Protomartr will team up with Tuam’s finest, Oh Boland, for four Irish dates next year. As part of the former Michigan post-punk band’s up UK and Irish tour, both bands will play Cork’s Cyprus Avenue on April 20th, Limerick’s Dolans on April 21st, Dublin’s Button Factory on April 22nd and Belfast’s Ulster Sports Club on April 23rd. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday, December 3rd 2021. Revisit a highlight from Protomartyr’s 2015 album The Agent Intellect below.
Public Image Limited have announced a UK and Irish tour for 2022, including dates in Belfast and Dublin. The John Lyndon-fronted post-punk pioneers will stop off at Dublin’s National Stadium on June 9th, followed by their debut show in Belfast at the Limelight – courtesy of Open House Festival – on June 10th. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday, December 3rd.
Here’s the very best music released across the island this week, featuring Denise Chaila, Acid Granny, Kineograph, April, Molly O’Mahony and more Denise Chaila – It’s A Mixtape Kineograph – I Can See 3 People Kineograph · I CAN SEE 3 PEOPLE Acid Granny – I Love The Brits & I Love The Queen April – Someone That I Made Alan Tobin x SubRelic – _ repurposed_ EP JyellowL & ANtigoni – Appetiser Molly O’Mahony – Brother Blue Lucy Gaffney – Heartstrings
Lorde and Bicep are among the acts set to play next year’s Forbidden Fruit festival. Taking place at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin across the Bank Holiday weekend of June 4 & 5 2022, the festival’s return after three years will also feature sets by the likes of Hot Chip, Floating Points, The Avalanches, Princess Nokia, Kojaque, Gemma Dunleavy and more. Many more acts are to be announced. Check out the full first announcement below. Weekend tickets for Forbidden Fruit 2022 start from €129.50 and go on sale on Thursday, December 2 at 8AM.
They don’t come more singular than Acid Granny. Over the last couple of years, the trolly-toting dealers of improvised electronic punk and abstract audio art have consistently reaffirmed our faith in the island’s more unapologetically radical sonic auteurs. Set for release via Ecstatic Intervals, a new label founded by Dublin producer qwasi, new single ‘I Love the Brits & I Love the Queen’ is a pure-cut distillation of what sets the group apart. Across two all-too-short minutes, it’s another masterfully mangled effort, rounded off with some of the more memorable visuals we’ve latched our eyes upon as of late. “The song was born…
Other Voices marks its 20th year with a return to Dingle across November 25-28. Taking place both online and in-person at St James’ Chuerch and the IMRO Other Room, Other Voices Twenty/Fiche Bliain Ag Fás will feature performances by the likes of John Grant, Fontaines D.C., Kay Young, Sigrid, Houseplants, Villagers, Gemma Dunleavy and many more. As it turns out, we have a pair of tickets to give away to two highlights from St James’ Church: Villagers on Thursday, November 25 and Sigrid on Sunday, November 28. To be in with a chance of winning a pair, simply send your…
Some creative unions simply seem fated to be. A sublime case in point is ‘The Consequences of Breathing The Heart’, a new, multi-disciplinary project by West Cork singer-songwriter Alan Daniel Tobin aka ADT and County Kerry filmmaker and writer Shaun O’Connor. Drawing on Irish folk tales of the Selkie, and based on a script written by award-winning Irish screenwriter Paul Cahill, it tells the Muirín and Tadhg, a young artistic couple living and working by the Irish coast. When Tadhg’s world is torn apart after Muirin suddenly disappears in the ocean, his search for answers leads him to a stunning…
It’s been another great week for new releases in every corner of the island. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Silverbacks, Just Mustard, Celaviedmai, Jackie Beverly, passersby & more. Silverbacks – Rolodex City Just Mustard – I Am You passersby – Always alwayyys by passersby Jess Kav, Senita & Toshín – Ascension Celaviedmai & Alan McKee – Upset Jackie Beverly – Temporary State modernlove. – Us Laura Duff – Easy Hazey Haze – Epitome
Dublin quartet Girl Band have changed their name to Gilla Band with immediate effect. Off the back of their blistering set at Pitchfork London on Sunday night, the band released the following statement regarding the decision. “We are changing our band name,” they said. “We will no longer be performing or releasing records under the name Girl Band. We apologise for choosing a misgendered name in the first place and to anyone who has been hurt or affected by it. When we were starting off it was chosen without much thought, from a place of naivety and ignorance. We had…
Dublin alt-pop band Soda Blonde guide us through their all-time favourite songs, from Air and Massive Attack, to Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson. Catch Soda Blonde live in December: December 5th: Cyprus Avenue, Cork December 7th: Mike The Pies, Listowel December 9th: Whelan’s, Dublin December 14th: Roisin Dubh, Galway December 15th, Empire Music Hall, Belfast December 16th: Whelan’s, Dublin December 19th: Dolan’s, Limerick Kanye West – Say You Will Kanye has always had this ability to create sonic landscapes and unusual textures that really hit you emotionally before any lyrics begin. This is something as a band we always aim…