Björk will bring her Cornucopia tour to Dublin later this year. As well as shows in London and Glasgow, the Icelandic artist will bring the immersive theatre show – which was developed last year – to the 3Arena on November 28th. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Pre-sale tickets go on sale at 10am on Thursday.
Set to return to Limavady across 15-17th August, Northern Ireland’s only unmissable summer festival – and three-times winner of Ireland’s “best small festival” – Stendhal is shaping up to be just as memorable as its last few outings. Ahead of our festival preview next week, we’ve whittled the year’s bill down to a twenty-track mixtape, featuring SOAK, Basement Jaxx, Kitt Philippa, Sister Ghost, New Pagans, Kíla, Talos, Elma Orkestra & Ryan Vail, Malojian, Lisa O’Neill, Bouts, Arvo Party and more. Go here to buy tickets to this year’s festival.
For whatever combination of reasons, Belfast has peerless form for producing first-rate garage bands. From Them and The Wheels back in the 1960s right up to The Groundlings, The Dreads and others in the present era, the city has always reliably churned out bands wielding straight-up rock ‘n’ roll like it’s no one’s business. In the day of our Lord John Dwyer, you need not look much further than The Rackets. A suitably elusive outfit, with an ever-revolving line-up, the band currently operate as a three-piece of Sunglasses After Dark’s Ryan Fitzsimmons, frontwoman Aileen McKenna aka This Ship Argo and the downright legendary Chappy of the aforementioned The Groundlings…
Gruff Rhys will play a three-date Irish tour later this year. The Welsh musician and Super Furry Animals main man will Whelans’s in Dublin on December 9th, Live at St. Luke’s in Cork on December 10th and Belfast’s Empre Music Hall on December 11th. Tickets for the shows cost €25.00 and go on sale tomorrow (August 1st) at 10am. Rhys will release his new album Pang! via Rough Trade Records on September 13th.
Let’s face it: honorific nicknames in popular music don’t come any more clear-cut than Madonna and the Queen of Pop. The singer, songwriter, businesswoman, actress, producer, dancer, director, author and humanitarian born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 has ceaselessly shapeshifted and fearlessly reinvented like no other. Her musical output is but half the story. Naturally, such a towering legacy has attracted its fair share of filmed exposés and feature-length accounts over the years. None, however, even flirt with the sheer watchability of Alek Keshishian’s 1991 film Madonna: Truth or Dare (or In Bed with Madonna outside of North America). Filmed…
You might not know it yet, but Belfast, of all places, is home to a steadily-thriving synthwave scene. Look no further than Transpacifica, the remarkably prolific Alpha Chrome Yayo and Belfast-based whiz Danny Madigan. Today, the latter releases his strong single effort to date. ‘Lost Shore’ finds Madigan taking inspiration from his homeland, revealing that the song was inspired by, and written whilst sitting beside, Lough Neagh. Abstract, but somehow familiar, this new release is another step forward for the musician and the rest of his fellow synthwave artists, who gather themselves together under the mysterious ‘Club Arnold’ banner. Stream the single – and it’s…
Drawing influence from artists as mottled as Tinariwen, Tool and Dublin folk miscreants Lankum, Lonesome George have emerged from Belfast’s session scene with a singular fusion of trad and contemporary folk. At the heart of the band’s craft is the songwriting duo of Joe Campbell-McArdle and Myles McCormack, two old friends who approached traditional music at the same time and have learned alongside one another. Stephen Loughran, a celebrated flute player and Dermot Moynagh, whose contemporary style on the bodhran has become the heartbeat of the sound of forward-pushing trad-folk in Belfast, seal the deal. New single ‘Stumble Day’ finds…
Everyone’s favourite mask-clad metallers Slipknot will return to play Dublin next year. As of yet, the date and venue for the show are to be announced, but the Corey Taylor-fronted band will kick off their 2020 European tour in the capital. They last played Dublin in 2015, as part of their Prepare For Hell tour. The band will release their sixth studio album We Are Not Your Kind via Roadrunner on August 9. You can get early access to tickets for the Dublin show by pre-ordering the album here.
NYC experimental rock masters Battles will play Dublin later this year. With Dave Konopka having left the band last year due to personal reasons, the duo of Ian Williams and John Stanier will play the Button Factory on October 24. Tickets are priced at €28 and go on sale on Friday at 10am.
Aldous Harding will play Vicar Street later this year. Fresh for supporting Villagers at Iveagh Gardens, the New Zealand folk singer-songwriter will play the Dublin venue on December 3. Tickets are €25.00 and go on sale at 9am on Friday.