• The Bernard Shaw Set to Close

    September 9, 2019 - By 

    The Bernard Shaw is set to close. The pub and venue, which has been a vital hub in Dublin over the last 13 years, will close its doors at the end of October. Back in May, the Bernard Shaw was refused permission permission by An Bord Pleanála to keep its beer garden and dining area open. In a statement, management said, “It’s with heavy hearts that we announce the end of our Bernard Shaw adventure. At the end of October 2019 we will close the Shaw, Eatyard, all organisational, art, and performance spaces and everything else in the building and…

  • Jon Hopkins For Dublin Return

    September 9, 2019 - By 

    Jon Hopkins will play Dublin as part of his Polarity tour 2020. One of the highlights of this year’s Forbidden Fruit, the English musician and producer will play Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on Friday, March 6. Polarity will, Jon says, tether together “the two disparate elements of harsh and fragile in my music.” He explains, “by going between the two, we’ll hopefully create some profound moments of stillness.” Laying grand piano for parts of the show, he will be joined on stage by a small group of consummate musicians and long-time friends, consisting of acclaimed producer and guitarist Leo Abrahams, violinist and…

  • Supergrass Set For Dublin and Belfast on 2020 Reunion Tour

    September 9, 2019 - By 

    Supergrass are set to play two Irish dates as part of their forthcoming reunion tour. The Gaz Coombes-fronted Britpop legends will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on February 12th and Belfast’s Ulster Hall on February 17th. Tickets go on sale this Friday (September 13th) morning. Band member Danny Goffey said, “Everything aligned for us to make this happen for 2020. It was the first time that we collectively felt the buzz to get back in a room together and play the songs. “We’re extremely excited to get out there and bring a bit of Supergrass joy to all our fans… and…

  • Win Tickets to Future Sounds Now 2 @ Masonic Hall, Belfast

    September 5, 2019 - By 

    We have a pair of tickets to the second installment of Future Sounds Now at Belfast’s Masonic Hall on Saturday, September 7th. Hosted by Touch Sensitive Records as part of Belfast Music Summer 2019, the event will feature sets from The Lost Connection (aka Locky Morris of Rare and John O’Neill of The Undertones and That Petrol Emotion) and Ai Messiah. Tickets are £7 and doors open at 8pm. To enter our competition, simply send an e-mail to info@thethinair.net with the answer to the following question. Who was the vocalist of That Petrol Emotion?

  • Stealing Memories: An Interview With Joshua Burnside

    September 9, 2019 - By 

    From September 14th, Joshua Burnside will set off on his biggest tour to date. Including an unmissable show alongside Junior Brother at Empire Music Hall on November 1st as part of this year’s Belfast International Arts Festival, the Belfast folk maestro will play shows in cities including New York, Los Angeles, London and Berlin. Ahead of that, we talk to Burnside about travel, success, his forthcoming second album and more. Go here to buy tickets to Joshua Burnside at Empire Music Hall Hi Joshua. You’re about to head off on a world tour, which includes dates in New York, Los Angeles, London and…

  • Lankum Announced New Album, Release ‘The Livelong Day’

    September 5, 2019 - By 

    It’s official: Dublin folk miscreants Lankum will release their new album The Livelong Day via Rough Trade on October 25. Coinciding with the announcement is the unveiling of the band’s masterful take on ‘The Wild Rover’. The band said of the single, which is accompanied by a video by Ellius Grace: “There are countless renditions of this tune, it is a song very much rooted within the dirt and peat of Ireland, but the revelation of a little known final verse takes it from a jovial pub tale to one of sadness and destitution. The actual crux of the song becomes…

  • Stream: Myles McCormack – Merry Go Round

    August 29, 2019 - By 

    Belfast-based musician Myles McCormack occupies a very special place within the Northern Irish music community. Beyond his work as a founding member of forward-pushing trad-folk outfit Lonesome George, the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist crafts considered, reflective tales under his own name. It’s something that comes into sharp focus on McCormack’s forthcoming twelve-track debut album, Real Talk. Set for release on September 13th, it’s a gossamer and quietly emphatic first gambit from an artist who continues to set himself apart. From ‘Lifeline’ and the wonderfully-woven melancholia of opening track ‘When’ to the throwback folk phantasm of new single ‘Merry Go Round’ and beyond,…

  • Rock For Choice: NI Musicians on Why We Should All Support Rally For Choice 2019

    August 30, 2019 - By 

    On Saturday, September 7th, the fourth annual Rally For Choice will take place in Belfast. Now, more than ever before, the movement – which demands free, safe and legal access to abortion services in Northern Ireland – is propelled by unstoppable momentum. With the country on the cusp of finally achieving women’s rights in line with the rest of the UK and Ireland, there’s a very real sense that the time is now. From 4pm that day, Belfast’s Ulster Sports Club will host its unmissable sister event, Rock For Choice. Hosted by Girls Rock School NI – a non-profit organisation…

  • The Specials @ Open House, Bangor

    August 29, 2019 - By 

    In the tour-heavy years since reforming back in 2008, The Specials have continuously re-affirmed their status not simply as bona fide 2-tone legends, they have underlined their ironclad rep as one of the all-time greats. Vital and visionary in equal measure, few acts, anywhere in the world, have equally defined and transcended genre like they have, all the while keeping two eyes firmly fixed on the horizon. Off the back of the release of Encore – their first album with vocalist Terry Hall since 1981 – the band’s generation-spanning set at Bangor Seafront tonight as part of Open House 2019 only…

  • Pixies Set For Tower Records In-Store

    August 29, 2019 - By 

    Boston alternative rock legends Pixies are set for an in-store at Dublin’s Tower Records. Ahead of their show at Olympia later that night, the Black Francis-fronted quartet will be signing copies of their new album, Beneath The Eyrie, at the Dawson Street store at 1pm on Thursday, September 26. Simply up a copy of the new album on its release on 13th of September and receive a wristband to come and meet the band and get the album signed. Spaces are very limited.