With her sixth studio album Reputation having just become the best-selling U.S. selling-album of 2017 in just one week, Taylor Swift has announced has three UK and Irish dates for 2018, including Croke Park in Dublin on Friday, June 15. The Reputation Stadium tour will also include Manchester’s Etihad Stadium on June 8 and Wembley Stadium in London on June 22. Tickets (which will likely go very quick) go on sale at 9am on Friday, December 1.
We have a pair of tickets to give away to one of the shows of the year: And So I Watch You From Afar’s homecoming show at Belfast’s Telegraph Building on Saturday, December 16. With TOUTS, CATALAN! and Calling All Horses supporting on the night, it will be the globetrotting North Coast headliners’ first Belfast show since June 2015. To enter, simply Like our Facebook page here and fire us an e-mail to info@thethinair.net with your name and the title of the closing track from the band’s latest album. Good luck!
Having recently announced that their debut album launch on February 23 will now take place at the Button Factory due to demand, Bray trio Wyvern Lingo have unveiled new single ‘Snow II’. A song that presents a familiar situation with a heavy heart, it’s another compositionally exquisite, harmony-driven R&B pop masterclass from Caoimhe Barry, Karen Cowley and Saoirse Duane. Mark our words: 2018 is Wyvern Lingo’s year for the taking.
Dublin producer Diolmhain Ingram-Roche AKA Wastefellow has returned with one of his strongest efforts to date, ‘Enfold You’. Featuring visuals from Flann Manning, the single – which is a four-minute traipse of shuffling beats, thick bass and floaty electronica patterns – is the first in a new series of tracks that Ingram-Roche aims to put out between now and next Summer. Speaking more about the track, he said: “‘Enfold You’ began as an attempt to write a pop song from somebody who doesn’t necessarily appreciate a lot of pop music. As these pop ideals filtered through my own experiences and workflow, they began…
Currently working their way around the country on tour, Donegal’s Slow Place Like Home have unveiled the video for their new single ‘Office Dancers’. Shot by Paddy Cahill, directed by Jules Hackett and starring SPLH main man Keith Mannion and Sean McGinley (Braveheart, Love/Hate, Gangs of New York etc.) it’s a first-rate, typically unique accompaniment to the single, filmed entirely in location on Henrietta Street in Dublin. ‘Office Dancers’ is the lead track on SPLH’s new album, When I See You … Ice Cream! Read our review of the album here. Have a peek of the video and check out Slow Place…
Cork’s The Sunshine Factory have steadily earned their reputation as one of the country’s very finest cosmically-inclined propositions. Having shared the stage with the likes of K-X-P and the Orange Kyte, the five-piece will release their highly-anticipated new EP, Cruelest Animal, at Cork’s Crane Lane on November 30. Released today, the title track from the release distils the essence of their neo-psych craft to a tee. A five-minute miasma of hazed-out, slow-burning psych, the song has been granted a whole new dimension of potency via visuals courtesy of For Eyes Creatives. We’re all over this – expect big things from these guys in…
Almost a year to the day on from premiering his debut single ‘Nightmoves’ – a track we called “one of the most curious and captivating debut singles from an Irish artist” in 2016 – we’re pleased to present a first listen to ‘NUMB’ by Dublin’s David Anthony McGeown AKA BODIES. Released via Minor Fall Records today, the track is lifted from McGeown’s debut EP, SOAK, which is released on November 27. Recorded as a collaboration between McGeown and Overhead the Albatross members David Prendergast and Ben Garret, it’s a slow-burning, subtly anthemic alt-pop overture to breaking the confines of everyday ennui.…
Belfast’s ever-productive Sea Pinks are back with Minimum Wage – BBC Sessions (& Others) on December 8. Collecting the Neil Brogan-fronted threesome’s eight BBC sessions since 2012 and three new recordings, the compilation-of-sorts will mark the band’s first foray since the release of the excellent Watercourse back in May. The release’s frenetic, fuzzed-out title-track is something of a departure for the band. Recorded at the all analogue Lullabye Factory studio in Amsterdam during a day off on their 2017 European Tour, it’s all minimalist force and fury with a smirk. Driven forth with Brogan’s sneering refrain of “I’m sick of complaining”,…
Several new names have been announced for Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and its sister festival Out To Lunch. Set to make its 13th outing across January 5-28, Moon Duo (pictured) with support from Belfast drone-pop masters Documenta is strong addition to the Out To Lunch bill, while Ben Folds, Bridget Christie, Kate Rusby, and I’m With Her Collective are the new CQAF additions, slotting alongside the likes of Lau, An Evening with Jonathan Meades, Cosey Fanni Tutti in conversation, Shirley Collins and more next year’s schedule, which runs from May 3-13. Go here to check out the current line-ups and…
The follow-up to 2016’s Letting It Go 12″ single and 2013’s Monochrome LP, Dublin-based electronic duo Ross Turner and Cian Murphy AKA I Am The Cosmos are back with a new four-track EP titled ‘Nothing But Love’. Written, produced, recorded and mixed in the National Concert Hall, Dublin and scheduled for a vinyl release via the ever-reliable Art For Blind on 12″ vinyl on December 15, it’s another masterfully propulsive, slickly effort from the pair. Each track here is straight-up dancefloor fire and no mistake. Have a first listen below. Photo by Cait Fahey.