• GoGo Penguin: Koyaanisqatsi – A New Score Performed Live

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    35 year on from its initial release, GoGo Penguin will perform a new score to Godfrey’s seminal 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi at Dublin’s Sugar Club on October 19. With the original production featuring a perfectly transformative, career-defining score from the masterful Philip Glass, this is an unmissable opportunity to witness the Manchester quartet put a new slant put on a cinematic masterpiece that brilliantly blurs the lines between documentary and hypnotic time-lapse photography. According to promoters, originally commissioned by HOME in Manchester as part of the Music and Film Project, promoters said od the performance: “GoGo Penguin’s richly emotional music offers…

  • Oh Yeah Summer Zine 2017

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    When we launched our free physical magazine back in October of 2014 we did so with the boundless conviction that there’s still very much a market and audience for print music magazines. That uniquely fuzzy feeling one gets picking up a lovingly-compiled magazine upon entering a coffee shop or leaving a record store, eager to delve in and get discovering: that’s exactly – and purely – what drove us to produce our own zine, month in, month out, and what will compel to do so again when we re-launch later this year. Working alongside Belfast freelance photographer Carrie Davenport –…

  • Guys, There’s a Hybrid Theory Singalong Fundraiser For Pieta House Happening in Dublin

    July 23, 2017 - By 

    In troubling times, it’s to great, and kind minds such as Glenn Fitzpatrick to whom we should turn. Following the tragic passing of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington on Thursday, Fitzpatrick (with help from Dublin musician and former Overhead The Albratross member Joe Panama) will host a Hybrid Theory singalong to raise money for suicide and self-harm charity Pieta House at Dublin’s Fibber Magees on Thursday, August 3. Over at the fundraiser’s Facebook event page, the organisers said: “Linkin Park are a band that meant so much to so many of us during our formative years. Hybrid Theory in particular had…

  • Beatroot Roots Music Week

    July 4, 2017 - By 

    Belfast leading promoters of jazz, roots and experimental music, Moving On Music will present the third annual installment of Beatroot Roots Music Week across September 6-9. Hands down one of the most affordable and mind-expandingly well-curated series in the calendar, this year’s outing will see appearances from Daoirí Farrell, Joshua Burnside, Hejira, Cacao, Cup O’Joe, Hive Choice, Stephen James Smith and Sue Rynhart. Taking place at Crescent Arts Centre and Black Box over four days, here’s the full details: WED 6 SEPT – SUE RYNHART + CACAO (double bill) CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE, 8PM, £10 (£8 conc.) THU 7 SEPT –…

  • RHA’s Hennessy Lost Friday

    July 4, 2017 - By 

    Uniting some of the country’s finest acts for a special summer night of colour, creativity and cocktails, RHA’s Hennessy Lost Friday will return to RHA Gallery on Friday, July 7. As well as sets from two of our favourite Irish acts at the minute, Dublin electro-pop dup Ships (whose debut album we premiered back in April) and Diolmhain Ingram Roche AKA experimental electronic artist Wastefellow (pictured below), the event will also feature beats from DJ Hula Hoop throughout the night. Sealing the deal, those down early on the night will be given a walking tour of this summer’s RHA Annual…

  • Red Bull Music Academy 2018 x Bodytonic Dublin Launch

    June 28, 2017 - By 

    On Saturday, July 1, Red Bull Music Academy and Dublin’s Bodytonic will team up to present a day-long event at the Bernard Shadw brimming with guest lectures and a Q+A RBMA alumnus and Belfast DJ Timmy Stewart. Later in the evening, Timmy, French electro-funk wizard Gary Gritness, Fort Romeau and the Bodytonic DJs will keep the party going until late. Want in? Entry is via RSSP on the Bodytonic website right here. Revisit T-Bone’s Boiler Room set from 2015’s AVA Festival below.

  • Hijack! QFT Mixtape Vol. 1

    June 16, 2017 - By 

    Across July 7-9 we’re teaming up with Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre to present Hijack! QFT Mixtape Vol 1, a weekend-long takeover series featuring a selection of some of the very best music-themed films and documentaries. Including NI premieres of Gus Sutherland’s The Unseen: A Detroit Beat Tape, Sarah Price’s L7: Pretend We’re Dead (above), Iggy Pop and Josh Homme doc American Valhalla and John Scheinfeld’s John Coltrane documentary Chasing Trane, the series will also including a Delia Derbyshire Double Bill, School of Rock, Stop Making Sense and more. See below for the full programme. Tickets are available to buy via the QFT website. Chasing…

  • The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse Irish Premiere @ Whelan’s

    May 17, 2017 - By 

    We will host the Irish premiere of Alex Crowton and Bobby Dass’ The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse at Whelan’s on Sunday, July 2. Following the screening of the documentary, which looks at the life and music of the sadly-missed Mark Linkous, a band of musicians – including Tom McShane, The Mad Dalton, Pixie Saytar, Heliopause and Jake Lennox – will play an hour-long set of material from the Sparklehorse songbook. Doors are at 7pm and tickets – priced €13.00 – are available to buy via Whelan’s, a venue which Sparklehorse performed at on a handful of occasions.  

  • Basecamp Launch Night

    April 24, 2017 - By 

    It’s always great to see a new regular live gig night crop up. Launching at Belfast’s McHughs on Saturday, May 22, BASECAMP is the a new venture from Four Acre, the brainchild of Neil Allen of all but revered NI alt-folk band The Emerald Armada. For its first outing, the night – which is calling itself “the home of emerging artists – will see sets from Brash Isaac, Jamie Neish and Benjamin Hamilton. Admission is £5, doors are at 8pm.

  • Whiskey and Words @ The Black Box

    April 20, 2017 - By 

    Ask virtually any resident of Belfast to list a few must-visit places in the city and No Alibis on Botanic Avenue will surely feature. A veritable institution that has acted as both an intimate venue for performers of every ilk and shade as well as one of the country’s leading independent bookstores for many years, it is owned and co-ran by one David Torrans (pictured), who will take part in Whiskey and Words, a one-off event in collaboration with Bushmills at the Black Box on Sunday, April 23. A highlight of the current #AnswerTheCall series, in which Bushmills have worked “with local creators, thinkers,…