The Redneck Manifesto live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Barry McCormack. Photos by Ciaran O’Maolain.
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Frightened Rabbit live at Belfast’s Limelight 1, Kilkenny’s Set Theatre and Galway’s Roisin Dubh. Photos by Colm Laverty, Ian McDonnell and Sean McCormark. Limelight 1, Belfast As strange as it may sound, Frightened Rabbit are at their best when they are on the verge of falling apart. Watching the band rip through selections from their back catalogue this evening, it is striking just how often they are precariously balanced on the edge of chaos. It is this very quality that makes their music so beguiling. The remarkable tension in any given Frightened Rabbit song stems from a finely wrought balance…
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TULCA Arts Festival returns for it’s 15th edition this November and key details about the festival have been released. Matt Packer, Director of CCA Derry~Londonderry, has been announced as this year’s curator, with the festival itself being titled They Call us the Screamers. The title is drawn from the Jenny James novel of the same name, which details the establishment of the therapy commune (Atalantis) by James in the West of Ireland in the 1970s. With this in mind this year’s festival narrative is a look at “anti-modernism, cultural withdrawal, primal voice, self-enlightenment, and an attempt to establish new forms of social relations in…
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The Frank and Walters live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Eoin Dolan. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Dowsing, Ratboys and Shrug Life live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Orchid Collective live at the Roisin Dubh in Galway with support from Star Parks. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Patrick Freeman, Strange Pavement and Adam Murphy performing live at Citog in the Roisin Dubh, Galway. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Race the Flux’s farewell show at the Cellar in Galway, with support from Punch Face Champions. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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All Tvvins launched their debut album IIVV with a live performance at Zhivago in Galway. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain.
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Suede live at the big top in Galway with support from The Frank and Walters. Photos by Sean McCormack.