• EP Stream: Music For Dead Birds – Nail & Tooth

    August 9, 2017 - By 

    Long favourites of ours here at The Thin Air, Galway experimental folk twosome Jimmy Monaghan and Dónal Walsh AKA Music For Dead Birds are a band whose lo-fi craft would not have been out of place on the roster of Sam Berger’s Homestead Records in the early 90s. Having first appeared on our radar back in 2011 via The Pope’s Sister – an album we said conjured the likes of Sebadoh and Polvo – the pair have drip-fed a series of releases in the interim, most recently 2015’s Your Brand New Life. New EP Nail & Tooth both marks the band’s 10th year in…

  • Indiependence 2017

    August 9, 2017 - By 

    Indiependence 2017 in Cork featuring live performances from Manic Street Preachers, Wild Beasts, Super Silly, Talos, All Tvvins, Barq, Rocstrong, Le Boom, Lyra, Orchid Collective and many more. Photos by Dave Lyons

  • Another Love Story Add Final Additions

    August 9, 2017 - By 

    Presented by Happenings and Homebeat, Another Love Story have added the final acts for its fourth annual outing at Killyon Manor in Co. Meath next weekend (August 18-20) With the likes of Katie Kim, Bantum, Tomorrows, ELLLL, Replete, Beach, I Am The Cosmos, Hilary Woods and Overhead, The Albatross already confirmed, David Kitt with Margie Jean Lewis and Jape, Love Olympics, Ships, Seen Your Video, Floor Staff, Vanishing Lakes, MKAI, as well as a host of talks and happenings also round off the bill for 2017. With weekend tickets sold out, some Sunday tickets are still available to buy here. Here’s the full line-up. We’ll be DJing in the Big Stretchy from 14.15-15.00…

  • Exhibition: The Core Project @ RUA RED

    August 22, 2017 - By 

    The Core Project is the latest exhibition from Irish artist Matthew Nevin, and is currently on show in Tallaght’s RUA RED creative hub. The work is one that Nevin has been developing since 2010 and sees the artist present over 150 videos of individuals in each sovereign state in the world. The participants are all responding to the same question: What is going to happen next? Nevin ensured each was ignorant to this question prior to filming their video, which results in a more visceral than calculated response being captured and documented. Modern life, and the art world included, is becoming more and more intertwined with technology…

  • Workshops & Exhibition: Cork Photo Gallery

    August 11, 2017 - By 

    Cork Photo Gallery have announced details of their forthcoming workshop series with events due to take place throughout September and into October. Workshops range from photography tutorials at dawn with Marcin Lewandowski (details available online here) to outdoor painting classes with Paul McKenna (details available online here). Running in conjunction with these more specific adult classes, Cork Photo Gallery have also released details of their forthcoming children’s workshops – with events for kids of all ages, with workshops even catering for 6 to 16 months. As well as these events, the gallery is currently showing In Print, an exhibition featuring the work of photographer…

  • Exhibition: And Creatures Dream…A New Language @ Wexford Arts Centre

    August 21, 2017 - By 

    This week is your last to see And Creatures Dream…A New Language as its due to close this Friday, August 25th. The exhibition, which is spread across both the Wexford Arts Centre and the Wexford County Council buildings, comments on the visual arts in the county, with a focus on painting. The exhibition’s title is taken from American poet Susan Stewart’s 2011 piece A Language and references the artists’ perception and memory as they create their work. The artists on show (which include Robert Armstrong, Eamonn Carter, Aileen Murphy, Breda Stacey and Michael Warren) explore and present the medium of painting in diverse and ever challenging…

  • Exhibition: Subjects & Objects @ VISUAL Carlow

    August 10, 2017 - By 

    Frank Kafka’s 1922 short story, A Hunger Artist, provides the departure point for American filmmaker Daria Martin’s latest film, also titled A Hunger Artist. In Kafka’s story an artist performs public fasts, which are fashionable at the time, but feeling under-loved and under-appreciated he tries to extend the length of time he subjects himself to these performances against his managers wishes. After fasting falls out of fashion he finds himself working in a circus; and in the end he neither desires food nor attention, becoming ignored. Eventually he dies and is replaced by a panther, who is gazed upon and admired by his…

  • And So I Watch You From Afar Set For Irish Tour in December

    August 8, 2017 - By 

    North Coast instrumental rock heroes And So I Watch You From Afar have announced they will play four Irish dates in December. Having recently recorded their forthcoming fifth studio album in the States, the band – who are also setting off on a huge European and UK tour across October and November – will play the following dates at the tail-end of the year: December 28: Academy, Dublin December 29: Garbo’s, Castlebar, Co. Mayo December 30: Cyprus Avenue, Cork December 31: Roisin Dubh, Galway Tickets go on sale tomorrow.    

  • Watch: Elephant – Mirrors

    August 8, 2017 - By 

    Just last week we featured ‘Mirrors’ by Dundalk-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Shane Clarke AKA Elephant, an effort we called a “Bowie-coloured route with distorted, effect laden guitars, sparkling keys and prominent drums propping up Clarke’s vocals”. The third single to be taken from his forthcoming second album, the song – which is “a pining for youth, mourning its mistakes and trying to recall just when it was that you became so cynical” – has been granted another, wonderfully crafted resonance courtesy of visuals from the videographers over at Farney House. Roll on album number two.