Future Islands live at Energia Park in Dublin with support from Mercury Rev, Idles and Pillow Queens. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon
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The National just can’t seem to stay away from Dublin. Not ten months since their intimate double-bill at Vicar St., they made their return this Friday, nestled away in the leafy Donnybrook suburbs at the Energia/Donnybrook Stadium, for their own miniature two-day festival, with support acts including Lisa Hannigan, John Grant, Villagers and Rostam. The Friday gig featured the aforementioned Lisa Hannigan and John Grant, as well as Jay Som, and Preoccupations. Not your typical outdoor venue, this weekend was an opportunity for Donnybrook Stadium to showcase itself as one – with surprisingly strong acoustics, and the high suburban trees…
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Fronted by Julian Casablanacas of the Strokes, The Voidz will play an exclusive Irish show at Dublin’s Vicar Street on October 26. The U.S. six-piece released their second studio album, Virtue, back in March. Tickets for the Dublin show are priced €36.50 and go on sale this Friday at 10am.
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Porto-based, west of Ireland raised artist and musician Olan Monk‘s two EPs INIS and ANAM come paired with a single lyric each. They aren’t sung. In fact, they’re not heard at all. Nonetheless, he says, they’re the lyrics. They read as follows… ANAM extend ourselves through rifts in place multiple outcomes of wet decisions delusions made and loves we lost on distant shores breathing, being, mind less Wanderer INIS nobody enters the second zone there are always enough others to exist you drift hopelessly through other people the love they give is more than a geographic boundary a feeling extends…
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Mere happenstance it may be, but in the context of a certain momentous referendum victory and one of the longest stretches of good weather in Irish history, the timing of Dott’s balmy and conspicuously political release feels oddly significant. Heart Swell bulges at the seams with driving garage rock riffs and rumbling basslines while sundrenched melodies and buoyant harmonies sugar the album’s impassioned politics without sacrificing an ounce of the band’s defiant verve. The surf pop inflected opener ‘Bleached Blonde’, announces itself with Laura Finnegan’s throbbing bass and frontwoman Anna McCarthy’s vocals echoing the ebb and flow of the tide,…
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Liam Gallagher with support from Richard Ashcroft at Malahide Castle in Dublin. Photos by Alan Maguire.
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Perhaps best known for her 2017 gem ‘Pretty Girl’, Massachusetts lo-fi pop artist Claire Cottrill AKA Clairo will play Dublin’s The Academy 2 on September 16. The musician and singer recently dropped a six-track EP, which included a collaboration with Rejjie Snow. Tickets for the show are priced at €16.85 and go on sale tomorrow (Tuesday, June 19) at 4pm.
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19-year-old Norwegian musician Pablo Muñoz AKA Boy Pablo has been making some waves as a bedroom indie-pop contender over the last few months. Having recently shared single ‘Losing You’, and with a new EP expected in the coming months, he will play Dublin’s Button Factory on October 28. Tickets for the show are priced at €27 and go on sale on Thursday at 9am.
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Icelandic-Brightonian punk rock three-piece Dream Wife will play two Irish dates in October. As part of a forthcoming European tour, Rakel Mjöll, Alice Go and Bella Podpadec will stop off at Dublin’s Whelan’s on October 17 Galway’s Roisin Dubh on October 18. Tickets are priced at €13.00 and go on sale this Wednesday at 9am.
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Following their blistering outdoor show at Energia Park yesterday, it’s been announced that one of the most vital bands around, English punk rock five-piece IDLES will play Dublin’s Whelan’s on October 22. The show will take place as part of the band’s first ever world tour off the back of the release of their forthcoming second album, Joy As An Act of Resistance, which is out via Partisan on August 31. Priced €16.50, tickets go on sale on Thursday at 10am.