• Dream Baby Dream at Lighthouse Cinema

    May 10, 2023 - By 

    No longer just simply one of the greatest tracks by one of the greatest acts of all time, Dream Baby Dream is one of the most downright unmissable marriages of sound and vision that you’re likely to encounter on these shores. Co-curated by Letterkenny’s Regional Cultural Centre and promoter, broadcaster and all-round champion of forward-pushing sounds Leagues O’Toole (Foggy Notions), it’s an event of new short film and live music that will take over Dublin’s Lighthouse Cinema on Thursday, 11th May. Kicking off at 7pm in Screen One, the showcase features three world-beating Irish filmmakers – Bob Gallagher, Laura Quirke and…

  • Video Premiere: NIMF – A Ballad for Looking into Time

    May 9, 2023 - By 

    Within the space of four months last year, we featured Arklow musician Aoibhín Redmond aka NIMF as one-to-watch and her sprawling, ten-minute single ‘A Ballad for Looking into Time’ as our outright favourite Irish song of 2022. Six months on – and one year to the day since the release of the single – we feel ever surer that she’s on the path to further genre-defying brilliance. Premiered here today, the video for ‘A Ballad for Looking into Time’ is a perfect opportunity to get acquainted. Initially created for NIMF’s Master’s Project on the concept of the uncanny in Music…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 5th May

    May 5, 2023 - By 

    It’s Bandcamp Friday once again, and it’s been yet another banner week for Irish releases. Dig into the best of them from The Bonk, Adjunct Ensemble, Chalk, Elaine Mai & MayKay, Pôt-Pôt and more The Bonk – The Blueshirt Shuffle The Blueshirt Shuffle by The Bonk Adjunct Ensemble – Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy Chalk – Conditions Elaine Mai & MayKay – 3am Alpha Chrome Yayo – Hidden Earth Hidden Earth by Alpha Chrome Yayo Asi Nisi Masa – Cobweb Thread Daniel Luke – Shadow Dance Shadow Dance by Daniel Luke Raja Baal – I Will Never Be Cool (You Can’t Make Me)…

  • Output Belfast x AVA 2023

    April 28, 2023 - By 

    Ireland’s leading music conference Output is teaming up with AVA for its 2023 return. Once again taking over the MAC and the Oh Yeah Centre on Thursday, 1st June, this year’s outing will see organisers join forces with the world-beating Belfast electronic music festival AVA. With more than 800 delegates expected to attend over 30 sessions, workshops, masterclasses, panels, keynotes and state of the nation addresses across all aspects of the music industry, it’s set to be the most diverse music industry education and networking programme the city has ever seen. As well as opening keynotes by CMU founder and…

  • Watch: The Return of Treehouse Live with Nerves

    April 28, 2023 - By 

    Back in the mists of time (2020) Treehouse Live emerged as an essential online series shining a bright light on the far-too-often neglected North West scene. This year, the series returns for its highly-anticipated second season, shot and recorded by the tight-knit Treehouse team in an undisclosed location by the breathtaking beach of Rossnowlagh on the coast of South Donegal. Over the next while, the team will be drip-feeding some wonderful live performances from the series featuring artists spanning the North West and a little further afield. In the weeks to come, you can expect episodes featuring Donegal acts Neptune M. and…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 28th April

    April 28, 2023 - By 

    It’s been another top-tier week for Irish music. Here’s the best singles and albums released over the last seven days, featuring The Mary Wallopers, Gash Collective, Brigid Mae Power and more The Mary Wallopers – The Holy Ground Gash Collective – Gash Trax Vol. 2 GASH TRAX VOL​.​2 by GASH COLLECTIVEa Brigid Mae Power – Counting Down Badhands – Head in the Clouds Nealo & Morgana – Forest Thom Southern – Love Hz Derek Ellard & The Future Business Model – The Future Business Model EP Loop Heavy & Daryl Bengo – Won’t Stop Keeley – Sees Everything Amy Ellen…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 14th April

    April 14, 2023 - By 

    From every corner of the island, here’s the very best new music of the week, from Junior Brother, ferna, Thom Southern, Caoilian Sherlock, Kean Kavanagh, Feather Beds and more Junior Brother – Junior Brother’s Favourite Thom Southern – Love Hz Love Hz by THOM SOUTHERN Moot Tapes’ Signs of Life Pt 5 (R Kitt and Richie Kaboogie Signs of life: Part 5 by R. Kitt/ Richie Kaboogie Cobra Truth – Purple Feathers Purple Feathers by Cobra Truth Jinx Lennon – Walk Lightly When The Jug is Full Walk Lightly When The Jug Is Full by Jinx Lennon ferna – understudy…

  • Stream: Junior Brother’s Favourite

    April 11, 2023 - By 

    In the five short years since we featured him as one of our 18 for ‘18 ones-to-watch, Kerry experimental folk artist Ronan Kealy, aka Junior Brother, has curveballed with a flair and vision all his own. Taking in the likes of his resounding second album from last year, The Great Irish Famine, it’s a journey that reaches a thrilling new summit today. Offered up as a “final chapter” to his previous releases, ‘Junior Brother’s Favourite’ is a 20-minute effort like no other. Doubling up a self-contained EP, it‘s a masterfully mercurial weave of Kealy‘s unrepeatable, increasingly unfuckwithable craft. Zig-zagging between beatific…

  • Stop Learning, Start Dying: An Interview With Toby Amies, Director of In The Court of the Crimson King

    April 11, 2023 - By 

    Few modern music documentaries approach the kind of magic that is layered throughout Toby Amies’ In The Court of the Crimson King. The British filmmaker and broadcaster’s study of Robert Fripp and his band, King Crimson, is a fascinating exploration of the dynamics – both personal and creative – that have long made Fripp’s musical vehicle a thing of near mythos. Ahead of a screening and Q+A with Amies at Belfast’s Queens Film Theatre on Sunday 16th April, Brian Coney chats to the director about the many challenges, and myriad rewards, of tackling such an inscrutable subject and towering musical…