• Rave New World (31/07)

    July 31, 2015 - By 

    It’s the weekend. A Bank Holiday weekend no less. So Aidan Hanratty and Antoin Lindsay deliver their weekly look at all the very best electronic gigs, tracks, mixes and releases. GIGS Belfast Music Club Present: JG Wilkes and Eamon Harkin at The Hudson Bar, Belfast Friday 31 July An absolute scorcher of a night happening at The Hudson tonight. JG Wilkes and Eamon Harkin have established themselves in two of the greatest resident DJ collectives in the world, namely Optimo and Mister Saturday Night respectively. The common ground is they’re both from Ireland, and while they’ve made their names elsewhere, they’re joining forces…

  • Live Stream: Smalltown America All-Dayer #6

    July 31, 2015 - By 

    Co-hosted with yours truly, Smalltown America records will host their grand sixth All-Dayer this evening at STA HQ in Derry this evening from 5pm. Featuring American Clay, Carnivores, Clanns, Freak’s, Lost Avenue, PigsAsPeople, Rosseau and Small Hawk Orchestral, it is set to be yet another unforgettable, riff-fuelled happening from one of the country’s finest labels. Not able to make it? Never worry. Stream the entire thing below from 5pm! Better still, we will have videos from the All-Dayer coming on the site over the next few weeks. Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

  • Another Love Story

    July 30, 2015 - By 

    There’s supremely intimate, wonderfully cloistered, comprehensively unmissable small festivals, then there’s Another Love Story. Taking place at Killyon Manor, Co. Westmeath across August 21-23,  the “weekend celebration of music, discussion, film, food and friends” boasts a line-up including New Jackson, Loah, Leo Drezden, Come On Live Long, I Have a Tribe, Margie Lewis, Valerie Francis, Ben Bix & Father, Carriages, Tandem Felix and many more. Of course, being much more than a standard music festival, the real lure and magic here is in the one-off happenings and fleeting moment of wonder, full details of which will be announced very soon. In the…

  • Love & Mercy

    July 30, 2015 - By 

    The fidelity that musical biopics tend to have towards the chronology of public record – especially when the subject or their families are still alive, and liable to kick up a fuss over films playing fast and loose with their story – makes it difficult to know what parts to keep and what do ditch. Live fast, die young stories are good because you can fit everything in to a tight arc of glamourous decline. Complex, sprawling careers are more challenging, but can be can be reduced to a single period for convenience. Others take a more experimental approach, like Todd…

  • Premiere: Love Addict – Script for a Man EP + ‘Craving a JPEG’ Video

    July 30, 2015 - By 

    Irish emigre Shane Harrington, formerly of Limrock math-punks We Come in Pieces, has been keeping himself busy since heading to New York a few years back. Aside from math band A Year and Change and solo electronic project OST, he’s been brooding on noise side-project Love Addict. It pulls precisely zero punches. Self-recorded and self-performed, it draws on a rich vein of sludge and math-rock angularity. Love Addict is the noise-rock experiment of New York based musician Shane Harrington (OST, A Year And Change, We Come In Pieces). Script For A Man was recorded, mixed and performed by Shane in its…

  • Spirit of Folk Festival

    July 30, 2015 - By 

    Returning to Co. Meath’s Dunderry Park from September 18-20, Spirit of Folk Festival with a line-up boasting the likes of Mick Flannery (pictured), Inni-K, Carriages and more. As well as music the festival will also include storytelling from national treasures such as Batt Burns, Jack Lynch, Eddie Lenihan, and Aideen Mc Bride, as well as talks and workshops on Ancient Druidism and Shamanism, African song and Dance workshops, Viking Battle Re-enactments, Bicycle Jousting, Yoga, Astronomy and Bushcraft. Festival Director, Natasha Duffy, says of this year’s SOF, “Each year we try and promote as many interesting and unique activities as possible. This year…

  • We Lived In Cities @ Project Arts Centre, Dublin

    July 30, 2015 - By 

    Composer Bryan Pepper’s Urban Nights is to feature as part of a new production We Lived in Cities, which will premier as part of the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival at the Project Centre in September. A collaboration between Pepper, filmmaker Brian Benjamin Dwyer of Madra Mor and live visual artists Generic People, We Lived In Cities will feature a live orchestra, live visuals and the projected story itself on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of September at 7pm @ Project Arts Centre. Speaking of the project, Pepper said, “Myself and Brian talked about making this show when we were both working as…

  • DIY Dublin: Nine Crows

    July 28, 2015 - By 

    In the latest installment of DIY Dublin, Benni Johnston catches up with Emma and Dean from Nine Crows, a boutique on Ormond Quay Lower specialising in hand-picked vintage clothing. Photos by Abi Denniston. Hi guys. Nine Crows is now well established as a go to place for great vintage finds and progressive fashion both the store and online but I’ve been aware of it in it’s many guises for some time. Fill us in on the background of the shop to present day. Emma: My grandmother left me tonnes and tonnes of vintage pieces that she had collected throughout the years,…

  • Lisa Dwan @ Samuel Beckett Happy Days Festival

    July 28, 2015 - By 

    Talks related to Samuel Beckett are an integral feature of the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival. This year, the inaugural Billie Whitelaw Memorial Lecture in the Southwest College commemorated the late Beckett actress who passed away in December 2014. Lisa Dwan, in a very real sense the heir to Whitelaw, had the honour of delivering the first Billie Whitelaw Memorial Lecture and gave a talk every bit as captivating as the interpretations of Beckett’s plays that have won her unreserved international acclaim. In introducing Dwan, the festival’s Deputy Artistic Director Liam Browne quoted a New York Times review of…