• Chance the Rapper, A$AP Rocky, Future and More For Longitude 2019

    December 5, 2018 - By 

    Chance the Rapper, A$AP Rocky and Future are among the first names announced to play next year’s Longitude. Returning to Dublin’s Marlay Park from Friday June 5 to Sunday July 7, the festival have once pulled out the stops for a big first reveal. With more acts to be revealed, Brockhampton, Rae Sremmurd, Lil Uzi Vert, Juice WRLD, Versatile, Aminé, Denzel Curry, $uicideBoy$, Lil Baby, Sheck Wes, Clairo, Slowthai and Flohio were also announced. Weekend tickets – which are charged at €189.50 – go on sale this Friday from 9am. Day ticket info to come.

  • Watch: Rory Nellis – The Fear

    December 4, 2018 - By 

    By all accounts one of the highlights at Other Voices in Dingle at the weekend, Belfast-based singer-songwriter Rory Nellis is riding a real wave of momentum at the moment. It’s something that’s just been underscored with his new single, ‘The Fear’ – a track that doubles up as arguably the songsmith’s most assured – and inspired – single effort to date. Now, the song comes pair with a sublime and wonderfully stripped-back video, courtesy of Belfast photographer and videographer Joe Laverty. Also featuring songwriter and Nellis’ fellow sonic conspirator Philip Watts d’Alton, you can watch it below. On Thursday night, Rory…

  • New Order and Paul Weller to Play Dublin’s The Summer Series

    December 4, 2018 - By 

    The first names set to play The Summer Series in Dublin next summer have been announced New Order will close the run on Sunday, July 7th, while Paul Weller top the bill on Thursday, July 4th. More acts are to be announced. Tickets for both shows – which take place at Trinity College in Dublin – go on sale this Friday, December 7 at 9am, priced €60.45 for New Order and €49.90 for Paul Weller.

  • The Lemonheads To Play Dublin and Belfast

    December 4, 2018 - By 

    Evan Dando’s Lemonheads will make their long-awaited returned to Ireland next year. The band will play Dublin’s the Academy on February 6th and Belfast’s Elmwood Hall on February 8th. The shows will coincide with the release of the band’s new covers album, Varshons 2. Tickets are priced €25.40 and £22.50 respectively, and go on sale this Friday, December 7.

  • Noel Gallagher, Doves and More Set For Dublin

    December 3, 2018 - By 

    Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will headline a bill at Dublin’s Malahide Castle next year. As well as Blossoms and DMA’s, the very recently resurgent Doves will be the support at the show on June 16, 2019. The latter is a worthy reason for attendance alone. Tickets are on sale this Thursday at 9am, priced €49.90.

  • Anderson .Paak Set For Dublin Show

    December 3, 2018 - By 

    Anderson .Paak will play Dublin next year as part of his Andy’s Beach Club World Tour. The Grammy-nominated Californian artist – who released his third studio album, Oxnard, last month – will play Olympia Theatre on Tuesday, March 19. Tickets for the show are priced €48.00 and go on sale this Friday, December 7 at 9am.

  • Premiere: Foolish Mortal – Girl Talk

    November 30, 2018 - By 

    Just when we couldn’t conceive of Cork-based musician Laurie Shaw being any more prolific, he’s only went and started a new side-project, Foolish Mortal. And boy are we glad. Though it’s rare that we copy and paste big, wordy press releases, it gives us no shortage of pleasure to share the following wonderful spiel, along with a very first listen to the new project’s equal parts fuzzed-out and earhole-burrowing lead single, ‘Girl Talk’. The self-titled Foolish Mortal debut is out via Sunshine Cult records on December 12. “This album goes a little deeper than the white hot fuzz you can hear. The…

  • Watch: Robyn G Shiels – An Offering as Such

    November 29, 2018 - By 

    Tonight, Robyn G Shiels launches his exceptional new five-track EP, Death of the Shadows, at Belfast’s Strand Arts Centre. Originally from Kilrea, the Belfast-based singer-songwriter has, with the help of some friends including Ben McAuley, who recorded it at Belfast’s Start Together Studios, crafted a release of exquisite doom-folk depth and lyrical incision. A perfect case in point is lead single, ‘An Offering as Such’, which comes accompanied with a wonderfully minimalist, yet visually potent video courtesy of Tristan Crowe. Death of the Shadows is self-released on 10″ vinyl via Black Tragick records tomorrow.

  • Cate Le Bon For Dun Laoghaire

    November 28, 2018 - By 

    Welsh avant-pop singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon will play a solo piano show at the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire at the start of next year. The critically-acclaimed artist – who is currently working on her fifth studio album – will play the venue on January 6. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Thursday, November 29) at 9am, priced €22.

  • Stefan Murphy Set For Dublin Return

    November 27, 2018 - By 

    Hands down one of the most incisive and naturally-gifted songsmiths that the island of Ireland has ever produced, Atlanta-based Dublin artist Stefan Murphy will return to play upstairs in Whelans on Thursday, January 24. It’s a new tour from a rejuvenated artist whose output and shows over the years, – from Subtonics and the Mighty Stef to his fertile solo guise Count Vaseline – speaks for itself. Better still, a forthcoming solo album (his first simply as Stefan Murphy) bears the imprint of some of his all-time big influences, including Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, Jonathan Richman and Townes Van Zandt. Tickets for…