On this, the final Bandcamp Friday of 2024, dive into the very best Irish songs of the week… despite the fact most of them are just on Spotify ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Joshua Burnside – Up and Down Stray Planets – Please Don’t Hurt the Snow AM Shanley – Gone, Gone, (Gone) Michael Mormecha – Under a Spell AILSHA – Call In A Minute RUÁ and Jacob Cunningham-Bell – Breakout KhakiKid – Boy Racer Mount Palomar feat. Naomi Banks – Drag
It’s under a week until Foo Laa Fest at the Ulster Sports Club – probably the strongest top-to-bottom Irish lineup Belfast has seen this year, and one that rounds up the second year of Dillon O’Brien’s music promotion, Fooligan. Taking place on Thursday 5th December, TTA cover stars M(h)aol, Silverbacks and 2024 NI Music Prize winners Problem Patterns top of the bill, with some of the most exciting rising stars round there too. For those who don’t know Fooligan, can you tell us a bit about what you’ve been up to over the last while, and what drives you as…
As long-time fans of his craft, we’re pleased to present the premiere of the video for ‘You Really Have Me’ by Northern Irish artist AM Shanley. The October single, a sublime, heart-stung gem, is taken from his highly anticipated upcoming album American Vanilla, and has already cemented itself as one of the Irish songs of the year. The video features Shanley alongside the legendary RichyBoy, the official dancer at 2019’s Vantastival Festival in Drogheda, no less. With his unparalleled energy and passion for movement, RichyBoy has said: “RichyBoy just wants to dance dance dance! As I always say, ‘If there’s…
The year might be winding down but the sheer calibre of Irish music is not. Dive into brand new Ginnels, Search Results, AONAIR, The Darkling Air, Soda Blonde, and two new tracks by the sadly-missed Eoin French aka Talos alongside Atli Örvarsson Ginnels – Johnny Thunders Said / Together Johnny Thunders Said by Ginnels Search Results – Hoban Happy Hot Night (E.P.) by Search Results Talos and Atli Örvarsson – Baltimore / Matter Aonair – The Loser HART – These Days Birthday Problems – The Language of War The Darkling Air – Pandemonium Soda Blonde – The Saddest Thing ROE…
Following the release of her stellar debut EP, Hungry Ghost, Dublin artist Pippa Molony takes us on a guided tour of some of her all-time favourite songs, featuring Operating Theatre, Jenny Hval, Kelly Moran, Björk and more Björk – Unison ‘Unison,’ from Björk’s Vespertine, is a song I somehow missed until recently. I’d listened to the album before, saved Frosti to all of my playlists, but Unison slipped past me. I finally heard it for the first time during Benji Reid’s Find Your Eyes at Dublin Theatre Festival—and it hit me like a truck. This track closes Vespertine. It begins…
We’re back to stacked round-ups today via essential new sounds from Adore, Cormorant Tree Oh, Tigers of Tin Pan, Makeshift Art Bar, Lucy Gaffney, Brién and more Adore – Can We Talk Cormorant Tree Oh – To Be Flowers Tigers of Tin Pan – I Cannot See The Doctor Makeshift Art Bar – Birthday Party Lucy Gaffney – do u know me? Brién – Everyone’s Here Garrett Laurie – No Warning Body Wigs – Body Clinic EP Body Wigs by Wigs & Body Clinic Eve Clague – Caught in Words Caught In Words by Eve Clague Ciaran Lavery feat. Joshua…
Five months on from the massive success of its inaugural outing, In The Meadows have announced Gilla Band, Sprints and headliner Iggy Pop as part of next year’s line-up. Returning to Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Saturday, 7th June, the one-day festival will also host sets by the likes of The Scratch, Warmduscher, Lambrini Girls, Trupa Trupa, plus more to be announced, across three stages. If it’s anything close to what this year delivered, expect another high watermark of the Irish festival calendar – offering up what we said in our review of this year’s debut outing “was a genuinely alternative…
North Kerry’s finest Messyng FC talk us through Lisselton John Street Football 2K12™, their new EP-fictitious football themed tactical RPG video game funded by the Arts Council of Ireland in a parallel timeline to our own. The EP Lisselton John Street Football 2K12 is our reworkings and reimaginings of found music from the beta of the never completed PS1 game of the same name. The soundtrack was in varying levels of completeness when the project was abandoned, and only part of the soundtrack was recovered from the USB stick where it was rediscovered – so we decided to collaborate with…
Off the back of the release of their stellar Pull Me Into the Open Sea EP, dream pop duo PostLast select some of their all-time favourite tracks – featuring Mariah, Radiohead, Men I Trust, Blonde Redhead and more. Stephen McHale: Radiohead – Weird Fishes It’s hard to pick just one song from Radiohead but I always find myself coming back to this one. There are so many things to love about it lyrically and musically, but in terms of an influence on my writing I’ve definitely been inspired by all the layered, cyclical guitar patterns that build the tension as…
Ben Howard with support by Daisy Rickman at 3Olympia in Dublin. Photos by Jane Donnelly