• Win Tickets to Lankum’s A National Disgrace at the Abbey Theatre

    August 12, 2020 - By 

    Even for an act widely known – and revered – for their forward-pushing music, Dublin quartet Lankum’s latest foray is one of their most singular yet. On Saturday, August 15th, the band presents the highly-anticipated A National Disgrace, a self-described “gradual descent into a warped, dreamworld of musical performance, theatre, winding passages, doorways, drones and existential uncertainty.” Set to stream live from the historic Abbey Theatre from 9pm, it will “revisit the power of live productions to provoke visceral and emotional responses, and explore the possibilities presented by the unfamiliar new world of virtual performance in which we find ourselves.” Accompanied by various…

  • Line-up Announced for Stendhal Unlocked Event 2

    August 10, 2020 - By 

    The line-up for the second installment of Stendhal Unlocked has been announced. Set to take place at Ballymully Cottage Farm in Limavady across August 28 and 29, the second part of the socially distanced festival series will feature the likes of Beoga (pictured), Jordan Adetunji, Cherym, Paddy Casey, General Fiasco, Master and Dog, Dark Tropics, Bicurious and Sasha Samara. Including a slew of comedy acts, check out the full line-up below. Event director Ross Parkhill said, “We are really pleased with the line-ups for both event one and event two. For both events we have a great selection of genres and a…

  • Stream: Fixity – Still Still

    August 10, 2020 - By 

    One of the island’s most consistently intriguing musical minds, Dan Walsh is a composer and drummer who has spent the last few years honing and expanding his hyper-explorative craft. Beyond performing with TTA favourites The Bonk and Ireland’s premier rock n’ roll band (their words – but who are we to disagree?) The Tan Jackets, his output as Fixity has been reliably nonpareil. On August 17th, Walsh will push further still via FIXITY 6, a new, seven-track release available on limited edition cassette. Featuring Muireann Levis of Elastic Sleep and Magdalena on theremin, and accompanied by visuals courtesy of David…

  • Another Love Story Announce Online Series ‘It Just Wasn’t Meant To Be’

    August 7, 2020 - By 

    Dusting themselves down from the disappointment of having to cancel this year’s real-world outing due to the fallout of COVID-19, the organisers of annual Co. Meath festival Another Love Story have announced details of a new online series. Set to broadcast from its home at Killyon Manor, the series will feature various live performances and DJs from homegrown artists and some further afield. Airing free to view via the Another Love Story website across August-15-16th, The Bonk, Jape, Rozi Plain (pictured), Rachael Lavelle and more will all make an appearance. Check out the full line-up and schedule below. Saturday, August 15th, 8pm: The ALS Shift Shack Soundsystem…

  • Video Premiere: Feather Beds – Fragile

    August 5, 2020 - By 

    Masterfully blurring the lines between dream-pop, shoegaze, electronica, ambient, and experimentalism, London-based Dublin artist Michael Orange aka Feather Beds is easily one of the island’s most idiosyncratic musical minds. Premiered this morning on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music show, his new single ‘Fragile’ is a first-rate first taste for newcomers. Doubling up as the lead single from his forthcoming EP, Fragile/Temper, it marries carefully-crafted soundscapes with a rush of 8bit blips to create something that, despite nodding to the likes of Ariel Pink and The Cure, is unmistakably his. Just as inviting is Orange’s homespun visuals for the single, which you can…

  • VerseChorusVerse Releases Audiobook

    August 4, 2020 - By 

    One of the finest Irish music memoirs in recent memory is now available as an audiobook. Narrated by the author, North Coast singer-songwriter – and jack of all trades, master of many – Tony Wright aka VerseChorusVerse, Chapter & Verse(ChorusVerse) is a richly compelling account from one of the island’s most engaging musical minds. Originally published back in 2018, the audiobook version of Wright’s acclaimed first book is now available to purchase via Audible. ICYMI, stream the latest VerseChorusVerse single, ‘Free to Decree’. free to decree by VerseChorusVerse

  • More Names Set For Stendhal Unlocked

    August 4, 2020 - By 

    Several more names have been added to the bill for the forthcoming first installment of Stendhal Unlocked. Primed to be Northern Ireland’s first socially-distanced festival, subject to guidance on mass gatherings in August, the Limavady festival looks set to return to Ballymully Cottage as a socially-distanced affair. Doubling up as the first installment of a three-part series from the north’s best annual festival, weekend one takes place across August 21-22. Joining the likes of the already announced And So I Watch You From Afar, Ryan McMullan, Kíla, Ciaran Lavery, Roe, Amy Montgomery and Joshua Burnside are Rebekah Fitch (pictured), Gemma Bradley, David Keenan and others…

  • Junior Brother and Kneecap Set For Live From Guerrilla Studios

    July 31, 2020 - By 

    The next line-up for Live From Guerrilla Studios has just been announced – and it’s a biggie. Following some breathtaking performances from the likes of Maija Sofia and The Bonk, episode three of the Dublin live-stream series on Thursday, August 6th will feature sets by Junior Brother and Belfast Hip-Hop trio Kneecap. Presented, as ever, by Ray Wingnut – and featuring Moojoo the Merch Monkey and resident DJ Djackulate, episode three will also feature specially commissioned videos by Silverbacks and Rising Damp. Things kick off, direct from the Live From Guerrilla Studios YouTube page, from 10pm.

  • Premiere: Dutch Schultz – Start Me

    July 30, 2020 - By 

    In March 2016, we hosted a show that would double up as the last we’d heard from Belfast alt-rock quartet Dutch Schultz in over four years. Blessedly, out of the blue, last month came a signal. Via trouncing new single, ‘Brutus’, the Willy Mundell-fronted foursome were back just when we needed them the most. Ahead of release tomorrow, we’re pleased to present the first look and listen to its follow-up, ‘Start Me’. The second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming, Russ Russell-produced album, Friends Like Brutus, it’s a typically earworming effort tackling, in their worlds, “consumerism amid the pressures of…

  • Premiere: nimf – Cloudy Dreams

    July 30, 2020 - By 

    Hailing from Arklow in Co. Wicklow, the self-proclaimed “sugar-pop” performance of Aoibhin Redmond aka nimf filters vocals and theremin via a prismatic, deftly-produced sensibility. Having shined, live, at Whelan’s Ones To Watch, as well as the likes of Arcadian Field Festival, The Button Factory and BIMM Midnight Hour in Whelans, her craft is an open invitation to escape everyday waking life and to yield to the more phantasmal side of one’s mind. With nods to artists including Yaeji, Kero Kero Bonito, and CHAI, her sound feels just as comparable to the likes of Tune-Yards and Micachu & The Shapes. It’s…