Ahead of his show with Patti Smith at Royal Hospital Kilmainham the following day, Nick Cave will take part in a special Q+A at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre on June 5. Speaking about the event – “So, What Do You Want To Know?” Conversations with Nick Cave – the musician said, “The more frank and intimate the questions, the more interesting the evening will be… ask me anything and I’ll do my best to answer.” Priced €25-€55, tickets go on sale tomorrow, May 9 at 12pm here.
English electronic duo Rob Brown and Sean Booth aka Autechre will perform a show in darkness at Dublin’s National Concert Hall on Sunday, July 15. Presented by U:mack, the fully-seated show with also feature DJ Andy Maddocks of Skam Records. Tickets are priced at €35 and go on sale this Thursday at 10am.
Featuring Mary Black, James Vincent McMorrow, Le Galaxie, Little Green Cars, Loah, Tara Flynn, Delorentos and many more, Ciara Brennan captures an incredible night at Together For Yes at the Olympia in Dublin last night.
We have a pair of tickets to give away to Swedish artist Joel Wästberg AKA sir Was with support from My Tribe Your Tribe at Dublin’s Workman’s Club on Friday, May 4. To enter, simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What is the title of sir Was’ full-length debut album? Good luck!
The programme for this year’s Women’s Work festival in Belfast has been announced. Officially launched this afternoon at the Black Box, Women’s Work is a unique event for Belfast that highlights the important contribution that women make to music. Inspired by a growing global movement across the music industry towards a more even playing field, the programme has become an annual celebration and promotion of not only new and existing female talent, but also for diversity and change. Taking place across six days and nights, this year’s festival will take in a range of activities and events that open to all…
Having played Whelan’s in the city last year, it’s been revealed that Greta Kline aka NYC indie rock artist Frankie Cosmos will play Dublin’s Button Factory on August 23. Tickets for the show cost €15.00 and go on on sale tomorrow at 10am Check out the video for new single ‘Apathy’ below.
Having previously played the Dublin venue back in 2014 and 2010, it’s been announced that Anton Newcombe’s Brian Jonestown Massacre will play the Academy on Friday October 19. The news comes ahead of the release of two new BJM albums in 2018, the first of which – Something Else – is our on June 1 via A Recordings. Recorded between 2017 and 2018, the release is a self-proclaimed return to the “traditional” sound of the band after the experimentation of recent records. Tickets for the Dublin show are priced €23.50 and go on sale on Friday, May 4 at 9am.…
Ahead of a solo acoustic Irish tour from May 5-11 (full details here) New York musician and illustrator Jeffrey Lewis selects some of his all-time favourite tracks, including The Fall, Focus and Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers. Ish Marquez – Gin is Not My Friend Ish Marquez, best underground soul singer from the Bronx streets! Sam Cooke meets Kurt Cobain on NYC subway at 3am in 1976 and they make up songs till dawn and sing to the sunrise on a tenement rooftop until the cops shut them down, and it just might sound like Ish Marquez. I used…
Belfast’s Girls Names are sitting on one of the Irish albums of the year. Set for release on June 15 via Tough Love, Stains on Silence finds the three-piece at their most vital and experimental to date. Recorded in various locations including Belfast’s Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cully’s home and the band’s practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time. “We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year,” says frontman Cathal Cully. “When we got them to a place we were happier…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Dublin’s Subplots. Having “formally introduced” drummer Ross Chaney to the fold back in January, the band – now based between Ireland and Canada – spent last year writing and recording the full-length follow-up to 2015’s Autumning. The first single to be taken from that is ‘Unspeak’, a wonderfully-woven six-minute track gem began as a live recording of the trio – on guitar, bass synth and two busted old ARP synthesizers providing bass drum and hi-hat sounds. Vocalist Phil Boughton said, “The song grew around this simple skeletal recording of the three of us playing in…