Following news earlier this week that he’ll play Dublin’s Bord Gais Theatre on July 25, it’s been announced that Beach Boys’ legend Brian Wilson will stop off at Galway International Arts Festival on Sunday, July 23. Performing Pet Sounds along with rare cuts and greatest hits with special guests Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin, the show will take place live at the Absolut Big Top. Tickets are €65, which go on sale on Friday, March 3 at 9am.
Not up to date with all the fun scandals going about? Memes proving a bit abstract for your liking? Telling your car radio to piss off again? You’re not alone. Periodically re-emerging trio Stoat have returned with a new single and the promise of a new album entitled Try Not To Think About It, set to arrive in the Summer. The single, ‘Talk Radio Makes Me Feel Alone’ takes the high-octane spoken word lyricism heard on their previous releases and jigs it all up with a Cardiacs-meets-Sleaford Mods type backdrop. As on albums Future Come Get Me (2005) and Ducks and Flying Dogs (2002) Stoat’s MO is as…
With Manic Street Preachers, Sigma and the Coronas already confirmed, several new acts have been revealed to play this year’s Indiependence at the festival’s launch today. With more yet to be revealed over the coming weeks, All Tvvins, Tom Odell, Frank Turner, The Riptide Movement, Hermitage Green, Brian Deady, We Cut Corners, The Minutes, Overhead The Albatross, Fang Club, August Walk, Super Silly, Dagny, Eamon Walsh, Mandeville Beat Critics, Brass Phantoms, Penrose, Stephanie Rainey, Eve Belle, MindRiot, Beoga, Apella, Josiah Stone and Raglans have all been announced to play. Set to return to Deer Farm in Mitchelstown, Cork from August 4-6, tickets…
Dublin based experimentalists Tongue Bundle will release the follow up to their 2015 LP Bungee Untold on March 4th in the form of Peppery Talk. The band, known for their frenzied and mind-boggling live shows, now reveal the video for ‘Bobby’, a glitchy number from the forthcoming album. Steering away from the Mr.Bungle style carnival-mania of their previous efforts, ‘Bobby’ is a much more electronic affair that still manages to retain their punkish energy. Chock with jarred keys, ominous spoken samples and frenetic percussion, it seems Tongue Bundle are opting to venture even further down the rabbit hole for this latest venture. Fine by us. Tongue…
One of our featured 17 For ’17 acts, Dublin duo Bad Sea have, as expected, burst into 2017 with a head full of steam. Ahead of supporting Julia Jacklin at Whelan’s in Dublin on February 25 and playing London’s Notting Hill Arts Club on March 5, their swooning new single ‘Tell Me (What I Mean)’ melds Americana-tinged jangle with Angel Olsen-esque pop finesse. Most certainly worth a repeat listen, this one.
Evoking everyone from Anna Calvi and PJ Harvey to Le Butcherettes’ Teri Gender Bender and Grace Slick, Berlin-based Dublin artist Candice Gordon is a force to be reckoned with. Having previously recorded an EP with Shane MacGowan, she is set to release her debut full-length album, Garden of Beasts, via Proper Octopus Records on March 3. The lead single from that release (which is an exploration of human nature, the hubris of identity, dispossession, and the conflict between the allure of savagery and the desperation for salvation from that) ‘The Laws of Nature’ is an exceptional six-minute slice of throwback noir-pop, conjuring backwashed images…
Presented by Improvised Music Company in association with Note Productions and HomeBeat, SPECTRUM is a new festival experience for fans of innovative music-making. Set to present three days of stimulating music “at the creative intersection where jazz, contemporary, rock and electronic music collide”, the Dublin festival – which runs from March 10-12 at Whelans and The Opium Rooms on Wexford St, Dublin – will have a focus on the live and improvised, complimented by a compelling programme of talks. In the first of a two-part feature, Brian Coney chats to Kenneth Killen (director of Improvised Music Company) and Emmet Condon of…
Remember when we thought George W. Bush was as bad as it could get? What idiots we were. That’s the thing about getting older; hindsight will always make even your deepest insights ridiculous and your perception of what’s truly bad a constantly rising gradient on a graph that ends in a point with a flaming eye at the top. Or something. The point is that looking backwards has a way of creating context but also highlighting some of the folly of our endeavours. So it’s best to take it with a pinch of salt. Case in point is Los Campesinos!…
This is the last week to catch Jonathan Mayhew’s latest show I Wanted to Write a Poem on in Wexford Arts Centre until Saturday 25th March. Mayhew, who was awarded Wexford Arts Centre’s 2015 Emerging Visual Artist Award, has presented a body of work that sees heavy links between the literary and visual arms of art. Both practices are intertwined by Mayhew in the exhibition, with the title itself being drawn from the autobiography of imagist poet William Carlos Williams. In I Wanted to Write a Poem Mayhew explores the ability of poetry to convey far deeper meaning through more simplistic collections of words.…
What: Meanwhile Where: CIT Wandesford Quay When: February 3rd – February 25th Words: Judt Fisher “This exhibition is a celebration,” said Catherine Fehily, head of CIT Crawford College of Art and Design as she opened the new show Meanwhile in the Wandesford Quay Gallery. “These artists have succeeded in combining creative thought with critical intelligence, resilience and tenacity resulting in D.I.Y-led productivity and action, and we are proud.” Meanwhile is curated by Aideen Quirke and shows work from artists who graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design between 2008-2013. These artists through their work, the organisations they have founded and events they have organised…