Exploding Eyes, No Spill Blood, The Fontaines and Switzerland live at the Barricade Inn, Dublin. Photos by Francisco Michel.
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Other Voices hosted to a stellar line-up at this year’s Latitude festival in Suffolk at the weekend. Check out Tara Thomas’ from their stage – featuring Young Fathers, All Tvvins, Jape, Le Galaxie, Fight Like Apes, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, a surprise set by Ed Sheeran and Johnny and Nathan from Snow Patrol – below.
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Willow Sea and All Tvvins at Róisín Dubh as part of Galway International Arts Festival on Thursday night. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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Supported by Cult Called Man, Anton Newcombe and Tess Parks brought their new collaboration to Dublin’s Sugar Club on Wednesday night. Photos by Aidan Kelly Murphy.
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Twenty-One Minutes Of Music is a collaboration between Thomas Parkes (The Jimmy Cake) and contemporary composer Sean L. Clancy, which was recorded during a two day residency at the Moog Sound Lab at Birmingham City University. The aim of the collaboration was to develop new compositions using a large selection of Moog synthesisers which included the legendary Moog System 55 modular synth. With a combination of improvisation and chance techniques they recorded around seven hours of material which will eventually be whittled down to an album’s worth of material in the coming months. The piece in this video is a…
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When he’s not playing with Patrick Kelleher, Catscars (feat. Robyn Bromfield of Everything Shook’s) and Tenro AKA Marc Aubele of Nanu Nanu and Bell X1, Dublin cross-genre, experimental musician Brian Conniffe is concocting his own warped, psych-soaked brand of electronic noise. According to Conniffe, his new track ‘Mercy Mine’ is a “surreal, ghostly and strangely misshapen take on elements of contemporary electronic pop fused in deep darkness with a distinctly vintage warped VHS video, producing a luminous and poisonous, kinetic and frenetic result.” Took the words right out of our mouth. Delve in below. Photo by Maricarmen Copca
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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Live at the Marquee in Cork. Photos by Melanie Mullan.
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Nick Oliveri performing Death Acoustic live at Voodoo in Belfast. Photos by Sara Marsden.
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Tonight saw the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top host its first event of the season with the sheer spectacle of Texan powerhouse St. Vincent and support from the always-charming Little Green Cars. The tent by the river has already filled suitably by the time Little Green Cars take to the stage and there’s an immediate sense that the audience is more than willing to be drawn further in by the brutally honest and heartfelt tracks from the band’s 2013 debut LP Absolute Zero and a healthy sprinkling of equally emotive new ones, one of which wouldn’t sound out of…
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St. Vincent and Mew live at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin. Photos by Colm Moore.