• A Place To Bury Strangers w/ Travis Is A Tourist @ Voodoo, Belfast

    April 7, 2015 - By 

    On a cold, dank – did I mention cold? – and generally miserable Belfast evening, what could  be more inviting than some live music with good friends and good beers? Not much, and as we headed into Voodoo, safe in the knowledge that the aforementioned factors would welcome us, we were thrilled to just be warm and dry. Then, at 8.30 sharp-ish, Travis Is A Tourist takes to the stage in support of the headline act for the evening, A Place To Bury Strangers. Wonderful. Well, actually, wonderful in a sense.  Here’s the thing: Travis Is A Tourist (below) is…

  • A Place to Bury Strangers: Irish Tour

    April 2, 2015 - By 

    A Place to Bury Strangers kicked off their Irish tour in the Workman’s club in Dublin with support from September Girls, then made their way up to Voodoo in Belfast with support from Travis is a Tourist. Photos by Isabel Thomas and Sara Marsden.   The Workman’s Club in Dublin by Isabel Thomas. Voodoo in Belfast by Sara Marsden.

  • Q+A: A Place To Bury Strangers

    February 23, 2015 - By 

    Amid preparations for a three-month tour of the US and Europe, A Place to Bury Strangers‘ front man Oliver Ackermann chats to Joe Madsen about the release of their fourth album, Transfixiation, and their years as a changing act in a niche genre. APTBS to come to Dublin on March 31 and Belfast the following night. APTBS has gone through quite a few changes over the past decade, shifting band members, management, and labels through its stages. How do you feel the band has changed or grown through all these developments? I think it’s allowed us to become more focused on exactly…