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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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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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 and Wild Rocket live at On the Rox in Smithfield. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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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 live at the Spirit Store in Dundalk with support from Naoise Roo. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
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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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Deep in the serenity of West Cork lies famed music venue Connolly’s of Leap, a venue which is set to host Ciúnas: An Evening of Quiet Songs, on Friday, April 29. An intimate seated show in which the organisers ask the audience to “completely give their attention and respect to the artist”, the evening will feature the varyingly somnambulist sounds of three of the country’s finest: trio Pine the Pilcrow, the dark folk musings of I Have A Tribe and West Cork native Sam Clague. Ciúnas’ is the Irish word for quiet, or silence; maybe even ‘absence of sound’ .
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My Fellow Sponges live at Brewery Corner in Kilkenny. Photos by Ian McDonnell.
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Bell X1 live at Vicar Street in Dublin. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.