• Track-by-Track: Kerry’s Messyng FC on Lisselton John Street Football 2K12™

    November 4, 2024 - By 

    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…

  • Monday Mixtape: PostLast

    November 4, 2024 - By 

    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…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 1st November

    November 1, 2024 - By 

    Against absolutely no odds, we’ve pulled together the very best Irish sounds of the week once again. Dive into brand new M(h)aol, Christy Moore, Negro Impacto, Connor McCann, Deathbed Convert, Eve Clague and more M(h)aol – Snare Connor McCann – Cold Letters Christy Moore – A Terrible Beauty Negro Impacto – 1800 Deathbed Convert – Inverse Field Vol​.​1 – Inishowen Inverse Field Vol.1 – Inishowen by Deathbed Convert Rory Nellis – Any Given Day Susi Pagel – can u hear me now? Jerry Fish feat. May Kay – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances how r u…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 25th October

    October 25, 2024 - By 

    The clocks going back means we’ll lose an hour’s listening something something. Here’s the very best Irish music of the week, from Aoife Wolf, Messyng FC, Joshua Burnside, Tramp, Strange Boy, Laytha, PostLast and more Aoife Wolf – Bristle of Delusion Messyng FC – Lisselton John Street Football 2k12 Lisselton John Street Football 2k12 by Messyng FC TRAMP – BIMBOFICATION EP Strange Boy – God Help Him (Seemingly He Didn’t) God Help Him (Seemingly He Didn't) by Strange Boy Joshua Burnside – Ghost of Bloomfield Road / Good for One Thing PostLast – Halloween Meryl Streek – Fine Jail EFÉ…

  • Artifacts Trio at Black Box, Belfast

    October 16, 2024 - By 

    Moving On Music, Belfast’s undisputed champions of boundary-pushing sounds, are set to present one of the most exciting jazz acts of our time, Artifacts Trio, at the Black Box on Wednesday, 16th October. The all-star trio – flutist Nicole Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid, and drummer Mike Reed – are lauded torchbearers of Chicago’s storied jazz scene, carrying the influential legacy of The Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM), a pioneering organisation founded in 1965. Artifacts Trio take AACM’s mantra of “Ancient to the Future” to heart, weaving African American cultural traditions into…

  • Monday Mixtape: AM Shanley

    October 13, 2024 - By 

    Ahead of the release of his sublime new single ‘You Really Have Me’ this Friday, 18th October, Lisburn artist AM Shanley waxes lyrical about some of his all-time favourite songs, featuring Sparklehorse, Cat Power, Quasi, Guided By Voices and more PJ Harvey – Who The Fuck (Demo) Twenty years ago this year, PJ Harvey released Uh Huh Her and my fourteen-year-old self skived school to buy it – and my world was changed. I adore everything about this song, the delivery is so playful and feral and fun. Her sludgy Drop C guitars throughout that album are just wonderful and…

  • Line-up for Quiet Lights 2024 Announced

    September 25, 2024 - By 

    It’s been a real joy seeing Quiet Lights shine a light on both Irish and International folk, traditional, and experimental music over the last few years. Six years on from its debut outing, the festival returns in November with its strongest programme to date. Returning to Cork City across 21-24th November, this year’s line-up features a host of long-time TTA favourites, among them Elaine Howley and Rachael Lavelle, who will perform a double-header, as well as Joshua Burnside, Aoife Wolf, Cormorant Tree Oh, Lemoncello, Mohammad Syfkhan and Ana Palindrome. The inclusion of The Tan Jackets, Lisa Hanigan, Cormac Begley, and Muireann…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 23rd August

    August 23, 2024 - By 

    Dive into the very best Irish music of the week, featuring Sun Mahshene, TRAMP, Gurriers, Ethan Hollan, John Blek, Maria Kelly, a long-awaited reissue by Pocket Promise and more Sun Mahshene – A Place We’ve Never Been A Place We've never Been by Sun Mahshene Pocket Promise – i’ve been here for ages Bedrooms – crusher/birds of prey Ethan Hollan – Valentine Ahmed, With Love. – help wanted. TRAMP – The Birds (Lowered Suspension) JyellowL x Holly – Right Here Gurriers – No More Photos John Blek – Easy Now Robbie Stickland – Bad at Goodbyes Aby Coulibaly – Glow