Thanks to the likes of Emerald Armada, Raglans, Pat Dam Smyth (above), The Clameens, His New Atlas and others, there was yet another strong Irish presence at this year’s Liverpool Sound City. Photos by Christopher Flack. Thanks to the generous, becoming chaps at Getintothis.
Having to add a second date due to high demand, David Kitt played an intimate show at Dublin’s Odessa last night. Photos by Mark Earley.
The Bronx and Torche delivered a devastatingly good double headline performance at Belfast’s Limelight 1. Our photographer Sara Marsden was there to capture the action.
One of the country’s most iconic and unbendingly tasteful homes of live music, Other Voices will play host to a stellar line-up at this year’s Latitude festival, which takes place from July 16-19 at Suffolk’s Henham Park. Very much in keeping with Other Voices’ natures, festival-goers are expected to experience intimate, one-off performances from The Unthanks, Jape, Le Galaxie, Book Brass Band, All We Are, Stornaway, Young Fathers, East India Youth, Rozi Plain, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Bleeding Heart Pigeons, All Tvvins, Zachary Lucky, Fight Like Apes, Eaves, Mahalia and Nathaniel Rateliff. Jim Carroll’s Banter series will also make an appearance. Go…
Curated by HomeBeat, a wonderfully eclectic line-up for this year’s Treehaus stage at Body & Soul 2015 has been announced. With Leftfield, Super Furry Animals, Goat and many more set to play the annual festival – taking place from June 19-21 at Ballinlough Castle, Co. Westmeath – the following acts will play TreeHaus, a self-proclaimed “place of darkness, a place of light, a temple to beauty, a mansion to madness”: Ghosts, Buffalo Woman, Little Xs For Eyes, I Have a Tribe, Hare Squead, SlowPlaceLikeHome, Hilary Woods, My Tribe Your Tribe, Idiot Songs, Planet Parade, Participant, Carriages, Nubus, Margie Lewis, Signa, Somadrone, Lyttet,…
Our writers and photographers report back from three of Villagers’ hugely successful dates across Ireland, including shows at Dublin’s Olympia, Cork Opera House and Belfast’s Mandela Hall. Saturday: Opera House, Cork w/ Gavin Glass Photos by Brid O’Donovan May 23rd, 2015 will forever be remembered as a landmark in Irish history, a momentously happy day, as the passage of the marriage referendum finally allows two people that love each other to marry and be recognised as equal citizens of our young, progressive nation. The eyes of the world are upon us, and they are smiling warmly as word filters around the world. The…
With their reverb-soaked garage-rock sound, September Girls (below) take to the stage at Belfast’s Limelight 2 tonight an hour after the doors open. The long wait for the opening act doesn’t make much difference as the capacity in dark room is barely touched, and with a mere thirty-odd people watching them on, the band start their set. With The Cribs gear arranged behind them, the Dublin band seem to make the stage appear even smaller than what it usually is. Swaying about for most of the set, they focus on a clean and crisp live sound, translating almost identically from their recorded material. As…
One of the strongest heavy single releases from an Irish act this year so far, Cork metalcore quartet BAILER have unveiled the video for their vehement new single, ‘Call Off The Unknown’. Reminiscent of Ire Works-era Dillinger Escape Plan and Reuben’s more abrasive efforts, the track – recorded and mixed by Aidan Cunningam of Murdock – bursts out of the traps without the slightest hint of hesitation, cuing two and a half minutes of relentless and rabid riffage. Truth be told, we’ve listened to it five times on repeat already. BAILER band will release their debut EP later in the year. Grab a…
One of our featured Inbound acts in our May magazine, Dublin duo Michael Heffernan and Aisling Browne AKA Cut Once have released their second single, ‘Let’s Forget About The World’. Clocking in at over just over four minutes in the length, the tracks is a stripped-back, hook-filled effort taken from their debut EP, Institution, suggesting some serious potential for the fast-rising pair.
A more abstracted and sample-heavy affair when paired against the comparatively more linear jazz-punk experimentalism of his band, Robocobra Quartet, Belfast-based musician and producer Chris Ryan AKA Craft Work has unveiled 3 Songs, a triptych of hip-hop-leaning tracks featuring samples from the likes of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Olivier Messiaen and Steve Reich. Whilst parallels can be drawn to Ryan’s Beat-like lyricism in the aforementioned quartet (who play our Tuesday Throwdown at Belfast’s Lavery’s tomorrow night, don’t you know?), there is a distinctive open-ended sense of freedom to the release that lends to its all-too-brief charm and appeal. 3 Songs by Craft Work