• Katie Kim & Radie Peat Set For Nollaig na mBan Collaboration

    December 21, 2020 - By 

    On January 6th, Katie Kim and Radie Peat of Lankum will come together for a special one-off event. An audio-visual collaboration to mark Nollaig Na Mban – otherwise known as Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas – the stream will also feature three TTA favourites: drummer/singer of Percolator, Eleanor Myler, Lankum producer John Spud Murphy and multi-disciplinary artist Vicky Langan. Comprising new arrangements of original material, folk songs and reimagined contemporary songs, it’s set to be an unmissable event from two of the island’s most distinctive artists. It kicks off at 8pm and tickets are on sale now.

  • Video Premiere: Songs of Green Pheasant – Lucy Says

    December 8, 2020 - By 

    Over the years Galway imprint Rusted Rail have specialised in putting out a mottled array of homespun sounds. Their latest release is a textbook case in point.  Eight years on from his debut release on the label, Soft Wounds, When The Weather Clears by Duncan Sumpner aka Songs of Green Pheasant is another batch of wonderfully nocturnal paeans that double as a perfect soundtrack to taking cosy refuge from the growing winter cold. Evoking And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out-era Yo La Tengo, ‘Lucy Says’ is but one highlight here. Have a first look at the video for it below.

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – December 4th

    December 4, 2020 - By 

    It’s the first Friday of the month, which can only mean one thing: it’s Bandcamp Friday. If you’re going to pick up some great new Irish music, best make it today. Here’s our round-up of the best of this week, including Loah x Bantum, Flowers at Night, Saint Sister x Lisa Hannigan, Bleeding Heart Pigeons, Swimmers Jackson, Problem Patterns among others. Loah & Bantum – NGLA /////// [seacht line] – Hawk On The Cliff hawk on the cliff EP by /////// Bleeding Heart Pigeons – Real Connection (Arvo Party Remix) Real Connection Remixes by Bleeding Heart Pigeons Saint Sister x Lisa…

  • Q+A: Nathan O’Regan of Songbook

    December 1, 2020 - By 

    We catch up with Belfast-based musician and promoter Nathan O’Regan about the origins, success and upcoming – downright unmissable – festive installment of monthly invitational session Songbook on Tuesday, December 8th. Hi Nathan. First of all, for those not familiar with Songbook, briefly tell us about your original motivations for starting the night back in the summer of 2017. Songbook began with the intention of filling what I saw to be a massive hole in the Belfast music scene. Having started gigging here in 2013, I was lucky to have fallen in with an incredible group of players but was…

  • Other Voices Announce Christmas Gig at Guinness Storehouse

    November 30, 2020 - By 

    Other Voices have announced details of a star-studded Christmas gig at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. Home From the Guinness Storehouse will take place on Wednesday, December 16th and will feature appearances by Denise Chaila, Conor O’Brien of Villagers, MuRli, God Knows, Mango x Mathman, The Mary Wallopers, Sorcha Richardson, Crash Ensemble, Sean Potts and Doireann Glackin. It will be presented by Loah and will also feature a spoken word by Joseph O’Connor. “It is an honour to present an incredibly special evening of Other Voices at the Guinness Storehouse,” Loah said. “It’s been a difficult year for live performance,…

  • Ciaran Lavery and Joshua Burnside Announce Double A-Side

    November 30, 2020 - By 

    Two of the north’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Ciaran Lavery and Joshua Burnside have teamed up for a double A-Side. Raising funds for homelessness charity Welcome Organisation, the Northern Ireland Music Prize winners and friends have come together to re-invent a pair of tracks by Blaze Foley and David Lynch, ‘True Love’s Flame’ and ‘If I Could Only Fly’. In a statement, Ciaran Lavery said, “With the pandemic being a primary focus worldwide, I felt this was an appropriate time to remind people about the plight of homelessness that continues to exist, and the fantastic and selfless work that charities like the…

  • Dublin Digital Radio Announce 4th Birthday Event

    November 30, 2020 - By 

    Dublin Digital Radio have announced details of a big 4th birthday event next month. From midnight on December 12th, DDR will team up with Guerrilla Studios and Box Moon for Four Waves, a 24-hour event, featuring audiovisual livestreams, video gigs, conversations and more. Available to watch via listen.dublindigitalradio.com, the celebration will take place between ddr.’s spiritual home of Jigsaw, Mountjoy Square, in Dublin’s North Inner City, Cork’s Rebel Reads and ddr’s studio in The Complex, also in Dublin city. Among the artists set to take part include R.Kitt, Fears (pictured), Sunken Foal, Eomac, Sim Simma, Natalia Beylis, Eliza and more. Tickets…

  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2

    November 17, 2020 - By 

    Back in the day, the Tony Hawk series was one of the most successful videogame franchises around. It is not difficult to see why: released at the tail end of the nineties when console rivalry was beginning to escalate, the original Pro Skater made extreme sports easily accessible to those who lacked either the means or the courage to go grinding through their local park or town centre. With minimal effort, players could quickly pick up basic tricks that, when strung together into combos, made them feel almost superhuman. It was empowering, fun and addictive, even more so with the addition of multiplayer albeit…

  • Video Premiere: Field Trip – Weatherman

    November 27, 2020 - By 

    We’re pleased to present a first look at the video for ‘Weatherman’ by Galway garage-pop band Field Trip. Heartfelt and subtly earworming in all the right places, the single – which is about “drifting apart from friends despite one’s best intentions – was recorded in a primary school at the end of 2019 alongside other tracks that the band will be releasing over the next while. And the video is something special. The band said: “It features clips from a 90s documentary entitled Clear The Streets, a feature on homeless people in Galway. It is co-directed by local legend Mark Kennedy who has since passed…

  • Longitude Announce Kendrick Lamar, Tyler The Creator, A$AP ROCKY and More

    November 27, 2020 - By 

    Sure, Summer 2021 feels a long while away, but with announcements like this we’re more than happy to wait. Longitude have revealed headliners Kendrick Lamar, Tyler, The Creator and A$AP ROCKY among the first names for next year’s outing. Having had to postpone this year’s outing, the festival returns to Marlay Park in Dublin across July 2-4. Lil Uzi Vert, AJ Tracey, Megan Thee Stallion, Playboi Carti and Doja Cat are also among the first names confirmed to perform. Check out the full line-up below. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, December 4th, ranging from €89.50 (Day Tickets) to…