Day Two at Night & Day Festival at Clonalis House in Co. Roscommon featuring live performances from Orla Gartland, Soda Blonde, Maija Sofia, Jealous of the Birds, Cathy Davey, Houseplants, Arlene and more. Photos by Ian Davies
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In another excellent week of Irish music, dig into the best new sounds of the past seven days, including The Mary Wallopers, Fujiya & Miyagi feat. Everything Shook, banríon, Bedrooms, HamsandwicH and more. The Mary Wallopers – Cod Liver Oil and The Orange Juice banríon – dare to crush EP fooling by banríon Actual Acid – Half Time Bedrooms – huffing huffing by Bedrooms AILSHA – R.I.P. (Dead 2 Me) Paddy Hanna – Nightmares Imagine I'm Hoping by Paddy Hanna Ali Comerford – Cool Girl Pádraig Cooney – Centuries of Learning Centuries of Learning by Padraig Cooney This Throat – I sent it…
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Galway-based jungle and drum & bass label Rua Sound is hosting a special two-day event at Áras na nGael in October. The label, which was launched in Galway by Cormac McMahon and Rob Flynn in 2015, has released music by some of the most respected names in underground jungle and drum & bass, including Sully, Sun People and Tim Reaper. Now, for their debut weekender, the crew are hosting a selection of these international acts alongside a line-up of Irish talent between Friday 14th October through Saturday 15th. International acts on the bill include Arcane, Henry Greenleaf, Itoa, Sully and…
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Clairo live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Photos by Niamh Barry
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Day One at Night & Day Festival at Clonalis House in Co. Roscommon featuring live performances from John Grant, Villagers, Æ Mak, The Mary Wallopers, Niwel Tsumbu and Eamonn Cagney, Juinor Brother, Moxie and more. Photos by Ian Davies
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It’s been another stellar week for Irish music. Dig into the best new sounds of the past seven days below, featuring Elaine Howley, coldcall, Anna B Savage, ROE, Cormorant Tree Oh and more Elaine Howley – Autumn Speak Cormorant Tree Oh – Swoontide Swoontide by Cormorant Tree Oh coldcall – day_01 Anna B Savage – Ghosts ROE – That’s When The Panic Sets In Trick Mist – The Hedge Maze and the Spade The Hedge Maze and The Spade by Trick Mist Talos – Kites Dutch Schultz – Levil9 LØ – Green Out Patrick Kavanagh – Almost Everything… Anna Mieke –…
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Trick Mist has released his second album, The Hedge Maze and The Spade, via Dundalk’s Pizza Pizza Records. Listen below. The Cork-based Louth native’s personal brand of experimental folk is fleshed out across these 10 tracks, evolving on the lush electronic manipulations, violin loops and introspective songwriting of his 2018 debut, Both Ends. Where that album was created in a period of flux for the artist, written partly during his travels across India and South-East Asia, and amidst his relocation to Cork, the inspirations for this new collection are tied to more internal concerns, and are rooted in memory. The…
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Day Three of Fall Right Into Place saw live performances from The Mary Wallopers, A Lilac Decline, Paddy Hanna, Skinner, Juinor Brother and more. Photos by Mark Earley
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Day Two of Fall Right Into Place at Claregalway Castle saw live performances from The Scratch, Clara Tracey, Eoin Dolan, Kynsy, Proper Micro NV, Overhead The Albatross, Slow Place Like Home, Anna Mullarkey and more. Photos by Mark Earley.
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Let me start this by saying that I’m from The Moy. You know Garth Brooks’ songs by osmosis. They’re in the sheep dip and the wee bottles of McGuigans. We all stand around burning piles of household waste, out the back field, learning them with our cousinwifes. I went with my sister, we both live in Belfast or thereabouts and have the sort of fractured relationship that everyone has when they grow up in a household of people. I can distinctly remember learning all the songs on In Pieces (I had to look up the name of this album as it…