Lucius live at the Academy in Dublin last night. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.
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The Button Factory plays host to the first night of Battles’ European Spring tour tonight, in support of their latest album La Di Da Di. Having sold out not too long after it was announced last year, the desire for the trio’s return to Dublin is immense. Tonight’s sole support, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith takes to the stage first with an impressive array of synths, sequencers, connective wires and blinking lights, evocative of a young Delia Derbyshire at the BBC radiophonic workshop. She begins with a series of robotic loops, which advances into Laurie Anderson territory as she distorts her vocals through…
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Amorphis live at the Button Factory in Dublin with support from Textures. Photos by Isabel Thomas.
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MMOTHS album launch at District 8 in Dublin, with support from Toby Kaar. Photos by Melanie Mullan.
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Following on from its well received debut last August, the announcement that a second Reverberation Festival is scheduled to take place next month, was music to the ears of the ever growing Irish Psych loving fraternity. In anticipation of the festival, the inaugural appearance of Holy Wave to Dublin, is billed as the event’s official launch party. First up is This Other Kingdom, a four piece who play a mix of bombinate-esque shoegaze fused with psychedelia that can draw you in their world so effortlessly, it’s hard not to be converted there and then. Just picture The Black Angels fronted…
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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin over the weekend, with support from Matthew Logan Vasquez. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
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Ahead of some UK and US dates over the next few weeks, Wicklow’s Enemies played two sold out nights at Dublin’s Bello Bar at the weekend. Support came from Bantum. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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The phenomenal Joanna Newsom with support from Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold live at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin last night. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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Following last summer’s release of debut LP The Names, electronic artist Chris Baio now sits comfortably in the saddle of his subsequent world tour. “This is our 34th show,” he announced to the Dublin crowd in Workmans. In the preceding hype for this leg of the run, Baio held a Twitter-based giveaway of three sets of tickets to the first of his eager followers to tweet and greet him with ‘hi’. Three pairs were promised, but in the rush of responses, Baio shelled out five or six in his generosity. Given his time spent as bassist for the wildly successful indie-pop…
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Suicidal Tendencies live at the Academy in Dublin. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.