• Another Love Story

    July 30, 2015 - By 

    There’s supremely intimate, wonderfully cloistered, comprehensively unmissable small festivals, then there’s Another Love Story. Taking place at Killyon Manor, Co. Westmeath across August 21-23,  the “weekend celebration of music, discussion, film, food and friends” boasts a line-up including New Jackson, Loah, Leo Drezden, Come On Live Long, I Have a Tribe, Margie Lewis, Valerie Francis, Ben Bix & Father, Carriages, Tandem Felix and many more. Of course, being much more than a standard music festival, the real lure and magic here is in the one-off happenings and fleeting moment of wonder, full details of which will be announced very soon. In the…

  • Spirit of Folk Festival

    July 30, 2015 - By 

    Returning to Co. Meath’s Dunderry Park from September 18-20, Spirit of Folk Festival with a line-up boasting the likes of Mick Flannery (pictured), Inni-K, Carriages and more. As well as music the festival will also include storytelling from national treasures such as Batt Burns, Jack Lynch, Eddie Lenihan, and Aideen Mc Bride, as well as talks and workshops on Ancient Druidism and Shamanism, African song and Dance workshops, Viking Battle Re-enactments, Bicycle Jousting, Yoga, Astronomy and Bushcraft. Festival Director, Natasha Duffy, says of this year’s SOF, “Each year we try and promote as many interesting and unique activities as possible. This year…

  • We Lived In Cities @ Project Arts Centre, Dublin

    July 30, 2015 - By 

    Composer Bryan Pepper’s Urban Nights is to feature as part of a new production We Lived in Cities, which will premier as part of the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival at the Project Centre in September. A collaboration between Pepper, filmmaker Brian Benjamin Dwyer of Madra Mor and live visual artists Generic People, We Lived In Cities will feature a live orchestra, live visuals and the projected story itself on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of September at 7pm @ Project Arts Centre. Speaking of the project, Pepper said, “Myself and Brian talked about making this show when we were both working as…

  • Body & Soul Announce Electric Picnic Line-Up

    July 28, 2015 - By 

    With just over a month to go, Body & Soul have announced the line-up for this year’s sold out Electric Picnic. LA Priest, Hundred Waters, Meltybrains?, EMBRZ, Ho99o9 Natalie Press, Young Wonder and Everything Shook are amongst the many, many acts set to perform across Body and Soul’s two institution-like stages (Main Stage and Earthship stage) at the festival. Check out the full line-up above.

  • Monday Mixtape: Bobby Aherne (No Monster Club)

    July 27, 2015 - By 

    “What kind of music are you into?” The dreaded question that, for many years, sent shivers down my spine, stopped me in my tracks and put a blank Fr. Dougal McGuire stare into my eyes. You might think that somebody who actually makes music has both the perfect response and riposte to this, assuming that one’s personal tuneage is both a distillation of their essence as well as a full-length mirror of their own tastes (incidentally reflecting back the sheer amount of plagiarism at work). Sadly, unless you decide to sit down the quizmaster and force them to endure one’s…

  • EP Premiere: Shrug Life – The Grand Stretch

    July 23, 2015 - By 

    Having all but soiled ourselves listening to and shouting about its second track, ‘Funderland’, yesterday, we’re rather happy to present an exclusive first listen to The Grand Stretch, the debut EP by Popical Island’s latest – and perhaps some day greatest – outfit, Shrug Life. Life sucks and we all know it, but not all of us (in fact, very few of us) have the creative or whimsical tools at our disposal to express said utter despair and pointlessness via inescapably deadly, stupidly catchy, lo-fi indie rock. God knows we’d all love to, but who’s got the time to give…

  • Beat Root Weekender @ Crescent Arts

    July 23, 2015 - By 

    Presented by Moving on Music, the inaugural Beat Root will see a weekend of alternative roots music at Belfast’s Crescent Arts Centre across Thursday, September 4 to Sunday, September 6. A brew of “old-folk”, “new-folk”, world, balladry and electronics, the weekender will see three downright unmissable shows: acclaimed collective The Furrow Collective on the Thursday night, LA born, Barcelona-based audiovisual artist Grey Filastine and Javanese indie vocalist and rapper Nova AKA Filastine and Nova on the Friday night and, on Saturday evening, our very own Robyn G Shiels and Newcastle’s Richard Dawson. Tickets are priced at £10 per night with a…