Weyes Blood live at Vicar Street in Dublin. Photos by Kate Lawlor
-
-
Another Love Story have announced the first acts to play this year’s festival. Hands down one of the island’s most wonderfully singular small festival experiences, Another Love Story returns to Killyon Manor in Co. Meath across 18th-20th August 2023. And judging by the first line-up drop, it’s set to be yet another carefully-crafted programme across three days and nights. With many more acts to be announced, today, the festival announce British techno sorcerer and psychedelic shaman James Holden, Berlin-based Peruvian producer Sofia Kourtesis, Irish trad titan Martin Hayes, Rachael Lavelle & The Glasshouse Ensemble, Theon Cross, Charlie Bones and Moving Still. Including…
-
Weird Al Yankovic live at The Helix in Dublin with support from Emo Phillips. Photos by Sean McMahon
-
The Brian Jonestown Massacre live at The Academy in Dublin. Photos by Ian Davies
-
London-based Dublin musician Niall Jackson aka Swimmers Jackson returns with a video for his current single ‘Stripped Away’ featuring a very familar setting to many. The stripped back performance was shot in the iconic Peel Wing at London’s BBC Broadcasting House by Tom Andrews with post production by Ryan Phillips. Speaking about the video, Jackson said: “I kind of got nostalgic for all those sync performances BBC used to do in the 70s and 80s (Old Grey Whistle Test/Top of the Pops) with cheesy star filters and cutting edge effects for the time. I actually feel like I’m watching VH1…
-
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!