Fall Right Into Place took place at Claregalway Castle last Friday featuring live performances from Pretty Happy, New Dad, Nixer, Robocobra Quartet and more. Photos by Ian Davies
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Clonakilty International Guitar Festival took place in Cork last weekend featuring live performances from Post Punk Podge, Daragh Lynch, Robocobra Quartet, Susan O’Neill, Gerron, John Spillane and more. Photos by John Sheehy.
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Dive into the best Irish music of this week from Gilla Band, Farah Elle, Joshua Burnside, Kynsy, Clara Tracey, Meljoann and more. Photo by Mark McGuinness Gilla Band – Post Ryan Farah Elle – Laundry Elaine Mai & MuRli – Ready Calmea – I know now I didn’t know, what it meant to really go I know now I didn’t know, what it meant to really go by Calmea Thee U.F.O. – Ponderous Fug Ponderous Fug by Thee U.F.O Waldorf + Cannon – Cut Loose Krea – September Sun Joshua Burnside – Late Afternoon In The Meadow (1887) Kynsy – Simple Life…
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Few Irish acts have carved out a niche as distinctive as Waldorf & Cannon. Comprising Philip Wallace and Oisin Cannon, the Derry/Donegal duo’s alternative multi-instrumentalism has proven equal parts emphatic and earworming on singles including ‘Omit The Logic’ and ‘We Are Your Government’. New single ‘Cut Loose’ ups the ante and then some. Doubling up as the duo’s finest most potent single effort to date, the song explores the perils of 21st-century living and prescription medication addiction across four minutes. Produced and recorded by Wallace – or Waldorf – in his Co. Donegal studio earlier this year, it features additional guitar from…
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Hive City Legacy: Dublin Chapter is here to shift the paradigm through dance, poetry, satire and song, mixing concert with social activism. The show is a Hot Brown Honey production. Creators Lisa Fa’alafi and Busty Beatz are joined with hip-hop artist Yami “Rowdy” Löfvenberg and the HCL Dublin ensemble to write the Dublin chapter of the tour. The live theatre production is led by eight femmes of colour. This extraordinary Irish cast consists of singer, songwriter, and poet Jess Kav, Afro-Brazilian dancer Capoeira, performer from Salvador, Alessandra Azevedo, and Irish-Nigerian artist and activist Osaro Azams. They are joined by singer…
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Northern Irish-Ghanaian artist Winnie Ama grabs a chat with Josh Henry about the power of pastimes, performing for royalty and prioritising positive energy Words by Josh Henry Photos by Jane Donnelly “I feel like if you’re having a good time and things are going well, if there’s a crack in the door, get that door open and run through”. Winnie Ama is certainly out the blocks. The Belfast-born, Northern-Irish-Ghanaian artist’s brand of poppy electronica, combined with her own rich and distinctive voice, is seeing the light of day due to her penchant for hobbies like hula hooping. “Every year I…
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Over the last few years, North Cork singer-songwriter John Blek has consistently underscored his rep as one of the island’s most deeply engaging artists. On albums such as 2020’s The Embers and 2016’s Cut The Light, he has offered up carefully-crafted folk majesty of the highest order. It’s something Blek wonderfully doubled down on last year, with the release of ‘Ether & Air,’ the final part in the artist’s Catharsis Project – a four-album exploration into themes of the sea, the earth, the embers, and the air. A year on, Blek returns with arguably his strongest single effort to date, ‘Lyric &…
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The Magnetic Fields live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin last week. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon
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Here’s the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Narolane, Katie Kim, Ciaran Lavery, Aoife Nessa Frances, Grave Goods, Akrobat, Junior Brother and more Narolane – Rent Free Katie Kim – Hour of the Ox Ciaran Lavery – A Confident Woman Grave Goods – Die Akrobat – Basquiat’s Widow Zaska & Melina Malone – Just For One Day Aoife Nessa Frances – This Still Life Junior Brother – Good Friday Kyoto Love Hotel – When Do You Think It Begins EP When Do You Think It Begins (EP) by Kyoto Love Hotel Ben Flavelle-Cobain – electric//emotion electric//emotion by Ben…
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Recent years have seen the culture of Ireland, music or otherwise, in constant flux. A new generation of heads has embraced a new sound, one that is led predominately by black artists who have thankfully dragged the country into the global world of Afropop and beat. It’s here we find producer and songwriter Daryl Bengo, or simply Bengo. Officially getting his start in music as a member of the now-gone Fresh Ré, Bengo cut his teeth playing the piano in church, watching his father. Now, the son of the preacher man is a solo artist that counts collaborations with Alicia Raye and…