Belfast-based alt-folk singer-songwriter Peter Sumadh AKA The Mad Dalton has unveiled the video for his new single, ‘Spirit of Rocky’. Taken from Dalton’s full-length debut album, Open Season, the single – one of Sumadh’s strongest to date – now comes accompanied with Elspeth Vischer-directed video, with camera work by Ayrton McGurgan. Trigger warning: may contain an oversized, sax-wielding bunny. The Mad Dalton play Belfast’s 39 Gordon Street on Thursday, October 11th.
Pale Waves with support from Swimming Girls at Belfast’s Elmwood Hall. Photos by Niall Fegan.
The legendary Giorgio Moroder will play his first ever live show at Dublin’s 3Arena on April 8. The show is part of a new tour production, A Celebration of the 80’s will see the pioneering Italian songwriter, producer and DJ perform the highlights from his prolific career in “a spectacular stage show with dazzling visuals and lighting alongside his band and vocalists.” Moroder commented on his first ever live show: “It is something I have always wanted to do, fans kept reaching out to me, asking if I would ever do a real tour. Back in the days it was…
In music, good things don’t always come to those who wait. But sometimes, truisms hold weight, and biding one’s time is worth every fidgety, impatient second praying for a release. A perfect case in the point comes in the form of Belfast’s The Dreads. A band whose blend of psych, garage and rock n’ roll has made for some electrifying live shows in the past, they’re back with a new-fangled formation and two tracks that double-up as a statement of intent. Released via Belfast’s Satsumas Home Entertainments, the band’s debut double A-side, ‘Know Your Name’ and ‘Desires’, coalesce over seven…
It’s official: The Cure will play Dublin’s Mahahide Castle on June 8th, 2019. Doubling up as the Robert Smith-fronted band’s first Irish headline show in 7 years, the show promises 40 years of hits and more. Back in July, the band celebrated their 40th anniversary in July with special sold-out concert in London’s Hyde Park, almost 40 years to the day since their first ever show. Performing to 65,000 strong fans, the set included the likes of ‘Pictures Of You’, ‘Lovesong’, ‘Inbetween Days, ‘Just Like Heaven’, ‘A Forest’, ‘Lullaby’, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ and more. Tickets for the Dublin show are priced…
The programme for this year’s Sound of Belfast has been launched. The festival will return across November 8-15, and venues Limelight 2, The Empire, The Sunflower Bar, Voodoo, Black Box, Accidental Theatre, Ulster Hall, and 39 Gordon Street will host a diverse range of events. Among the highlights are a tribute event to the late jazz and blues musician Jackie Flavelle from artists including Ciaran Lavery, Suzanne Savage; the Northern Ireland Music Prize; a fundraiser for mental health charity AWARENI with acts such as Hot Cops, Catalan and Malojian; the return of the Native Mart; and a special youth takeover at the…
Exploded View are a band on a steady ascent. Formed a few years ago in Mexico City by Welsh-born, Berlin-based Anika in order to perform songs from her 2010 solo covers album on a tour of the country, the new group’s natural chemistry lead to 2016’s eponymous debut, an album of stellar original material influenced by “Can, dub and political revolution” on the ever reliable Sacred Bones label. Coming seemingly from out of nowhere, the album flew a little under the radar at first, but last year’s EP Summer Came Early, with its unusually catchy, breezy title track – albeit…
Belfast-based doom-folk master Robyn G Shiels has announced details of a new EP, Death of the Shadows. The highly-anticipated follow-up to Shiels’ NI Music Prize-winning album, The Blood of the Innocents, the release features five tracks produced by long-time R.G. collaborator Ben McAuley. Released via his own Black Tragick imprint on November 30, each track on the EP has also received an exclusive remix courtesy of some of the North’s finest acts: Therapy?, Robocobra Quartet, Documenta, Arvo Party and exmagician. Pre-order the album below here (those that do so get a free copy of Shiels’ debut album, A Lifetime of Midnights, and a…
Hosted by the ever excellent Strange Victory, Cardiff’s Boy Azooga stop off at Voodoo in Belfast on Sunday, October 7. Better still, we have a pair of tickets to give away to the show. To enter, simply send your answer to the following easy peasy question to info@thethinair.net and include the subject ‘Boy Azooga – Belfast: Which Belfast band are supporting Boy Azooga on the night? Good luck!
When Belfast musician and producer Herb Magee AKA Arvo Party unveiled his self-titled debut album last July, we quickly learnt that we were dealing with something pretty special. Having previously established himself as a formidable one-fourth of erstwhile Belfast alt-rock heroes LaFaro, and later with GOONS, it made for a feature-length curveball from a musician who has seemingly, and rather quietly, mastered a whole different palette of sound. The dancefloor nocturnalism of ‘Grube’ hit home hard. The widescreen ambience of ‘Thirty Five’ was a spectral tidal of ambience on mute. ‘Null Set’, meanwhile, proved an unravelling eight-minute centrepiece, and a track that continues to…