• Body & Soul 2022 Announce First Wave of Acts

    March 31, 2022 - By 

    Returning across the weekend of Jun 17-19 at 17th century Ballinlough Castle Estate, Body & Soul festival has announced some of its early highlights, including some choice bookings from Ireland and beyond. Among the confirmed acts are Róisín Murphy, Mogwai, Yves Tumor, Sampa The Great, CMAT, Pillow Queens, Kelly Lee Owens, Lee Fields, Peter Broderick, Yard Act, Soda Blonde, Sofia Kourtesis, The Altered Hours, Fears, M(h)aol, Remi Wolf, Magdelena Bay, The Bug Club, Godfort and Sinead O’Brien. Jon Hopkins‘ Music For Psychedelic Therapy will be given an immersive audio playback in a specially designed geodesic dome, aimed to transport audiences into different temporal spaces at intervals over the weekend,…

  • 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…

  • 40 New Acts Added to Electric Picnic Bill

    August 14, 2019 - By 

    With just over a month to go, Electric Picnic have revealed the names of forty new acts set to play this year’s festival. Returning to Stradbally Hall in Co. Laois across August 30-September 1st, the festival has announced that Johnny Marr (pictured), Charli XCX, Richard Ashcroft and J Hus will join the likes of the already-announced The Strokes, Billie Eilish, Four Tet, James Blake and more. Check out the current line-up below and go here for more info. This year’s Electric Picnic is sold-out.

  • Brilliant Corners Announce 2019 Programme

    January 30, 2019 - By 

    Now in its seventh year, the tastemakers at Moving On Music have announced the programme for their annual highlight – and the country’s finest jazz festival – Brilliant Corners. The festival will take over various venues in Belfast across March 2-9, with a kickoff solo piano concert from Craig Taborn at SARC’s Sonic Lab on Saturday, February 16. As expected, it’s a wonderfully diverse patchwork of jazz and first-rate sonic digression in the spirit of MOM’s booking the year round. It’s appropriate then, that the two first-night offerings on March 2 are the Ulster Youth Jazz Orchestra Shabaka Hutchings’ unmissable apocalyptic synth-jazz project The Comet Is Coming, supported by…

  • Public Image Ltd set to make first live appearance in Northern Ireland

    January 25, 2018 - By 

    In an astonishing coup, John Lydon’s groundbreaking avant-garde post-punk outfit Public Image Ltd make their first ever appearance in Northern Ireland, playing as part of this year’s Open House Festival in Bangor, in collaboration with the BBA Punk Weekender. PiL are set to play Bangor Seafront on Saturday, August 25. Founded by the then Johnny Rotten in 1978 as an experimental antidote to the pop establishment furure surrounding the Sex Pistols, a dub-heavy sound on debut First Issue drew – through its punk tint – noise and progressive rock by way of Jah Wobble’s dense low end. With Metal Box and subsequent releases pushed their music further into the avant-garde,…

  • Forbidden Fruit Festival 2018

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    The June Bank Holiday weekend returns, and with it comes Bulmers Forbidden Fruit Festival, which runs from Saturday, June 2 until Monday, June 4. Amongst the first wave of indie-heavy announcements are Monday headliners, mellowed-out stadium-fillers The War On Drugs. This follows the release of their latest album, A Deeper Understanding. Sharing the bill on Monday are Grizzly Bear – just off the back of 2 tremendously well-received sold-out dates at Vicar Street – Warpaint, Thundercat, Spoon and Superorganism. Stay tuned for more announcements. Tickets for 1, 2 & 3 days are available from Ticketmaster, priced from €64.50, €109 & €162.50 respectively.

  • First acts announced for Longitude 2016

    January 22, 2016 - By 

    Kendrick Lamar, The National and Jamie XX are amongst the first acts announced to play this year’s Longitude festival at Dublin’s Marlay Park from July 15-17. With Lamar (pictured) headlining the opening night on Friday, July 15, Major Lazer leads the line up on the Saturday and The National close the festival on the Sunday. With tickets going on sale at 9am on Friday, January 29, Major Lazer, Father John Misty, Chvrches, Róisín Murphy, Action Bronson, Courtney Barnett, A$AP Ferg, MØ, All Tvvins, Rejjie Snow, Otherkin, Pleasure Beach and Saint Sister make up first announcement. Weekend tickets are €159.50 and…

  • HWCH 2015 Line-Up Announced

    August 11, 2015 - By 

    The country’s leading bastion and celebration of homegrown, independent music, Hard Working Class Heroes has announced the line-up for the October festival. Taking across several different venues in Dublin throughout the weekend of 1-3, it looks like one of the strongest, most diverse HWCH bills yet. Check out the full line-up below and buy tickets here. 13, Acrobat, AikJ, Ailbhe Reddy, Anderson, Arborist, Atlas Moon, Bad Sea, Bagels, Basciville, Benihana, Bitch Falcon, Buffalo Sun, Buffalo Woman, Callum Orr, Carriages, Cfit, Color//Sound, Comrade Hat, Corner Boy, Darling, Dear Desert, discopunks, DVO Marvell, Elastic Sleep, Electro Sensitive Behaviour Feat. Perry Blake, Elephant, Elm, Everything Shook (below), EXPLODING EYES, Fergal O’Connor, Florence Olivier, Frankenstein Bolts, Half Of Me, Hare Squead, HAWK, Heroes in Hiding, Hot Cops, I Have A Tribe, Inni-K, Jennifer Evans, Johnny Stewart, Joni, Katie Laffan, Kobina, Lie Ins, Lilla Vargen, LORIS, Maija Sofia, Maud in Cahoots, Me Auld Flower, Mere…

  • Stendhal Festival Announces Second Wave of Acts

    June 22, 2015 - By 

    With the likes of Kerbdog and Donovan included in their first announcement early last month, Stendhal Festival of Art have revealed that reggae/dancehall pioneer Macka B (pictured), Dublin singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke and fast-rising musician Rainy Boy Sleep are amongst the acts included in their second line-up announcement. Also set to play the festival – which takes place at Limavady’s Ballymully Cottage Farm on August 7 and 8 – are Scottish alt-rock band Fatherson, harpist Ursula Burns, Derry’s Making Monsters, Dylan Walshe, Zimbabwean folk band Afresh, Co. Down soprano Maria McGrann, The Hardchargers, The Whereabouts, Exit Pursued by Bear, The Eunan McLaughlin Quartet, Axecatcher, Apartment…

  • More Acts Set For Knockanstockan

    June 12, 2015 - By 

    Knockanstockan have announced a string of new acts set to perform this year’s festival at Wicklow’s Blessington Lakes on July 24 and July 25. With the likes of O Emperor, Red Enemy, Tucan, New Secret Weapon, Rusangano Family, BATS, and Leo Drezden already announced, Elastic Sleep, Loah, No Spill Blood, Otherkin, Hot Cops, Fierce Mild, Travis Oaks and Gavin Glass & The New Shakers are amongst the latest additions to the line-up. Go here to check out the full line-up and to buy tickets.