Having played a massive show at Malahide castle last year, Arcade Fire return with the Infinite Content tour, sardonically named to jibe at the social media age, just one of the many tactics deployed throughout the promotion around their current album, Everything Now. Tonight, in keeping with that off kilter theme they’ve created a show ‘in the round’ – complete with a boxing ring and Michael Buffer style announcements of their accolades as they appear from the far corner of the 3Arena, air-punching alongside flashing ironic graphics of infomercials and ‘tale of the tape’ biographies appear on the 360 degree…
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Theo Katzman and Four Fine Gentlemen live at Whelan’s in Dublin with support from Bridget Kearney. Photos by Kristina Hajdu
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Cork five-piece The Altered Hours with support from The Barbiturates and Aul Boy at Letterkenny’s Regional Cultural Centre. Photos by Mickey Rooney.
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To describe Dublin’s Academy as packed would be an understatement. Bodies have been piling in in rapid succession after a slow trickling start. The main floor is shoulder to should with sweating teeming masses barely able to contain their anticipation for the Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers‘ arrival. The crowd tonight is beyond hyped up. There’s an intense positivity within all the anticipation that fuel some of the night’s most powerful moments. Thirty minutes after the opening DJ finishes his surprisingly enjoyable set of chipmunk soul and reggae cuts, the house lights dim and stage beams with white light. Three…
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Gary Numan live at the Olympia theatre in Dublin last night. Photos by Aaron Corr
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Fast-rising West-Cork singer-songwriter Hazel, live at Levis’ Corner Bar in Ballydehob, Co. Cork. Photos by Jason Lee.
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Belle & Sebastian with support from Julien Baker at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Photos by Ciara Brennan.
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All Tvvins with support from DAY_S at Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Photos by Mark Earley.
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Norwegian synth-pop sensation Sigrid live at The Academy in Dublin. Photos by Sarah Ryan.
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David Kitt with Margie Jean Lewis at Roisin Dubh in Galway. Photos by Ciaran O’ Maolain. Check out Zara Hedderman’s review of David Kitt’s new album, Yous, here.