Kneecap live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Sprints. Photos by Ian Davies
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Patti Smith has announced two dates in Dublin next year. The legendary American singer-songwriter and poet will play two (relatively) intimate shows at Vicar Street on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th June 2024. Presented by Foggy Notions, the performances will see Smith perform alongside her band the Patti Smith Quartet. Presale is available now via Foggy Notions and general sale is 10am this Friday, December 15th. Revisit a stone-cold Smith classic from 1975 below.
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Ty Segall is coming back to Dublin. Five years on from a show at Tivoli Theatre, the genre-mangling psych rock master will make his highly-anticipated return to the city at the Button Factory on Tuesday, 25th June. The announcement comes ahead of the release of the Long Beach trailblazer’s upcoming fifteenth album, Three Bells, which is out via Drag City on 26th January 2024. Check out the video for lead single ‘My Room’ below. Tickets for Segall’s Button Factory show go on sale on Thursday, 14th December at 10am, priced €32.65.
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Open Ear Festival is set to return next year. Almost certainly the island’s finest small music festival – and without a doubt our favourite – it will return to Sherkin Island off Cork for its sixth edition on the June bank holiday weekend, 31st May to 2nd June 2024. As with previous years, the festival is set to host a perfectly pitched celebration of the fringes of Ireland’s experimental and electronic music communities. Following a back-to-basics outing in 2022, the 2024 edition will see the festival return to exploring a range of wonderful spaces and environs across Sherkin Island. In…
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Ahead of playing Dublin and Belfast this weekend, Berlin-via-Navan duo Perlee discuss the magic of taking chances, putting their stamp on dream-pop and releasing one of the Irish LPs of the year, Speaking From Other Rooms Speaking From Other Rooms is one of the most accomplished Irish albums of the year. It spans soundworlds and explores some really strong themes like self-actualisation, destiny and long-distance love. It feels like you invested a lot of your soul into the release. Looking back, does it feel that way to you? Thanks for saying so. There were so many beautiful Irish releases this…
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Sorcha Richardson live at St. Luke’s in Cork. Photos by Celeste Burdon
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Lisa O’Neill live at Vicar Street in Dublin with support from Seamus Fogarty. Photos by Monika Ruman
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Rachael Lavelle live at Coughlan’s in Cork with support from Ellie O’Neil. Photos by Erin Plaice
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Ahead of the release of Love Letters, her collaborative EP with Becky McNeice, Belfast-via-Drogheda powerhouse Alicia Raye chats to Andrew Moore about representation and spearheading change for female empowerment through her own artistry and management Photos by Kate Lawlor The rise of the female powerhouse has been a breath of fresh air within what is, typically, a male-dominated music industry. Artists like Doja Cat, Cardi B, Tinashe and Summer Walker are picking up where the pre-gen started; reshaping the hip-hop, R&B and Afro landscape through a strong, independent female and gender minority gaze. While this is great news for those…
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One of the island’s finest genre-spanning savants, Alpha Chrome Yayo takes us on a guided tour of his all-time favourite records, featuring Enya, Mort Garson, Mariya Takeuchi, Sigh, Tom Waits, Minako Yoshida and more Photo by Aislinn Mcginn Singles are great and all, but for me nothing compares to the experience of listening to an honest-to-goodness album, especially if it involves physical media. The ephemeral quality of music made somehow tangible, cloaked in artwork to luxuriate in, liner notes to pore over. Beyond that, listening to an album is like fulfilling an unknowable contract. One between the artists who made…