• Wilco Announce Irish Shows

    February 6, 2023 - By 

    Wilco have announced two Irish shows. Courtesy of Open House Festival, the band will also play Belfast’s Mandela Hall on Wednesday, 6th September. It comes 13 years to the month from their last show with the promoters. Marking their first show in the city since playing Iveagh Gardens festival back in 2016 (revisit our gallery from the show here) the Chicago indie legends will also play 3Olympia Theatre on Friday, 8th September. Wilco last played 3Olympia Theatre back in 1999. News of the show comes hours on from the Jeff Tweedy-fronted band winning Best Historical Album for the 20th Anniversary edition of…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 3rd February

    February 3, 2023 - By 

    On this, the first Bandcamp Friday of 2023, delve into the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Lankum, M(h)aol, Pretty Happy, Elaine Howley, White Sage, Gurriers, Trá Pháidín, Swimmers Jackson and more M(h)aol – Attachment Styles Attachment Styles by M(h)aol Lankum – Go Dig My Grave Pretty Happy – Conn Boxing White Sage – Car Park Space Jazz Car Park Space Jazz by White Sage Gurriers – Approachable Banrion – Dare to Crush dare to crush by banríon Swimmers Jackson – Stripped Away Stripped Away (Radio Edit) by Swimmers Jackson Elaine Howley – Mark It X Daniel Luke –…

  • Quasi at Ulster Sports Club, Belfast

    January 30, 2023 - By 

    We’re delighted to be hosting U.S. indie rock legends Quasi in Belfast next month. Off the back of the release of their tenth album, and Sub Pop debut, Breaking The Balls of History, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss will play their first show in the city in 17 years at the Ulster Sports Club in Belfast on Friday 5th May. Taking place as part of this year’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, and featuring support from Leeds band Cowtown, tickets for the show are available here. After nearly three decades of launching drums and distorted pianos through the shifting interzones of harmony and chaos (moonlighting…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 27th January

    January 27, 2023 - By 

    Taking in every corner of the island, here’s the very best tracks of the week from This Ship Argo, Perlee, Meltybrains, Myles McCormack, Ailsha and more This Ship Argo – Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks by This Ship Argo Perlee – Lampshade Meltybrains? – You Myles McCormack – To Better All Things To Better All Things by Myles McCormack Jam Hades – The Edge Jam Hades · The Edge Of Regret Ailsha – Sucker Stoat – Let’s Be Strangers Seba Safe – Afterlife

  • Grace Jones Announced For Beyond The Pale

    January 26, 2023 - By 

    As bona fide music legends come, Grace Jones takes some beating. Since the early ’70s, her singular brand of art pop has spanned new wave, disco, R&B, reggae and far beyond. On albums such as Nightclubbing, Living My Life and Warm Leatherette, she has been a creative force fully unto herself. This summer, the woman, the myth, the legend herself will top the bill at Ireland’s best festival at the moment, Beyond The Pale. Joining the likes of Hot Chip, Thundercat, Oneohtrix Point Never, Leftfield, Jon Hopkins and countless other acts already announced, Jones’ appearance marks her only Irish performance of the…

  • Join the Belfast Region Music Board

    January 20, 2023 - By 

    Belfast City Council has made an open call for applications to join the Belfast Region Music Board. As part of their council’s music strategy, Music Matters – a Roadmap for Belfast, the music board is being created to bring to life the city being awarded UNESCO City of Music status, helping to “embed music in all communities across the city to make music a sustainable career option for creators and people who support them”. With the hope of bringing together 15 to 20 members, the initiative is inviting expressions of interest from people in the music industry to sit on…

  • The Lay of the Land: A Catch-Up With Landless

    January 24, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of their highly-anticipated headline slot at Letterkenny Trad Week this Friday (27th January) we chat to Landless about their upcoming second album, ten years of their world-beating unaccompanied traditional folk and the contemporary trad folk landscape of Ireland. Hi Landless. We last talked back in 2018, off the back of featuring you as our 18 for ’18 artists. Lockdown notwithstanding, you’ve covered some sizable ground in the in-between. Can you sum up how the last five years have been for you, collectively? Ruth Clinton: The last five years have been a blur of house moves, babies, study, work, and then of…

  • Watch: Arborist – Dreaming In Another Language

    January 19, 2023 - By 

    With his 2016 debut album, Home Burial, Mark McCambridge aka Arborist underscored his arrival as one of the island’s most singular considered songwriting voices. Four years later, A Northern View – which was Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios – doubled down on his sublimely-crafted indie Americana. In the between, McCambridge has had his head down, plotting a release worthy of continuing a story that has already sprawled out magnificent. The result is An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros, a nine-track album that we’re sure will elevate Arborist far and beyond. Produced by Matthew E White at his Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, Virginia, it sees the Belfast artist explore…

  • God’s Waiting Room: Panda Bear & Sonic Boom w/ David Holmes DJ Set

    January 16, 2023 - By 

    We know: it’s probably far too early to be asking the question “gig of the year?” but bear with us. Five months on from releasing of last year’s finest records, Reset, Pete Kember aka Sonic Boom and Panda Bear of Animal Collective will team up for a live show at David Holmes‘ legendary God’s Waiting Room at the Banana Black in Belfast on Friday, 21st April. Sealing the dealing and then some will be a DJ set on the night by none other than Holmes himself.  Tickets are sure to fly out for this one so be sure to snap…

  • Out of Place: Film Screening Tour

    January 13, 2023 - By 

    Off the back of being nominated for Best Documentary at the Irish Film Festival London last November, Féile na Gréine documentary Out of Place will hit the road for a selection of screenings later this month and into February. A self-described “meditation on the role music plays in building community, exploring the tensions that emerge when musicians struggle to carve out a space for themselves in their city,” the Graham Patterson-directed documentary features performances from Denise Chaila, God Knows, Hey Rusty, His Father’s Voice, MuRli, and Post Punk Podge & the Technohippies, providing an intimate portrayal of a local music scene…