Having made their long-awaited return via The Light In You in October, US alt-rock legends Mercury Rev played Dublin’s Button Factory at the weekend, supported by Nicole Atkins. Photos by Mark Earley.
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Maryland riffmasters general Clutch played a packed-out Limelight 1 in Belfast at the weekend, with support from Greek band Planet of Zeus. Photos by Alan Maguire.
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Our photographers Alan Maguire and Brian Mulligan capture a brace of Irish dates from Paul Weller at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre respectively. Waterfront Hall, Belfast Olympia Theatre, Dublin
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Sara Marsden captures the inaugural Outloud @ Outburst at Belfast’s Black Box, a day long event of stalls, talks, workshops and music all with a feminist/trans/queer slant.
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Often compared to the likes of Brian Wilson, The Velvet Underground, Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen, American singer-songwriter Kelley Stoltz play Dublin’s Whelan’s recently. Photos by Ste Murray.
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A highlight of this year’s Sound of Belfast programme, VerseChorusVerse & David Lyttle, Donal Scullion, Jess Edlin and Colum McIntyre played the Empire on Thursday night. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Lonely the Brave at the Limelight in Belfast with support from R51. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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With vocals evoking the likes of Anna Calvi and Grace Slick to Nico and PJ Harvey, Berlin-based Dublin artist Candice Gordon fuses garage, psych and rock with classical and jazz influences in an irresistible brume of quasi-Gothic space. Set for release via Proper Octopus Records on Friday, November 13, her new single ‘Smoke In The Air’ personifies that elemental majesty in a haze of repetitive, mantric glory. Creative by Gordon with cameras courtesy of No Name Media & Valquire Veljkovic, watch the video for the single below.
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Supported by SPINES and The Clockworks, Dublin “grunge-pop” quartet Otherkin headlined Galway’s Roisin Dubh on Saturday night. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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Featuring Trinity Orchestra performing LCD Soundsystem, Giorgio Moroder, CHIC and much more, Brian Mulligan captures the second and final day of the inaugural Metropolis Festival at the RDS in Dublin at the weekend.