• Gadget And The Cloud – Songs For Sad People To Dance To

    March 21, 2018 - By 

    The night is over. The pub is closing, the lights are turned on and the bartenders are ushering you out. Hopefully, you have friends in tow. It can be a welcome relief, the nearing prospect of sleep after a long night on the booze, on the floor, dancing to the sounds played at decibels too high to be comfortable on the ears. For others, the end of the night – after the afterparty is fizzled out – brings with it a stunted sadness of sorts, a sort of melancholy spurred on by the early whisper of a hangover. This particular…

  • Snow Patrol Announce Seven-Date Irish Tour

    March 21, 2018 - By 

    Snow Patrol have announced a seven-date Irish tour ahead of the release of their new album, Wildness, set on May 25. Marking the Northern Irish band’s first live dates in five years, Gary Lightbody and co. will play the following. Derry – Millennium Forum 11th May Cork – Opera House 12th May Killarney – INEC 14th May Dublin – Olympia 15th May Wexford – Opera House 16th May Galway – Leisureland 18th May Belfast – Ulster Hall 20th May Tickets go on Friday, March 30 at 10am.

  • Room For Rebellion will host parties in three cities this Friday in aid of reproductive rights campaign

    March 20, 2018 - By 

    Irish “Political Party” Room For Rebellion will return this Friday 23rd March for three parties spread across three cities, all in aid of the Irish reproductive rights campaign. The parties will be held in The Black Box in Belfast, Jigwaw in Dublin and The Yard, Hackney Wick in London respectively, with each event featuring a superb line-up of female DJs. In Belfast, local DJ Venus Dupree will join Lisbon’s Violet in providing music all night long while at Dublin’s BYOB party in Jigsaw proceedings will be in the hands of Endrift, Eliza and NTS resident Moxie. For London’s party in Hackney…

  • Ariel Pink Set For Dublin Show

    March 21, 2018 - By 

    It’s been announced that L.A. lo-fi multi-instrumentalist maestro Ariel Marcus Rosenberg aka Ariel Pink will play Dublin’s Button Factory on August 16. Co-promoted by Aiken and Skinny Wolves, tickets for the show are on sale now priced €22. Ariel Pink released his stellar 11th studio album, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson, via Mexican Summer back in September last year.

  • The Square

    March 20, 2018 - By 

    At the beginning of Palme d’Or-winning The Square, another cold, almost hypothermic portrait of male insincerity from Force Majeure’s Ruben Östlund, a successful Stockholm art curator is interviewed by a nervous journalist (Elizabeth Moss). With his fey scarf, bright but not unfashionable socks and red designer spectacles, tactically removed to communicate casualness, Christian, played by Claes Bang, is every inch the dreamy modern intellectual. When Moss’ interviewer asks him to unpack the dense description of one of the museum’s events, an investigation of the ‘topos’ of the exhibition space, he struggles, offering a glib line about the validity of normal objects becoming…

  • Bloc Party Set for Silent Alarm Show at 3Arena

    March 19, 2018 - By 

    As part of a run of six European shows, Bloc Party will perform their debut album, Silent Alarm, at Dublin’s 3Arena on October 22. Hands down their finest hour, Silent Alarm was released to critical and commercial acclaim in 2005. The double A-side ‘So Here We Are/Positive Tension’, ‘Banquet’ and ‘Pioneers’ were released as singles. Tickets are on sale on Monday, March 25 at 9am, priced €49.50 including booking fee.

  • Premiere: Bosco Ramos – Mayflies

    March 19, 2018 - By 

    Belfast bass and drums punk rock duo Bosco Ramos made a sizable dent with the release of their fuzzed-out debut EP, Signs of Life, last year. Today, they’re back with their most emphatic single effort to date in the form of nuanced, unravelling alt rock blitz ‘Mayflies’. A song about “harnessing that thing which allows you to think for yourself and resist what you know to be wrong” it’s a typically groove-laden assault from Phil Brown (bass/vocals) and Callum McGeown (drums/vocals), rounded off with the pair’s progressively singular brand of melodic-yet-pummelling punk rock. In other words, we fucking love it. ‘Mayflies’ is…

  • The Altered Hours – On My Tongue

    March 18, 2018 - By 

    The Altered Hours are a band who wear their influences very firmly on their sleeve. Elements of The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and The Brian Jonestown Massacre (whose frontman Anton Newcombe released the band’s Sweet Jelly Roll EP on his A Recordings label in 2013) abound, but they carry it off with such aplomb that they manage to make this sound all their own. Following on from 2016’s full length debut In Heat Not Sorry and a string of live shows that have cemented them as one of the very best live bands in the country, the…