• Shedding Some Light: An Interview with Ciaran Lavery

    November 7, 2024 - By 

    At The Thin Air, we’ve long championed the singular journey of Ciaran Lavery, tracing his path from soul-mining songwriting to boundary-pushing projects. Now, he’s back with Light Entertainment, an immersive live theatre experience set to transform the Lyric Theatre in Belfast next Thursday, 14th November. Marking a standout moment in this year’s Belfast International Arts Festival, Light Entertainment is poised to break the mould, pulling the audience into Lavery’s psyche where music, satire and raw introspection collide. In this overdue catch-up, we reconnect with Lavery to explore the journey behind Light Entertainment – how it evolved from an album and…

  • Iggy Pop, Gilla Band and More for In The Meadows 2025

    November 7, 2024 - By 

    Five months on from the massive success of its inaugural outing, In The Meadows have announced Gilla Band, Sprints and headliner Iggy Pop as part of next year’s line-up. Returning to Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Saturday, 7th June, the one-day festival will also host sets by the likes of The Scratch, Warmduscher, Lambrini Girls, Trupa Trupa, plus more to be announced, across three stages. If it’s anything close to what this year delivered, expect another high watermark of the Irish festival calendar – offering up what we said in our review of this year’s debut outing “was a genuinely alternative…

  • Video Premiere: Caolán Austin – Walking into the Furnace (ft. Our Krypton Son)

    November 6, 2024 - By 

    Yes, the world can be an unforgiving place. And yes, we often feel outpaced by both time and grace. But if there’s one thing we’re utterly convinced of, without a shadow of a doubt, it’s that good music will forever guide the way; cat’s eyes on the strange expressway that is waking life. That thought crossed my mind back in June, when Caolán Austin released ‘Walking into the Furnace,’ the first track from his new solo project. After spending recent years getting his flowers as one of the island’s most in-demand producers at Smalltown America, the Derry artist is now…

  • Track-by-Track: Kerry’s Messyng FC on Lisselton John Street Football 2K12™

    November 4, 2024 - By 

    North Kerry’s finest Messyng FC talk us through Lisselton John Street Football 2K12™, their new EP-fictitious football themed tactical RPG video game funded by the Arts Council of Ireland in a parallel timeline to our own. The EP Lisselton John Street Football 2K12 is our reworkings and reimaginings of found music from the beta of the never completed PS1 game of the same name. The soundtrack was in varying levels of completeness when the project was abandoned, and only part of the soundtrack was recovered from the USB stick where it was rediscovered – so we decided to collaborate with…

  • Monday Mixtape: PostLast

    November 4, 2024 - By 

    Off the back of the release of their stellar Pull Me Into the Open Sea EP, dream pop duo PostLast select some of their all-time favourite tracks – featuring Mariah, Radiohead, Men I Trust, Blonde Redhead and more. Stephen McHale: Radiohead – Weird Fishes It’s hard to pick just one song from Radiohead but I always find myself coming back to this one. There are so many things to love about it lyrically and musically, but in terms of an influence on my writing I’ve definitely been inspired by all the layered, cyclical guitar patterns that build the tension as…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 1st November

    November 1, 2024 - By 

    Against absolutely no odds, we’ve pulled together the very best Irish sounds of the week once again. Dive into brand new M(h)aol, Christy Moore, Negro Impacto, Connor McCann, Deathbed Convert, Eve Clague and more M(h)aol – Snare Connor McCann – Cold Letters Christy Moore – A Terrible Beauty Negro Impacto – 1800 Deathbed Convert – Inverse Field Vol​.​1 – Inishowen Inverse Field Vol.1 – Inishowen by Deathbed Convert Rory Nellis – Any Given Day Susi Pagel – can u hear me now? Jerry Fish feat. May Kay – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances how r u…