We spent Record Store Day at Sick Records and then made our way down to our own show in association with Head Records at The Bar With No Name featuring Skymas, Freedom 35s, Hot Cops and Documenta/Belfast Music Club DJs. Photos by Ryan Richards and Colm Laverty.
We spent last Saturday in Outhouse on Capel Street for the annual Record Store Gay celebrations featuring Crayonsmith, Little xs for eyes, Fierce Mild, Laura Ann Brady, Gross Net, Switzerland and The Former Soviet Republic. Photos by Isabel Thomas and Abigail Denniston.
In this installment of AAA, we go behind the scenes with Delorentos on the Cork leg of their current Irish tour. Photos by Rory Coomey.
Anathema live at the Academy, Dublin. Photos by Isabel Thomas
Daniel Lanois live at Vicar Street in Dublin. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
Villagers play live to a sold out Epstein Theatre in Liverpool. Photos by Christopher Flack.
Mmoths live with visuals by Slipdraft at the launch of new Dublin venue Hangar. Photos by Tara Thomas.
In the latest installment of Primer, Eoghain Meakin takes a look at Burn After Inking, an exhibition of illustrations and paintings from Gavin Fullerton, Christina O’Donovan, Melissa Malone, Patrick Semple, Fiona Meade and Daniel Spencer at Dublin’s The Mart. Photos by Aine O’Hara MART continues to shine as one of the city’s premier, not-for-profit creative spaces. Spread out over the venues two main rooms this eclectic mix of styles and ambitions are linked by the fact that they could all find a home in story books from Beatrix Potter to the positively post-modern. Reading the room like a text,…
In this installment of Track Record, we poke around the house of Paddy Hanna in search of his favourite records. Photos by Brian Mulligan. Kevin Devine and The Goddam Band – Bubblegum I played a show with this dude at the Roisin Dubh in Galway, following the performance he and I went back to the apartment which is provided for the bands. We spoke for about three or so hours, I drank ice cold Zaconey left in the freezer by the previous nights band while he enjoyed herbal tea and a packet of cheese and onion hunky dory. after another ill…
In this installment of Track Record, we hang out with Kim and Jarod from South Carolina based dream pop band Tape Waves as they select their favourite records from Beach House to Brian Wilson. Photos by Jen Stevens. Kim Mary Timony – Mountains This is one of the first LPs I ever bought. I bought it my first year of college. I had been listening to Helium all through High School and when I got this album I felt like it was such a transition for Mary Timony. There are more simple songs with pianos and keyboards, and less guitars. Helium always sounded magical…