As part of a 40th anniversary European tour, it’s been announced that Public Image Ltd. will play Dublin’ Tivoli Theatre on Sunday, August 26. It was previously announced that the legendary, John Lydon fronted four-piece – who currently comprise Lydon, Lu Edmonds, Scott Firth and Bruce Smith – will play Bangor’s Open House festival on Saturday, August 25. Tickets for the Dublin show go on sale on Monday, February 26 at 11am.
Taking place on the day of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize live event on Thursday, March 8, “Conversations” is a new, “thoughtfully curated international-leaning music forum designed to encourage an exchange of learning and discussion and challenge the biggest prevailing issues facing both artists and industry professionals.” Moderated by Jim Carroll from RTÉ, here’s the panels and details: Registration: 9.30am Conversation 1: 10.30am- 11.15am Public Interview with Alan Swan (Director of music at RTE 2FM) Conversation 2: 11.30am – 12.20pm The Record Label Why Do I Need A Record Label in 2018. Conversation 3: 1.30pm – 2.20pm Money / Synch…
Always a significant event in the Irish music calendar, last night saw the 2017 IMRO Irish Live Music Venue of the Year Awards recognise some of the island’s best live music venues. Held at the IMRO HQ in Dublin, the following venues were awarded the top prize for their respective region: Dublin – Whelan’s (pictured) Rest of Leinster – The Set Theatre Connacht – Roisin Dubh Munster – Connolly’s Of Leap Ulster – Leo’s Tavern Coming out on top as the National Live Music Venue of the Year was Mike The Pies in Listowel, Co. Kerry. Elsewhere, Electric Picnic won the…
Ahead of the release of their Live at the NCH on March 2, The Gloaming have launched the video for their new seven-minute single ‘The Booley House’. Speaking of the track – which is taken from the forthcoming release – the band said “We’ve much enjoyed [illustrator] Jacob Stack’s illustrations and videos over the years and so took much delight in his new drawing that celebrates the release of Live at the NCH. Here’s Jacob in action, set to the new live version of The Booley House.” True to form, it’s an unravelling, wonderfully enchanting effort from the band – brought to life…
The first 30 acts set to play this year’s Knockanstockan have been announced. Set to return to Blessington Lakes in Co. Wicklow across July 28-29, the following acts – including many TTA favourites including Slouch, Farah Elle (pictured), Yankari, The Bonk, Super Silly and Paddy Hanna – make up the first line-up reveal: Bantum, Humans of the Sesh, ROE, JyellowL, Navá, Sim Simma Sound System, Bicurious, Akora, Chancer, The Olllam, Moon Looks On, Spudgun, Munky, Farah Elle, Deborah, Yankari, The Scratch, The Bonk, Vernon Jane, Slouch, The Hot Sprockets, Grand, Simon Bird, Ailie Blunnie, Super Silly, Wood Burning Savages, Paddy Hanna, Elaine Mai, Cúla Búla and Kojaque. Tickets for Saturday…
A brand new August Bank Holiday taking place at Curraghmore Estate in County Waterford, the first acts for the inaugural All Together Now have been announced. With many more yet to be revealed, Fleet Foxes, Underworld, Róisín Murphy, Chaka Khan, First Aid Kit, Mura Masa, Nils Frahm, Mogwai, Jimmy Cliff, The New Power Generation, Groove Armada (DJ Set), Kelela, The Black Madonna, Booka Shade, Hot Chip Megamix, Maribou State, Ghostpoet, Talos, Saul Williams, Jape, This Is The Kit, Horse Meat Disco, Saint Sister, Shanti Celeste, Grandbrothers, Books Brass, whenyoung, Fish Go Deep, Biig Piff, David Keenan and Nialler9 make up the first names.…
Having last played the venue back in 2014, it’s been announced that Los Angeles trio HAIM will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Tuesday, June 12. Tickets for the show – which takes place as part of the band’s UK and European tour this June – go on sale next Friday, February 23.
Hailing from Derry, alternative-folk singer-songwriter Simon Herron plays, in his own words, “quiet, creaky, melancholy songs. Mostly.” It’s a wonderfully terse, and therefore very apt description for an artist who clearly chooses his word carefully in song. Taken from his forthcoming EP Now I’ve Closed My Eyes, ‘For a Minute’ is a wonderfully-woven tale of fingerpicked guitar patterns, sparse percussion and Herron’s evocative lyricism. Speaking of the track, the Liverpool-based musician said, “’For A Minute’ is essentially a tribute to the life and work of my late Grandfather, the Irish poet and playwright, Francis Harvey. His work deals with both the people and…
In what’s one of our most anticipated Irish releases of 2018, traditional vocal quartet Landless have released the video for ‘Doomsday’, the first single from debut album Bleaching Bones. First heard on their eponymous debut EP, the Belfast & Dublin-based outfit’s brief & minimal video highlights the qualities – “Evocative, celestial, ethereal and, above all, extremely resonant” – that make Landless such an important prospect in the current resurgence & contemporary progression of Irish traditional music. Bleaching Bones is out on March 9 through Humble Serpent Records, with the Dublin launch at St Ann’s Church. More details here. Read Dominic Edge’s 18 for ’18 piece on Landless.
Early-to-mid noughties NME nostalgists, rejoice: it’s been announced that the Killers and Franz Ferdinand will team up with for an open-air show at Dublin’s RDS on June 26. Tickets for the show are priced at €69.50 and go on sale on Friday, February 23. While we have you, here’s Jonny Currie’s verdict on the new Franz Ferdinand album, Always Ascending. Remember ‘Michael’? Feels like a lifetime ago, man.