Evan Dando’s Lemonheads will make their long-awaited returned to Ireland next year. The band will play Dublin’s the Academy on February 6th and Belfast’s Elmwood Hall on February 8th. The shows will coincide with the release of the band’s new covers album, Varshons 2. Tickets are priced €25.40 and £22.50 respectively, and go on sale this Friday, December 7.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds will headline a bill at Dublin’s Malahide Castle next year. As well as Blossoms and DMA’s, the very recently resurgent Doves will be the support at the show on June 16, 2019. The latter is a worthy reason for attendance alone. Tickets are on sale this Thursday at 9am, priced €49.90.
Anderson .Paak will play Dublin next year as part of his Andy’s Beach Club World Tour. The Grammy-nominated Californian artist – who released his third studio album, Oxnard, last month – will play Olympia Theatre on Tuesday, March 19. Tickets for the show are priced €48.00 and go on sale this Friday, December 7 at 9am.
Just when we couldn’t conceive of Cork-based musician Laurie Shaw being any more prolific, he’s only went and started a new side-project, Foolish Mortal. And boy are we glad. Though it’s rare that we copy and paste big, wordy press releases, it gives us no shortage of pleasure to share the following wonderful spiel, along with a very first listen to the new project’s equal parts fuzzed-out and earhole-burrowing lead single, ‘Girl Talk’. The self-titled Foolish Mortal debut is out via Sunshine Cult records on December 12. “This album goes a little deeper than the white hot fuzz you can hear. The…
In support of their forthcoming fifth album Eton Alive, Nottingham electronic punk duo Sleaford Mods return to Ireland for a run of four shows: February 7 – Limelight 1, Belfast February 8 – The Academy, Dublin February 9 – Róisín Dubh, Galway February 10 – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick Comprised of Jason Williamson’s words & voice, and Andrew Fearn’s beats, they are, in the words of Steve Albini, “the greatest band in the world”. They manage to be one of the most engaging live acts in the world without frills, lacking so much as a proper stand for their laptop – beer crates, normally. Here’s ‘Jolly Fucker‘. Tickets go on…
We’ve been big fans of Trick Mist here at TTA for quite some time. We first became aware of him back when he lived in Manchester, after he released the lush, dark single ‘Crumbs Abound’. Since, he has travelled across India and South-East Asia, before ending up back to Ireland and relocating to Cork to write his debut LP Both Ends. Released today (30th November) via Dundalk’s Pizza Pizza Records, this LP serves as the culmination of two years’ work, incorporating his trademark violin manipulations with electronic and organic soundscapes. In October, he released the video for album track ‘Abroad In The…
Tonight, Robyn G Shiels launches his exceptional new five-track EP, Death of the Shadows, at Belfast’s Strand Arts Centre. Originally from Kilrea, the Belfast-based singer-songwriter has, with the help of some friends including Ben McAuley, who recorded it at Belfast’s Start Together Studios, crafted a release of exquisite doom-folk depth and lyrical incision. A perfect case in point is lead single, ‘An Offering as Such’, which comes accompanied with a wonderfully minimalist, yet visually potent video courtesy of Tristan Crowe. Death of the Shadows is self-released on 10″ vinyl via Black Tragick records tomorrow.
Welsh avant-pop singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon will play a solo piano show at the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire at the start of next year. The critically-acclaimed artist – who is currently working on her fifth studio album – will play the venue on January 6. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Thursday, November 29) at 9am, priced €22.
Hands down one of the most incisive and naturally-gifted songsmiths that the island of Ireland has ever produced, Atlanta-based Dublin artist Stefan Murphy will return to play upstairs in Whelans on Thursday, January 24. It’s a new tour from a rejuvenated artist whose output and shows over the years, – from Subtonics and the Mighty Stef to his fertile solo guise Count Vaseline – speaks for itself. Better still, a forthcoming solo album (his first simply as Stefan Murphy) bears the imprint of some of his all-time big influences, including Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, Jonathan Richman and Townes Van Zandt. Tickets for…
Fast-rising Dublin three-piece Dreaming of Jupiter have eked out their own niche from a wide-spanning palette of nocturnal neo-soul, ambient, alt-pop and beyond. It’s a creative honing, with an emphasis on real attention to detail, that has served them well on their debut EP, Fading. Its title track is a perfect case in point. It’s serves up a shapeshifting four minutes of nuance and melody, driven home by vocalist Gough’s effortless vocals. Dreaming of Jupiter launch Fading at Dublin’s Button Factory on Thursday night. Support comes from Roe and Xo Mo. Stream the EP and watch the video its title track below.