Grade 2 live at the Taproom in Drop Dead Twice in Dublin with support from Vulpynes and The Nilz. Photos by Ian McDonnell
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The Front Bottoms live at Mandala Hall in Belfast. Photos by Claire Kelly
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Public Access T.V. live at Academy 2 in Dublin with support from Munky. Photos by Ian McDonnell
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Anna Mitchell live at Levis’ Corner Bar in Ballydehob, Co. Cork with support from Marie Danielle. Photos by Jason Lee
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Le Galaxie playing their interpretation of the soundtrack to Apocalypse Now as part of the Smithwick Soundtrack Series at Billy Byrnes Bar Kilkenny with support from Sally Cinnamon. Photos by Ian McDonnell
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Ciara Brennan captures some of the highlights from this year’s multi-venue Output showcase in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, including New Pagans, Robocobra Quartet, Beauty Sleep, Molly Sterling, Blue Americans, Callum Stewart, ROE and more.
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British Sea Power live at Cyprus Avenue in Cork. Photos by Silvio Severino
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The Altered Hours live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Pursued By Dogs. Photos by Vincent Hughes
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General Fiasco live at Voodoo in Belfast with support from Beauty Sleep. Photos by Liam Kielt
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We continue 18 for ’18, our feature showcasing eighteen Irish acts we’re convinced are going places in 2018. Throughout January we’re going to be previewing each of those acts, accompanied by words from our writers and an original photograph from one of our photographers. Next up, Any Joy. Photo by Silvio Severino We’ve written platitudes on Cork’s tendency to function as Ireland’s bastion of cosmically-inclined guitar music, and its latest export is Any Joy, who, while tinted with the hue of its primary contemporary export, simultaneously demarcate themselves from the trappings of being a genre band, forever doomed to lay in…