• Dublin Feminist Film Festival 2017

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    Returning for its fourth outing, Dublin Feminist Film Festival is a volunteer-run, non-profit event that will take over The New Theatre in Dubin’s Temple Bar across November 16-18. With its central aim of helping counteract the mis/under-representation of women in film, the theme for this year’s festival is “FeministFutures”. Organisers said, “Our programme this year will foreground topics such as: science, the avant-garde, technology and the digital world, contemporary feminist issues and movements, sci-fi, occult, modernity, dystopia, utopia, the future female, aspirations, visionary a/v, globalisation. This blurb is purposefully broad, and not exhaustive. But we have given ourselves the challenge…

  • I Heart Elliott Smith @ Whelan’s, Dublin

    September 13, 2017 - By 

    With organisers having hosted the likes of I Heart Prince and I Heart Bowie in the Dublin venue before, the frankly essential I Heart Elliott Smith will take place at Whelan’s on Wednesday, October 25. Taking place 20 years on from the release of his seminal third album, Either/Or (and a just over a week removed from the fourteenth anniversary of his passing in 2003) the event will be a celebration of the Nebraskan indie rock artist’s life and music, with various Irish artists performing the aforementioned 1997 album in its entirety and other songs with a house band comprised of Mark…

  • Dear Constant Reader: Stephen King Season @ Light House Cinema, Dublin

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    From Kubrick and Lynch to Tarantino and Bill Murray, Dublin’s Light House Cinema aren’t exactly known for skiving on special seasons. Their latest, Dear Constant Reader will celebrate the stories of horror fiction master Stephen King with a range of one-off screenings of Misery, The Mist, Salem’s Lot, Pet Sematary, Christine, Carrie, The Shining, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me across October 13-November 18. Charlene Lydon, programmed of Light House said, “For five decades, Stephen King has been the untouchable master of horror fiction and his books have been revered by millions all around the world. The…

  • Video Premiere: Malojian – Ambulance Song

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    The highly-anticipated follow-up to last year’s Steve Albini-produced This Is Nowhere, Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home by Malojian was partly recorded in a lighthouse off the coast of Northern Ireland. Speaking of the release, the band’s main man Stephen Scullion said, “A few months ago the British Film Institute and Northern Ireland screen contacted me to see if I’d be interested in playing a gig at a coastal location, with coastal-themed visuals from their archive to be used as a backdrop. This sounded very cool to me and the more I thought about it, I began to get really into the…

  • Stream: Rory Nellis – Friend of a Friend

    September 11, 2017 - By 

    Over the last few months, Belfast singer-songwriter Rory Nellis has been releasing each track from his forthcoming second album – There Are Enough Songs In The World – as standalone singles. A bold move and no mistake, but the approach has served to isolate each song in its own right, building up and developing a narrative that is clearly threaded throughout the release. With previous singles largely drawing from quieter worlds and reflecting upon more intimate things, ‘Friend of a Friend’ is a straight-up burst of stellar indie rock, forging slick synth arpeggios with yet another steady slew of first-rate harmonic twists and…

  • Metropolis Festival Reveals New Acts

    September 7, 2017 - By 

    With the likes of TLC, Leftfield and Mount Kimbie already announced, several new acts have been added to the bill for this year’s Metropolis Festival. Set to present 60 acts on 6 stages across 2 days at Dublin’s RDS this October Bank Holiday Weekend (Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th) the festival has added KARYYN, New Jackson, Hubie Davison, Adian Coker, Le Boom, Mathman & Mango, Mount Alaska, ELLLL, Trinity Orchestra, Nialler 9, Lakerama, Mix & Fairbanks, Long Island Sound, Tara Stewart, Jack Thompson, Daire Carolan (All City Records), Papa Lou, Seany B, Dan Stritch, Hidden Flux and Sarah Mooney to…

  • Win Tickets to Grizzly Bear @ Vicar Street, Dublin

    September 7, 2017 - By 

    To mark the release of their exquisite new album, Painted Ruins, U.S. indie rock masters Grizzly Bear will kickstart their forthcoming European tour at Dublin’s on Wednesday, October 4 and Thursday, October 5. To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets to the October 4 show, simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen is also a member of which NYC band?

  • Premiere: The Shaker Hymn – Dead Trees

    September 6, 2017 - By 

    Look far and wide but you’ll struggle to find a more consistent Irish act that Cork quartet The Shaker Hymn. Following a busy few months of extensive touring, as well as featuring on the soundtrack to breakout Irish film Handsome Devil, the band also found time to record their forthcoming third studio album. The lead single from that (which doubles up as the follow-up to last year’s stellar Do You Think You’re Clever) ‘Dead Trees’ is a wonderfully-crafted three-minute burst of slick, psych-tinged rock, conjuring the likes of Ty Segall, Supergrass, early The Coral and more. Recorded straight to tape by producer Brendan Fennessy,…

  • Perfume Genius To Play Dublin in December

    September 5, 2017 - By 

    Having released one of the very best albums of 2017 in No Shape back in May, it’s been announced Seattle-based musician Mike Hadreas AKA Perfume Genius will play Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre on Saturday, December 2. Hadreas last performed in the city at Longitude last year and The Sugar Club back in 2011. Tickets for the Tivoli show – which are priced €23.50 + fees – go on sale on Friday, September 8 at 9am. Stream No Shape in full below.

  • Win tickets to Beatroot Root Music Week

    September 5, 2017 - By 

    Leading promoters of jazz, roots and experimental music, Moving On Music will present the third annual installment of Beatroot Roots Music Week in Belfast across September 6-9. Hands down one of the most affordable and mind-expandingly well-curated series in the calendar, this year’s outing will see appearances from Daoirí Farrell, Joshua Burnside, Hejira, Cacao, Cup O’Joe, Hive Choice, Stephen James Smith and Sue Rynhart. Taking place at Crescent Arts Centre and Black Box over four days, here’s the full details: WED 6 SEPT – SUE RYNHART + CACAO (double bill) CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE, 8PM, £10 (£8 conc.) THU 7 SEPT – DAOIRÍ FARRELL support from CUP O’JOE CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE, 8PM,…