Johnny Marr upholding his living legend status at King John’s Castle in Limerick, with support from NewDad. Photos by Aoife Moloney
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Monika Ruman and Leah Carroll capture a Beyond The Pale for the ages, featuring Jessie Ware, Marc Rebillet, Gilla Band, John Francis Flynn, Courtney Barnett, David Holmes, Houseplants and more Monika Ruman Leah Carroll
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Another Love Story have revealed the line-up for its upcoming 10th anniversary edition. Hands down one of the island’s very best summer festivals, ALS celebrates a whole decade in the game with its return to majestic Killyon Manor in Co. Meath across 23-25th August. And what a bill to mark the big occasion. As well as sets by the likes of Jape, Muireann Bradley, Poor Creature, Crispy Jason, New Jackson and more, this year’s festival will feature Ethio-jazz master Hailu Mergia, John Francis Flynn, Kíla, Mohammad Syfkhan, David Kitt, Ana Palindrome, Attention Bébé and more. And that’s before even getting…
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Earlier this month, PostLast released their second single – and one of our Irish tracks of the summer thus far – ‘Scavenge’. Conjuring the likes of Mazzy Star and Beach House at their most subtly widescreen, it was a fresh introduction to a duo wielding an irresistible alt-pop sound from the off. Comprising HAVVK’s Julie Hough and Stephen McHale of BARQ, the project launched back in April with the sublime ‘Connect 4’. Across three minutes, it unveiled a songwriting pair with a kind of alchemy that perfectly deviates from their respective bands. Having first connected while completing a joint headline…
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Right up there as one of the most reliably outstanding fixtures in the Irish summer festival calendar, Quarter Block Party will return to Cork between 20th-21st July. It’s another supremely assembled programme from the organisers, with countless TTA favourites – from Search Results and Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, to Crying Loser, Messyng and various others – taking over Test Site, Plugd Records, Coughlands and Crane Lane across the weekend. We’re a little hesitant to outright say you’d be silly to miss it, but you absolutely would to be fair. Get your tickets here and check out the show…
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Chicago-based indie rock quartet Slow Pulp with support by No Windows at Whelan’s in Dublin. Photos by Erin Plaice
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CMAT’s takeover of Fairview Park in Dublin. Photos by Kate Lawlor
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“Is it 1999 yet?” With hi-vis jacket and a heroic glint in his eye, Fred Durst gazes out into an ocean of red hats and wobbly day-drinkers in Belfast’s Ormeau Park. A mere plastic glass throw of Tennent’s from the Woodstock Road—the closest any of us will get to the cursed promised land in question—Limp Bizkit are midway through ‘Hot Dog.’ It’s there, floating in song three of a fourteen-song set, where you’ll find me plundering my pea-sized brain for an answer to the question posed by our messianic nu-metal binman. As I try to catch a glimpse of him…
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There’s heaps of new Irish music out there. Dive into the very best of it here, featuring new tracks and releases by Ciaran Lavery, The Redneck Manifesto, Elaine Mai feat. MuRli, And So I Watch You From Afar and Conn Thornton Elaine Mai (feat. MuRli) – Echo And So I Watch You From Afar – North Coast Megafauna Ciaran Lavery feat. Morgana – Oh My God (No, Your God) The Redneck Manifesto – Hidden Hands Caolán Austin – Walking Into The Furname (feat. Our Krypton Son) Caolán Austin · Walking Into The Furnace (ft. Our Krypton Son) Conn Thornton –…
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Despite royally messing it up at the end, All Tomorrow’s Parties showed us that, with the right heads at the helm, bands can be entrusted to curate their very own festival – often with spectacular results. In the here and now, the inaugural edition of In The Meadows, curated by rightly the most beloved Irish band of a generation, Lankum, summons that precise spirit while packing in a magic all its own. After a heady, wonderfully omnipresent period following the release of their universally-lauded fourth album False Lankum, Lankum’s only Irish show of the year, closing out the main East…