With support from an equally stripped-back Field Trip and Eoin Dolan, David Boland’s New Pope launched their new EP, LOVE, at Roisin Dubh in Galway at the weekend. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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September Girls live at Brewery Corner with support from Gerard James Hough. Photos by Ian McDonnell.
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A fundraiser for Denise Ryan who is suffering with Lyme Disease was held in the Button Factory last week to help raise money towards her treatment in America. Enemies, Roisin O, Ailbhe Reddy, Dermot Kennedy and more performed live to support the cause. Photos by Lucy Foster. A contribution was made on behalf of The Thin Air team. If you wish to donate please click here.
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Day two of Castlepalooza 2016 featuring live performances from Hare Squead, Jurassic 5, Daithi, Over the Albatross and more. Photos by Tara Thomas.
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We’re very good at pretending nothing’s wrong. Rather, we’re excellent at grunting a few times about how shambolic everything is before sauntering to the bar and quickly changing the subject. Of course we are! We’ve become so resigned to the radical shitness of so much that goes on both far from home and right outside our doors that half the time we just sigh a little and tweet a GIF of a cat that somehow represents how doomed everything is. Sometimes though, we have a tendency to surprise ourselves with our potential. Every once in a while something gives us…
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Castlepalooza 2016 featuring live performances from Caribou. Minor Victories, Lynched, The Altered Hours, Toby Kaar and more. Photos by Tara Thomas.
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Sea Sessions took place over the weekend at Budoran in Co.Donegal featuring live performances from Ash, Ham Sandwich, Pleasure Beach, Fangclub, Ciaran Lavery and many more. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon.
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Biffy Clyro live at Belsonic festival in Belfast with support from Lonely the Brave and Vant. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Lisa Hannigan live at Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Ye Vagabonds. Photos by Patrizio Mancuso.
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A woman loudly and tirelessly lists the bands she may or may not have heard of. Maybe that’s why it feels like we’ve been queuing here for the best part of an hour. After all it couldn’t really be true, could it? But it is. A fact so far excusable because this isn’t any night, nor just any art gallery. This is the return of Dublin’s latest, hippest city festival; Interlude, held in the on paper awesomeness of the Royal Hibernian Academy, a linchpin location for the dynamic art of the city and country. So it’s fine. What’s an hour…