• Full Daytime Schedule Announced for Output 2019

    January 22, 2019 - By 

    The full daytime schedule for Output Belfast 2019 has been announced. Returning for its fifth outing on February 21, the conference will featuring various panel discussions, music sessions, workshops and speed networking events at Metropolitan Arts Centre and Oh Yeah Centre from over 75 artists, managers and industry figures. The conference will close with a Q+A entitled ‘The boat that rocked – Public Service Broadcasting and the White Star Liner EP’. First performed as a part of BBC 6Music’s Titanic slipway concert, it will “unpack the full story of Public Service Broadcasting’s extraordinary suite of music on The Titanic – the White Star Liner…

  • 19 for ’19: Music City

    January 22, 2019 - By 

    We continue 19 for ’19 – our series profiling nineteen Irish acts that we’re certain will do great things in 2019 – with Music City, AKA Dublin power pop artist Conor Lumsden and co. Photo by Moira Reilly. There’s this curious belief that pop music is easy. It’s simple, generic and any idiot with the ability to keep time can do it. But the truth is, it’s hard. Just because you can drip paint on a canvas, doesn’t mean you’re Jackson Pollack. Similarly, just because you can put the I-V-VI-IV progression over a basic beat, doesn’t make you Paul McCartney.…

  • Foals Set For Summer Series at Trinity College

    January 21, 2019 - By 

    Foals have been announced to play the Summer Series at Trinity College this Summer. The returning quartet – who will launch Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 on March 8th – will play the show on July 2nd. Tickets are priced at €52 and go on sale on Friday, February 1 at 9am. “Lyrically, there are resonances with what’s going on in the world at the moment,” Yannis Philippakis said of the forthcoming two-part abum. “I just feel like, what’s the utility of being a musician these days, if you can’t engage with at least some of this…

  • Drake to Play Three Dates in 3Arena

    January 22, 2019 - By 

    Drake will play three dates in Dublin in March. Taking part of his Assassination Vacation European tour, the Canadian rapper will play 3Arena on March 19, 21 and 22. Support on all three nights comes from Tory Lanez. Tickets cost €76 and go on sale on Friday at 9am.

  • Vice

    January 22, 2019 - By 

    “What, uh, do we believe, sir?” a young Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld’s aide during the Nixon years, asks his boss. Rumsfeld, played by Steve Carell, laughs hysterically, blindsided by the naivety of the question. Matters of personal principles and ideology simply do not factor into Washington power games. It’s a central concern in Vice, the latest in Anchorman director Adam McKay’s swerve from knockabout man-boy comedy to polemical film-making, but it’s also a question the film desperately needed to ask itself. What does McKay believe? What moral vision is he trying to put on screen? What on earth is Vice…

  • Ryan Adams For Olympia Theatre

    January 21, 2019 - By 

    No stranger to the city, it’s been announced that Ryan Adams will play Dublin in a couple of months. The U.S. singer-songwriter will return to play the Olympia Theatre on March 31. Adams – who will release three albums in 2019, including Big Colors on April 19 – has played the Dublin venue ten times in the past. Tickets for the show are priced from €49.54 and go on sale on Friday, January 25 at 9am.

  • BEAK> Set For Dublin Show

    January 21, 2019 - By 

    BEAK> will play Dublin in the Spring. Having stopped off in Belfast in 2018, the Bristol-based, Geoff Barrow-fronted trio – who released their stellar third album, >>>, back in September – will play Whelan’s in Dublin on May 18th. Tickets are on sale now priced €22.00. The band have also just released the video for new single ‘Brean Down’. Check it – and all forthcoming tour dates – below.

  • Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened

    January 21, 2019 - By 

    The word “hustle” used to denote a ruse or con game, a trick to fleece someone out of their cash. In the current parlance of hyper-go morning-routine capitalists, it’s taken on a new aspirational aura, now the religion of twenty three year-old dudes with Tim Ferris quotes in their bio. Following close on the heels of Hulu’s doppelganger doc Fyre Fraud, unavailable outside the U.S., Netflix’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened makes clear that, in many ways, the meaning of the word hasn’t shifted at all. Directed by Chris Smith (Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, another doc about…

  • Watch: Bouts – Love’s Lost Landings (Part 2)

    January 18, 2019 - By 

    Next week, Bouts will release their highly-anticipated second album, Flow. It’s an release that finds the Dublin quartet distilling their star-shaped, and instantly recognisable brand of indie rock down to nine tracks. Doubling up as the long-awaited full-length follow-up to 2013’s Nothing Good Gets Away, the album – which was recorded by Fiachra McCarthy in Dublin – is an emphatic return effort at a time when carefully-crafted guitar music is experiencing a long-overdue renaissance. Coming off the back of singles ‘Face Up’ and ‘Love’s Lost Lost Landings (Part 1)’, the newly-released ‘Love’s Lost Landings (Part 2)’ is an irresistible shoegaze-leaning burst revolving around Barry Bracken’s…

  • The Twilight Sad – It Won/t Be Like This All The Time

    January 18, 2019 - By 

    A few years under the wing of The Cure seems to have pushed The Twilight Sad away from the subdued atmosphere of their last record, Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave. On this, their fourth outing, James Graham, Andy MacFarlane and company revisit the gnawing sinister sadness of 2012’s No One Can Ever Know and ramp up the dense, engulfing atmospherics almost to the same level as their 2007 debut Fourteen Autums and Fifteen Winters Previous albums have gradually eased the listener in the Kilsyth group’s murky world but this time guitarist (and producer) MacFarlane wastes no time jumping in…