• NYF Music Trail 2015

    December 30, 2015 - By 

    Taking place across fifteen Dublin venues on December 30 and December 31, the 2015 NYF Music Trail will feature free shows from the likes of Participant, Hare Squead, New Pope and Inni-K (pictured). As well as a performances in the likes of the Little Musueum, Mansion House and Urban Picnic, acts including Anderson and This Other Kingdom will also play pop-up shows at Terminal 1 and 2 of Dublin Airport. Nice. “Demonstrating how the city support its artists whilst also creative a fantastic atmosphere of pop up goodies for visitors and residents alike during the New Year’s Festival…” the trail was…

  • Popical Island All-Dayer 5

    November 30, 2015 - By 

    With more acts to be announced (deep breath) Squarehead, Skelocrats, Lie Ins, Ginnels, No Monster Club, Walpurgis Family, The Number 1s and Me and My Dog will congregate for the common good AKA celebrating Dublin collective and label Popical Island’s grand fifth All-Dayer upstairs in Whelans on Saturday, December 19. And true to title, things will kick off at the sprightly hour of 3pm and wrap up around 11pm. Entry is a measly €10. Go here for the show’s Facebook event page.

  • Framewerk Winter Exhibition

    November 26, 2015 - By 

    East Belfast contemporary art gallery Framewerk will launch its annual winter exhibition on Saturday, November 28 at its premises on 16 Upper Newtonards Road. An eclectic mix of artists that the gallery (also a respected framing business) has encountered over the last six months, the exhibition presents ceramics, jewellery, sculpture, prints and paintings from the following established and emerging artists: Judith Logan, Joe Lindsay, FXD, Kat St Angelou, SevVen, Robin Cordiner, Shauna Magowan, John Macormac, Esther O Donaghue, Siobhan Conyngham, Patrick Conyngham, Merlin, Fergal Donnelly, Neal Hughes, Johanna Leech, Benny Sweeney, Sam Fleming, Trudy Creen, Christopher Martin, Clodagh Lavelle and Patrick Colhoun. Go here for the exhibition’s Facebook event page and keep up with all things Framewerk related at their website here.

  • KLUBNACHT

    November 26, 2015 - By 

    On Friday, December 11, the ever tasteful Homebeat and the Goethe Institut will present KLUBNACHT, a night that aims to celebrate the finest Irish and German electronic music held in and throughout the sublime Georgian surrounds of the soon-to-be-refurbished office buildings of The Goethe Institut on Merrion Square, Dublin. As can only be expected from the Homebeat crew by now, the line-up for this inaugural showcase is pretty special. As well as a DJ set from Waterford born, Berlin-residing Neill Flynn of resident German imprint Lossless, KLUBNACHT will also feature producer Martin Enke AKA Lake People (Live), Dublin duo Harry Bookless and Aaron Page AKA…

  • Other Voices Live 2015

    November 26, 2015 - By 

    Bona fine Irish music institution Other Voices returns to Dingle in Kerry across the weekend of December 4-6 for another stellar, genre-spanning showcase of international and homegrown music. Split between the main event in St. Jame’s Church and the iconic – free – Music Trail (full line-up below), the likes of Low, Gaz Coombes and Richard Hawley will grace the former, whilst some of the very best Irish acts take over the former. Go here to check out full information via the Other Voices website, here to stream our Other Voices Live 2015 Festival Mixtape and here for its Facebook…

  • Preview: Outloud @ Outburst 2015

    November 12, 2015 - By 

    As part of this year’s Outburst Arts Festival, the inaugural Outburst: Outloud this Saturday (November 14) will be a day long event of stalls, talks, workshops and music all with a feminist/trans/queer slant. On the day there will be stalls, talks and workshops from Belfast Feminist Network, Hollaback, Sail, GenderJam, Anchor, Reclaim the Night, The Belfast City Rockets and more. There will also be zine-making and lyric-writing workshops, and a discussion based around the play Scorch (which is showing at the Mac). As well as all that there will be loads of bands playing throughout the day with headliners in Edinburgh’s…

  • Sound of Belfast 2015

    November 5, 2015 - By 

    With the events running from November 6-14 around the city, this year’s Sound of Belfast will culminate in the presentation of this year’s Oh Yeah Legend Award to The Divine Comedy at the NI Music Prize event at the Mandela Hall on November 14. The festivities include many exhibitions from local artists & filmmakers, as well as conferences and masterclasses at the Oh Yeah Centre. These include the Belfast Urban Affinity 2015, aimed at hard-to-reach youths, and the Breaking Into Music Youth Conference, featuring the likes of Phil Taggart, who quickly progressed from BBC Radio Ulster to Radio 1 in recent years. There’ll be also a…

  • You Are Here @ Mart, Dublin

    November 4, 2015 - By 

    You Are Here – an exhibition of new works by three emerging artists, Christine Browne, Abigail Denniston and Sarah Edmondson – will launch at Dublin’s MART on Thursday, November 5. A provocative exploration into our current relationship with maps, both old and new, and the way technology allows us to navigate our way around the world based on our current location, the exhibition is a “A subjective and personal voyage into the art of map making, relishing in the lines, shapes, and scale of this picturesque language that we have depended on for centuries. A language that never claimed to…

  • Outburst Queer Arts Festival 2015

    October 29, 2015 - By 

    Set to be another ten day celebration of LGBT creative culture, the equal parts bold and brilliant  Outburst Queer Arts Festival will return to Belfast from November 12 to 21. Spanning film screenings, theatre performance, visual art and various special events, the festival this year’s outing features everything from a LGBTQ pop-up book club with Patrick Gale, Genderama – a creative project about gender – OUTBURST: OUTLOUD and HOUSE at the Mac, an unmissable night celebration the New York House Ballroom Community. We’ll be previewing our “must-see” events soon. In the meantime go right here to check out the full listings and check out the…

  • TEMPERED Contemporary Music Weekend

    October 29, 2015 - By 

    Hosted by the indomitable, ridiculously informed Moving On Music, TEMPERED is a celebration of homegrown contemporary music talent that will take place in three Belfast venues – Black Box, St. George’s Church and Crescent Arts Centre – from November 5-8. All very reasonably priced shows, The ‘JamJar’ finale, Ian Wilson’s The Last Siren, Ed Bennett’s Decible Ensemble, Crash Ensemble’s Born In the 80s and Chamber Choir Ireland’s Arvo Pärt at 80 make up the weekender’s superb five-show programme. Go here to pre-book tickets now.