London doom pop quartet The Courtesans with support from Vendetta Love at On The Rox in Dublin. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Friday of the this year’s KnockanStockan festival in Co. Wicklow, featuring Elaine Mai, Slouch, Brian Dillon, Chancer and Daniel J Paxton. Photos by Zoe Holman.
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Caribou with support from Blanck Mass at the Big Top at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival. Photos by Ciaran O’Maolain.
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So, the last gig at Mandella Hall. Probably a pretty great venue when you sit and list off all the great gigs you saw there. But nostalgia is for later. WASPS are a pleasantly rambunctious start to the evening, playing in Bar Sub they strike excitable silhouettes adrift in a haze of dry ice and some slick, stark lighting. They find their groove somewhere between desert surf and mathy punk and mine it to death, littering it with nice interplay and clever fills, throwing in some swampy rock riffs every now and then, too. They give an energetic and warm…
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Going all-out as ever, The Flaming Lips with support from Le Galaxie at the Big Top at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival. Photos by Ciaran O’ Maolain.
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The incomparable Grace Jones, with support from Wyvern Lingo at The Summer Series at Trinity College, Dublin. Photos by Moira Reilly.
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Frances Bean Cobain and Wendy O’Connor joined the Nirvana frontman’s sister Kim for the opening of the Growing Up Kurt showcase at Newbridge Silverware Museum of Style Icons in County Kildare on Tuesday. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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German electronic legends Kraftwerk brought their current 3-D show to Cork’s Live at the Marquee. Dave Lyon was there to take some photos.
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Including HamsandwicH, Kíla, the Wood Burning Savages and – wait for it – the one, the only, Heather Small of M People, Moira Reilly captures some of the acts at this year’s Groove Festival in Bray, Co. Wicklow.
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Tune-Yards with support from Æ MAK at Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre. Photos by Niall O’Kelly.