• Dublin Podcast Festival 2017

    August 2, 2017 - By 

    Presented by HeadStuff and Aiken Promotions, the inaugural Dublin Podcast Festival will bring 10 nights of live podcasts, headliner shows, comedy showcases, discussions and workshops taking place in various citys throughout the city across September 19-29. Featuring a diverse range of international and homegrown podcasters, Criminal, The Memory Palace, Fascinated, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Featuring a diverse range of international and homegrown podcasters covering everything from music, food and literature to comedy, film and crime, Criminal, The Memory Palace, Fascinated, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Scroobius Pip’s Distraction Pieces, Roddy Doyle and No Encore featuring Daithí, Overhead The Albatross and…

  • Townlands Carnival 2017

    July 17, 2017 - By 

    Following a stellar outing last year, one of Cork’s very finest summer festival propositions, Townlands Carnival, returns across to Leades House in Macroom across the weekend of July 21-23. Amongst the nicely varied bill of acts playing this year are Rubberbandits (pictured), bona fide Irish festival heroes King Kong Company, Cork’s Ellen King ELLLL, Dublin electronic indie act Le Boom, Om Unit, Hermitage Green, Stomptown Brass, Hvmmingbird, Shookrah and My Fellow Sponges. And taking in a whole host of cross-genre artistry and performance over the three days, this year’s line-up is brilliantly bolstered by spoken word, art trail and installations, a craft village, a children’s play ahead,…

  • Twin Freaks Festival

    June 28, 2017 - By 

    Unless you’ve been living under a considerably large rock recently, you will know that Twin Peaks has returned and has comfortably re-asserted itself as quintessential (and brilliantly batshit) water-cooler conversation TV. With the North having its own celebration via last month’s Belfast Twin Peaks Fest, the stunning Ballyhook Hill in Grangecon, Co. Wicklow will play host to Twin Freaks Festival on August 12. The one-day Lynchian inspired event will be a celebration of music, art, film and performance, and will feature contributions from Katie Kim, Paddy Kelleher, Cobra Truth, Brian Conniffee and more. Fancy dress encouraged and rewarded. Limited earlybird tickets are priced…

  • Women’s Work 2017

    April 15, 2017 - By 

    With its inaugural outing last year proving a resounding success, Belfast’s Oh Yeah Music Centre will host this year’s Women’s Work Festival across May 24-29. A unique festival for the city celebrating women in music, the purpose of Women’s Work is to raise the visibility of women who are generally in the minority in music, by hosting a range of activities that are open to all genders and include showcases, gigs, special events, panels, talks, and exhibitions. This year’s programme includes over 50 acts, creatives and DJs across 6 dedicated days, with additional content across the whole month of May. Up to 30…

  • Twin Peaks Fest Belfast

    April 11, 2017 - By 

    To mark the show’s monumentally-anticipated return after 25 years next month, Twin Peaks Fest Belfast will take place at The National across May 20-21. Promising screenings, fancy dress, Miss Twin Peaks Pageant, a Lynchian music night, prizes and more to be announced, tickets for the festival can snapped here for such £11.00 including booking fee. Damn fine, etc. As is this poster for the festival courtesy of Belfast’s Kubrix Design.

  • Distorted Perspectives 2017

    April 6, 2017 - By 

    Right up there with our favourite small Irish festivals, Distorted Perspectives – easily the country’s leading bastion of contemporary sound, psych and avant-garde art – will return to Letterkenny’s Regional Culture Centre across April 28-29. Now entering its fourth year, it will host Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3/Spiritualized), K-X-P, Hannah Peel (pictured), exmagician, Robocobra Quartet, SlowPlaceLikeHome, Tuath, Scenery, The Gatefolds, Aul Boy, The Barbiturates and Free Acid Sunshine across the two days. As well as said sonic feast, there will be a host of DJ sets from the likes of Turn It On, Chromaticism and Art for Blind records, as well as free screen-printing workshops courtesy of…

  • Picture This Special: PLASTIK Festival

    March 22, 2017 - By 

    Returning for its sophomore edition to Dublin this weekend is the PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image. Due to run Friday 24th to Sunday 26th, the festival is a collaboration between LUX, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and the IFI. The latter provides the setting for the weekend’s film screenings, which see a number of artists, including Yuri Pattison, aemi and Sasha Litvintseva, present bodies of work that influence their outputs, while others are showcasing current or forthcoming work. The festival begins on Friday at 6:30pm with Abyss Film in the IFI, curated by James Richards. This is followed by Richards and LUX…

  • F Festival 2017

    February 3, 2017 - By 

    A free, multifaceted festival aimed at generating visibility and equality for women in the arts, F Festival will return to various venues in Dublin for its second annual outing on March 11. With the daytime schedule set to see an array of art, talks and workshops transform the likes of Generator, The Back Loft and Temple Bar Gallery, venues including Sin E, Mother, Gypsy Rose, Grand Social, The Mercantile and more will host “hefty riffs and dirty disco beats” from the likes of Laoise, Kevyn, Vernon Jane, Leila Jane & The Healers, My Fellow Sponges, Pillow Queens and more to be announced. Go…

  • Wanda: Feminism and Moving Image

    January 25, 2017 - By 

    A four-day feminism and moving image event and the first of its kind in Belfast, Wanda will take place in various venues across the city from February 9-12. Featuring film screenings, talks, performances and panel discussions on subjects relating to feminist moving image practice and how feminism continues to inform and inspire moving image works of many forms, the mini-festival will include screenings of feature films such as Riddles of the Sphinx (still, above) at Beanbag Cinema and Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles at Queen’s Film Theatre, as well as shorts including Niamh McKenna’s Chasing the Birds and…

  • Outburst Queer Arts Festival 2016

    November 8, 2016 - By 

    Northern Ireland’s queer creative initiative and annual celebration of “all that is bold and lovely in the world of lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer and friends’ creative goodness” Outburst Arts Festival returns to Belfast for its tenth outing across November 10-19 with a jam-packed programme with queer theatre, music, visual arts, film, spoken word, books, poems, performance, workshops and more. With highlights including This Filthy World with the one and only John Waters, a screening of award-winning documentary Kiki with Twiggy Pucci Garçon and Chi Chi Mizrahi and a global queer trad session at The American Bar, you can check…