Oracle’s EP launch, with support from Cursed Sun, Elder Druid and Ketos at The Foundry in Belfast. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Electric Picnic has just revealed one of its strongest first line-ups in a long time. Headlined by Kendrick Lamar, Massive Attack and N.E.R.D, St. Vincent, Chvrches, Mount Kimbie, Friendly Fires and Jungle are amongst the first names to be announced. See below for the full first line-up announcement. Tickets for this year’s festival can be bought right here.
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Set to take over Dun Laoghair Harbour in Dublin across the August bank holiday (August 3-5), The Beatyard have revealed new acts and its day breakdown. Eleven new additions join the line-up: St Germain, Daphni (aka Caribou), Kiasmos, Django Django, Mr Scruff, King Kong Company, Confidence Man, Loah, The Scratch, The Reflex and Kelly-Anne Byrne. See the full current line-up and day breakdown below. Tickets for The Beatyard are available here, ranging from €59 for adult day tickets to €150 for an adult weekend ticket. Kids aged 0-2 go free; 2-12 year olds is just €5 per day.
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Two years on from the release of their triumphant debut album, In Heat Not Sorry, Cork five-piece The Altered Hours‘ brand of snaking, crepuscular psych-rock sounds more more singular and vital than ever. Released via Art for Blind/Penske Recordings on 12″ vinyl and digital, the band’s new EP, On My Tongue, is an equal parts murky and prismatic four-track re-affirmation of something we have have always maintained: the Altered Hours are not merely one of the country’s very best bands, they continue to push headlong into a masterfully dazed realm all their very own. Stream the EP in full via Bandcamp below. On My Tongue by…
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Dublin electronic duo Simon Cullen and Sorca McGrath aka Ships have walked away with the Album of the Year 2017 at tonight’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize. The event – which took place once again at Vicar Street – saw the pair scoop the prize, as well as a cheque for €10,000, courtesy of The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) for their stellar debut album, Precession. Along with a premiere of the album, which was the product of two long years of writing, demoing, debating and recording, we spoke with Cullen and McGrath back in April last year. Revisit…
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With five weeks to go, the final acts have been announced to play the inaugural It Takes a Village. Taking place at Trabolgan Holiday Village in East Cork across April 13-15, the following bands, musicians, poets and performers will join the likes of Young Fathers, Andrew Weatherall, Fujiya & Miyagi, Talos, The Altered Hours (pictured above) and a host of others: For full details, line-up and tickets, go right here.
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This Easter Bank Holiday Weekend, Red Bull will present Free Gaff, a new, secret location event promising “three nights of debaucherous fun across three floors with three genres of music”. With more acts to be announced, Wyvern Lingo, Benjamin Damage, Mango & Mathman, Or:la, Palms Trax, Mella Dee, Loah and Erica Cody will play the Dublin City Centre Location across March 29-April 1. A BYOB event, tickets are now available priced €15 here. The exact location will be confirmed by email to all ticketholders no later than 24 hours in advance of their selected date.
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As part of this year’s St. Patrick’s Festival in Dublin – which runs from March 15-19 – Kormac will present Equivalent Exchange at Vicar Street on Sunday, March 18. And it’s a bill not to be sniffed at: a one-off show headed by the Irish producer, DJ and composer along with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, over 30 musicians and artists including Loah, Eímear Noone, Jack O’ Rourke, Stephen James Smith, Shahab and Shayan Coohe, Maser andMoncrieff will perform. The ever excellent Ships will support on the night. All aspects of the show involve deep collaboration and celebrated urban artist Maser…
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With Justice, Richie Hawtin, Glass Animals, Mike D, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bonobo, Vince Staples, The War on Drugs, Grizzly Bear, Thundercat and more already announced, the following acts have been added to the bill for this year’s Forbidden Fruit Festival. Stephan Bodzin, Idris Elba, Novelist, Hookworms (pictured), Tensnake, Axel Boman, DJ Agotia, Call Super, Jasper James, Kornél Kovács, Loah, Trinity Orchestra, Earl Sweatshirt, Floating Points, George Fitzgerald, Or:la, SG Lewis, DJ Seinfeld, Booka Brass, Saoirse and Fehdah. Presented by POD, Forbidden Fruit Festival takes over Dublin’s Royal Hospital, Kilmainham across the bank holiday weekend of June 2-4. Here’s the day-to-day…
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The Flaming Lips will play this year’s Galway International Arts Festivals, live at the festival big top, on July 26. Co-presented by Róisín Dubh and the festival, the show will be the three-time Grammy award-winning band’s only Irish date of 2018. Tickets – which go on sale at 9am on Friday – are priced at €49.50.