By anybody’s yardstick, guitar rock pioneers Teenage Fanclub have enjoyed an incredible career: to date, they have notched up thirty years of crafting albums of the loveliest melodic major key songwriting this side of California, not to mention supporting the revered likes of Nirvana, Radiohead and Frank Black along the way. No small feat, and even if you may not hear their name mentioned as often and as freely as it should be, chat to any random music fan and they will no doubt wax rhapsodic about the sonic wonders of Grand Prix or Songs From Northern Britain. The fact that Death Cab…
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Welsh-Australian artist Stella Donnelly live at the Grand Social in Dublin. Photos by Gemma Bovenizer.
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Wyvern Lingo with support from Síog at Lost Lane in Dublin. Photos by Gemma Bovenizer
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Boise, Idaho indie rock heroes Built To Spill, with support from Vancouver’s Slam Dunk, Rio de Janeiro’sOruã and Belfast’s Junk Drawer. Photos by Colm Laverty
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The launch of this year’s KnockanStockan at Dublin’s Lost Lane, featuring THUMPER, Luka Palm, Shookrah, SENU and a DJ set from Caoimhe Barry from Wyvern Lingo. Photos by Ciara Brennan
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With The Specials’ last tour here being November 2014, it should have come as no surprise that they sold out all three nights in an instant. Adding to the anticipation is the fact this highly influential band finally decided to release new music, in the form of this year’s Encore. As a result night two was a feverish hive of positive energy and activity, as a multitude of skinheads, mods, punks, rude girls and bootboys of varying ages and hair lines, beamed and skanked their way throughout a sweaty 90 minute set of two-tone classics, sliced with a few new…
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Nick Oliveri of Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Mondo Generator and more, at The Button Factory in Dublin. Support from Alex Harvey and New Valley Wolves. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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The “spiritual head” of Wu-Tang Clan, GZA, with support from Waterteam and Graham Dolan at Roisin Dubh, Galway. Photos by Ciaran O’Maolain
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Deaf Havana with support from The LaFontaines at the Academy in Dublin. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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Foo Fighters’ guitarist Chris Shiflett, with support from Leila Jane, at Dublin’s The Grand Social. Photos by Moira Reilly.