• Summertime @ The MAC

    November 12, 2013 - By 

    Following on from the success of Planet Belfast, Tinderbox returns to the MAC this season with a dark and bold new play from the award-winning David Ireland. Summertime is a gripping and hard-hitting drama sure to have audiences on the edge of their seats. “Jonathan is struggling to establish himself as the minister in a working class East Belfast parish. One night a young man stumbles into his rectory, covered in blood, and claiming that he is possessed by the devil. Delving deeper into the young man’s story, the minister finds himself coming under increasing suspicion from the local community.…

  • NI Music Prize 2013

    November 11, 2013 - By 

    Featuring performance from five of the contenders, the inaugural NI Music Prize will take place at Belfast’s Mandella Hall on Tuesday, November 12. An accolade aiming to recognising the best album released by a Northern Irish act over the last twelve months, the bands vying for the prize are as follows: A Plastic Rose – Camera Shutter Life And So I Watch You From Afar – All Hail Bright Futures Anthony Toner – Sing Under The Bridges Axis Of – Finding St Kilda  The Bonnevilles – Folk Art And the Death of Electric Jesus Fighting With Wire – Colonel Blood Foy Vance – Joy Of Nothing  Girls Names – The New Life Jetplane Landing – Don’t Try Le…

  • EP Stream: Little Matador – Liar Liar

    November 11, 2013 - By 

    Ahead of supporting Queens of the Stone Age at Belfast’s Odyssey arena this day next week, Little Matador have unveiled their debut EP, Liar Liar A four track release, currently available at the merch stall on the band’s current tour with Jimmy Eat World, the EP serves as fully-realised introduction to Little Matador’s sound, from the charging alt-rock of ‘Boom Boom’ to the anthemic ‘Swagger’ of ‘Give Me All You’ve Got’. Check our interview with the band’s frontman Nathan Connolly (also guitarist with the up-and-coming Snow Patrol) here. Stream Liar Liar below.

  • Gravity

    November 11, 2013 - By 

    It’s been over six years since Alfonso Cuarón, director of Children Of Men and Y Tu Mamá Tambien, stepped behind the camera and this is truly a shame for contemporary. The man is inarguably one of the great visual filmmakers working today. His long, handheld shots with their ambition and scope genuinely inspire awe; this is a man who managed to take us through a concentration camp with gunfights, explosions and stairs without cutting. Cuarón’s friend, collaborator and equal, Guillermo Del Toro, observed a similar albeit shorter absence. Both came back in 2013. Del Toro’s Pacific Rim was a solid,…

  • Video exclusive: Seven Summits – Little Twist

    November 11, 2013 - By 

    Just over a year since the release of their stellar second album Fossils, Belfast-based indie rock band Seven Summits have unveiled their ridiculously infectious new single ‘Little Twist’ – and we have an exclusive first look at the video. Directed by the band’s guitarist and keyboardist Dominic Coyle, the black and white video features, among other things, some of the most hypnotising slow-motion flapping of the lips that has ever been committed to film. The single – released as part of Belfast Music Week – was recorded by Phil D’Alton and mastered by Jon Moorehead. You can stream/buy it via…

  • Exclusive video: Robyn G Shiels – Underneath the Night of Stars

    November 8, 2013 - By 

    Huge fans of his work, we have an exclusive first look at the new video for the stellar ‘Underneath the Night of Stars’ by Belfast-based singer-songwriter Robyn G Shiels. Directed by LUMO, the animated video, with its initially wistful but eventually rather dark culmination, serves as a perfect accompaniment to the song, the title track taken from Shiels’ most recent EP. Stream Underneath the Night of Stars here. Check out our review of the EP here. Watch the video for ‘Underneath the Night fo Stars’ below.

  • Director’s Cut: Le Galaxie – ‘Lucy is Here’

    December 9, 2013 - By 

    In the first of a new feature here on The Thin Air, Loreana Rushe speaks with Steve Mac Devitt and Greg Corcoran about their music video work, particularly the recent video they created for Le Galaxie’s latest single ‘Lucy is Here’. Mark Earley also provided us with behind the scenes photographs from the video shoot. Hi there! Can you introduce yourself to us and a give us a little background on your work? S: I’m Steve Mac Devitt and I’m a dublin born designer and director. Originally a graphic designer, I worked print and then web in the dot com…

  • Stream: Hunk – Precipice

    November 7, 2013 - By 

    Dublin lo-fi rock duo Sundara O’Higgins and Niamh Hegarty AKA Hunk have unveiled a brand new track, ‘Precipice’. Taken from their forthcoming debut EP, Fledgling – set for release on November 22 – the track is a wonderfully fully-formed effort with swathes of nocturnal noise, slightly off-kilter harmonies and a general air of Grass Widow about it (far from a bad thing in our book). Stream the track via Soundcloud below.

  • Tour Video: Little Matador – Liar Liar and Interview

    November 7, 2013 - By 

    Currently on the road with Jimmy Eat World, Little Matador have unveiled a live video of their single ‘Liar Liar’ and an accompanying interview. With the Nathan Connolly-fronted band set to play Nottingham’s Rock City tonight, the video features the band performing the aforementioned track interspersed with various members talking about their current UK and Irish tour and their forthcoming debut album. Below are the dates remaining on the band’s current tour: Nov 7 – Rock City, Nottingham, UK (w/ Jimmy Eat World) Nov 8 – Forum, London UK (with Jimmy Eat World) Nov 12 – Sound Control, Manchester, UK Nov 13…

  • EP Stream: Boxcutter – Gnosis

    November 7, 2013 - By 

    Northern Irish electronic producer Barry Lynn AKA Boxcutter has unveiled a stream of his forthcoming new EP, Gnosis. A five-track release “of 160bpm excursions into new territory”, the EP is Lynn’s first appearance on Cosmic Bridge, the release itself curated by label boss Om Unit. Gnosis will be released on December 16 on 12″ Vinyl and in digital format. Stream the release via Soundcloud below.