Two Door Cinema Club have announced two Irish shows for October. The Northern Irish indie-pop trio will play Belfast’s Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on October 15 and Belfast’s Telegraph Building on October 16. Pre-sale starts tomorrow (Wednesday, May 8) at 9am. Tickets go on sale on Friday. Two Door will release their new album, False Alarm, on June 14.
Hot Chip will play Belfast in the Autumn. The Alexis Taylor-fronted, English indie electronic band will play Limelight 1 on Wednesday, October 16. They recently announced a show in Dublin the following night. Hot Chip release their seventh album, A Bath Full of Ecstasy, via on Domino on June 21. Tickets for the Belfast show go on sale at 10am on Friday, May 10.
U.S. singer-songwriter Bill Callahan will play Dublin late this year. The Maryland artist, who has also performed as Smog, will play Vicar Street on Sunday, September 29. Support on the night will come from Dallas Acid. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 10th at 9am.
We’re very lucky to call Stefan Murphy one of our own. Based in Atlanta, GA, the Dublin artist’s mottled career to date has taken in the triumphant garage rock of The Mighty Stef, exploratory solo sounds as Count Vaseline and far beyond. Murphy is now performing under his own name, making music that he tells us “aims to reconnect with the art of earnest, heartfelt songwriting, while also flirting with his back catalog in the live setting.” If lead single ‘Dry Cider’ is anything to go by, success is both realms is assured. A self-proclaimed tale of youthful misadventure, dedicated to…
Chicago post-metal trio Russian Circles are set for three Irish shows in the summer. The band – comprising Mike Sullivan, Dave Turncrantz and Brian Cook – will play Dublin’s Button Factory on August 8, Galway’s Roisin Dubh on August 9th and Belfast’s Limelight 2 on August 10. It will mark the band’s first Irish shows since 2017. Revisit our interview with the band from then here. Tickets are on sale now, priced €20.00, €20.00 and £18.50 respectively.
Kicking off on Thursday, the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival will bring a dizzying array of talent to Belfast’s city centre for its 20th outing, including Rufus Wainwright, Echo and the Bunnymen, Anna Calvi, Teenage Fanclub, Spiritualized, Marian Keyes, Yola, UNLOVED (feat, David Holmes), Nina Conti, Horslips, Chris Difford, Roy Walker, Bill Drummond, Patty Griffin, Kevin McAleer, Lisa O’Neill, Lowkey, Bernard MacLaverty and Horslips. The 11-day festival will feature over 10 events in over 20 venues across the city centre, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary with a programme of live music, comedy, literature, theatre, film, visual art and more. Festival Director Sean Kelly said, “There are…
You best believe we enjoy the wonky and wondrous pop of Dublin-based New Yorker Cal Folger Day. Having raved about her since 2014, the multi-instrumentalist chanteuse has recently been occupied with The Woods and Grandma, a stellar pop-opera that she released, via a documentary on Lyric FM, back in December. Featuring an all-star band comprising Phil Christie (O Emperor, The Bonk) on keys and vocals, Daniel Fox (Girl Band) on bass, Nick Boon on guitar, and Solamh Kelly (Myles Manley) on drums, the project toured across the U.S. in January. This week, Day heads off to perform Hamburg and Berlin. Backed by Aoibhinn O’Dea,…
The line-up for the second outing of Portrush one-day festival Coaster has been revealed. Taking play at Atlantic Bar and Babushka, this year’s event – a self-proclaimed “summer gathering on the Nort Coast celebrating local music” that we’re pleased to co-promote – includes Arvo Party, Blue Whale (pictured), Fox Colony, Catalan! and several more acts. See the full line-up below. Tickets are on-sale now.
Portland, Oregon synth-pop band Chromatics are set to play Dublin. Taking place as part of their Double Exposure European tour, the Ruth Radelet-fronted band will play Vicar Street on October 22. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am, priced €28.50.
Of the myriad Irish debuts that we’ve been itching to wrap our ears around in 2019, the self-titled first album from Dundalk’s Larry must surely rank up with the most eagerly-anticipated Comprising guitarist and vocalist Joey Edwards, bassist Aoife Ward and drummer David Noonan, also of Just Mustard, the band opted record with none other than Steve Albini at Chicago’s Electrical Audio last September. The result is a nine-track release that not only bears the imprint of indie rock trailblazers Sparklehorse, Wilco, Courtney Barnett and Pixies: it’s a record that finds Larry, assured and inspired, carving out special territory within the…