Lambrini Girls with support by Hotgirl at Whelan’s in Dublin. Photos by Seán Kelly.
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Yer man with all the musical talent: Geordie Greep, live at Vicar Street in Dublin. Photos by Matt Gorman.
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Irish music this week isn’t so much stacked as spilling over. Hear brand new cuts from Myles Manley (who we’re bringing to Ulster Sports Club on Good Friday – tickets below), Search Results, Garrett Laurie, The Null Club, Data.Soul, The Number Ones and many more. Myles Manley – Jeremiaaad 1 // Di Fontaines Tickets for Myles Manley and Garden Centre at the Ulster Sports Club in Belfast on Friday 11th April are right here Search Results – Be Laurel Garrett Laurie – Something Blue Data.Soul – My Data Soul The Null Club – The Null Club Monday’s Child – Love,…
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Creepy Future have crash-landed like a flaming police siren hurled through a windscreen. With ‘Trust Your Guts,’ the newly formed three-piece garage punk outfit from Dublin deliver a sub-two-minute ripper that hits like a riot in fast-forward. Made up of Derek (Moutpiece, the ObjectorZ), Conzo (Female Hercules, Afterwardness), and Moose (Wild Rocket, New Gods), Creepy Future feel like a dream-team beamed in from a DIY dimension where songs are short, fast, weird and fun in equal measure. Lyrically, they veer between night terrors, insect plagues, beach life and brain fuzz. Live, it erupts in what they call a ‘life-affirming energy…
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There’s a moment on ‘Oh I Forgot’ where Leigh Arthur’s voice seems to lean in just a little closer. Where everything else falls away and the full weight of memory hits like a warm gust, momentarily lifting everything. It doesn’t announce itself; it just blooms. That’s the kind of song this is. Quietly devastating. A minor-keyed, heart-stung hymn that burrows in without bluster. A veteran of some of Ireland’s most vital DIY outfits – Dublin lo-fi punk greats Sissy and, for a time, post-punk trio Extravision – Arthur has long carved out a singular presence in the underground. Her current…
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It’s another stacked week for new music from across the island. The releases are coming thick and very fast – and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Lemoncello cover The Corrs in a way only they can. The Oh Yeah Centre’s latest Scratch My Progress compilation returns with standout tracks from Touzai and co. Connor McCann drops a stellar new EP, Cloakroom Q return with album number two, and there are some essential curveballers from Peng Weng, Unique Freaks and more. Link in bio Various Artists – Scratch My Progress Lemoncello – Breathless Connor McCann – After The End…
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One of Ireland’s very best genre-fluid experimentalists Meljoann walks us through Status – a bristling, truth-telling odyssey through queerness, class, digital resistance and emotional survival. Blending industrial pop, retro-futurist funk and slow jams, the album takes aim at Big Tech, cultural cringe and the exploitative mechanics of the music industry, all while staying defiantly heartfelt and fiercely DIY. Here, she breaks down each track’s origins – from leprechaun-coded short stories and algorithmic nightmares to jazz-nerd odysseys and FOSS-slow jams. Status by Meljoann Rainbow Language (is for Losers) This song is rooted in growing up queer, when rural Ireland was still…
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Off the back of their stellar new single ‘Under The Moodlight,’ cult Dublin psych-pop duo Liam Mulvaney and John Butler aka Tigers of Tin Pan riff on some of their favourite tracks, featuring Cocteau Twins, Rollerskate Skinny, Sly & The Family Stone, The Association and more. Liam Mulvaney: Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas Could be anything on that album, really. It’s like a warm rinse for the brain; musically unique, exotic and intoxicating. Oft copied: never bettered. Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower A threefer this one. Grade A Dylan lyrics, Hendrix at his most fluid and…
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From sharp returns to brand new sparks, I Dreamed I Dream, The Null Club, Adebisi Shank, Ultan O’Brien and others land with force. I Dreamed I Dream – Fags The Null Club feat. E L U C I D – Frameshift Adebisi Shank – Start a Band Ultan O’Brien – Dancing The Line Ultan O’Brien – Dancing the LIne by Nyahh Records Dash! – Luas Luas by Dash! YARD – Trevor Pastiche – Calories Adrian Crowley and Sean O’Hagan – The Wreck of the Julia Speak Wreck Speak! by Bring Your Own Hammer presents Daniel Luke – My Father’s Son…
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Released last month, Teeth of Time feels like the culmination of everything Joshua Burnside has been quietly perfecting: layered alt-folk that sits somewhere between memory and myth, soundscapes that smuggle in the ambient truths of everyday life and a voice that cuts clean through the noise with understated gravity. A month on from its release, Burnside’s latest LP has already marked itself out as a high watermark and with a new run of live dates ahead – including a return to one of Ireland’s finest folk venues, DeBarra’s in Clonakilty, and a milestone return tothe Ulster Hall in Belfast (among…