Sun, Buffalo Woman, Callum Orr, Carriages, Cfit, Color//Sound, Comrade Hat, Corner Boy, Darling, Dear Desert, discopunks, DVO Marvell, Elastic Sleep, Electro Sensitive Behaviour Feat. Perry Blake, Elephant, Elm, Everything Shook (below), EXPLODING EYES, Fergal O’Connor, Florence Olivier, Frankenstein Bolts, Half Of Me, Hare Squead, HAWK, Heroes in Hiding, Hot Cops, I Have A Tribe, Inni-K, Jennifer Evans, Johnny Stewart, Joni, Katie Laffan, Kobina, Lie Ins, Lilla Vargen, LORIS, Maija Sofia, Maud in Cahoots, Me Auld Flower, Mere…

  • Stendhal Festival Announces Second Wave of Acts

    With the likes of Kerbdog and Donovan included in their first announcement early last month, Stendhal Festival of Art have revealed that reggae/dancehall pioneer Macka B (pictured), Dublin singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke and fast-rising musician Rainy Boy Sleep are amongst the acts included in their second line-up announcement. Also set to play the festival – which takes place at Limavady’s Ballymully Cottage Farm on August 7 and 8 – are Scottish alt-rock band Fatherson, harpist Ursula Burns, Derry’s Making Monsters, Dylan Walshe, Zimbabwean folk band Afresh, Co. Down soprano Maria McGrann, The Hardchargers, The Whereabouts, Exit Pursued by Bear, The Eunan McLaughlin Quartet, Axecatcher, Apartment…

  • Celtronic Festival 2015

    Rightly calling itself Ireland’s leading electronic festival, Derry’s Celtronic has built up an extremely strong reputation over the last couple of years, having put the likes of Jon Hopkins, Ulrich Schnauss, Erol Alkan, John Talabot and Nina Kraviz. Set to take place across in various venues across the city from Wednesday, June 24 to Sunday, June 28, this year’s outing will include shows from Fort Romeau, Mano Le Tough, Clark, Derrick May, local acts The Cyclist and Space Dimension Controller. Check out the full line-up as it stands here and go here to buy tickets.  

  • Slane 2015

    County Meath holds one of the most beautiful areas of land in all of Ireland, and the worldwide famous landmark of Slane Castle hosts one of the biggest rock bands in the world today. There seems to be no better fit. The Irish music fans seem to be some of the best, recognised worldwide, and the statement made by the overwhelming crowd, surpassing the 70,000 mark, who came to see the Foo Fighters despite a number of other events on the same day, including Forbidden Fruit Festival not too far down the road, was an incredible sight to see. And…

  • More Acts Set for Longitude

    With just under two months to go to go until the festival, several new acts have been confirmed to play Longitude 2015. Set to take place at Dublin’s Marlay Park across the weekend of Friday, July 17 to Sunday, July 19, the following acts are amongst the latest additions: Le Galaxie / Carl Craig / Cashmere Cat / Leon Bridges / Josef Salvat/ Haelos / All Tvvins / Brame / EMBRZ / Frank B / Jeremy Underground / Wife / Shane Linehan / Hubie Davison / Niall D’Arcy / John Daly / Faune / 4Wrd Grad / Contour / Lee…

  • New Additions to Forbidden Fruit Line-Up

    Shaping up to be one of the festivals of the Irish summer, Forbidden Fruit have announced a handful of next acts to its 2015 bill. Joining the likes of Wu Tang Clan, Nicolas Jaar and Jamie XX to the line-up – taking place at Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham from May 29-31 – are East India Youth, Kowton, Lorenzo Senni, Tei Shi and U.S. electronic maestro Will Wiesenfield AKA Baths (pictured). Check out the full line-up below and go here to buy tickets to the festival.

  • Inaugural Hollow Sounds Festival Announced

    Jape, Slow Skies, I Have A Tribe, Elephant and The Man Whom are amongst the acts set to play the inaugural Hollow Sounds festival at the scenic Ballykeeffe Ampitheatre in Co. Kilkenny this Summer. Set to take place across the weekend of July 3-4, the festival – presented by KPB and Homebeat – promises to bring together a line-up of forward-thinking Irish music and classic cinema to the Kilkenny countryside venue. On the Friday, Happenings will be making their Kilkenny debut by screening The Goonies (we’re sold!). Sounds like a really cool and intimate event in the making. Snap up tickets for the festival – which go on…

  • Vantastival @ Bellurgan Park, Co. Louth

    When they say Vantastival is one of the Irish festival circuit’s best-kept secrets, it’s not some line they’re feeding you. A family-run event, over the past six years, Bellurgan Park, Co.Louth-based fest has been built up completely from scratch, “a totally unique, brazenly independent event and the only one of its kind in Ireland”, and its sixth annual instalment, running from May 1st to 3rd, is looking like a cracker. Headlined this year by reunited Welsh rap-rockers Goldie Lookin’ Chain, and Irish indie-pop veterans Delorentos, the multiple-award nominated fest also places the spotlight on a diverse range of Irish bands…