• Crowdfunder launched for Invisible Britain: Portraits

    February 28, 2018 - By 

    A new photography book showcases cutting-edge documentary portraits from across the UK. Independent film director Paul Sng has launched a crowdfunding campaign for Invisible Britain: Portraits, a unique book of documentary images from more than 30 award-winning photographers including Belfast’s James McCourt. Co-curated by Chloe Juno and Laura Dicken, the book features stories and portraits from across the UK, showing the sharp edge of austerity and cuts to public services. The book arises from the documentary Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain, co-directed by Sng in 2015, and follows the success of follow-up film Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle. “Negative and…

  • Watch: Myles Manley – i’m in love w/ myself

    February 27, 2018 - By 

    We’re rather fond of Myles Manley here at the TTA. In fact, we have no qualms saying that we think the English-born, Sligo-raised, Dublin-based musician is one of the country’s most masterfully idiosyncratic artists. Take 2015’s “comprehensively endearing” ‘Pay Me What I’m Worth’, or last year’s ‘Relax; Enjoy Your Night Upon the Town’, a track that featured highly in our Top 100 Irish Tracks of 2017. Manley’s craft doesn’t serve up the odd gem here and there – he consistently delivers the goods, forever finding ways to make music whose points of reference often squarely fall back facing his very own direction. Accompanied by Sebastian MacDermott’s…

  • RHYE and Unknown Mortal Orchestra Added to Forbidden Fruit Festival

    February 27, 2018 - By 

    It’s been announced that Los Angeles-based Canadian alternative R&B artist RHYE and New Zealand psych maestros Unknown Mortal Orchestra (pictured) will join the likes of The War on Drugs, Grizzly Bear, Warpaint, Thundercat and Spoon on the Monday line-up of this year’s Forbidden Fruit. The June Bank Holiday festival returns to Royal Kilmainham Hospital in Dublin across June 2-4. With more to be announced, the likes of Justice, Richie Hawtin, Four Tet, Bicep and Ben UFO will all perform across the weekend. Tickets are available to buy here.

  • Body & Soul Reveal First Acts for 2018

    February 27, 2018 - By 

    With Fever Ray (pictured) announced earlier this month, Body & Soul have revealed its first phase of acts for its 2018 edition. Set to return to Ballinlough Castle in Co. Westmeath across June 22-June 24, the following acts will perform: With many more yet to be announced, we’re very already impressed. Tickets are available to buy here.

  • Mitski Set For Dublin Return

    February 26, 2018 - By 

    Having last played the city back in June last year, Brooklyn indie rock musician Mitski will return to play Dublin, at Tivoli Theatre, on September 22. The show will take place as part of a UK and European tour (no Belfast date this time around but considering the turn-out at the Empire Music Hall back in 2017, we’re not entirely surprised.) Tickets for the Tivoli show go on sale this Friday, March 2 at 9am.

  • Stream: Le Galaxie – Day of the Child

    February 23, 2018 - By 

    Le Galaxie are back with ‘Day of the Child’ the second single off their forthcoming album, released today and currently streaming on Spotify. The neon inflected dance track features MayKay from dearly departed Fight Like Apes on vocals and some Soft Cell inspired synths, perfectly encapsulating their signature sound.  Having appeared as a guest on previous tracks and a huge favourite at their live gigs, this release coincides with the news of her officially becoming the fifth member of the group. Their highly anticipated album ‘Pleasure’ will be released on April 6 on the Red River Label.

  • EP Stream: Rebekah Fitch – Broken Mind

    February 23, 2018 - By 

    Launched with a full band show tomorrow night (Saturday, February 24) at the Belfast Barge, Broken Mind by Belfast-based artist Rebekah Fitch is FM-aiming alt-pop brimming with real nuance and heart. Filtering influence from acts including Stevie Nicks, Bjork and Florence and the Machine, Fitch’s sound betrays real attention to detail – not merely in terms of not only songwriting, but also how, lyrically, each song presents its own intricate emotive world. Fleshed out with some sublime production and burrowing hooks, Fitch has said that the songs on the release are united “on the common themes of internal war, mental struggles and cognitive dissonance,…

  • Watch: Alien She – Death Sentence

    February 23, 2018 - By 

    Released as part of the Art For Blind-supported Goodbye 8 Campaign, ‘Death Sentence’ by Dublin experimental trio Alien She is a track that confronts the crux of the Irish abortion rights debate head on. The closing track on the band’s debut album, Feeler, the band wrote the song after Savita Halappanavar, originally from India, died at University Hospital Galway in 2012 due to complications arising from a septic miscarriage and failings in her care. Accompanying a Bandcamp release – which includes a tote bag/print, proceeds of which go to Repealing the 8th – the release comes accompanied with a video courtesy…

  • Stream: Group Zero – Pursuit (Black Bones Dreams Mix)

    February 23, 2018 - By 

    A highlight from last year’s Structures and Light, ‘Pursuit’ by Belfast’s Cathal Cully AKA Group Zero has been reworked by production and DJ duo Black Bones. Extroverting the inward-looking subtlety of the original, the track has been re-woven as an early-morning dancefloor gem. Speaking of the track, Black Bones said, ““We wanted to lean the track more towards the club without losing it’s essence. Familiar noises mixed with an unfamiliar end. A sort of lost on the dance floor fog at 5am when you should have really gone home a long time ago. The joy of being there slightly mixed with…

  • Album Stream: Wyvern Lingo – Wyvern Lingo

    February 23, 2018 - By 

    Do believe the hype. Having went straight in to number one on the Irish iTunes charts, the self-titled debut album by Wyvern Lingo is a remarkable, all-killer tour de force from undoubtedly the country’s finest fast-rising band. Set to launch at Dublin’s Button Factory tonight, the first full-length from the Bray trio of Karen Cowley, Saoirse Duane and Caoimhe Barry is a razor-sharp snapshot of a band whose increasingly singular brand of harmony-driven alt-pop has been everywhere recently – and rightly so. Wyvern Lingo captures – and perfectly bookend – the latest chapter in what’s set to be an exciting, far-reaching few…