• Tears For Fears and Alison Moyet to Play Dublin’s 3Arena

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    If you haven’t already spent your life savings on the deluge of must-attend shows being announced for next year, here’s another one for the calendar. Supported by Alison Moyet, English new wave maestros Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith AKA Tears For Fears will headline Dublin’s 3Arena on May 2, 2018. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 3. Pre-sale tickets are available here. The pair – who release their new Greatest Hits album Rule The World on November 10 – have sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

  • Liam Gallagher to Make Dublin and Belfast Return

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    As expected, Liam Gallagher has confirmed that he will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle on Friday, June 15. The Oasis frontman – who has just released his debut solo album As You Were – will also play Belfast’s Ormeau Park as part of Belsonic 2018 on Saturday, June 16. The Malahide Castle show will be Gallagher’s bigger Irish headline show, having already sold out dates at The Olympia Theatre and Weston Airport this year. Tickets – which go on sale next Friday at 9am – are priced €49.90 and £40.00 respectively.

  • Yep, It’s Happening: LCD Soundsystem Set For Malahide Castle in June

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Confirming what was rumoured at the start of the week, it’s been confirmed that LCD Soundsystem will return to Dublin to play Malahide Castle next summer. Having played an acclaimed residency at Olympia Theatre in September, James Murphy and co. – who released their critically-acclaimed fourth studio album American Dream earlier this year – will play the outdoor venue on June 5. Other acts for the date are yet to be confirmed. Tickets are priced €69.50 and go on sale next Friday, November 3 at 9am. Now for Gorillaz and/or Liam Gallagher to be confirmed…

  • Morrissey Set For 3Arena Show in February

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Love, hate or merely tolerate him, Stephen Patrick Morrissey will return to Dublin’s 3Arena on February 20. Set to release his eleventh solo studio album on November 17, Morrissey released his latest single ‘I Wish You Lonely’ on Tuesday. Ticket prices for the Dublin are TBC. Tickets go on sale next Friday (November 3) at 10am.

  • Watch: Thunder On The Left – National Insecurity

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Photo by Brian Ritchie  To mark its official release, London-based grunge trio Thunder On The Left have released their new single ‘National Insecurity’. Their first new music since 2015’s  The Art of Letting Go EP, ‘National Insecurity’ is a bleak gaze into the future the band predicts for us as we become ever more hyper-dependent on technology. The single is an ambitious, riff-laden belter that seems determined to shake some sense into us. Or at least freak the hell out of us until we put our phones down for 10 minutes. Recorded and mixed along with the rest of their forthcoming debut album by the…

  • Video Premiere: Half Forward Line – Column A, Column B

    October 26, 2017 - By 

    Galway super-group of sorts Half Forward Line are set to release their debut album The Back of Mass tomorrow. Before we premiere it on this here website though, the band have been kind enough to share a video for ‘Column A, Column B’. The trio, comprised of So Cow‘s Brian Kelly on guitar and vocals, Oh Boland‘s Niall Murphy and bass, and regular TTA photographer Cíarán Ó Maoláin behind the drums, have been doing some wonderful damage on the live circuit these past few months and also unveiled one of the sweetest love songs to come out of the West in quite some time in the form…

  • Track-by-Track: Feather Beds – Blooming

    October 26, 2017 - By 

      Ahead of the release of his second album Blooming, Dublin’s Michael Orange AKA Feather Beds has been kind enough to give us a track by track rundown of the record. Set for release this Friday 27 October on Montreal-based label Moderna Records, Blooming is a dreamy alt-folk venture written and recorded when the songwriter was living in Canada. Following his debut LP in 2015, The Skeletal System, Blooming is mixed and co-produced by Stephen Shannon (Adrian Crowley, Strands) and is a dreamy, multi-layered a that evokes the likes of The Antlers and Mutual Benefit‘s Love’s Crushing Diamond in its ambient folk atmosphere, but owes just as much to the hypnotic, minimal compositions of Steve Reich and to the…

  • Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem and Liam Gallagher set for Malahide Castle Next Year?

    October 24, 2017 - By 

    Ah, the old internet rumour mill. What on earth was life like before you? According to reports on a couple of mammoth Irish digital content pedallers, LCD Soundsystem are primed to play Malahide Castle on Tuesday, June 5, Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz will play Saturday, June 9 and Liam Gallagher (whose debut solo album Christine Costello reviewed for us over here) will play an as-of-yet unspecified date in the month. According to a post by Enjoy Malahide (and let’s face it, who wouldn’t enjoy Malahide?) the shows are provisional and dependent upon successful planning permission. Assuming that’s granted, and these shows are, you know, actually…

  • Video Premiere: Malojian – Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home

    October 24, 2017 - By 

    Released last week, Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home by Stephen Scullion’s Malojian is a record firmly rooted in place and visual memory. With the seeds of this latest outing being sown when BFI and Northern Ireland screen approached Scullion about playing a show at a coastal location with coastal-themed visuals from their archive to be used as a backdrop, Scullion soon took to the idea of recording some new material to go alongside those visuals. Teaming up with long-time collaborator, Belfast filmmaker and photographer Colm Laverty, the videos for LYWCYH’s lead singles ‘Some New Bones‘ and ‘Ambulance Song‘ presented symbiotic visual narratives that…

  • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Set For Dublin Show

    October 23, 2017 - By 

    Hands down one of the most prolific bands in the world right now, Melbourne psych rock maestros King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have announced they will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on February 23.  The show takes place as part of a four-date run that also sees the band play London, Manchester and Glasgow. Tickets for the show go on pre-sale this Wednesday and general sale at 10am on Friday, October 27.