Miles Kane with support from Ten Tonnes at Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick. Photos by Aoife Moloney
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Mercury Rev will play a string of Irish dates in October. Marking their return after six years, the New York indie rock royalty – helmed by Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper – will play Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick on October 28th, Roisin Dubh in Galway on October 29th, Cyprus Avenue in Cork on October 30th and Dublin’s Button Factory on October 31st. Tickets for all shows go on sale this Thursday, May 16th at 10am. Revisit a classic Mercury Rev gem below.
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Following the release of her sublime new EP, MurMurs, Wicklow R&B queen Cosha waxes lyrical on her all-time favourite tracks, featuring Björk, Sade, Tirzah, D’Angelo and more Björk – It’s Not Up To You I feel like all stages of my life can be defined by a Björk album; right now Vespertine is resonating with glorious potency. She says all the things I am thinking and feeling in ways so eloquent it’s almost unfair, this is not even her first language! This song particularly stuck with me recently, it’s such an important message that everyone can relate to and that…
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North Dublin alternative heroes Girlfriend with support by DazGak at Coughlans in Cork. Photos by Erin Plaice.
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Ahead of his highly-anticipated return to DeBarra’s in Clonakilty on 19th May, Vermont folk master Sam Amidon discusses the ways in which lineage and collaboration interact with constantly pushing forward. Go here to buy tickets to Sam Amdson at DeBarra’s Hi Sam. It has been a typically busy period for you. One happening I would’ve loved to have experienced was the 10th-anniversary show for your LP Lily-O, Was it, as I assume, really fulfilling evening, revisiting the record in that way? It was a beautiful night! It was actually the first time the four of us who made the album (Bill Frisell,…
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It’s just over four weeks until Ireland’s finest festival, Open Ear, returns to Sherkin Island in West Cork From May 31 to June 2, the festival, now in its sixth edition, will be another world-beating celebration of experimental and electronic sounds, from these shores and beyond. As well as unmissable sets by the likes of Hilary Woods, GNOD R&D, da Googie, Lesko, Brian Not Brian and Caskré, this year’s outing doubles as a trove of specially commissioned collaborations between two artists that have not previously worked together. Right up there with the most essential of these is long-time TTA favourite…
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It’s silly how strong a week it’s been for new Irish sounds. Here’s the very best of them from Shiv, Natalia Beylis, a horror soundtrack by Lankum’s Ian Lynch, His Father’s Voice, MELTS’ second album, Voids, and the latest in Moot Tapes’ single series featuring Flowers at Night Shiv – limerence Cosha – MurMurs Interlude Natalia Beylis – Lost – For Annie (Excerpt) Lost – For Annie by Natalia Beylis Ian Lynch – All You Need Is Death (Original Soundtrack) His Father’s Voice – Arm’s Length Arm's Length by His Father's Voice Moot Tapes Single Series: Flowers at Night –…
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A rare jack of all trades & master of many, Belfast-based writer, filmmaker, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and musician John Patrick Higgins has only gone and successfully written two books. We can’t say for sure, as they’re not yet published, but we can all but guarantee you that they’ll change your life. Or, your know, your immediate awareness of indispensable writing from these shores. The first of those two books, Teeth: An Oral History, is, we are reliably informed, a bitingly funny story illustrated by the author and featuring a glossary of useful terms, as most of his references pre-date…
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Dublin cult synth-punks Fight Like Apes made a big return to the 3Olympia on Saturday 6th April, with support from Ailbhe Reddy. Photos by Ian Davies.
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Landless have announced details of their highly-anticipated second album. Six years on from their debut album Bleaching Bones – and us featuring them as ones to watch in our 18 for ’18 feature – the Dublin/Belfast quartet will release the ten-track Lúireach via Glitterbeat Records on 7th June. Teaming up once again with John ‘Spud’ Murphy, the Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch have revealed that they haeve added sparingly-used instrumentation – including Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada on fiddle, viola and banjo throughout, as well as trombone from Alex Borwick on ‘The Newry Highwayman’ – on the album.…