A whole host of emerging Irish acts including Windings, The Hot Sprockets and Sumo Cyco played the Friday night of this year’s Indie Week at Dolan’s, Limerick on April 26. Our photographer Tara Thomas popped along to shoot the showcase.
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Recently we had the absolute pleasure of screening Lance Bangs’ Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail at Belfast’s Garrick Bar. Bangs was there on the night for a Q+A, as was a nice intimate grouping of Slint aficionados, including Belfast-based photographer Joe Laverty. Check out his photos from the night below!
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Supported by Californian pop-folk singer-songwriter Brett Dennen, rejuvenated Australian roots band John Butler Trio returned to Dublin to play Vicar Street on Friday, April 25. Our photographer Aideen McFadden was there to capture the night.
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Owen Humphreys shoots Wallis Bird and Inni-K at Monroe’s, Galway on Saturday, May 26.
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Our photographer Abe Tarrush went down to Dublin’s Whelans last night (Wednesday, April 23) to snap American country singer Jace Everett and Irish indie-folk duo Hidden Highways.
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Taking place in a secret location forty-five minutes outside of Dublin, Rory Coomey captures the seventh installment of BarnDance on Easter Friday, featuring the likes of Mojo Gogo, the Minutes, King Kong Company and Fritz Kalkbrenner. [gallery type=’flickr’ user_id=’95205686@N06′ photoset_id=’7215764423291744
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Almost certainly the busiest Record Store Day to date, Saturday past (April 19) saw queues of varying lengths form at the crack dawn outside record stores across the world, thus kickstarting a whole day of celebrating independent music, one-off releases and – perhaps most importantly – record stores themselves. Whilst Paul Weller has since said he won’t be participating again due to seeing his RSD release selling for extortionate prices online, other musicians such as Jack White got right on board, recording, cutting and selling a seven-inch single, ‘Lazaretto’, in just under four hours – something he claims is a world…
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Our photographer Aaron Corr shots Meath indie-rock five-piece Ham Sandwich at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on Saturday, April 19. Looks like it was a great show – check out his photos below!
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Supported by Hey! Hello! & The Von Gertzen Brothers, The Wildhearts played London’s Electric Ballroom on Thursday, April 17. Our photographer Shaun Neary was there to capture the show.
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Ian Pearce captures Claudio Simonetti’s legendary Italian prog band GOBLIN and Josef Van Wissem at Amager Bio, Copenhagen on Monday, April 14.