Here’s the very best music released across the island this week, featuring Lisa O’Neill, Gilla Band, Chalk, Erica Cody, Badhands and more Lisa O’Neill – All Of This Is Chance All Of This Is Chance by Lisa O’Neill Gilla Band – Sports Day Pôt-pot – A4 A4 by pôt-pot Erica Cody – Cry Baby Chalk – Static Badhands – Movie Nights Derek Ellard and The Future Business – Three Sheets To The Wind Neosupervital – Back To What
Belfast’s finest annual jazz event is back this March for its eleventh outing, courtesy of the perennially-reliable Moving On Music. This year’s Brilliant Corners festival features thirteen concerts – and two free events – across nine days from March 2nd-11th set predominately in the Black Box and Accidental Theatre. As ever, the programming will appeal to all manner of audiences, from the pure experimentalism of Belfast’s monthly Handmade Music, to the futuristic, urgent eclecticism of Run Logan Run and Sarathy Korwar, to rising masters of pure jazz like Binker Golding and Fergus McCreadie. The full schedule for Brilliant Corners is as follows – with each concert set to begin within 20 minutes of door times: Thursday 2 March…
Yesterday, Californian experimental hip-hop titans Death Grips announced their highly-anticipated return, which takes in a show at the Academy in Dublin on 18th June. Ahead of tickets going on sale on Friday, we are giving away guestlist +1 for the show. To be in with a chance of winning, simply head over to our Instagram page here to enter. Good luck!
Letterkenny’s Regional Cultural Centre have made an open call for applications for a new residency series. Throughout 2023, the vital North West cultural hub will invite electronic musicians, composers, alternative producers and creative designers to take up residency in their new Sound Studio. Rather than a traditional record studio, it’s a creative space equipped with an iMAC PRO, audio interface and a wide range of acoustic and electronic compositional tools including a baby grand piano, church organ, Moog One 16, SOMA Pulsar-23, Behringer Odyssey, Dave Smith Prophet Module, Arturia PolyBrute, NORD Stage 3 and “many more weird and wonderful noise-makers”.…
We’re giving away guestlist +1 to one of the gigs of the summer: the long-awaited return of Pulp with support from Richard Hawley and The Orielles at St. Anne’s Park in Dublin on 9th June. To be in with a chance of winning, simply head over to our Instagram page right here to follow us and tag your +1 Good luck!
Spacey Jane live at The Academy in Dublin with support from Sarah Crean. Photos by Kate Lawlor
Death Grips have announced their long-awaited return, taking in a Dublin show this summer. As part of their first shows since 2019, the Californian experimental hip-hop group will play the Academy on Sunday, 18th June. It marks their first show in the city since 2016. Tickets cost €39.50 and go on sale at 10am on Friday, 10th February. Revisit a Death Grips classic below.
Like every fervently masturbating gamer with a penchant for online poker, a nappy and a shut-in level of social ineptitude – I’ve become a retail trader of stocks. The gamification of finance on apps like eToro has made it such that you can easily understand the white sheets (if you can be bothered to read them) and you can doomscroll the comments for ‘picks’ and to remind yourself that men are the literal worst. ‘Bears’ or ‘Bulls’ adds a beautiful homoerotic wink to the pink-sword measuring duel that is the world of online traders. There’s a cosmic explosion anytime a…
Gilla Band have dropped a new single, ‘Sports Day’. The b-side to Eight Fivers – which was accompanied by the announcement of their third album Most Normal last July – it’s a slowly unfurling and suitably stifling effort from the Dublin quartet. Today, the band have also announced four more UK/EU dates in what’s shaping up to be a busy schedule in 2023. Check those and Michael Speed’s visuals for ‘Sports Day’ below.
Myles O’Reilly embarked on a self described world tour of Cork, performing at Prim’s Bookshop in Kinsale, Coughlan’s Bar in Ballintemple and DeBarra’s Folk Club in Clonakilty. Photos by John Sheehy