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  • Brother Dege @ Brewery Corner, Kilkenny

    May 9, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    Brother Dege live at Brewery Corner in Kilkenny. Photos by Ian McDonnell.

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  • Festival of Fools 2016

    May 6, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    Sara Marsden captures all the colourful and curious goings-on at this year’s Festival of Fools in Belfast.

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  • Aidan Moffat: ‘Where You’re Meant To Be’ screening & performance @ Black Box, Belfast

    May 5, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    Aidan Moffat has been a busy man over the last few years but that hasn’t stopped him from quietly taking the Scottish folk songs of the countryside and transplanting them to the city. Working alongside documentary filmmaker Paul Fegan, Where You’re Meant To Be is part Road movie and part music documentary. Where You’re Meant To Be is Fegan’s first feature-length but the director is a former music promoter in Glasgow and has previously made a short film Pouters (streaming for free online) alongside a number of music videos for Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells and Belle & Sebastian. As…

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  • Making Monsters @ Empire Music Hall, Belfast

    May 5, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    Making Monsters live at the Empire Music Hall in Belfast with support from Death Of A Salesman, Heel Of Achilles and Black Chapels. Photos by Liam Kielt.

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  • Irish Tour: Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts

    May 4, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    With his most excellent band Los Bolts in tow, New York cult anti-folk singer-songwriter and (amazing) comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis zipped across the country last week for a string of dates with support from the likes of Shrug Life and Junk Drawer. Our photographers Sara Marsden and Aidan Kelly Murphy weren’t far away. McHugh’s, Belfast by Sara Marsden Whelans, Dublin by Aidan Kelly Murphy

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  • Track Record: Ian McFarlane (Squarehead / Kid Karate)

    May 4, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    In this installment of Track Record we hang out with Ian McFarlane, bassist extraordinaire with Squarehead and Kid Karate. Here he selects the albums that have left a huge impression on him, from Parliament to Prince. Photos by Aidan Kelly Murphy. Parliament – The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein As far as I am concerned Parliament are the greatest funk band of all time. George Clinton masterminded a situation where the best musicians he could find were free to experiment and collaborate thus producing some of the most incredible music you could image. At the core of Parliament were the James Brown…

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  • Venus Sleeps, Exploding Eyes, Wild Rocket @ On the Rox, Smithfield

    May 3, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    Venus Sleeps, Exploding Eyes and Wild Rocket live at On the Rox in Smithfield. Photos by Moira Reilly.

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  • Distorted Perspectives Day One: Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, BC Camplight, Captain A & the Commerical Monsters

    May 3, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    Distorted Perspectives festival took place at the Regional Culture Centre in Letterkenny over the weekend with Jeffrey Lewis, BC Camplight and Captain A and the Commerical Monsters. Photos by Mickey Rooney.

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  • Æ MAK w/ Naoise Roo @ Spirit Store, Dundalk

    May 3, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    Æ MAK live at the Spirit Store in Dundalk with support from Naoise Roo. Photos by Brian Mulligan.

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  • Le Galaxie @ Connolly’s of Leap, Cork

    May 2, 2016 - By Loreana Rushe

    Dublin electronic maestros Le Galaxie brought the party once more at Connolly’s of Leap in Cork on Saturday night. Photos by Jason Lee.

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