Dinosaur Jr. have announced a Dublin show as part of a forthcoming UK and Ireland tour. As well as playing Manchester, Hull and Glasgow, the J Mascis-fronted trio return to Dublin’s Vicar Sreet on Sunday, March 27 2022. The band last played the venue – and Dublin generally – back in November 2016. Tickets for the show go on sale at 9 am on Thursday, July 29th. Photo by Cara Totman.
A new festival is coming to IMMA at Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Presented by promoters POD, Meadows Festival is a specially designed, socially-distance and open-air summer series of live music, performance and spoken word. Taking place next month, across August 20-22, the series will feature set from David Keenan & Niamh Regan, Just Mustard & John Francis Flynn, Saint Sister & CMAT, A Lazarus Soul & Lisa O’Neill, and more. Check out the full line-up below. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, July 21 at 9am, priced €19.10 per person. Tickets are available in groups of 4 & 6 persons…
The War on Drugs are coming back to Ireland. Accompanying the news of their first album in four years, I Don’t Live Here Anymore, the Philadelphia indie-rock band have announced they will play Dublin’s 3Arena on Thursday, April 14 2022. Marking their first headliner in the city since 2014, tickets for the show go on sale this Friday, July 23rd at 10am. I Don’t Live Here Anymore is out via Atlantic Records on October 29th. Check out the video for the album’s lead single ‘Living Proof’ below.
As the North’s premier – and most downright consistent – art-punk proposition, Invaderband have always delivered. Fronted by Adam Leonard, and featuring the likes of TTA favourite Chris McConaghy, AKA Our Krypton Son, the Derry quartet honour the lineage of (not to mention put their own twist on) post-punk more than any overhyped clan of boys from the Pale ever could. You need not look much further than the band’s new single ‘Handcuffed Man Shoots Himself’. Conjuring everyone from Gang of Four and Swell Maps, to Stranglers and early Blur, it’s a stellar anti-anthem on police brutality that distils Invaderband’s equal parts…
Eels are set to return to Belfast and Dublin. The Mark ‘E’ Oliver Everett-led band will kick off their Lockdown Hurrican tour with shows at Belfast’s Telegraph Building on March 11 and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on March 12. Speaking about the shows, E said, “We’ve got a lot of pent-up energy from all the time spent cooped-up and unable to rock. It’s going to be an extra-special treat this time. We always have the greatest time playing live, but this is gonna get crazy. Attendees will want to keep their cameras rolling, because we may explode.” Tickets are priced from €45.05 and go on sale on Friday,…
Originally from the small village of Camlough in Co. Armagh, Dylan Galloghly, aka Parnell March, has called Perth, Australia home since 2006. This week, he emerges as a contender via the finely-woven electronica of ‘Therapy,’ the lead track from his forthcoming debut album, Ozone Parade. Across four-and-a-half minutes concocts a subtly propulsive, vocoder-heavy gem that evokes everyone from Fujiya & Miyagi and Trans Am to Belfast dance-punk legends Not Squares. Lyrically focusing on how, “connection, agency and affection are primary human needs that also generally align with successful psychotherapy,” the song’s accompanying video – which touches upon body image and wellness, as well as psychological and psychiatric…
Tori Amos is set to play Dublin and Cork next year. As part of a forthcoming European tour, the U.S. singer-songwriter will play Cork’s Opera House on March 17 and the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on March 18. Tickets go on sale next Friday (July 16) at 10 AM. Revisit a stone-cold Tori Amos classic below.
St. Vincent is coming back to Dublin. Off the back of the release of her sixth studio album, Daddy’s Home, Annie Clark will play Fairview Park in Dublin on June 26. Marking her first date in the city since a two-night residency at the Olympia Theatre in 2017, the show doubles as her biggest Irish headliner to date. Tickets are priced at €49.90 and go on sale on Friday, July 9th at 10am. Read our review of Daddy’s Home here.
Einstürzende Neubauten are set to play Dublin next summer. The Berlin industrial legends will take over the National Concert Hall on July 3rd, 2022. It marks the Blixa Bargeld-fronted outfit’s first show in the city in 17 years. Tickets are priced €48.50 and go on sale tomorrow (Thursday, July 8th) at 10 am.
A new online initiative championing Northern Irish music has launched. Off the back of news that live music can return to the north from July 5th, Music Connections is a central online hub created to support the development and growth of NI’s diverse and talented music sector. As well as featuring information on evcents, funding opportunities, health services and the latest funding opportunities, the website will also signpost musicians, freelancers, music organisations and music businesses towards vital information to support their career. In a statement, Lynne Best of The Fourth Pillar said, “The music sector in Northern Ireland has a…