• Malojian – Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home

    October 7, 2017 - By 

    While there’s been no shortage of first-rate albums released on these shores this year, Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home by Malojian is a special kind of triumph. The self-produced follow-up to the Stephen Scullion-fronted threesome’s Steve Albini-produced This Is Nowhere, the album is a masterfully mottled effort, veering between wonderfully wistful folk tales, Motorik rhythms, found sound and a whole gamut of forward-thinking textures and ideas. And featuring the likes of Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M., Atoms For Peace, Roger Waters), Gerry Love (Teenage Fanclub), and Jon Thorne of Yorkston, Thorne & Khan, the collaborative backbone of the release runs parallel with Scullion’s open-ended, subtly experimental…

  • The Bonk – The Bonk Seems To Be A Verb

    October 7, 2017 - By 

    Having released a string of stellar singles over the last two years, Dublin & Cork-based experimental, orchestral, psychedelic garage rock project The Bonk released their debut LP, The Bonk Seems To Be A Verb, on October 6. Recorded over the last few years while the outfit have been together, it’s released on cassette through Drogheda arts & culture collective Thirty Three – 45. Although the project is based around the compositions of frontman Phil Christie – of O Emperor, the substantial cast of musicians credited on the album includes some of the island’s most respected artists & virtuosi: Phil O’ Gorman – Guitar Brendan Fennessy – Drums Jim…

  • Basic Space Talk @ Hugh Lane

    October 10, 2017 - By 

    Basic Space Dublin continue their series of talk in Dublin’s Hugh Lane this coming Friday with a discussion with curatorial duo RGKSKSRG. RGKSKSRG is composed of Rachel Gilbourne (IMMA Ireland) and Kate Strain (Grazer Kunstverein, located in Graz, Austria) and over the last number of years they have been curating a host of intriguing and engaging shows, utilising a variety of mediums and spaces – notably 2015’s online installation love story featuring the work of Eilis McDonald and last year’s I like to eat with my hands in Wexford Arts Centre. Places for the talk, which begins at 1pm in Gallery 18, are free but limited to…

  • I.NY Festival 2017

    October 4, 2017 - By 

    We have no shortage of boundlessly inviting festivals right on our doorstep, but some go that little bit further by excavating the long-standing cultural trends and bonds that ensure Ireland’s creative standing on the world stage remains unique. A festival that celebrates “the relationship between Ireland and New York, one story at a time” I.NY is a perfect case in point. Set to take place at a number of venues in Limerick City across October 5-15, this year’s outing will delve into and highlight the strong ties between the NYC and Ireland, inviting a range of creatives – artists, writers, musicians, educators, entrepreneurs and more…

  • Dublin Art Book Fair: Art and Architecture – Interwoven

    October 4, 2017 - By 

    With its themes of art and architecture, this year’s Henry J Lyons-sponsored Dublin Art Book Fair will take place at Dublin’s Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, with other events at the Irish Architecture Foundation, Tenement Museum and the National Gallery of Ireland, across November 23-26. Bridging the distinct realms of art and architecture in order to engage diverse audiences, a curated programme of talks, tours, workshops, an artist commission and a film screening will traverse contemporary art, architecture, books, design, film, the city and its material histories. Launched at 6pm on Thursday, November 23, highlights of this year’s fair include a…

  • The Thing @ S13, Belfast

    October 4, 2017 - By 

    Released 25 years ago this year, The Thing remains a bona fide sci-fi horror classic. Commemorating the fact in style, Belfast’s new-fangled South 13 will be converted into a snowbound landscape for a unique Halloween screening of the John Carpenter classic on Monday, October 30. Presented by S13, Newcastle Community Cinema and Belfast Film Festival, the event will also feature full bar and food stalls. Exploding heads are also available. Tickets are priced £10 and can be bought here.

  • Indie Label Day 2017

    October 4, 2017 - By 

    Presented by two of the country’s leading independent imprints, Art for Blind and Penske, the inaugural Indie Label Day will take place at Whelan’s in Dublin on Saturday, October 14. The first event of its kind in Ireland to focus purely on record label culture, the day-long fair will celebrate DIY music on the island of Ireland. A marketplace, DJ sets and live bands will take place across two rooms. The afternoon (which is free and runs from 2-6pm) will feature pop-up stalls bringing together a range of independent record labels and distributors operating around the country as well as…

  • David Holmes’ God’s Waiting Room – Marie Curie Fundraiser

    September 28, 2017 - By 

    A night that always delivers something special, David Holmes‘ God’s Waiting Room will return to wonderfully inimitable environs of Belfast’s Maple Leaf Club on Saturday, September 30 for a special fundraiser for Marie Curie Hospice. Compèred by Joe Lindsay, joining David Holmes on the night will be Raphael Doyle and Gerry Diver, who will perform the sublime ‘I Come From Ireland’. The night will also see the return of Barry Woolnough and Alain McClean, who will perform ‘Great Spirit Father in the Sky’ and ‘Judgement day Blues’ as heard on Holme’s recent – and downright essential – Late Night Tales…

  • Autumns – Suffocating Brothers

    September 27, 2017 - By 

    Since starting out some time ago as a D.I.Y. shoegaze/garage-noise outfit, Derry’s Christian Donaghey has refused to sit in any one place for too long with his ongoing project, Autumns, releasing and echewing subgenre records for breakfast, lunch & dinner. Over the last couple of years, he’s grown into himself, really finding his place with his most recent EP. Finally, he’s released his debut full length, Suffocating Brothers on renowned Glasgow label Clan Destine after being written & recorded in the latter half of 2016. This material sees him continue to bring the intensely visceral Roland-fuelled rhythms of industrial & techno he’s adopted in recent times, melded…

  • The Sad and Beautiful World of Sparklehorse @ NCC

    September 26, 2017 - By 

    Following events at The MAC in Belfast and Whelan’s in Dublin earlier in the year, Newcastle Community Cinema in Co. Down will play host to an event celebrating the life and music of the sadly-missed Mark Linkous AKA Sparklehorse on Saturday, September 30. Following a screening of Alex Crowton and Bobby Dass’ remarkably well-crafted documentary The Sad & Beautiful World of Sparklehorse, artists including Tom McShane, The Mad Dalton, Heliopause, Pixie Saytar and more will perform a one-hour, career-spanning set of music from the Sparklehorse songbook. This event launches Newcastle Community Cinema’s fourth annual Full Moon Film Festival programme. Tickets are £10.00…