Four Tet is set for a date in Belfast later this Summer. The London producer, born Kieran Hebden, will play the Telegraph Building on Friday, August 30th. Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 14th at 10am. Pre-sale access is available here.
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Let’s face it: they don’t come more legendary than Pere Ubu. Forty-four years on from forming in Cleveland, Ohio, the hugely influential, David Thomas-fronted post-punk pioneers will play Dublin’s Grand Social on Saturday, September 21st as part of their farewell tour. This will be the band’s first show in the city since 2013. Tickets are on sale here.
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If you’re in any way familiar with the scene in Northern Ireland at present, you’ll be familiar with Belfast-based quartet Peace Evan. Fronted by Gnarkats’ bassist Louis Nelson, the band have gone from strength-to-strength over the last few months, helping pack out venues across the country. Lead single ‘War on Harmony’ successfully manages to capture that promise across four shapeshifting minutes. Filtering the influence of artists including Everything Everything, Queens of the Stone Age and Modest Mouse, it’s a forward-moving burst of alt-rock from a band guaranteed to capitalize on their momentum over the coming months.
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Across June 14-16, hugely successful Irish musical institution Other Voices will team up with the 174 Trust to take over The Duncairn for another three days of musical and cultural events. With more to be announced, Snow Patrol, Ryan Vail and Elma Orkestra, The Academic, Joshua Burnside and Roe will all perform at the Duncairn on June 15th. On the same night, Bullitt Hotel will host an OV fringe show, featuring Rebekah Fitch, David C Clements, Arvo Party, New Pagans and Hot Cops. Fancy a pair of tickets to the Duncairn show? Simply Like our Facebook page here and send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net: What is the name of Joshua Burnside’s debut…
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Earlier today, we rather giddily shared ‘Shoulderblades’, the emphatic new single from Dublin quartet Girl Band. Now, comprehensively sealing the deal on the release is long-time collaborator Bob Gallagher’s new accompanying video, featuring Oona Doherty. Mirroring the song’s erratic and frenzied push-and-pull, not least viva frontman Dara Kiely’s trademark expulsions, Doherty’s performance is an accomplished, at times suitably brutal accompaniment to hands down one of the Irish tracks of the year thus far. Better still is the news that many Girl Band fans have been hoping for. The band will release their second album, The Talkies, via Rough Trade on September 28. Produced…
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When a band or artist describe themselves as “no-nonsense” it usually means one thing: they are, consciously or otherwise, bound to a certain one-dimensionality, incapable of or unwilling to progress. Not so Dublin five-piece Panik Attaks. Comprising Rob Walsh of Cold Comfort, Republic of Loose’s Mick Pyro, Trevor Keogh of New Secret Weapon, Thumper’s Alex Harvey and Rian Trench of Solar Bears, the band’s brand of spitting, scuzzed-out, no-nonsense punk betrays cohesion, forward-moving spirit and fist-clenched intent in equal measure. New single ‘Terror’ takes that M.O. and runs with it. Featuring a stellar (not to mention instantly distinctive) video courtesy of SCAN, it’s a…
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Saharan desert blues heroes Tinariwen will make their long-awaited return to Dublin at the end of the year. Having released nine albums over the last 18 years, the group will return to play The Olympia Theatre on Monday, November 11. They last played a headline show in the city, at the Academy, in 2009. Tickets are priced €33.65 and go on sale this Friday (June 7) at 9am.
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In their absence over the last couple of years, Girl Band’s reputation has only grown and grown. Much of that stemmed from uncertainty. Would we ever see them perform again? Would new music ever see the light of day? The afternoon of May 13th brought an answer. The Dara Kiely-fronted quartet – who, in such a short period of time, proved one of the most influential Irish guitar bands since My Bloody Valentine – would return with a new single, ‘Shoulderblades’. Sure enough, hyperspace near caved in on itself. Girl Band were back. Released today, it is, in no uncertain terms, a…
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Few modern outfits have collaborated and flaunted convention quite as abundantly (or consistently) as Matmos. The San Francisco experimental electronic duo, aka M.C Schmidt and Drew Daniel, have spent the last three decades banging heads together – as well as lining up with the likes of Terry Riley, The Kronos Quartet, David Tibet, the Rachel’s, Lesser, Wobbly, Zeena Parkins, and the Princeton Laptop Orchestra – to carve out an increasingly singular sonic trajectory. At the heart of the duo’s implicit manifesto is a uniquely curveballing and reliably curious M.O: from sampling everything from freshly-cut hair and washing machines to an array of plastic objects, to…
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Across June to September, on the first Thursday of each month, Belfast’s Babel will host a free live music showcase featuring some of the very artists and DJs from across the country. Boasting rooftop views and summer drinks, Platform will feature sets from Katie Richardson aka Hex Hue, Arvo Party and fast-rising Derry artist Roe, with supports to be announced. Kicking off the series on Thursday, June 5th is the dreamy indie-folk stylings of Aoife Boyle aka Reevah. Ahead of the show, we speak to her about new music, growing up in a creative family environment, mining art from uncertainty and more. __ You grew up in…