• New Two-Day Event, Haunted Dancehall, Set for Dublin’s National Concert Hall

    September 7, 2022 - By 

    A new two-day event, Haunted Dancehall, is set to take over National Concert Hall next month. Across October 1st-2nd, the event will take place across 5 rooms at the Dublin venue with a host of homegrown and international experimental and electronic artists. As well as Oneohtrix Point Never performing his first Irish show in 11 years, South East London artist Coby Sey, Caterina Barbieri (pictured) making her Irish debut, and the incredible Ana Roxanne, the programme will also feature Lalla Sakini, Elaine Howley, Fears, Blackhaine, Roger Doyle, Frog of Earth and more. Check out the full current line-up for the Foggy Notions event…

  • Track Record: Aoife Wolf

    September 6, 2022 - By 

    Fast-rising Irish psych-folk Aoife Wolf gives a guided tour of the records she can’t live without, featuring My Bloody Valentine, Kate Bush, Grouper, John Martyn and more Photo by Jane Donnelly My Bloody Valentine – Loveless There’s that saying that talking about art is like dancing about architecture. I don’t often feel that I have a lot to say about the music I love but a hell of a lot to feel about it. When I really like a sound I feel like I can’t get close enough to it like I want to drink it or bathe in it,…

  • Inbound: NIMF

    September 6, 2022 - By 

    Last July, we had the joy of premiering ‘Cloudy Dreams,’ a three-minute gem by Arklow’s Aoibhín Redmond aka NIMF. Representing her experiences as an autistic musician, and the need to indulge in her imagination, it married acoustic motifs with found sound and homespun electronica, as well as influences including Kero Kero Bonito. Four months on from that luminous introduction, the sugar-spun DIY pop of ‘Space’ plumbed prismatic new depths. Delving into what Redmond referred to as “the beautiful worlds within our own minds,” which open up “endless possibilities when overwhelmed by the day-to-day,” it was a dreamscape that hit like…

  • Win Rose City Band Tickets & More

    September 5, 2022 - By 

    This week, Ripley Johnson of Moon Duo and Wooden Shjips (not to mention NTS) returns to Ireland for a brace of shows with his latest project, Rose City Band. As well as stopping off Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival on Friday, 9th September, the band’s first-rate cosmic country will take over Belfast’s Black Box the night before, Thursday, 8th September. File this one under fully unmissable. To mark the occasion, Belfast’s finest gig promoters Strange Victory and the legendary Thrill Jockey Records have teamed up to offer one Thin Air reader a chance to win a Rose City Band-themed prize package. As well as pair of…

  • Dublin Digital Radio Announce Alternating Current 2022

    August 29, 2022 - By 

    Dublin Digital Radio have announced the return of its annual celebration of sound artists, electronic experimenters and DJs, Alternating Current. Coming a year from its exceptional inaugural outing, the second iteration of the festival will return to the airwaves and Dublin city this October. Beginning on the 28th, the programme will feature specially commissioned radiowork by artist and resident of the station, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, which will be broadcast on ddr. On Saturday, 29th, the event will once again take over the Depot at The Complex in Dublin City. Divided into two concerts – Deep Listening and Beyond the Human – the likes of BABY NITS,…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – August 26th

    August 26, 2022 - By 

    Dig into the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Uly, The Mary Wallopers, Lõwli, Niall McDowell, Seamus O’Muineachain and more. The Mary Wallopers – Frost Is All Over Niall McDowell – It Was an Honour To Be Nominated Uly – Fishing Seamus O’Muineachain – Mouth of the Isthmus Lõwli – Otherworld Ways of Seeing – The Other Side Of Summer Anna Mullarkey – Damsha Hall JW Soundworks – Hypoxic Reverie Last Survivor – Midnight Run The Art Crimes Band – Neon Skyline

  • Watch: Poor Creature at Féile na Gréine 2022

    August 20, 2022 - By 

    Where on earth would we be without Féile Na Gréine? Currently underway in venues throughout Limerick city, the not-for-profit festival is, without question, one of the purest embodiments of DIY, forward-pushing art & music to be found anywhere on this island. Kicking this year’s festival off in style, organisers nabbed the sublime Poor Creature – the new collaborative project from Ruth Clinton of Landless and Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada – for a set as part of their Bring Your Own Lunch (BYOL) series. On perfect par with an unforgettable BYOL set by Naive Ted last year, the pair deliver a wonderfully enthralling set of…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – August 19th

    August 19, 2022 - By 

    It’s been another big week for new Irish music, with tracks and albums coming from all over the country from emerging artists and established favourites. Dig into new releases from Junior Brother, Katie Kim, Gilla Band, F.R.U.I.T.Y., Sorcha Richardson and more Junior Brother – This Is My Body Gilla Band – Backwash Roslyn Steer – Gamhna Sa Cheo Gamhna Sa Cheo by Roslyn Steer Joey Gavin – Between the Mountains and The Mystery F.R.U.I.T.Y. – BT9 BT9 by F.R.U.I.T.Y. Katie Kim – Eraser Ciaran Lavery – Communion Ham Sandwich – All My Blood Sweat Threats – Call Bullshit Call Bullshit…

  • Muldoon’s Picnic at Lyric Theatre, Belfast

    August 18, 2022 - By 

    As one of the most fêted literary voices from these shores, Paul Muldoon surely knows there’s no favour in feigning wisdom. It’s an accumulation, not a ransacking—a life’s work sprung from the ups, downs and in-betweens. It’s in knowing that for all one’s ascribed or self-worth, success—like wisdom—is a goose egg without the gaze and concert of others. Produced by Poetry Ireland, and curated by the widely celebrated Co. Armagh poet in question, Muldoon’s Picnic is an omnium-gatherum of poetry, prose and music that takes that essential esprit de corps and sprints with it. Following ten sold-out seasons at the Irish Arts…