• Music From Beyond: An Interview With Fort Evil Fruit

    September 7, 2022 - By 

    Paul Condon of Limerick-based cassette-only label Fort Evil Fruit discusses spreading outsider music with a DIY ethos Words by Justin McDaid Photo by Nance Hall One Step Beyond and Hits Out of Hell by Madness and Meatloaf, respectively, held residency in my dad’s car for as long as I can remember. I still have those tapes. I still love Madness and Meatloaf. I might not own my own car but thanks to people like Paul Condon and Fort Evil Fruit, my tape collection has multiplied and diversified exponentially, particularly over the various lockdowns we’ve all endured in recent times. Before…

  • New Two-Day Event, Haunted Dancehall, Set for Dublin’s National Concert Hall

    September 7, 2022 - By 

    A new two-day event, Haunted Dancehall, is set to take over National Concert Hall next month. Across October 1st-2nd, the event will take place across 5 rooms at the Dublin venue with a host of homegrown and international experimental and electronic artists. As well as Oneohtrix Point Never performing his first Irish show in 11 years, South East London artist Coby Sey, Caterina Barbieri (pictured) making her Irish debut, and the incredible Ana Roxanne, the programme will also feature Lalla Sakini, Elaine Howley, Fears, Blackhaine, Roger Doyle, Frog of Earth and more. Check out the full current line-up for the Foggy Notions event…

  • Track Record: Aoife Wolf

    September 6, 2022 - By 

    Fast-rising Irish psych-folk Aoife Wolf gives a guided tour of the records she can’t live without, featuring My Bloody Valentine, Kate Bush, Grouper, John Martyn and more Photo by Jane Donnelly My Bloody Valentine – Loveless There’s that saying that talking about art is like dancing about architecture. I don’t often feel that I have a lot to say about the music I love but a hell of a lot to feel about it. When I really like a sound I feel like I can’t get close enough to it like I want to drink it or bathe in it,…

  • Inbound: NIMF

    September 6, 2022 - By 

    Last July, we had the joy of premiering ‘Cloudy Dreams,’ a three-minute gem by Arklow’s Aoibhín Redmond aka NIMF. Representing her experiences as an autistic musician, and the need to indulge in her imagination, it married acoustic motifs with found sound and homespun electronica, as well as influences including Kero Kero Bonito. Four months on from that luminous introduction, the sugar-spun DIY pop of ‘Space’ plumbed prismatic new depths. Delving into what Redmond referred to as “the beautiful worlds within our own minds,” which open up “endless possibilities when overwhelmed by the day-to-day,” it was a dreamscape that hit like…

  • Win Rose City Band Tickets & More

    September 5, 2022 - By 

    This week, Ripley Johnson of Moon Duo and Wooden Shjips (not to mention NTS) returns to Ireland for a brace of shows with his latest project, Rose City Band. As well as stopping off Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival on Friday, 9th September, the band’s first-rate cosmic country will take over Belfast’s Black Box the night before, Thursday, 8th September. File this one under fully unmissable. To mark the occasion, Belfast’s finest gig promoters Strange Victory and the legendary Thrill Jockey Records have teamed up to offer one Thin Air reader a chance to win a Rose City Band-themed prize package. As well as pair of…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 2nd September

    September 2, 2022 - By 

    On this Bandcamp no-fee Friday, dig into the best Irish music of the week from Junior Brother, New Pagans, F.R.U.I.T.Y., Celaviedmai, Phil Kieran, Arvo Party and more Junior Brother – The Great Irish Famine The Great Irish Famine by Junior Brother Padraig Cooney – Houses Centuries of Learning by Padraig Cooney Mount Palomar ft Joshua Burnside – Simmer Phil Kieran & Green Velvet – Enjoy The Day ‘Enjoy The Day’ by Phil Kieran & Green Velvet New Pagans – Better People F.R.U.I.T.Y. – Fruiterama FRUITERAMA by F.R.U.I.T.Y. Celaviedmai – Go Down Low Arvo Party – Suave Sauve by Arvo Party…

  • Review: ABBA Voyage – “It has changed live music and performance forever”

    September 1, 2022 - By 

    Belfast-based Abba stan Shauna McLaughlin makes the pilgrimage to London to review the dazzling and groundbreaking virtual concert Traditionally reviews are written the day after the event. That didn’t happen with this review of ABBA Voyage because that day was spent hanging around outside the Arena in the hope of getting tickets to see it again immediately. Which is an impressive review in itself. The other point I want to make is that you’re better going in knowing nothing about what to expect. I may as well just stop writing here really. ABBA’s virtual concert residency, running since May 2022, with seven…