• Irish Tracks of the Week – 2nd December

    December 2, 2022 - By 

    On this, the final Bandcamp Friday of 2022, delve into the very best Irish releases of the week from Extravision, Krea, Two Nice Catholic Boys, Thumper and more Extravision – Land of a Thousand Unwelcome Advances Land of a Thousand Unwelcome Advances by Extravision Krea – Last Day Of The Year Two Nice Catholic Boys – Seconds Seconds by Two Nice Catholic Boys Hatchet Field – Beneath The Black Mountain Beneath The Black Mountain by Hatchet Field Thumper – Summer Assault Stef and the Sleveens – Give My Regards To The Dancing Girls Moving Statues – You Look Like You’ve…

  • Tour Diary: Leigh Arthur on Spilt Milk Festival 2022

    November 25, 2022 - By 

    Extravision member, photographer and ddr. resident Leigh Arthur reports back from Day One of this year’s Spilt Milk festival in Sligo I stood a Johnny Ramone stance around a pile of drum breakables, guitar cases and overnight bags, as Seán Goucher of the Number Ones pointed over to a shelf in the newsagents of Connolly Station. “There’s Jen Connell”. The former Cave Ghosts singer was not stocking up on train snacks to come with us, but instead was being celebrated on the cover of House and Home magazine. I remember seeing Cave Ghosts in The Stag’s Head years ago with…

  • Preview: Spilt Milk Festival 2022

    November 15, 2022 - By 

    On these shores, few creative initiatives pair careful curation with an independent spirit as focused and informed as Spilt Milk. A year on from hosting the likes of School Tour, Syn and the sadly-missed Shammen Delly, the annual festival of music, art and film returns to Sligo town across 18th-20th November for its fourth outing, and arguably its strongest line-up to date. The programme from this year’s festival comprises four events, taking place at one of the island’s finest art centres, The Model – and it’s primed to be another wonderfully palette-spanning affair featuring several TTA favourites. From 7pm on Friday, the venue will…

  • Video Premiere: Extravision – Our City

    November 27, 2019 - By 

    You may recall, at the start of the year, we featured Dublin’s Extravision in 19 for ’19, our series profiling nineteen genre-spanning Irish acts that we had high hopes for the year ahead. And sure enough, the trio have well and truly into gear. Comprising members of Sissy, Surge and No Spill Blood, the band’s new single, ‘Our City’ is an equal parts searing and celebratory overture to Dublin. Recorded with Daniel Fox of Girl Band at Sonic Studios, it calls out and stares down the runaway bureaucracy of the city’s landlords and hotel developers with fist-clenched aplomb. Ahead of new releases coming in the…

  • A4 Sounds presents: Silverbacks & Extravision

    April 2, 2019 - By 

    Since 2009, Dublin hub A4 has went above and beyond in their mission to transform the means by which cultural works are produced, accessed, and understood in Ireland. Their latest initiative – a new bi-monthly gig night – is one that we’re fully behind. Curated by Matt Hedigan, an artist and member of Hands Up Who Wants To Die, No Spill Blood and Elk, the next installment of the series unites two of our very favourite fast-rising bands from Dublin on Friday, April 5th: Silverbacks and Extravision  It’s BYOB and runs from 8-11pm. Go here for the gig’s Facebook event page and check…

  • 19 for ’19: Extravision

    January 28, 2019 - By 

    We continue 19 for ‘19 – our feature looking at nineteen Irish acts that we’re convinced are going places in 2019 – with Dublin post-punk threesome Extravision. Photo by Moira Reilly There is a shortage of great post-punk in the world today. While we’re a long ways away from the genre’s 1980s heyday, there are a number of contemporary bands, shrouded in darkness and the macabre, who are keeping that flame burning. One such band is Dublin’s Extravision. This three piece have successfully managed to recapture that Manchester sensibility all while infusing it with dream pop to create a woozy…

  • Premiere: Extravision – Repeat It

    August 22, 2018 - By 

    Comprising members of Dublin bands Sissy, Surge and No Spill Blood, Extravision offer up something special via the sum of their parts. As the city’s finest forward-moving post-punk proposition, the threesome recorded their debut demo with ex-drummer Legs – who, we learn, was lost to the Vancouver punk scene – at the start of the year. With No Spill Blood sticksman, the mercurial Ror Conaty on board, the band are leading the charge, with the aforesaid demo set for release via Sligo imprint Art For Blind imminently. Ahead of that, we have for you an exclusive first listen of ‘Repeat It’ from the demo. Stick…