• Video Premiere: Extravision – Our City

    November 27, 2019 - By 

    You may recall, at the start of the year, we featured Dublin’s Extravision in 19 for ’19, our series profiling nineteen genre-spanning Irish acts that we had high hopes for the year ahead. And sure enough, the trio have well and truly into gear. Comprising members of Sissy, Surge and No Spill Blood, the band’s new single, ‘Our City’ is an equal parts searing and celebratory overture to Dublin. Recorded with Daniel Fox of Girl Band at Sonic Studios, it calls out and stares down the runaway bureaucracy of the city’s landlords and hotel developers with fist-clenched aplomb. Ahead of new releases coming in the…

  • Sigrid Revealed as First Indiependence 2020 Headliner

    November 26, 2019 - By 

    Sigrid has been announced as the first headliner for next year’s Indiependence festival. The Norwegian pop sensation, born Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, will top the bill on one of the days of next year’s three-year event,  which returns to Mitchelstown in Co. Cork across July 31-August 2 2020. Weekend tickets for the festival are on sale now, priced 149.00 for 3 Day Camping and 189.00 for 3 Day Camping (VIP).

  • Faith No More, Deftones, Refused & More For Sunstroke 2020 at Punchestown Racehouse

    November 26, 2019 - By 

    Well, well, well. What about this for a line-up. Across June 13-14 2010, Sunstroke 2020 will take over Punchestown Racecourse for one of the strongest Irish festival bills in recent memory. Taking place over three stages, the inaugural festival will feature sets from Faith No More (pictured; playing one of their first shows in four years), Deftones, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Killing Joke, Refused, Helmet and more. See the full line-up below. Sunstroke festival originally ran from 1993 to 1995. Early bird tickets go on sale on Tuesday, December 3rd at 9am, priced €129.50 for weekend tickets and €159.50 for…

  • the arts column: November 27th

    November 27, 2019 - By 

    This week we’ve details on some new exhibitions opening around the country, some special one-off events including an auction as well as information on funding for 2020 and a kids’ workshops running this weekend. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Opening | Winter Papers @ Engage Art Studios, Galway This coming Friday, November 29th, sees the opening on a new exhibition in Galway’s Engage Art Studios. The show takes its cue from the recently published anthology on Irish art: Winter Papers Vol. 5 – with…

  • Blanck Mass For Belfast and Dublin

    November 26, 2019 - By 

    Blanck Mass is set for a couple of Irish shows next year. The scintillating noise project of Benjamin John Power of Fuck Buttons, Blanck Mass will stop off at Belfast’s Ulster Sports Club on Friday, March 13th and Dublin’s Workman’s Club on March 14th. Tickets for Belfast go on sale Thursday at 10am (price TBC). Dublin tickets are priced €16 and go on sale on Friday at 10am.

  • Other Voices Reveal Full Weekend Timetable

    November 25, 2019 - By 

    Other Voices have revealed the full timetable for its return to Dingle this weekend. Taking place across various venues in the Co. Kerry coastal town across Friday, November 29th to Sunday, December 1st, this year’s outing will feature the Music Trail, the Other Voices Hub and more. Check out the schedule – featuring Junior Brother, Aoife Nessa Frances, Fehdah, Porphyry, God Knows, Shrug Life and more – below.

  • Girl Band w/ PowPig @ Vicar Street, Dublin

    November 25, 2019 - By 

    As a line of punters stretches around the corner of Vicar Street, saturated to the bone by the pouring rain, a Dublin ‘aul fella’ passing by asks: “What’s on in there tonight?” “Girl Band” “No, but what are they called?” Inside, the crowd made up of skinny-jeaned punks and skinhead raver types funnels into the auditorium, the bar and the merch table. Within minutes there is a mad scramble for zines that are on sale and before anyone has even settled in they are gone. It’s difficult to ignore the intense sense of anticipation that is permeating every surface of…

  • Split EP Premiere: Mob Wife / Cruiser

    November 27, 2019 - By 

    It’s easy for bands to serve up those oft. espoused platitudes about the value of “co-operation in the music scene”, but to be pro-active in that is another matter entirely. Gladly, we’re seeing that attitude start to spread, with the latest in the trend being two of the most exciting DIY, guitar-driven bands on the island coming together for a split EP release. Mob Wife/Cruiser features, unsurprisingly, two tracks each from Belfast trio Mob Wife and Limerick quartet Cruiser, conceived of in early 2019. Both with their own singular imprint, Mob Wife and Cruiser share the emotionally-charged influence of 90s post-hardcore and fist-clenched modern indie rock & punk sensibility, as well…

  • The Flaming Lips Set For Galway

    November 25, 2019 - By 

    The Flaming Lips will make their return to Galway next year. The Wayne Coyne-fronted psych-pop maestros – who last played the festival last year – will play the Big Top at Galway Arts Festival on Saturday, July 18th. Tickets cost €49.50 and go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 29th. Back in July, the band released their fifteenth studio album, King’s Mouth. Revisit an older classic below.