Ezra Furman live at Limelight 2 in Belfast. Photos by Ruth Kelly.
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Distortion Project celebrated 15 years of putting on gigs last weekend, with bands such as Acid Reign, Conjuring Fate, Donum Dei, Skypilot, Xentrix and many more on the bill at Limelight 2 and Katy Daly’s in Belfast. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Mutoid Man featuring members of Converge and Cave, set off on tour around Ireland taking in shows at Belfast, Dublin and Galway. Support each night came from label mates No Spill Blood, 7.5 Tonnes of Beard and Ilenkus. Photos by Liam Kielt, Vincent Hughes and Isabel Thomas. Roisin Dubh, Galway by Vincent Hughes Voodoo, Belfast by Liam Kielt The Grand Social, Dublin by Isabel Thomas
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Day Two of Lollapalooza Berlin 2015 weekender, featuring Belle and Sebastian, Clean Bandit, Little Dragon, Muse and more. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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Matua Trap played our Tuesday Throwdown clubnight at Lavery’s in Belfast. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Derry quartet Making Monsters live at Bar Sub in Belfast with support from By Conquest or Consent, Dream Awake and Death of a Salesman. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Empty Lungs live at the Empire Music Hall with support from Bitch Falcon, Apartments and Junk Drawer. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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James Bay live at the Ulster Hall in Belfast last night. Photos by Alan Maguire.
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“It feels like an attic in here.” This is the first thing a friend says to me when we walk into the upstairs room of the Roisín Dubh on a Saturday to catch one of the last shows of Los Angeles duo 100 Onces’ extensive tour which saw them travelling around the UK, Eastern Europe, Russia and back to Ireland. The feeling that we’re in an attic is largely owing to the lack of much light of any sort and the cluttering of three band’s worth of equipment in the corner. It’s not a bad feeling at all, and it…
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‘It’s better to burn out than to fade away,’ said the now sixty-nine year old Neil Young. So maybe it’s not such a bad thing that the HWCH schedule, on paper at least, looks like it wants to wind down rather than go out with a bang. But though it may not have the head whipping allure of the first two nights there’s still certainly enough to justify hitting those streets. Take Sinead White for example, surely a rising star, but even her to the point, uncluttered song writing cannot conjure a crowd out of thin air. It’s a problem…