With support from Colm McIntyre, Donal Scullion and the Spider Collective brought their unique brand of noise to Belfast’s Empire Music Hall recently. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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In the latest installment of Irish Tour, we capture William Doyle AKA East India Youth at Belfast’s Black Box and Dublin’s Button Factory. Words by Cathal McBride, photos by Ruth Kelly and Isabel Thomas. The Black Box, Belfast Photos by Ruth Kelly It’s been a busy couple of years for William Doyle, better known as East India Youth. First his 2014 debut LP Total Strife Forever gets nominated for the Mercury Prize, then he signs with XL to release follow up Culture Of Volume little more than a year later to similar levels of acclaim, all while constantly touring in…
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London multivocalist, musician and comedian Darren Foreman AKA Beardyman at Belfast’s Black Box as part of this year’s Out to Lunch. Photos by Ruth Kelly.
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Ruth Kelly captures the launch of Sea Pinks’ fifth album, Soft Days, at Lavery’s, Belfast.
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Kentucky alternative country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson stopped at Dublin’s Button Factory on his latest UK and Irish tour recently. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.
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Gavin James live at Whelan’s in Dublin on Monday night. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.
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David C Clements live at the Empire in Belfast with support from Jamie Neish. Photos by Ruth Kelly.
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Pedro Giaquinto captures No Monster Club, Lie Ins, Switzerland, Me & My Dog, The #1s, Squarehead and Ginnels at the fifth Popical Island All-Dayer at Whelan’s on Saturday night.
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A freezing cold night in Belfast city centre, surrounded by grimacing late night shoppers (outside) and beaming beered-up revellers (inside) – what else could it be but retro rockers Maverick‘s triumphant post-European tour/pre-Xmas gig in Voodoo? The perpetually cheerful lads gathered up a couple of support acts to help them celebrate the silly season, starting off with newbies So Long Until the Seance, who assemble onstage and proceed to rock out, delighting the growing crowd. Vocalist Mike Van D, formerly of horror punks Little Miss Stakes, quite simply belongs on a stage, as evidenced by the ease with which he cracks…
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The Vaccines live at the Olympia Theatre last night with support from Pleasure Beach. Photos by Ste Murray.