Future Islands live at Vicar Street in Dublin last night. Photos by Sean McMahon
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Molly O’Mahony live at Levis Cornerhouse in Ballydehob, Cork. Photos by John Sheehy.
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Silverbacks live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Skinner. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain
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Sorcha Richardson performing live at Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick and the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Lucy Gaffney. Photos by Jamie Moore and Ciaran O Maolain
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Nova Twins live at Whelan’s in Dublin. Photos by Stuart Hayes.
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Emmy Shigeta is a Japanese DJ whose love for music developed while working in a Record Store in Tokyo. Now based in Dublin, she loves to play ambient (環境音楽) city pop & the latest underground j-pop in various venues and on her monthly Dublin Digital Radio show. Here’s some of her all-time favourites, including Yoshio Suzuki, Midori Takada & more. Chari Chari – Esfera de Água Kaoru Inoue has been active as a DJ/producer in the dance music scene such as house and techno for many years. Chari Chari is his own project. This tune is spectacular deep house. AUS –…
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Ishmael Ensemble live at the Black Box in Belfast with support from Robocobra Quartet, part of the Moving On Music festival. Photos by Luke Macpherson
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CMAT live at The Academy in Dublin. Photos by Sean McMahon
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Pillow Queens with support by Smoothboi Ezra at Róisín Dubh in Galway. Photos by Ciarán O Maoláin
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Ireland has a strange, almost Lynchian relationship with country music. There are the Daniel O’Donnell/Nathan Carter/Garth Brooks die-hards, of course. This cohort is usually composed of people who grew up on westerns of the ’60s and ’70s, and came of age to the bizarre strings of the “Country and Irish” genre of music proliferated by the showband era. But interestingly there’s also a large chunk of millennials who were impacted (quite tragically) by Garth Brooks’ sold-out Croke Park concerts in the ’90s, and subsequently found themselves in some strange time-warp where youth clubs were teaching line dancing and the price…