We’re very good at pretending nothing’s wrong. Rather, we’re excellent at grunting a few times about how shambolic everything is before sauntering to the bar and quickly changing the subject. Of course we are! We’ve become so resigned to the radical shitness of so much that goes on both far from home and right outside our doors that half the time we just sigh a little and tweet a GIF of a cat that somehow represents how doomed everything is. Sometimes though, we have a tendency to surprise ourselves with our potential. Every once in a while something gives us…
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Castlepalooza 2016 featuring live performances from Caribou. Minor Victories, Lynched, The Altered Hours, Toby Kaar and more. Photos by Tara Thomas.
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Sea Sessions took place over the weekend at Budoran in Co.Donegal featuring live performances from Ash, Ham Sandwich, Pleasure Beach, Fangclub, Ciaran Lavery and many more. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon.
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Biffy Clyro live at Belsonic festival in Belfast with support from Lonely the Brave and Vant. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Lisa Hannigan live at Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Ye Vagabonds. Photos by Patrizio Mancuso.
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A woman loudly and tirelessly lists the bands she may or may not have heard of. Maybe that’s why it feels like we’ve been queuing here for the best part of an hour. After all it couldn’t really be true, could it? But it is. A fact so far excusable because this isn’t any night, nor just any art gallery. This is the return of Dublin’s latest, hippest city festival; Interlude, held in the on paper awesomeness of the Royal Hibernian Academy, a linchpin location for the dynamic art of the city and country. So it’s fine. What’s an hour…
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SlowPlaceLikeHome live at Brewery Corner in Kilkenny. Photos by Ian McDonnell.
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Starboard Home featuring Jape, Paul Noonan from Bell X1, Paul Cleary from The Blades, Cathy Davey, Duke Special, Gemma Hayes, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Lisa O’Neill, Declan O’Rourke, John Sheahan and Caitriona Lally at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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Lisa Hannigan’s sold out show at Kenny’s bar in Lahinch with support from Ye Vagabonds. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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With support from Frightened Rabbit, Foals at Belsonic in Belfast. Photos by Alan Maguire.