• Eels Set For Belfast and Dublin

    July 13, 2021 - By 

    Eels are set to return to Belfast and Dublin. The Mark ‘E’ Oliver Everett-led band will kick off their Lockdown Hurrican tour with shows at Belfast’s Telegraph Building on March 11 and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on March 12. Speaking about the shows, E said, “We’ve got a lot of pent-up energy from all the time spent cooped-up and unable to rock. It’s going to be an extra-special treat this time. We always have the greatest time playing live, but this is gonna get crazy. Attendees will want to keep their cameras rolling, because we may explode.” Tickets are priced from €45.05 and go on sale on Friday,…

  • Watch: Parnell March – Therapy

    July 13, 2021 - By 

    Originally from the small village of Camlough in Co. Armagh, Dylan Galloghly, aka Parnell March, has called Perth, Australia home since 2006. This week, he emerges as a contender via the finely-woven electronica of ‘Therapy,’ the lead track from his forthcoming debut album, Ozone Parade. Across four-and-a-half minutes concocts a subtly propulsive, vocoder-heavy gem that evokes everyone from Fujiya & Miyagi and Trans Am to Belfast dance-punk legends Not Squares. Lyrically focusing on how, “connection, agency and affection are primary human needs that also generally align with successful psychotherapy,” the song’s accompanying video – which touches upon body image and wellness, as well as psychological and psychiatric…

  • Tori Amos Set For Dublin and Cork Shows

    July 9, 2021 - By 

    Tori Amos is set to play Dublin and Cork next year. As part of a forthcoming European tour, the U.S. singer-songwriter will play Cork’s Opera House on March 17 and the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on March 18. Tickets go on sale next Friday (July 16) at 10 AM. Revisit a stone-cold Tori Amos classic below.

  • Premiere: Arthur Itis – Ahead Of The Curve

    July 12, 2021 - By 

    Cork-based being Arthur Itis is back with more of his singular brand of esoteric, experimental bedroom-pop. Deconstructing any number of genres and effortlessly reanimating them in his own image in a lineage that traces lines through Beefheart, Devo, Ween and R Stevie Moore, he never fails to lean into the weirdness, even at his most accessible. Taken from his fifth LP, Occam’s Razor, earworming new single ‘Ahead of the Curve’ is no different, as Arthur’s character-inhabiting post-new wave gem marks his finest pop song yet. Set to feature appearances and contributions from Sam Clague, Altered Hours’ Cathal MacGabhann, Pretty Happy’s Abbey Blake, These Are Atoms’ Sara Leslie &…

  • Einstürzende Neubauten To Play Dublin

    July 7, 2021 - By 

    Einstürzende Neubauten are set to play Dublin next summer. The Berlin industrial legends will take over the National Concert Hall on July 3rd, 2022. It marks the Blixa Bargeld-fronted outfit’s first show in the city in 17 years. Tickets are priced €48.50 and go on sale tomorrow (Thursday, July 8th) at 10 am.

  • New Online Initiative for Northern Irish Music, Music Connections, Launches

    July 2, 2021 - By 

    A new online initiative championing Northern Irish music has launched. Off the back of news that live music can return to the north from July 5th, Music Connections is a central online hub created to support the development and growth of NI’s diverse and talented music sector. As well as featuring information on evcents, funding opportunities, health services and the latest funding opportunities, the website will also signpost musicians, freelancers, music organisations and music businesses towards vital information to support their career. In a statement, Lynne Best of The Fourth Pillar said, “The music sector in Northern Ireland has a…

  • Caribou Set For Vicar Street Return

    June 30, 2021 - By 

    Caribou is coming back to Vicar Street. The Canadian composer, otherwise Dan Snaith, will return to play Dublin venue on January 19, 2022. Marking the first Caribou show there since 2014 (and what a show it was), it comes a few months ahead of a date at Iveagh Gardens in the summer of 2022. Tickets go on sale on Friday (July 2nd) at 9am.

  • Ireland’s First Music Festival in 16 Months Announced For Next Month

    June 22, 2021 - By 

    The country’s first music festival in 16 months will take place next month. Hosted by IMMA at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Saturday, July 3, the so-called pilot festival event will feature performances by Gavin James, Denise Chaila, Lyra, Sharon Shannon, Wild Youth and Wyvern Lingo. MCed by the 2 Johnnies, the 3,500-capacity event will be laid out in pods of six in order to maintain social distancing. Rapid antigen testing will also be a requirement of entry to the event. Catherine Martin T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media said: “I am delighted to announce this…

  • Stream: Tuath – Research and Development EP

    June 23, 2021 - By 

    Following up on their ‘That Looks Like A Good Spot For Some Luxury Apartments‘, out earlier this month, Donegal psych outfit Tuath have turned their focus very much toward the socioeconomic concerns of the day – and today they release their new manifesto of sorts, the Research and Development EP. Recorded and mixed by Tadhg Kelly and Tuath, the Robert Mulhern-fronted band take influence from elements as disparate as Stereolab’s kaleidoscopic experimentalism, the post-new wave audiovisual cultural engineering of Psychic TV, the off-brown anarchy of Ween and Fat White Family and vaporwave. Particularly drawn to the latter’s politics and use of nostalgic motifs as a means to…

  • Low Set For Dublin Return

    June 22, 2021 - By 

    Low are coming back to Dublin next year. As part of a new world tour, the Duluth, Minnesota indie rock band will play Vicar Street on April 26, 2021. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 25th at 10am. Accompanying the news is details of the band’s thirteenth studio album. Titled Hey What, it will be released via Sub Pop on September 10th. Check out the video for new single ‘Days Like These’ below.