The Cinematic Orchestra are set to make their long-awaited return to Dublin. Doubling up as their first Irish show in 12 years, the genre-warping British act will perform 20 years of career-spanning spanning classics at Vicar Street on March 25. Tickets – priced at €34.50 – go on sale this Friday at 9am. Revisit the band’s critically-acclaimed fourth studio album, 2007’s Ma Fleur, below.
19 for ’19 rolls on, featuring nineteen Irish acts we’re convinced are going places in 2019. Throughout January we’ll be previewing each of those acts, accompanied by words from our writers and an original photograph from one of our photographers. Third in our series marks a leftfield turn in the form of one of Ireland’s most evocative sonic artists, Natalia Beylis. Photo by Sean McCormack ___ As a member of Leitrim experimental/psych outfit Woven Skull, Natalia Beylis’ mandola offers an earthiness and melodic weight to the clamorous percussion and howling guitars that surround it. The band – who featured two years ago in our 17…
We continue 19 for ’19, our feature showcasing nineteen Irish acts we’re convinced are going places in 2019. Throughout January we’re going to be previewing each of those acts, accompanied by words from our writers and an original photograph from one of our photographers. Next up, one of Limerick’s finest, Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies. Photo by Sean McCormack ___ Beginning to describe Post Punk Podge is a task within itself. Post Punk Podge is kind of like Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys, but he’s got a Limerick accent, plays viola and wears a postage envelope over his head.…
Four Irishmen in a boat. It sounds like the start of a joke. The Camino Voyage, directed by Irish documentarian Donal O’Ceilleachair, chronicles the attempt of four Kerry men — and later, adding a dash of name-recognition, The Frames frontman Glen Hansard — to travel the traditional route of the Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of Saint James, an ancient pilgrimage from Ireland to a Galician cathedral in northern Spain. With an appreciation for symmetry, the group — two writers, an artist and a stonemason — set off from St. James’ Gate in Dublin, on a passageway across the Irish Sea, the Atlantic’s edge, and…
In this week’s edition of the arts column we’ve details of the latest Basic Space talk in The Hugh Lane, open calls for an anthology on direct provision, a summer residency in Dundalk as well as three shows that are due to open in Sligo and Cork. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Exhibition | The Keeper @ The Model, Sligo To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the start of The Niland Collection by Nora Niland, The Model in Sligo is opening a new exhibition celebrating…
In this week’s edition of the arts column we’ve details on a film screening, studio spaces, talks, commissions and job opportunities. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Screening| The Memory-Image + Mark Leckey @ IFI, Dublin Tonight (January 29th) the IFI and aemi continue their joint series of screenings with The Memory Image + Mark Leckey. Leckey, who won the 2008 Turner Prize, is showing his 2015 film Dream English Kid 1964-1999 for the first time in Ireland, a work created using found footage on the internet that explores the…
This week’s edition of the arts column looks at events in both capitals as we see a series of exhibitions, annual traditions, emerging artists, collections and opportunities. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Exhibition | Turner Month @ National Gallery, Dublin While this time of year is normally synonymous with broken resolutions, one century old tradition remains: Turner Month at the National Gallery of Ireland. In 1899 Henry Vaughan donated 31 watercolours to the gallery, with a stipulation that they always be free and only shown in January, so…
Happy new year! We’re pleased to present 19 for ’19, a handpicked selection of Irish acts we’re absolutely convinced are going places in 2019. Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to be previewing each of those acts, accompanied by words from our writers and an original photograph by our wonderful team of photographers. First up is Belfast-based feminist punks Problem Patterns. ___ Jokingly describing themselves as “A bunch of women screaming in a room”, Belfast’s Problem Patterns wasted little time getting under our skin with the raucous and politically charged bombast of their debut track ‘Allegedly’. Released in December…
It’s that time again; back to earth, grounding those Great Hopes and the potential of our best selves in reality once more. We do have a few great hopes for 2019, however. As always, over the remainder of January, our wonderful and talented team of photographers have paired with our writing team to deliver some previews of some artists to keep an eye on in the year ahead. Third out of the traps, we have one of the most exciting emergent acts from Limerick, a city whose 2018 solidified its status as Ireland’s current musical incubator. They featured prominently on our end of year singles and releases lists, and are astonishingly still all in their teens. Photo by…
This week’s edition of the arts column has details on Ireland’s largest open submission, a group exhibition on current and urgent political and social issues, a host of exhibitions opening on the same night in the same place, a talk on Brexit, politics and art and an look at the culture of death and morning. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Exhibition │RHA Spring Exhibitions Not one, not two… There are five exhibitions opening this Thursday in Dublin’s RHA Gallery, with a broad range of shows from established artists, emerging talents and…