• The ddr. Radio Logs. Entry #2: No Tourists

    March 2, 2023 - By 

    In the second installment of the ddr. radio logs,  a new monthly series by residents of Dublin Digital Radio, exploring their practice and the craft of radio-making, Gary Farrelly, one half of The Office of Joint Administrative Intelligence along with Chris Dreier give us an insight into their ever-innovative No Tourist show on ddr The Office of Joint Administrative Intelligence is organised as a para-intelligence agency operating between Brussels and Berlin and next broadcasts on Dublin Digital Radio on Monday 13 March at 6pm Myself and Chris first met at a dinner party in Wuppertal in early 2015. I remember…

  • Premiere: Hands Up Who Wants To Die – Nil All

    March 2, 2023 - By 

    If there’s been a better, more defiantly emphatic noise rock band to come out of Ireland in the last 15 years than Hands Up Who Wants To Die, we positively haven’t heard them. On albums including 2014’s Vega In The Lyre, they have served up their singular brand of trouncing, skull-blasting heft. Now, six years on from their last release – a split with B.O.B. following the amicable departure of original frontman Barry Lennon – the band are back with their long-awaited third LP, Nil All. Teaming up once again with long-time collaborators John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Black Midi, Lankum, Caroline) and…

  • Track Record: Gareth Quinn Redmond

    March 2, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of the release of his album Ar Ais Aris this week, Dublin ambient musician Gareth Quinn Redmond selects the records that have left a lasting impression on his life from Myles Manley to Hiroshi Yoshimura. Photos by Leah Carroll Fleet Foxes – Crack Up I adore Fleet Foxes, their first two albums will always hold a special place in my heart and after a seven-year hiatus they somehow came back with an album that was somehow better than its predecessors. Crack Up is a masterpiece, the experimental elements, the string arrangements and vocal performances from Robin Pecknold. From beginning till end…

  • Process of Becoming: An Interview With New Pagans

    February 28, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of playing Belfast alongside Extravision later this week, Lyndsey McDougall, lead vocalist of fast-rising Belfast five-piece New Pagans chats to Ciara Byrne about process, parenthood and pushing forward at the helm of one of the island’s most dynamic rock bands New Pagans and Extravision play Belfast’s Ulster Sports Club on Thursday, 2nd March. Go here to buy tickets Your wonderful new album Making Circles of Our Own brings to life the inner experiences of being a parent, and the juxtaposition of being a mother in particular while being in a band. What brought you to explore these themes through music? When we wrote…

  • Premiere: Akrobat – Zamalour

    February 23, 2023 - By 

    On 18th March, Dublin indie/art-rock band Akrobat play their biggest headliner to date when they take over Whelan’s for a show alongside BiG Fridge. The show is set to kickstart the latest incarnation of the Shane Regan-helmed band, with a line-up reshuffle cueing what’s set to be a busy few months. Ahead of the release of the first of two EPs in 2023 – Shank, which is due in April – we’re pleased to present a first look at the video for ‘Zamalour,’ one of several peaks from the band’s Rian Trench-recorded, wonderfully genre-spanning debut album, Jammed Space Movement. Created by Ray Beggan and Aaron Ross,…