• Mogwai Set For Irish Shows

    November 19, 2024 - By 

    Mogwai are coming back to Ireland. A few months on from their main stage performance at the inaugural In The Meadows, the Scottish post-rock heroes have announced that they’ll play three dates across the island next summer. Set to come after the release of their new album, The Bad Fire, on 24th January, the Stuart Braithwaite-fronted band will play the following shows: Thursday, July 24th 2025 Heineken Big Top in Galway Galway International Arts Festival) Friday 25th July 2025 The Big Top, Limerick Saturday July 27th 2025 Vicar Street, Dublin Tickets go on sale at 10am on 22nd November –…

  • Monday Mixtape: Pippa Molony

    November 18, 2024 - By 

    Following the release of her stellar debut EP, Hungry Ghost, Dublin artist Pippa Molony takes us on a guided tour of some of her all-time favourite songs, featuring Operating Theatre, Jenny Hval, Kelly Moran, Björk and more Björk – Unison ‘Unison,’ from Björk’s Vespertine, is a song I somehow missed until recently. I’d listened to the album before, saved Frosti to all of my playlists, but Unison slipped past me. I finally heard it for the first time during Benji Reid’s Find Your Eyes at Dublin Theatre Festival—and it hit me like a truck. This track closes Vespertine. It begins…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 15th November

    November 15, 2024 - By 

    We’re back to stacked round-ups today via essential new sounds from Adore, Cormorant Tree Oh, Tigers of Tin Pan, Makeshift Art Bar, Lucy Gaffney, Brién and more Adore – Can We Talk Cormorant Tree Oh – To Be Flowers Tigers of Tin Pan – I Cannot See The Doctor Makeshift Art Bar – Birthday Party Lucy Gaffney – do u know me? Brién – Everyone’s Here Garrett Laurie – No Warning Body Wigs – Body Clinic EP Body Wigs by Wigs & Body Clinic Eve Clague – Caught in Words Caught In Words by Eve Clague Ciaran Lavery feat. Joshua…

  • Premiere: Ciaran Lavery – “Light” Entertainment

    November 14, 2024 - By 

    Last week, we thoroughly enjoyed catching up with Ciaran Lavery, digging into one of the lauded NI artist’s most ambitious projects to date: “Light” Entertainment. Not only doubling up as his fifth studio album—which drops tomorrow—and a live spectacle set to take over the Lyric Theatre tonight—last remaining tickets are here—it’s also the title of a brand new short film. Directed by Shaun Doogan and Ciarán McCann, it represents, in a masterfully surreal, visually stunning fashion, what Lavery encapsulates on “Light” Entertainment the album: essentially how a constant stream of information (and misinformation), news, social media, images, video and entertainment leave…

  • Problem Patterns, Jordan Adetunji and More Win at NI Music Prize

    November 14, 2024 - By 

    Problem Patterns and Jordan Adetunji were among the names to win big at the twelfth edition of the Northern Ireland Music Prize in Belfast last night. Rounding off this year’s Sound of Belfast programme, the annual awards ceremony – which launched back in 2013 to celebrate NI music across several awards – took over the Ulster Hall for one of its strongest outings to date. As well as live performances by the likes of Tramp, Dana Masters and Oh Yeah Legend award recipient, Eric Bell, the night saw queer punks Problem Patterns walk away with the big one – Best…