Willow Sea and All Tvvins at Róisín Dubh as part of Galway International Arts Festival on Thursday night. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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Supported by Cult Called Man, Anton Newcombe and Tess Parks brought their new collaboration to Dublin’s Sugar Club on Wednesday night. Photos by Aidan Kelly Murphy.
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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Live at the Marquee in Cork. Photos by Melanie Mullan.
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Nick Oliveri performing Death Acoustic live at Voodoo in Belfast. Photos by Sara Marsden.
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Tonight saw the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top host its first event of the season with the sheer spectacle of Texan powerhouse St. Vincent and support from the always-charming Little Green Cars. The tent by the river has already filled suitably by the time Little Green Cars take to the stage and there’s an immediate sense that the audience is more than willing to be drawn further in by the brutally honest and heartfelt tracks from the band’s 2013 debut LP Absolute Zero and a healthy sprinkling of equally emotive new ones, one of which wouldn’t sound out of…
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St. Vincent and Mew live at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin. Photos by Colm Moore.
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Damien Rice live at the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin with support from Bryan Dalton and Colm Mac Con Iomaire. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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The Frames Live at the Marquee in Cork. Photos by Rory Coomey.
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Van Morrison performing Live at the Marquee in Cork on Thursday night. Photos by Rory Coomey.
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The grand, university setting of the Helix is not the most obvious choice for a band with a legacy built on working class indie rock but as with everything else in Modest Mouse’s tumultuous career, they try their best to build something out of nothing. Armed with a setlist of crowd-pleasers, the band work their way through a career worth of tracks. Opening with the slow building ‘Of Course We Know’, closer of their most recent album, Strangers To Ourselves, they set the pace for a set filled with their characteristically cynical but sad, fucked up but victorious output. Despite claims…