Having shot the festival for us last year, photographer Ian Pearce returned to the wonderful Way Out Festival in Göteborg, Sweden at the weekend to capture Outkast, Slint, Neutral Milk Hotel, Slowdive, Icona Pop, Future, Janelle Monáe, Röyksopp and Robyn and many more. Check out his full photo set below.
Isabel Thomas shoots the final day of this year’s Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany, featuring the likes of Arch Enemy, Kreator, Hatebreed, Megadeth, the Devin Townsend Project and more. Go here to check out Wednesday/Thursday and here for photos from Friday.
Dublin rock three-piece The Minutes made a highly-anticipated return to Whelan’s on Saturday night, supported by Brooklyn-formed Dublin indie rock trio Half of Me. Carlos Daly A captured the show for the Thin Air.
Featuring metal behemoths including Slayer, Carcass, Five Finger Death Punch, Children of Bodom, W.A.S.P. and more, Isabel Thomas shoots the Friday of this year’s Wacken Open Air festival in Germany.
Isabel Thomas shoots Wednesday and Thursday of German rock and metal festival Wacken Open Air, featuring Hammerfall, Saxon, Steel Panther and more. Leather, everywhere.
Aaron Corr shoots the extraordinarily well-dressed and ever so slightly influential Johnny Marr at Bulmer’s Live at Dublin’s Leopardstown Racecourse last night (Thursday, August 7).
Tara Thomas shoots the Sunday of this year’s Castlepalooza festival, featuring Meltybrains?, Sisters, We Were Evergreen, Enemies, The Funeral Suits, Tvvins and Daithi. Go here to check out photos from the Saturday.
Cork’s Indiependence Music and Arts Festival saw in its grand fourteenth year in style at the weekend. Featuring the likes of Public Enemy, Tom Odell, Hozier, Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip, The Altered Hours and many more, check out Rory Coomey’s first-rate photo set from the the festival below.
Despite being a bit of a washout (who can control the weather, after all?) this year’s Castlepalooza still delivered a fantastic experience, and one-or-two unforgettable sets. Not in attendance? Bail early due to the downfall? Hang around, merrily embracing nature? Check out Tara Thomas’s photos from the Saturday of the festival – featuring the likes of Gruff Rhys, King Kong Company and Sounds of the System Breakdown – below.
A triad of fast-rising Dublin bands – Sleep Thieves, Other Creatures and five-piece headliners SPIES – played Whelan’s on Saturday, August 2. Our photographer Shaun Neary popped down to capture the show.