• Watch: Malojian – Battery

    November 28, 2017 - By 

    A wonderfully propulsive peak from his new album, Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home, ‘Battery’ by Stephen Scullion’s Malojian perfectly distills the forward-moving nature of his craft as of late. Blending guitar, keys, shuddering strings, Motorik groove and more, it makes for a kaleidoscopic blast of psych-tinged alt-folk across four minutes. Sealing the deal is Colm Laverty’s typically engrossing video, the latest in a string of visuals accompaniments to Scullion’s music, created as part of BFI’s Britain on Film series. Catch Malojian at the following shows over the next few days. November 28: Campbell’s Tavern, Galway November 29: The Washerwoman, Ballina December 1: Coughlan’s Cork December…

  • Microdisney Reconvene for 30th Anniversary Show

    November 27, 2017 - By 

    Cork cult alternative rock heroes Microdisney have got back together after 30 years to perform their seminal album, The Clock Comes Down the Stairs and more, at Dublin’s National Concert Hall on June 2, 2018. The duo of Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan disbanded in 1988, having released several albums by the likes of Kabuki, Rough Trade and Virgin. Once described by John Peel as “the iron fist in a velvet glove”, the reunited band will also feature Jon Fell and Tom Fenner for the NCH show. Tickets – which go on sale on Wednesday at 10am – are priced €38,…

  • Watch: Silences – L.A

    November 24, 2017 - By 

    Set to play alongside Orchid Collective at Belfast’s Bar Sub tonight, Armagh five-piece Silences have unveiled their new single, ‘L.A’. A strong and typically earworming alt-indie effort from the Conchúr White, it shows the band moving into more full-bodied, electric territory, and is something of a departure from their more acoustic efforts of yore. Accompanied by their most pro visuals to date – courtesy of director Julian Moore Cooke – White said the track stemmed from a realisation Stateside: “I’m proud of the work that has been put in to get to this point and I like that a development can be heard in our catalogue. L.A…

  • Taylor Swift Set For Croke Park

    November 24, 2017 - By 

    With her sixth studio album Reputation having just become the best-selling U.S. selling-album of 2017 in just one week, Taylor Swift has announced has three UK and Irish dates for 2018, including Croke Park in Dublin on Friday, June 15. The Reputation Stadium tour will also include Manchester’s Etihad Stadium on June 8 and Wembley Stadium in London on June 22. Tickets (which will likely go very quick) go on sale at 9am on Friday, December 1.

  • Win Tickets To ASIWYFA in Belfast

    November 23, 2017 - By 

    We have a pair of tickets to give away to one of the shows of the year: And So I Watch You From Afar’s homecoming show at Belfast’s Telegraph Building on Saturday, December 16. With TOUTS, CATALAN! and Calling All Horses supporting on the night, it will be the globetrotting North Coast headliners’ first Belfast show since June 2015. To enter, simply Like our Facebook page here and fire us an e-mail to info@thethinair.net with your name and the title of the closing track from the band’s latest album. Good luck!

  • Stream: Wyvern Lingo – Snow II

    November 23, 2017 - By 

    Having recently announced that their debut album launch on February 23 will now take place at the Button Factory due to demand, Bray trio Wyvern Lingo have unveiled new single ‘Snow II’. A song that presents a familiar situation with a heavy heart, it’s another compositionally exquisite, harmony-driven R&B pop masterclass from Caoimhe Barry, Karen Cowley and Saoirse Duane.  Mark our words: 2018 is Wyvern Lingo’s year for the taking.

  • Watch: Wastefellow – Enfold You

    November 22, 2017 - By 

    Dublin producer Diolmhain Ingram-Roche AKA Wastefellow has returned with one of his strongest efforts to date, ‘Enfold You’. Featuring visuals from Flann Manning, the single – which is a four-minute traipse of shuffling beats,  thick bass and floaty electronica patterns – is the first in a new series of tracks that Ingram-Roche  aims to put out between now and next Summer. Speaking more about the track, he said: “‘Enfold You’ began as an attempt to write a pop song from somebody who doesn’t necessarily appreciate a lot of pop music. As these pop ideals filtered through my own experiences and workflow, they began…

  • Watch: Slow Place Like Home – Office Dancers

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    Currently working their way around the country on tour, Donegal’s Slow Place Like Home have unveiled the video for their new single ‘Office Dancers’. Shot by Paddy Cahill, directed by Jules Hackett and starring SPLH main man Keith Mannion and Sean McGinley (Braveheart, Love/Hate, Gangs of New York etc.) it’s a first-rate, typically unique accompaniment to the single, filmed entirely in location on Henrietta Street in Dublin. ‘Office Dancers’ is the lead track on SPLH’s new album, When I See You … Ice Cream! Read our review of the album here. Have a peek of the video and check out Slow Place…

  • Watch: The Sunshine Factory – Cruelest Animal

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    Cork’s The Sunshine Factory have steadily earned their reputation as one of the country’s very finest cosmically-inclined propositions. Having shared the stage with the likes of K-X-P and the Orange Kyte, the five-piece will release their highly-anticipated new EP, Cruelest Animal, at Cork’s Crane Lane on November 30. Released today, the title track from the release distils the essence of their neo-psych craft to a tee. A five-minute miasma of hazed-out, slow-burning psych, the song has been granted a whole new dimension of potency via visuals courtesy of For Eyes Creatives. We’re all over this – expect big things from these guys in…

  • Premiere: BODIES – NUMB

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    Almost a year to the day on from premiering his debut single ‘Nightmoves’ – a track we called “one of the most curious and captivating debut singles from an Irish artist” in 2016 – we’re pleased to present a first listen to ‘NUMB’ by Dublin’s David Anthony McGeown AKA BODIES. Released via Minor Fall Records today, the track is lifted from McGeown’s debut EP, SOAK, which is released on November 27. Recorded as a collaboration between McGeown and Overhead the Albatross members David Prendergast and Ben Garret, it’s a slow-burning, subtly anthemic alt-pop overture to breaking the confines of everyday ennui.…