• Pulp Set for Huge Return to Dublin This Summer

    February 14, 2025 - By 

    We’ve just about come down from Pulp’s long-awaited return to Dublin at St Anne’s Park in 2023. Now, Jarvis and co. are keeping the momentum going with a massive Dublin show this summer. The Sheffield legends will take over 3Arena on 10th June 2025 as part of their UK and Ireland arena tour. Explaining the decision to extend the reunion — and perhaps hinting at new material – Cocker said (presumably typed): “You deserve more – & we have more. In fact, we have More – (but that’s a whole other story… you’ll have to wait a little more time…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 14th February

    February 14, 2025 - By 

    It’s Valentine’s Day once again and we certainly LOVE hahahah this new Irish music by the likes of Natalia Beylis, Alpha Chrome Yayo, Alannah Thornburgh, Crash Ensemble + Ann Cleare, Daithí and more. Seriously though, we do yeah Have a listen below. Natalia Beylis – Coy-Koi Coy-Koi by Natalia Beylis Alpha Chrome Yayo – Dream Chaser Dream Chaser by Alpha Chrome Yayo Alannah Thornburgh – Shapeshifter Shapeshifter by Alannah Thornburgh Crash Ensemble + Ann Cleare – TERRARIUM TERRARIUM by Crash Ensemble Daithí – Valentine 1000 Beasts – Twin 47 Dose – Parallelogram Blue Slate – This is How I Sleep…

  • Is Culture Night Belfast Coming Back? Have Your Say

    February 11, 2025 - By 

    Belfast City Council is considering bringing back Culture Night Belfast – but what shape it takes is up to you. When we were starting as a publication, Culture Night wasn’t just another date in the city’s calendar – it was essential. The streets pulsed with music, art and performance, pulling 100,000 people into the heart of something bigger than themselves. More than just an event, it always felt like a moment – a collision of creativity, community and possibility – something that, elsewhere, Output Belfast reliably taps into, year in and year out for music. But is that enough? Now, the…

  • Patti Smith Set for 3Arena Show Marking 50 Year of Horses

    February 11, 2025 - By 

    A year after casting a two-night spell over Vicar Street, Patti Smith returns to Dublin this autumn for a special show marking the 50th anniversary of Horses. Joined by her band, she’ll take over 3Arena on Monday, 6th October for what promises to be a landmark performance celebrating her revered 1975 debut. By our count, this will be her 14th time playing the city, and it’s set to go down as one of the most memorable. Presented by Foggy Notions, tickets go on sale this Monday, 6th October.

  • Premiere: Human Lanterns – Eyes in my Pocket

    February 10, 2025 - By 

    Just when you thought ØXN’s status as Ireland’s finest supergroup of sorts was unfuckwithable, along come Human Lanterns. Let’s call it a draw. This new project unites musicians we’d gladly use our last breath to champion. This lineup enters special territory altogether: the wizardly Paul Clynes (Hands Up Who Wants to Die, Shifting et al.), the ever-excellent Mary Keane (Cormorant Tree Oh), Thomas Parkes (The Jimmy Cake), Ivan Deasy of Crowhammer, and Will from the brilliantly – supremely – named Ireland. Their debut track, ‘Eyes in My Pocket,’ is probably the closest music from these shores has yet come to…

  • Monday Mixtape: Seán Mulrooney

    February 3, 2025 - By 

    In a special Imbolg edition of Monday Mixtape, featuring his reflections on tracks by the likes of Sinéad O’Connor, Domhan, Alice Coltrane, Mariee Sioux and more, Dublin psych-folk master Seán Mulrooney marks the festival’s cosmic turning point. Speaking about his selection, Mulrooney said: “As Monday marks the cosmological alignment of Imbolg, and we are in the time of Bríd, the Goddess of poetry, art, fire, and water, I thought I would dedicate it to some of my favourite female artists.” Mulrooney’s highly-anticipated debut solo album This Is My Prayer is set for release on Friday 14th February 2025. Domhan –…

  • Open Ear Reveal 2025 Line-Up

    January 30, 2025 - By 

    Open Ear, Ireland’s best and easily most consistently forward-pushing summer festival, returns from 29 May to 1 June with its strongest line-up to date. Big words, we know, but very well earned. After another standout edition last summer, the Sherkin Island institution returns to the beloved and forever blessed Banger Cliff, along with various other venues speckled across the haven just off the coast of West Cork, this June Bank Holiday. This year’s highlights are plenty, with performances from RÓIS, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Trá Pháidín, Natalia Beylis & Willie Stewart, Sunil Sharpe, I Dreamed I Dream, Elaine Malone, Péist, Anodyne and Americhord.…

  • Underworld, Sloucho and More for AVA 2025

    January 28, 2025 - By 

    In one way or another, we say it every year: AVA Festival just keeps levelling up. Hands down one of the island’s very best summer festivals – and an electronic institution in Belfast – AVA returns to take over the Titanic Slipways across 30-31st May. With a new, arts-focused initiative to be announced in the coming weeks, this year’s line-up is more than enough to get us excited. For edition number 11, organisers have brought together headliners including Underworld and Overmono, and countless big hitters, among them VTSS, KI/KI, 999999999, Job Jobse, Sally C and Tommy Holohan. A slew of…