We’ve been spoiled with essential new sounds from every corner of the island this week. Dig into new Silverbacks, Or:la, And So I Watch You From Afar, Sun Mahshene and more Photo by Róisín Murphy O’Sullivan Silverbacks – Selling Shovels And So I Watch You From Afar – Years Ago Sun Mahshene – Pale Azure Or:la – Chant Laurie Shaw – Power Cut Keeley – Inga Hauser Ahmed, With Love. – WHATCHIMACALLIT Sweets – Sweets Callum Orr – The Trials of Knowing Lost Cities D.C. – Monsters
If your ear is anywhere near close to the ground – or you’ve found yourself in venues such as Róisín Dubh, Cyprus Avenue and Workman’s Cellar over the last while – you’ll likely know why Adore have swiftly emerged as one of the country’s fiercest garage-punk propositions. Made up of Lara Minchin on guitar and vocals, bassist/vocalist Lachlann Ó Fionnáin, and drummer Naoise Jordan Cavanagh, the trio wield a singular sound that shows just cause for their (oft-pedalled but not always called-for) “fast-rising” status. Uniting from opposite corners of the island – Galway, Donegal and Dublin – the band are…
An unmissable, two-day DIY punk festival takes over the home of Bohemian’s FC – Dalymount Park in Phibsboro – this weekend. Celebrating 20 years of DIY shows gigs in the bar, The Filth and the Floodlights is a fully stacked showcase set for Mono’s on Saturday, 13th July and Sunday, 14th July, A non-profit event, with all money going to bands and overheads, the two-dayer kicks on Saturday from 3pm until 1am, with sets from the likes of Hands Up Who Wants To Die, Surge, Genuflection, Special Branch, YOP and more. An all-ages affair, Sunday is equally essential, with Wild Rocket,…
Assuming you’re not some TERF waster, Fibbers is the place to be in Dublin on Tuesday, 2nd July. Fend off the post-Pride blues with a stellar three-band bill in the basement, featuring Survival Horror, TTA favourites Touch Excellent and All Girls Piss (a) factual statement and b) great new band, well worth getting down to Parnell Street for.) Doors are 7pm, tickets are €8. Best of all, each ticket includes a donation to Trans Harm Reduction, a volunteer-run, grassroots organisation and charity that does truly great frontline work for our trans community in Ireland. Photo for The Thin Air by…
It’s been our decade-plus pleasure to remind readers that, beyond the bigger cities on this particular floating landmass, we are extremely fucking blessed to have myriad sound heads making it all happen for independent Irish music – very often for the love of it, above all else. Throw in the fact that what those heads are making happen is often wonderfully world-beating in quality, not to mention how it builds and supports communities where they would literally otherwise cease to exist, and we are positively consecrated with the absolute craic. Should you wish to experience the square root of this…
Seoda Shows’ Summer Party with Cardinals, Radio Free Alice, Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra and Theatre at Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick. Photos by Ian Davies
Norwegian art pop sensation AURORA with support from Amy Michelle at the National Stadium in Dublin. Photos by Erin Plaice
LCD Soundsystem played to their biggest-ever non-festival crowd in Dublin last night. Leah Carroll captured the Brooklyn icons’ set, as well as support from IDLES and – arguably the best British band of a generation – Young Fathers
Garage rock king Ty Segall playing a career-spanning set with support from NZ psych duo Earth Tongue at the Button Factory. Photos by Matt Gorman
Erin Plaice captures New Blood, a mini-festival presented by the Good Room in association with Cork Midsummer Festival at St. Luke’s in Cork, featuring The Love Buzz, The Cliffords and Pebbledash.