• Gorillaz Confirmed For Malahide Castle

    November 2, 2017 - By 

    And there you have it. Confirming what we were all lead to believe at the start of the week, it’s been announced that Gorillaz will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle on Saturday, June 9. Tickets for the show – which go on sale next Thursday, November 9 at 9am – are priced at €69.50. The world’s finest virtual band – formed by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett back in 1998 – released their fifth studio album, Humanz, back in April. Gorillaz last performed in Dublin at 3Arena (or what was then known as The O2 – back in November 2010.

  • Tears For Fears and Alison Moyet to Play Dublin’s 3Arena

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    If you haven’t already spent your life savings on the deluge of must-attend shows being announced for next year, here’s another one for the calendar. Supported by Alison Moyet, English new wave maestros Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith AKA Tears For Fears will headline Dublin’s 3Arena on May 2, 2018. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 3. Pre-sale tickets are available here. The pair – who release their new Greatest Hits album Rule The World on November 10 – have sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

  • Liam Gallagher to Make Dublin and Belfast Return

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    As expected, Liam Gallagher has confirmed that he will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle on Friday, June 15. The Oasis frontman – who has just released his debut solo album As You Were – will also play Belfast’s Ormeau Park as part of Belsonic 2018 on Saturday, June 16. The Malahide Castle show will be Gallagher’s bigger Irish headline show, having already sold out dates at The Olympia Theatre and Weston Airport this year. Tickets – which go on sale next Friday at 9am – are priced €49.90 and £40.00 respectively.

  • Yep, It’s Happening: LCD Soundsystem Set For Malahide Castle in June

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Confirming what was rumoured at the start of the week, it’s been confirmed that LCD Soundsystem will return to Dublin to play Malahide Castle next summer. Having played an acclaimed residency at Olympia Theatre in September, James Murphy and co. – who released their critically-acclaimed fourth studio album American Dream earlier this year – will play the outdoor venue on June 5. Other acts for the date are yet to be confirmed. Tickets are priced €69.50 and go on sale next Friday, November 3 at 9am. Now for Gorillaz and/or Liam Gallagher to be confirmed…

  • Thor: Ragnorok

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    In July I wrote that Spider-Man: Homecoming was the funniest Marvel movie so far, a distinction that has lasted all of, oh, three months. Actually, Thor: Ragnorok is the funniest one yet. The Marvel factory, whatever its faults, is pumping out plain old good times on overtime hours. Ragnorok, the third and presumably final solo outing for Chris Hemsworth’s Men’s Health Goldilocks, retains some of the studio’s familiar issues, but makes up for them by being — for long stretches — honest to goodness hilarious. The Lord — sorry, God — of thunder is front of house, but Kiwi film-maker Taiki Waititi is the man of the hour,…

  • Morrissey Set For 3Arena Show in February

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Love, hate or merely tolerate him, Stephen Patrick Morrissey will return to Dublin’s 3Arena on February 20. Set to release his eleventh solo studio album on November 17, Morrissey released his latest single ‘I Wish You Lonely’ on Tuesday. Ticket prices for the Dublin are TBC. Tickets go on sale next Friday (November 3) at 10am.

  • Watch: Thunder On The Left – National Insecurity

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Photo by Brian Ritchie  To mark its official release, London-based grunge trio Thunder On The Left have released their new single ‘National Insecurity’. Their first new music since 2015’s  The Art of Letting Go EP, ‘National Insecurity’ is a bleak gaze into the future the band predicts for us as we become ever more hyper-dependent on technology. The single is an ambitious, riff-laden belter that seems determined to shake some sense into us. Or at least freak the hell out of us until we put our phones down for 10 minutes. Recorded and mixed along with the rest of their forthcoming debut album by the…

  • Video Premiere: Half Forward Line – Column A, Column B

    October 26, 2017 - By 

    Galway super-group of sorts Half Forward Line are set to release their debut album The Back of Mass tomorrow. Before we premiere it on this here website though, the band have been kind enough to share a video for ‘Column A, Column B’. The trio, comprised of So Cow‘s Brian Kelly on guitar and vocals, Oh Boland‘s Niall Murphy and bass, and regular TTA photographer Cíarán Ó Maoláin behind the drums, have been doing some wonderful damage on the live circuit these past few months and also unveiled one of the sweetest love songs to come out of the West in quite some time in the form…

  • Album Premiere: Half Forward Line – The Back of Mass

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Just yesterday, we had the distinct pleasure of premiering the video for ‘Column A, Column B’ by Galway supergroup-of-sorts (actually, not of-sorts, of-actuality) Half Forward Line. Featuring So Cow’s Brian Kelly on guitar and vocals, Oh Boland‘s Niall Murphy and bass, and regular TTA photographer Cíarán Ó Maoláin on drums, the band’s brand new debut album, The Back of Mass, is a thing of rather brilliance, effortlessly distilling the varyingly-shaded starry-eyed, fuzzed-out, limb-flailing panache of their component parts and projects, commingling into a twelve-track salvo of soul-enhancing, real-life-confronting, impossibly-earworming garage rock. And sure, are you at all surprised? These guys haven’t spent huge chunks of their collective life…

  • You Can’t Live In The Past: a Tête-à-tête With Badwan and Hayward of The Horrors

    October 26, 2017 - By 

    One third of quite possibly the country’s finest podcast NO ENCORE, freelance music scrivener and all-round man about (Dublin) town Dave Hanratty had a rather lovely yak with Faris Badwan and Joshua Hayward of the positively regenerated The Horrors recently. He transcribed it and here we are. What a world. Photos by Aaron Corr Faris Badwan is furious. Frankly, he has every right to be. The endlessly tall frontman of The Horrors has been betrayed, stabbed in the back with casual disregard by his guitarist, one Joshua Hayward. Just seconds after revealing that the pair are working on separate soundtracks…