Conchúr White-fronted Armagh indie-folk act Silences live at the Arts Club, Liverpool. Photos by Christopher Flack. Check out our recent live session with the band here.
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Hot Chip, Todd Terje, Le Galaxie, Vic Mensa and many more got the inaugural Metropolis Festival at Dublin’s RDS off to a resounding start on Saturday. Photos by Mark Earley.
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Having released their debut record, Communion, at the end of June this year, it was only a matter of time before Years & Years graced our shores for a headline show. With tickets flying out upon release, the band added a second show at Dublin’s Academy due to demand. The popularity of the electronic pop trio has soared throughout the year, having won BBC’s Sound of 2015 award, alongside frequent radio airtime with singles ‘King’ and ‘Shine’. The sold-out show has been highly anticipated by the Irish fans, many determined to see their first Irish show since Longitude Festival, that…
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In this installment of Primer, Alexander Reilly invites us over to his studio to give us some insight into how his colourful character laden work comes to life through his applications of paint. Photos and interview by Mark Earley. Hi Alex! When did you first realise were an artist and in turn, that your career would be in art? I remember in my first year of school when I was four or five, all the kids in my class wanting me to draw them dinosaurs. I was never very academic or good at sports, so being the best at drawing became…
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In this installment of Bookmark, we head over to the cosy home of Irish writer Caitriona Lally, author of Eggshells which was chosen by The Irish Times Book Club as their book of the month for October. She has just been shortlisted by the Irish Book Awards 2015 for the Newcomer of the Year award. Photos by Melanie Mullan. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller For his fearlessness and honesty and rawness and laugh-out-loud sentences. The kind of book that changes the way you think about fiction, that makes you think a more powerful, more real kind of writing is possible. Oranges Are…
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Richard Hawley live at Vicar Street in Dublin. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
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Jennifer Evans live at the Little Museum of Dublin last night. Photos by Mark Earley.
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Deathcrusher tour 2015 took place at the Limelight in Belfast and Vicar Street in Dublin featuring Carcass, Obituary, Napalm Death, Voivod and Herod. Photos by Brian Revels and Isabel Thomas. Limelight, Belfast by Brian Revels Vicar Street, Dublin by Isabel Thomas
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The legendary Randy Newman live at Vicar Street last night. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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Father John Misty’s sold out show in Galway’s Roisín Dubh on Thursday the 22nd of October fell during the same week as the city’s Comedy Festival. This proved interesting for two reasons; the first of which being that none of the venue’s bigger, alternative buildings were available for the show, resulting in a perhaps uncharacteristically intimate gig for Josh Tillman’s self-defining moniker. Secondly, it made for a curious observation as to what people really get out of watching a performance of any kind. When watching a comedy show people obviously are out to laugh until their cheeks hurt, to be…