MMOTHS album launch at District 8 in Dublin, with support from Toby Kaar. Photos by Melanie Mullan.
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Lost Avenue live at Sandino’s in Derry. Photos by Mickey Rooney.
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Supported by Other Creatures, Dublin five-piece Little Green Cars played two sublime shows at Whelan’s at the weekend. Our photographer Pedro Giaquinto captured Friday night. Check out our review of new Little Green Cars LP, Ephemera, here.
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Following on from its well received debut last August, the announcement that a second Reverberation Festival is scheduled to take place next month, was music to the ears of the ever growing Irish Psych loving fraternity. In anticipation of the festival, the inaugural appearance of Holy Wave to Dublin, is billed as the event’s official launch party. First up is This Other Kingdom, a four piece who play a mix of bombinate-esque shoegaze fused with psychedelia that can draw you in their world so effortlessly, it’s hard not to be converted there and then. Just picture The Black Angels fronted…
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Only Child, in the form of Alan O’Hare brings me a great deal of joy. There’s nothing in the world like a scouse lad getting angry about the state of the world, inept politicians and the deep divide between people and cultures. Alan brings all that and more with a healthy dose of sentimentality and love, the true talent of a poet brought to bear. The number 86 bus from Penny Lane is not a spectacular journey but one that sparked memories of countless trips into town for Alan, such a trip your reviewer took not half an hour…
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I sometimes wonder how often, if ever, bands think about how the sound they craft in a studio translates to a live stage. Some groups are simply ‘studio bands’ – they sound better when they can endlessly and obsessively tinker with the sonic possibilities of technology. Others see the live setting as a different set of circumstances altogether, something with the living potential for a more sensory collective experience, something that can become a genuine reason to senselessly roar at your friends in a smoking area. While this is all pretty vague stuff to be beginning with, I promise it…
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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin over the weekend, with support from Matthew Logan Vasquez. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
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Saturday March 12 2016. A hidden location in Belfast’s city centre. No, not a meeting of some clandestine secret society, but a fundraising gig for Belfast hardcore rockers Hornets. As they’ve previously done (to raise money for a tour) the band chose a tiny studio location, holding a maximum of eighty people, to have ‘a bit of a do’, including an art gallery, a raffle, and a couple of up and coming young bands as support. First of these bands was Unyielding Love, who describe themselves as grind/noise. They gather ‘onstage’ (the end of the room) and begin their set…
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Comedy trio Foil, Arms and Hog live at Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick over the weekend. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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Dinosaur and Alarmist performed a double headline gig at the Black Box in Belfast, closing the Brilliant Corners Jazz festival on Saturday night. Photos by Alan Maguire.