• Gorillaz Confirmed For Malahide Castle

    November 2, 2017 - By 

    And there you have it. Confirming what we were all lead to believe at the start of the week, it’s been announced that Gorillaz will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle on Saturday, June 9. Tickets for the show – which go on sale next Thursday, November 9 at 9am – are priced at €69.50. The world’s finest virtual band – formed by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett back in 1998 – released their fifth studio album, Humanz, back in April. Gorillaz last performed in Dublin at 3Arena (or what was then known as The O2 – back in November 2010.

  • Tears For Fears and Alison Moyet to Play Dublin’s 3Arena

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    If you haven’t already spent your life savings on the deluge of must-attend shows being announced for next year, here’s another one for the calendar. Supported by Alison Moyet, English new wave maestros Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith AKA Tears For Fears will headline Dublin’s 3Arena on May 2, 2018. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 3. Pre-sale tickets are available here. The pair – who release their new Greatest Hits album Rule The World on November 10 – have sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

  • Liam Gallagher to Make Dublin and Belfast Return

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    As expected, Liam Gallagher has confirmed that he will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle on Friday, June 15. The Oasis frontman – who has just released his debut solo album As You Were – will also play Belfast’s Ormeau Park as part of Belsonic 2018 on Saturday, June 16. The Malahide Castle show will be Gallagher’s bigger Irish headline show, having already sold out dates at The Olympia Theatre and Weston Airport this year. Tickets – which go on sale next Friday at 9am – are priced €49.90 and £40.00 respectively.

  • Yep, It’s Happening: LCD Soundsystem Set For Malahide Castle in June

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Confirming what was rumoured at the start of the week, it’s been confirmed that LCD Soundsystem will return to Dublin to play Malahide Castle next summer. Having played an acclaimed residency at Olympia Theatre in September, James Murphy and co. – who released their critically-acclaimed fourth studio album American Dream earlier this year – will play the outdoor venue on June 5. Other acts for the date are yet to be confirmed. Tickets are priced €69.50 and go on sale next Friday, November 3 at 9am. Now for Gorillaz and/or Liam Gallagher to be confirmed…

  • Morrissey Set For 3Arena Show in February

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Love, hate or merely tolerate him, Stephen Patrick Morrissey will return to Dublin’s 3Arena on February 20. Set to release his eleventh solo studio album on November 17, Morrissey released his latest single ‘I Wish You Lonely’ on Tuesday. Ticket prices for the Dublin are TBC. Tickets go on sale next Friday (November 3) at 10am.

  • Album Premiere: Half Forward Line – The Back of Mass

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Just yesterday, we had the distinct pleasure of premiering the video for ‘Column A, Column B’ by Galway supergroup-of-sorts (actually, not of-sorts, of-actuality) Half Forward Line. Featuring So Cow’s Brian Kelly on guitar and vocals, Oh Boland‘s Niall Murphy and bass, and regular TTA photographer Cíarán Ó Maoláin on drums, the band’s brand new debut album, The Back of Mass, is a thing of rather brilliance, effortlessly distilling the varyingly-shaded starry-eyed, fuzzed-out, limb-flailing panache of their component parts and projects, commingling into a twelve-track salvo of soul-enhancing, real-life-confronting, impossibly-earworming garage rock. And sure, are you at all surprised? These guys haven’t spent huge chunks of their collective life…

  • Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem and Liam Gallagher set for Malahide Castle Next Year?

    October 24, 2017 - By 

    Ah, the old internet rumour mill. What on earth was life like before you? According to reports on a couple of mammoth Irish digital content pedallers, LCD Soundsystem are primed to play Malahide Castle on Tuesday, June 5, Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz will play Saturday, June 9 and Liam Gallagher (whose debut solo album Christine Costello reviewed for us over here) will play an as-of-yet unspecified date in the month. According to a post by Enjoy Malahide (and let’s face it, who wouldn’t enjoy Malahide?) the shows are provisional and dependent upon successful planning permission. Assuming that’s granted, and these shows are, you know, actually…

  • Other Voices Belfast

    October 24, 2017 - By 

    Across October 26-28, Other Voices will team up with the 174 Trust, Digital DNA and the Duncairn to host a three-day showcase of one-off events, workshops, talks and a live performance featuring some fast-rising Irish talent in the heart of Belfast. With Ryan Vail, Picture This, Touts, Beoga (pictured), Jealous of the Birds and Rosie Carney playing the Other Voices Stage at the Duncairn on Saturday night, on Thursday and Friday, various schools, youth and community organisations from across the city will come together to take part in four events as part of the Digital DNA Creative Quarter, showcasing the power…

  • Video Premiere: Malojian – Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home

    October 24, 2017 - By 

    Released last week, Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home by Stephen Scullion’s Malojian is a record firmly rooted in place and visual memory. With the seeds of this latest outing being sown when BFI and Northern Ireland screen approached Scullion about playing a show at a coastal location with coastal-themed visuals from their archive to be used as a backdrop, Scullion soon took to the idea of recording some new material to go alongside those visuals. Teaming up with long-time collaborator, Belfast filmmaker and photographer Colm Laverty, the videos for LYWCYH’s lead singles ‘Some New Bones‘ and ‘Ambulance Song‘ presented symbiotic visual narratives that…

  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Set For Dublin Show

    October 23, 2017 - By 

    Hands down one of the most prolific bands in the world right now, Melbourne psych rock maestros King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced they will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on February 23.  The show takes place as part of a four-date run that also sees the band play London, Manchester and Glasgow. Tickets for the show go on pre-sale this Wednesday and general sale at 10am on Friday, October 27.