Gods of Rap, featuring Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and De La Soul and Dublin’s 3Arena. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon.
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dEUS live at The Academy in Dublin. Photos by Leah Carroll
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It’s been a little over twenty years since Manic Street Preachers’ landmark fifth record, This is my Truth, Tell me Yours, solidified a somewhat stratospheric ‘second act’; a manic metamorphosis from a politically punctuated punk four piece into the enduring ruminative band we know today. Back then, the Manics were just about coping with the tragic disappearance of their guitarist Richey Edwards in 1995, and fresh from the meteoric success of the sweepingly superabundant sounds of their following album, Everything Must Go. Despite being the first to be recorded timidly without him, half of it contained his lyrics. The viscerally…
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Welsh-Australian artist Stella Donnelly live at the Grand Social in Dublin. Photos by Gemma Bovenizer.
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Wyvern Lingo with support from Síog at Lost Lane in Dublin. Photos by Gemma Bovenizer
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Boise, Idaho indie rock heroes Built To Spill, with support from Vancouver’s Slam Dunk, Rio de Janeiro’sOruã and Belfast’s Junk Drawer. Photos by Colm Laverty
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The launch of this year’s KnockanStockan at Dublin’s Lost Lane, featuring THUMPER, Luka Palm, Shookrah, SENU and a DJ set from Caoimhe Barry from Wyvern Lingo. Photos by Ciara Brennan
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Junior Brother and PowPig, with support from Woody Murphy, live at Roisin Dubh in Galway. Photos by Ciaran O’Maolain.
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Nick Oliveri of Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Mondo Generator and more, at The Button Factory in Dublin. Support from Alex Harvey and New Valley Wolves. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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The “spiritual head” of Wu-Tang Clan, GZA, with support from Waterteam and Graham Dolan at Roisin Dubh, Galway. Photos by Ciaran O’Maolain