• Festival Mixtape: Forfey Festival

    July 30, 2014 - By 

    Taking place across the weekend of August 1-3, the wonderfully intimate and unaffected Forfey Festival returns to Forfey Farm near Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh with easily one of its strongest line-ups to date. As is its custom, homegrown folk and acoustic acts make up the majority of this year’s line-up, but there is also a wide range of electronic and rock artists – everyone from Hornets to Affleck – performing across the festival’s three days. Go here to buy tickets for the festival and check out our ten-track Festival Mixtape – including the likes of More Than Conquerors, Ciaran Lavery and Go Wolf (pictured) – below.

  • Inbound: DANI

    July 30, 2014 - By 

    DANI brings something extremely unique to the term “singer-songwriter” here in Northern Ireland. Dabbling between slapping and tapping her guitar strings, her songs are gentle, charming little pieces which ring softly in your ears with their raw, dream-like textures. I caught up with her to discover what’s in store for her in the coming months, including her new EP in which she is collaborating with none other than Mike Mormecha of Mojo Fury and Malojian. Hi Dani. Last year you released an EP, It Speaks for Itself. How have things changed since then? Have you got anything in the works? Yeah,  I released…

  • SXSW 2015 Music, Interactive and Film Information Session @ Established Coffee

    July 29, 2014 - By 

    On Thursday, August 28, GeneratorNI will host a one-off session at Belfast’s Established Coffee, focusing on all things South By Southwest 2015. Hosted in association with UKTI, the session will advise all potential SXSW Musical, Interactive and FIlm delegates, as well as artists hoping to apply as showcasing artists. Featuring short presentations from representatives from SXSW and UKTI (UK Trade and Investment), as well as a general Q+A session and networking, this is an indispensable opportunity for artists to fully avail of what services and advice are available to them ahead of next year’s event. Artist applications for SXSW are…

  • Body & Soul announce Electric Picnic line-up

    July 30, 2014 - By 

    Hands down one of the main draws of the festival each and every year, the line-up for this year’s Body&Soul stage at Electric Picnic has been announced. Split between the main stage, the Upstage and the EarthShip, everyone from tUnE-yArDs (above) , Perfume Genius and UNKNWN to The Altered Hours, Girl Band and Olof Arnalds have been confirmed to play the area, which will play host to some of the finest international and Irish acts. Here’s the full line-up: Body&Soul Stage Line Up tUnE-yArDs, Young Fathers, Perfume Genius, Kate Boy, Francois and The Atlas Mountains, Oum Shatt, Lau,  Moodoid, Glass Animals, Olof Arnalds, Alice Boman, Dermot…

  • Tw!tch: Kassem Mosse, Kowton + Rooftop Pre-party @ QUBSU

    July 29, 2014 - By 

    Celebrated techno producer Kassem Mosse released his debut LP Workshop 19 earlier this year, and now heads a tantalizing double bill of techno and deep house at Belfast’s Queens Student Union on Saturday, August 16, courtesy of the city’s premier electronic booking agents, Tw!tch. The German DJ and producer, real name Gunnar Wendel, has released one of the most engrossing and curious electronic LPs of the year in Workshop 19, and has several high-profile admirers in the genre in Omar-S and Joy O. Support on the night comes from Bristol producer Kowton, whose mix of heady dub influences and house textures…

  • Festival Mixtape: Indiependence 2014

    July 29, 2014 - By 

    Hands down one of Cork’s finest annual festivals, Indiependence returns to Mitcheltown’s Deer Park across the weekend of August 1-3, headlined by hip-hop overlords Public Enemy, London post-punk trio White Lies and Tom Odell. Better still, this year’s festival boasts some of the very finest acts, of every conceivable ilk and genre, that fall comfortably under the banner “homegrown”. Whether you look to the cosmically-inclined rapture of Cork’s The Altered Hours or Belfast-based indie-pop quartet Go Wolf, amongst several others, the veritable cream of Ireland’s musical crop will be nicely represented across the weekend. Check out the full line-up for the festival…

  • Friday Mixtape: Owen Strathern (Oh Volcano)

    August 1, 2014 - By 

    In the first of a new weekly “thing” here at the Thin Air (sometimes “thing” sums it up perfectly, you know?), Oh Volcano’s Owen Strathern delivers the inaugural Friday Mixtape, featuring some of his all-time favourite tracks – everyone from Talking Heads to The Magnetic Fields. Stream the playlist and read Owen’s thoughts on each track below. Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You): “I saw this track on Letterman and pre-ordered their album right away. The guy is mesmerising and this song is incredible.” Caged Animals – Teflon Heart: “I heard this track a few years ago and just heard an instrumental of…

  • Watch: Oh Volcano – See No Evil

    July 28, 2014 - By 

    Ahead of their debut headline show at Belfast’s Voodoo on Saturday night (August 2), Belfast-based band Oh Volcano have unveiled their second single, ‘See No Evil’. Maintaining their tight-lipped presence thus far, the video – featuring stock footage and some nifty editing – was created by Edward Butler. The band, comprised of ex-General Fiasco members/brothers Owen and Enda Strathern released their debut single, ‘Oceans’, back in February. Watch the video below.  

  • Watch: Ghost Estates – In Your Dreams

    July 28, 2014 - By 

    Set for Castlepalooza at the weekend, Dublin quartet Ghost Estates have unveiled the rather filmic video for their single, ‘In Your Dreams’. Created by ultra-talented Second Frame Films, the visual accompaniment is like something out of a comic book, disjointed, dreamlike imagery melding with the song’s weaving tangents in fine fashion. Watch the video below.  

  • Watch: His New Atlas – His Young

    July 28, 2014 - By 

    Taken from his forthcoming debut EP, Torn Out Lungs, Armagh singer-songwriter Eoghan O’Hagan AKA His New Atlas has unveiled the video for his new single, ‘His Young’. Filmed and edited by Darren Lee of Maverick Renegade, the video is nautically reminiscent of ‘Can’t Make You Come Back’ by Our Krypton Son, ‘Cathedral Street’ by Feet For Wings and ‘Holy’ by Frightened Rabbit. You can buy the single (including a remix by Krimson) via Bandcamp here for £1 (or more) and watch the video below. Eoghan will also be playing the Belfast launch of ‘His Young’ on August 7, at his…