Tuareg rock band Tinariwen with support from Limerick’s Elikya at the Big Top at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival. Photos by Ciaran O’Maolain.
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Neil Young and the Promise of the Real at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny. Photos by Kevin Hennessy.
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Aldous Harding will play Vicar Street later this year. Fresh for supporting Villagers at Iveagh Gardens, the New Zealand folk singer-songwriter will play the Dublin venue on December 3. Tickets are €25.00 and go on sale at 9am on Friday.
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U.S. indie rock hero (Sandy) Alex G will play Dublin early next year. The singer, songwriter and musician will play at The Button Factory on February 8th, 2020. On September 13th, he will release his ninth album, House of Sugar, via Domino. Tickets for the Dublin show are priced at €16.50 and go on sale this Friday at 10am.
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In the sweltering heat of an early July evening swarms of young Irish hipsters enter the Iveagh Gardens. Amongst the sea of blunt fringes, ratty facial hair and cuffed jeans there are brief pieces of chatter that you would expect from the audience of a Mac Demarco concert. There’s talk of drinking cheap booze and, of course, every other second the word “cigarette” is heard. Without even an ounce of an introduction the first support act, Kirin J Callinan takes to the stage wearing a beret, all black clothing and holding in his hand a fluorescent pink guitar. A few…
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It’s an overcast but stiflingly warm evening as concert-goers begin to filter into Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens. Amongst this crowd is a varied mix of personnel. Business types still clad in their work attire, pensioners dressed like pensioners and a select few younger audience members that either appear to have been dragged along by their parents or are decked out in tola vintage streetwear. An eclectic crowd, to say the least. As a decent amount of punters settle in on the grass, New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Aldous Harding takes to the stage with her band. There has been a lot of buzz…
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Next month, Belfast psych-jam maestros Electric Octopus stop off in Dublin, Belfast and Derry for three unmissable shows with Freiburg four-piece Sound of Smoke. Ahead of that, guitarist Tyrell Black, bassist Dale Hughes and drummer Guy Hetherington select and wax lyrical about some of their all-time favourite tracks, including Alice Coltrane, Thom Yorke, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and more. Derek Trucks Band – Sahib Teri Bandi Besides the fact that Derek Trucks and the song are just straight up great. The energy that comes from it is incredible! It builds and weaves in so many ways and the slide guitar…
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The trailblazing Idles with support from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and The Claque at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon.
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Mattiel with support from Nerves at Whelans in Dublin. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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A potent side-effect of modernity is the prevalent disconnection we experience from our inner selves; Freud identified the basic, instinctual drive of humans as the ‘id’, Jung was interested in the ‘anima’ of man — the ‘feminine’ aspect of the brain underlying the conscious self. These concepts of double identities had been prevalent in psychology before the mass subsumption of digital technology, but have since gained a new and increasingly urgent significance. With OK Computer in 1997, Radiohead developed a seminal text reflecting on modern technological anxiety. 22 years later, Thom Yorke’s perspective has shifted from the potentiality of the…