Placebo made a long awaited return to the Olympia Theatre in Dublin last night. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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A Bad Cavalier played our very own Tuesday Throwdown at Lavery’s bar in Belfast the other night, with the lads from ASIWYFA coming out to show their support for their fellow band member. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Portland-born, Belfast-raised rapper BeeMickSee releases his long-awaited, aptly-titled debut album The Belfast Yank globally on March 16. Some of the tracks have been made available through previous EPs & singles, available to check out on Bandcamp. With the question hanging over the album of: “What do you do when your parents move you from the hipster mecca that is Portland Oregon to the urban jungle that is post-ceasefire Belfast?”, the former punk-hop Bomb City 7 alumnus Brendan Seamus eschews the usual misogynist hip-hop patter – instead favouring lyrics chartering the experience of relocation in an unfamiliar, often uncivilised society, cross-Atlantic cultural parallels, strained relationships and bullying. Recorded in Start…
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Duke Special played a rather lovely intimate gig in Abner Brown’s barber in Dublin last night, performing songs from his fourth studio album set for release in April. Support on the night came from Sinead White. Photos by Mark Earley.
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Brid O’Donovan chatted with Stevie on the Sunday of Quarter Block Party and he was hosting Vinyl Love in Gulpd Cafe. They were about six hours into a ten hour set of twenty five DJs playing 7 7” records. A few hours earlier the wonderful Siobhan Kane of Young Hearts Run Free chaired a panel discussion titled Life Has Surface Noise. Daragh O Halloran, Peter Twomey, Justin Grounds and Stevie Grainger shared with us their memories of growing up with the records they hooked to their veins. Justin spoke beautifully about how music connects us to our time and Siobhan…
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Elastic Sleep live at Whelan’s in Dublin with support from Other Creatures. Photos by Carlos Daly.
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Richie Egan brought his band Jape on a tour of Ireland in support of the immense new album This Chemical Sea , taking in the Academy in Dublin, Roisin Dubh in Galway and Cyprus Avenue in Cork (plus a later date in Belfast which will be covered in a few weeks). Check out our three comprehensive galleries below from each night by Sean McCormack, Tara Thomas and Brid O’Donovan. Roisin Dubh, Galway by Sean McCormack. The Academy, Dublin by Tara Thomas. Cyprus Avenue, Cork by Brid O’Donovan.
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Jack Crotty is founder and owner of The Rocket Man, which is a salad and juice bar on Princes street in Cork city. He also trades at markets and organises events in Cork. Food at Home There are two different sides of my family, as there is with everyone’s family. My mum’s side of the family would be very into growing food and eating healthily and my Dad’s side wouldn’t be as much but they still would have a good respect for food. It certainly was from my Mum that all that came from. Sourcing properly and ethically. It’s really…
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Keith Wallace operates his bespoke micro-independent label Rusted Rail from his base in Galway. Here, he discusses his favourite albums with us from the comfort of his own home including Vashti Bunyan, Planxty and Black Sabbath. Photos by Sean McCormack. Tindersticks – Tindersticks I’ve had this album since it came out in 1993, but I just recently got it on vinyl, an original pressing which has one more extra song that didn’t fit on the CD at the time. There’s an entire life on this album. It’s rain-drenched and wine stained, that’s how I always think about it. It seems to…
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Culture Vultures featuring a live set from Slow Skies and a chat with Richie Egan from Jape. Photos by Abigail Denniston.