• Irish Tracks of the Week – 17th February

    February 17, 2023 - By 

    It’s been another stacked week for Irish music. Here’s the best singles and albums released over the last seven days, featuring Lemonade Shoelace, New Pagans, Iona Zajac, Caoilian Sherlock, Alpha Chrome Yayo, The Wood Burning Savages and more Lemonade Shoelace – Hopscotch In The Sky Alpha Chrome Yayo – All Aboard All Aboard by Alpha Chrome Yayo ​ Iona Zajac – Rubbish Jubilee Caoilian Sherlock – Candidate Candidate by Caoilian Sherlock The Wood Burning Savages – Hand to Mouth Hand to Mouth by The Wood Burning Savages Cobra Truth – Two Lovely Little Pets Henry Likely – Handover Sloucho – Everything/Readymade…

  • In Photos: Stendhal Festival 2021

    August 23, 2021 - By 

    Stendhal festival returned spectacularly to Limavady, Co. Derry featuring live performances from ASIWYFA, Jordan Adetunji, David Keenan, Sasha Samara, Duke Special, New Dad, Jealous of the Birds and more. Photos by Darren Hill.

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 20th August

    August 20, 2021 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for new releases in every corner of the island. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Arvo Party, Villagers, Rosa Zajac & Daragh Lynch, Tolü Makay, Floor Staff, Ward, Erica Cody and more. Photo by Rich Gilligan Arvo Party – The Grand Stretch Corpus II by Arvo Party Villagers – Fever Dreams Rosa Zajac & Daragh Lynch – The Burning of Auchindoun Tolü Makay – Aye No Oil Paintings – What Good Does It Do What Good Does It Do? by No Oil Paintings Orla Gartland – Woman On The Internet Woman on the…

  • New Irish Festival, Meadows Festival, Set For IMMA at Royal Hospital Kilmainham

    July 19, 2021 - By 

    A new festival is coming to IMMA at Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Presented by promoters POD, Meadows Festival is a specially designed, socially-distance and open-air summer series of live music, performance and spoken word. Taking place next month, across August 20-22, the series will feature set from David Keenan & Niamh Regan, Just Mustard & John Francis Flynn, Saint Sister & CMAT, A Lazarus Soul & Lisa O’Neill, and more. Check out the full line-up below. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, July 21 at 9am, priced €19.10 per person. Tickets are available in groups of 4 & 6 persons…

  • More Names Set For Stendhal Unlocked

    August 4, 2020 - By 

    Several more names have been added to the bill for the forthcoming first installment of Stendhal Unlocked. Primed to be Northern Ireland’s first socially-distanced festival, subject to guidance on mass gatherings in August, the Limavady festival looks set to return to Ballymully Cottage as a socially-distanced affair. Doubling up as the first installment of a three-part series from the north’s best annual festival, weekend one takes place across August 21-22. Joining the likes of the already announced And So I Watch You From Afar, Ryan McMullan, Kíla, Ciaran Lavery, Roe, Amy Montgomery and Joshua Burnside are Rebekah Fitch (pictured), Gemma Bradley, David Keenan and others…

  • David Keenan – The Beginner’s Guide To Bravery

    March 9, 2020 - By 

    In the past few years, every town and every genre in Ireland has seen great new talent rising, each pushing the boundaries of what’s to be expected from its scene. While this means the bar is continuously being raised,  and no matter what your tastes might be, there’s an Irish act for it, ready to prove their mettle. But while a rock n’ roll renaissance occurs in the kitchen, and the techno and hip-hop scenes flourish in the basement, in the attic David Keenan quietly tunes his strings, ready to raise the aforementioned bar.  After a string of noted singles…

  • Metropolis 2018

    November 3, 2018 - By 

    The Saturday of this year’s Metropolis, featuring Villagers, Gwenno, Booka Brass, Friendly Fires, David O’Doherty and David Keenan. Photos by Mark Earley.

  • Richard Thompson w/ David Keenan @ Empire Music Hall, Belfast

    August 17, 2018 - By 

    There’s been a recurring narrative in most critical discussion around Richard Thompson over the years, that he exists as this undiscovered national treasure. In terms of the comparable reverence commanded by former peers like Nick Drake & John Martyn, that might be true – it’s not a trendy sell, not quite fitting perfectly into folk or rock pigeonholes in a business that operates most efficiently under binary conditions. Couple that with themes that veer wildly between mordant meditations on humanity, and congenial, quintessentially British kitchen sink themes without the ‘benefit’ of A) dying young, or B) self-mythologising as a romantically-inclined…