Four Tet is set for a date in Belfast later this Summer. The London producer, born Kieran Hebden, will play the Telegraph Building on Friday, August 30th. Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 14th at 10am. Pre-sale access is available here.
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Nile Rodgers & Chic playing a rare* Irish show at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall. Photos by Niall Fegan * statement may not reflect reality
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Let’s face it: they don’t come more legendary than Pere Ubu. Forty-four years on from forming in Cleveland, Ohio, the hugely influential, David Thomas-fronted post-punk pioneers will play Dublin’s Grand Social on Saturday, September 21st as part of their farewell tour. This will be the band’s first show in the city since 2013. Tickets are on sale here.
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The songs on Cate Le Bon’s fifth album, Reward, came about as the result of time spent in a cottage in England’s rural Lake District, where she lived for a year in almost total isolation. Retreating from several years of going through the looped motions of touring, writing, and recording, there in nature and solitude Le Bon spent her days learning how to build furniture from scratch and her nights pouring over a second-hand piano, where she found herself writing the most introspective and personal songs of her career. Unsurprisingly then, location plays a vital part in Le Bon’s writing,…
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In the latest installment of Inbound, we catch up with Belfast alternative folk band No Oil Paintings ahead of the reason of their new single, ‘Something Like The Truth’. Hi guys. For those new to the band, can you give us a quick intro to the band and how/when you formed? We’re an alternative folk band from Belfast. We formed the summer of 2013 as a bluegrass cover band, had several line-up changes early on from a 3 piece up to a 6 piece, ditched the bluegrass & covers and have been playing original music with this line-up for the…
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If you’re in any way familiar with the scene in Northern Ireland at present, you’ll be familiar with Belfast-based quartet Peace Evan. Fronted by Gnarkats’ bassist Louis Nelson, the band have gone from strength-to-strength over the last few months, helping pack out venues across the country. Lead single ‘War on Harmony’ successfully manages to capture that promise across four shapeshifting minutes. Filtering the influence of artists including Everything Everything, Queens of the Stone Age and Modest Mouse, it’s a forward-moving burst of alt-rock from a band guaranteed to capitalize on their momentum over the coming months.
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If you follow videogames media, you will no doubt already be aware of the polarised reception to Sony’s latest AAA exclusive title, Days Gone. Those in the positive camp have praised the intense atmosphere of this open world meets survival horror adventure while naysayers have criticised a release that contains more bugs than the Oval Office. Both sides of the debate have been particularly rabid in either their praise or their lambasting and, as is often the case, the truth resides somewhere in the middle. While there is much to enjoy about Days Gone, that enjoyment is all too often hamstrung by frustration, repetition…
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Across June 14-16, hugely successful Irish musical institution Other Voices will team up with the 174 Trust to take over The Duncairn for another three days of musical and cultural events. With more to be announced, Snow Patrol, Ryan Vail and Elma Orkestra, The Academic, Joshua Burnside and Roe will all perform at the Duncairn on June 15th. On the same night, Bullitt Hotel will host an OV fringe show, featuring Rebekah Fitch, David C Clements, Arvo Party, New Pagans and Hot Cops. Fancy a pair of tickets to the Duncairn show? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What is the name of Joshua Burnside’s debut…
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Donegal’s In Their Thousands are no overnight story, it’s fair to say: brothers Aidan and Declan McClafferty have been playing music with their cousin Ruari Friel since childhood, and have been performing as In Their Thousands, alongside bassist Marty Smyth, for around a decade or so. These years of shared experience permeate through, the band’s debut long player. The 13 songs collected within feel distinctly ‘lived-in’ – from the collective setbacks, small victories and long nights of the soul detailed in their lyrics, to the ease of the band’s confident, unshowy playing. The title track and lead single, a recent…
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Earlier today, we rather giddily shared ‘Shoulderblades’, the emphatic new single from Dublin quartet Girl Band. Now, comprehensively sealing the deal on the release is long-time collaborator Bob Gallagher’s new accompanying video, featuring Oona Doherty. Mirroring the song’s erratic and frenzied push-and-pull, not least viva frontman Dara Kiely’s trademark expulsions, Doherty’s performance is an accomplished, at times suitably brutal accompaniment to hands down one of the Irish tracks of the year thus far. Better still is the news that many Girl Band fans have been hoping for. The band will release their second album, The Talkies, via Rough Trade on September 28. Produced…