Thanks to Strange Victory Presents, we have a pair of tickets to give away to Texas singer-songwriter Micah P. Hinson at Voodoo in Belfast on Thursday, October 5. To be in with a chance of snapping of them up, simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What age is Micah P. Hinson? Good luck!
We have no shortage of boundlessly inviting festivals right on our doorstep, but some go that little bit further by excavating the long-standing cultural trends and bonds that ensure Ireland’s creative standing on the world stage remains unique. A festival that celebrates “the relationship between Ireland and New York, one story at a time” I.NY is a perfect case in point. Set to take place at a number of venues in Limerick City across October 5-15, this year’s outing will delve into and highlight the strong ties between the NYC and Ireland, inviting a range of creatives – artists, writers, musicians, educators, entrepreneurs and more…
With its themes of art and architecture, this year’s Henry J Lyons-sponsored Dublin Art Book Fair will take place at Dublin’s Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, with other events at the Irish Architecture Foundation, Tenement Museum and the National Gallery of Ireland, across November 23-26. Bridging the distinct realms of art and architecture in order to engage diverse audiences, a curated programme of talks, tours, workshops, an artist commission and a film screening will traverse contemporary art, architecture, books, design, film, the city and its material histories. Launched at 6pm on Thursday, November 23, highlights of this year’s fair include a…
Released 25 years ago this year, The Thing remains a bona fide sci-fi horror classic. Commemorating the fact in style, Belfast’s new-fangled South 13 will be converted into a snowbound landscape for a unique Halloween screening of the John Carpenter classic on Monday, October 30. Presented by S13, Newcastle Community Cinema and Belfast Film Festival, the event will also feature full bar and food stalls. Exploding heads are also available. Tickets are priced £10 and can be bought here.
Having last played the city as part of Longitude back in 2013, French indie-pop quartet Phoenix will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on March 27, 2018. The show will mark the end of a string of European live dates for the band, who have been touring worldwide to promote their new album, Ti Amo, since May. Tickets for the Dublin show are priced €34.50 and go on sale this Friday at 9am.
Hip hop was born from jazz. Powerful drum beats from 70s jazz and jazz funk gave early pioneers Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash an abundance of ingredients to create an entirely new style of music composed of their predecessors’ songs. It’s an influence that stuck through the 80s and 90s, and whether it’s J Dilla ’s sophisticated sampling or Notorious B.I.G’s Cannonball Adderly influenced flow, the fingerprints of jazz are all over hip hop. So what happens when jazz is relegated to “music for goatee scratching elitists”, and hip hop takes up the mantle as the art form for black…
Having just released their stellar fifth studio album, V, The Horrors will stop off in Belfast to play Mandela Hall on Monday, October 6. Fancy winning guestlist +1? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net What is the closing song on V? Good luck!
Rock and roll is built on shifting sands. What reinvents the wheel one day, is old hat the next. One minute you’re the Great White Hope, the next you’re Yesterday’s News. And in a world of ‘nearly was’, ‘has beens’, and ‘never were’, Tom Petty was a survivor. With his wide grin, sardonic expression, and electric guitar, he rocked his way through decades worth of pretenders to the throne, seeing them all off, without even seeming to break a sweat. Cool as the proverbial cucumber, Petty didn’t exactly blaze a trail, instead preferring to stand to the side, observing with…
Shellac with support from Sister Ghost at Belfast’s Black Box. Photos by Colm Laverty.
One of the golden rules of making any playlist is that you should absolutely never ever start the night with ‘Mr. Brightside’. ‘Mr. Brightside’ should not feature anywhere in the first two hours of a night. Since its phenomenal success 16 years ago – which earned it a spot on the Billboard Top 100 to this day – ‘Mr. Brightside’ has been hailed as one of the most popular “peak” songs for any appropriate party, be that a wedding or whatever you’re having yourself. It reaches its maximum potential only when coupled with unsafe amounts of Jaeger at 2am with crowds…