Brighton’s finest Fujiya & Miyagi will stop off at Dublin’s Button Factory on Friday, December 1 as part of a tenth-anniversary tour of their debut album Transparent Things. Fancy winning a pair of tickets to the show? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What is the opening track on Transparent Things? Good luck!
Jason Lee captures day four of this year’s Clonakilty International Guitar Festival at De Barra’s and Shanley’s, featuring Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, The Burning Hell and John Hudson & The Shanley House Band.
Concluding his review of their debut album – the eminently-tilted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ – just the other day, TTA’s Will Murphy said, “Shrug Life deserve to be heard. Nurture them because fuck knows we’re not going to get another group like them for a long time.” To say those words are representative of our feelings about this release would be a towering understatement. We’ve watched on with glee as the Dublin trio of guitarist/vocalist Danny Carroll, bassist Keith Broni and drummer Josh Donnelly have evolved into one of the country’s most peerlessly engaging acts over the last couple of years – something that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ confines over eleven tracks…
Having formed while studying at NUI Maynooth, Dublin five-piece Ana Gog have been on a winding and wonderful journey over the last eleven years. The long-awaited follow-up to 2014 EP Resemblance, Wake marks a significant step in the band’s carefully-crafted aesthetic, with songs exploring themes of loss, inertia and rebirth. Recorded live at K9 and Arad Studios, it’s a candid, harmony-driven release in which the band’s collective talents interweave across four songs, from the gossamer-like sway of opener ‘Better Than Silence’ to the reflective, understated folk-pop of ‘Roze’s Kitchen (Wake)’. Upping the ante on all their previous output to date, there’s an almost voyeuristic intimacy to the…
For whatever combination of reasons, Galway has long been petri-dish for breeding some first-rate solo artists. One that has consistently kept our attention over the last while, Eoin Dolan is easily right up there with the most effortlessly compelling. Something of a whizz in the realm of surf-speckled, throwback indie-pop, Dolan has been drip-feeding tracks some stellar singles as of late, including ‘I Can Make You Hurt At Will‘ and ‘One Girl‘ earlier in the year, and most recently ‘Good Human Being?’ and ‘It Is Good That We Dream‘, which was released just this week. Comprising those four tracks and seven more, Dolan’s…
Right up there with the country’s leading celebrations and showcases of homegrown, independent music, Hard Working Class Heroes will take over several Dublin venues once again across September 29-30. With the line-up whittled down to a rounded 50 acts this year, here’s the full day-to-day and venue breakdown and a playlist featuring our 20 must-see acts this year, including Loah, Bad Bones, Jafaris, Sleep Thieves, Frankenstein Bolts, Soulé, Rocstrong, Brand New Friend, Shookrah and more. Tickets are still available to buy right here.
Dublin duo Harry Bookless and Aaron Page AKA Carriages are an act that we’ve followed closely over the last few years. Spearheading an experimental folk aesthetic that comprises nature, open spaces and facets of the modern world, their music masterfully blurs the lines between the external world and internal processes, as well as electronic textures and organic sounds. Doubling up as the debut release on Homebeat Presents (an imprint we’re very excited about looking ahead to next year and beyond), the pair’s forthcoming new EP Movement is a five-track masterstroke melding Bookless’ found sound electronic atmospherics and elemental production with the inimitable soulful and…
Last week we premiered ‘Witchdoctor’, the lead single from Belfast sludge doom band Elder Druid’s forthcoming debut album, Carmina Satanae. With the album – a fist-clenched, eight-track statement of intent – set for release at Belfast’s Bar Sub on Friday, October 6, we chat to the band about influence, evolution, dark lyricism and why Ireland punches above its weight when it comes to the low-end. You’ve recently been in the studio recording your debut album, Carmina Satanae. How was the experience? Dale (Hughes, bass): I think it’s safe to say that from start to finish the environment was easy going enough that…
Thanks to the powers that be, we have a pair of tickets to give away to Death From Above and Le Butcherettes on March 14, 2018. Fancy snapping them up? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following (very easy) question to info@thethinair.net: What is the title of Death From Above’s debut album? Good luck!
Since featuring her as an Inbound act in our physical act last year, Dublin based producer and visual artist Sal Stapelton AKA Bad Bones has been busy on the live front, including slots at Electric Picnic, Body & Soul, Forbidden Fruit Festival, as well as shows with All Tvvins and Talos. Mirroring this upswing is the sheer grit and confidence of new single ‘You’. Set for release via DiaXDem on Friday, the single is a labyrinthine blast of nuanced beats, layered samples and a host of effects-soaked textures and vocals that coalesce as an infinitely listenable whole. Where previous single including ‘Lang’, ‘Beg’ and…