• Metropolis Festival

    Taking place over the 7 & 8 November at Dublin’s RDS, the Metropolis Festival boasts an incredible lineup spread across 6 rooms, taking in live music, performance, discussions & talks from selected creatives, and installations geared towards transforming the RDS into an audio-visual playground. Chic, featuring Nile Rodgers – about whom nothing further needs to be said – headline the Metropolis stage, so expect one of the richest and tightest sets in the world. Performing during the weekend are hit machine Mark Ronson, Jamie XX – fresh off the back of his excellent new In Colour LP –  The Roots, Giorgio Moroder, Finnish maestro Todd Terje, Kaytranada, Matthew Herbert, Dorian Concept, Kerri…

  • Wacken Open Air 2015

    The world’s self-proclaimed largest heavy metal festival, Wacken Open Air returns to Wacken, Germany from July 29 to August 1 with yet another exceptionally strong, monstrously heavy bill. With the likes of Judas Priest, Biohazard, In Flames, Opeth, Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse, Rob Zombie, Within Temptation and Savatage amongst the acts set to play, the festival will attract 75,000 visitors over its four days. Buy tickets for the festival here and check out the full line-up here.

  • Live at The Marquee 2015

    The likes of Beck, Van Morrison, Chic and Damien Rice will grace the Docklands at Cork’s Live at the Marquee this June and July for yet another string of unmissable, high-profile shows courtesy of Aiken. Check out the full line-up below and go here to buy tickets. Tuesday, June 16: Beck, O Emperor Wednesday, June 17: Billy Idol Thursday, June 18: The Vamps, Hometown Friday, June 19: The Coronas Saturday, June 20: The Coronas, Hudson Taylor, Little Hours Sunday, June 21: Nathan Carter Monday, June 22: ZZ Top Tuesday, June 23: John Legend Wednesday, June 24: Ellie Goulding Thursday, June…

  • With Full Force Festival 2015

    It’s only a few weeks left until With Full Force festival will celebrate its 22nd year at Flugplatz Roitzschjora Germany. After a massive twentieth birthday bash in 2013 and yet another stellar line-up last year, one of the loudest and hardest music festivals in Germany brings the very best of metal, punk and hardcore to your ears once more from July 3 to July 5. With the likes of Agnostic Front, Kreator, In Flames, Sick of it All, Carcass, Fear Factory, In Flames and Heaven Shall Burn set to perform at the festival, you can check out the full line-up below. Go here…

  • An Áit Eile: That’s How It Starts

    Saturday, June 13 hosts a showcase for Galway’s local arts, crafts and music at the Nuns Island Theatre, organised by the grassroots not-for-profit organisation, An Áit Eile, who wish to foster the creative community of the west of Ireland. Teaming up with see many of Galway’s local organisations like Access Music Project, Citóg Records, Jamaica Joe’s, there will also be a series of acoustic artists performing at the show,  including My Fellow Sponges, Rivers and Crows, Steven Sharpe, Dylan Murphy, Majestic Bears and Tracy Bruen, as well as an indoor marketplace from 1pm-6pm, featuring locally-produced arts, crafts and food. Performances will be accompanied by DJs Ray Wingnut, Stroller and Fuz.…

  • Sounds From A Safe Harbour

    Another brand-new festival has been added to Cork’s ever-expanding portfolio of annual events with the announcement of Sounds from a Safe Harbour, ‘a festival of music, art and conversation’ running September 17th until the 20th around the city. Curated by The National guitarist Bryce Dessner, it’s sure to be another strong Cork move, following the good buzz and recent pick-up in events and crowds that’s happened this year. The blurb: Sounds from a Safe Harbour is a brand new festival of music, art and conversation, curated by Bryce Dessner of The National. Two years since its inception by Bryce and Cork Opera…

  • Belfast Photo Festival 2015

    Presenting one of the leading International Festivals of photography in the UK and the Visual Arts Festival of Northern Ireland, Belfast Photo Festival will return to the city from June 4-30 with an extraordinarily varied programme. With a whole host of exhibitions, workshops, masterclasses, talks, tours, screenings and portfolio reviews on the cards over the four weeks, the festival – which has been two years in the making – will include work by major international photographers alongside Northern Ireland’s finest photographic talent. Highlights from this year’s outing for the festival include To Camera, a group exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery,…

  • Festival of Fools 2015

    Nothing short of an annual Belfast Bank Holiday institution, Festival of Fools returns this weekend with 120 free comedy street shows, including clowns from Spain, acrobats from Australia and Tanzania, not to mention a whole array of Northern Irish performers. Running from Friday, May 1 until Monday, May 4, approximately 40 acts per day will speckle the streets with an array of the brilliant and bizarre performances. Go here to check out the full schedule for the festival.

  • Festival Preview: Indiependence

    Cork’s major entry on the national festival calendar (and therefore the most important), Indiependence has established itself as one of the major festivals of the summer, typically by serving up diverse, quality line-ups in a relatively intimate setting, limiting admissions to 5,000, amid the fields of Deer Farm in Mitchelstown, the festival’s home since moving out from the town square way back (early iterations of the festival featured headline sets from Coolio and Dannii Minogue, among others, before it truly hit its stride as a camping weekender). This year’s announcements so far have been nothing short of quality, with Ash,…

  • Life Festival

    Now in its tenth year, the Life Festival takes place at Mullingar’s Belvedere House & Gardens on the weekend of May 29-31. Headlining is hip-hop icon NAS, performing his out-and-out masterpiece, Illmatic. Also on the bill are the likes of: Squarepusher, Siriusmodeselektor, Eats Everything, The Underachievers, a live set from Gold Panda, Ben Klock, Jurassic 5’s Nu-Mark, Optimo, Sunil Sharpe, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Pantha Du Prince, Skream, Ten Walls, Ratking, Derrick Carter, The Magician, Maceo Plex, Kölsch, Robert Hood, Alle Farben, Oneman, Luke Vibert, Jasper James, High Contrast, Ben UFO, Ame, and many more. Tickets, priced at €145, are available from the Life Festival.