• All Together Now Announce 2022 Line-Up

    November 10, 2021 - By 

    All Together Now have announced a stacked line-up for its return next summer. Across the August Bank Holiday (July 29-July 31 2022) the festival will make its return to Curraghmore Estate in Co. Waterford after a three-year break. And it was well and truly worth the wait. Across 18 stages of music, art, theatre, spoken word, comedy, food and more, the festival will feature sets by the likes of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Underworld, Sinead O’Connor, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, DJ Koze, Jungle, Groove Armada, Honey Dijon, Dry Cleaning, Joy Orbison and more. And there’s an absolute…

  • Arab Strap Announce Irish Tour

    November 10, 2021 - By 

    Arab Strap are set for an Irish tour next year. The Scottish duo of Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton will play a string of intimate shows next summer. Ahead of two nights at Whelan’s in Dublin on July 17th and 18th, the duo will play the Empire Music Hall in Belfast on July 14th, Cork’s Cyprus Avenue on July 15th and Dolans in Limerick on July 16th. Tickets for all shows go on sale at Friday, November 12th at 10am.

  • Spilt Milk Announce Fringe Programme

    November 9, 2021 - By 

    With under two weeks to go to this year’s festival, Sligo’s Spilt Milk have announced details of its fringe programme. As well as shows by Silverbacks, Rising Damp, Alannah Thornburgh and many more throughout the town across the weekend of 19-21 November, this year’s programme features a host of wonderfully eclectic indoor and outdoor events, installations, screenings and workshops. Thursday, 18th November sees the launch of Idir, an audio trail and zine in which musicians, writers, and artists will guide attendees on a walk to the outskirts of Sligo, taking in sights and sounds not often noticed by tourists or…

  • Beach House Set For Dublin Return

    November 9, 2021 - By 

    Beach House will play Dublin next year. The Baltimore dream-pop duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally will mark their return to the city with a show at the National Stadium on Saturday, May 21 2022. Tickets go on sale next Friday, November 19 at 10am. It will be the duo’s ninth Dublin show to date, and their first since playing Vicar Street back in 2018. Coinciding with the news is the announcement of the band’s forthcoming eigth album, Once Twice Melody. An 18-song double album, it will be released in four “chapters” over the next four months. Chapter One lands tonight…

  • Belfast Becomes a UNESCO City of Music

    November 8, 2021 - By 

    Belfast has become UNESCO City of Music. The city has been awarded the prestigious City of Music title, which recognises its rich musical heritage, as well as the importance of music to its future. It’s only the third city in the UK to be awarded the coveted status. Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Kate Nicholl, said: “We are thrilled and honoured that Belfast has been bestowed the prestigious UNESCO City of Music title and to have Gary Lightbody and Hannah Peel on board as official patrons. This is wonderful news for Belfast! “Belfast is proud of its music culture. Creativity…

  • Other Voices to Make Dingle Return

    November 4, 2021 - By 

    Other Voices will return to Dingle later this month. Celebrating its twentieth year, the Irish music institution will return for a four-day series of live shows in West Kerry across November 25-28th. Taking place both online and in-person at the Church of St James and the IMRO Other Room, Other Voices Twenty/Fiche Bliain Ag Fás will feature performances by the likes of John Grant, Fontaines D.C., Kay Young, Houseplants and Gemma Dunleavy. With many more acts are to be announced, all of these sets will be streamed live to venues throughout Dingle and will also be available to view free of…

  • Grouper Set For Dublin’s National Concert Hall

    November 3, 2021 - By 

    The National Concert Hall will play host to one of music’s most singular voices next year. Thanks to Foggy Notions, Grouper – the main project of Californian musician Liz Harris – will play the Dublin venue on Tuesday, April 12th 2022. In support of her recently-released 12th full-length, Shade, the date marks Grouper’s first show in the city since playing Unitarian Church in 2012. Tickets are from €28.50 and go on sale on Friday, 5th November at 10 am. Stream Shade in full below. Shade by Grouper

  • CMAT Announces Irish Dates & Debut Album, Releases ‘No More Virgos’

    October 27, 2021 - By 

    The day is here at last: CMAT has announced details of her debut album. Having swiftly established herself as short of a revelation over the last couple of years, the Dublin-based artist will release If My Wife New I’d Be Dead via AWAL Recordings on February 25th, 2022. Including previously-released singles including ‘I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!’ and ‘I Don’t Really Care For You,’ news of the 12-track album comes accompanied by the release of new single ‘No More Virgos’. In textbook CMAT fashion, it’s forward-pushing, earworming pop at its very best. “I’m the kind of girl who dates the same person…

  • Watch: M(h)aol – No One Ever Talks To Us

    October 27, 2021 - By 

    Year in, year out, the imminence of Samhain tends to bring about some … varying seasonal content. Thankfully, there are always exceptions to that rule. Taken from their forthcoming debut EP, Gender Studies, the video for ‘No One Ever Talks To Us’ by M(h)aol depicts women in scenes of horror, from Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous Feminine and Megan Fox’s Jennifer’s Body, to Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror. But it’s far from a kneejerk tie-in to mark the time of the year from the band, who are based between Dublin, Cork, London and Bristol. A fraught meld of buzz-saw textures, bobbing rhythms and Róisín Nic…

  • Premiere: Boyfrens – Almost Live in Tengu

    October 21, 2021 - By 

    Dublin electro-pop artist Jack Hevey ventured out as Boyfrens just before the world began to shut down early last year. As a result – and no thanks to a whole heap of governmental incompetence as of late – he has yet had a chance to air his material to a real-world audience. With that reality firmly in mind, Hevey teamed up with Owen Costello of Substance Media to produce a 20-minute live performance at Dublin venue Tengu in early summer this year. Performing to an incredibly intimate audience of 10, the set was brought to life via director of photography Sean…