Bob Dylan has announced a string of Irish dates for the end of the year, including his first Belfast shows in over 20 years. As part of his ongoing Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour, Dylan will stop off at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on 19th and 20th November, Gleneagle Arena in Killarney on 23rd and 24th of November, and a makes a return to Dublin’s 3Arena on 25th November. Tickets go on sale at 10am next Friday, 18th July. Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour has been rolling since 2021, and at 84, he’s still taking it on…

Some events feel like they’ve always been there, as if they simply emerged, fully formed, from the soil of their setting. The Conncert, the one-day DIY festival that debuted last summer on the shores of Lough Conn in Co. Mayo, was one of those. Held in a former fishing lodge turned pub, it didn’t just host the island’s world-beating independent scene: it honoured it. In doing so, it instantly became a highlight of the Irish live calendar: a deeply felt, fiercely DIY gathering that pulled together artists from all over in a shared act of sound, soundness and self-made magic.…

One of the most quietly spellbinding events at this year’s Docs Ireland doesn’t take place in a cinema, but under a full 360° dome, in the night sky simulator of Armagh Planetarium. Premiering this Friday, June 20th, Music for Domes is a new immersive documentary experience that sees award-winning Irish artist and long-time TTA favourite RÓIS join forces with the always-visionary Hosta Projects for a journey unlike any other. Combining archival footage, sonic folklore and celestial cartography, the film draws uncanny parallels between two ancient cultures – Ireland and Cambodia – and how both map memory, myth and survival across…

One of the outright highlights of this year’s Docs Ireland (and there are many) Pavements is what happens when a band that made irony sacred becomes the subject of a documentary that doesn’t believe in borders. Part doc, part fiction, part mockumentary, part museum, part musical, part meta-headfuck, it’s a 90s indie fever dream that starts with the 2022 reunion and spirals into something way stranger, way funnier, and way more moving than it has any right to be. If you’ve ever argued that the Live Europaturnén MCMXCVII bootleg has the definitive ‘Fight This Generation,’ if ‘Rooftop Gambler’ lives rent-free…

David Byrne has announced a brand new Dublin date as part of his forthcoming world tour, set for 3Arena on Friday, March 13th. The show marks his highly-anticipated return to the venue seven years on from his unforgettable American Utopia tour stop back in 2018. Tickets go on general sale this Friday, June 13. The show arrives in support of Who Is the Sky?, Byrne’s first album in seven years, landing September 5 via Matador. A Technicolour collaboration with Kid Harpoon and Ghost Train Orchestra, it features Hayley Williams, St. Vincent and Tom Skinner, and is said to find the…

Long-time heroes of Ireland’s underground electronic scene, Paul Morrin (Spectac / Front End Synthetics) and Dunk Murphy (Sunken Foal / Countersunk, have finally joined forces in the studio as Confirmation Getup. Though their friendship dates back to schoolyard mischief, they’d never actually made music together until now. The result is Style Time: a heady, gloriously crooked suite of modular funk, skewed electro and machine-led oddity. Built from traded doodles, fast instincts and a shared sense of play, it’s locked in as one of the Irish LPs of the year. Here, they dissect the album track-by-track, tracing moments of offbeat inspiration,…

Few festivals on the island offer the kind of sustained, deep magic that Sounds from a Safe Harbour manages to conjure. Returning to Cork City from 11th to 14th September for its 10th edition, the festival remains one of Ireland’s most consistently rewarding fixtures – an unpredictable, collaborative gathering rooted in ritual, risk, and resonance. This year’s edition opens with Remembering Talos, a poignant tribute to the late Eoin French at Cork Opera House, before the city blooms into life with performances, premieres, and unexpected encounters across multiple venues. Built around the 37d03d residency and curated by Mary Hickson, Cillian…