The Friday and Saturday of this year’s Indiependence in Cork, featuring Wyvern Lingo, And So I Watch You From Afar, HamsandwicH, Little Hours, Kate Nash, King Kong Company and more. Photos by Dave Lyons.
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Sunday of this years’s Sunflowerfest, featuring General Levy, the Skallions, Otherkin, Utah Saints, Mosmo Strange and more. Photos by Niall Fegan.
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Sunday at KnockanStockan 2018, featuring Æ MAK, Dowry, JyellowL, Chewing on Tinfoil, Shrug Life and Wastefellow. Photos by Zoe Holman.
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Saturday of this year’s KnockanStockan in Co. Wicklow, including Paddy Hanna, Super Silly, Search:Party:Animal, Junior Brother, Just Mustard, Kojaque and Toby Kaar. Photos by Zoe Holman.
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London doom pop quartet The Courtesans with support from Vendetta Love at On The Rox in Dublin. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Friday of the this year’s KnockanStockan festival in Co. Wicklow, featuring Elaine Mai, Slouch, Brian Dillon, Chancer and Daniel J Paxton. Photos by Zoe Holman.
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Caribou with support from Blanck Mass at the Big Top at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival. Photos by Ciaran O’Maolain.
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So, the last gig at Mandella Hall. Probably a pretty great venue when you sit and list off all the great gigs you saw there. But nostalgia is for later. WASPS are a pleasantly rambunctious start to the evening, playing in Bar Sub they strike excitable silhouettes adrift in a haze of dry ice and some slick, stark lighting. They find their groove somewhere between desert surf and mathy punk and mine it to death, littering it with nice interplay and clever fills, throwing in some swampy rock riffs every now and then, too. They give an energetic and warm…
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Going all-out as ever, The Flaming Lips with support from Le Galaxie at the Big Top at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival. Photos by Ciaran O’ Maolain.
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The incomparable Grace Jones, with support from Wyvern Lingo at The Summer Series at Trinity College, Dublin. Photos by Moira Reilly.