• Ban an Tí Exhibition

    February 10, 2017 - By 

    Today and tomorrow are the last days to catch the Ban an Tí exhibition in The Chocolate Factory on King’s Inn Street. The show is a multi-artist response to the home as a female space, and looks at the domestication of femininity and the role of women in modern Irish society. Ban an Tí features a broad range of mediums from a multitude of artists, including Orla Langton, Kathryn McShane and Rachael Kelly – who was recently long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Price 2017. As well as installation work, performance art is also included with tomorrow seeing Léann Herlihy performing A glove is a gift at 3pm. The space is open…

  • Exploding Eyes – Exploding Eyes

    December 7, 2016 - By 

    Dublin progressive psychedelic garage-rock trio Exploding Eyes release their eponymous debut album through US label Big Neck Records on December 9. Exploding Eyes was produced by Jim Diamond, who has worked on sonic titans like Dirtbombs, White Stripes & The Sonics. The LP is launched upstairs at Whelan’s on February 3, with support from psych-doomsters Wild Rocket and nugazers Galants, More details here. Prior to this, the band released two singles on Bandcamp. Channelling the likes of Hawkwind, Love & Pentagram, check out the album’s lead single, ‘Something Critical‘.

  • Irish Tour: James Blake

    November 1, 2016 - By 

    In the latest installment of Irish Tour, photographers Ruth Kelly and Lucy Foster capture James Blake live at Belfast’s Limelight 1 and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre. The Black Box, Belfast by Ruth Kelly The Olympia Theatre, Dublin by Lucy Foster

  • All Tvvins @ Olympia Theatre, Dublin

    November 1, 2016 - By 

    “It’s good to be home” says Conor Adams, frontman of All Tvvins after playing their first song in The Olympia Theatre tonight, Book. And it seems that the feeling is mutual, the crowd could not be happier to have the band back on home turf after they have been away touring across Europe in support of their debut album ‘IIVV’ for the last while. In tonight’s show All Tvvins show just why there has been so much talk about them, and this definitely feels like the beginning of something huge. From the moment they take to the stage they have…

  • Poliça @ The Button Factory, Dublin

    October 18, 2016 - By 

    It’s a much different atmosphere that greets Poliça as they take the stage at the Button Factory tonight. For one thing, this venue is considerably roomier than Whelan’s, the location of their last visit in March 2013. For another, they managed to avoid being messed up by the ferry journey. Battling nausea and general shakiness, they made the best of an unwanted situation. Tonight, however, they come out fighting. The band – Channy Leaneagh on vocals, Chris Bierden on bass & dual drummers Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson – are a force to be reckoned with on stage, and the increased…

  • Holy Fuck w/ Wastefellow @ Whelan’s, Dublin

    October 18, 2016 - By 

    It may be four years since Toronto quartet Holy Fuck last graced these shores – and six since they last treated us to a headline show – but they certainly haven’t lost their ability to bring in a crowd, if tonight’s packed out Whelan’s is anything to go by. Perhaps this being their only Irish date this time around has helped attendance, not to mention their formidable live reputation, but it’s heartening to see people haven’t forgotten about them in their absence, and with a long awaited and steller new album Congrats under their belts there’s a palpable excitement in…